Adrian Rogers - How You Can Be Certain the Bible is the Word of God (02/07/2026)
In Revelation 22:18-19, Pastor Adrian Rogers presents five powerful reasons to know the Bible is God’s inspired Word: its scientific accuracy, historical accuracy, perfect unity across 66 books and 1600 years, fulfilled prophecy (especially about Jesus), and its life-changing, enduring power. He urges believers to settle this foundation for salvation, sanctification, usefulness, and assurance, closing with an invitation to trust Christ according to Scripture for certain eternal life.
How You Can Be Certain That the Bible is the Word of God – Revelation 22
Would you find in God’s Word please, the book of Revelation chapter 22. Chapter 22, that’s the last page in my Bible. That ought not be hard to find. The last page in the Bible. Let’s see the golden clasp that God puts upon His Word. Revelation chapter 22.
I’m speaking today on “How You Can Be Certain That the Bible is the Word of God”. Now let me tell you something. It is absolutely imperative that you be certain about the Bible. You’ll never get much of anything else settled, until you get that settled.
Your salvation depends upon it because the Bible says in First Peter 1:23, “You’re born again by the Word of God.” Your sanctification depends upon it. Jesus said in John 17:17, “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth.” Your usefulness depends upon it. God has given you the Word that you might be, “a workman that needs not to be ashamed.” Second Timothy 2 verse 15.
Your assurance depends upon it. First John 5 verse 13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you might know that you have eternal life.” If you want to be an exclamation point rather than a question mark, then you need to be certain that the Bible is the Word of God.
Now, listen to how the Bible itself concludes. Revelation chapter 22 verses 18 and 19, “For I testify unto every man who heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book; And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life. And out of the Holy City and from the things which are written in this book.”
That book my friend, is the Word of God, the Bible.
The Battle for the Bible – Despisers, Deniers, and Disregarders
Now, there is a war over the Word. There is, in a very real sense, a battle for the Bible. Now, there are those who despise it. I don’t think any of those are here today. They just simply hate God’s Word. They are against all that we stand for. They are despisers of the Bible.
Then there are those who don’t despise it, they just deny it. They say, “I don’t believe the Bible is the Word of God.” And there are some of those. And then there are those who distort it. The Bible is put in their hands, but they twist it to their own destruction.
Then there are those who dissect it. They come to the Bible with their measuring rod, with their scalpel, with their test tubes, and they treat the Bible more like a math book rather than a love story. And they’re ever learning, but they are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
There are those who disregard it. They say, “Well, it’s really not relevant. It’s not important. We live in the twentieth century. Forget all of that religious hocus pocus. We have got to do something about the social situation.” And so, they spend all of their energy making the world a better place to go to Hell from. They don’t have theology, they have me-ology. They’re just simply thinking about themselves. Not thinking about the future, but thinking about right now. And even not coming up with the right answers for right now.
But, I suppose that the greatest enemy of the Word of God is found in places like this one this morning. These are they who say they believe the Bible. These are they who give lip service to the fact that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible, authentic Word of God. But, they don’t study it. They don’t know it. They don’t live by it. They don’t assimilate it. They don’t stand on it. “These hath God married, and no man shall part. Dust on the Bible and drought in the heart.”
Now, you’ve got to be able to say, “I know that I know that the Bible is the Word of God.” And especially in these days, when everything that is not nailed down is coming loose. And the devil is pulling nails as fast as he can. There’s some things that he will not be able to disturb you on. There are really no things that he will be able to disturb you on if you can stand on this Book.
God has given you the Word of God. This morning, I want to give you five reasons that I know the Bible is the Word of God. And five reasons that you can know, K-N-O-W, that the Bible is the Word of God.
Scientific Accuracy – The Bible Ahead of Its Time
And I want to start this morning with a reason that is the point of attack by most people. I just want to turn it on its head. I believe the Bible is the Word of God because of its scientific accuracy.
Now, the skeptic, or the atheist, or the unbeliever, or the liberals say, “Well, of course the Bible has scientific errors in it.” Before you say that, you’d better make certain that you know two things. Number one, that you know science. And number two, that you know the Bible.
