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What’s stopping you from a deeper and more intimate relationship with Christ?
Over the years I’ve heard… If you only knew my past, if you only knew my wife, if you only knew my boss, if you only knew my parents, my church, my story...
The promise of Jesus is that you can have victory.
Faith is the victory that overcomes the world.
and faith comes by hearing and desiring the word of God.
Here’s what I want you to learn this morning.
Here’s what this morning’s message is about:
If You Want to Become a Man of God You Can Become a Man of God - don’t think you can’t
If you want to become a man of God, you have to be a man of the word - don’t think you don’t
If you want to become a man of God, you have to do what the word of God says - don’t think you can only think
Why did you come this morning?
What questions do you have?
What would you like to learn?
I. THE INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES. 1.
What is inspiration?
It is not revelation, but the infallible record of an infallible revelation.
2. The extent of inspiration.
How far were these men guided by the Holy Ghost in the composition of the Scriptures?
To every line and word.
Yet was not the self-control or intelligent consciousness of the writer destroyed.
Each writer retains his own style (see 1 Cor.
2:13; 12:6).
3. The object of inspiration.
To give certainty to that written under its guidance.
4. The proofs of inspiration.
Internal evidence.
Arguments drawn from the history of these books, from their contents.
Christ’s appeal to the Old Testament as of Divine origin.
The claim of both writers of Old and New Testaments.
II.
THE UTILITY OF THE SCRIPTURES.
“PROFITABLE FOR,” &c. 1.
As an unvarying standard of doctrine.
Not a theological statement, but the germ of all true doctrine.
From it all doctrine must be derived, and to it all doctrine must be referred.
2. Useful in the confutation of all religious error.
“Profitable for reproof.” 3. Useful as an infallible standard of right and wrong.
We cannot trust a pope, a church.
4. Useful for instruction in righteousness.
By following its teachings we are brought into fuller measures of perfection.
Our sanctification is by the Word.
“Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy Word is truth.”
(James Hunter.)
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scripture is breathed out and profitable
that the man may be complete
If You Want to Become a Man of God You Can Become a Man of God - don’t think you can’t
If you want to become a man of God, you have to be a man of the word - don’t think you don’t
If you want to become a man of God, you have to do what the word of God says - don’t think you can only think
Matthew 5:
Inspired Scriptures, and their Divine purpose:—
I. THE NATURE OF THE WRITINGS HERE SPOKEN OF.
II.
THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE SCRIPTURES WERE WRITTEN.
This object is twofold; first, what the Bible would make man; and next, how it would accomplish its purpose.
1.
What the Scriptures would make man.
“That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”
It does this by first making him a “man of God.” Religion is not an abstraction—it is a Divine life, and a life which in man makes him a man of God. 2. The standard after which he ever aims is perfection! 3.
But we have not only the standard announced, we have also the style of the spiritual education determined—“that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished.”
III.
HOW THE SCRIPTURES PROPOSE MAKING “MEN OF GOD, THROUGHLY FURNISHED, UNTO ALL GOOD WORKS.”
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable.” 1. “For doctrine”; that is, for conveying those truths and that learning needful to salvation.
2. Becoming “profitable for reproof.”
This word “reproof,” means “conviction.”
3. It becomes “profitable for correction.”
This is equally necessary in a volume suitable to save men. 4. Lastly—by “instruction of righteousness.”
The unlearning of man’s love to sin, the undoing of his evil habits—this is correction.
But after all this is but the negative part of Christian character.
It is the abegnation of evil.
Christianity inculcates positive good.
IV.
THE WORK WHICH HOLY SCRIPTURE IS YET DESTINED TO DO. 1.
By the Bible the Church of God must be purified.
2. By the Bible, as an instrument, the Jews must be converted.
3.
By the Bible the great apostasy must be destroyed.
4. By the Bible, instrumentally, the heathen must be converted.
(A.
M. Brown, LL.D.)
The Bible superhuman:—I shall content myself with stating some plain facts about the Bible, which can neither be denied nor explained away.
And the ground I shall take up is this—
I. THAT THESE FACTS OUGHT TO SATISFY EVERY REASONABLE INQUIRER THAT THE BIBLE IS OF GOD, AND NOT OF MAN. 1.
It is a fact that there is a superhuman fulness and richness in the contents of the Bible.
It throws more light on a vast number of most important subjects than all the other books in the world put together.
It boldly handles matters which are beyond the reach of man when left to himself.
2. It is another fact that there is a superhuman wisdom, sublimity, and majesty in the style of the Bible.
Strange and unlikely as it was, the writers of Scripture have produced a book which even at this day is utterly unrivalled.
With all our boasted attainments in science and art and learning we can produce nothing that can be compared with the Bible.
To talk of comparing the Bible with other “sacred books” so called, such as the Koran, the Shasters, or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd.
You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight—or Skiddaw with a mole-hill—or Saint Paul’s with an Irish hovel—or the Portland vase with a garden pot—or the Koh-i-noor diamond with a bit of glass.
God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.
3. It is another fact, that there is a superhuman accuracy in the facts and statements of the Bible, which is above man.
Here is a book which has been finished and before the world for nearly 1800 years.
These 1800 years have been the busiest and most changeful period the world has ever seen.
During this period the greatest discoveries have been made in science, the greatest alterations in the ways and customs of society, the greatest improvements in the habits and usages of life.
But all this time men have never discovered a really weak point or a defect in the Bible.
Over and over again the enemies of the Bible have fancied they have detected defects.
Again and again they have proved to be mistaken.
The march of intellect never overtakes it.
The wisdom of wise men never gets beyond it.
The science of philosophers never proves it wrong.
The discoveries of travellers never convict it of mistakes.
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