The Bible is True
Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org, www.TrueConnection.org
5/20/09; 9/9/09; 9/10/09 (with Angelle’s help);
1/18/10; 1/30/10
Table of Contents
Receive The Bible Literally, or Literally Perish Under
its Deriding Condemnation!
Moses, Jesus and Paul Prove it is
Serious!2
Solid Words of Confirmable
Truth3
Evil speakers of Human words: 3
Doctrine Must be According to
godliness:4
Choose which G/god You will
serve:4
Jesus and children honoring
parents5
Acts: beware lest this
Scripture comes upon you5
Receive The Bible Literally, or Literally Perish Under its Deriding
Condemnation!
So you
“don’t take the Bible literally”? What you actually mean is you “take,” or
hijack, and rob God’s Words from yourself and others as though they were not
actually necessary to obey to gain life.
The Words
of God are not subject to your cross-examination
The Bible
is not on trial, you are!
Repent of Cross-Examining
the Scriptures or be rejected by their scrutiny against your contenptable soul!
Gen_3:1 - Adam, Eve and the serpent: “Did God really say”
(Cross-examining: Gen_3:4-6)
- It is the very herald of all evil
that first emboldened man to think he had a place to cross-examine the Words of
God
Num_15:30-31 - Don't be presumptuous against
God's commands
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Num_15:32-36 - Stoned for picking up sticks: That will teach you to take
God’s commands figuratively!
Deu_21:18-21 - Moses on stoning children
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Mar_7:8-13* / Mat 15:1-9 -
Jesus agrees with literally stoning children (He said you should have done it
under the old covenant!)
[*context: Mar_7:1-13]
Deu_8:2-3 – Live by Every WORD the
proceeds out of the mouth of God (Mat_4:3-4)
Mat_5:17-20 - Every little Word, nay, even
every letter Counts!
Joh_12:47-50 - Judged by the Word I have
spoken on the last day
Mat_7:13-27 - Do what I told you to do (esp. Mat_7:21-27)
Moses, Jesus and Paul Prove it is Serious!
Mat_5:17-20 - the New Covenant is about iotas and keraias
“Moses is the
one who accuses you” (Moses was like their ‘Paul,’ for the OT)
Joh_5:45-47
CAB Do not think that I will accuse you to the
Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you have hoped. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would have
believed Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how
will you believe My words?"
Every
Transgression
Heb_2:2-4
CAB For if the word which was
spoken through angels was confirmed, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just reward,
3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a
salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to
us by those who heard Him, 4 God also bearing witness both with signs and
wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His
own will?
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Paul Wrote
Scripture: Will you be as the Pharisees were with Moses?
1Th_2:13
CAB Because of this we also give thanks to God
unceasingly, so that when you received the word of God which you heard from us,
you received not the word of men, but just as* it truly is, the word of God,
which also is at work** in you who believe.
* Greek: “ἀλλὰ καθώς
ἐστιν ἀληθῶς, λόγον Θεοῦ”
** Greek:
“ἐνεργεῖται” – as in “energizes”
SEE: “The New Testament is authenticated”:
http://www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/FAQs.html#NT
Paul is the Man Sent for the Gentiles
Act_26:16-18
CAB But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you, to appoint you
a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things
which I will yet reveal to you, 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18 to open their eyes,
in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan
to God, in order
for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance
among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'
(Also: Act_9:15 - Chosen vessel for the
nations)
Paul’s Writings are Scripture
2Pe_3:15-16
CAB and consider that the longsuffering of our
Lord is salvation--just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to
the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them
about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the
unlearned and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the
rest of the Scriptures.
Scripture Definition:
2Pe_1:20-21
CAB knowing this first, that no
prophecy of Scripture comes about from one's own
interpretation, 21 for
prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being
brought along by the
Holy Spirit.
Compare this with what Peter says previously:
1Pe_1:24-25
CAB For "All flesh is as
grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of the grass. The grass
withers, and its flower falls away, 25 but the word of the LORD endures
forever." Now this is the word which was proclaimed to you.
