Where did the Bible come from?
Teaching Notes
WESTSIDE VALUE
God’s Word: We live & die by it
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.
Joshua 1:8 NLT
Where do I stand?
I’ll do it my way – I’m not buying into the Bible or yielding my life to it.
Buffet Christian - I’m going to stay in authority over my life and pick and choose from the Bible what I like.
All-in Christian – I’m turning authority of my life over to God and committing to following him fully according to his Word.
5 Step Process
Revelation: God makes himself known.
General Revelation
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Romans 1:20
Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.
Romans 2:14-15 NLT
Special Revelation
Inspiration: God moves individuals to write down his word.
All Scripture is inspired by God.
2 Timothy 3:16 NASV
We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 1:19-21
Transmission: God’s Word copied.
Three Reasons You Can Be Confident in the Bible
Quantity – We have 24,000 copies of the New Testament compared with 643 copies of Homer’s Iliad.
Distance – The oldest copy is less than 100 years for the New Testament but 500 years for Homer’s Iliad.
Accuracy – There are only 400 words in doubt as to their original penning leaving us with a 99.9% accuracy for the New Testament.
Translation: God’s Word in other languages.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.
Isaiah 40:8
Transformation: God’s Word in us.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Setlist
WFC Lenexa + WFC Anywhere
Glorious Day- Passion
If The Lord Builds The House- Hope Darst
Your Spirit- Tasha Cobbs
How Great Thou Art- Carrie Underwood
WFC Speedway
Child of Love- We The Kingdom
Glorious Day- Passion
I Surrender- Hillsong
No Longer Slaves- Bethel
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