1 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:13,100 Glorious worship. Would you agree? 2 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,100 Amen. Well, meet me in the word of God 3 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:20,800 as we continue to worship. Through the hearing and the 4 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,600 receiving of God's word and second Timothy chapter 3 and a 5 00:00:25,608 --> 00:00:27,500 very well-known passage of scripture. 6 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:39,600 Beginning here in verse 16. Would you pray with me one more 7 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:45,300 time, please. Lord, this is a familiar passage 8 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:50,800 of scripture. And we are in danger of allowing 9 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:55,100 familiarity to breed a contempt, but we ask Lord that you would 10 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:59,100 give us fresh Revelation and that it would speak to our 11 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:01,100 hearts, our hearts would be moved. 12 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:05,200 And Lord May the goal made the result of such a time together 13 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:11,500 in your word cause us to love your word to reverence it to 14 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:13,600 stand in all of it. Oh God. 15 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,400 Lord help us not fall into the Trap that this word though. 16 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,600 It is common though, here, week after week though, it occupies 17 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,000 many of our shelves and our nightstands Lord. 18 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:28,500 May it be seen today as what it is, the Living Word of God? 19 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,700 Oh Lord. Speak to your people. 20 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:32,700 Speak to us, reveal yourself to us. 21 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:37,100 Touch us draws closer to the person of Jesus Christ and your 22 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:38,700 name. We ask these things humbly 23 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,600 desperately. Amen. 24 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:41,600 And amen. And amen. 25 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:45,800 Verse 16 of 2nd. Timothy chapter 3, reeds. 26 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:51,200 All scripture. Is breathed out by God. 27 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,400 And profitable for teaching, for reproof for correction, and for 28 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:02,500 training in righteousness. That the man of God, may be 29 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:06,100 complete equipped for every good work. 30 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,100 I think we should read these verses one more time. 31 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:16,300 All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, 32 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:21,000 for reproof for correction, and for training in righteousness. 33 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:27,300 That the man Of God, may be complete equipped for every good 34 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,300 work. Our time in this precious 35 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:35,200 epistle, is coming to a near end, as we are approaching the 36 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:40,000 last chapter of Paul's final letter before his death. 37 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,800 But before we transition into his concluding thoughts, we are 38 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,300 going to focus, our attention and plant ourselves. 39 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,600 And one of the most familiar and often quoted passages of all the 40 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,700 Bible. These two short verses 41 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,700 powerfully described and defined for us, the authority of God's 42 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:05,500 word, its nature, its function and its ability to change lives. 43 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,800 Now remember the context. Remember what Timothy was facing 44 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,300 the challenges of his day. Let's look at what is happening 45 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:15,800 around. These verses to help us 46 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,400 understand exactly why Paul is saying these things. 47 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:23,400 Timothy was facing primarily false, Teachers who are emerging 48 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:26,400 and they are presenting new ideas and New Concepts and 49 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,200 twisted versions of the scripture or total dismissal the 50 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,000 word of God all together. Therefore, Paul is going to 51 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,800 remind this young disciple of the divine origins of his 52 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:43,500 beliefs and now because this is supremely given to us by God, 53 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,400 that it triumphs over every man-made concept. 54 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,500 No matter how persuasive or beneficial in might be. 55 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,800 He wants him to see how this word is above all else. 56 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,000 Secondly, as we hear look at verse 13 again, while evil 57 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 people and Impostors Will Go On from bad to worse. 58 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,800 Deceiving and being deceived there is going to be a new 59 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,700 effort now to rebel against God, and that's only going to grow as 60 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:14,600 we approach the return of Christ and sinning against one another. 61 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:17,200 So there is this corruption that will increase. 62 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,200 Therefore Paul is going to tell his young disciple how he can 63 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:26,000 Grow in the opposite direction. How he can go from glory to 64 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,200 glory from Faith to Faith from love to love and it is found, 65 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,500 he's going to be reminded. It is found in your engagement 66 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:37,500 your absorb, some your, your obedience to the written word of 67 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:40,000 God. This is going to be a little 68 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,600 different Sunday service than usual because it's going to 69 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,700 demand you to be more attentive with the references that are 70 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:50,000 going to be brought to you. I hope you have your Bibles 71 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,100 firmly in your hands because in this particular message, I'm 72 00:04:53,108 --> 00:04:57,500 going to do a lot less talking explaining commentating and a 73 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:01,200 lot more pointing to versus and a lot more putting verses 74 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,000 together for you to see the two main points of this message and 75 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,800 that is this number one, the authority of the word of God. 76 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,400 The authority of the word of God. 77 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:13,600 Is this? Just another book? 78 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,900 Among many other books? No, you're going to discover 79 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:19,200 that this is in fact, the very word of the Living. 80 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,500 God number two, not just the authority but the ability. 81 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,900 What can this word do? It can do what no other book can 82 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,700 do. And that is transform lives 83 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:32,700 miraculously as we engage with him. 84 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:38,100 The authority of God's word. We read here. 85 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:43,100 All scripture is breathed out by God. 86 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,200 What is scripture? What is Paul referring to here? 87 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,000 Well, surely we heard last week in verse 15 that there are these 88 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,500 things called the sacred writings, and that is a 89 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:57,100 beautiful way of describing. The Old Testament library that 90 00:05:57,100 --> 00:06:00,700 you have in your Bible and that the Jews share with us and they 91 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:03,600 would call it the Tanakh and though they have different 92 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,700 orders of the books, the content is still the same and this is 93 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:10,900 what is known as scripture. This is what is known as the 94 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:12,400 word of God. This is, what is known as the 95 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,700 sacred writings, but what's different between us and the As 96 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:17,500 you know, is that we have an additional Library. 97 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:20,800 It is the New Testament Library, it doesn't contradict the old. 98 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,800 It is built upon the old. It is the Revelation that God 99 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:29,500 further is from the old Covenant and fulfills So the question is 100 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:32,100 begged this morning. Well what about that? 101 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,200 What about the New Testament books? 102 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,900 Are those just as authoritative? Are they just as much breathed 103 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:41,300 out by God and the sacred writings? 