Big Questions: Is the Bible Relevant Today?

Introduction

Big questions need big answers.

Jesus is not turned off by our questions.

What makes the God of the Bible greater than all of the other gods?

If God is all powerful and entirely good, why does evil exist?

Have you ever noticed how younger people have difficulty trusting older people and older people have difficulty trusting younger people?

Example: My dad saying: “Son, when I was your age…” I heard: “When Volkswagons and bellbottoms were cool, things were…Like what could you possibly know about my situation.

Generational snobbery. Truthfully, we can typically learn more from those least like us than from those who are most like us.

This gets to the heart of our question tonight: Is the Bible still relevant today?

How can a book whose youngest chapter are 2000 years old still speak into a time in which we have Facebook and jets and Teslas?

How can we build our lives upon a book written during a time when people thought the world was flat when we live in a time that makes regular trips to the moon?

God’s Word

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Three Reasons the Bible is Current with the Times

Reason 1: The Bible is alive.

“All scripture is breathed out by God.”

- “then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his life the breath of life”

- “Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.”

- “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

The Bible contains the breath of the Living God.

God is the source of the Bible.

God is eternal. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

God is the main character of every page of the Bible.

Why would the eternal God give us a temporarily helpful book?

The Bible can only become outdated if God himself becomes outdated.

God’s word is as eternal as He is because it contains his breath of life.

When every other book dies, the Bible lives.

It is as alive today as it was 2000 years ago.

Don’t believe me? Look around.

says that salvation can only come by hearing the word of God. And, people around the globe are being delivered from their sins every day.

People are dying for the words of this book.

People are persevering by the words of this book.

The Bible is profitable because it is God-breathed.

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable...”

Reason 2: The Bible is true.

“ALL of scripture is breathed out by God”

What good is a book, living or dead, if it is not true?

Untruth is always irrelevant.

So, for us to establish the current benefit of the Bible, we must establish that the Bible is currently true.

If this book contains God’s breath, then this book contains God’s integrity.

The Bible’s truthfulness is derived from God’s holy character.

If God does not change and if God is the source of truth, then what He says is true, and truth does not change.

- “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.”

“What He says is true”

If we cannot trust God on the simplest of truths, how will we trust him with the largest?

“Truth does not change”

Truth is not determined by me and you.

Truth is not determined by culture.

Truth is not determined by how we feel.

Truth does not evolve.

If God’s word was once true, then God’s word is always true, as God does not change.

A Christian must have the same view of the Bible as Jesus had.

Jesus believed Genesis when it said that Adam and Eve were the first humans created by the hand of God, not some evolutionary mutation. He believed that Noah, and every creature God desired, boarded an ark that saved the remnant from God’s wrath and rain. He really believed that Lot’s wife turned to a pillar of salt and that God spoke face-to-face with Moses on Sinai. Jesus believed that Moses’ bronze snake could heal a man, and he believed that Jonah was swallowed by a great fish and then spit out to preach in Nineveh. He believed every dot and every tittle. He filled every page and every prophecy. He held fast to every promise and every hope. He obeyed every command and every law. Brothers and sisters, Jesus believed in his Bible, do you believe in him? For you cannot be saved by an errant Savior, and Jesus so closely tied himself to the word of God that if it is not inerrant than He is not inerrant!

Reason 3: Our problems are the same.

“The time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”

Solomon, a man of the greatest wisdom, in “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

Solomon, a man of the greatest wisdom, in “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

Solomon, a man of the greatest wisdom, in “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

Generational snobbery: Nobody has ever had a problem like this before. Nobody has ever thought like this before. Nobody has ever known what we know now before.

But, I would propose to you that no problem, in its root, is different from the problems that have always existed.

Our problems haven’t changed. They’ve just be repackaged.

Porn —> Lust and sexual immorality

Gender Equality —> (Some have always viewed different roles as unequal, and submission as subpar.) (Jesus submitted.)

Transgender Debate

“Born that way”

Abortion

Pollution

College

Our biggest problem is that we have rebelled against God and suppressed the truth.

Jesus saves the same types of people from the same problem of sin that He has always saved them.

Neither our need for salvation nor Jesus’ offer of salvation has changed.

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Because the Bible is relevant, it demands our obedience.