Body: | Is your home built with Bible Blueprints?
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A construction crew was handed a set of blueprints for a house and told to
build the structure exactly as drawn. Upon finishing, the crew stood back
to admire their work. It was a "dream house," being well designed and
spacious. However they soon discovered a serious problem. None of the
utilities has been built in. "How could this have happened?" the foreman
inquired. After careful examination of the blueprints, it was discovered
that the architect had forgot to draw the utility blueprint. Everything the
architect had drawn was perfect and without flaw, but he provided an
incomplete set of blueprints for the builders.
Now in our parable, God is the architect of the church and we are the
builders. God has provided man with a set of blueprints... the Holy Bible.
(Heb 8:5 & 1 Cor 3:10-11) They are the pattern of doctrine and worship for
the church. But are the blueprints complete? Did God provide a complete set
of blueprints or are we left to guess? Is the Bible complete enough to be
considered an all sufficient guide?
Jesus made this promise to the apostles in Jn 16:13, "But when He, the
Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth". The apostles
were inspired directly by the Holy Spirit and thus we have all the truth in
the New Testament. This fulfills the very promise that Jesus made to them.
Isn't it great to know that we have a permanent written unchangeable record
of all the truth in the pages of the Bible. The last book of the Bible to
be written was Revelation in about 96 AD. Since that time nothing has been
added to the Bible. The Bible then became a complete set of blueprints for
man to build the church and home from. Although many modern skeptics are
constantly attacking the Bible as God's word, Christians are told to
"contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the
saints" Jude 3. Notice the expression, "delivered once for all". This
proves that the Bible is indeed a book that contains all the information
that God intended for man to know. God is not constantly adding to His
message down through the ages. It was "delivered once for all" and we have
a permanent record of "all the truth" in the Bible.
Is your home built with Bible blueprints? Do you pattern your lifestyle and
family after the Bible? If not, you might wake up one morning and realize
that something when very wrong when you were building and now it is too
late to go back. Your problem, like in our story, requires major expensive
renovations. The Bible is God's guide to man on how to live and worship.
"God's divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and
godliness" 2 Pet 1:3. "Everything" means nothing has been left out that we
need to build our homes.
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