104 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,100 And the best way to answer that is to see what Jesus Christ said 105 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:49,700 about his own words and to see what the apostles were 106 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:53,400 commissioned by the Lord, Jesus Christ believed about their own 107 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,900 writings. And once we see that, we are 108 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,700 realize that there is a Harmony not The harmony, but there is 109 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:02,900 equal value, equal authority, to both Testaments. 110 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:06,000 We should comfort our souls. And so the first place, I would 111 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,200 encourage you to turn to in your Bibles is actually two places. 112 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:11,800 You're going to have one hand tucked in the Old Testament. 113 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,700 Another hand tucked in the new and the old you're going to turn 114 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:18,100 to Deuteronomy chapter 18 in the new, you're going to tuck your 115 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:25,200 hand into John chapter 5. beginning in verse 46, There's 116 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,400 all scripture include the New Testament or is it limited to 117 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,800 the prophets of old? Let's see what the Lord Jesus 118 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,500 Christ said in John chapter 5 verse 46 to 47. 119 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:46,900 John chapter 5. I always encourage you to bring 120 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:49,800 your Bible so that you can see the word for yourself. 121 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:52,500 And you can have a mental map of your own Bible. 122 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,600 You can get to the point where you read your Bible so much 123 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,600 where you may not know their reference be like, I know, it's 124 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,400 in this side of the page on that side. 125 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,900 Have anybody else relate to that? 126 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,900 Yeah, that's the beauty of God's word. 127 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:07,100 When you have a copy of it verse 46, for if you this is Jesus 128 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:11,800 speaking for. If you believed Moses, you would 129 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,700 believe me for he wrote of me, but if Do not believe his 130 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:21,600 writings. How will you believe my words? 131 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,100 The first thing to observe here is that Jesus Christ. 132 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:29,500 Testifies that Moses who is revered by the Jews. 133 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:35,799 Obviously, the mediator of their Covenant, Moses wrote of Jesus 134 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:40,000 Christ, and there are many references to that, some Shadows 135 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,700 some types, but there is the most famous the most known 136 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:47,100 prediction of the person of Jesus Christ, hundreds of years 137 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,300 before his Incarnation, and that is where your hand is in the Old 138 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:53,400 Testament and Deuteronomy chapter 18 and beginning. 139 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,800 In verse 15, we read Moses, speaking to the nation of Israel 140 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,000 saying, the Lord your God will raise up for you. 141 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,600 A prophet like me from among you. 142 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,700 From your brother's it is to him, you shall listen, the 143 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:14,000 Muslims love to use the scripture to say that it speaks 144 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,700 of Muhammad that he is that Prophet to come. 145 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:19,000 And you can just simply answer by saying, so, is he among the 146 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,200 Jews? I don't know. 147 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,900 Muhammad was a Jew because it says from among you from your 148 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:25,300 brother's it kind of closes the conversation very quickly. 149 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:30,000 But look at this part, it is to him. 150 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,500 You shall listen. That's important because this 151 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:38,100 future Prophet who will be like Moses will have something very 152 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:41,600 important to say and it will call for the people to pay 153 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,400 attention to what he has to say. Notice that Moses says that 154 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,400 there will be a prophet like me many prophets have come after 155 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,300 Moses but there's going to be a particular messenger from God 156 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,200 who be very much similar to this amazing man of God. 157 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,200 Who had a unique relationship with God. 158 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:04,600 What are the similarities between this future profit? 159 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,900 As we know fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ and Moses 160 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,300 will number one God himself testifies that he communicated 161 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:14,500 to Moses in a way that he didn't with others face to face 162 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,400 directly from God. He might say that God has done 163 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,000 that with other prophets, but what makes Moses even more 164 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,800 unique, are the Miracles that he performed the signs and the 165 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,600 Wonders? And we see Jesus performing, 166 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,900 very similar signs and wonders and miracles. 167 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:32,500 In fact, the most common one is when he multiplied the bread and 168 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:36,700 the fish, we're in the wilderness and the Jews, 169 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:39,300 understanding this prophecy and the Jews understanding what 170 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,700 Moses was able to do by the power of God. 171 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,000 Saw what Christ did in John chapter 6 and they made the 172 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,400 connection themselves. You don't have to turn there. 173 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,300 But in verse 14, look at the reaction has Jesus Made bread, 174 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,300 seemingly appear out of nowhere. Just like the Manna in the 175 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:55,000 wilderness. S. 176 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,300 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said this 177 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:02,800 indeed is the prophet who is to come into the world, this is 178 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,100 him. This is whom Moses spoke about, 179 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:09,800 even they were convinced, but as you heard earlier, this Prophet, 180 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,600 who would be like, Moses would be similar. 181 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,200 Because Moses was this mediator. He was the liaison. 182 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:20,100 He was the communicator of the old Covenant at that mountain, 183 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:22,900 with the law being given. And yes, you know, this, that 184 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:24,600 the Lord Jesus Christ is the mediator. 185 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:27,900 Either of the New Covenant. And so, these things are plain 186 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:31,900 and obvious and it all makes sense with Jesus comment, when 187 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:35,300 he said, if you don't believe his writings, how will you 188 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:39,400 believe my my words? How will you believe my words? 189 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:43,100 Well, what do you have to say? Lord, that is so important. 190 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:45,800 Why do we have to believe your words? 191 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:51,000 Is there something that you have to say that we have to adhere to 192 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,900 and Listen and Obey? Well we don't have to, we don't 193 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:57,000 have to guess. Let Moses speak on behalf of the 194 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,400 Christ and the answer will come to us. 195 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,800 When you scroll down and Deuteronomy 18, look at Verse 18 196 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,600 God is speaking now and he's speaking to the people and he 197 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,300 was saying I will raise up for them. 198 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:15,500 A prophet like you from among their brothers and they'll give 199 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:19,400 this, I will put my words in his mouth. 200 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:22,500 And he shall speak to them all that. 201 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:25,300 I command him. And whoever will not listen to 202 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:29,300 my words that he shall speak, in my name, I myself will required 203 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:32,700 it of him. So the words of this future 204 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:37,000 Prophet who will be like, Moses will be the very words of God. 205 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:40,500 God will place his words in his mouth. 