The Doctrine of the Bible

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Want to start out by praying of course, but there's a

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Statement that someone made I didn't come up with this Man could not write the

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Bible if he would and he would not if he could

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What do you think that's saying? So man does not have the

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Man Man does not have the

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Supernatural knowledge to write the scripture So even if he wanted to he couldn't a man just does not have that ability but even if he did

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Man would not write the Bible because ultimately the Bible is a book that condemns

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Man, so it's not the type of thing Men would do so we're gonna be looking at the doctrine of the

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Holy Scriptures this morning But let's pray and then we'll then we'll look into it Heavenly Father We thank you for this beautiful day that you've made and we will rejoice and be glad in it

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I just pray that each heart would be blessed that we would learn something from your word and father we may come across someone later today or this week who has questions about the scriptures or Wonders if they can trust the scriptures and Lord I just pray this class would be a

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Benefit that we can take and use what we hear and learn to your honor and glory. We pray in Jesus name

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Amen So here's the thing about the Bible the Bible is right in your wrong now

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You're not always wrong, but the Bible is always right Amen And if there's ever a discrepancy with the

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Bible says this and some person says this the Bible the Bible is right And they're wrong.

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So that's the starting point. Okay two weeks ago We looked at the church mission statement

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So now we are coming to the first article of the Morris Corner Church Constitution, which is the

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Holy Scriptures So let's get a volunteer to look up 2nd

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Timothy 3 16, I know a couple of you have it memorized But let's just turn there we'll start there 2nd

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Timothy 3 It'll look at 16 and 17 in just a moment.

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But here's what the doctrinal statement Says this is how it begins

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We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired

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Word of God the final authority for faith in life in Aaron in the original writings infallible and God breathed and the scripture references are 2nd

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Timothy 3 16 and 17 2nd Peter 1 20 and 21 Matthew 5 18 and then

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John 16 12 and 13 does anyone want to take a guess at why this is the first thing in our church doctrinal statement?

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That's not by accident Why is the scripture the very first thing?

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Yes, that's the tone Exactly because yeah everything flows from this if the

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Bible is Full of errors if it's not trustworthy if it's only the word of of man

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How do you really know who God is and what? He's like and what he wants everything else in our doctrinal statement.

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We know Because the scriptures tell us so if you don't have this as your foundation, what can you know about God?

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Well, there are a few things But let's start out with this verse 2nd

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Timothy 3 16 and 17 who would like to read it? Volunteer Mike Okay All right, thank you all scripture is

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God breathed We have any other words in your translation inspired right all scripture is given by inspiration of God so this is the very first point in our doctrinal statement because Everything else we know because the

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Bible tells us Marcus It was called the breath of life interesting because this this phrase

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God breathe Like how life human life began

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God breathe he formed Adam with his hands and He became a living soul

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Amen Amen so like I said everything we know comes from the scripture

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However, there are some things that we can know about God even if we didn't have the scripture we could know that God exists we could know that he is all -powerful and I just want to read from Psalm 19 verses 1 through 4

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We're going to start out by making a distinction between two terms. You can write these down general revelation and Special revelation, so the

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Bible is which one Special revelation But Psalm 19 1 through 4 gives us something about general revelation

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The psalmist writes the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament

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Shows his handiwork in other words You can look up at the the night sky for example and just know that there is a

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God Know that there is a creator he continues day unto day utter speech and night unto night reveals knowledge

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There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard their line has gone out through all the earth in their words to the end of The world so the heavens declare the glory of God.

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We can know that God exists simply by Looking around us and this is why all over the world

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Primitive cultures all throughout history People have always known that there is a God long before the scripture was penned also one other verse concerning general revelation

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Romans 1 20 The Apostle Paul says for since the creation of the world

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His that is God's invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made

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That's us even his eternal power and Godhead so that they

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Mankind is without Excuse so God's invisible attributes are clearly seen.

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That's kind of a funny statement. How can something? invisible be clearly seen but by looking at the creation we can know that there is a

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God and that he has all Power any questions or comments on that?