They say, “Well, you know the Bible’s an old fashioned book. It’s not a book of science, it’s a book of religion.” Well that is true. It is not a scientific text book. It is not written to teach you science; it’s written to teach you God. It’s well been said, “The Bible was not given to tell us how the heavens go, but how to go to Heaven.”
But, the God of creation and the God of salvation are the same God. Science doesn’t take God by surprise. And you don’t have to check your brains at the door to believe that the Bible is the Word of God. And indeed it is scientifically accurate.
Now, every now and then science may disagree with the Bible. Well, just give the scientists time and maybe they’ll catch up. Now, I don’t say that facetiously. If it’s not the Bible that has changed, it is science that is catching up with the Word of God.
Now’s there’s certain things that you and I take for granted scientifically. For example, in the world that we live in, the cosmology of our world. We take it for granted, don’t we, that this earth is suspended in space? I mean, we just take that for granted. That this celestial ball, as we call it, is floating in space.
Well, how did you know that? Did you figure it out? Oh no. You simply stand upon the knowledge of other people. There’s no way that you could know that unless you’d been taught, or you have learned through modern invention.
If you had gone back, for example, to Job’s time, the oldest piece of literature known to man. You would not have known that. The ancient Egyptians used to think that the earth was supported on the back of, of five pillars. Now the Egyptians, they were wise, they were learned, they were erudite. But they said, “Well, the earth is on these five pillars.” That’s the best they knew.
Well, the Greeks, the sophisticated Greeks, do you know what they believed? They believed that the earth was on the back of a great giant, his name was Atlas, who held the whole world on his shoulders. You’ve seen pictures of Atlas, with the world on his shoulders.
And in the sacred writings of the ancient Hindus they used to believe that the earth was on the backs of elephants. And you can still see pictures describing the earth there resting on the backs of these elephants. And when these elephants would shake, that would be an earthquake.
Well, somebody said, “But wait a minute. That doesn’t answer the question: What are those elephants standing on?” They had an answer. They said, “Well, the elephants are on the back of a huge tortoise.” But a thinking man came along and said, “But tell us, what does the tortoise rest on?” Well, they had an answer. They said, “The tortoise is resting upon a huge coiled serpent.”
Well, then another thinker came along and said, “But what is the serpent resting on?” And they had an answer. They said, “He is swimming in a cosmic sea.” So, it was settled. The earth is resting on a snake, that is resting upon a tortoise, that is resting upon elephants.
Aren’t you glad you don’t pick up the Bible and read any of that business in the Word of God? I’ll tell you what you can read. You can read in the Word of God in Job chapter 26 and verse 7, “That He hangeth the Earth upon nothing.” Don’t you love that? “He,” God, “hangeth the Earth upon nothing.”
Now how did Job know that before the age of modern astronomy and space travel? Well, holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
The Earth Suspended and Spherical – Divine Inspiration
You and I take it for granted not to be argued about that the earth is round. Anybody here still believe in a flat earth? There may be some, but most of us would say that we accept the fact that the earth is round. But that’s a recent, modern vintage. “1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” And, and when I was a little boy in school, they told me that they told Columbus, “You better be careful or you will sail off the edge, and fall into who knows what.”
But Columbus proved, to the satisfaction of many, that the earth is a sphere; a globe. Men did not always know that. The scientists of Isaiah’s day, and Isaiah wrote about 750 years before Christ, they didn’t know that. But Isaiah said, by divine inspiration, in Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 22, that, “God sits upon the circle of the earth.”
And the word for circle there is not the word for circle like you would draw a circle in plain geometry. It’s the word for sphere, or globe. It is God that sits upon the globe of the earth.
Now, how did Job know that the earth was suspended in space? How did Isaiah know that it is a ball, a globe? Well, how? By divine inspiration. That is how.
The year was 150 B.C., the man, Hipparchus. What did he do? He was an astronomer, he studied the stars. One day, wearily he rubbed his eyes, put down his pencil, gave a sigh. He had completed his task. He had charted the heavens and numbered the stars. He had counted the stars, one by one and he came up with this conclusion: There are 1022 stars.
Now friend, that was science; 1022 stars. 150 years before Christ they had those stars numbered. Well, that was science for 250 years. But then along came another man who charted the heavens. This man’s name was Ptolemy. And when he learned that Hipparchus said there were 1022 stars, he laughed. He said, “That’s ridiculous. I have counted the stars. There are 1026.” Found four more stars.
