The Challenge to Preserve the Bible Luke 21:33

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The Challenge to Preserve the Bible Luke 2133

• A card in a new Bible gave these donts to
  preserve the book.
• Dont expose to rain or water
• Dont use when hands are hot and sweaty
• Dont expose to heat or fire
• It is possible to take care of the physical
  binding of a Bible but still fail to
• handle aright the Word of Truth (2 Tim 215
  ASV)
• Four Musts in Preserving the Bible
• We must READ it.
• 1. Pauls command to Timothy (I Tim 413)
• 2. Public education is so secularistic that
  Bible reading is banned.
• 3. Palm oil is best for leather binding of
  the Bible.
• We must BELIEVE it.
• 1. It is the power only to those who believe.
  (Rom 116, Heb 116)

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The Challenge to Preserve the Bible Luke 2133

• Four Musts in Preserving the Bible (contd)
• We must BELIEVE it. (contd)
• 2. Belief means obey. (Heb. 42,6)
• 3. Faith that saves is a faith that obeys.
  (Deu. 3019, John 336)
• We must SHARE it.
• 1. The early disciples (Acts 84)
• 2. All that was needed to stop the Christian
  movement was to produce the body of Christ.
• 3. We must keep the gospel pure, but keeping it
  is a sin.
• WE must LIVE it.
• 1. One way to share the Word is through our
  deeds
• 2. Paul's description of the Corinthian
  Christians. (2 Cor 32)

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The Challenge to Preserve the Bible Luke 2133

• Four Musts in Preserving the Bible (contd)
• WE must LIVE it. (contd)
• 3. Annie Flint wrote
• We are the only Bible the careless world will
  read
• We are the sinner's gospel, We are the
  scoffer's creed
• We are the Lord's last message given in deed
  and word
• What if the line is crooked? What if the type
  is blurred?
• 4. It may not be good for the binding of your
  bible to hold it with sweaty hands, but it can
  preserve the Bible in your heart and life.
• 5. Fire and heat may be bad for a book of
  paper, but we need the Bible to face
  the fires of life and temptation.
• 6. Don't preserve the Bible to decorate a center
  table preserve it as a living force in
  our lives