1 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,440 Thank you for joining us at Key Life Fellowship for our Pulpit 2 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,040 Ministry Podcast. Each sermon on this podcast is 3 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,200 from our 11:00 AM Sunday service. 4 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,880 We are glad that you have joined us digitally, but would love to 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,680 see you in person on Sunday mornings at either 9:00 AM or 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,040 11:00 AM. Now let's open God's word and 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,080 ask Him to reveal His truths for our lives it. 8 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:38,840 Would turn to John's Gospel and turn your eyes to the 21st 9 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:43,480 chapter and the last two verses. That's right, the last two 10 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:48,680 verses in the Gospel of John. And we have been traveling 11 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,800 through this gospel since October of 2021, if you will 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:59,180 remember back that far with me. We started in one one and we 13 00:00:59,180 --> 00:01:04,019 have verse by verse, line by line, exposited the truth from 14 00:01:04,019 --> 00:01:07,620 this gospel. The Holy Spirit has led us, 15 00:01:08,580 --> 00:01:11,780 grown us as we close. At the Gospel. 16 00:01:11,780 --> 00:01:15,420 Of John today, I want us to remember that how God has 17 00:01:15,420 --> 00:01:18,900 challenged us. Many of you have been 18 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:21,460 challenged. I know myself included in that 19 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:24,660 he's challenged us, He's convicted us. 20 00:01:26,110 --> 00:01:30,190 Some He has even converted you, and we're thankful for that this 21 00:01:30,190 --> 00:01:34,110 morning, that he has taken the word of God and used it to bring 22 00:01:34,110 --> 00:01:35,950 your attention to the fact that you needed a Savior. 23 00:01:35,950 --> 00:01:38,270 That Savior is found in Christ and in Christ alone. 24 00:01:39,510 --> 00:01:43,030 But I want you to not lose sight of these last two verses. 25 00:01:43,030 --> 00:01:45,590 I don't want you to skip over them and think that there's no 26 00:01:45,870 --> 00:01:48,230 real significance or relevance because we're. 27 00:01:48,230 --> 00:01:51,930 Down to the end. I want you to hone in. 28 00:01:51,930 --> 00:01:53,850 I want you to focus on these last two verses. 29 00:01:53,850 --> 00:01:57,010 As John is going to lay these things out for us, he's going to 30 00:01:57,010 --> 00:02:00,370 give us an extremely important lesson today. 31 00:02:02,530 --> 00:02:04,450 So if you're not paying attention at this point, pay 32 00:02:04,450 --> 00:02:07,610 attention. Now this is an extremely 33 00:02:07,610 --> 00:02:11,250 important lesson, especially in the day and the time and we in 34 00:02:11,250 --> 00:02:17,650 which we live in, because there are many, as we well know, who 35 00:02:17,650 --> 00:02:21,010 are attacking the word of God on every front. 36 00:02:21,790 --> 00:02:25,230 There is a fierce attack against biblical truth. 37 00:02:25,790 --> 00:02:29,030 There's a fierce attack against biblical inerency and biblical 38 00:02:29,030 --> 00:02:31,870 infallibility. Unfortunately, that attack is 39 00:02:31,870 --> 00:02:38,510 not only isolated to the outside unbelieving Pagan world who 40 00:02:38,510 --> 00:02:41,510 attacks the word of God. We are now divided, even in the 41 00:02:41,510 --> 00:02:45,190 Church, on the infallibility and the inerency. 42 00:02:45,190 --> 00:02:48,250 Of the Word of God. And we're going to see today, in 43 00:02:48,250 --> 00:02:51,970 this lesson in these two verses, that the word of God can be 44 00:02:51,970 --> 00:03:01,170 trusted over everything else. Though many of the liberal Pagan 45 00:03:01,210 --> 00:03:06,450 God haters who live under the sun are attacking the word of 46 00:03:06,450 --> 00:03:13,490 God, they are unjustly ridiculing the word of God. 47 00:03:14,490 --> 00:03:16,930 Erasing and rewriting the word of God. 48 00:03:17,570 --> 00:03:22,010 We must be a people who know that we can trust the word of 49 00:03:22,010 --> 00:03:25,890 God more than we can trust. Our very selves. 50 00:03:27,530 --> 00:03:29,770 We can trust the word of God more than we trust our feelings 51 00:03:30,730 --> 00:03:34,490 more than we trust our opinions more than we trust our religious 52 00:03:34,490 --> 00:03:40,970 denominations, our upbringings, our ideology, or any philosophy 53 00:03:40,970 --> 00:03:44,010 of man that we may have adopted along the way. 54 00:03:45,330 --> 00:03:49,490 John is going to make that so very clear as he closes out this 55 00:03:49,490 --> 00:03:52,090 gospel that we have learned so much from. 56 00:03:53,930 --> 00:03:58,130 My prayer is this that every St. who is in our presence today, 57 00:03:58,130 --> 00:04:02,730 those who have been saved through the sacrifice of Jesus 58 00:04:02,730 --> 00:04:06,290 Christ and the work of Calvary. My Prayer for You, dear friend, 59 00:04:06,770 --> 00:04:10,050 Your St. That you would learn to rest in 60 00:04:10,050 --> 00:04:13,010 the sufficiency of God's Word today like never before, to 61 00:04:13,010 --> 00:04:16,130 trust in it like never before and to the center. 62 00:04:16,130 --> 00:04:20,450 My prayer for you is this, That you may find salvation in Christ 63 00:04:20,450 --> 00:04:23,610 according to the. Word of God not in some man made 64 00:04:23,610 --> 00:04:27,330 ideology or man made gospel, but that you would see the true 65 00:04:27,330 --> 00:04:31,010 gospel according to Scripture this morning and that you would 66 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:34,570 turn from your sin and repentance and faith, trusting 67 00:04:34,570 --> 00:04:38,570 in Jesus Christ as Lord. And savior to be saved forever. 68 00:04:38,830 --> 00:04:43,670 More rescued from your sinful state, given the eternal life 69 00:04:43,670 --> 00:04:48,150 that only Christ is promised. So as we begin, let's jump 70 00:04:48,150 --> 00:04:50,230 straight to the text. John, Chapter 21. 71 00:04:51,350 --> 00:04:54,870 Verse 24. It says this. 72 00:04:54,870 --> 00:04:58,230 This is the disciple who testifies to these things. 73 00:04:58,790 --> 00:05:02,550 Interesting note here this is the disciple who testifies to 74 00:05:02,550 --> 00:05:05,950 these things in verse 23. Remember what happened last week 75 00:05:05,950 --> 00:05:08,950 in our lesson? We know last week Peter started 76 00:05:08,950 --> 00:05:11,110 worrying about John when he shouldn't worry about John. 77 00:05:11,110 --> 00:05:13,870 What about him? Jesus says know your business 78 00:05:13,870 --> 00:05:16,790 about him. If I want him to stay around 79 00:05:16,830 --> 00:05:19,870 until I return, that doesn't concern you at all, Peter. 80 00:05:19,870 --> 00:05:21,630 You worry about you. You stay in your lane. 81 00:05:21,710 --> 00:05:25,670 You do what I called you to do. And John for the first time 82 00:05:25,670 --> 00:05:27,630 refers to himself in the first person. 83 00:05:27,830 --> 00:05:31,190 This is the disciple who testifies to these things all 84 00:05:31,190 --> 00:05:35,060 this time. John has talked about himself 85 00:05:35,060 --> 00:05:36,980 and the third person. I I don't know that there's any 86 00:05:36,980 --> 00:05:38,980 real significance to that. But I think we need to pay 87 00:05:38,980 --> 00:05:41,300 attention to that. And I think we need to pay 88 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:43,500 attention to the fact that when John referred to himself as the 89 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:46,220 disciple Jesus loved, he referred to himself as the one 90 00:05:46,220 --> 00:05:48,580 who leaned against the Lord at the Supper. 91 00:05:49,380 --> 00:05:51,020 He was referring to himself in the third person. 92 00:05:51,020 --> 00:05:54,500 And here he is. He's saying I am in the first 93 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:58,340 person. I am the disciple who testifies 94 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:01,380 to these things. He's letting you know I am an 95 00:06:01,420 --> 00:06:04,490 eyewitness. This is not someone else. 96 00:06:04,650 --> 00:06:07,290 This is not someone who, 10 years removed from Christ, 97 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:10,570 writes this down because he's learned these things through 98 00:06:10,570 --> 00:06:13,530 hearsay. I am an authority because I've 99 00:06:13,610 --> 00:06:18,850 seen it with my very eyes. I am an eyewitness testimony to. 100 00:06:19,690 --> 00:06:24,290 The Lord Jesus Christ. Some of you can remember way 101 00:06:24,290 --> 00:06:29,890 back to Marvin Zindler, Eyewitness News. 102 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:36,480 John is letting us know this. This is Eyewitness News, he 103 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:37,480 said. This is the disciple who 104 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,680 testifies these things and who wrote them down. 105 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,760 We know that his testimony is true. 106 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,200 We know it's true because he saw it for 3 1/2 years of his life. 107 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,400 He walked with Jesus. He talked with Jesus. 108 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,240 He ate with Jesus again. He reclined with him at the Last 109 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,800 Supper. He's saying I was there. 110 00:06:58,290 --> 00:07:00,810 You don't have to convince me that this is true. 111 00:07:01,530 --> 00:07:04,970 This is true, not right With authority. 112 00:07:06,810 --> 00:07:09,690 We know that his testimony is true, and verse 25 says Jesus 113 00:07:09,690 --> 00:07:13,850 did many other things as well. If every one of them were 114 00:07:13,850 --> 00:07:19,970 written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not 115 00:07:19,970 --> 00:07:23,370 have room for the books that would be written. 116 00:07:23,850 --> 00:07:26,370 What a statement that John makes there. 117 00:07:27,370 --> 00:07:31,810 He says in this one statement that I know in what I've 118 00:07:31,810 --> 00:07:37,170 written, you've seen a lot. You've seen that in John 11 in 119 00:07:37,170 --> 00:07:40,650 the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. 120 00:07:40,650 --> 00:07:43,010 He he said, you've seen the deity of Christ. 