206 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:44,300 He will command them exactly what to say and he will fulfill 207 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:47,700 what he's been told to say. In fact, the words of this 208 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:53,100 Prophet are so serious, So important, So Divine that those 209 00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:55,900 who would refuse according to verse 19 to listen to what he 210 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:59,900 has to say, there will be consequences, I myself will 211 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:06,800 require it of him. And we know that Jesus, Jesus 212 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,500 Echoes exactly what Moses is saying here concerning his own 213 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:14,700 Ministry in his own message. How will you believe my words? 214 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,800 Because Moses said that there's going to be one like him and he 215 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,900 has something to say and what he has to say is in fact, the very 216 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:27,400 words of God, When you scroll back now go to John, chapter 12. 217 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:31,900 Look what Jesus says in verse 48 about his word. 218 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:42,200 John 12:48 Jesus is speaking about his words the one who 219 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:47,500 rejects me and does not receive. My words has a judge. 220 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:52,100 The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. 221 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:56,800 We pause and say that, it's very dangerous to boast in biblical 222 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,200 knowledge, because the more light you get, the more 223 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,400 judgment, you will receive. So be very, very careful and 224 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:03,700 boasting about biblical knowledge. 225 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:06,600 Because according to this the word that we receive that we are 226 00:14:06,608 --> 00:14:10,400 exposed to will be our judge verse 49. 227 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:15,400 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the father who 228 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:20,600 sent me has himself given me a commandment what to say and what 229 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,400 to speak. It's right. 230 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,900 There is exactly what Moses said he's going to come and he's 231 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:29,000 going to speak. What has been commanded to him 232 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,500 and if you don't listen to what he says, God says I myself will 233 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:35,500 required it of you and here comes the Lord. 234 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:38,600 Jesus Christ. Saying, if you do not receive my 235 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,300 words, this word will judge you because everything that I am 236 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:46,000 saying to you has been given to me by the father who commanded 237 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,200 it to me. There's no denying that Jesus 238 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,000 Christ's words are the words of God. 239 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,400 And if they are the words of God and they are divine revelation, 240 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,400 If they are divine revelation, then they are scripture like 241 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,300 what Moses predicted he would be commanded and Jesus says I was 242 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:06,500 commanded Moses says he would have something to say and those 243 00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:08,300 who refuse to listen will be judged Jesus. 244 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:10,500 If you don't listen to me, you will be judged. 245 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,400 No mere. Man, can say that. 246 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,000 This is the prophet of prophets, the Lord, Jesus Christ. 247 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,800 Now, you might not be convinced or maybe might satisfy some 248 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,900 skepticism. And there's so many places you 249 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:24,300 can go to. There's so many places to prove 250 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,200 this but I like this one. This one's neat. 251 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:30,700 It's found in the gospel of Mark. when you go to Mark 252 00:15:30,700 --> 00:15:36,000 chapter 13 verse 31, it's going to be a little bit of a marathon 253 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,400 this afternoon. Look what Jesus after he 254 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,900 finishes teaching on the end times after he finishes talking 255 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:46,300 about the signs that will come before his return. 256 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:50,000 He concludes with this Divine stamp of approval. 257 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:54,300 He says something about his words that if the if the 258 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:56,700 Christian here's that they understand with ease. 259 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:59,900 If you believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, you can hear 260 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:02,100 what Jesus is about to say and say well, that makes sense, I 261 00:16:02,108 --> 00:16:05,700 believe he is God. But to the Jewish mind, Who sees 262 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:09,400 a mere man and is challenged by this concept of God becoming man 263 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:10,500 though. They shouldn't because the 264 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:12,000 scriptures prove it over and over. 265 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:14,300 This would have been Blasphemous. 266 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,000 This would have been just shocking to hear, Mark, 1331 267 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,100 Jesus puts us exclamation mark to his teaching on the last days 268 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:27,300 and he says Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words 269 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:32,800 will not pass away my words. Do you eat it to us? 270 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,500 We say, Amen. But to the Jew. 271 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:37,700 They go. Who Do You Think You Are? 272 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,400 My words will not pass away. Why would this be so shocking? 273 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:48,800 Because he dared to take the prerogative that solely belongs 274 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,300 to God and His word alone, and applies it to himself. 275 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,700 Jesus Takes a perogative, a statement that God Alone makes 276 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:02,000 about his word. And he says, my word is equally 277 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:07,099 Eternal and equally reliable and equally permanent. 278 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,599 Because the prophet Isaiah said, in chapter 40 verse 8, the grass 279 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:16,800 withers, the flower Fades, but the word of our God will stand 280 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,900 forever. Are you saying your words are 281 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:25,900 the same as the word of our God? Are you saying that the humanity 282 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:27,700 is frail? Mankind will fade? 283 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:30,800 That your word will stand Until the End of the Age? 284 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,800 And Jesus without blushing, without hesitation says my word, 285 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:40,700 my word will never pass away because my words are the very 286 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:47,200 words of God that might help. I may settle the skeptical hard 287 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,800 and we can go on and on and on about what Jesus words mean and 288 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,400 the authority of his words. But I think the more debatable 289 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,000 area is well okay, that's fine. But what about the apostles 290 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,300 then, what about the apostles because you even some people who 291 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:05,200 innocently or Deceptively say, well, I I follow the letters of 292 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,100 red and that is becoming more and more common and I'll tell 293 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:12,500 you why in a moment. But these people fail to realize 294 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,500 that the very words of the Apostles, are the words of 295 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:15,900 Christ. And if the words of Christ are 296 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:18,500 the words of God, just do the math. 297 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:23,500 Jesus in John chapter 16. This is incredible. 298 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:27,600 And verse 12, he speaking to his own before his passion. 299 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:30,400 He speaking to those 12 that have fault him Faithfully for 300 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,300 years and he's about to speak now about his departure but he's 301 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:36,300 also going to give a comforting promise. 302 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:40,000 They've been chosen for this Apostolic Ministry and he's not 303 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,300 going to leave them behind without assistance and guidance 304 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:46,400 but he says something quite remarkable and verse 12 of 305 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,400 chapter 16, I still have many things to say to you. 306 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,400 But you cannot bear them now. You know, it's amazing after 307 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,300 three and a half years of ministry on Earth. 