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Marcus I Am so blessed to have the job that I have

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When I was in line and could look out over the hills Sometimes higher than the hills that we live in the

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Lord has blessed me even more now I am up in Shelburne where our pastor lives very high up in Shelburne and To see the dawn

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When I was a cop it was the stars I worked the night shift, but all this just to say that It I start my day every day

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Just a wonderful worshipful view. Yeah, but other people they look around and They would claim they don't see it

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Why Satan has blinded their eyes So this is general

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Revelation that we can know something about God simply by observing his creation

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But we're looking at special creation or excuse me special revelation this morning and that is the

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Holy Scriptures So the Bible we know is a collection of 66 books written by Over 40 different authors over the course of about 1 ,500 years and we read this passage 2nd

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Timothy 3 16 and 17 all scripture is given by Inspiration of God and the

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Greek word is they honest us which means God breathe and what's

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Paul's point here that the scripture is not from man. It is from God Its origin is divine and we also see this in 2nd

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Peter 1 20 and 21 Where Peter writes knowing this first that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private

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Interpretation. Well, what does that mean? Oftentimes we hear that, you know The Bible means one thing to one person and something else to another that each person has their own private interpretation

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That's not good, but that's not really what Peter is getting at he explains it He says prophecy never came by the will of men or the by the will of man

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But holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

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So again Paul said this now Peter is saying it the scripture

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Obviously it was written by men But its source is God it came from God holy men spoke as they were moved by The Holy Spirit.

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So when somebody says to you, well, the Bible is just a book written by men. How are you going to respond?

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Yes, like well, I mean obviously It didn't fall down from heaven. It wasn't written by angels.

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We understand everyone understands it was written by men But its claim is that it is from God.

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What is it? 3 ,800 times or more in the Old Testament Calls it the

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Word of the Lord thus saith the Lord Yes, Jim Just a comment about the prophecy that you're talking about in the

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Old Testament, especially in the in the Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Isaiah and the minor prophets also

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There were a lot of false prophets Because let's take

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Jeremiah for instance who was often referred to as the weeping prophet. Yeah He was constantly badgered by these

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False prophets which were you know Jewish leaders So there is a false.

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There are false prophets throughout scripture, right? And it's God Had didn't want anybody to listen to him.

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But of course the nation said all these guys are right. He's wrong, right? Yeah, and there's false prophets today, of course, and if a preacher gets up week after week without expounding from the

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Bible There's pretty good chance. I mean whatever he's preaching if it's not the Bible, you know, what's he doing, right?

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So yeah, very very good point. So the Bible is written by men and this is the foundation

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Really of our faith Jesus is the foundation the chief cornerstone But what do you know about Jesus that doesn't come from the

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Bible? Tell me something that Jesus said or taught or did that doesn't come from the Bible. You can't

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There's kind of a movement now within Christianity or people, you know, we're

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Jesus centered. We're not Bible centered We're Jesus centered and it's all Jesus Jesus and well, how can you argue with that?

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We're not trying to but they want to kind of distance themselves from the Bible or from the Old Testament and just say it's just About Jesus and well,

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I mean, that's such a foolish thing because you don't know anything about Jesus Except what you learn and read from the scripture

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So anytime you hear somebody trying to distance themselves from the Bible in favor of Jesus that it's

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Nonsensical and there's usually an agenda there Marcus And There are also many other things which

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Jesus did the which if they should be written everyone I suppose Yeah, yep

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So If anyone ever watches this on online, you know days weeks years later my advice

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Finding a church to go to just ask the pastor or the church leadership Do you believe in the inerrancy or the infallibility of the

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Bible if they can't tell you yes without flinching Find another church because if you don't believe in the inerrancy of scripture that this is the authoritative

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Word of God without error Like I said, it's it it sets the tone right everything will flow from there

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Tony man that brings the error. Yeah, and one of the worst ones is verdict Yeah, so yeah man brings the error you weren't there at the beginning of the class

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They said the Bible is right and you're wrong All right, three terms, yeah, yes

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Larry I'm just gonna say how the Bible is interpreted, you know, whether literally or symbolically

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You know what it's it makes sense to me to take a literally and And that's how right it shouldn't be because where do you stop?

