1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,080 Anybody need one kids, kids as well. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:11,960 I think he's got plenty of them. All right, so pastor mentioned 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,880 we are going to be starting into the discipleship course on the 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,480 Bible and tonight is going to be really, really, really basic. 5 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,800 We're not going to get into and I'm kind of glad because it's AI 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,080 don't know if heavy topics is the right word, but into the the 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,040 all the the different like the Texas Receptus and the 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:37,520 preservation and inspiration and all that that is there's a lot 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,120 to that. And so we're not going to get 10 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:40,960 into that at all tonight. We're going to be very much 11 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,600 doing an overview of the Bible tonight. 12 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,280 And I wrote a few notes down here in addition to the the what 13 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:49,920 we have in our discipleship book. 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,440 But I want you to remember and while you're remembering, you 15 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,680 can go to first Peter chapter 1 and verse 25. 16 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,360 That's where we'll start. But I want you to remember that 17 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,640 this discipleship book, it is for us, but some of the reason 18 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,120 it's so basic is this is this book is made for a new brand new 19 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:13,040 Christian to be going through this with you, a Christian that 20 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,840 has LED them to Christ or has found somebody who's newly saved 21 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,560 and is now discipling them. So there are some things that 22 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,640 are very, very obvious and basic to us that a new Christian may 23 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,000 have no idea. One of those things. 24 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,160 We'll get to it in a second being they may not even know how 25 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:34,040 to how to when you say first Peter 125, they may have no idea 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,160 what that means what it what is 1 and what is 25. 27 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,000 I think it's somewhat basic in you know, in books, but not most 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,360 books aren't broken down into chapters and verses like the 29 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,800 Bible is. So even something that simple. 30 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,720 They may not understand that that's what's going on when, 31 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,320 when somebody gives a reference and so say they're in church or 32 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,160 they're listening to a message on their own, trying to, trying 33 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,720 to learn and they, they can't find where they're at because 34 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,880 something that simple. So remember that as we go 35 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,200 forward here through the discipleship course, that some 36 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,880 of this is not for us per SE to say, Oh, I know this already. 37 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,760 It's to remind us and, and take notes in your book so that when 38 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,080 the time comes, and hopefully it will hopefully sooner than later 39 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:20,480 that you get to disciple somebody. 40 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,160 These, these are some things to make notes for yourself of how 41 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,440 to do that. Now we're going to get to 1st 42 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,920 Peter 125 here in just a second, but I'm going to ask this 43 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:32,360 question. We'll be a little bit 44 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,000 interactive tonight. Not too crazy and I won't put 45 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,320 anybody on the spot, but I want you to think about this. 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,840 This is a question you get or maybe a statement that you get 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:47,840 fairly often when you are maybe not even sharing the gospel, but 48 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,480 when you're in a conversation about something spiritual. 49 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,640 And what I mean by that is sometimes you'll talk to 50 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:57,160 somebody at work or, or you know, a family member or 51 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,360 something like that, and the gospel doesn't always end up 52 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,040 being given, but you're talking about biblical things or 53 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,800 spiritual things. And So what a question that 54 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,080 often comes up or like I said, maybe a statement that comes up 55 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,880 is, well, I don't believe the Bible because it was written by 56 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,040 men too. And so I want you to think about 57 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,200 as we go through this lesson is what is your answer to that? 58 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,600 Because it's pretty simple statement, but it but it if you 59 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,040 don't have an answer for it, it leaves you kind of, you know it. 60 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:36,280 It knocks your guard down because everything you're about 61 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:37,720 to tell them is from the Bible, right? 62 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,280 Well, the Bible says, and they just told you, I don't believe 63 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,960 the Bible is written by men. So, So what is your answer to 64 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:46,200 that? And we're going to, we're going 65 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,720 to talk about that. Not that's not the whole lesson, 66 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,040 but we will get to that at some, some point in the lesson. 67 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,400 But I want you to think about it before I just tell you what my 68 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,400 answer is in the, in those cases, because there's a, there 69 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,800 is a very clear answer in the Bible does answer itself. 70 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,720 But again, somebody says, I don't, well, I don't believe the 71 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,680 Bible. That's almost always their 72 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,760 reason, because it was written by men and you can't trust 73 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,800 anything that men wrote and, and religions were all started by 74 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,800 men and so on and so forth. But that is one that comes up 75 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:25,000 pretty often by somebody who doesn't ascribe to any religion 76 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,480 or, or whatever. And so think about that as we go 77 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,880 through and then we'll answer that. 78 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,360 If I forget to answer it or I'm not clear that I answered it, 79 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,200 somebody raised their hand and I'll give you what my answer is. 80 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,200 Typically when somebody when that comes up, but first Peter 81 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,960 chapter one, verse 25, we'll read this and then we will pray 82 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:45,200 and then we'll get into this lesson. 