308 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:00,700 Jesus, admits here that there are still many other things that 309 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:04,300 he had to teach concerning. His person concerning his work, 310 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:08,400 concerning his will for the church, but he tells them why he 311 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,700 did not teach them up to this point because they could not 312 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:14,800 bear them now, You can't handle this. 313 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,000 Now it'll be too overwhelming for you. 314 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,800 It will be confusing and that makes total sense. 315 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,400 And so what are what are one of the reasons why he does not 316 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,100 teach them what he says he wanted to, but he couldn't. 317 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:31,800 I believe it's because he had to First died. 318 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 He had the first be buried. He had to First resurrect and 319 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,300 ascend before the further Revelations would even make 320 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,200 sense to the minds of the disciples. 321 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,500 Because we see over and over that when Jesus even tells them, 322 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:48,100 blatantly I'm going to be surrendered, I am going to die 323 00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:50,400 and I'm going to rise. They were confused. 324 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,800 They could not accept it. They could not understand it. 325 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:56,700 And if they couldn't understand the beginning of his Redemptive 326 00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:59,200 purposes, how would they understand the things that it 327 00:19:59,208 --> 00:20:02,100 would accomplish, how it to understand the things? 328 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:04,600 I would be as a result of his death and Resurrection when they 329 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,000 couldn't even understand him dying and resurrecting? 330 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:12,300 So he puts a limit to what he teaches them because they could 331 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:14,100 not understand it. They could not bear it. 332 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:16,200 Yes, they were sorrowful. That's one part. 333 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,800 But I believe they were limited in their understanding and the 334 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,900 things that he would want to teach would only make sense 335 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,200 after the events of his Redemptive purposes being 336 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,400 accomplished after his sacrificial atonement, then 337 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,600 these teachings would make sense to the Mind Into the Heart. 338 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:35,000 But it gives him a promise in verse 13. 339 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:41,300 When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the 340 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:45,900 truth for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever. 341 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:49,900 He hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things 342 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:52,900 that are to come. He will glorify me for. 343 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:55,500 He will take. What is mine and declare it to 344 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:59,500 you? You are my Apostles, you will be 345 00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:02,900 the foundation of the church through your teaching and I want 346 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:06,600 to promise you now, this is what Christ is saying that the agent 347 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,100 will deliver these further, Revelations will be the person 348 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:12,800 of the Holy Spirit. He will be given to you and he 349 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,100 will tell you exactly what you need to know. 350 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,400 He will guide you into all truth and the primary application of 351 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,800 that deals with the New Testament. 352 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,300 Writers who will Who will give us this Library? 353 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,700 The promise is you are going to receive the revelation. 354 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:32,100 To complete, what I want to say to the world and to my people. 355 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,000 You don't have to turn there but early on he says about the Holy 356 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,800 Spirit. He will teach you all things and 357 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,100 John 14:26. He will teach you all things and 358 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:44,300 bring all the things that I've said to you to remembrance. 359 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:49,400 And if you ever met somebody who said, and I've heard this from 360 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,200 somebody wants many, many years ago. 361 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,200 You know, if I'm in doubt of the New Testament, I just go to the 362 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,400 words of Jesus. Paul John Peter. 363 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:03,400 Yeah. But they're like, you know, But 364 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,200 the letters in red, that's where I go to. 365 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,800 And if anybody ever says that or maybe you believe that I would 366 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,700 say, well what do you do with the scripture like this? 367 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,600 Because Jesus said that the holy spirit will not speak on his own 368 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,100 authority. The Holy Spirit who work through 369 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:23,300 the apostles was not giving something additional or less 370 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:26,200 than what does it say here? That he will take. 371 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,100 What is mine? Jesus said he will take. 372 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:31,700 What is mine? And make it known to you? 373 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:35,900 So you go to First Corinthians and you see Paul writing to a 374 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:38,600 church, and immediate context has is the troubles that they 375 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:39,700 have. And if people that he's 376 00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:42,500 communicating to that, he's minutes or to Paul's writings. 377 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:46,300 Yeah, but Jesus is words, John, same thing. 378 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:49,600 Why is this crucial? Because we're coming to a day 379 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,800 where people are saying, well, Jesus didn't speak about 380 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,300 homosexuality, so it must be okay. 381 00:22:56,700 --> 00:23:00,300 Jesus wasn't very clear about gender roles within the local 382 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:02,600 church and the home. So we will pop. 383 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,900 Well, yeah, but that's Paul. That was Peter. 384 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:12,400 Jesus said that what they would receive from the spirit would be 385 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,000 from him. So they're actually Jesus's 386 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,400 words. So, what you gonna do with that? 387 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,400 They are his words through the apostles and these chosen men 388 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:26,700 who received the promise of the Holy Spirit to experience a 389 00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:30,000 supernatural work of being inspired in a specific moment. 390 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,200 To write holy writ, they themselves knew they themselves 391 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,700 were convinced that their content at certain times were in 392 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:46,700 fact given by Jesus Christ. By the spirit, they knew that if 393 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:48,600 you believe that the New Testament was just compiled 394 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,600 accidentally and that the apostles did not know what they 395 00:23:51,608 --> 00:23:53,700 were writing, would be inspired and we come to this point where 396 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:56,000 we would have the scriptures. No, no. 397 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,100 They in fact, knew it though, they were not in control of when 398 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:02,800 they would be inspired. They knew that they were by the 399 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,800 Holy Spirit carrying them along. Proof of that is in second Peter 400 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:17,100 in chapter 3. in verse 1, Peter says this is now the second 401 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:22,200 letter that I am writing to you Beloved in both of them, I am 402 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,100 stirring up, your sincere Mind by way of reminder that you 403 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:28,500 should remember. Now look at this verse to that 404 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:32,900 you should remember the predictions of the Holy prophets 405 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:37,300 and the Commandment of the Lord and Savior through your 406 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:41,800 apostles. You should remember the 407 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,600 predictions of the Holy prophets. 