Bind It and Seal It!

 

Isa 8:16 Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.

What is the Bible if not the testimony of God spoken to the prophets through the Holy Spirit? 2Pe 1:21 tells us: “for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”

What is the Law if not the testimony of God concerning right living?

Ps 119:105 says: “Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.”

 

Bind these words! Seal these words. They are not to be added to or subtracted from!

De 4:2 says, "You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”

 And some of the last words of the Bible remind us: “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Rev 22:18,19)

 

The binding up and sealing of these, as a roll, among his disciples, has a two-fold significancy: that they were to be hid from the apprehension of the people at large,  and that they should be carefully treasured up and preserved among God's true worshippers.

 

The Holy Spirit wrote  ALL the words of Scripture and it is only the Holy Spirit who can reveal them to the redeemed, (born again)  man. 1Co 2:14 says: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

How rich then are these few words found in Isaiah. “Bind and seal the word of God.” It’s all we have…..it’s all we need. Jesus said in Mt 4:4, “It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'"