<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="joh+10:1-18">John 10:1-18</span></span></p><p>I said yesterday that I subscribe to the supervisal inspiration of the Bible. I believe God led the minds and hearts of the writers of Scripture to go to the right sources for information, to come up with the required data, and in the process protected them from exposure to error, deceit, or imposture. He supervised them in their research, in their reporting, and when He spoke directly to them He was there also to make sure that they received clearly the message He wanted to convey. Ian Macpherson puts this truth most powerfully in his book The Faith Once Delivered when he says: "As in the mystery of the Incarnation, God linked Himself to humanity, so in the mystery of the inspiration of Holy Scripture, God made use of human channels, yet He never surrendered His Divine authorship or permitted the Book to become the word of man rather than the word of God." Another writer, H. O. Mackey, put it like this: "Who built St. Paul's Cathedral? So many masons, carpenters, iron-workers, carvers, painters - and then there was Wren. He was not a mason, or a carpenter ... and never laid a stone. What did he do? He did it all. He planned it, inspired it with his thought." Mackey does not intend to dishonor the workmen who toiled hard and long, but simply to make the point that in the final analysis St. Paul's Cathedral is Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece. Who wrote the Bible? Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, John, Peter, Paul, and many others. But whose book is it really? It is God's. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">O God, it is the entrance of Your Word that brings light and the neglect of Your Word that brings darkness. Help me to expose myself more and more to that light, so that I may walk through life with a sure and steady tread. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="re+22:12-21">Revelation 22:12-21</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="de+4:2">Deuteronomy 4:2</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="de+12:32">Deuteronomy 12:32</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="pr+30:5-6">Proverbs 30:5-6</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What was the conclusion of the writer of Proverbs?</li><li>What was John's warning?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"... and the Scripture cannot be broken ..." (v. 35) 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num ">2 </sup>Do not add   to what I command you and do not subtract   from it, but keep   the commands   of the Lord your God that I give you. </span></p>

Do not add<cr>1</cr>  to what I command you and do not subtract<cr>2</cr>  from it, but keep<cr>3</cr>  the commands<cr>4</cr>  of the Lord your God that I give you.

Deuteronomy 4:2

 2 Do not add   to what I command you and do not subtract   from it, but keep   the commands   of the Lord your God that I give you.

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 Do not add  to what I command you and do not subtract  from it, but keep  the commands  of the Lord your God that I give you.

<p><span class="bible-text ">Do not add   to what I command you and do not subtract   from it, but keep   the commands   of the Lord your God that I give you. </span></p>

 Do not add   to what I command you and do not subtract   from it, but keep   the commands   of the Lord your God that I give you.

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