408 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,800 And we know that those prophets were the men who spoke and 409 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,300 Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and Mayhem, and Malachi 410 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,800 and Deuteronomy, remember their predictions and look where he 411 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,000 places his own writings with the other 11. 412 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:06,500 In the same category equal and worth equal in authority and the 413 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:11,100 Commandment of who the Lord and Savior through your apostles. 414 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,900 The apostles writings were just as relevant and reliable and 415 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:19,900 authoritative as those of the ancient prophets in the Old 416 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:23,300 Testament. And so even the early church 417 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:27,400 learned to submit to the words of the Apostles, as though, they 418 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,800 were divine in origin. And that's clear here. 419 00:25:32,300 --> 00:25:34,500 And this should excite us to a certain degree. 420 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:40,000 Because Jesus is telling telling them that this is going to 421 00:25:40,008 --> 00:25:42,400 happen in Peters experiencing and he's what he's saying to his 422 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,300 people is that you should be reminded what we're saying comes 423 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,800 from Christ. Comes from the Lord himself your 424 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,100 savior and our savior. What about Paul? 425 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:52,000 Paul was additional Paul was in among the twelve. 426 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,200 So many Paul. I mean, I know this sounds crazy 427 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,000 but you have to understand, this is how people think. 428 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,800 This is a people actually think they chop it up in such a way 429 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,100 and they really believe that not all scripture is breathed out by 430 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:06,900 God. Now you believe that, but there 431 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:09,600 is a world increasing and even an academic settings that will 432 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:15,700 say otherwise So narrow it down. We go from all scripture Old 433 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:17,000 Testament. Now we come to the words of 434 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,900 Jesus, they're Divine, okay, there's no much argument there. 435 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,200 Okay, the 12 there. Well, what about Paul then? 436 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,500 Paul was Paul's third number 13, the same chapter, you scroll 437 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:32,600 down to verse 16 of second, Peter He's speaking about Paul's 438 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,600 writings, you can go to verse 15 actually and count the patience 439 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,200 of Our Lord as salvation. Just as our beloved brother 440 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,700 Paul. I love how Peter speaks about 441 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:46,200 Paul our beloved brother. Tenderness and compassion our 442 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,500 beloved brother Paul, also wrote to you to the wisdom, given him. 443 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,900 Now, look at this, as he does in all his letters. 444 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:56,900 When he speaks in them of these matters, there are some things 445 00:26:56,900 --> 00:26:59,800 in them that are hard to understand, that comforts me, 446 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000 There are some things in them that are hard to understand, 447 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,700 which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, 448 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:18,300 as they do the other scriptures. so, even Peter Speaking about 449 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:23,400 Paul's letters is saying that they're scripture as they do 450 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,100 implying. What that Paul's writings are 451 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:27,900 just as much scripture as Moses writings. 452 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,200 And people twist them. And I, as I said earlier, I'm 453 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,600 comforted to know that some parts are hard to understand. 454 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,300 So if you have difficulty, reading some, postures of 455 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:41,200 scripture, you don't understand what's being said, it's okay. 456 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:48,700 Even Peter did Notice this incredible connection and I hope 457 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,600 that this brief time but at least settle your soul to 458 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,500 realize that when God through Paul says all scripture, he 459 00:27:55,500 --> 00:28:00,100 really meant all scripture. Now, if you want to know how the 460 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:03,100 Bible has been developed and how why we have these particular 461 00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:06,700 books in our library, you can come ask us after the service, 462 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:08,400 that's a whole another session on its own. 463 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,700 But within the testimony of the word of God itself, we know that 464 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:14,900 from the sacred writings to the words of Jesus. 465 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:19,000 To the words of the Apostles it is considered as the very truth 466 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,500 of God from God's heart and mind himself. 467 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:26,500 And this is encouraging, because we go on to read here. 468 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:31,000 That all scripture, all scripture is breathed out by 469 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,500 God. Sounds, poetic sounds profound 470 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,600 sounds powerful. What does it mean? 471 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,800 What does it mean? Breathe out by God? 472 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:47,700 It's an expression only found in this verse in all of the Bible 473 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,300 though, the meaning is expressed in different ways at different 474 00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:52,900 portions of the Bible. This phrase itself is unique to 475 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:57,200 this text and the purpose of this claim is to make sure that, 476 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,300 although you and I believe that the Bible has been written by 477 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:03,500 individual writers with their respective personalities. 478 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,700 The origin, the origin is God, It's God. 479 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,200 And now, God in his wisdom, does not give us the mechanics. 480 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,700 Does that give us a step-by-step process of how that 481 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:19,400 inspirational work happened? Did they go into a trance and 482 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,000 start writing? I don't think so. 483 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,100 But we don't have that we not given that. 484 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,700 All God believes is sufficient for his people. 485 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:30,400 And for a world who is skeptical to know is that at certain times 486 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:35,300 with certain men, God used them to say exactly what he wanted to 487 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:37,700 say and it is found in our Bibles today. 488 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:41,600 Breathe out the same way that your words are accompanied by 489 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,500 your breath. You breathe out your words. 490 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,900 This written word are the very words of God does not Inspire 491 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:51,800 reverence in US. That this book that we are 492 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,900 hearing from today. It's not Paul's thoughts, not 493 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:58,200 Peters thoughts? Yes, God work through them. 494 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,400 It's ultimately the Lord himself. 495 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,300 These are his commands. These are his instructions. 496 00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:07,200 This is his counsel. This is his revelation. 497 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:10,700 All from time to time. We need to be reminded of that 498 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:13,800 so that we can tremble. When we come to this word, and 499 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,300 I'm afraid that with, with such availability, we are losing that 500 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:21,400 sense of reverence because you can download God's word, it's 501 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,600 just an app, right? Beside Instagram and Facebook. 502 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,700 There's God's word. Be reminded today that are no 503 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:29,500 matter what platform. It's found its still God 504 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:32,400 speaking. It's God speaking. 505 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:39,100 And in order to even show how connected God's word is to him, 506 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:42,100 you may have never heard this before but I hope it inspires 507 00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:45,500 some excitement in you this afternoon in order to show just 508 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:48,800 how connected God is to his word. 509 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,000 The holy spirit in the Bible sometimes listen to this uses 510 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,800 the word God and scripture interchangeably. 