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“For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
(Romans 10:9 NLT)
Recently our church went on a journey together through Vodie Baucham’s
“The
Ever Loving Truth.” Baucham made a choice to believe in the resurrected
Lord of the Bible as an adult. He was not raised in the church, in
fact, his mother was a follower of Buddha, not of Jesus Christ. His
decision to follow Christ led him down a completely different path than
he was on. He walked away from a promising football career to because
a preacher of the gospel.
Baucham says he believes the bible because “it is a collection
of historical documents, written by eyewitnesses during the lifetimes of
other eyewitnesses. The bible is divine in origin and it changes
people’s lives.”
According to Baucham, the reliability of the Bible isn’t even
up for debate. He points out that we have more than 5,000 manuscripts
or manuscript fragments of the New Testament scriptures, some of them written
within 50 years of the events they cover. When you compare that with
the 9 or 10 manuscripts of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars and 5 manuscripts
of Aristotle’s Poetics and 10 manuscripts of the History of Herodotus,
with the earliest manuscript being 900 years from the original, the Bible
is one of the most documented ancient literary works we have.
Many of the eyewitnesses of the events of the New Testament were
willing to die instead of recant their testimonies. Think about that
for a moment, would you die for a lie? Perhaps you would lay your
life down for something you believe to be true, but no one in their right
mind would die for something they know to be false.
This authentic, holy document claims that Jesus died on a cross
and rose from the dead on the third day. And it says that if we will
confess that the risen Jesus is our Lord and believe that He rose from
the dead, we will be saved.
Do you believe? Then will you confess Jesus to be your Lord?
For more information on a The Ever Loving Truth, go to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805431349/freshministry
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