83 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:51,920 But you know, the, the Bible is by far no question about it. 84 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,160 I would, I, I wouldn't think anybody would even debate this, 85 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,680 that it is the most important and the most long lasting book 86 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,960 in the history of the world. I don't have the the stats in 87 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,440 front of me, but there there's definitely stats that the Bible 88 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,920 has been the best selling book in the world for decades and 89 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,800 decades indexed every single year. 90 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,680 They don't even list it in the top sellers because it's almost 91 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,680 a given it's going to be the top seller and why. 92 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,480 So why is that? Obviously it's important to 93 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,320 anybody that ascribes to Christianity, but why? 94 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:31,240 And the Bible even tells us the Bible itself in describing 95 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,520 itself tells us that it will last for all of eternity, not 96 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:40,200 just while we're here. Bible even says that the word of 97 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,480 God is, is esteemed even higher than the name of Christ. 98 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,560 So that's that's important. So first Peter chapter one, 99 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,480 verse 25 and then we'll pray. And then I've got a few more 100 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,800 verses I want to look at real quick before we really get into 101 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,080 it. But verse 25 but the word of the 102 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,520 Lord endureth forever. And this is the gospel. 103 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,680 This is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. 104 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,560 So that word of the Lord that endures forever is the same one 105 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,160 we're preaching to you is what Peter was saying. 106 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,360 So, but it but the point here is that the word of the Lord 107 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,120 endureth forever, not just while the world is here. 108 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,000 It's forever. And it does make me wonder what 109 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,200 role the word of God will have in heaven when we when we 110 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,280 understand and we don't need all the prophecy and everything 111 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:29,280 else, but it says it'll be there, but the word of God is 112 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:33,000 going to be there. And so very, very important book 113 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,880 to us and we're going to we're going to look at a an overview 114 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,440 of the Bible here this evening just for a few minutes, but 115 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:39,480 let's pray and we'll get into it. 116 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:40,880 Father, I thank you for this day. 117 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,920 You've given us God, I do thank you for your word. 118 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:50,520 God, I I pray that you would forgive us for oftentimes taking 119 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,120 your word too lightly that it's such an important book from you 120 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,200 and, and got so often we just we, we disregard it. 121 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,880 And so I just pray that you would help us as we look at this 122 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,440 at the Bible for the next few weeks in our course here, that 123 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,080 you would help us to really just put an emphasis on not just 124 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,400 reading it, but knowing what it says and and getting the answers 125 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,720 for everything we have in life. Every question that we get asked 126 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,480 about our faith, that we would get it from your word and God, 127 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,600 not just look to make something make sense to somebody, but we'd 128 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,800 go to your word and answer it from there And got in order to 129 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,120 do that, we need to study it. And so I pray that we just put a 130 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,440 high priority on the words that we find here in this precious 131 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,360 book that you've given us. Pray that you be with the lesson 132 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,760 tonight in Jesus name, I pray, Amen. 133 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,320 Turn to Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 8. 134 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,840 Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah is never not different 135 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:52,200 than Isaiah. So Isaiah 40 verse 8, just want 136 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:56,120 to read a couple more books here, verses here about the 137 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,280 Bible saying that it will be it will endure forever. 138 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,840 Isaiah chapter 40, verse 8, the grass withereth, the flower 139 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,320 fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever. 140 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,440 And the key that these weren't forever means forever. 141 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,520 It's it's for eternity. Go to Matthew chapter 24 and 142 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,360 verse 35. I got you flipping around and 143 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,080 that's not very conducive to taking notes, but hopefully 144 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,360 we'll settle down here in a minute. 145 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:29,360 Matthew chapter 24 and verse 35, Heaven and earth shall pass 146 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:33,320 away. Interesting, but my words shall 147 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,000 not pass away. Never. 148 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,360 So an important book that we have in front of us, an 149 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,919 important an important book that we are holding in our hands. 150 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,640 And I told you this a few months ago, maybe, maybe even longer 151 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:53,560 than that, but Genesis chapter 1 and verse one, you can turn 152 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:57,560 there if you want, but you know this verse, but it's, it's very 153 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:01,600 important to remember. And we're going to look at this 154 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,600 just for, for a little bit. But Genesis chapter one, verse 155 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,320 one, first, first verse in the Bible, the Bible is not here to 156 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:14,240 prove that God exists, right? Because in verse 1 of chapter 157 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,880 one, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the 158 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,200 earth. It does not give us any 159 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,600 background to who he is. It doesn't try to try to explain 160 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,360 who he is right there at the beginning. 161 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,760 So the Bible's not necessarily here to prove that He does 162 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,320 exist. It's just a given. 163 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,080 He's here, He exists. And so, but then you'll see here 164 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,280 in your lesson then. But what is the Bible? 165 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,160 The Bible is the book that God has given to reveal Himself to 166 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,680 mankind. It answers all of life's 167 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:47,480 important questions, such as who is God? 168 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,720 Where did man come from? What is the purpose of life? 169 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,800 Why is the world filled with suffering? 170 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,320 Why does man die? What happens after death? 