511 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:04,300 In other words, when God has said something, sometimes the 512 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:08,300 New Testament will just say and scripture said, when it was in 513 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:11,500 fact, God who said it. And there are other times that 514 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:16,700 when there is a clear scripture given by specific author, The 515 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:22,100 New Testament was say, God said that God said that and I want to 516 00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,300 show you just two examples of that. 517 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:27,000 This is this is exciting. One is found in the book of 518 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:37,700 Galatians. Galatians chapter 3 They're the 519 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:42,900 rustling of the leaves. Galatians chapter 3. 520 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,100 Look what look what Paul says, look at this. 521 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:52,700 Masterful statement in verse 8 of Galatians chapter 3, And the 522 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:59,000 scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by 523 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000 faith. Preached the gospel beforehand 524 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,500 to Abraham saying in you shall all the nations be blessed. 525 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,300 Hold on, read that slowly. Who's foreseeing? 526 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,800 Who's preaching the gospel to Abraham? 527 00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:23,500 who's saying it's not a who it's a, what the scripture, the 528 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:28,200 scripture foreseeing, the scripture preaching, the 529 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:33,200 scripture saying but you go back to Genesis 12 where this quote 530 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,500 is taken from and you realize that it's God who's speaking to 531 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:42,200 Abraham God is the one who said in you shall all the nations be 532 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,800 blessed. And yet Paul, by the spirit goes 533 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:49,200 on to say, actually it was scripture who said it Paul 534 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:54,200 personifies scripture. As a scripture, can see, as 535 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,000 though, scripture can preach as a scripture, can say because 536 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,500 what's credited to God, he actually credits it to 537 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:04,100 scripture. For what reason to show, just 538 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:07,400 how connected scripture is to the heart and mind of God. 539 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,800 He does the same in Romans 9 verse 17, you don't have to turn 540 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:18,500 there. he says, and the scripture said to pharaoh, And 541 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,500 then he quotes what God said about pharaoh and exodus. 542 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:24,400 Well God said it. Yeah but scripture said it 543 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,800 because whatever God says is scripture. 544 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:33,100 So Paul even personifies the written word of God, to a 545 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:36,600 certain extent, by saying when God said it, it's divine 546 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,900 revelation. And he does the opposite, he 547 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:43,300 does the opposite when a human writer wrote something. 548 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,100 He says God said it and that's found in Hebrews as an example. 549 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:54,800 And Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7 I told you were going to a lot of 550 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:59,100 verses today and Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7. 551 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:04,600 We read this Therefore as the holy spirit says, today if you 552 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,600 hear his voice, do not Harden. Your hearts as in the Rebellion 553 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:13,199 on the day of testing, in the wilderness, he quotes Psalm, 95 554 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,500 7 to 11. And it's clear that a psalmist 555 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,300 wrote this. It's a psalmist, in fact, giving 556 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:21,800 instruction to the people of how to respond to God. 557 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,500 Don't Harden your hearts. That's a preaching thing. 558 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:27,699 That's an instruction think today, if you hear his voice, do 559 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,800 not Harden your hearts, some would say that's David. 560 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,699 And actually David, when you go down later on, we're told it's 561 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:36,900 David. But he doesn't say the psalmist. 562 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:40,100 He doesn't say. As David says, he says who as 563 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:44,000 the holy spirit says, The holy spirit. 564 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,500 Is God, what does that mean? What, when you read the Psalms, 565 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:51,000 you're not just reading David, you're not just reading asaph, 566 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,900 you're not just reading, Moses. You're reading God. 567 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,500 Speaking to you. And in fact, in the next chapter 568 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:01,900 in chapter 4 verse 7, we are told with the same Psalm that 569 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:08,400 God spoke through David through. David the holy spirit says today 570 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,100 if you hear his voice. Not David. 571 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:13,100 Yes, David was the instrument. Yes, David was speaking with his 572 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:17,500 personality, his poetic ability but it was God who said he was 573 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,700 God, who said it. And so you see how God even in 574 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:25,400 the word, conjoins his word with who he is, they're inseparable. 575 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:29,400 These things reveal him, they speak of him the same way, your 576 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:35,900 words reveal who you are, God's word reveals who he is and I 577 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:38,400 hope we understand that. I hope we see that this is 578 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,400 Supernatural that it's Inseparable from who he is but 579 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,100 you might be in an honest way asking. 580 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:49,900 Well how How does this ancient Spirit woven series of tax 581 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:54,100 applied to my Martin life? You've proved it. 582 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:57,400 I hope all scripture means all scripture, including the words 583 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,900 of Jesus, including the words and the writings of the Apostles 584 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,200 that when they spoke God spoke, but what does that mean for me? 585 00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:08,200 What does that do for me? Oh you ask the wonderful 586 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,200 question and Paul. After speaking about the 587 00:36:11,207 --> 00:36:15,700 authority of God's word, this Breathe Out book goes on to 588 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:20,500 speak about the ability of God's word and you heard it its 589 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:24,200 profitable for teaching. It's Trouble for reproof for 590 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,400 correction for training in righteousness. 591 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:31,700 So that the man of God, may be complete equipped for every good 592 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:34,500 work. Now we read in verse 15 of 593 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:36,800 second. Timothy chapter 3 that these 594 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,600 sacred writings make us wise for salvation. 595 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:44,500 When you come to this book even the Old Testament you can be led 596 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:49,800 to saving faith. But he goes on beyond that. 597 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,000 It's more than just that it's more than just bringing you to 598 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000 the place. Where your soul is secure in the 599 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:00,800 hands of a merciful god by Faith by repentance it is adequate 600 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,300 enough from that place. It is adequate enough to make 601 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:10,500 you healthy spiritually to make you whole to make you pure, to 602 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:14,600 make you strong, to make you fruitful to make you effective 603 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:18,900 to make you discerning. To be complete. 604 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,400 Complete this and speak about moral perfection. 605 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,500 It speaks about being mature in the things of God, and we do 606 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:29,000 strive on to Perfection, but complete in the sense that you 607 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,300 are furnished with all that, God would want to furnish you with. 608 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,800 And what do we need? Do we need 10 texts? 609 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,300 Do we need the Book of Mormon, do we need? 610 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:41,700 No, no just the Scripture. It is sufficient. 