121 00:07:43,010 --> 00:07:45,890 In all of my writings, I've included that you've seen the 122 00:07:45,890 --> 00:07:49,050 miracles of Christ. In my writings I've included 123 00:07:49,050 --> 00:07:50,530 some of them, but not all of them. 124 00:07:51,650 --> 00:07:53,810 You've seen the preaching of Christ and the teaching. 125 00:07:54,790 --> 00:07:57,590 You've seen the gospel clearly laid out by Christ himself. 126 00:07:58,150 --> 00:08:02,590 You've seen all these things, and this really doesn't even 127 00:08:02,590 --> 00:08:06,030 scratch the surface in comparison to all that he did. 128 00:08:06,310 --> 00:08:11,190 But these are the things that the Spirit has led me to write. 129 00:08:12,630 --> 00:08:13,750 These are the things that you have. 130 00:08:13,750 --> 00:08:17,670 These are the things that God has sovereignly decided. 131 00:08:17,750 --> 00:08:21,670 Are of great importance. Pay attention to these things 132 00:08:21,670 --> 00:08:25,060 that I have written. He says, because if I would have 133 00:08:25,060 --> 00:08:28,180 taken the time to write it all down, the world couldn't hold 134 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:33,059 the number of books. What John is doing here in these 135 00:08:33,059 --> 00:08:37,620 last two verses, he is giving us great confidence in what we have 136 00:08:37,620 --> 00:08:42,980 read the last several months, even years as we've studied the 137 00:08:42,980 --> 00:08:45,540 Gospel of John and as we have studied the word of God in 138 00:08:45,540 --> 00:08:47,540 reference alongside of the Gospel of John. 139 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,200 Week after week, as we have looked at Scripture after 140 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,000 scripture, after Scripture, confirming that the words of the 141 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,400 Gospel of John are true, and what John wants us to see is 142 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,880 that this word, the word of God, can be trusted. 143 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,720 You can count on it, you can hang your hat on it. 144 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,360 It is more true than anyone sitting in this room this 145 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,960 morning. John wants us to understand that 146 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,400 and he makes it very clear. The first thing that we need to 147 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,280 look at this morning in that first part of verse 24 as we are 148 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:19,440 going to break this down, is this. 149 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:25,880 The Bible can be trusted because the Bible is supernatural in 150 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,480 testimony. Look at verse 24 there at the 151 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:34,480 first part of that verse again for John makes this so ever 152 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,720 clear. As he says, this is the disciple 153 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,200 who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. 154 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:48,780 Many would look at that and they would say, well, Kirk, how can 155 00:09:48,780 --> 00:09:52,900 this be the word of God if John wrote this down? 156 00:09:53,660 --> 00:09:55,100 I want you to pay attention to something. 157 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:59,500 When we talk about the word of God #1, write this down as we 158 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:02,660 look at the supernatural nature and supernatural testimony of 159 00:10:02,660 --> 00:10:07,700 the Bible, the word of God. It's authored by God. 160 00:10:08,270 --> 00:10:11,270 I made no mistake about that just because John pinned it, 161 00:10:11,270 --> 00:10:14,830 just because he wrote it down, Just because John, nearly 2000 162 00:10:14,830 --> 00:10:18,710 years ago, sat down at a desk or a table of some sort with a 163 00:10:18,710 --> 00:10:22,190 parchment of some sort and a writing utensil of some sort, it 164 00:10:22,190 --> 00:10:25,310 does not mean that this is just John's writing. 165 00:10:25,310 --> 00:10:29,790 This is the very word of God. How do we know that? 166 00:10:30,190 --> 00:10:32,750 We know that because Second Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 says 167 00:10:32,750 --> 00:10:35,350 this all scripture is God Breathe. 168 00:10:35,590 --> 00:10:38,150 How much of it? All of it, all Scripture, is 169 00:10:38,150 --> 00:10:39,870 God. Breathe and useful for teaching, 170 00:10:39,870 --> 00:10:42,430 rebuking, correcting, and training, and righteousness, so 171 00:10:42,430 --> 00:10:45,870 that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every 172 00:10:46,070 --> 00:10:51,710 good. Word, Paul's first letter to 173 00:10:51,750 --> 00:10:55,110 Thessalonians. He says this in chapter two, he 174 00:10:55,110 --> 00:10:56,550 said. And we also thank God 175 00:10:56,550 --> 00:10:59,550 continually, because when you received the word of God, which 176 00:10:59,550 --> 00:11:04,470 you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but 177 00:11:04,470 --> 00:11:06,740 as it actually is. The. 178 00:11:06,740 --> 00:11:14,980 Word of God, which is at work. And you who believe, I want you 179 00:11:14,980 --> 00:11:19,860 to understand this. What John penned was authored by 180 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:24,300 God in eternity past. God is not limited to time and 181 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:26,940 space. This wasn't a Plan B and God 182 00:11:26,940 --> 00:11:30,100 said OK, now we're going to have this guy named John write this 183 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:32,780 down. This was God's intended purpose 184 00:11:32,780 --> 00:11:36,320 the whole time. He has authored every single jot 185 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,720 and title of his word. He wrote it in eternity past, 186 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,080 and he revealed it in time, and men then were. 187 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,400 Entrusted to write it down. This book is not just another 188 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,720 book as many in error think. Wasn't it just like any other 189 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,360 book? No, it was just like any other 190 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,400 book. You could just pick it up and 191 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,480 read it. But if you've studied the Word 192 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,080 of God for any amount of time, you know this. 193 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,320 You can just pick it up and read it like any other book. 194 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,000 The Holy Spirit must be active and present in your life because 195 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,360 it is the Holy Spirit who reveals the truth that He has 196 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,320 written. In this book, Or shall we 197 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:22,120 clearly say 66 books put together by the hand of God? 198 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,440 It's His word, not just another book. 199 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,480 Not just a book full of man's opinions, as the skeptics would 200 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,300 say. Madam, say that to me. 201 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:33,940 Why would I believe a book that sinful man wrote? 202 00:12:35,420 --> 00:12:37,660 I wouldn't believe a book that Sinful Man wrote. 203 00:12:37,660 --> 00:12:39,740 But what I would do is I would believe a book that's authored 204 00:12:39,740 --> 00:12:41,460 by God. Because there is no sin in God. 205 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:44,860 He is holy in all of his ways, and his word is precise and 206 00:12:44,860 --> 00:12:47,460 perfect. He is the author of the 207 00:12:47,460 --> 00:12:51,300 Scripture. The Bible's not sinful man's 208 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:55,820 effort to try to somehow define or describe a holy God, as many 209 00:12:55,820 --> 00:12:59,580 people think, but it is a holy God. 210 00:13:00,220 --> 00:13:05,420 Revealing Himself to sinful man. When we pick up the pages of 211 00:13:05,420 --> 00:13:09,500 this book, it is God desiring to reveal Himself to us. 212 00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:12,500 Why would He ever reveal anything to me? 213 00:13:12,820 --> 00:13:16,260 Besides his judgment that I deserve is beyond me. 214 00:13:17,580 --> 00:13:21,180 Yet in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, He reveals 215 00:13:21,180 --> 00:13:24,660 to us and opens up for us to understanding and illumination 216 00:13:24,860 --> 00:13:29,420 into His very word. This is the Word of God. 217 00:13:30,180 --> 00:13:35,860 Is authored by God from Genesis to Revelation, though it is 218 00:13:35,860 --> 00:13:38,980 authored authored by God. I want you to see this important 219 00:13:40,180 --> 00:13:44,540 lesson and looking at the Bible as supernatural in its 220 00:13:44,540 --> 00:13:47,180 testimony. It is the testimony of God of 221 00:13:47,180 --> 00:13:52,500 himself to man, and God used instruments to accomplish this. 222 00:13:53,940 --> 00:13:56,980 He is the author. This book is authored by God, 223 00:13:57,220 --> 00:14:01,760 but it is accomplished. Through inspired men who 224 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,560 inspired men of God. In fact Second Peter says it 225 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,360 like this verse 21 of chapter one. 226 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,600 For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man. 227 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,920 But men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy 228 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,240 Spirit. The Holy Spirit, the third 229 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:25,520 person of the Triune God, carrying, yes, sinful man along. 230 00:14:26,290 --> 00:14:29,410 So that they would not make any error, so that they would not 231 00:14:29,410 --> 00:14:33,570 cause any contradiction. He perfectly orchestrated it 232 00:14:33,570 --> 00:14:37,930 according to his plan and accomplished it through these 233 00:14:37,930 --> 00:14:43,210 inspired men of God, men who belonged to God, men who were 234 00:14:43,290 --> 00:14:47,010 write this down, superintended by the Holy Spirit. 235 00:14:47,170 --> 00:14:50,410 It was not just men freely taking the pen and writing their 236 00:14:50,410 --> 00:14:53,170 opinions or their philosophies or their ideology. 