Foundational Beliefs #4

When you buy something you never had before and you got to put it together what do you do?

Start putting it together?

Get mad

Look at picture in hopes

Do things backwards

What should we do?

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!

We have instructions to Life in front of us. Its Gods word. Yet we treat it like it is just some words on a page!

It is truly Gods own words penned on pages.

What are we talking about tonight?

The Bible

How many books make up the Bible?

66

There are how many Old Testament books? 39

There are how many New Testament books? 27

Note they are 7 apocryphal books (We don’t reconize them as Sola Scriptura)

Oldest Manuscripts are? 100-125 BC the Newest is Found 1940’s there was a 95% match.

How many references from the new testament to the old are? 4,000+ if you were to count every echo, allure, direct quote from the Old Testament to the New Testament

How many prophecies did Jesus fulfill from the old testament? 400+ all allusions (speakings, teachings, echos)

Odds are: Just 8 — 1 in the 10 to the 17 power 100,000,000,000,000,000 One hundred quadrillion

To make that number understandable - Stoner (Mathmatician) - Cover the entire state of Texas two feet deep in silver dollars (268,000 miles) Mark one silver dollar with a red X. Mix them all up. Blindfold a man and let him pick one. The chances he picks that one man could fulfill just those 8 prophecies by accident.

A. The Bible is God’s inspired Word.

Holy men of God were moved by the Holy Spirit to write God’s message for us. The Bible inspired in a sense distinctly different than any other book. The Word which he inspired has also been preserved by Him, and that preservation is in itself a verification of the claim of inspiration

2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;”

Teaching from a biblical stand point - is the Spirit- empowered and communication of God’s truth aimed at transformation - shaping minds, hearts, and lived to know God and walk in his ways.

Rebuke from a biblical stand point - is a Spirt-led, truth-grounded confrontation of sin or error - DONE IN LOVE, aimed at repentance and restoration, not at shaming or winning.

Correction from a biblical stand point - is the loving redirection of someone away from sin or error and back onto the right path - the constructive work that follows rebuke and restores someone to faithful walking with God.

Training from a biblical stand point - is the patient, repeated practice of righteousness - long obedience that turns redirected behavior into formed character, until walking with God becomes second nature.

2 Peter 1:21 “for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.”

B. The Bible is infallible

God has provided a totally accurate and dependable recored of his message

Deuteronomy 32:4 ““The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and just is He.”

2 Samuel 7:28 “Now then, Lord God, You are God, and Your words are truth; and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.”

It is infallible in every detail especially in the original languages, Hebrew and Greek

a. infallible from a biblical stand point - is the doctrine that Scripture cannot fail in accomplishing what God intends - it is incapable of leading astray in matter of faith and practice because it is the very word of God who cannot lie.

“Sola Scriptura” Scripture Alone - Scripture is the final court because it is the only voice in the room that cannot fail

Sola Scriptura - is the doctrine that the Holy Scripture is the only infallible, final authority for the Christian’s faith, doctrine, and practice. Ever other authority - tradition, creeds, councils, pastors, personal experience, reason - is ral and useful but all subordinate to and judge by the Bible.

C. The Bible is the only rule of faith and practice

As the only rule, the Bible is a sufficient authority on which to base our faith and our behavior

Galatians 1:8 “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!”

The practive of imposing on believers any rules or regulations, other than those contained in the bible is to be rejected and shunned.

D. The Bible is the Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation

Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”

If this Gospel is faithfully and dynamically proclaimed with simplicity and prayer, the Spirit of God and to give direction and light to Christians for their daily lives