The Greatest Story Ever Told

By Dr. Teresa A. White

There is nothing more powerful than the Word of God. These images are to bring more enlightenment to your understanding of the Word of God. This book will help you to be more familiar with the Bible, to understand the Scriptures better, and to see what God is really saying through these stories. It is to help build your faith because the word of God says in Romans 10:17, "So then faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God."

Not all who hear will respond. Hearing and believing produce new life; hearing and refusing produce death. The problem is not with the message or the messenger but with the hearer. Do hear the Word of God and be blessed.

This story is to let you see exactly how God operates through his holy Scriptures. You see, the Word of God is our Salvation, our Anchor, our Rock, our Strong Tower. According to John 8:32, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." God loves us dearly, but he wants us to walk in obedience to him so that the enemy cannot have a free course in our lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781636929804

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Contents

Introduction

Genesis

The Truth about the Trinity

In the Beginning

Lucifer Wanted to Be Like God Almighty

God Created Male and Female

Adam Forbidden to Eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

God Made a Help meet for Adam

Eve Made a Horrible Mistake

Man No Longer Had Dominion over All the Earth

Yet God in His Love Sent a Savior to Undo the Damage Adam Caused

Cain Murdered His Brother Abel

But They Did Not Fear God

But There Was One Man of Faith

God Sent His Chosen People a Leader, Moses

The Ten Commandments

Ten Plagues upon Pharaoh

1. The Plague of Blood: Waters Turn to Blood

2. The Plague of Amphibians (Frogs)

3. The Plague of Lice

4. The Plague of Flies

5. Pestilence: Disease of Livestock

6. The Plague of Unhealable Boils

7. The Plague of Hail and Fire

8. The Plague of Locusts

9. The Plague of Darkness

10. The Death of All Firstborns

The Children of Israel Must Put Blood on Their Doorposts

God Killed All the Firstborns

God Gave His People the Ten Commandments to Protect Them from Sin

The People Rebelled

The Great and Terrible Day of God’s Judgment

But God Is Not Willing That Any Should Perish

The Message That Would Change the World Forever

The Creator of the Universe

In the City of David Is Born This Day a Savior Jesus Christ

This Is How the Bible Describes Jesus Our Savior

Simeon Held Baby Jesus in His Arms before He Died

The Wise Men Said, We’ve Seen His Star in the East, and We’ve Come to Worship Him

When Jesus Was Twelve Years Old, They Went Up to Jerusalem to the Feast

Jesus Was in the Great Temple with the Doctors

Jesus, Now Thirty, Came to John to Be Baptized

Immediately Jesus Was Led into the Wilderness by the Spirit

Then Jesus Began His Ministry and Preached Repentance

Jesus Drove the Religious Crooks Out of the Temple

Jesus Healed the Sick and Cast Out Demons

Jesus Said, You Are of Your Father, the Devil

Jesus Exposed the Pharisees and Said, Within You Are Full of Dead Men’s Bones

He That Believes in Him Is Not Condemned

Jesus Declared to the World, I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

After the Supper, Satan Made His Move and Used Judas Iscariot

That Night, Jesus Prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane

Judas Betrayed Jesus with a Kiss

The Chief Priests and Elders Sought False Witnesses against Jesus

Caiaphas Questioned Jesus

Pilate Said, I Find No Fault in This Man

They Mocked Jesus

He Was Wounded for Our Transgressions

Each Soldier Hit Jesus in the Face

Jesus Stood Trial before Pilate

Pilate Handed Jesus Over to Be Crucified

Jesus is Mocked and Rejected

Jesus Was Led Away to Be Crucified

Jesus Was Placed on the Cross

The Tomb Where Jesus Was Buried

Jesus Is Resurrected

Jesus Looked at His Tormentors and Said, Father Forgive Them

Our Sins Sent Jesus to the Cross

Jesus’s Blood, the Only Blood That Can Wash Away Our Sins

The Sacrifice of the Cross Will Never Be Repeated

He Is Not Here. He Has Risen

The Lord Gave Direct Orders to His Disciples, Go and Preach the Gospel

Jesus Said, Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

Only One Way to Heaven

Heaven Sure Must Be a Beautiful Place

Jesus Is Coming Again Soon

To Follow Jesus, You Must Be Willing to Forsake All Else

What Must I Do to Be Saved?

Now, You May Ask, How Do I Repent?

1. Come to a Realization That Your Course Leads to Destruction

2. Enquire as to the Correct Course; What Shall We Do?

3. Resolve to Follow That Course

4. Bring Forth Fruits

God Calls Us to Be Active in Our Obedience

How Does Jesus’s Blood Cleanse Us from Every Sin?

What Does God Want from Us Now That We Are Saved?