237 00:14:53,410 --> 00:14:55,930 It was the Holy Spirit revealing to men. 238 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,920 What God wanted them to know. And then they would write these 239 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,080 things down in accordance with God's will. 240 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,040 And the Holy Spirit would superintend the whole process so 241 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:10,640 that it is without. Error accomplished through these 242 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,440 inspired men. Men superintended by God 243 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,560 according to John. Chapter 14 he explains this 244 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,160 process. Verse 26, John 1426. 245 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,840 John wrote this down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. 246 00:15:25,540 --> 00:15:29,260 According the words of Jesus. Remember when Jesus told them 247 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:31,180 that the Counselor, the Holy Spirit would be coming? 248 00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:33,060 Look there with me. But the Counselor, the Holy 249 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:36,220 Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you 250 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:41,020 all things and will remind you of everything I have said. 251 00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:44,260 To you I. Want you to go back with me to 252 00:15:44,260 --> 00:15:47,100 the day of Pentecost when Peter Peter preaches that? 253 00:15:47,530 --> 00:15:50,730 Fiery message there at the hula gate South of Jerusalem. 254 00:15:50,730 --> 00:15:53,370 I want you to go there, and I want you to think about this. 255 00:15:53,490 --> 00:15:56,770 When the Holy Spirit came upon the early Church, the Holy 256 00:15:56,770 --> 00:15:59,970 Spirit came upon John. And when the Spirit came up on 257 00:15:59,970 --> 00:16:02,970 John, know this, that immediately there was this 258 00:16:02,970 --> 00:16:06,330 download of information that he could not have remembered on his 259 00:16:06,330 --> 00:16:10,290 own In the Holy Spirit called to His remembrance everything that 260 00:16:10,290 --> 00:16:13,410 Christ had told him, everything that Christ had done. 261 00:16:13,570 --> 00:16:16,770 Even John says this in this text that we just read this morning. 262 00:16:17,450 --> 00:16:20,370 Not only the things that I've written down, I remember things 263 00:16:20,370 --> 00:16:23,570 that I can't write down because the world can't hold the books 264 00:16:25,130 --> 00:16:28,930 in the Holy Spirit. Just as Jesus proclaimed in John 265 00:16:28,930 --> 00:16:35,930 chapter 14, verse 26 indwelt John and then carried him along 266 00:16:36,770 --> 00:16:38,650 on that day whenever that day was. 267 00:16:40,050 --> 00:16:45,250 It was the Spirit who stopped John in his tracks and he said 268 00:16:45,250 --> 00:16:49,420 sit down at the desk. And take out the pen and take 269 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:52,420 out the parchment. And you began to record the 270 00:16:52,420 --> 00:16:56,140 things that I am calling to your remembrance. 271 00:16:56,140 --> 00:16:59,540 You record those things because those things are true. 272 00:16:59,660 --> 00:17:02,780 They are the testimony of a supernatural God. 273 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:05,900 The Bible is supernatural in testimony. 274 00:17:07,579 --> 00:17:12,700 These men who were superintended by the Holy Spirit, we're also 275 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:16,339 men who were selected by God. These men were handpicked. 276 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:20,500 Selected by God from Genesis all the way to Revelation. 277 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:23,900 Every single one of the men who pinned the books that we have, 278 00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:28,540 every single one of them handpicked by a sovereign God 279 00:17:28,780 --> 00:17:35,580 for sovereign purpose. He chose the prophets, He chose 280 00:17:35,580 --> 00:17:43,460 the apostles, He chose all who he would use to pin his holy 281 00:17:43,660 --> 00:17:45,260 word. He accomplished. 282 00:17:46,580 --> 00:17:53,780 The task of His Word through these inspired, called and 283 00:17:53,780 --> 00:17:58,900 selected men as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit 284 00:17:59,220 --> 00:18:02,260 Church. Never, ever, ever forget, never 285 00:18:02,260 --> 00:18:06,740 forget that the Bible is God's supernatural testimony. 286 00:18:06,740 --> 00:18:09,020 This is not just words from a book. 287 00:18:10,770 --> 00:18:13,890 These are words from God. When you open the pages, 288 00:18:13,890 --> 00:18:17,330 wherever you open it, wherever you land, when you read it, it 289 00:18:17,330 --> 00:18:22,010 is words from God. You can count on these words. 290 00:18:22,090 --> 00:18:27,410 You can count on these words because God authored these 291 00:18:27,410 --> 00:18:30,370 words. God accomplished the writing of 292 00:18:30,370 --> 00:18:34,690 these words through His handpicked men who wrote the 293 00:18:34,690 --> 00:18:36,770 truths that are now revealed in Scripture. 294 00:18:37,770 --> 00:18:39,370 Word of God can be trusted because the Bible is 295 00:18:39,370 --> 00:18:44,730 supernatural in testimony. Secondly, John says it there in 296 00:18:44,730 --> 00:18:46,170 verse 24. This is the disciple who 297 00:18:46,170 --> 00:18:48,050 testifies to these things and he wrote them down. 298 00:18:48,210 --> 00:18:52,330 We know that his testimony is pay attention to this word. 299 00:18:52,970 --> 00:18:56,050 True. Not only is the Bible 300 00:18:56,290 --> 00:19:01,050 supernatural in testimony, the Bible is solid in truth. 301 00:19:01,050 --> 00:19:04,770 What do I mean by that? I mean this, first of all, that 302 00:19:04,770 --> 00:19:09,970 the Bible is infallible. Oh, many have tried to destroy 303 00:19:09,970 --> 00:19:12,130 it. Many have tried to get rid of 304 00:19:12,130 --> 00:19:14,250 it. Many have tried to burn it. 305 00:19:14,410 --> 00:19:20,050 Many have tried to remove it. But it will never, ever, ever go 306 00:19:20,090 --> 00:19:23,490 away. It is infallible. 307 00:19:24,330 --> 00:19:28,050 Everything that the Word of God was designed by God to 308 00:19:28,050 --> 00:19:32,970 accomplish, he will accomplish. Through his infallible word. 309 00:19:33,710 --> 00:19:36,630 Matthew chapter 24 The Lord Himself says this in verse 35. 310 00:19:36,630 --> 00:19:42,470 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass 311 00:19:42,470 --> 00:19:44,830 away. All of heaven and all of earth 312 00:19:44,830 --> 00:19:47,070 pass away. My word will stand. 313 00:19:47,190 --> 00:19:50,550 It is infallible. It doesn't matter how the world 314 00:19:50,550 --> 00:19:52,830 attacks it. It doesn't matter the armies of 315 00:19:52,830 --> 00:19:55,830 the wicked who come against it. My word will stand. 316 00:19:55,910 --> 00:19:57,990 Why? The prophet Isaiah said this 317 00:19:58,150 --> 00:20:00,910 under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit that John is 318 00:20:00,950 --> 00:20:02,750 under here as he writes this gospel. 319 00:20:02,870 --> 00:20:04,990 Isaiah said this. Listen Isaiah 40, verse 8. 320 00:20:05,070 --> 00:20:08,590 The grass Withers, the flowers fall or fade, but the word of 321 00:20:08,590 --> 00:20:13,390 God stands forever when you trust in the Word of God. 322 00:20:13,670 --> 00:20:16,310 You trust in the infallibility of God. 323 00:20:17,270 --> 00:20:20,350 God has never failed us. God does not fail. 324 00:20:21,030 --> 00:20:23,430 Everything that He seeks to accomplish he accomplishes. 325 00:20:24,110 --> 00:20:27,350 He will not fail and His Word will never fail. 326 00:20:28,510 --> 00:20:33,310 See, because it is solid truth when all the world falters. 327 00:20:34,810 --> 00:20:38,690 And all the world fails, His Word remains. 328 00:20:41,290 --> 00:20:45,890 You can hang your hat on the promises of God because the 329 00:20:45,890 --> 00:20:50,010 Bible is solid and truth, infallible, but not only 330 00:20:50,010 --> 00:20:53,680 infallible, but there are many who will say this. 331 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,720 Yeah, I believe the word is infallible, but but there's 332 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,720 still errors and contradictions and they mean this. 333 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,120 By this they mean that it's infallible because it ultimately 334 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,720 accomplishes what it seeks out to accomplish. 335 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,600 However, there are some errors and there are some 336 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,520 contradictions in the Bible. Let me just stop you before you 337 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,360 jump off into a big pool of heresy. 338 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,400 There are 0 errors. There are 0 contradictions. 339 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,240 If you find one the Bible is not wrong, you are. 340 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,520 You write that down. You haven't done your homework. 341 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,800 Many will come to me and say, well this seems like a 342 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,720 contradiction. It seems like a contradiction 343 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,520 because you took it out of context. 344 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,840 The enemy is very crafty and causing people to doubt the word 345 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,800 of God. Isn't that what he did way back 346 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,770 in the garden when he tempted Eve and then Eve let her husband 347 00:21:41,770 --> 00:21:43,730 into sin? Isn't that what happened? 348 00:21:43,890 --> 00:21:47,010 They had received a word from God and then Satan came along 349 00:21:47,010 --> 00:21:49,050 and caused them to question the word of God. 350 00:21:49,170 --> 00:21:53,050 And when they began to question the inherent infallible word of 351 00:21:53,050 --> 00:21:55,490 God, what did they do? They fell off into sin. 352 00:21:55,610 --> 00:21:59,010 Every major denomination who questions the inherency of 353 00:21:59,010 --> 00:22:02,930 Scripture falls to sin. Pay attention to that. 354 00:22:04,090 --> 00:22:05,970 So we see that being revealed here. 355 00:22:07,070 --> 00:22:08,990 Bible Solid truth. Truth that we can count on. 356 00:22:08,990 --> 00:22:11,830 Truth that we can believe beyond the shadow of a doubt because it 357 00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:14,470 is inherent. John Chapter 17, verse 17. 