బైబిలు అధ్యయనము (Through The Bible: A Message for Today From Every Book of the Bible) (Telugu)

బైబిలు అధ్యయనము / Through The Bible by Zac Poonen

This commentary on all 66 books of the Bible shows that every single book of the Bible is interesting and has a message for us today. It deals with key aspects of the Christian life and speaks more to the heart than to the head.God’s Word has been given to us:

1. To teach us, to show us the right path.
2. To reprove us and rebuke us. We need strong rebukes to be preserved in the pathway of godliness.
3. To correct us when we go astray, to direct us into the right path.
4. To train us in righteousness. It is a training manual.
5. So we see that God’s Word has been given to us to change our character, so that we can become godly men and women.
6. The ultimate goal is “that the man of God may be adequate” – perfect and complete. Like a glass of water filled to the brim, our character is to be rounded off, balanced and complete. We are to be anointed and equipped to serve God, so that we can do every good work that God has planned for us. That is the purpose of Scripture.

So if you study the Bible, you must study it for these reasons.

The Holy Spirit alone can teach us God’s Word. The same Holy Spirit Who taught the apostles in the 1st century, seeks to teach us in the 21st century too. That is how I studied the Scriptures from the time I was born again in July 1959. I have never been to a Bible-school or Bible-college. The Holy Spirit taught me God’s Word, as I spent many hours studying it. When Jesus walked with two disciples to Emmaus, He “opened the Scriptures to them”. 

That is what He wants to do for us today, as we walk with Him.Those disciples found that their “hearts burned within them when the Lord opened the Scriptures to them” ( Luke 24:32 ). That is what will happen to our hearts too, when the Holy Spirit opens the Scriptures to us today.The truths that God reveals in His Word can never be boring, because Jesus is never be boring. If we walk with our Lord and listen to Him, our hearts will burn within us – because we will see the glory of Christ in the Word.

Under the old covenant, people meditated on God’s written Word. But now we meditate on the Word made flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ (John1:14). Now we see the glory of Jesus as we meditate on the Scriptures (See 2 Corinthians 3:18). A man who looks at that glory constantly will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, and will always be fruitful. Even in old age he will bring forth fruit (Psalm 1:3; 92:14). 

That is the will of God for each one of us.Proverbs 25:2 says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to search it out.” Gold and diamonds are found deep down, many thousands of feet beneath the earth’s surface. It is the same with the Scriptures – its riches are concealed deep within. We are kings in Christ and our glory is to find those hidden treasures in God’s Word.