171 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,200 How can man get into a right relationship with God? 172 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,680 Who is Jesus? Why did he die? 173 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:06,120 What will happen in the future? And these are all questions that 174 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,920 the the Bible answers. Now as you're going through that 175 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,080 list, hopefully you're thinking in your head of the answers. 176 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,480 But if you're because you will get asked these questions, 177 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,440 especially when somebody's going through a tough time, why is the 178 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,600 world filled with suffering? They might not ask that 179 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,760 particular question, but they're going to say why do bad things 180 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,480 happen to good people? Bible has the answer for that 181 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,080 Job in particular, but other places, why? 182 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:33,080 Well, that's that's what the Bible. 183 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:34,960 That's why we study the Bible. That's why we have it. 184 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,040 God gives us the answers to that here in his word. 185 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:46,440 You know, Pastor mentioned this just a couple weeks ago, but in 186 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,960 regards to this man, what was I going to say? 187 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,880 I'm sorry. I got to think about something 188 00:10:52,880 --> 00:11:01,800 else here and why I think it had to do with why is the world 189 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,840 philosophering? Why does good things happen to 190 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,200 good people? Anyways, we'll move on. 191 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,240 So basically, if I think of it, I'll, I'll come back to it. 192 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:12,160 It'll it takes me a minute though. 193 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,560 All right, so moving on in our lesson here, though, the Bible 194 00:11:15,560 --> 00:11:20,080 was written by 40 different prophets that God chose and they 195 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,680 wrote the words that God gave them. 196 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,480 And you can turn to second Peter one verse 21. 197 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,600 We'll go there in a second, but they wrote the words that God 198 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,520 gave them. It was written over a period of 199 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:36,080 1600 years from about 1500 BC to 90 AD, which we have. 200 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:37,920 That's that's John in Revelation, right? 201 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,400 He's that's the last book that was given to us. 202 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,840 I want you to think about this forty different prophets over 203 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:49,600 1600 years. Now, this isn't the answer to 204 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,160 our question when somebody asks, well, I don't believe the Bible 205 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,760 because it was written by man. But, but this is a this is a 206 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:02,920 really solid argument that 40 different men over a course of 207 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:08,080 1600 years were able to agree and not have one thing that that 208 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:14,880 that differs that you can that you can have a conflict in the 209 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,120 whole Bible. Think about this. 210 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,400 I'm sure if you, if you read history or you know history at 211 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:25,320 all, the Pope's right. I mean, the Pope's disagreed so 212 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,240 much that there was, I don't remember the Pope. 213 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,720 Maybe somebody does that knows history better than me. 214 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,920 When his predecessor died, maybe one or two before him, he dug 215 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,240 his bones up and had them burn because he disagreed so much 216 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,760 with him. That's within what, 50 years, 60 217 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,960 years, 100 years? This is over 1600 years. 218 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,240 There's not a syllable of disagreement. 219 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:50,280 How? Because God gave them the words 220 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,320 to say. And we see that in second Peter 221 00:12:53,320 --> 00:13:01,920 chapter 1 and verse 21. I don't have these written down, 222 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,120 so I have to turn to them with you so I don't misquote them. 223 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:12,200 But first Pete, second Peter 121 says for the prophecy came not 224 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,320 in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as 225 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,000 they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 226 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,680 That is key to the entire Bible being written. 227 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,680 These weren't just 40 prophets that wrote whatever they felt 228 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,520 like writing as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 229 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,840 They wrote what God gave them over the course of 1600 years. 230 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,320 OK, well, if it's the same Holy Spirit that's guiding them, then 231 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,880 of course there's going to be no disagreements in the Scripture, 232 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:45,840 but very, very key argument for, for, for God's word and, and the 233 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:52,640 the authority that it holds. So then moving on in our in our 234 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,800 lesson here, the word Bible is from the Greek word Biblios, 235 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,560 which just means a book. The Bible is one book that 236 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:03,840 speaks with one voice, but it is divided into two major sections. 237 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,160 And this is the basics of it. But I'm telling you, somebody 238 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,440 brand new to brand, newly saved and not been in church, they're 239 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,520 not going to know this. OK, so it's divided into two 240 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,760 major sections, sections the Old Testament and the New Testament. 241 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,200 Further, there are 66 individual books in the Bible, 39 in the 242 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,200 Old Testament and 27 in the New. I was going to quiz you on this, 243 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,120 but it's right in front of you. So 27 in the new books are 244 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,440 divided into chapters. And this is where what I was 245 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,680 talking about. And each chapter is divided into 246 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:36,400 verses for ease in locating passages, for example, John 316 247 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,200 And we know this is the the book, the chapter and the verse. 248 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,840 And I already mentioned this, this is so, so basic. 249 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,920 We know this, but this is something we when you're 250 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,120 disciple and you need to to teach as part of their 251 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,880 discipleship, as part of their learning. 252 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:58,120 All right, So Testament means covenant or agreement. 