358 00:22:14,470 --> 00:22:16,470 Remember what the Lord said when He was praying for his own 359 00:22:16,470 --> 00:22:19,110 disciples? He said Sanctify them, set them 360 00:22:19,110 --> 00:22:23,950 apart by truth. And then he said your word is 361 00:22:24,470 --> 00:22:26,390 truth. He didn't say it. 362 00:22:26,390 --> 00:22:32,270 Your word is partially true. He didn't say your word contains 363 00:22:32,790 --> 00:22:36,440 some truth. He didn't say you can get a 364 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:41,560 glimpse of truth from the Bible. He said set them apart by truth. 365 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:48,160 Your word is truth. An errant, perfect truth. 366 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,800 In fact, Psalm 119, verse 160, The Psalmist said this. 367 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,880 All your words are true. How many? 368 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,320 All of them. Open your Bible and just put a 369 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,520 finger on the page and it's true. 370 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,980 All of your words are true. All your righteous laws or are 371 00:23:07,180 --> 00:23:08,500 eternal. They're never going to go away. 372 00:23:08,740 --> 00:23:12,140 They're true and errant, and they're eternal, infallible. 373 00:23:12,380 --> 00:23:14,500 They're in that one verse and Psalm 119. 374 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:18,740 You see the infallibility and the inerency of scripture all in 375 00:23:18,740 --> 00:23:22,860 that one verse. Proverbs chapter 30, verse five 376 00:23:23,380 --> 00:23:25,860 says this. Every word of God is flawless. 377 00:23:28,180 --> 00:23:30,060 He is a shield to those who take refuge. 378 00:23:30,060 --> 00:23:34,600 You know His word is flawless. We look at that. 379 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,840 We say, well, of course this word is flawless because he is a 380 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,200 holy God. Did you know this holy shows us 381 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,920 that he is flawless. And so the words that he speaks 382 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,240 are true. They are flawless. 383 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,680 And you can count on today that the Bible is solid in truth. 384 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:00,200 I know I risk losing some friends for saying what I'm 385 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,960 about to say, and that's okay with me. 386 00:24:04,270 --> 00:24:06,790 I'd rather have Christ than have anything that the world offers, 387 00:24:06,790 --> 00:24:12,950 even friends. But a Christianity that is 388 00:24:12,950 --> 00:24:19,830 founded upon anything other than the Holy Word of God and it's 389 00:24:19,830 --> 00:24:24,310 infallibility and in its inherency, is no Christianity at 390 00:24:24,310 --> 00:24:27,870 all. You have bought a bill of goods. 391 00:24:27,870 --> 00:24:30,070 You have bought a live from the enemy. 392 00:24:30,190 --> 00:24:32,550 He has done the bait and switch on you. 393 00:24:32,670 --> 00:24:37,190 The word of God is solid. In truth it is infallible. 394 00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:40,950 It is inerrant. It is perfectly inspired by the 395 00:24:40,950 --> 00:24:44,350 Holy Spirit. There is not one flaw in it. 396 00:24:44,630 --> 00:24:48,350 Find the flaw and then point the finger back at yourself, because 397 00:24:48,350 --> 00:24:50,550 you've only seen it with flawed eyes. 398 00:24:50,590 --> 00:24:54,470 His word is perfect and it is flawless and it will stand 399 00:24:54,750 --> 00:24:57,150 forever. Everything that we believe, 400 00:24:57,190 --> 00:25:00,630 church, listen to me. Everything that we believe as a 401 00:25:00,630 --> 00:25:03,790 whole and everything that we believe as individual Christians 402 00:25:03,990 --> 00:25:07,590 must be based on the principle of sola scriptura. 403 00:25:08,350 --> 00:25:10,470 That principle is Scripture alone. 404 00:25:11,750 --> 00:25:14,550 When one would ask you why do you believe that, don't say I 405 00:25:14,550 --> 00:25:17,350 believe that because I've always believed that. 406 00:25:18,470 --> 00:25:21,470 I don't believe that because I've always believed it. 407 00:25:22,470 --> 00:25:25,880 I believe it because the word of God says so when they say, why 408 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,920 do you believe this? Well, because my pastor said 409 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:32,920 what if your pastor is a quack, We're a heretic. 410 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:39,520 You've now believed heresy just because your pastor said no. 411 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,680 What you need to realize this morning is we need to trust in 412 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,760 the word of God, and the Word of God is. 413 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,760 True, and every man a liar, and everything that we believe must 414 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:53,520 be built upon solo Scripture, His Word alone. 415 00:25:54,610 --> 00:25:56,770 Nothing else. Not his word. 416 00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:01,250 Plus our feelings. Not his word. 417 00:26:02,850 --> 00:26:09,610 Plus our philosophies. His word and his word alone. 418 00:26:09,610 --> 00:26:12,050 That's where we find solid truth. 419 00:26:12,970 --> 00:26:18,010 Any belief system that is not built upon the word of God, it's 420 00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:19,530 an errancy, and it's infallibility. 421 00:26:19,530 --> 00:26:22,730 Any belief system that is not built upon that is not a 422 00:26:22,730 --> 00:26:25,630 Christian belief system. You write it down. 423 00:26:25,630 --> 00:26:28,950 You quote me. You get angry with me if you 424 00:26:28,950 --> 00:26:31,870 like. That is the truth. 425 00:26:31,870 --> 00:26:35,070 According to the word of God, His word is perfect. 426 00:26:36,230 --> 00:26:40,550 In fact, I had someone just this last week Facebook jabbed me. 427 00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:48,230 It hurts so bad. I can still feel the sting. 428 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:56,620 They Facebook jabbed me for last week's message where I said 429 00:26:56,620 --> 00:26:58,940 boldly, and I do not make apology for that. 430 00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:02,940 I said boldly that a woman is not permitted to teach her to 431 00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:07,420 have authority over a man in the church, that there is never room 432 00:27:07,420 --> 00:27:09,780 for a woman in the pastoral office. 433 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:16,980 And when she ribbed me, all she could say was, well, I've 434 00:27:16,980 --> 00:27:19,660 preached and I have women pastors in my life. 435 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,960 What can I tell you? Both of you were in sin and 436 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,560 violation to the word of God. Just because you've done 437 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,760 something doesn't make you that thing. 438 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:37,280 I can work on a car, you can get in it and drive it after I work 439 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,120 on it, and you'll find out real quickly that I am not a 440 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:47,400 mechanic. I can do carpentry work, but if 441 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,540 you inspected it closely. You will realize very quickly 442 00:27:54,020 --> 00:27:56,420 and God called Kirk to preach. He didn't call Kirk to do 443 00:27:56,420 --> 00:28:00,180 carpentry work. So you can call yourself 444 00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:05,820 anything under the sun, but it doesn't make it right just 445 00:28:05,820 --> 00:28:07,660 because you call yourself that thing. 446 00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:12,460 Because the scripture is very clear, First Timothy chapter 2. 447 00:28:13,260 --> 00:28:16,500 It makes it clear just in case you don't understand this 448 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:20,260 reference. 1st 12 says it this plainly. 449 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:24,220 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. 450 00:28:24,220 --> 00:28:28,020 This is in regard to how we conduct worship. 451 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:31,380 I don't permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. 452 00:28:32,980 --> 00:28:36,860 She must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then 453 00:28:36,860 --> 00:28:39,060 Eve. And Adam was not the one 454 00:28:39,060 --> 00:28:40,940 deceived, it was the woman who was deceived. 455 00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:43,980 He tells you why. He tells you exactly why. 456 00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:45,260 He didn't need to give you an explanation. 457 00:28:45,260 --> 00:28:47,180 You should have just taken it at face value, he said. 458 00:28:48,210 --> 00:28:51,650 She tells you why she's the one who was led astray by the 459 00:28:51,650 --> 00:28:55,490 deception of the enemy. And then she was used by the 460 00:28:55,490 --> 00:28:57,250 enemy to lure her husband into sin. 461 00:28:58,130 --> 00:29:01,970 And here we are. So I had someone upset with me. 462 00:29:01,970 --> 00:29:03,890 But here's what I came to the conclusion. 463 00:29:05,130 --> 00:29:11,050 You know what if I lose all the friends that I have going to 464 00:29:11,050 --> 00:29:14,090 stand on the solid truth of the word of God. 465 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,920 I'm going to stand on the solid truth of the word of God all the 466 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,840 way to the end. So the scripture, scripture 467 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,640 alone, even if it cost me my very life, I'm going to stand on 468 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:25,920 the word of God and you should do the same. 469 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,960 You see that the Bible can be trusted because the Bible is 470 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,640 supernatural and testimony and the Bible is solid and truth. 