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If it's symbolic, right? Right and I want to stay on point but Jim mentioned someone who is a false teacher and you know

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There are a lot of churches and pastors who just come right out and say, you know The Bible has errors or and they would just come right out and reject the scriptures

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These are the churches typically that would have you know, the rainbow out front there They'll tell you that there are certain things in the

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Bible. They don't believe I mean that's easy to spot I mean they're telling you they don't believe okay, but What's subtle remember the devil is subtle There'll be a guy like you mentioned and he'll say oh,

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I believe every word of the Bible But then what he says after that, you know redefining terms

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Twisting the Word of God. That's what you got to watch out for people who would claim to believe the Word of God, but then

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They're really not teaching it accurately So that that's where it becomes a little more complicated

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I think it was Charles Haddon Spurgeon who said discernment is not knowing truth from Error or knowing what is true.

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It's knowing what is almost true You know, so there are a lot of things that sound sounds right

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But not quite there's something wrong Have you ever heard that a sermon a teaching and you're like can't quite put my finger on it

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But I know that there's something wrong here. All right, so I'm bound and determined to finish everything that I got so we gotta keep moving three terms revelation inspiration and illumination

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These three terms. What is revelation revelation is from God to man

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Inspiration is from man to paper or to parchment or whatever they were writing on and then

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Illumination is from paper to the heart. So God gave his revelation to the prophets and the

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Apostles the Inspiration is that they wrote? Under the direction or inspiration of the

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Holy Ghost and illumination That's where we come in where we read the Word of God and because we have the

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Holy Spirit within us God illuminates his word and We understand it and it's applied to our heart

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Notice I said you have to have the Holy Spirit in order for there to be Illumination because there's a lot of people who would read the

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Bible and this I don't get anything out of it I don't understand it most of the people in this world and listen you could have a church member who saved and you read the book of Ezekiel and you're like,

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I don't know what's going on. Okay, that doesn't mean you're unsaved or any that's not what I'm saying, but Unsaved people do not understand the scripture first Corinthians 2 13 and 14

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The Apostle Paul talking to the church at Corinth. He says these things we also speak not in words

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Which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual

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But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him

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Nor can he know them because they are spiritually Discerned so to really understand the

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Word of God You have to have the Holy Ghost. You need to be a Christian that way

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You know, you believe God's Word God the Holy Spirit will illuminate it and then you'll understand any comments on that All right, everyone's on board so far so revelation is

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Got from God to man inspiration is from man to paper and illumination is from paper to The heart

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I think the biggest problem for believers However, we understand the

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Bible, but who would say they understand everything about the Bible Well, I don't think any of us would say that The Bible is a wonderful book.

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It's so simple a child can understand it and get the basic message But it's so deep you can spend the rest of your life and really just scratch

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The surface but the biggest problem I think for us in Understanding the

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Bible is just making sure we're taking things in context I know this gets repeated all the time and it's for good reason

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Everything has to be taken in Context. I remember when

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I first came to Saving knowledge of Christ that one of the first things

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I did was Memorize scripture and that's so important that we memorize scripture so I had a notebook with page after page of verses that I had memorized and I would go about my day and something would remind me of something and I could you know quote a verse and Then it's just kind of dawned on me at some point

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I don't know if somebody pointed it out But like I think I took that out of context and that that's a temptation for all of us

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So we need to make sure especially if we're teaching somebody else you're trying to teach someone else

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We need to make sure that we're taking these passages in Context so when we obviously need to read the

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Bible study the Bible and we need to ask those basic questions Who what when where?

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Why and how right? Who is writing this who are they writing it to when did they write it?

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What was going on in that in that setting? Why are they saying these things? How would these things have been understood by the original recipients?

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Does this applied how does this apply to me does this apply to me? So anytime we're reading the

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Bible studying it we need to ask Questions about the scripture not just read a verse get a feeling or a thought and run with it that that can be a dangerous

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Thing yes It's a good point

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Paul wrote the book of Galatians to who

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Let's put this into practice. Who did he write it to? He did obviously he didn't write it to the church at Morris Corner.

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No, it was like nobody's claiming that That was Ephesians. He didn't write it to the church at the church at the church at Morris Corner Galatians he wrote to well the circuit circulating among the

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The churches at Galatia, right? So he wrote it to the churches in Galatia But it's for us.