253 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,960 And I want you to go actually, I'm going to give you a second 254 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:03,880 to think about this while I while I read this. 255 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:11,480 So give me a verse, think of a verse, maybe maybe not even the 256 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:16,760 reference, but think of a verse that tells us in that what this 257 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,560 next statement, OK, that agrees with this. 258 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,120 All right, So is God's, the Old Testament is God's covenant with 259 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,760 man through the law of Moses. And this is important because 260 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,800 when we get to the New Testament, we'll see what the 261 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,960 difference here is with the Old and the New Testament. 262 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,040 But the Old Testament is God's covenant with man through the 263 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,600 law of Moses. The law was given to prepare the 264 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,520 way for the coming of Jesus by revealing God's holiness and 265 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,400 man's sinfulness. So we have Romans chapter 3. 266 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,960 We'll read that. But while I'm reading that, 267 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,240 think of another verse maybe that tells us exactly this, that 268 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:56,120 the law was given to prepare the way for the coming of Jesus by 269 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,320 revealing God's holiness and man's sinfulness. 270 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:04,120 All right, and I'm going to read Romans chapter 3 while you think 271 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:09,160 of another reference verse 19. Now we know that what things so 272 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:13,320 ever the law saith is saith to them who are under the law, that 273 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,480 every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty 274 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,360 before God. So this is what it's saying is 275 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,560 the law is here to make every man guilty before God. 276 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,720 Therefore, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be 277 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,080 justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin, 278 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,720 right? So I know of at least one other 279 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,280 that's very, very clear telling us this. 280 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,640 But can anybody think of 1, Miss Maxine? 281 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,800 Yep, Yep. Does anybody know the reference 282 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,160 to that, that the law is a schoolmaster? 283 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,760 It's Galatians chapter 3 and verse 24. 284 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,640 And I'll go there and read that the Galatians 324 if you want to 285 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:59,680 write that down again, this is this is for your notes later 286 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,280 when you're actually discipling. And I, I hope you're taking good 287 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,400 notes because this this is very helpful. 288 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,079 You will not remember back to the year long discipleship 289 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:12,599 course that you listen to pastor saying all these things when 290 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:14,880 you're standing in front of somebody trying to disciple 291 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,599 them. So it's good to take these notes 292 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:20,240 so that you can reflect back. But Glaciers chapter 324 293 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,560 wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto 294 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,480 Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 295 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,800 But the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. 296 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,640 The whole point of the law was to show us you can't keep it. 297 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,120 It's impossible. And the Bible even tells us if 298 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:38,560 there, if you offend the law in one point, you're guilty of the 299 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:43,880 whole law, right, You're guilty. And and so the law was there not 300 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,440 to try to keep, but to show you can't keep it there. 301 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,960 That's why I sent a Savior to fulfill the law. 302 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,880 Anybody think of another reference? 303 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,960 OK, that was the one I was thinking of as well. 304 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,720 Galatians, chapter 3 and verse 2024. 305 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:00,240 All right. Yeah. 24. 306 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,120 OK, so moving on. The Old Testament was written 307 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,520 primarily in Hebrew. And what other language? 308 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:07,920 Anybody know? Primarily Hebrew, but it was it 309 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,160 was in something else as well. Aramaic. 310 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,640 Very good. So primarily Hebrew, but some 311 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,200 Aramaic, the Old Testament is divided into the following major 312 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,160 sections. And I, I assume everybody knows 313 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,120 this, but maybe not. And so I'm not going to ask you, 314 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:24,160 did you know this? But if you didn't know this, 315 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:30,040 this is very, very, this is the reason the Bible is compiled the 316 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,040 way it is. OK, so the book of Job, as far 317 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,400 as we know, and it's pretty, pretty clear that that is one of 318 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,960 the first books, if not the first book that was, that was 319 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:40,880 written. So why is it in the middle of 320 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,880 the Bible, right next to Psalms? Well, we're going to look at 321 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,240 that. OK, so the Old Testament is 322 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,480 divided into the following major sections. 323 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,600 And obviously you can divide it up a little bit more. 324 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,400 These are the major ones. The law, which is the 325 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:59,120 Pentateuch, which penta is five. So there, that's the first five 326 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:01,400 books of the Bible is called the Pentateuch. 327 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,600 And now very interesting. But the, he, the Jewish young 328 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,640 boys, by the time they were five years old, memorized all five 329 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,440 books, memorized all five books of the Pentateuch. 330 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:14,600 It was the law. It's what they had to go on. 331 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,160 And so they, it was so important to them, they would memorize all 332 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,000 five of those books. By the time they were young, 5-6 333 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,920 years old, they knew what the, what the Bible said, which is 334 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:32,480 why when you now have Jesus coming in and debating with the, 335 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,560 with the doctors in, in the temple, it wasn't so crazy that 336 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,040 he would have understood the law because they memorized it. 337 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,840 They knew it. Now debating, it's a different 338 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,920 story, but they didn't know what it said anyway. 