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THE SUFFICIENCY OF SCRIPTURE PART #1 (2 TIMOTHY 3:16)
Open to 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is from God. 3000 pages printed @60 seconds in America…but among the sea one is alone, unique…I hold it in my hands today! The sufficiency of the Scripture is the statement of the incredible nature of this book: Divine—many books change the mind, only this one changes your nature!
What does it mean? The Bible is sufficient to address every aspect of existence with supernatural transforming authority!
1. Life and its purpose:
2. Death Preparation
3. Marriage & The Secrets of Success
4. Children God-Ordained Needs
5. Money: How To Use It
6. Pleasure: How To Enjoy It
7. Power: How To Get It
Deals with absolute authority in the realm of attitudes, responses, how to cultivate graces, virtues-and on Scriptures deal directly and with finality on tough issues –
• Death as in protracted
• Disease as in epidemic
• Disasters – even nuclear
• Devastation – war
• Depraved hearts
God gives in it—
-Absolutes in a relativistic world.
-Divine decrees in a man-centered society.
-The last word to endless questions.
-Hope in an era of hopelessness.
-The promise of happiness as so many pursue fleeting thrills finding nothing.
We See –
-Salvation in the midst of a lost world.
-Judgment Divine in the midst of global evil
-Heaven as our world decays
-Eternal horror as we hear all ways to God.
So, what is it about this book? 1941, an English scholar, started work on a new translation of a great piece of literature. He got more than planned. Now the familiar name, J.B. Phillips – The present translator who has closely studied these letters for several years is struck by two things. First, their surprising vitality. Without holding fundamentalist views on “inspiration”, he is continually struck by the living quality of the material on which he is working. Some will, no doubt, consider it merely superstitious reverence for “Holy Writ”, yet again and again the writer felt rather like an electrician rewiring an ancient house without being able to “turn the mains off”. He feels that this fact is worth recording. Secondly, he is struck by the extraordinary unanimity of the letters. The cynic may suggest that these men were all in a conspiracy together (though it is difficult to see what motive they could have for such a thing), yet the fact remains that in their different ways and from their different angles they are all talking about the same thing, and talking with such certainty as to bring wondering envy into the modern heart. Perhaps this could be made clearer by taking four illustrations.
Concludes with maybe if we believed what they did it would affect us! IT CAN AND DOES.
I believe the Bible is true and all it claims to be and that it is thus SUFFICIENT for SEVEN SPECIFIC REASONS.
1. FIRST AND FOREMOST – JESUS TOLD US SO AND DEMONSTRATED IT. AND THAT IS THE ULTIMATE REASON.
God who invaded our prison-this time box revealed Himself and His truth for us in Bible the Holy Scriptures.
So Christ believed and taught the Bible is divinely true and authoritative. What other reasons?
2. The conviction of the Writers: Because writers said so. They were soundly convinced and thousands of times it was God’s Word they were writing, and they said so.
3. Unity – because of incredible unity.
4. Endurance-because it has endured, lasting through ages.
5. Prophecy – because it was written history hundreds of years before the event takes place – or in other works fulfilled prophecy.
6. Scientific accuracy – because of incontestable self-authentication.
7. Experience – because of transformed lives through the Holy Spirit.