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It's not to us But it's for us because they were Christians We're Christians the same principles and doctrine that applies to them applies to us

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Paul was warning about adding to the gospel Well, what were they adding to the gospel circumcision probably not going to find that happening today

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That would be pretty rare, but people add other things to the gospel like social justice. So the same principles will apply and That's a very good point

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Marcus. Thank you for bringing that up All right, so when you're reading the

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Bible ask ask yourself these questions What when where why right

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Good how many of You and I know this is probably most

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I think most of us have probably said this So if you have I'm not I'm not critiquing You or anything like that, but how many of us have been in a

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Bible study and it goes around the group? Someone reads a verse or a passage and everyone goes from one to the other and well, here's what this verse means to me

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Like, you know, you've been there, you know, you've said that I've I've said that You know what that's fine because there are many applications to the scripture

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Sometimes the Word of God can speak to you right where you're at and that's what you needed to hear and maybe that's not even what

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Paul was Specifically addressing but we can take a principle something You know what? I mean where that it just seems to apply to you in that moment

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I don't think there's anything wrong with that But we do need to understand that every verse and every passage of Scripture has one actual meaning

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Maybe with prophecy there can be dual Fulfillments or something but every verse of Scripture every passage it has one meaning

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It really can't mean one thing Let's say it goes like this Jim says this is what it means to me and I said well

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Here's what it means to me and it's the exact opposite All right, one of us is wrong. Maybe both of us are wrong

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So you understand every verse of Scripture has one meaning so we need to find out what that meaning is

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What did Paul mean? What did Jesus mean? How would the

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The hearers have understood this and then once you get that settled then you can go into the application

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All right, I saw several hands Yes Yeah You know before Right, right

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Yeah, and if you're hearing a sermon about David and Goliath and then the pastor starts talking about You know, you need to slay the

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Giants in your life. You know, are you facing Giants in your life? That's a pretty common thing.

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I think I even did that once but But you need to start with what actually happened like David actually fought this giant it's not an allegory like no it really happened and you start with what the

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Bible says and what it Meant in the original context and then you can do the application

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Problem is and this is going to the next point Understanding the

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Bible one of the problems is all the false teaching that is out there If you only do the application

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That's kind of a red flag that this might be a false teacher who isn't interested in what the

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Bible actually says You just want to kind of twist it to make it seem Palatable to you and make the

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Bible all about you Christianity is all about You know, it's not it's all about it's all about Jesus.

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You're part of it Okay, he came to die for your sins you're part of it, but it's really all about him

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So we just make need to make sure the horse is before the the cart here. Um, yeah, did

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I see a hand? Yeah I Know the plans

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I have for you declares the Lord. I think it's safe to say

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Sure God has a plan for everyone Application first there needs to be as many observations as possible then

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As many interpretations the more observations you've made the better your interpretation is is this the verse

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I have plans for you Good and not evil. Is that the verse or is that a different one? That does not apply to everybody right there could be some unsaved wicked person and They quote that verse and that's not really true for them

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So, I think we can see a little common sense goes a long way not all these verses apply to every every individual

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But next and understanding the scripture properly if you want to really understand the Word of God You got to be careful who you're listening to All right.

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You got to be careful who you're listening to This is one of the good things that the gospel can go out through Media whether it's television, you know the

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Internet radio That's a good thing. We can get the Word of God out and all these different mediums.

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That's wonderful The the problem is the false teachers are getting their word out on and I would argue that they really do

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Control Christian television. There are some good preachers on TV, but they're few and far between So if you listen to false teachers, you're hearing things that are false twisted out of context and that Stays in your mind and then when you hear the truth

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There's that there's a conflict in there and it's good it's gonna really cloud your Understanding so we need to be careful about who you're listening to Okay, so We believe the holy scriptures of the

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Old and New Testaments We believe them to be the verbally inspired

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Word of God the final authority for faith and life inerrant in the original writings infallible and God breathe and by the way this is why we try to go through chapter by chapter verse by verse because then the context is going to be there and you can't just cherry -pick and That that guards against false teaching.