611 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:48,200 It is enough. It is it is God's necessary and 612 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,000 sufficient truth to tell you exactly what he wants you to 613 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,600 know about him. It is exactly what God wants to 614 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,200 say to you about. Who you are with him or without 615 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,600 him. What this world is, what this 616 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,500 world will become. Is enough for you to know how to 617 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:08,700 act, not to act. There's nothing more that you 618 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:12,500 need that I need. And this written word and that 619 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:16,800 will only be exciting, really to the person who would strive to 620 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:21,800 be, what he tells him that he is to Timothy a man of God. 621 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,500 You men of God listen you want to be a man of God. 622 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,300 This will equip you to be a man. If you don't care about being a 623 00:38:29,308 --> 00:38:31,400 man of God, this Bible will not be attractive to you. 624 00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:33,500 If you don't want to be a woman of God, you will not be 625 00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:36,700 attracted to this book. But if you strive after coming 626 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:40,200 to Salvation to the wisdom of God's word to say now, Lord make 627 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,200 me into a man of God. And this is the place to be. 628 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,500 This is where you draw that wisdom from. 629 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:51,400 And as you hear it, as you receive it as you engage with 630 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,800 it. It's super naturally Works in 631 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:59,100 you and begins to shape you and change you from glory to glory 632 00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:02,600 to glory. You do not read this book every 633 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,200 morning because that's what a good little Christian does. 634 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:11,200 You come to this word because it is God's way of speaking into 635 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,000 your life. As he spoke into creation, let 636 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:19,100 life come Let order come. Like chaos be calmed in your 637 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:21,000 heart and your mind and your behavior. 638 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,000 But the difference between you and the trees and you and I and 639 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,600 the planets, and the water is that they do not have the 640 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,300 ability. To say, no. 641 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,500 When God said trees come up. Yes. 642 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:36,800 Sand, come up, yes, mountains, come up. 643 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,400 Yes. But when it comes to you and I 644 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,800 when God's word is exposed, as you have to submit to it, in 645 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:48,800 order for it to work in you What I love about this truth is that 646 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:53,700 if this is the source that brings about a certain kind of 647 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:58,300 person, a man of God or woman of God, then as a local church, as 648 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:02,800 we make this word central, then we can know what to expect from 649 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,800 our people. And that is to be trained in 650 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,300 righteousness. That is to be quit. 651 00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:10,500 That is to be complete. The only way that you can have 652 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,100 such caliber of people in a local church is when you elevate 653 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:17,600 the word of God and you, Teach it, you use it to reprove, you 654 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:22,500 use it to preach and teach and instruct and then only then will 655 00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:27,700 you see a people arise to be Mighty Warriors for the kingdom 656 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,600 of God? Only then nothing apart from the 657 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,900 word of God. And yet, here we are hearing a 658 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:35,600 different methods to draw. I am not interested in drawing 659 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,100 people in and neither is the Bible. 660 00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:42,300 The Bible is interested in creating certain type of people. 661 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,200 That can only happen from the word when the word is sung, when 662 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,700 the word is converse, when the word is declared only, then will 663 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:55,300 we see like, Timothy men and women of God, and when this word 664 00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:57,700 is Central, you know what happens, it weeds out, the 665 00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:02,300 people who don't want it. It weeds out those who think 666 00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:04,900 that they can live in sin and worldliness and come and take 667 00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:08,500 refuge among God's people. This word is so sharp that when 668 00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:11,400 it is declared by the power of the Holy Spirit, the person who 669 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,300 does not want Sin, Cara their lives while For his life from 670 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:18,700 such a place. But to those who say, oh God, do 671 00:41:18,707 --> 00:41:21,000 what he need to do, whatever surgery you need to do, cut it 672 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,800 out, mold me shape me. Put me in the fire melt me so 673 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,700 that you can create something beautiful, and me, a local 674 00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:29,200 church. That puts the word of God is 675 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,900 supreme and primary will be an oasis in a Wilderness for such a 676 00:41:32,908 --> 00:41:35,200 person. They will come and drink, they 677 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,900 will sit and they will receive. Even if they have to go 678 00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,000 Coast-to-Coast to receive the word from the Lord. 679 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:45,800 You want to be a man of God. Come to the word. 680 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:51,400 God, wrote a book. God wrote a book and God has 681 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,600 ordained it. Since he has made Covenant with 682 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,500 a people. That they would hear from him 683 00:41:56,500 --> 00:42:02,300 through a book. And if you have a copy of his 684 00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:05,800 book, It means that in his good Providence. 685 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:12,300 God longs to speak to you. I know we pray say God speak to 686 00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:14,700 me and we want the Mount Sinai experience. 687 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,500 Not realizing that the Mount Sinai experience was to create 688 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:22,200 the very word that he would communicate his people with God 689 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,200 spoke and God still wants to speak. 690 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:27,400 Notice? I didn't say, God wants you to 691 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,200 come to his word to learn something about him. 692 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,900 I didn't say that. I said, God wants to speak 693 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,000 currently to you, and I want to prove that to you in our final 694 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,300 text as we close in a moment and the gospel of Matthew chapter 695 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:46,200 22, I want you to see how Jesus believe how this word spoke, and 696 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:51,700 still speaks. And the gospel of Matthew 697 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:57,000 chapter 22. He speaking to. 698 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,500 The Sadducees. They didn't believe in the 699 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:03,800 Supernatural. They didn't believe in the 700 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,300 resurrection. They didn't believe in angels 701 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,800 and somebody jokingly said well no wonder they were called the 702 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,000 Sadducees sad you see? They don't believe in things. 703 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,800 I should make you rejoice. In Matthew, 22 verse 31. 704 00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:19,100 Jesus speaks to them because they try to Corner him with a 705 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:21,300 question about the resurrection. They thought they were clever 706 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:23,600 and look what he does. So masterfully. 707 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,700 And as for the resurrection of the Dead, have you not read? 708 00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:31,000 What was said to you by God, I am the god of Abraham and the 709 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,800 god of Isaac and the god of Jacob. 710 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:36,000 He is not God of the dead but of the living. 711 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,800 Jesus is a master apologists. Evangelist knew that the 712 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,100 Sadducees only held to the first five books of the Bible, didn't 713 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:48,000 hold to the prophets then hold to the historical narratives, 714 00:43:48,100 --> 00:43:49,400 they held to the first five books. 