Posted on 06/20/2002 8:52:22 AM PDT by WhatNot
William Tyndale lived in England in the 1500's. He asked the bishop of London for permission to translate the Bible into English. He was denied. Tyndale then left for Germany where he began working on a translation of the New Testament into English. It was finished and smuggled into England in 1525, the first printed edition of the New Testament in English. The authorities burned it, but still it spread. Tyndale was eventually arrested and burned at the stake. The people leading the church were the ones forbidding and burning Bibles. This man gave his life so that the Word of God could be published and given to those who had never heard it.
If others are willing to give up their lives so that we could have the Word of God, how much more must we cherish, treasure and receive it, and apply it to our lives. Take out the Word today and apply it to your life. Give your life to the receiving, to the living and to the giving of His word, for which the saints before you shed their blood.
John 1:14
TODAY'S MISSION
If you are led, be part of an out-reach to provide Bibles to His unreached people. Offer a special gift, your prayer support, to support those who spread His Word.
"I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
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Marvelous Bible Quotes!
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible." George Washington Carver
"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom." Horace Greeley
"The existence of the Bible is a book for the people. It's the greatest benefit the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity." Immanuel Kant
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man." Abraham Lincoln
"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it." Thomas Huxley
"The Bible is no mere book, but it's a living creature with a power that conquers all who oppose it." Napoleon
"The Bible is...as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God." Jack Hayford
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." George Washington
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people...so great is my veneration of the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens in their country and respectful members of society." John Adams
"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know the price of rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved." Benjamin Franklin
"That Book (the Bible) is the rock on which our Republic rests." Andrew Jackson
"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty...students' perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands." Thomas Jefferson
"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed." Patrick Henry
"If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." William Penn
"Bible reading is an education in itself." Lord Tennyson
"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history." .... "I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily." Sir Isaac Newton
"The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world." Charles Dickens
"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible." W.H. Seward
"The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures." A.W. Tozer
"It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, 'This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,' I would shake my head and say, 'I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.' There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners." R.A. Torrey
"My advice to Sunday Schools no matter what their denomination is: Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your heart, and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34)'." Ulysses S. Grant
"At this time I both read and studied all kinds of literature: cosmography, histories, chronicles, and philosophy and other arts , to which our Lord opened my mind unmistakably to the fact that it was possible to navigate from here to the Indies, and He evoked in me the will for the execution of it; and with this fire I came to Your Highnesses. All those who heard of my plan disregarded it mockingly and with laughter. All the sciences of which I spoke were of no profit to me nor the authorities in them; only in Your Highnesses my faith, and my stay. Who would doubt that this light did not come from the Holy Spirit, anyway as far as I am concerned, which comforted with rays of marvelous clarity and with its Holy and Sacred Scriptures." Christopher Columbus
I wonder what John Adams would think of our children today?
Well, if he held forth the Word, he would see the God and Christ living inside many of our young (my daughter for one) and he would see the prophesies of darkness being fulfilled as well.
Do you know when Jesus is returning? In a moment . . .
Selah
Amen! And one day the Lord will say this to all His servants. You and I and all who obey His will.
Matthew 25:21
"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
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