It wasn’t till 1300 years later that a young medical student named Galileo invented his first crude telescope and turned it up to the heavens. And when he did, he came a gasp. For beyond the stars that could be seen with the naked eye were more stars. And beyond those, more stars. And millions and millions and uncounted stars.
And today, with our great multi-inch electronic telescopes, we peer into the nether realms of space. And we find galaxy tumbling upon galaxy, and stars upon stars. And billions and billions and billions of stars. In a journal I read, one scientist estimated that more than twelve octillion stars in our known universe.
How many is an octillion? More than twelve octillion suns like our sun. How many is an octillion? Well, he said, that’s more than there are grains of sand on all the seashores of all of the Earth.
Now, if you want to know how many that is, just go to my home town of Palm Beach, Florida and get a city block and begin to count. Find out how many grains of sand there are on the seashore of a city block of beach there at Palm Beach. And then just multiply that by all of the seashores of all of the Earth.
Oh, the vast outer reaches of space. But had these men learned what the Word of God said, they could have laid down their pencil a long time ago. Because Jeremiah 33 verse 22 says, “The host of heaven cannot be numbered.” No man will ever count the stars. You just can’t number the stars.
Leave cosmology and go with me to biology. And think about what the Bible teaches about these bodies of ours. You know, the Bible says in Psalm 139 verse 14, “We are fearfully and wonderfully made.”
But it wasn’t until the year 1615 that William Harvey discovered that the blood circulates in the human body. People didn’t know that before. They did not know even that the heart pumps the blood. And, it is what Moody Films now has called a “Red River of Life”.
When I was in college I took human anatomy and physiology. And I learned all of the life processes that are carried on through the blood. But men didn’t always know this. As a matter of fact, they often had the idea that if a person was sick it was probably bad blood.
Now there’re indeed diseases of the blood, but the way they would treat even unrelated diseases would be to bleed a person. And that barber pole that you see, that’s not a peppermint candy. That stands for a bandage. Because they would bring these men to the barber with his razor sharp instruments and he would cut the individual and bleed the individual in a basin to see if he would get well.
That’s the way George Washington, the father of our country died. He had a respiratory illness. They bled him, he didn’t get well. They bled him again, he didn’t get well. They bled him the third time and bled him to death. The father of our country. Today they may have given him a blood transfusion.
To get even, the politicians have been bleeding us to death ever since. Now, these people, if they had gone to the Word of God, could have seen in Leviticus chapter 17 and verse 14, “That the life of the flesh is the blood.” Now, no hematologist on Earth can say it any better than God has succinctly said it. “The life of the flesh is in the blood.”
Now, there came in Europe a thing called the plague, the black plague, in the fourteen century. It desolated the population. One out of every four people died. Count them: one, two, three, dead. One, two, three, dead. One, two, three, dead. One, two, three, dead. An estimated sixty million died in the plague.
They did not know what to do. They tried everything. Laughable ideas. People were frightened to death. The stench of death was everywhere. And nobody knew what to do. And it was not the scientists who brought the plague to an end, it was the church.
They learned from the Word of God finally, what you and I take for granted, and that is the principle of quarantining. Leviticus chapter 13 verse 46, God says this, “All the days where in the plague shall be in him, he shall be defiled. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone without the camp,” or outside the camp, “shall his habitation be.”
Now, those people did not know microbiology. I mean, they did not know what a microbe was. What a germ is. What a virus is. They had no way of knowing that. But, Moses, through divine inspiration, said, “Listen, this man is to be separated. He is to be quarantined.”
How does the Word of God come up with that? Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
There was a physician in Vienna, whose name was Semmelweis. Semmelweis was in charge of a hospital in Vienna. And in that hospital they were having difficulty with women who were coming in for examinations. As they had conceived and were getting ready to deliver a child. And physicians would do these examinations, but one out of six of the mothers would die from infection.
Semmelweis tried to find out what was wrong. And he noticed that the doctors were going from the morgue, where they would do pathological studies and postmortems and autopsies. And they would go from the morgue into the maternal examining room without even washing their hands.