471 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:43,840 Excuse me. Thirdly, the Bible is 472 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,200 sufficient. In totality it is sufficient. 473 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,840 In totality. Look at verse 25, verse 25. 474 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:59,120 Back to John's Gospel verse 21. Jesus did many other things as 475 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,960 well. Every one of them were written 476 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,720 down. I suppose that even the whole 477 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,280 world would not have room for the books that would be written, 478 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,360 even the whole. World wouldn't have room, but 479 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,000 I've written these things down. You know why he wrote these 480 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,920 things down? These are the things that the 481 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,280 Holy Spirit inspired him to write down. 482 00:30:15,890 --> 00:30:18,170 These are the things that he was supposed to write down. 483 00:30:18,610 --> 00:30:20,930 John says. There's a whole lot more, but I 484 00:30:20,930 --> 00:30:22,250 wasn't allowed to write those things down. 485 00:30:23,130 --> 00:30:26,370 These things are enough. If anyone asks, does the Bible 486 00:30:26,370 --> 00:30:28,130 include everything that can be known? 487 00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:31,170 Absolutely not. My doesn't include, doesn't 488 00:30:31,170 --> 00:30:32,930 include everything that can be known. 489 00:30:33,730 --> 00:30:35,450 You can't fully known the mind of God. 490 00:30:35,450 --> 00:30:37,610 You will never fully know the mind of God. 491 00:30:37,610 --> 00:30:39,650 You will never fully known his. Know his. 492 00:30:39,810 --> 00:30:43,290 Try unity and and make that make sense in your human mind. 493 00:30:44,570 --> 00:30:46,730 Those things are beyond our understanding. 494 00:30:46,730 --> 00:30:50,370 Those things are infinite. We are finite. 495 00:30:50,370 --> 00:30:55,050 It doesn't contain everything that can be known. 496 00:30:55,050 --> 00:30:57,810 But I want you to understand this. 497 00:30:57,810 --> 00:30:59,410 The scripture contains everything that you need to 498 00:30:59,410 --> 00:31:01,690 know. Everything that you need to 499 00:31:01,690 --> 00:31:04,770 know. In fact, Second Peter, chapter 500 00:31:04,770 --> 00:31:10,210 one, verse three, it says this. His divine power has given us 501 00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:14,780 everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge 502 00:31:14,780 --> 00:31:16,860 of Him. And how did we receive knowledge 503 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:18,660 of Him? How did we receive knowledge 504 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:20,740 from Christ? Through the preaching and the 505 00:31:20,740 --> 00:31:24,140 teaching of the Word of God? And He's saying this in the Word 506 00:31:24,140 --> 00:31:27,580 of God. His divine power has given us 507 00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:31,900 everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge 508 00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:35,540 of Christ Who? Called us by His own glory and 509 00:31:35,540 --> 00:31:37,780 goodness. How does this happen? 510 00:31:37,780 --> 00:31:39,620 How? How does this work? 511 00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:43,020 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word. 512 00:31:43,970 --> 00:31:48,050 As you hear the word and you're challenged and you were 513 00:31:48,050 --> 00:31:51,210 convicted, you grow and you mature. 514 00:31:51,770 --> 00:31:55,610 In the faith you grow and you mature in your understanding of 515 00:31:55,610 --> 00:31:58,970 who God is, His attributes, His characteristics, His power, his 516 00:31:58,970 --> 00:32:00,850 glory. You begin to learn these things 517 00:32:00,850 --> 00:32:04,250 and you begin to grow. I know it's not exciting, right? 518 00:32:04,250 --> 00:32:07,770 The the world and and all of their ideology that is 519 00:32:07,770 --> 00:32:09,810 infiltrated. The Church would say, not really 520 00:32:09,810 --> 00:32:14,270 entertaining, oh, I pray that God would raise up a people that 521 00:32:14,270 --> 00:32:18,350 didn't want to be entertained, the people who want to grow in 522 00:32:18,350 --> 00:32:21,030 knowledge and grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus 523 00:32:21,030 --> 00:32:23,950 Christ that he would raise up. Those people who say, thus say 524 00:32:23,950 --> 00:32:26,030 it. The Lord, the word of God is my 525 00:32:26,030 --> 00:32:28,470 sufficiency. I find all of my answers there, 526 00:32:28,590 --> 00:32:32,710 and all of the answers I need are contained in those 66 books. 527 00:32:34,430 --> 00:32:39,390 Be content with that though, you may not be able to answer every 528 00:32:39,390 --> 00:32:43,440 question, you will be able. To answer every question that 529 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:50,120 God sees fit for you to answer, the Bible is sufficient in 530 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,760 totality. There's not one thing left out 531 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:57,400 that you need. He gave you everything that you 532 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,800 need in His word. When you hold this book up, put 533 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,040 it in your hands. Go ahead, Go ahead and try it. 534 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:10,780 Come on, it'll be fun. And you hold this book up and 535 00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:13,380 you put it in your hands. You're not just holding the all 536 00:33:13,380 --> 00:33:19,060 time bestseller. No, it is if you were. 537 00:33:19,060 --> 00:33:27,820 Holding the sufficiency and totality of the word of God that 538 00:33:27,860 --> 00:33:31,620 he desired to give you. What a privilege. 539 00:33:32,140 --> 00:33:35,300 What a privilege to know that the God of this universe has 540 00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:39,410 entrusted me with this, that He has given me this. 541 00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:44,690 And in this I find all of the answers for life and godliness 542 00:33:44,890 --> 00:33:47,210 in Christ Jesus. Don't miss out on that. 543 00:33:47,930 --> 00:33:50,130 Oh, let me just say this to you, dear friends, dear brothers, 544 00:33:50,130 --> 00:33:52,250 dear sisters. If you are missing out on that, 545 00:33:52,250 --> 00:33:55,530 today was the first day all week that you dusted this old thing 546 00:33:55,530 --> 00:33:57,490 off. You've missed out on so much, 547 00:33:58,890 --> 00:34:03,690 missed out on hearing God. Let me look at His sufficient 548 00:34:03,690 --> 00:34:05,430 word. Being sufficient in its 549 00:34:05,430 --> 00:34:07,190 totality, I want you to write this down. 550 00:34:07,190 --> 00:34:13,710 It's sufficiently collected that throughout the ages, God 551 00:34:13,710 --> 00:34:17,389 collected everything that he wanted to include in His word. 552 00:34:18,870 --> 00:34:23,590 There are no amendments. There will never, never be any 553 00:34:23,590 --> 00:34:26,469 amendments. You can go to the back. 554 00:34:27,790 --> 00:34:31,310 You'll find an index. You won't find an appendix. 555 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,199 Anything added to it? In fact, be very careful in 556 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,400 trying to add to it. We'll see those warnings in a 557 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:42,960 moment. It is sufficient in its 558 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:49,040 totality. These 66 books contain the very 559 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:54,760 word of God that He wants you to hear, and you will not hear it 560 00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,080 as it lays on a bookshelf. You will not hear it as it stays 561 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,070 in your car all week. Until you come to church the 562 00:35:03,070 --> 00:35:07,230 next Sunday, you will only hear it if you open the pages of 563 00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:12,230 Scripture and you begin to read, or someone else opens the pages 564 00:35:12,230 --> 00:35:18,430 of Scripture and begins to read it for you, it was sufficiently 565 00:35:18,470 --> 00:35:22,390 collected. Every single thing here was 566 00:35:22,590 --> 00:35:27,070 collected because it was God's will that you see it. 567 00:35:28,190 --> 00:35:31,760 It's God's will that you see it. I wouldn't dare ask this 568 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,120 question, though. I'm going to ask this question. 569 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,680 I would ask you not to answer it. 570 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:40,160 If we were to ask this group of people in this room who call 571 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,400 themselves Christians, how many of you have read it from cover 572 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,560 to cover? Be a sad show of hands. 573 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:54,200 I'm afraid those of us who have read it from cover to cover, you 574 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,130 don't know the will of God. You can't understand why you 575 00:35:57,130 --> 00:35:59,010 don't know the will of God. A person comes to me and says I 576 00:35:59,010 --> 00:36:00,650 don't know the will of God. You know what my first question 577 00:36:00,650 --> 00:36:01,850 is? How much time have you spent in 578 00:36:01,850 --> 00:36:04,410 the Word? Because when you spend time in 579 00:36:04,410 --> 00:36:07,010 the word, he shows you everything that you need for 580 00:36:07,010 --> 00:36:10,130 life and godliness. He shows you in His word who you 581 00:36:10,130 --> 00:36:11,850 should marry. When that person comes and says, 582 00:36:12,050 --> 00:36:13,970 hey pray for me, I need to know who I should marry. 583 00:36:14,090 --> 00:36:16,570 He gives you a look at who you should marry in His word. 584 00:36:16,810 --> 00:36:20,250 Read it. A man or a woman who seeks after 585 00:36:20,250 --> 00:36:24,130 the heart of God, who desires to serve him and to live for His 586 00:36:24,130 --> 00:36:25,770 glory. That's who you need to marry. 587 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,320 Don't be an unequal yoked with unbelievers. 