Only born-again Christians are able to understand the Bible and the spiritual things of the Kingdom of God. As a born-again believer, you need the words of God every day. The words in the Bible are your daily bread for your spiritual inner man. When you feed and renew your mind with the words of God and obey and apply the words of God in your life, your spirit matures and you will speak and walk as the new creation. This means that you speak and walk the same way as Jesus spoke and walked on earth. En este artículo, the purpose of the Bible in the life of Christians will be discussed.
¿Cuál es el propósito de la Biblia??
We should be thankful that God gave His Word and that He revealed Himself to us through His Word. We are privileged that we have the Bible and can read and study the Bible. What is the purpose of the Bible in the lives of Christians?
The Word gives life
En el principio era la palabra, y la Palabra estaba con Dios, y el Verbo era Dios. Lo mismo fue en el principio con Dios.. Todas las cosas fueron hechas por Él; y sin Él nada fue hecho de lo que fue hecho. En él estaba la vida; y la vida era la luz de los hombres. Y la luz brilla en la oscuridad; y las tinieblas no lo comprendieron (John 1:1-5)
Jesus is the living Word, Who came in the flesh and was fully Human. He told the Pharisees, that if they had known the scriptures, they would have believed Him.
They would have believed that Jesus was (y es) the Christ and the Son of the living God. Because the scriptures testify of Jesus, el Mesías, el hijo de Dios, Who became the Son of man and brought salvation for humanity and gave eternal life.
The Father Himself, which has sent Me, has borne witness of Me. Tampoco has oído Su voz en ningún momento, ni visto su forma. Y no tenéis Su palabra permaneciendo en vosotros.: for whom He has sent, A él no le crees. Busca en las escrituras; for in them you think you have eternal life: y ellos son los que dan testimonio de mí. Y no vendrás a mí, que puedas tener vida (John 5:17-40)
En verdad, en verdad, te digo, El que escucha mi palabra, y cree en el que me envió, has everlasting life, y no vendrá a condenación; pero pasa de muerte a vida (John 5:24)
Jesús les dijo, Yo soy el Pan de vida: el que a mí viene, nunca tendrá hambre; y el que cree en mí nunca tendrá sed. (John 6:35,47, 48, 51)
Jesus is the Life and gives eternal life
En verdad, en verdad, te digo, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, y da vida al mundo (John 6:32,33)
It is the spirit that quickens; la carne no aprovecha nada: las palabras que te hablo, Son espíritu, y son vida (John 6:63)
Todos, who believes in Jesus and His work of salvation and believes His words and becomes born again, receives eternal life. Jesus came first for the house of Israel (God’s chosen carnal people, que nacieron de la simiente de Jacob). But because they rejected Jesus the Messiah, salvation came to the Gentiles (Oh. Hechos 11:18, romanos 1:16, 11:11)
In Jesus Christ and by His blood, a New Covenant for the new creation (el hombre espiritual) came into being. This New Covenant replaced the Old Covenant for the old creation (el hombre carnal (Oh. Hebreos 8:13).
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Ni, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: pero, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed (romanos 9:6-8)
The new man is no longer a son of the devil, but a son of God (esto se aplica tanto a hombres como a mujeres). The sons of God are born of the Spirit of God and are the children of the promise.
Todos, who believes in Jesus Christ and becomes born again, obeys His words, and keeps His commandments, receives eternal life
The Word of God is a shield for the born-again believer
Cada palabra de Dios es pura.: Él es escudo para los que en él confían (Proverbios 30:5)
The Word of God gives peace
Paz te dejo, mi paz os doy: no como el mundo da, Os doy a vosotros. No dejes que tu corazón esté preocupado, ni que tenga miedo (John 14:27)
Mucha paz tienen los que aman tu ley: y nada los escandalizará (salmos 119:165)
Estas cosas os he hablado, que en Mí tengáis paz (John 16:33)
If you read, creer, and apply the Word to your life, you will experience peace. But as soon as you leave the Word of God, even if it is just a little bit, you will become agitated, preocupado, ansioso, and stressed.
