The Indestructible Word

The grass withers, the flower fades, But the Word of our God stands forever.

Isaiah 40:8

Down through the centuries, the Bible has always been hated and scorned by God’s enemies. Men have gone out of their way to abolish it.

There have been some “heroes” of God’s Word. William Tyndale devoted his life to spreading God’s good news. He translated it, printed it, and distributed it. In the midst of the great distribution under Tyndale, the bishop got angry and wanted to get the Bibles out of circulation. He sent a friend to buy all the Bibles Tyndale had printed. “Whatever it takes, buy them and destroy them.” The friend talked Tyndale out of the Bibles in spite of Tyndale’s exorbitant price. The bishop’s friend paid it, took the Bibles, and destroyed them. With the money from the Bibles, Tyndale bought materials to print thirty times as many Bibles and distributed them all over the country. When the bishop discovered more Bibles, he asked where Tyndale had gotten the funds to do this. His friend said, “You paid for it—you bought the Bibles and he distributed them.”

Isn’t that great! The Bible, defiantly, victoriously, convincingly, still stands. It remains the only inerrant, infallible, complete revelation man has ever received from his living God.