715 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,800 So what he does to prove his case as he goes to the first 716 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,500 five books to prove the resurrection And he goes to the 717 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:59,900 Book of Exodus. But more than that, he says, 718 00:43:59,900 --> 00:44:03,800 have you not read? And then he finishes that 719 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,200 statement with what was said to you. 720 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,500 By God. Have you not read? 721 00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:15,700 What was said to you. Well, that's interesting because 722 00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:19,500 he quotes Exodus and that burning bush scene where Moses 723 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:23,100 approaches this Burning Bush and God speaks to Moses. 724 00:44:24,500 --> 00:44:26,900 And when you go to Acts chapter 7 and you don't have to turn 725 00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:30,500 there, Stephen goes to this incident as well in his last 726 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:34,300 message, before he is executed. And he clearly says, in Acts 7. 727 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:38,300 What the Lord said to him being Moses and he engages with the 728 00:44:38,300 --> 00:44:41,400 same reference, Stephen says, what the Lord said to him? 729 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:46,200 Jesus says what the Lord said to you, What do you mean to you? 730 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:49,800 God spoke to Moses that was the immediate context. 731 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,600 And yet Jesus still says in this text that even though in the 732 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,000 immediate context God spoke to Moses God was actually having in 733 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:03,800 mind something for you to hear. God in his mind, obviously, 734 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:08,100 wrote it and recorded it for Moses, but he also had in mind 735 00:45:08,100 --> 00:45:10,700 that for future Generations. When they would read that 736 00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,400 portion of scripture among all of it, they would understand 737 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,000 that God was actually saying something to them as well. 738 00:45:16,900 --> 00:45:19,700 You Sadducees hundreds of years after what this happened, where 739 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:23,100 this happened, God actually was saying something to you. 740 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,400 Did you hear it? Did you hear what God Said in 741 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,100 Exodus? When he spoke to Moses he was 742 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:29,800 in. Just speaking to Moses he was 743 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:35,100 speaking to you and he's still speaking to us in 2021 2022 2023 744 00:45:35,100 --> 00:45:40,000 2024 T he's still speaking. What does that mean? 745 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:42,900 This phrase proves to me in essence then when I come to his 746 00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:48,500 word Not just the, the obvious instructions given to me and you 747 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,100 as Christians and Philippians and Ephesians do this, don't do 748 00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:54,800 this. Even when I come to Exodus, God 749 00:45:54,800 --> 00:46:00,400 has something to say to me. From Genesis to Malachi although 750 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,700 its historical. As ancient its narrative, it's 751 00:46:03,700 --> 00:46:07,300 descriptive and yet still according to the words of Jesus, 752 00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:09,800 God wants to speak to me through those stories. 753 00:46:11,100 --> 00:46:13,000 He wants to speak to me through Leviticus. 754 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,500 He wants to speak to me in Malachi and Zechariah. 755 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,600 That will make all the difference in your approach to 756 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,400 the word of God. That will make all the 757 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,900 difference. It will be much more exciting to 758 00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:28,200 come to something like the Old Testament. 759 00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:30,400 And not think that the ultimate motivation is. 760 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,600 So I can memorize certain truth, so that when I'm quizzed, I can 761 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,100 show that I'm sharp. Who cares. 762 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,500 What, what are we seeing here? Come to the word of God because 763 00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:44,600 God wants to say something. You should get giddy my brother. 764 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,900 And my sister, when you finish a book in the Old Testament, 765 00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:48,200 you're ready to come to a new one. 766 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,100 You should prepare yourself old God, what are you going to say 767 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,600 to me? What are you going to speak? 768 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,400 To me? What are you going to reveal 769 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,200 yourself to me through this text because God had in mind through? 770 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,900 Jesus Christ, that when you see these things and read these 771 00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:08,200 things, he would say something. and I hope you would feel that 772 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:13,100 way when you read God's word, because as you come with that 773 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:18,200 kind of an attitude, You will go deeper in your knowledge of him 774 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:21,800 in a way that would be so rich and so real. 775 00:47:21,900 --> 00:47:25,200 And so transformative that you will not be the same as you 776 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,200 discipline yourself to have a conversation with god. 777 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,600 When God speaks to a heart, that's willing to receive what 778 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,100 he wants to say. That heart cannot remain the 779 00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:36,000 same. It cannot. 780 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:39,500 Now if you come to this book to receive data and information, 781 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,000 then that can only go so far when you are disconnected from 782 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,800 this book and you don't realize that it's actually God's means 783 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,900 of speaking and communicating to you won't go very far and being 784 00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:54,700 equipped as a man of God. But when you come from cover, to 785 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:57,700 cover ready for the Lord to speak to you, although you will 786 00:47:57,700 --> 00:48:00,800 be furnished. You'll be molded, you will be 787 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,500 transformed. Something will happen to your 788 00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:08,600 conversation style, will change your outlook will change victory 789 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,100 over sin becomes more available and more experienced something 790 00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:14,000 happens. But you have to believe that 791 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:19,500 it's God's voice first. Jesus said it and I hope today 792 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:23,200 this afternoon that you would leave here with a greater itch 793 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,900 and a holy way a greater appetite. 794 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,900 When you fail to feel the motivation to come to God's word 795 00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:33,100 realize what Jesus said to these Sadducees, he wants to say 796 00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:36,300 something to you. He wants to say something to 797 00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:38,700 you. But we thank you for your word 798 00:48:38,700 --> 00:48:49,500 this afternoon. Thank you that all scripture is 799 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:53,900 breathed out by God. And this world will be held 800 00:48:53,900 --> 00:49:00,700 accountable to the word. Thank you that we have. 801 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,900 Received the wisdom from this word for salvation. 802 00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:06,300 But Lord, we don't want your salvation. 803 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:11,200 We want to be Sanctified, we want to be a man of God, a woman 804 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:15,400 of God. What help us believe, what? 805 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:20,300 Christ himself said of his word that it speaks to us, you speak 806 00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:24,200 to us. Even in this day you had in mind 807 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:28,700 from eternity past that Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers 808 00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:30,400 Deuteronomy and everything after that. 809 00:49:31,500 --> 00:49:35,000 Would be your way of speaking. Revealing. 810 00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:38,600 Communicating to us. Lord. 811 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,900 We just ask in this moment that there would be a renewed love 812 00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:45,200 for the word and in this moment we in response to his show you 813 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:49,800 reverence As we sing to the Living God with his living book. 814 00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:56,500 Breathing us, Breath of God, Fresh Life, fresh hope, and 815 00:49:56,500 --> 00:50:00,800 fresh Faith to continue in this walk Faithfully, as we walk in 816 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,900 the word, in Jesus name, we pray. 817 00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:06,000 Amen, let's stand and Worship the Lord together, shall we?