UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE Quotes

“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me…” (John 5:39).”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“The Holy Spirit of God didn’t inspire the Scriptures so that we can know about God. He wrote it to bring us into an experiential knowledge of God.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“We read or study the Bible for one reason: so that we will encounter the Living Christ. The Bible is not an end unto itself. The Bible is the divinely inspired witness that brings us to Christ Jesus.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“There is a division in the Scriptures between the two covenants, but the one constant seamless message of the whole Bible is the grace of our Father revealed through the Son by the ministry of the Spirit.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“Focus on “the red letters” alone and you’ll miss much of Him in the Bible. From beginning to end, it’s all about Him!”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“it is not enough to know merely what the Bible says. In fact, that can be dangerous. What is essential is to understand what the Bible means.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“The finished aspect of the work of Jesus Christ is real. We don’t finish it by our faith. We simply experience it through believing.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“The Old Covenant stressed what the people had to do, but the New Covenant focuses entirely on what Christ has done on our behalf.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“You have been made right with God by the finished work of Jesus Christ. The New Covenant is a covenant of grace. It’s all His doing, and not our own, that has positioned us in Christ.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“When He [God] said, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear” (Hebrews 8:13).”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“When we come to the New Testament, we must understand how this new covenant that God has made is different from the old one. We have to see that, not only is the old covenant outdated, it has become completely obsolete.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“How is the Old Covenant like the New Covenant? It isn’t!”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“The New Testament of grace is completely different than the one under which Israel lived in the narrative of the Old Testament Scriptures.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“The idea that God does His part and we have to do our part in order to experience His blessings is one of the greatest misunderstandings that affects people today. It affects how we understand the Bible. It affects how we perceive God. It affects how we live our lives.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“It’s important to remember that the verses in the Old Testament were addressed to the people of that covenant, and not to you.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“God’s covenant with Israel, known as “the Old Testament” or “Old Covenant,” called upon the people to do their part. God repeatedly told them that if they would fulfill their end of the covenant, they would be blessed, and if they didn’t, they would experience all kind of curses.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“the entire Bible is written for you, but not all of it is written to you.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life

“To unlock your Bible so that you can understand its meaning and application to your own life, it is necessary to avoid reading the whole Bible through old covenant eyes that see rules to be obeyed. That’s not what the Bible is about, and you will miss the point of Scripture altogether if you read it like an Old Covenant Jew who is still under the Law.”
― Steve McVey, UNLOCK YOUR BIBLE: The Key to Understanding and Applying the Scriptures in Your Life