339 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,960 So those are the first five books, the Pentateuch, meaning 340 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,600 five books. It describes the creation of 341 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,840 heaven and earth. And, and as you go through, 342 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,240 you'll, you know, this describes creation of heaven and earth and 343 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,720 man, the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, the worldwide 344 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,680 flood of Noah's day, the Tower of Babel, and the multiplication 345 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,520 of the languages, the call of Abraham in the beginning of the 346 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:12,560 Jewish nation through Abraham's sons, who were over his two 347 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:17,680 sons, Isaac and Ishmael, Right. And to this very day, they're 348 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,120 still fighting. That's that's what we have in 349 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:22,600 the Middle East, where there's no peace. 350 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,880 It's Abraham's sons. Ishmael and Isaac, but Israel's 351 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,600 Egyptian bondage and Exodus and the giving of God's law, 352 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,880 including the 10 commandments. So that's the law. 353 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,120 The first five books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, 354 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,640 Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. 355 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,720 And then we have history, which is Joshua to Esther. 356 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:46,160 So remember, these books are not all in order of, of 357 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,960 chronologically of of when they were written, but they're placed 358 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,760 here because they're history books. 359 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:54,440 So now you have Joshua to Esther. 360 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,240 This section contains the history of Israel, the Jewish 361 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,800 nation from the time of the conquering of the promised land 362 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,400 to the Babylonian captivity. And I won't belabor any of these 363 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,080 points because it's these are just facts. 364 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,960 But this is this those Joshua to Esther is the books of history 365 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,080 in the in the Old Testament. Then you have the poetic books, 366 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,760 which is Job to Song of Solomon. This section deals with the 367 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:23,360 worship of God and profound questions of life, such as the 368 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:26,760 purpose of suffering and the seeming vanity of earthly 369 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,040 existence. And again, This is why Job is 370 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:34,480 here, because it's in this section the poetic books of the 371 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,560 Bible. So Job, Job falls here. 372 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,760 Most importantly, the profound questions of life, such as the 373 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,360 purpose of suffering. I was just talking to Gray 374 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:46,720 today. I think he's probably watching 375 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,600 online, but he just finished the book of Job and there for a 376 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,680 little bit he was confused about what what do we what does Job 377 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,240 even say it? I don't understand what's going 378 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,440 on. And and that is why it's helpful 379 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,640 that maybe have in get a Bible that has little titles, because 380 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,640 you know, mine doesn't. But in a Bible that has titles, 381 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,440 it'll tell you, OK, now this friend is responding back to 382 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,240 Job. OK, now Job is responding back 383 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,520 to that friend. And, but, but at the end of Job, 384 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,520 the big, some of those big questions come up and God tells 385 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,360 Job, where were you when I, when I created the world? 386 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,400 I can have mercy on whoever I have mercy on. 387 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,680 And so those are some of those big questions. 388 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,800 But that's the poetic books. Then you have the prophets, 389 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,160 Isaiah, the Malachi. This section contains prophecies 390 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,480 concerning Israel, mankind as a whole, and Jesus Christ. 391 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,480 And this is where we have so many of the prophecies of Christ 392 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,240 that he ended up fulfilling perfectly in the New Testament. 393 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,360 But that's in these books, Isaiah to Malachi some another 394 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,760 interesting point there is, you know, if you the Jews do not 395 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,320 believe the New Testament at all, right? 396 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:04,600 A typical a a actual Jews. So there's Messianic Jews, but 397 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:10,160 the Jews that hold to the Jewish religion, to Judaism, do not 398 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,400 believe the New Testament is, is the Bible. 399 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,600 And because they don't believe Jesus actually has the Messiah 400 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,120 has come yet. So that naturally they wouldn't 401 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:20,240 believe any of that. But if you read Isaiah chapter 402 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,560 53 to them, they are convinced that's not the old test in the 403 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,360 Old Testament. And it is because it's so 404 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:31,080 prophetic of exactly what happened to Christ and all those 405 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,560 prophecies that he fulfilled. And they're shocked when they 406 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,480 find out that's in their in their part of the Bible that 407 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,480 they believe because they don't teach it because they have no 408 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,880 explanation for it. But it's a prophecy of Christ. 409 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,000 So that's the Old Testament and I told you it's this is 410 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,720 highlights, this is high overview and and we're not going 411 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,840 to get anything, anything deep tonight. 412 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,080 But now the New Testament. So refer back to that first 413 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,080 sentence. Old Testament is God's covenant 414 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,720 with man through the law of Moses on that first page. 415 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,880 Now the New Testament is God's covenant with man through the 416 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,640 salvation purchased by Christ. New Testament contains the 417 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,320 account of Christ's miraculous birth, life, death, resurrection 418 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,320 and ascension to heaven, the teachings of Christ's apostles, 419 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,840 and the prophecies of the future. 420 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:23,160 And again, we know all this, but somebody new to church or, or 421 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,120 newly saved is probably not going to know anything about 422 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:29,560 what they're looking at here. And so this is really good to 423 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,520 help them understand why the Bible's broken up the way it is 424 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,600 and, and where they can find certain things. 425 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,560 But the New Testament was written in the Greek language. 