588 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,600 That's who you need to marry. What gives you all that you need 589 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,000 to know for life and God in this? 590 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,800 This is sufficient in its totality. 591 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,360 Should I take this new job? Have you been to the Word? 592 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,560 Should I start this ministry to help reach others? 593 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,440 To show the love of Christ to others? 594 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,200 Get in the Word. What does the Word say? 595 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,880 Well, the Word says for me to go and make disciples, then get 596 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,010 after it. Stop asking questions. 597 00:36:57,010 --> 00:36:59,130 You know what it says. Be obedient to it. 598 00:37:00,890 --> 00:37:03,970 It's sufficiently collected everything that we need for life 599 00:37:03,970 --> 00:37:08,770 and godless Genesis to Revelation and everything in 600 00:37:08,770 --> 00:37:13,050 between. You want a word from God, right? 601 00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:17,930 All the people today and all the kooky movements wanting a word 602 00:37:17,930 --> 00:37:20,650 from God. You want a word from God? 603 00:37:21,570 --> 00:37:25,320 Open the pages of this book. Open the pages of this book. 604 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,640 You have a word from God. Every word and every sentence 605 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,080 that you read. Stop looking for outside 606 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,640 revelation and outside words. He's giving you all that you 607 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,000 need for life and godliness. It's sufficient. 608 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:43,240 It's sufficient. He's put together 66 books of 609 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:48,920 complete revelation. He did it accomplished this 610 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,400 through 40 some odd authors from Moses. 611 00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:56,300 The John who we're reading now and he used these men of God, as 612 00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:58,100 we've already learned, who were carried along by the Holy 613 00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:03,220 Spirit, this was pinned over 1500 years ago. 614 00:38:03,580 --> 00:38:07,460 This stood the test of time. It was originally pinned in 615 00:38:07,460 --> 00:38:10,820 three different continents in three different original 616 00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:19,790 languages, all the while keeping the 1 theme, all the while 617 00:38:19,790 --> 00:38:22,430 keeping the one thing, the Messiah, the Christ, the one who 618 00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:25,070 would come to redeem people for God. 619 00:38:25,190 --> 00:38:28,030 From Genesis to Revelation, we see Christ. 620 00:38:32,550 --> 00:38:36,830 His word is sufficient, sufficiently collected and 621 00:38:36,830 --> 00:38:40,030 preserved. All you need to know about God 622 00:38:41,070 --> 00:38:43,230 is attributes, characteristics. All you need to know about the 623 00:38:43,230 --> 00:38:47,030 Christian life and how to live it were found within these 624 00:38:47,030 --> 00:38:50,740 pages. Sufficiently collected. 625 00:38:50,740 --> 00:38:53,220 He made sure of that. Oh, I'm thankful today that a 626 00:38:53,220 --> 00:38:59,420 sovereign God has made sure that everything I need, I have in my 627 00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:03,980 hand what a gracious God. Or did you know throughout 628 00:39:04,140 --> 00:39:11,940 history God has went to great extent to preserve this word so 629 00:39:11,940 --> 00:39:14,460 that we could sit here today and learn it and hear it? 630 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,800 Through the blood of many, many, many martyrs do we have now the 631 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,640 English Bible in our hands so that we can understand. 632 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,680 And the English is not your native tongue. 633 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,040 More than likely there is something in your native tongue 634 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:29,880 that many people gave their lives. 635 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:34,560 They died for it so that you can have it at the hands. 636 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:40,240 Those who have persecuted the church throughout the ages he's 637 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:43,960 collected. He's gone to the extreme great 638 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,820 extent so that we can have it. Don't just let it collect dust 639 00:39:48,220 --> 00:39:50,540 on a shelf. It is a gift. 640 00:39:51,020 --> 00:39:53,260 On our country we take it for granted so much we can go out 641 00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:56,260 and buy one every day. But did you know this? 642 00:39:56,260 --> 00:39:59,300 In third world countries? Many believers covet the fact 643 00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:03,460 that those among the church where they live have a New 644 00:40:03,460 --> 00:40:07,340 Testament or portion of the Old Testament, or maybe just several 645 00:40:07,340 --> 00:40:10,100 pages of some parchments that they snuck throughout time and 646 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:12,540 hidden. Yet we take it for granted. 647 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:18,680 We have the complete sufficient word of God in our hand all of 648 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:23,080 the time, sufficiently collected by God sovereignly for us. 649 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,080 Not only is it sufficiently collected, when we look at it 650 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,440 being sufficient in its totality, it's sufficiently 651 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,880 closed. What do you mean by that, 652 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,160 pastor? There's no new revelation. 653 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,200 None. Someone comes up to you and says 654 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:41,480 that they received a new revelation. 655 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:46,120 Step away from that person. They are teetering on heresy. 656 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,440 There are no new revelations. I'll show you that in scripture. 657 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:56,120 If it's new, it's not true. He's not revealing his word 658 00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:03,080 through dreams, visions or experiences, as many heretical 659 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:07,200 teachings adhere to. Where would we be if everyone's 660 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,760 dream counted as Scripture and everyone's vision counted as 661 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,560 Scripture? How how would we even know? 662 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:16,080 There's no Apostolic authority in the church to tell us as 663 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:21,400 exactly by God's design, when the Apostles era ended, the Word 664 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:27,440 of God was completed. It is sufficiently closed. 665 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,520 There are no longer any prophets or apostles in the true sense of 666 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,660 the word. These people who are going 667 00:41:32,660 --> 00:41:36,140 around claiming to hear these things from God, they are not 668 00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:39,900 hearing these things from God. They ate bad food. 669 00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:42,740 They ate too much food. They went to sleep on a really 670 00:41:42,740 --> 00:41:47,580 full stomach. The period is over. 671 00:41:48,940 --> 00:41:54,180 Scriptures have been closed. The cannon of Scripture is 672 00:41:54,180 --> 00:41:56,940 complete. He's not still writing his 673 00:41:56,940 --> 00:42:01,270 story, as many would be. Christian artists want to sing 674 00:42:01,270 --> 00:42:04,070 about the story's written It's done. 675 00:42:05,790 --> 00:42:09,390 Oh, you can believe all of the people who want to believe those 676 00:42:09,390 --> 00:42:11,470 foolish things, or you can believe the word of God. 677 00:42:13,070 --> 00:42:15,870 But Hebrews chapter one says this verse one. 678 00:42:17,150 --> 00:42:20,230 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through through the 679 00:42:20,230 --> 00:42:24,590 prophets, at many times and in various ways, dreams, visions, 680 00:42:24,590 --> 00:42:27,490 etcetera. But in these last days he has 681 00:42:27,490 --> 00:42:30,610 spoken to us by His Son Jesus. The Word. 682 00:42:31,250 --> 00:42:33,610 John made that very clear in one one in the beginning it was the 683 00:42:33,610 --> 00:42:37,250 Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God. 684 00:42:37,330 --> 00:42:40,330 Verse 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, 685 00:42:40,370 --> 00:42:44,010 Logos, the Word of God, Christ. But in his last days He has 686 00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:47,250 spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, 687 00:42:47,250 --> 00:42:49,170 and through whom he made the universe. 688 00:42:49,170 --> 00:42:51,450 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact 689 00:42:51,570 --> 00:42:54,530 representation of his being, sustaining all things by His 690 00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:56,630 powerful Word. And after he had provided 691 00:42:56,630 --> 00:42:59,870 purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the 692 00:42:59,870 --> 00:43:04,110 majesty in heaven. It is closed. 693 00:43:05,230 --> 00:43:08,710 The Canon of Scripture is no longer being collected. 