Opening Scriptures before the Message
Isaiah 55:11 LSB So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what pleases Me, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,
so that the man of God may be equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Peter 1:19-21 And we have as more sure the prophetic word, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
Know this first of all, that no prophesy of Scripture comes by one's own interpretation.
For no prophesy was ever made by the will of man, but men being moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
How to hear and understand the Gospel
Yahweh Answers Job
Job 38:1-3 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
"Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
"Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you make Me know!
Yahweh Will Ask Job
Job 40:6-7 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
"Now gird up your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you make Me know.
Job 42:4-7 'Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You make Me know.'
"I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You;
Therefore I reject myself, And I repent in dust and ashes."
Yahweh's Anger Towards Job's Friends
Now it happened after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, that Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger burns against you and against your two friends because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.
Romans 10:14-17 How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?
And how will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "How BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF YHOSE WHO PROCLAIM GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!"
However, they did not all heed the good news, for Isaiah says, "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?"
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Acts 26:17-18 rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,
to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.'
Romans 15:4-7 For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through the perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Now may the God of perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,
so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ, the Hope of Jews and Gentiles
Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.