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It's not a guarantee, but it helps guard against it All right. So these two terms let's focus on these they're in the the statement of faith that the

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Bible is inerrant and Infallible who wants to define these terms?

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What is inerrant or inerrancy me? Yeah without error without mistakes

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In fallibility means what? Look at it this way

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If the Bible is inerrant you say I believe the Bible is inerrant You're saying it does not have any errors contains no errors to say it's infallible means it cannot contain errors

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You can write you can take a test or write a term paper. That's inerrant

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You can do that it has no errors that's humanly possible You cannot be infallible though That means you would be incapable of making an error and that is not humanly possible

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So the Bible is inerrant it contains no errors But take that to the next level the

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Bible is infallible now there's someone else who claims to be infallible and Who is that?

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There is a Bible teacher on this earth who claims Infallible there's probably more than one

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But some of you would identify yourselves as Protestant some of you don't care for that term.

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I'm not Protestant I'm independent or whatever I'm giving you I'm giving you a hint.

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Okay, if you didn't notice The infallibility of The Pope the

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Pope claim when he speaks on matters of faith and practice doctrine and practice he claims infallibility the

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Catholic Church claims the Pope is infallible only God is

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Infallible of course Popes have contradicted each other through the years So just be aware of that and there are some

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Protestant and Baptist preachers who they talk like they're infallible And they're really not Stacy Reconcile his

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Humanity in being infallible How do I reconcile that like how how do you make a

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Self judgment like that to say yeah, I'm infallible What I'm right well he

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I they would acknowledge that he's a man and he can make mistakes So he right, but when he's speaking on matters of doctrine and practice when he's speaking specifically on Matters of of those things then he is infallible and he'd probably claim you just like Peter when he wrote the scripture

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When Peter wrote first and second Peter He was well Peter wasn't infallible, but the writings are infallible so basically the

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Catholic Church Believes they'll say the Bible is true, and the Bible is without error But so is the church when speaking on that so their authority is not the

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Bible alone It's the Bible plus the Pope But they do acknowledge he can make mistakes in life and when he talks about other matters

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Yeah Yes, but they view him as an equal with Peter He is an apostle essentially and they claim the bishops are

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Successors to the Apostles, I don't want to get too sidetracked, but and I don't say that to run down You know

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Roman Catholicism or Roman Catholics, but you know it's good to know that that is out there

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We believe the Bible is the sole authority and that's that's in our doctrinal statement.

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That's what we believe dad Scribal air and we're getting to that next you guys are always good asking questions, and that's just exactly where I'm going

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Notice what else so he asked a question about scribal error Notice in our statement of faith it says that we believe in the

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Bible it is inerrant Let me find the the statement of faith Inerrant in the original writings

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Okay So if we got a council together here at Morris corner, and we decided we're going to come out with our own

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Bible translation Yeah, we'll get to bring in a few

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Greek and Hebrew scholars to make it seem official you know could we make mistakes

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Let's just say somebody Accidentally just writes the wrong thing there is a Bible printed.

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I don't lose in the 1500s or 1600s It's called the adulterers Bible. You know went through the

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Ten Commandments and just the person Operating the printing press is that verse thou shalt not commit adultery they accidentally left out the word not

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Thou shalt commit And it became you know and they destroyed them all But a few copies were spared and they're worth a lot of money today, but obviously people can make mistakes

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The Bible is written by men copied by men so You can make a scribal error so we believe the

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Bible is inerrant in the original writings I know for some people they say well that ruins it then because we don't have the original writings

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Well, that's true So here Here's the thing no one translation of the

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Bible is guaranteed to have this to have this Promise that it's inerrant

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In the NIV compared to the King James Version There's some there's at least a two or three and I don't mean to pick on any one translation

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There are a handful of verses that say the opposite thing. I'm just good

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Let's come right out and admit it reputable Bible translations One will say one thing and the other will say something the exact opposite.

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I Forget which it is. There's one King He took the throne when he was eight and then the other translation said he was 18 or so.

