The Word of God Series

Series Goal

The goals of the series are to ignite a passion for the Word of God,

restore confidence in the trustworthiness of the Word of God,

demonstrate why we need the Word of God and

to teach on how to study the Word of God.

In a sea of opinion and half-hearted facts what can we trust? Where can we find our grounding? What foundation can we stand on? The Word of God.

What can we use to discern truth?

What is our filter for what is right?

Scriptures

The Foundation (Matt 7)

Matthew 7:24–29 CSB

24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.” 28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, 29 because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes.

Salvation in Jesus’ Name (Acts 4, Romans 10)

Acts 4:11–12 CSB

11 This Jesus is the stone rejected by you builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.”

Romans 10:9–13 CSB

9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on him will not be put to shame, 12 since there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord of all richly blesses all who call on him. 13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Romans 1:16–17 CSB

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

The Aroma of Christ (2 Cor 15)

2 Corinthians 2:14–17 CSB

14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and through us spreads the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place. 15 For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16 To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. Who is adequate for these things? 17 For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

The Functions of Scripture (2 Tim)

2 Timothy 3:16–17 CSB

16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 4:1–5 CSB

1 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of his appearing and his kingdom: 2 Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching. 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. 4 They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths. 5 But as for you, exercise self-control in everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

What does Scripture say?

Romans 4:3 CSB

3 For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.

Galatians 4:30 CSB

30 But what does the Scripture say? “Drive out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave will never be a coheir with the son of the free woman.”

Word Study on Ho Logos

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged in One Volume λέγω, λόγος, ῥῆμα, λαλέω

Only in the Prologue do we find ho lógos in the absolute

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged in One Volume λέγω, λόγος, ῥῆμα, λαλέω

Jesus gives the lógos, but he also is the lógos. This fact controls the use.

c. Yet after the Prologue Jesus is never again called lógos, for the preexistent lógos (1:1) has now become flesh (1:14), i.e., Jesus.

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged in One Volume λέγω, λόγος, ῥῆμα, λαλέω

The distinctive thing in Jn. 1:1ff. is that preexistence is now put thematically at the head and expressed in the term lógos.

Original Notes on The Necessity of the Word of God

The Word of God teaches us about true reality

Gives us meaning, purpose, understanding, and direction for our lives -- all things that every human being deeply longs for.

Without the answers to these questions, we are lost.

Every belief system tries to answers these questions -- how sturdy is your foundation?

Matt 7:24-29 -- “The Two Foundations”

The Bible teaches a Biblical Worldview -- Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration

The Bible teaches Salvation through Jesus

Jesus is God’s message in a person -- He is the Word of God