From Scripture Alone

Mitchell Leach

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Introduction

Numbers 21:2–3 2 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.” 3 And the LORD heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.

Tension

Big Question

Is the whole bible God’s word? There is a joke about churches like ours

Father, Son, and Holy Scriptures Why is the Bible part of how we explain the gospel? Is believing the Bible necessary for faith? Why does it matter if I believe parts of it and not others? Moreover what standards, what reasons do you believe something to be true? And if it is true binding on your conscience (beliefs) and conduct (behavior)?

Truth

Outside evidence for scripture

Briefly touch on these Textual Criticism

25,000 copies of the New Testament Sure but wasn’t this New Testament corrupted by the politics of the early church?

People can recognize scripture, but they cannot make it. Police officers can recognize a forged dollar from a real one, but they cannot make a forged dollar real. Archeological Evidence

Pool at Bethesda

Scripture’s Own Evidence

2 Timothy 3:16

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

4 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 PREACH THE WORD; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For 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, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Let's look at vs 16 for a moment It says the word breathed out. Why does that matter?

Its what comes from God The same idea of God speaking creation into existence.

God speaks creation answers. From this we see something important from God speaking scripture

When God speaks, creation obeys. It comes down to the idea that Scripture carries authority.

Joel Beeke (President of Puritan Theological Seminary in GR) “Authority involves not merely the power to reward or punish, but more specifically, moral right to rule and the duty of others to respect that rule. God has authority over all because he is the Maker of all.” Why does scripture have to be the highest authority in my life?

Why can’t I take the Bible as some good principle?

Even the way to get saved? Why does it have to be so invasive? Why would I trust a book written thousands of years ago, above my own reason? Because the Bible is God’s words.

As if he ripped open the roof and audibly spoke to us. The same power that created all things we have in printed form in our bibles. You cannot take scripture as a guide

It says too much that you couldn’t It claims too much and demands too much to only be taken halfway.

When something calls you to die to yourself you cannot take it as simply a guide. If you see scripture as a guide you simply misunderstand its authority.

What comes out of God reveals God

Imagine a fair and just king writing a decree to the people in the land, and the scribe comes to your town to read it, and you say “why should I listen to you?” What’s going to happen to you?

You would never say that because you know the king has the authority to execute you if he wants. The question isn’t “is the Bible good,” the question must be, “is Jesus God, and is he the author of it?”