After handling those cadavers and those bodies, they would go and examine the pelvic region. And infection was there. Semmelweis said, “There’s something wrong here. There’s a connection there.” He said, “From now on, you must wash your hands when you leave the morgue.”
Oh, what a hewing cry went up. “That’s going to slow us down. Too difficult.” But, they washed their hands, and then they went in. And the death rate dropped from 1 in 6, the death rate dropped right down to 1 in 84.
But then, there were eleven out of twelve mothers who died, mothers to be, in a row. Semmelweis got to thinking about that. He said, “Now, not only will you wash when you come from the morgue, but you will wash between every examination.”
Now, what surgeon today, what doctor today would not scrub? Of course he would. Why? Because he knows about germs. He knows about microbes. He knows all about that. But, they didn’t know that in that day.
But listen to what the Bible says in Numbers chapter 19 verse 14 and following. “This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that is come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean. And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.”
And verse 19, “And on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.” Do you see what he is talking about here? There’s running water. There is the quarantining. There’s the setting aside. There is the change of clothes. There’s the time interval for the bacteria to die.
Why? They didn’t understand about germs, but germs did not take God by surprise. And in case after case, we could show you. These are only illustrative of many things.
Now, why did not some of this business slip into the Bible about elephants, and about snakes, and about pillars and all that? Why? Because holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Historical Accuracy – Trustworthy Records Confirmed by Archaeology
Here’s a second reason I believe the Bible is the Word of God. Not only because of the scientific accuracy, but the historical accuracy of the Bible.
Now just as the Bible is not primarily a book of science, it is not primarily a book of history. But it records history, and all of the things that we believe took place in history. And so, thank God for the historical accuracy of the Bible.
Now I have been quoting from what we call the Pentateuch. That’s the first five books of the Bible. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, that’s the Pentateuch. And the Bible teaches that Moses wrote the Pentateuch.
Well, there are some scholars like Dr. Driver, who was a linguist and a paleontologist who said, “Well, it’s impossible that Moses could have written the Pentateuch, because people didn’t even know how to write when Moses was supposed to have been on Earth. And so the skeptics had a field day.”
But then one day in Northern Egypt, Dr. Petrie and others unearthed some clay tablets. I studied about them when I was in school, called the Tel el-Amarna tablets. I studied about them in high school; the Tel el-Amarna tablets.
And what they were, were letters. Transactions, business transactions and others from people in Egypt to people in Palestine and people in Palestine back to people in Egypt centuries before Moses was born. Not only did they know how to write, they had a postal system, they were sending letters back and forth. And probably more efficient than one I know about today. Sending letters back and forth.
But you see, you can trust the history of the Bible.
Let me give you another example. You remember the story about the handwriting on the wall that’s found in chapter 5 in the book of Daniel? Remember that story? Belshazzar is having a feast with a thousand of his lords and ladies. And suddenly, there on the wall, on the plaster of the wall, is a gruesome hand without an arm. And it’s writing on the wall. And it says, “Your kingdom is divided. And you, king, are weighed in the balances. And you’re found wanting. You’ve been found wanting.”
Do you remember that story? Well, the historians say, “That never happened. We know that didn’t happen.” Well, how do you know that didn’t happen, mister historian? Well, he says, “The Bible story gives the name of that king as Belshazzar. But we have the records. We have the Babylonian records. And these records tell us that the last king of Babylon was not Belshazzar, it was a man named Nabonidus. And so the Bible is in error. No one has a record of any king named Belshazzar.”
Well, the spade of the archeologist continue to do it’s work. And one day, they uncovered a clay tablet, a cylinder, and guess whose name was on it? Belshazzar’s!
Now, the secular historian was right when he said, “Nabonidus was the last king.” But, the Bible was correct when it said that Belshazzar was the last king. Why? Because they were both kings. Nabonidus was the father, Belshazzar was the son. They continued to unearth evidence that showed they were what we would call today “co-regents”. Nabonidus traveled, Belshazzar stayed home to run the kingdom.
Now, suppose they had not uncovered that tablet. Would that have made the Bible any less true? Of course not. You see, let God be true. Let every man be a liar. Whether or not they had uncovered the tablet or not would not have changed the truth of God’s Word.
