5. The written Word of God preached should come without procrastination. It should come without rationalization. It should also come without justification of our sin and argumentation for iniquity. We ought to sincerely obey the written Word of the Lord like Phillip did. Do you seek like Phillip to bring the written Word to where the Lord wants it? Sometimes the Lord may lead to where circumstances are unfavorable or illogical, but we ought to be strong and courageous by His divine Spirit. It is the divine presence of the Spirit of God that helps us to obey His divine commandments. We ought to love our enemies and love the Blessed Three in One and One in Three. God will help us to love our neighbor and Himself. He is divinely all-wise and He knows about our corrupt flesh and the whole limitation of our spiritual freedom. He alone is the God who enables His people to love the gospel and obey the good news of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. We ought to know that the Scriptures have the divine power to open the eyes of the blind, make the deaf hear and the mute speak. Faith comes by hearing. If we hear the written Word, we will grow in faith because God's Word does not come back to Him unaccomplished. Hearing comes by the word of Christ. Those who have ears to hear let them hear! God spoke the world into existence through the awesome power of God's spoken Word as Jesus Christ brought his friend Lazarus from the dead. He calls all His people back from the dead by His word. I suggest to you that the words of Jesus Christ as God's written Word in the New Testament as much as the words of the Old Testament and the rest of all the Scriptures. The Scriptures are the divine power of God to change lost hearts to apprehend Christ. We have corrupt indwelling sin and we are actual transgressors in need of the effective power of God's Word.
6. There is never spiritual redemption without the written Word of God. The heart is never changed by our fleshly and sinful decisions. There never was a decision out of the flesh that saved anyone. We cannot will ourselves out of our natures. It takes an divine act of supernatural and efficacious intervention that mere man cannot undo. All that the enemies of God can do is constantly and continually sin as actual transgressors in original sin. The Word of God and the Spirit of God radically changes the hearts and minds of the sons and daughters of Adam. It will accomplish its purposes according to God's good pleasure. As Christians we have a new nature in Christ because of the Spirit's work by His written Word. There is nothing more precious to God than His written Word. There should be nothing more precious to us than God's holy Scriptures because it contains everything we need to be right with God and its message has a preserved clearness that can be understood concerning the divine gospel of God by a little child. The teaching that is against the Reformed doctrine of all the Scriptures about the "clearness" of the written Word about the gospel is alien to the Bible itself. Rome denies the divine clearness of God's written Word.
7. We ought to be faithful messengers of God's written Word. How do we know if we are faithful? We must search all of the Scriptures like the Bereans in the Book of Acts to test the apostle Paul. We ought to test the modern and contemporary pastors in light of all the divine Scriptures. We can determine like the Bereans without a "ecumenical council" or an "infallible pope" the divine and holy things of God in and through Christ Jesus by the guidance and direction of the Holy Ghost. We ought to share Christ with a lost world. We ought to fulfill the "Great Commission" of our Friend and Master Jesus Christ. God accomplishes His salvational work through human instruments of proclaiming the gospel of God according to all the Scriptures. Phillip shared the good news with the Ethiopian eunuch. We also ought to share the good news. We learn the good news from the written Word. A eunuch was an extremely influential person or just an ordinary eunuch. He was returning from a period of worship. The Spirit spoke to Phillip to share the gospel with the Ethiopian eunuch. This is a message to every Christian. Turn aside, dear Christian: share the gospel with a lost world! We ought to understand also that if the Spirit spoke He is indeed a divine person. Many non-Christian cults believe that the Spirit is an impersonal force or a non-divine agent. The Bible clearly teaches the personality and deity of the Spirit of the written Word. We also see that in verse 30 it records for us that the Ethiopian eunuch read Isaiah. We hear so much among Roman apologists that there was no copies of the Scriptures. We see, however, that this man had a real copy of the book of Isaiah. Phillip needed to guide the man into the reading of the Bible. It means every Christian should know his or her Bible. We ought to explain the Scriptures in light of the Scriptures by the real presence of the Spirit of God in illumination.
This blog web site is for the in-depth, sound and basic exegetical study of the Bible in Reformed apologetics; that is, I shall expound upon the inerrant and infallible Word of God, the Holy Scriptures. There shall be biblical studies in world religions and non-Christian cults. I also quote and research reformed writers and I am happy to study from them. May the Lord bless everyone who reads this blog with spiritual riches in Christ which is His imputed merit by faith alone.
