Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because
"All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
But the word of the Lord endures forever."
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
Teach us Lord the reality of the new beginning we have in Your Word, Your new birth!
Now turn back with me to Luke 24:44-45: Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in –
"The Law of Moses" and…
"The Prophets" and…
"The Psalms"
… concerning Me." And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend THE SCRIPTURES.
There are twenty-two letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
There are twenty-two books in the Hebrew canon.
Those 22 books were decided[1] by the council of 120 that Ezra convened.
After he copied the letters of the entire Old Testament, Ezra gathered a council of the godly men of Israel. They agreed upon the books of the Old Testament that had been in the care of the prophets and priests for a thousand years. Then they arranged them in the three-fold division we see in Christ's ministry.
The original 22 Canonized OT was divided up into 3 parts.
TaNaKh
1) The Law (Torah) 2) The Prophets (Nevi'im) 3) The Holy Writings (Keturim)
Another common name for the third section would be "THE PSALMS" because Psalms was the book that
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Pastor John Barnett has been devouring the Word of God for over 30 years. John, now the teaching pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan has served congregations in Oklahoma, New England, Georgia and California. He also served on the Faculty of the Master's College...
