Five Keys to Opening the Holy Scriptures

The Second Key...The Scriptures Must be Believed

"...when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe."

Just as a stick of dynamite, the Bible lies dormant until the fuse of belief is lit. It is the power of God to everyone that believeth. The preserved Word of God, the A.V. 1611 KJV, consists of 3,566,480 letters. But all of these remain in the 'dead letter' bin until given life by the spirit of belief. It is at this time the explosion occurs: walls fall down flat; lions' mouths are closed; mountains are moved out of their place; violent storms are calmed; fiery trials are quenched; bitter waters are turned into sweet, etc.

But if God is to blow the hinges off the prison gates that hold us captive, there must first be belief in His Word! The writer of Hebrews tells us, speaking of our forefathers, "but the word...did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." Satan's purpose from the beginning was to destroy all belief in the Word of God. The Psalmist plainly tells us we can "limit the Holy One of Israel," by unbelief. We are told of Jesus' ministry, "He could there do no mighty works because of their unbelief." 

My favorite New Testament story is found in John's gospel, chapter four. It illustrates what I've been attempting to get across. 

"There was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house."

"Act as though it were, and you'll experience it as it is." - rds