And incidentally, it helps you to understand in Daniel chapter 5 verse 16, a very significant passage where Belshazzar said to Daniel, “Daniel, if you can read the handwriting on the wall, I will make you the third ruler in the kingdom.” Get it? There were already two, Belshazzar and Nabonidus. “I’ll make you the third ruler in the kingdom.” Just a little neat thing that is tucked away there in the Word of God.
The historical accuracy of the Bible.
Wonderful Unity – One Book from Many Authors Over Centuries
I want to give you another reason that I believe the Bible is the Word of God. Not only because of its scientific accuracy, and not only because of its historical accuracy, but you can believe the Bible is the Word of God because of its wonderful, wonderful unity.
Now the Bible is one book, but yet in a sense it is 66 books. There are 39 books in the Old Testament, 27 books in the New Testament. They were written by at least forty different authors over a period of about 1600 years. They were written in about thirteen different countries and on three different continents.
They were written by people from all kinds of backgrounds. Some were shepherds, some were kings, some were soldiers, some were princes, some were priests, some were fishermen, some were scholars, some were historians, some were business and professional men, others were common laborers.
They wrote this book. They wrote on so many different subjects. And they wrote from different backgrounds, in at least three different languages on all of these subjects. And yet when they come together they don’t make 66 books; from Genesis to Revelation, it reads as one book. There is an incredible unity to the Bible.
The Bible is like a garment. You can pull a thread here and it wrinkles way down there. I have been studying the Bible, now, seriously now for more than forty years. I believed it when I began, but friend I’m not finding hidden flaws, I’m finding hidden beauties. I’m finding things that are confirming my faith more and more in the Word of God.
How do you explain the fact that the Bible has this unity? Try to write any other piece like the Bible came together and try to have that unity when you’re dealing with the kind of subjects the Bible deals with.
Now, the Bible has but one theme: salvation. The Bible has one hero, His name is Jesus. One villain, he is the devil. One purpose, to glorify God.
Jesus said in John 10:35, “The Scriptures cannot be broken.” And Matthew 5:18, “Not a jot, not a tittle will pass from the law, ‘til all be fulfilled.”
How did it happen? How did this Bible get written apart from divine inspiration? Absolutely impossible.
Dr. Torrey gives this illustration. Suppose, we decided we were going to build in Washington a monument to the fifty states. And we would build that monument out of the native stone of the fifty states. For example, we would get coral from my state of Florida. We would get granite maybe from Georgia. We would get marble from another state. We would get gypsum from another state. Gray stone, brown stone, red stone, all kinds of stone and we would have these stones cut in the quarry in different shapes.
Some would be square, some would be rectangular, some would be like pyramids, some would be like cylinders, some would be trapezoidal, some would have no shapes known to man, with a name and they would be cut in the quarry. Some big, some small. Different colors of stone.
And then let’s suppose they’re all shipped to our nation’s capital and the workmen begin to uncrate them. And all of those stones fit together. Not one stone too many, not one stone too few. No stone needs to be built up. No stone needs to be shaved down. They all interlock. They all fit together. And when you’re finished there is a magnificently beautiful, symmetrical temple.
Now, you’re a thinking first, would you say that happened by chance? Of course not. Be absolutely, totally impossible. The only answer to that would be there was a master architect who designed the whole thing and sent the specifications to the quarry. Isn’t that true? I mean, you can use your head to figure that out.
How do you explain the unity of the Bible apart from divine inspiration? That’s the reason we believe the Bible is to be the Word of God.
Fulfilled Prophecy – Especially About Jesus Christ
Now, let me give you the next reason that we believe the Bible is the Word of God. And that is the fulfilled prophecy of the Bible. Did you know the Bible is the only book in the world that has accurate prophecy? Read what the psychics and the seers say in the Sunday insert in the paper and have a belly laugh if you will.
But friend, when you read the Bible, and the prophecies of the Bible, you have to stand back in awe. And the subject of prophecy is so big that I could not even begin to deal with it. It would be like trying to dip out an ocean with a teacup.
Let’s just talk about the prophecies concerning the central character of the Bible, the Lord Jesus. There are over three hundred precise prophecies that deal with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Old Testament that are fulfilled in the New Testament; already fulfilled.