694 00:43:11,150 --> 00:43:15,230 It's written. It's written once and for all. 695 00:43:16,230 --> 00:43:20,750 Scripture gives us much warning about adding to the Holy Writ. 696 00:43:20,790 --> 00:43:22,910 Pay attention to it. What do you think that he would 697 00:43:22,910 --> 00:43:24,790 give us these warnings because he knew that there would be 698 00:43:24,790 --> 00:43:28,880 these people? Who would think, because they 699 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,600 were under the influence of demonic heresy and demonic 700 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,240 powers that they were receiving a word from the Lord? 701 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,160 Someone comes to me and says I have a word from the Lord for 702 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:39,880 you. I'm going to say that. 703 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,080 Show me chapter and verse, please. 704 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,840 If you can't show me chapter and verse, it's not a word from the 705 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,560 Lord. It's a word from you that 706 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,640 probably came from Satan, one of his demons who influenced you. 707 00:43:57,990 --> 00:44:00,910 Scripture gives warning about adding to and taking from His 708 00:44:00,910 --> 00:44:03,830 word. Did you know this when you have 709 00:44:03,830 --> 00:44:08,350 outside Revelation and you add that to the cannon? 710 00:44:08,710 --> 00:44:13,070 God said you're adding to the word of God. 711 00:44:14,510 --> 00:44:18,510 You fall guilty of this sin. Let me show you how serious this 712 00:44:18,510 --> 00:44:21,310 is. Proverbs chapter 30. 713 00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:23,680 The author says this and verse 5. 714 00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:26,560 Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take 715 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:27,920 refuge in hell. We've already read that. 716 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,840 But look at verse six. Do not add to his word and he 717 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,840 will rebuke you and prove you a liar, but add to his word. 718 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,120 You know why people are doing this? 719 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,120 Adding to the word of God? Because they won't do their due 720 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,040 diligence and studying the true word of God. 721 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,640 It takes time. It takes experience. 722 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,160 It takes motivation. It takes sacrifice. 723 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,720 Right. When you're tired, you're in a 724 00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:52,520 hurry. Who knows? 725 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,400 You have to stop and you have to feast on the word of God. 726 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:55,760 Why? So that truth is poured into you 727 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,600 because you're going out into a world full of lies. 728 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:02,720 Word of God is true. Don't add to it. 729 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:03,960 It's complete. Don't add to it. 730 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,200 He's already told us that his word is perfect. 731 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:08,800 He's already told us that his word is true. 732 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,160 Why would you need to add anything to it? 733 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,160 Deuteronomy 4. He gives another warning. 734 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,760 Verse two, do not add to what I command you and do not subtract 735 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,080 from it. Ooh, here we go. 736 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,520 Adding and subtracting. No, we don't do that, Pastor. 737 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:26,560 Yes, you do. You embrace the things that you 738 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,720 like and Scripture, and then you don't embrace the things that 739 00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:30,960 you don't like. That's erasing the scriptures. 740 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,520 Are you listening? It's erasing the. 741 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,480 Scriptures, you say? Well, I don't agree with that. 742 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,560 It doesn't matter what you agree with. 743 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:43,200 Thus saith the Lord, here's what God says, what is plain and 744 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,120 clear, what God says. Your argument does not stand. 745 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,790 Don't add to it. Don't subtract from it, but keep 746 00:45:53,790 --> 00:45:55,670 the commands of the Lord of your God that I give you. 747 00:45:55,670 --> 00:45:58,830 Deuteronomy 1232. He reiterates this again. 748 00:45:58,830 --> 00:46:02,150 See that you do all I command you do not add to it or take 749 00:46:02,150 --> 00:46:04,950 away from it, right. Don't take the 10 commandments 750 00:46:04,950 --> 00:46:07,910 and say I like eight of those. You can keep the other two. 751 00:46:09,670 --> 00:46:11,310 Or maybe you're real spiritual, I like 9. 752 00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:15,150 You can have the one back. Don't understand. 753 00:46:15,150 --> 00:46:19,990 But they're all sufficient. They all have a purpose. 754 00:46:21,340 --> 00:46:24,020 Inscriptors have closed. The cannon is closed. 755 00:46:24,020 --> 00:46:25,380 Don't add to it. Don't take away from it. 756 00:46:25,580 --> 00:46:27,980 Revelation 22 You men who went through the Revelation study you 757 00:46:27,980 --> 00:46:31,460 know of this warning. What a harsh warning it is. 758 00:46:31,460 --> 00:46:33,860 He doesn't. Verse 18I warn everyone who 759 00:46:33,860 --> 00:46:35,740 hears the words of the prophecy of this book. 760 00:46:37,020 --> 00:46:40,450 Please understand this. The same Holy Spirit who 761 00:46:40,450 --> 00:46:43,130 inspired John to write Revelation as the same Holy 762 00:46:43,130 --> 00:46:46,010 Spirit who inspired the same John to write the Gospel of John 763 00:46:46,010 --> 00:46:48,810 who is the same Holy Spirit who inspired Moses to write the 764 00:46:48,810 --> 00:46:50,650 first five books of the Old Testament. 765 00:46:52,970 --> 00:46:55,370 So Revelation is equally the word of God as anything else. 766 00:46:55,370 --> 00:46:57,370 It's equally the Word of God as the first five books, as the 767 00:46:57,370 --> 00:47:02,410 Psalms, as the Proverbs. When he says, I warn everyone 768 00:47:02,730 --> 00:47:06,450 who hears the words of this prophecy of this book. 769 00:47:06,530 --> 00:47:10,510 If anyone adds anything to them, add anything to the word of God. 770 00:47:11,670 --> 00:47:14,470 God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 771 00:47:15,630 --> 00:47:17,790 You've ever studied the plagues described in Revelation. 772 00:47:17,790 --> 00:47:21,710 You want no part of that. And if anyone takes words away 773 00:47:21,710 --> 00:47:24,310 from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his 774 00:47:24,470 --> 00:47:27,310 share in the tree of life and in the holy city which are 775 00:47:27,310 --> 00:47:28,830 described in this book. What is he saying? 776 00:47:28,830 --> 00:47:30,190 Is he saying that you'll lose salvation? 777 00:47:30,190 --> 00:47:31,230 No. He's saying that you've never 778 00:47:31,230 --> 00:47:34,630 had salvation. You never had a part of the tree 779 00:47:34,630 --> 00:47:37,070 of life. The true believer would never. 780 00:47:37,740 --> 00:47:39,900 The race scripture. A true believer would never take 781 00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:41,620 away from the scripture. A true believer would see the 782 00:47:41,620 --> 00:47:44,500 scripture and it would hurt. It hurts sometimes, does it? 783 00:47:45,500 --> 00:47:48,260 We see the scripture and then you're not in line with it and 784 00:47:48,260 --> 00:47:50,220 it cuts you to the quick. It hurts. 785 00:47:51,380 --> 00:47:53,940 Aren't you thankful that we have a kind and loving God who comes 786 00:47:53,940 --> 00:47:57,020 back and he takes that hurt and he heals that hurt and he makes 787 00:47:57,020 --> 00:48:00,700 us stronger through the healing process so that we can now stand 788 00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:03,420 against the thing that once brought us down, that 789 00:48:03,420 --> 00:48:09,440 contradicted the Word of God? Bible is sufficient in its 790 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,200 totality, sufficiently collected, sufficiently closed, 791 00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,040 everything that we need. There's no sense adding to it. 792 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,800 There's no sense thinking away from it and doing it either. 793 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,960 You bring upon yourself a curse. Oh church, my prayer for you is 794 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,280 this, that you would rest in the sufficient totality of 795 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,400 Scripture. Because when I raise this Bible, 796 00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:41,740 I hold in my hand the complete word of God, the complete word 797 00:48:41,740 --> 00:48:46,300 of God passed down through the ages so that we can have it and 798 00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:50,180 learn from it and be challenged by it and be saved through the 799 00:48:50,180 --> 00:48:52,580 preaching of it, even in our day. 800 00:48:53,820 --> 00:48:55,380 So what do you do with all this? Let's wrap it up. 801 00:48:57,180 --> 00:48:59,700 How many of you believe that this is the infallible, 802 00:48:59,860 --> 00:49:04,750 inerrant, Holy Spirit inspired Word of God in that it can be 803 00:49:04,750 --> 00:49:07,070 trusted? How many of you believe? 804 00:49:07,070 --> 00:49:10,190 If you believe in agreeance with me, you just raise it above your 805 00:49:10,190 --> 00:49:13,710 head right now and let me see you do it, you say? 806 00:49:13,710 --> 00:49:15,190 Well, I got my cell phone. That'll work. 807 00:49:15,190 --> 00:49:20,630 If you don't have a Bible, come see me afterwards. 808 00:49:20,630 --> 00:49:22,230 I'll get you one today before you leave. 809 00:49:24,190 --> 00:49:27,070 But this is the word of God, and the Word of God can and must be 810 00:49:27,390 --> 00:49:32,580 trusted if you believe that. Pay attention to this. 811 00:49:32,620 --> 00:49:34,460 Then you should, number one, write this down. 812 00:49:34,620 --> 00:49:38,980 Surrender to its author. You raised your Bible a second 813 00:49:38,980 --> 00:49:40,820 ago, and you said, I believe this is the word of God. 814 00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:43,860 Surrender to the author. Have you surrendered to Christ 815 00:49:43,860 --> 00:49:46,660 as Lord and Savior as defined by Scripture? 