1. God Wants Us to Love Him

2. God Wants Us to Serve Him

3. God Wants Us to Trust Him

4. God Wants Us to Seek Him

Remember: The Day of the Lord Is Coming

Bibliography

Great Gratitude

Introduction

This great story of the Bible that the Lord prompted in my spirit to write is PICTORIAL. It’s POWERFUL, it’s EXHILARATING, it’s EXCITING, it’s VERY SERIOUS, and it’s a LIFE CHANGER. It’s a true story of the Bible. This story is very real. It’s the story of the Bible come alive. It is THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. Reading this story will cause you to search the Scriptures more deeply and more prayerfully daily. It will cause you to do a soul search on yourself. It’s food for your hungry souls and gives directions for your life. You will never be the same after reading this live story. Once you began reading it, it will be hard to put it down. So find yourself a quiet place for some quiet time alone with Jesus, and hear the Holy Spirit speaking to your heart. Do enjoy and come out as a new creature in Christ.

As you read this book and trust the words that are written herein, you will find yourself metamorphosing like a butterfly. Slowly but surely you are coming out, and you are coming out strong and beautiful. No matter what your situation or circumstance may be at the moment, the Word of God brings new life to them that believe. The Word of God is power! Reading this book will cause your faith to take leaps. According to the Scriptures, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. You will see for yourself the work and power of God working in the lives of those who have chosen to believe and obey him and how the old patriarchs, Abraham, Isaiah, and Jacob, just to name a few, chose to obey God’s laws and commands by trusting God’s every word and reaped the total benefits and abundant blessings just as God had promised. "No good thing will I withhold from them that walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11b).

Here is one beautiful example among many others of some of the old patriarchs: Abraham’s faith never failed. He never staggered at the promise of God. He was willing to sacrifice his son, his only son, because his faith in God never wavered. He never staggered at the promises of God. Whatever God spoke to Abraham, God never had to tell him twice. Abraham trusted God, and God provided a sacrifice (a ram caught in a bush) in place of his son. Abraham’s faith in God saved his son’s life.

God Tested Abraham’s Faith and Obedience

God said, Abraham, sacrifice your son, your only son. Do you think Abraham obeyed God? Let’s see! Let’s go to the Scriptures.

And it came to pass after these things that God did test Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham! God called. Yes, Lord, Take with you your only son—yes, Isaac whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah and sacrifice him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I’ll point out to you! The next morning Abraham got up early, chopped wood for the fire upon the altar; saddled his donkey, and took with him his son Isaac and two young men who was his servants, and started off to the place where God had told him to go. On the third day of the journey Abraham saw the place in the distance. Stay here with the donkey, Abraham told the young men, and the lad and I will travel yonder and worship, and then come right back again (Genesis 22:1–5).

Now that’s faith, that’s total faith.

God gave Abraham a test, not to trip him and watch him fall, but to deepen his capacity to obey God and thus to develop his character. Just as fire refines ore to extract precious metals, God refines us through difficult circumstances. When we are tested, we can complain, or we can try to see how God is stretching us to develop our character.

That morning Abraham began one of the greatest acts of obedience in recorded history. Over the years, he had learned many tough lessons about the importance of obeying God. This time his obedience was prompt and complete. Obeying God is often a struggle because it may mean giving up something we truly want. We should not expect our obedience to God to be easy or to come naturally.

Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but he was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

Who against hope believed in hope. So when God told Abraham that he would give him a son who would have many descendants and become a great nation, Abraham believed God. And because his faith was strong, he didn’t worry about the fact that he was too old to be a father at the age of one hundred, and that Sarah his wife, at ninety, was also much too old to have a baby. But Abraham never doubted. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. He was completely persuaded that God was well able to do anything he promised. And because of Abraham’s faith God forgave his sins and declared him righteous, in other words, not guilty (Romans 4:18-22).

Through this difficult experience, Abraham strengthened his commitment to obey God. He also learned about God’s ability to provide.

When they arrived at the place where God had told Abraham to go, he built an altar and placed the wood in order, ready for the fire and then tied Isaac and laid him on the altar over the wood. And Abraham took the knife and lifted it up to plunge it into his son, to kill him. At that moment, the Angel of God shouted to him from heaven, Abraham! Abraham! Yes, Lord! he answered. Lay down the knife; don’t hurt the lad in any way, the Angel said, for now I know that you fear God, seeing that you have not withheld your only son from God.

Then Abraham noticed a ram caught by its horns in a bush. So he took the ram and sacrificed it, instead of his son, as a burnt offering on the altar. And Abraham called the name of this place Jehovah Jireh, God will provide. And it still goes by that name to this day. (Genesis 22:9–14)

Don’t Despair! Be Encouraged! God Will Provide!

NOTICE THE PARALLEL BETWEEN THE RAM OFFERED ON THE ALTAR AS A SUBSTITUTE AND CHRIST OFFERED ON THE CROSS AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR US. WHEREAS GOD STOPPED ABRAHAM FROM SACRIFICING HIS SON, GOD DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON, JESUS, FROM DYING ON THE CROSS.

IF JESUS HAD LIVED, THE REST OF MANKIND WOULD HAVE DIED. GOD SENT HIS ONLY SON TO DIE FOR US SO THAT WE CAN BE SPARED FROM THE ETERNAL DEATH WE DESERVE AND INSTEAD RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE (READ JOHN 3:16).

Prophet Daniel’s Faith in God Was Tested.

Prophet Daniel trusted God and refused to stop praying three times a day and giving thanks to his God. Now, for that reason, he was thrown into a