IPad, Android Phones Versus Bible
Yesterday (on the day this was written), I watched Pastor Chris Oyakilome live as he preached. He used his iPad to read out scriptures.
Later in the day, I saw a post on Instagram, and one guy like that insulted Pastor Chris for using iPad, instead of his Bible. I laughed at the man's ignorance.
I remember an Uncle of mine was invited to a Church. He went there with his iPad, and someone asked him: "Sir, where is your Bible?”
He showed him his 10.1 inches Pad.
“But Sir,” he said, “This is not a Bible, this is iPad, you need to carry your Bible. You're not a good preacher, if you don't preach with your Bible," one of the pastors said.
Now this is my point:
Before the advent of printing press, the scriptures were originally written on a scroll! The ten commandments were written on a stone! Not on a Book called “Holy Book”. If the Book where the Bible was printed on becomes Holy Book, then my android phone is “Holy Android” because God’s word is inside it. Thank God we call it “Holy Bible” and not “Holy Book”.
The Bible in your iPad or android phone is as powerful as the one in the paper you are carrying, the Bible in your little phone is as powerful as the one in that large book on the altar of your church.
Some sleep with Bible hoping it will save them from demonic attack! Forget the nollywood tricks where bible can vomit fire… If the word is not in you, it is useless to you!
On my Android phone, I have 7 translations of the Bible, I have all my notes and prepared messages there. I have my greek dictionary and english dictionary there, I have even an advantage of the internet where I can make Bible history research! When you don’t bear good fruit, even your Bible will not make you look good! Carrying Bible around in our hands is not what identifies us as Christians.
The rule is this:
Let the word be written in your hearts (let it be in your thoughts) and in your fingers (be familiar with it) - Proverbs 7:3.
The delivery method has changed but the words have not changed. Moses preached from a stone. Jesus and the Apostles preached from scrolls, when the printing press was invented in the Roman Empire by Johannes Gutenberg. Around 1440, preaching continued from printed books.
The advent of technology makes it more easier, with the invention of iPads and Tablets, the message is still being preached from them!
The method of delivery has changed from stone to scroll, from scroll to papers and gradually from papers to Tablets and iPads.
But what is being delivered is the same message!
Just like emails and SMS is beginning to replace letter writing, technology is beginning to replace various paper books. If you're a student of a tertiary institution, where your textbooks are mostly e-books which must be accessed with iPad and other technologies, where your quiz is done with a computer or iPad, where your exam is also computer based. Yet you are learning the same thing others are learning with a even more advantage!
The same applies to Bible. In the school, a student can actually use an iPad to download all his textbooks for the entire levels without necessarily carrying loads of books! It doesn’t make him not to remain a student! The same applies to Christians.
No matter how large your Bible is, it doesn’t prove you as a Christian. Carrying Bibles wasn't what brought about the name “Christians” in Antioch.
In Act 11:26, it was the results that caused people to call them Christians (Christ-like) and not carrying Bible.
I am not discouraging people from carrying their Bible, but we must not quickly assume that carrying the Bible makes a Christian! No! It is having the word in you, meditating on it day and night and revealing it to others with power that will really make people say “yes, he is a Christian”.
The Apostles were not known by carrying scrolls around, they were known by carrying power and anointing which was fueled by the word of God inside them!
Remain blessed.
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