>> WELL IT'S TIME TO ANSWER SOME HARD QUESTIONS. ON THE PANEL TODAY IS OUR
7-MINUTE WORD - YOU JUST HEARD
HIM TEACH.
PASTOR JERREL GILLIAM FROM
SHILOH CHURCH IN SOUTH PARK,
PENNSYLVANIA.
LANTZ RODS FROM THE TREE OF LIFE
IN PITTSBURGH AND CHUCK HAMBY
OUR RESIDENT COUNSELOR, PASTOR.
CHAPLAIN MASTER OF ALL THINGS.
>> ET CETERA.
>> ET AL.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
>> LET'S JUMP RIGHT IN.
A VERY INTERESTING QUESTION.
THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN OVER THE
COURSE OF SOME 1500 YEARS BY
APPROXIMATELY 40 DIFFERENT
AUTHORS.
THERE'S 66 BOOKS IN THE BIBLE.
AND THESE AUTHORS WERE ALL KINDS
OF DIFFERENT PROFESSIONS.
I MEAN EVERYTHING FROM A
SHEPHERD TO A KING - I MEAN A A
MYRIAD OF AUTHORS.
HOW CAN SUCH A COLLECTION PUT
TOGETHER, HOW CAN WE SAY THAT'S
GOD'S WORD?
HOW IS THAT BECOME THAT TYPE OF
DOCUMENT WOULD BE GOD'S WORD?
>> THE THING THAT ASTOUNDS ME
ABOUT THE BIBLE, THOUGH THERE
WAS THE VARIETY OF PEOPLE
WRITING OVER THE VAST NUMBER OF
YEARS, THE THEME IS THE SAME.
THE FOCUS IS THE SAME.
AND IT ALL POINTS TO ONE PERSON.
JESUS CHRIST.
AND WHEN YOU CAN DO THAT OVER
1500 YEARS, THEY DIDN'T HAVE
THEIR LITTLE THING THIS CAN TEXT
WITH AND
>> WHO MAKES THE GIZ WHIZY.
>> ALMOST EVERYBODY NOW IT'S
AMAZING.
THE UNITY OF THE MESSAGE AND THE
POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN
YOU READ IT.
THAT'S PHENOMENAL TO ME.
>> I THINK IT'S KEY TO THINK
THAT IT'S AMAZING THAT YOU HAVE
WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS PART OF
WHAT WE BELIEVE THAT MAKES IT
THE WORD OF GOD IS THAT IT WAS
ABLE TO SURPASS EVERY GENERATION
FROM SOCIAL ECONOMIC ISSUES
THROUGH ALL THE YEARS OF PEOPLE
TRYING TO SENSOR THE BIBLE.
ALL THE YEARS PEOPLE TRYING TO
ALTAR THE BIBLE AND ALL THESE
TIMES WE SIT BACK AND THEN WE
FIND AN ART FACT AND AN OLD
REMNANT OF A SCRAP AND FIND OUT
THAT THEY'RE VIRTUALLY
IDENTICAL.
THE ONLY WAY THAT'S EVEN
POSSIBLE IS THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS
BEEN PRESERVING HIS WORD
GENERATION AFTER GENERATION.
GOD HAS INTENDED FOR THAT WORD
TO BE ETERNAL.
>> PASTOR?
>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STAND
OUT TO ME IS PROPHECY AND THE
WORD OF GOD.
SO YOU HAVE THESE PROPHET THAT
ARE SPEAKING BY HOLY SPIRIT
WRITING BY THESE THINGS AND YOU
SEE CENTURIES LATER THE
FULFILLMENT OF WORDS THAT WERE
SPOKEN AND WHEN YOU THINK OF THE
STATISTICS OF THE CHANCES OF
THAT HAPPENING BY JUST SOME
RANDOM CHANCE OR THE WILL OF
HUMANS, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE SO IF IT
WAS ONE OR TWO YOU COULD SAY
MAYBE A COINCIDENCE BUT YOU HAVE
HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF
PROPHESIES AND THEN YOU SEE THEM
COME TO PASS AND EVEN JUST
LOOKING AT THE LIFE OF CHRIST
AND GOING BACK TO ISAIAH AND
THOSE WORDS YOU CAN SEE, WOW,
THEY WERE REALLY OPERATING UNDER
SOMETHING THAT WAS MUCH BIGGER
THAN THEMSELVES.
>> SO IT IS THE WORD OF GOD.
>> YEAH.
>> SO EVERY WORD IS THE WORD OF
GO
GOD.
GO GOD. >> CAME TO YOU KNOW VERBAL
EXPERTS.
AMOS WAS THE KEEPER OF THINGS
AND THEY WROTE IN THEIR OWN.
YOU KNOW.
FARMERS.
AMOS WAS A KEEPER OF THINGS AND
THEY WROTE IN THEIR OWN STYLE
AND IN THEIR OWN IDIOM AND IN
THEIR OWN CONTEXT.
BUT WHAT THEY WROTE WAS THE
MESSAGE OF GOD.
