Concerts are a major industry and there are countless stories of music artists that list out lavish demands that concert promoters are required to take care of before the rock star will agree to come. One of the most notorious requirements came from the rock band Van Halen. Each of Van Halen’s contracts insisted that a bowl of M&M’s be provided backstage. However, every single brown M&M needed to be removed from the bowl.
If the band arrived and saw that the bowl had any brown M&M’s in it, then they were free to cancel the concert and receive full payment. There was actually a good reason behind the clause. For the band, the absence of those M&Ms was a matter of life or death.
The safety of everyone was at stake to ensure that the concert location could adequately support the amount of equipment to put on the concert. Otherwise the set-up crews and the band would be in danger because of faulty equipment or sub-standard facilities.
They would first go check the bowl of candy. If there were brown M&M’s then they knew they had to scrutinize every bit of the set-up, and always found life-threatening mistakes.
This reminds us of the seriousness of the authority of God’s Word. The entire Bible, every word of Scripture is in fact God’s word to us. We cannot skim through it, or take a casual approach to reading God’s Word. We need to delight in the treasure of the Bible, and also take great care in every single instruction.
We see in: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NIV) “And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.”
There are two important truths about the full authority of the Bible:
1. All the words in the Bible are God’s words.
2. To obey and believe any word of the Bible is to believe and obey God Himself.
What this means is that from start to finish, from Genesis to Revelation, all 66 books of the Bible are to be viewed as coming from God Himself. The Lord is the beginning and final author of every word in the Bible.
When we take to heart the authority of every part of scripture this prepares to live a life pleasing to God. We also see from the entirety of the Bible Who God is and how we can know Him. It is a dangerous mistake to pick and choose what parts of the Bible we want to take seriously.
By spending time each and every day studying the Bible, the Lord will fill our hearts and minds with what it means to love the Lord, to obey the Lord and to please God with every part of our life.
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