816 00:49:46,780 --> 00:49:49,700 Have you surrendered to the author in faith and repentance? 817 00:49:49,990 --> 00:49:52,990 Today is He calling you out of darkness and into light. 818 00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:56,190 Even now as you sit in your seat, is He showing you that you 819 00:49:56,190 --> 00:49:59,870 never have truly known Him and you never have truly surrendered 820 00:49:59,870 --> 00:50:03,190 to Christ as Lord and Savior, and that today He would grace 821 00:50:03,190 --> 00:50:05,030 you? With that, He would sovereignly 822 00:50:05,030 --> 00:50:09,590 save you from your sin and your self deceit today, rescuing you, 823 00:50:09,790 --> 00:50:12,430 forgiving you, washing you, cleansing you, and granting to 824 00:50:12,430 --> 00:50:14,630 you eternal life in Christ Jesus. 825 00:50:14,630 --> 00:50:16,110 Have you surrendered to the author? 826 00:50:16,710 --> 00:50:19,630 Oh, you say you believe it? Do you really? 827 00:50:21,970 --> 00:50:24,570 Is Lord Jesus himself said in this book that you say you 828 00:50:24,570 --> 00:50:28,370 believe that if you love me, you'll keep my commands. 829 00:50:30,370 --> 00:50:33,170 Do you love him? Have you surrendered to Christ 830 00:50:33,850 --> 00:50:37,330 as your Lord and Savior? Secondly, not only should you 831 00:50:37,330 --> 00:50:41,450 surrender to its author, you should you should submit to its 832 00:50:41,450 --> 00:50:45,370 authority. This should be the final 833 00:50:45,370 --> 00:50:48,970 authority in your life. Please listen to me. 834 00:50:49,940 --> 00:50:54,580 I am no authority. The pastors on staff at this 835 00:50:54,580 --> 00:50:59,380 church, no authority. The elders here serving this 836 00:50:59,380 --> 00:51:03,660 church and leading this church have no authority apart from the 837 00:51:03,660 --> 00:51:05,820 Word of God. The only authority that we have 838 00:51:06,340 --> 00:51:09,940 is the Holy Word of God, the Bible, the Scriptures, the Holy 839 00:51:09,940 --> 00:51:14,500 Writ, However you choose to refer to it, as that's the 840 00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:18,040 authority that we have. Are you submitting to the 841 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:22,520 authority of the Word of God? Because this should be the final 842 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,920 authority. God's Word said it, therefore 843 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,960 it's settled. Are you submitting to that? 844 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,040 Are you submitting to that in every area of your life? 845 00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:39,720 In your doctrine, your theology, your opinion, your philosophy, 846 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,800 your feelings? Oh, what? 847 00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,440 Would happen if we began to submit to the word of God 848 00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:48,560 instead of our feelings. Are you submitting to the 849 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,720 authority of the word of God in your life as a believer? 850 00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,200 Oh, unbeliever. You can't submit to the 851 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,880 authority of the word of God. You're not yet under that 852 00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,480 authority. You're still under the yoke of 853 00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,880 sin. Turn today to Christ. 854 00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,960 Be set free then and only then will the Spirit empower you to 855 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,360 submit to the authority of the word of God. 856 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:08,760 Are you submitting to it as believers? 857 00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:15,340 Then thirdly and lastly, you really believe that the word of 858 00:52:15,340 --> 00:52:18,540 God can be trusted, That it is infallible, inherent and 859 00:52:18,540 --> 00:52:23,740 inspired by the Holy Spirit and study to show yourself approved. 860 00:52:24,940 --> 00:52:27,940 Study it to show yourself approved justice, Paul wrote to 861 00:52:27,940 --> 00:52:31,180 young Timothy and Second Timothy, chapter 2, verse 15. 862 00:52:31,180 --> 00:52:34,580 He said do your best to present yourself to God as one. 863 00:52:34,580 --> 00:52:40,300 Approved documents one. Approved when he was handling 864 00:52:40,300 --> 00:52:43,930 the Word of God in accordance with the will of God, under the 865 00:52:43,930 --> 00:52:46,490 inspiration and the illumination of the Holy Spirit of God. 866 00:52:46,490 --> 00:52:49,970 He said handle it properly. A Workman who does not need to 867 00:52:49,970 --> 00:52:54,050 be ashamed and who correctly handles the Word of Truth. 868 00:52:55,730 --> 00:52:58,770 Are you handling the Word of Truth by studying it, learning 869 00:52:58,770 --> 00:53:01,050 it? So I think so. 870 00:53:01,250 --> 00:53:03,410 Let me just tell you this, I'm going to interject this just 871 00:53:05,450 --> 00:53:06,610 hopefully spur some of you along. 872 00:53:06,610 --> 00:53:09,650 And I say this out of love. If you're not actively involved 873 00:53:09,650 --> 00:53:12,860 in the Bible studies that we offer here, you're not actively 874 00:53:12,860 --> 00:53:15,940 involved In a small group that we offer here, you're not 875 00:53:15,940 --> 00:53:18,900 actively involved in learning how to know more about 876 00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:20,380 Scripture. Don't lie to yourself any 877 00:53:20,380 --> 00:53:23,340 longer. Don't lie to yourself any 878 00:53:23,340 --> 00:53:25,220 longer, you're not really desiring to. 879 00:53:25,220 --> 00:53:29,860 Study to show yourself approved a Workman who rightly handles 880 00:53:29,860 --> 00:53:32,580 the word of truth. You're showing yourself as a 881 00:53:32,580 --> 00:53:34,820 mediocre Christian, and isn't it sad? 882 00:53:35,340 --> 00:53:38,660 The only institution in the world who accepts mediocracy is 883 00:53:38,660 --> 00:53:45,220 the church, and we ought to be excellent, except mediocre. 884 00:53:46,820 --> 00:53:50,060 You have a desire. Are you obediently following 885 00:53:50,060 --> 00:53:52,220 that desire to study, to show yourself approved? 886 00:53:53,540 --> 00:53:55,980 It weren't when you rightly devised the word of truth. 887 00:53:56,020 --> 00:54:03,140 Studying, learning, growing, helping others, study and learn 888 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:04,440 and go. Isn't that what we're 889 00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,640 commissioned to do by the Lord Jesus himself, as defined in his 890 00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,560 word? Go make disciples. 891 00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,640 You're going to have a hard time making a disciple without 892 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,960 knowing this. You know what you're going to 893 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,920 make at best. Little weak infant Christians 894 00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,880 for their entire life. Don't take the word of God. 895 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,840 Learn the word of God and make disciples. 896 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:27,320 How Jesus said to make disciples. 897 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,720 What did he say? Teaching them Everything that I 898 00:54:30,720 --> 00:54:32,720 have taught you. Everything. 899 00:54:33,390 --> 00:54:35,950 John writes those things down. He says, I'm writing you 900 00:54:35,990 --> 00:54:39,390 everything you need so that you can make disciples. 901 00:54:39,390 --> 00:54:42,230 But if you're going to do that, you better study the word to 902 00:54:42,230 --> 00:54:45,030 show yourself approved of Workman who rightly divides this 903 00:54:45,030 --> 00:54:48,870 word of truth. You really believe the Bible, 904 00:54:49,870 --> 00:54:52,630 The word of God can't be trusted. 905 00:54:53,750 --> 00:54:58,790 Or do you just say it because it's the clicheic Christian 906 00:54:58,790 --> 00:55:06,200 thing to say. Because when all else falls for 907 00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:10,080 the grass Withers, the flowers fade. 908 00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:15,840 All your friends leave you, all your family members forsake you. 909 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,840 Word of God will remain and it will remain forever. 910 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,440 Let's pray, Lord we thank you for your word God. 911 00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:30,680 I pray now that it would do is only it was designed to do that 912 00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,990 you would Pierce the hardest of hearts with this doubleedged 913 00:55:34,990 --> 00:55:42,390 sword, exposing them to their need for Savior, enlightening 914 00:55:42,390 --> 00:55:46,710 them to their sinful condition and through the power of your 915 00:55:46,710 --> 00:55:50,510 Spirit, bringing them to faith and repentance as you 916 00:55:50,510 --> 00:55:52,670 sovereignly save their wretched soul. 917 00:55:53,830 --> 00:55:55,510 God, I pray for the Saints who are here today. 918 00:55:57,430 --> 00:56:00,910 They would be encouraged and fired up. 919 00:56:04,340 --> 00:56:07,940 They would hunger for your word like never before, and that way 920 00:56:07,940 --> 00:56:11,500 you would use them mightily as you have men and women in the 921 00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:14,020 past. And we give you all the praise 922 00:56:14,020 --> 00:56:15,860 for what you're going to do now in Jesus name. 923 00:56:16,940 --> 00:56:20,460 Amen. Thank you for listening to the 924 00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:23,180 Key Life Fellowship Pulpit Ministry Podcast. 925 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,280 If you would like to talk with one of our pastors, please 926 00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:31,640 e-mail us at info@keylifefellowship.org or 927 00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:38,920 call us at 281-689-1604. You can also visit our website 928 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:44,480 at www.keylifefellowship.com. We hope and pray you have a 929 00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,800 blessed week and remember you are light in the darkness.