Therefore it is important to abide in the Word of God all the days of your life.
The Word of God equips the new creation
Todas las Escrituras son dadas por inspiración de Dios., y es provechoso para la doctrina, para reprensión, para corrección, para instrucción en justicia: Para que el hombre de Dios sea perfecto, Completamente preparado para todas las buenas obras. (2 Timoteo 3:16-17)
The Bible is meant for the new creation. The purpose of the Bible is to equip the new creation. The purpose of the Bible is to ensure that the spirit of the new creation is fed, disciplinado, corregido, and instructed and grows up into to image of Jesus Christ.
The Bible is profitable for:
- doctrine (learning, teaching)
- reprensión (proof, conviction, evidence)
- corrección (a straightening up again, (figuradamente) rectification)
- instruction in righteousness (educación, training; Por implicación, disciplinary correction, chastening, nutrir (so that the new man shall walk in holiness and righteousness))
The Word of God gives faith
Entonces la fe viene por el oír., y escuchar por la palabra de Dios (romanos 10:17)
The Word of God divides soul and spirit
Porque la palabra de Dios es rápida, y potente, y más cortante que cualquier espada de dos filos, traspasando hasta la división del alma y del espíritu, y de las articulaciones y la médula ósea, y es un discernidor de los pensamientos e intenciones del corazón (Hebreos 4:12-13)
We shall all give account for our words and works on the Day of Judgement. Nothing shall be hidden from Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the living Word, Who came to heal man (restore man) y reconciliar al hombre con Dios. Jesus brought peace. Sin embargo, people decide to believe Jesus and accept His redemptive work and His peace and choose righteousness and life and receive eternal life, or to deny Jesus and reject His work redemptive work and choose sin and death and receive eternal death.
All people will have an encounter with the Word, either as Savior during life on earth or as Judge afterlife on the Day of Judgment.
That’s why it is important to make Jesus Christ; la palabra viva, el centro de tu vida.
Take His words and apply His words to your life.
Only the Bible reveals the truth and exposes the lies and works of the darkness.
If you want to walk in the truth of Light, you must renew your mind with the Word of God.
Renovando tu mente, tu vieja forma de pensar (mente carnal, who thinks like the world) will be transformed by the Word and the Holy Spirit into a new way of thinking and you shall get the mind of Christ.
When you renew your mind with the Word of God, you shall think the way God thinks and speak and act according to His will, al igual que Jesús.
The Bible exposes the lies of the devil and sin
Solo el Word of God divides el alma (carne) from the spirit. All those lies of the world that are built up in your mind, which you believed for all those years, shall be brought into the light. You shall become aware of all the lies of the world. And by believing the Word of God above the words and lies of the devil; el mundo, and by acting upon the Word of God, you shall destroy these evil strongholds of darkness. (Leer también: Las fortalezas en la mente de las personas.)
Your spirit shall mature and reign over your flesh (cuerpo y alma)
The Word of God is the Sword of the Spirit
Y toma el casco de la salvación., y la espada del Espíritu, que es la palabra de Dios (Efesios 6:17)
Another purpose of the Bible is that the Word of God is the Sword of the Spirit. The Bible is the spiritual Sword of the new creation and is needed in your daily spiritual warfare. Cada persona, who becomes a new creation in Jesus Christ, has entered the spiritual battlefield.
There is no such thing as a believer, who doesn’t experience spiritual warfare or doesn’t want to get involved in spiritual warfare.
If you don’t acknowledge and experience spiritual warfare in your life and don’t discern the spirits and the spiritual kingdoms, then you haven’t become a new creation in the spirit. Por lo tanto, the first step will be to believe, arrepentirse, and become born again by water and Spirit.
Every new creation has become an enemy of the devil and the world and deals with the powers, principados, and rules of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places, just like Jesus had to deal with them.
Jesus resisted and overcame the devil time after time. Cómo? By the Word of God. Jesus knew the will of God, He knew what was written. Ahora, the Word of God is also your Sword.
