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Effects of the Scriptures on the Lives of Men

Hebrews 2:1-4; Acts 2:41; 4:4; 6:7; 14:1

The Bible’s Power Over the Lives of the Chosen

Some one was asked to furnish a concrete proof of the authenticity and inspiration of the Bible. He agreed to answer in two words. His answer was The Jews.

They are a people of the Old Testament. It has held them together as a people through thirty centuries. It has made and molded characteristics that have stayed with them though they have been conquered and dispersed again and again. They have kept alive the knowledge of the one God. They have upheld the principles of righteousness though ever subjected to the influences of every conceivable evil around them.

Their very dispersion and nationless wanderings are a confirmation of the prophecies of the Bible.

No book or group of books has ever wielded such power over any other people.

The Bible’s Power Over the Lives of the Chosen

The Bible’s influence Over Great Leaders

Thomas Paine

Benjamin Franklin

William Ewart Gladstone

Isaac Newton

The Bible’s influence Over Great Leaders

The very influence of the Bible is a testimony to its having come from a source higher than man. The names of a very few of the well-known men out of thousands thus influenced, will illustrate.

“Paradise Lost” stands out as one of the greatest books in English literature. It was the Bible’s power over Milton that produced “Paradise Lost.”

Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founder Fathers) clung to the Bible and besought Thomas Paine (political philosopher) to destroy his book attacking the Bible.

Isaac Newton, scientist, and philosopher, spoke of the gospel as the sublimest philosophy on earth.

Gladstone one of the greatest English-men of recent centuries, said “There is but one international problem, and that is to get the gospel to every man, women and child in every nation.

Washington, Lincoln, Clay, Webster, and hundreds of our greatest leaders have vied with one another in paying tribute to the power of the Bible in their lives.

Abraham Lincoln

George Washington

John Milton

Henry Clay

Daniel Webster

The Bible’s Power in Music and Art

George Friedrich Handel's Israel in Egypt

The Bible’s Power in Music and Art

Practically all the great anthems of the entire world today are but the words of the Psalms set to modern music. Also, it is a fact worthy of notice that the greatest composers, such as Beethoven, Haydn, and Handel, were swayed by the power of the Bible until their greatest oratorios were composed from Bible themes. Examples are:

“Israel in Egypt,” “The Creation,” “Jephtha,” “Esher,” “Saul,” “The Messiah,”

The most famous pictures of the greatest artists are Bible pictures.

Joseph Haydn

The Creation

King Solomon. Writing Proverbs. Engraving by Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883).

oil-on-panel work by Rembrandt, Abraham and the Angels (1646)

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