And to say that these are fulfilled by chance is an astronomical impossibility, as the statisticians will tell us. Jesus infinitely fulfilled prophecy.
Now, do you know what the skeptic says? “Well, He was a student of the Old Testament and so He just arranged that He would fulfill these prophecies. He just arranged to fulfill the prophecies.”
Well, you know in a sense they’re right. He did arrange it. He arranged where He was going to be born before He was ever born. Amen? And then the book of Micah said in verse 2 of chapter 5 that, “He’s going to be born in Bethlehem!” And He was the one who arranged where He would be born of a virgin.
The Lord Jesus Christ arranged for the prophet Isaiah to write all kind of intricate details of the Lord Jesus centuries before He was born. 750 years before He was born. The Lord Jesus arranged that the Psalmist would write in Psalm 22 of a death by crucifixion before crucifixion was ever even known as capital punishment.
And then He arranged that the Roman government would crucify Him upon that cross. He arranged that He would be buried in a grave, a rich man’s grave. He arranged that Judas would betray Him for exactly thirty pieces of silver as the Bible prophesies.
And here is the classic arrangement of all. He arranged that He would come out of the grave that third day. Hallelujah, Amen. He arranged that! Yes, He did. Be seen of five hundred. And so convinced these five hundred that He had come out of the grave, that many of them would pay for that truth with their lives.
With no hope for physical or material gain, because they’re no longer afraid of death. Listen, men may live for a lie, but none will die for a lie. But, these people knew that it was not a lie. They knew that Jesus Christ, they would not willingly, knowingly die for a lie.
Some fools may die for a lie when he thinks it’s the truth. But these people were convinced. They were convinced that Jesus Christ had come out of that grave.
And by the way, I want to say this. That while He arranged it, most of these prophecies were not fulfilled by His friends, but by His enemies. Those who had the most to gain to see that the prophecies were not fulfilled. They were not fulfilled by just one person, they were fulfilled by many people. Not just one prophecy, many prophecies.
How do you explain that? There is no way, no way, no way, no way that you can explain fulfilled prophecy apart from divine inspiration. Say Amen!
Now friend, I’m telling you, it is true.
Ever-Living Qualities and Life-Changing Power
Now let me give you another reason that I know the Bible is the Word of God. Not only fulfilled prophecy, but the ever-living qualities of the Bible. The Bible is not the book of the month; it is the book of the ages.
No book has ever had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, scorned it, ridiculed it, made laws against it, burned it. There was a time in Scottish history when to own a Bible was a crime worthy of death. And many, many a time a man has preached a funeral for the Bible. But the only thing is, the corpse has outlived the pallbearers.
These people die. And here in this twentieth century, in this spacious auditorium, today you are saying, “Thank God for the Bible, the Word of God.” It has survived. And it is applicable. It is more up to date.
A man of God, a woman of God, a child of God can open this book and know more today what’s going on in this world than all the wise acres in the Pentagon and in the White House put together. By the Word of God.
The Bible says in First Peter 1:25, “The Word of the Lord endureth forever.” And Psalm 119 verse 89, “Forever oh Lord, Thy Word is settled in Heaven.”
Yes, there’s the ever living qualities of the Bible. I wish I had more time to talk about that.
But let me give you the crowning reason that I believe the Bible is the Word of God. And friend, that is the life-changing power of this book. I have preached this book long enough to know it’s not like any other book. We read other books, this book reads us.
God says that His Word is “quick and powerful”. Hebrews chapter 4:12, the word quick, “zoan” means alive, “energes” powerful. It means it’s full of power. Romans 1:16, “I’m not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God”, it is the dynamite of God.
This Word is like a sword. It’s like seed. It’s like bread. It’s like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. I’ve seen people come to listen to me preach. Why they come, maybe out of curiosity, maybe to come to find fault. And they’ll sit down and look and say, “Well let’s hear what this fool will say.”
And you don’t look out from underneath their brow and try and if they look at me, sure they can find plenty to find fault with. But you know, when you take the Word of God and Sunday after Sunday after Sunday use the Word of God.
God says in Jeremiah 23:29, “Is not My Word like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces.” The hardest rock will break. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it happen so many times.