The Sword of victory
Only with the Word of God you can overcome and be an overcomer. There is no other ‘tool’ that you can use. That’s why it is important to get to know Bible; la palabra de Dios. De modo que, you won’t be tempted, nor be seduced and misled by the lies of this world and wrong human doctrines.
Without the knowledge of the Word, faith in the Word, and applying the Word of God in your life, you will not live a victorious life but a defeated life. You won’t be strong enough to overcome the world; principados, potestades, gobernantes de la oscuridad de este mundo, and spiritual wickedness in high places and resist the temptations of the devil.
The spiritual warfare between Light and darkness
Your warfare is not carnal, pero espiritual. The spiritual realm is your battlefield. Your job is not to attack people (carne y sangre), but the powers, principados, gobernantes de la oscuridad, and spiritual wickedness that tempt people, take possession of people, and even use people to attack you, seduce you, and tempt you into sin.
When your eyes become spiritual (meaning, you grow up in the Word with the help of the Holy Spirit), you shall know God’s will.
You’ll know what’s right and what’s wrong and what’s good and what’s evil. You’ll be able to discern the things of the spiritual world (which is behind the visible world) and the spirits.
When people try to provoke you, you stay calm and be silent. You let go when people ‘attack’ you with lies or false accusations. You forgive when people say mean painful words to you or treat you wrongly. (Leer también: ¿Cuál es el secreto del perdón?).
When someone tries to tempt you into sin, you will discern the temptation and walk away.
When you walk after the Spirit you know, who is behind all this. You know who keeps the people in bondage and who is speaking and acting through them.
Cuando caminas según el Espíritu, you’ll stay silent, calm, let go, perdonar, walk away, etc.. al igual que Jesús. You will not be ruled by your flesh and therefore not react from your carnal will, sentimientos y emociones.
Your power is not carnal, pero espiritual. Therefore you’ll not use the knowledge, sabiduría, and methods of this world. You’ll use the spiritual weapons because you have become a spiritual new creation, who operates in the spirit. You will walk in the spiritual armor of God, speak the Word of God, and act and pray according to the Word.
the two kinds of prayer
There are two kinds of prayer; carnal prayers and spiritual prayers. Carnal prayers are selfish prayers coming from your flesh; tu voluntad, sentimientos, emociones, etc., and revolve around you. Spiritual prayers derive from the Word and the Spirit and revolve around the will and Kingdom of God.
The devil is afraid of spiritual prayers and hates Christians, who pray from the Spirit. They are a threat to him and his kingdom, because they attack him and his kingdom with the Word of God.
He knows the power of the Word of God because the Word has disarmed him and overcame him.
The devil will try everything to keep you ignorant, by keeping you away from the Word of God and lead you on side ways. He uses entretenimiento, Distracciones, problemas, falsas doctrinas, etc..
He will also use dreams, Visiones, and prophetic words to tempt you. Por ejemplo, the devil shall show the importance of praise and worship music, and let you think that praise and worship is the most powerful weapon in spiritual warfare, instead of the Bible; la palabra de Dios.
But Jesus didn’t resist and defeated the devil in the wilderness by singing spiritual songs. NO! Jesus overcame the devil by the power of the Word!
The purpose and power of the Bible
What is the purpose and the power of the Bible in your life as a Christian? The Word of God separates the soul and spirit. The words of God mean death to your flesh but life to your spirit.
Through the Bible you get to know the will of God and His truth and righteousness, reveals the lies of the devil and sin. You discern the truth from lies, Light from darkness and good from evil.
The purpose of the Bible is that all Scriputres are profitable to teach, reprensión, correcto, and instruct you in righteousness. La biblia; the Word is your Sword, which you have to use daily to be an overcomer.
The Bible is your daily bread. Without the words of God, your spirit starves and you will not spiritually mature.
The purpose of the Bible for Christians is to become like the living Word; Jesús
“Se la sal de la tierra”