426 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,640 New Testament is divided into the following major sections. 427 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,200 And so we'll look at these real quick. 428 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,840 The Gospels, and we're very familiar with these Matthew, 429 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,120 Mark, Luke and John. The four gospels give the birth, 430 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,720 life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. 431 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,320 They also contain prophecies of his second coming. 432 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,360 But Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, you're going to find 433 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:58,880 almost the exact same stories, right? 434 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,680 Because they, because they were apostles that saw the exact same 435 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,400 things and then just write it in their own, in their own style as 436 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,080 God gave them liberty to do that. 437 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,200 So you have the gospels and then you have the Acts of the 438 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,960 Apostles, which is the name of the book of Acts. 439 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,160 It's actually called the Acts of the Apostles. 440 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,400 The book of Acts contains the history of of the establishment 441 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,600 and spread of the first churches. 442 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,560 And that is a good book to go just read straight through 443 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,720 because if you break it all up, it gets gets to where you can't 444 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,720 remember what you read the day before exactly. 445 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,320 But if you read straight through the book Acts, it's makes a lot 446 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,680 of sense and it really flows like it like a book. 447 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,560 They're just giving you a history of the establishment of 448 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:48,360 the church, which is pastor mentioned that a while ago where 449 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:51,200 the the church was conceived in the Gospels and then actually 450 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,600 birthed in Acts. And I think that's a really good 451 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,800 way to look at it. But then you have Paul's 452 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,720 epistles. The Pauline epistles is what 453 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,360 they're often referred to, which pretty naturally natural 454 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:06,080 explanation that Paul wrote. Paul wrote those epistles or 455 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,240 letters epistles, just a letter, but those are the books of 456 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,960 Romans to find Lemon. And it says here, these are the 457 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,680 letters written by the Apostle Paul to instruct various 458 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,360 churches and individuals in Christian doctrine. 459 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:21,880 And you could think very clearly there First and Second 460 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,680 Corinthians where he was instructing, he was exhorting 461 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,040 and, and, and, and fixing problems in the churches. 462 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,240 So those books are Paul's epistles to churches. 463 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,520 And, and very likely, and I'm no expert, but the experts say that 464 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:42,120 they would have gotten those books or those letters and then 465 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,520 spread them around to the other churches in the areas and they 466 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,480 all would have read those letters. 467 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,720 They weren't only for the Corinthians, but it was written 468 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,160 to the Corinthians where he addressed some of their issues. 469 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:56,360 And then they would pass them around and, and use what was 470 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:58,240 important in their church from them. 471 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,280 But that's where Paul was writing to the churches. 472 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,840 And then you have the general epistles, Hebrews to Jude, and 473 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,720 these are called the general epistles because they were not 474 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,360 written to churches, but they were written for Christians in 475 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:13,160 general. And so it says here they were 476 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:20,520 written by Paul, James, Peter, Jude and John and I, I wrote 477 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:25,400 this down, but it's not, it's not really, it's not really 478 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,400 separated this way. But with the Pauline epistles, 479 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,720 this is where we get a lot of instruction concerning how the 480 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,320 church should operate. But as I started thinking about 481 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,440 it, there's a lot of that in the other epistles too. 482 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:40,080 So it's not a clear mark, even though those books were written 483 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,520 to churches and the other ones were written to individuals or 484 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,520 Christians in general. There's a lot for individuals in 485 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,120 the in the Pauline epistles and a lot for churches in the 486 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,720 general epistles as well. But that's where we get when 487 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,000 pastor says we hold to the Bible as close as we know how. 488 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,880 That's where we're getting what we do in our church from those 489 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,000 books right there. And and you'll also hear them 490 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,840 say, if there's anything we're doing that is not in the Bible 491 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,680 or it disagrees with the Bible, it needs to be brought up. 492 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,440 We're trying to do exactly what God has us to do and what he 493 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,360 gave us to do. Remember at the very beginning 494 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,840 there we said this is this is God's book for us, for our 495 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,480 lives. And so if we're doing something 496 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,360 because it's tradition and that's the only reason and it's 497 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:29,760 not biblical, then we will change it anyways. 498 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,800 So then the last book is Revelation, which is the book of 499 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,720 prophecy in the New Testament. It's the only book of prophecy 500 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,080 in the New Testament. And this book contains 501 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,640 prophecies about the end of the age. 502 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,560 So, and then you see there the relationship between the Old New 503 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,560 Testament can be seen in the following comparisons. 504 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,120 In the Old Testament, we have promise most most importantly of 505 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,320 the coming Messiah. In the New Testament, we have 506 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,480 fulfillment of those prophecies. In the Old Testament, we have 507 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,720 preparation, New Testament, we have presentation in the Old 508 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,280 Testament, we have the foundation in the New Testament, 509 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:07,240 we have the building and, and that can refer to a number of 510 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,440 different things. But I, I think of the foundation 511 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,920 for the church that was coming, right? 