Bible Verse of the Day Tuesday April 4th,2023

 Jeremiah 1:9 Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.

Long before God called Jeremiah to his prophetic role, He gave the young Jeremiah the words to say. Jeremiah was not expressing his personal opinions or ideas; he was declaring the truth from God, God's Holy Word. When God called Moses to go and set His people free from their servitude in Egypt, Moses' primary concern was that the people would not believe him (Exodus 4:1). God showed Moses that it would be God's Word that he was speaking, not his own words, through several miracles. We also see that God instructed the Prophet Ezekiel to speak God's Word to the people (Ezekiel 3:10-11).

The Apostles of Christ Jesus were confident that when t the Jewish leaders put them on trial for this new Gospel they were preaching, God would give them the words to speak. God assured them that it would be the Holy Spirit of God speaking through them, not their own words (Matthew 10:20). The followers and believers in Christ Jesus in the early days of the birth of the Church could have perfect peace in times of immense testing, having confidence that the Holy Spirit of God would be speaking through them (Luke 12:11-12). Jesus told His disciples of the hardships and tribulations they would face throughout their earthly lives; Jesus also assured them that He would give them the words to speak that their foes and antagonists could not defend against (Luke 21:14-15).

Today we have been given the Holy Word of God, the Bible, and the indwelling of His Holy Spirit to guide and direct us to understand and comprehend what God is telling us. Unfortunately, there will always be Satan workers attempting to contradict God's Word and put forward a false gospel. One of the most dangerous statements a teacher or preacher of God's Word can utter is: "in my opinion." God's Word is not open-ended or incomplete; it is all anyone needs to know to develop a personal relationship with God through Christ Jesus.

Some today say that the Bible is incomplete, and that new books and prophecies come from God daily. The Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi is a prophecy of the Promised Messiah's coming to take away the World's sins. Christ Jesus is the Promised Messiah, and some did not accept that in the days Jesus was on the earth. Many today are waiting for more prophecies from God and more books to come to light. The sad aspect is that many will go away to eternal separation from God in their vein attempt to find the rest of the story. When Jesus said from the Cross, "it is finished," He referred to His sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary. His sinless, innocent blood that He shed on the Cross is what washes away my sins and your sins, there is no other way to salvation, and that will never change. (John 14:6).