I’ve preached it long enough mister to know it’s got power in it. What kind of power? It’s saving for the sinner. You won’t be saved or you won’t get anybody else saved apart from the Word of God, because First Peter 1:23 says, “We’re born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the Word of God.”
It’s saving for the sinner. The Gospel of Christ is the dynamite of God that saves. But not only is it saving for the sinner, friend, it’s sanctifying to the saint. Do you know what keeps me going? Not what I feel; what I know.
Jesus said in John 17 verse 17, “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth.” You will never grow, you will never be strong until you begin to feed on God’s Word. First Peter 2:2 says, “As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby.”
I’ll tell you what else it is. It is sufficient for the sufferer. Oh, I’ve seen people hurt. You couldn’t be a pastor the years that I’ve been and not seen people in such torment and such trial and such pain and such agony. But I have seen them go to the Word of God and find comfort that they could not find comfort in any other place or any other way.
As they’ve crossed the chilly waters of death, they pillowed their head upon the Word of God. And they’ve held it to their bosom when they needed help and strength, because there’s power in the Word of God and the promises of God’s Word.
I’ll tell you something else friend. It’s satisfying to the scholar. You could study the Bible and study the Bible and study the Bible, and you’ll never fathom its depths. You’ll never climb its highest pinnacles. You will never ever fathom the great truths of God’s Word.
It is a perennial spring. It’s a bottomless ocean. It is a sunlit peak that you’ll never climb up to. And all who’ve ever studied the Bible, none will ever say that they have begun to understand all that is in this blessed book.
First Corinthians 2 verse 16, “Who hath known the mind of the Lord, and who hath been His counselor?” Oh, I feel like I’m just standing on the brink of God’s Word. There’s so much there to understand. So much there to learn.
Somebody said, concerning the Bible, “Oh it’s so deep that the scholars can swim and never touch bottom. And yet so wonderful that a little child could come and get a drink of water without fear of drowning.” That is God’s precious, holy Word; the Word of God.
The Crowning Reason – Jesus Loves Me, This I Know
Now listen to me. All of the Bible is kind of summed up in this, are you listening? Are you? It’s all summed up in this, Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible tells me so! The Bible tells me so.
God loves you. This book tells me, tells you, that Jesus left Heaven, came, suffered, bled, and died for your sin. That God raised Him from the dead. He is ascended to Heaven. And salvation is the gift of that grace.
And if you will trust Him. If you will believe on Him. The same Jesus that saved me when I was teenager and has kept me all this time, will save you and keep you according to the Word of God, the Bible.
Let’s bow in prayer. Heads are bowed, eyes are closed. I wonder today, while heads are bowed and eyes are closed, how many today could give me this testimony? How many today could say, “Pastor Rogers, I know that I know, thank God I know, and I have a Bible reason for knowing. I know that I know if I died today I would go straight to Heaven.” Just as a testimony. Oh, thank God. Hallelujah!
But there are many who could not say that. And it’s not because you don’t want to say it. You wouldn’t be here today if you weren’t hungry to know God, I don’t believe. But you just don’t have that assurance.
Did you now today, the Bible teaches that if you’ll trust Christ, He’ll save you? “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.”
You say, “Pastor, if a man, a woman, can know it I want to know it.” Well God has given us His Word that we can know it. And so today, if you would ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, trust you, and save you on the authority of the Word of God, I promise you He will do just that.
If you would pray, “Oh God, I’m a sinner, I’m lost, I need to be saved, I want to be saved. Jesus, I believe You’re the Son of God. I believe You paid my sin debt on that cross. I do believe it. I believe it according to Your infallible Word. I believe that You were raised from the dead and now like a child, like a child, I lay my pride in the dust and I trust You. You only and You always to save me.”
Dear God, I know that You love me. Thank You for loving me. And I know that You want to save me. Jesus, You died to save me and You promised to save me if I would trust You. Jesus, I do trust You. I believe You’re the Son of God. I believe you paid for my sin with Your blood on the cross. I believe that God raised You from the dead. And now I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Forgive my sin. Cleanse me. Come into my life. Take control of my life and begin today to make me the person You want me to be. And Jesus, give me the courage to make it public. Help me never to be ashamed of You. In Your name I pray, Amen.”