512 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,600 The church age was coming. And then in the New Testament, 513 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,720 we actually have that being built by Christ himself and the 514 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,640 gates of hell will not prevail against it. 515 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,320 So Bible is very, very, very important. 516 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,520 This is obviously if you look, I don't have my book up here, but 517 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,520 I think in there's two more, at least two more sections on the 518 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,400 Bible. That's where we get into the 519 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,640 inspiration of the Bible, the preservation of the Bible and 520 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,800 and all of that, how it was written and and what happened so 521 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,800 that it could be written. And pastor will get into those 522 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,320 in the in the coming weeks. He entrusted this easy one to 523 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,800 me. So and anyways, so back to our 524 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,480 question then. Does anybody want to raise their 525 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,760 hand and give me their answer on what you would say if somebody 526 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,920 said, well, I don't believe the Bible because it was written by 527 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:10,280 men, Miss Maxine? Yeah, but I don't believe that 528 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:27,440 that's in the Bible. OK, Now just remember when 529 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,600 you're giving them Bible verses, and I don't disagree with you 530 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,600 and those are good, good verses, but I've had this happen before. 531 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,880 I've literally been said, well, the Bible says in and he's like, 532 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,280 I don't believe that. I don't. 533 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,440 What do you say? The map because everything in 534 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:58,400 the Bible. OK, yeah, sure. 535 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,400 All right. And I'll maybe to to good 536 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,520 answer, but maybe to steer us kind of back. 537 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:13,120 I I think maybe I'm, I'm I'm thinking even more of it was 538 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,400 written by men. OK, So what do you say to that? 539 00:31:28,790 --> 00:31:34,430 Yeah, it's and that's why that's why I mentioned it's a really 540 00:31:34,430 --> 00:31:37,430 solid argument that there's no disagreement. 541 00:31:38,390 --> 00:31:54,820 There's OK, good, Daniel. That's extremely important That 542 00:31:54,820 --> 00:31:56,860 that I think is the key. But go ahead. 543 00:31:56,860 --> 00:31:58,420 Anybody else? Is that Diana I truly believe? 544 00:32:00,860 --> 00:32:06,240 We have the proof all when you see all around. 545 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:13,040 For example, the nature, the science when discover things is 546 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,080 already the Bible. How they knew if it wasn't the. 547 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,560 You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean it. 548 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,840 And you've heard this, I'm sure. But anywhere the Bible's not a 549 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,560 history book, but anywhere it references history, it's right. 550 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,960 Even if it takes millennia for them to figure out, wow, this is 551 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,360 David was real. So anywhere it references 552 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,480 history, it's right. That's a good argument. 553 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:43,200 Science same way sometimes, in fact, often science that man 554 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,240 hasn't even figured out yet, but it's referenced in the Bible. 555 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,360 And then we finally figured out and we go, whoa, the life is in 556 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,880 the blood. They killed George Washington 557 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,800 letting his blood out and then finally realized, oh, the life 558 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,000 is in the blood. OK, we need to stop doing that. 559 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,560 So I was not a science book, but it's it's accurate in all 560 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,720 science. Any anybody else Trey best 561 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:07,240 selling book 1000 years in a row can't just be made by men. 562 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,520 OK anybody else miss my Lisa? One thing that actually is that. 563 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:30,230 The best was a point is watch movies 564 00:33:30,310 --> 00:33:33,550 about Caesar and you believe that, but they only have a 565 00:33:33,630 --> 00:33:35,670 couple hundred major groups that proved that they existed. 566 00:33:35,990 --> 00:33:39,150 The Bible is over 5000. That alone tells you there's a 567 00:33:39,150 --> 00:33:43,150 lot of cross referencing happening that it does exist. 568 00:33:43,750 --> 00:33:47,880 And then another thing that I've seen people use is around like, 569 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:55,120 well, you, you trust a pilot to fly you and go off the, the, the 570 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,680 the airplane vehicle to be able to fly the plane, but you won't 571 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,360 trust the Bible just teaching you about your salvation. 572 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,920 So yeah, I've seen different rules like that. 573 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,200 Sure. And that's one of the that's a 574 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,159 good argument to make when somebody's saying, well, how do 575 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:12,639 we know Jesus existed? We have history books of George 576 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:13,880 Washington. You never saw him. 577 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,639 You don't know anybody who did see him. 578 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:17,840 You have no eyewitness is still alive. 579 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,280 But we believe that, right? Why? 580 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,560 Why is Jesus any different? It's a good argument for, you 581 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,679 know, some of the things in the Bible, Brother John, they all 582 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:35,080 match. Up to everything about? 583 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,320 Town inquired. That doesn't matter. 584 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,960 Sure, it's all you know. Almost 100%, yeah. 585 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,960 Yeah. And he'll get into some of that, 586 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,360 I'm sure, with preservation and all of that. 587 00:34:57,220 --> 00:35:03,860 OK OK. Anybody else? 588 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:05,860 Oh, man, we're going to go all night. 589 00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:17,200 Yes. Yeah. 590 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,760 That is, it's a solid, solid. I mean, you have to honestly 591 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,320 have to be an idiot in in the real sense of the word idiot. 592 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,600 You have to be an idiot to see all the prophecy, all the 593 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,960 fulfillment and say, I don't think I think man came up with 594 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,600 that. It's impossible by any 595 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,520 statistic. It's impossible. 596 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,520 But I saw another hand up somewhere. 597 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:59,300 But Johnny, yeah, I would, I would say, is to truly prove to 598 00:35:59,980 --> 00:36:04,020 us how loving God is, how patient he is and how compact. 