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Yeah, I forget the examples That disturbs some people but with With the overall 99 .9

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% of the scripture there is no problem like that. It's never on any major point of doctrine

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It's not like well in this version of the Bible It doesn't have the deity of Christ or the virgin birth so there have been scribes who have made errors and those manuscripts exist and then there's thousands of other

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Manuscripts, but when you compare them all together you can tell hey, this is the outlier

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You know that this might not be completely accurate But they're really not on anything significant that would change any major doctrine of the

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Christian faith. I Don't does that answer your question or help? And that's kind of a bigger topic that we don't have time to delve into So the inerrancy and infallibility of the

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Bible does not necessarily Apply to every translation of the Bible, but the

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King James New King James New American Standard You know, these versions are are

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Accurate Okay. Yes Marcus Right We do not have the book of John that John actually wrote himself

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We have copies of copies copies of copies of copies and that's actually good

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Because if we had the original gospel of John, you know what people would do They'd set up a church and people come and venerate it and they'd bow in front of it and they'd worship the thing

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That's what people would do And the fact that Copies were made and they went out here into this region and to this region and to this region

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If you just have the original you can just change or corrupt the original But the fact that it was copied and it went out in every direction we can just take all the manuscripts and there's a process that you can have a

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High degree of accuracy and confidence to say the very least so it's really not a problem

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Larry Compilation Without They were all done within like a hundred years of the actual time of Christ, right?

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and so the accuracy of scripture Compared to other historical documents other historical documents support scripture

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Right that the accuracy is so high compared to like other books that were written but not

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Trans. Yeah, there's more thousand years like the Iliad or whatever. They're still claiming that that is so awesome

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Perfect, but right so much time. So things changed in the course of time

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But the original manuscripts of scripture are within just a few far more manuscripts of scripture than any other ancient document and historians and Archaeologists if they find one copy of like you said the

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Iliad or something or some writing about something that happened in Rome Oh, we know because we found this and then they like to cast shade on the

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Bible even though there's thousands of manuscripts that it's much more well attested, but that's that's a

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It's the way that goes Marcus and the overall truth that we get from scripture is that God is willing and Wanting to speak to us

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And he has preserved it and made it all so that we can have it.

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He's given us the Holy Spirit I don't need to say all these things except that We can we can rest assured.

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All right. Yes He is not trying to hide from us just the exact opposite He says

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I will manifest myself to them. They have the commandments and obey them. I will manifest myself to them.

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So if your Bible If you got a Bible in your hand, you can trust it.

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It's accurate. Okay So Matthew 5 18 this verse is included says for assuredly

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I say to you Jesus speaking till heaven and earth pass away One jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled

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And we usually say this, you know The dotting of the eye or the crossing of the T not one bit of the scripture will pass away

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God We believe has preserved his word Many people have tried to rid the earth of the

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Word of God and you know what they all have one thing in common They all failed

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Roman Emperors tried to rid the Roman Empire of the Bible They failed popes have ordered

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Bibles to be burned. They burned some of them They didn't burn them all and of course now you have communist countries which banned the

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Bible It is illegal and some Muslim countries It is illegal to have a copy of the

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Word of God or the new thing that I would watch out for is to have state -approved

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Bibles Some things they're not gonna allow in there So I would just kind of keep this in the back of your mind

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This may be something we see in the next few years or in the next decade or two that although we'll let you have a

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Bible but there's some parts that we're gonna have to Censor. All right.

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We're almost done John 16 12 and 13 Jesus says to his apostles right asking the questions.

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Who is he writing it to? He says I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them

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Now, however, when he the spirit of truth has come the Holy Spirit. He will guide you into all truth

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For he will not speak of his own authority But whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come.

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I believe this is Jesus speaking to his apostles Telling them or hinting at least at the inerrancy or the inspiration of the

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New Testament The Lord would bring to remembrance all of these things and the Lord the

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Holy Spirit would assist them in writing the New Testament Scriptures, so in conclusion, we've talked about some of the evidences that the

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Bible is the Word of God perhaps one of the greatest pieces of evidence is its transforming power

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The Bible is the greatest book Ever written. There's nothing like it.

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We know what it says about itself. It's living powerful sharper than any two -edged sword the

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Holy Scriptures have changed the lives of Countless people and just when you read it, you know, this is the

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Word of God the Holy Spirit Testifies of that it is powerful. It continues to change lives

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So read it Study it Live it in Jesus name.