AND SO DO I BELIEVE EVERY WORD
WAS LIKE THIS DONE, I DO.
>> YOU KNOW I LOVE THAT THE
BIBLE CONTAINS THIS WIDE VARIETY
OF APPROACHES.
AND I THINK IT'S KEY TO REMEMBER
THAT THOUGH.
WHILE WE SAY WE BELIEVE THE
BIBLE IS ALL TRUE AND ALL THE
WORD OF GOD.
WE GO TO READ DIFFERENT PORTIONS
OF THE BIBLE DIFFERENTLY AND IT
CAN APPLY THE SAME RULES TO THE
BOOK OF PSALMS AS YOU WOULD TO
THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THEY
DON'T WORK BUT THAT'S PART OF
WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL LIKE THAT
DIAMOND WHERE YOU GET TO SEE GOD
SPEAKING THROUGH A VARIETY OF
DIFFERENT WAYS AND I SAY GOD IS
A CREATIVE GOD BECAUSE HE
INVENTED CREATIVITY AND WE THINK
ABOUT HOW DEEP THAT REALLY IS.
GOD INVENTED ALL THE WAYS TO
COMMUNITY AND HE COMMUNICATES TO
US THROUGH ALL THESE I WAYS SO
WE HAVE TO BE MASTERS OF ALL
THESE DIFFERENT WAYS AS WE LEARN
TO HEAR HIS VOICE.
>> I WOULD ADD THAT I DO BELIEVE
THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS HOLY
INSPIRED AND I LIKE TO HAVE IT
IN THE ORIGINAL.
THERE CAN BE A COUPLE OF YOU
KNOW MAYBE SOMETHING AS BEING
TRANSFERRED FROM ONE TO ANOTHER.
THERE'S A LITTLE TECHNICAL
ERRORS HERE AND THERE BUT IN THE
ORIGINAL - I BELIEVE IT WAS
INSPIRED AND IS INSPIRED AND I
LIKE THINKING ABOUT IT.
I'M A MUSICIAN AS WELL.
THIS IS THERE.
THEY HAVE DIFFERENT SOUNDS BUT
GOD IS THE ONE PLAYING THROUGH
THEM SO HE SPEAKS THROUGH THE
DIFFERENT WRITERS AND SO PICKS
UP THEIR THINGS BUT WHAT IS
BEING COMMUNICATED IS THE WORD
OF GOD.
>> WELL IT'S NOT JUST THE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE BOOK.
BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE
WHO HAVE A TREMENDOUS KNOWLEDGE
OF THE BOOK.
THEY'VE STUDIED IT, PH.D.S AND
BIBLE HISTORY.
CAN TALK TO YOU ABOUT WHAT WAS
GOING ON IN THE CULTURE.
THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES AND GET
VERY DETAILS ABOUT IT BUT THEY
DON'T HAVE ANY FAITH INVOLVED IN
THAT.
YOU UNDERSTAND?
SO THERE IS ANOTHER FACTOR IN
UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS
ANOINTED BOOK AND THAT'S THE
HOLY SPIRIT.
BECAUSE IF NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT,
WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT'S
ANOINTING ON THE READING OF THE
WORD THEN IT'S JUST, IT JUST
BECOMES A BOOK.
AND AN INTERESTING BOOK BUT NOT
A BOOK THAT CHANGES LIVES.
OTHERWISE WE CAN GO TO - I WON'T
MENTION NAMES OF SEMINARIES THAT
ARE VERY HIGHLY TRAINED BUT
DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SUPER
NATURAL POWER IN THE BOOK.
SO HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THAT?
JUST OWNING A BIBLE DOESN'T GET
IT INSIDE OF YOU.
WHAT DO YOU GOT TO DO?
>> THERE WAS A STORY TOLD OF A
GREAT OR RAY OR THE THAT QUOTED
THE 23RD PSALMS AND THE PEOPLE
APPLAUDED AT THE CLOSE OF THAT
PARTICULAR MEETING AND A RETIRED
MINISTER CAME UP AND QUOTED THE
23RD PSALMS AND IT WAS AS QUIET
AS COULD BE.
AND THE OR RAY OR THE STEPPED UP
AND SAID.
I KNOW THIS PSALMS.
HE KNOWS THE SHEPHERD.
>> ANOINTING ON GOD'S WORD.
>> CLOSING THOUGHTS?
>> I THINK I LOVE THAT IT'S
KNOWING WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE TRUTH OF THE WORD.
NOT JUST THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
WORD.
AND THE TRUTH IS A PERSON NOT -
AND THAT PERSON IS JESUS.
>> AND ALSO IT'S A CHOICE AND
DESIRE TO WANT TO YIELD TO THAT
TO.
BE OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD
AND THAT'S WHERE FAITH IS MIXED
OUR BELIEF AND OUR TRUST.
AND IT COMES ALIVE.
>> AS YOU'VE LISTENED TO US
DISCUSS THE BIBLE AND THE
ANOINTING ON GOD'S WORD.