599 00:36:26,430 --> 00:36:34,310 Yeah, yeah. And so are we good or does 600 00:36:34,310 --> 00:36:36,270 anybody have a really good point they need to make? 601 00:36:37,030 --> 00:36:40,440 All right, I don't want to keep us here too late, but I'm going 602 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,960 to close with it and mine is actually so this is a very 603 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,640 simple answer, real close to Daniels and and brother Johnny's 604 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,600 because some of the and nobody's, I'm not saying 605 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,160 anybody's wrong. Those are all great arguments 606 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,040 for the Bible. But the what I was really 607 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,560 picking at is when somebody says, I don't believe it because 608 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,200 men wrote it and that and they're putting an emphasis on 609 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,440 that. Usually when they say that men 610 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,280 wrote it, they could have wrote anything any man could. 611 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:15,360 The key is right there from from first second Peter 121 that holy 612 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,360 men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 613 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,920 It's very important. So my argument is I liked 614 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:25,920 Brother Gary always teaches with an object lesson. 615 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:29,600 It gets your attention, but it also gives you something to 616 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,960 remember. I always use that. 617 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,480 If you wrote a book, you use a pen, right? 618 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,800 And so it would be silly for somebody saying, Nah, the pen 619 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,240 wrote that book. So therefore that pen could have 620 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:45,760 made a mistake. The pen wrote it, but the pen 621 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,360 didn't think, the pen didn't articulate. 622 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,160 You did. It's exactly what God did with 623 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,200 men. He used the men as the tools to 624 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,080 write his book. He gave them exactly what to 625 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:04,080 write, gave them a little freedom in giving their style or 626 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,360 maybe like the gospels giving their version of events. 627 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,600 But he told them right this, this is what I want us 2000 628 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,800 years later to know. That's what I want them to know 629 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,400 is in the New Testament and and much older than that with the 630 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:23,800 Old Testament, but they were just the pen that God used to 631 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,640 write the word of God. And I mean that in in as much 632 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,160 respect as as you can give. They weren't. 633 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,560 And and the proof of that is in Daniel. 634 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,240 Daniel even says, I'm not exactly sure what I'm talking 635 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:39,600 about here in this prophecy, but this is what God told me to 636 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,520 write. How can you write about write a 637 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,000 prophecy of some of you have no idea what you're talking about. 638 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,440 And and it comes to pass because God gave them what to write. 639 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,160 They were just the tools actually writing it, physically 640 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,200 writing it down. So when somebody says, well, men 641 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,000 wrote that, yeah, but not not really. 642 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,800 God did, God wrote the book and he used men to do it because if 643 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,640 you said, well, God wrote this book, they, they would argue 644 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,440 about that too. How could God write the book? 645 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,560 God's not even a physical person. 646 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,960 So, but that's that's and hopefully that's not too simple 647 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,800 of an argument, But I was, I was that specific question though, 648 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,920 or that specific statement. I don't believe it because men 649 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,960 wrote it, but they didn't. God gave them. 650 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,080 That's the word the the word Theopnoustos. 651 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:31,200 It's God breathed life into this book, but through the men that 652 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,360 he inspired or that he breathed those words through. 653 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,360 John is another one. John's trying to write 654 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,440 revelation and he doesn't understand what he's seeing 655 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,600 because God gave it to him and gave him exactly what to write. 656 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:49,200 And so I, I've told you all about the guy that is proud of 657 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,800 his atheism at work, but that was one of the one of the 658 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,000 arguments he made. And when I, when I said this to 659 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,160 him or we, we got to talking about this, he kind of was like, 660 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,160 I can see that because it's silliness to argue that. 661 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,400 Well, the pen wrote that book and, and actually have that as a 662 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,480 legitimate argument, right? Pen wrote that. 663 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,160 So I don't believe it. But they do that with the Bible 664 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:14,440 and act like it's a good argument. 665 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,880 Yeah, yeah, men wrote that, but God gave that to them. 666 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,520 To write. But anyways, so we're we're 667 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,000 done. But the Bible so important it it 668 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,400 is not the reason we spend so much time on the word of God and 669 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,000 so much time studying it. And because it is the answer for 670 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,360 everything we have. And it is the only answer we 671 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,320 have for the lost the world around us. 672 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:41,320 And you know, sometimes I hear people talk even on, on YouTube 673 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,000 or podcasts or whatever, and they just talking and talking 674 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,320 and talking good arguments, but not biblical. 675 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,960 I mean, that's, it's fine to philosophy and everything else, 676 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,880 but you're just philosophy. We, we need the truth to go grab 677 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,240 a hold of because somebody can tear apart an argument you make 678 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,400 from a common sense standpoint. They can, they can pick that 679 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,960 apart, but they can't pick apart the truth, the eternal truth of 680 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,640 God's word. And so we need to know what it 681 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:12,960 says and, and know how to articulate questions from it and 682 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,640 answer according to what the Bible says. 683 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:20,240 So anyways, we'll have I think next week, I think next week 684 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:23,080 we'll be in Part 2. I think it's a normal Wednesday 685 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:23,960 faster. We'll be back. 686 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,080 So, but anyways, let's pray. We're not going to have an 687 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,000 invitation. We'll pray.