Matthew 23
Mat_23:16-36 - Hypocrites… Lawlessness (Mar_7:6-13)
esp.:
Mat_23:16-22 - Temple & Alter: Gold Lust vs. Spiritual Substance
Mat_23:23-24 - Tithe, gnat vs. camel,
Mat_23:25-32- outside of cup > White washed
tombs
Mat_23:32-33 - Guilt > snakes > Hell
Mat_23:34-36 - Persecution > guilt
1Co_14:37 - If spiritual, acknowledge the Epistles = the commandments
of God
1Th_2:12-13 - You accepted it as it is in truth, the Words of God
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2Th_3:13-14 - Whoever does not obey our word by this epistle…
2Pe_1:20-21 - No private interpretation
Solid Words of Confirmable Truth
Words of Truth
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Pro_22:21 CAB I therefore teach you truth, and
knowledge good to hear, that you may answer words of truth to them
that question you. |
Pro_22:21 KJ2000 That I
might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you
might answer the words of truth to them that send unto you? |
My
Doctrine is Not my Own
Joh_7:16-18 EMTV
Therefore Jesus answered them and said, "My doctrine is not Mine,
but His who sent Me. 17 If
anyone desires to do His will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is
from God, or whether I am speaking on My own authority. 18 He who speaks from himself is seeking his own
glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no
unrighteousness is in Him.
>> see Joh_5:1…
do the will of the father… not my own…
Divine
words:
Joh_3:11, Joh_5:30, Joh_6:38-40, Joh_6:44, Joh_8:28, Joh_12:49, Joh_12:50, Joh_14:10,Joh_14:24, Joh_17:8, Joh_17:14; Rev_1:1
Moses Said the Same: Num_16:28
Truth Overcomes Education:
Psa_119:97-104; Psa_119:130;
Evil
speakers of Human words:
Joh_3:31, (Don't be men: 1Co_3:3; )
No
Private Interpretation
2Pe_1:19-21 EMTV
And we have the prophetic word made more sure, which you do well to
heed, as a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning
star rises in your hearts; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of
Scripture comes about from one's own interpretationG1955, 21 for
prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being
brought along by the
Holy Spirit.
G1955 ἐπίλυσις epilusis ep-il'-oo-sis
From G1956; explanation,
that is, application: -
interpretation.
All Scripture
2Ti 3:13-17 EMTV But evil men
and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But you must continue in the things which you
have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the
Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness, 17 that
the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every
good work.
Consider: The sufficiency and Divine
Continuity of Scripture
Tit_2:11-15 KJ2000 For the
grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live sensibly, righteously, and godly, in this present
world; 13
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great
God and our Savior Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem
us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of
good works. 15 These
things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you.
mouths must be stopped
Doctrine Must be According to godliness:
2Ti_4:1-8
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While pagans talk about “doctrinal diversity,” disciples talk about truth
- pagans
say, you can’t know truth, so we need many gods
-
Disciples say, you only need one God because there is only one truth
-
disciples say: You can know truth and hold others acountable to that truth by
charging them to repent
>
ho. sp convicts world of sin...
>
It is your job to find truth, not the preacher's job to prove it
Choose which G/god You will serve:
Now,
by an actually honest declaration:
Are
you choosing to be a pagan or a follower of Jesus?
>
If of Jesus, then you have no right to interpretations and opinions
Jos_24:15 KJ2000 And if it
seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve;
whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the
River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and
my house, we will serve the LORD.
You can know truth:
Jas_1:21 ect.
Rom_10:6-10 KJ2000 But the righteousness
which is of faith speaks thus, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into
heaven?... 8 But
what says it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that
is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the
dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Quotation from: Deu_30:6-20
Especially:
Deu_30:9-10 -
rejoice over you for good
Deu_30:11-13 - not far in heaven (Rom_10:6)
Deu_30:14 - in your mouth (Rom_10:8)
Deu_30:15-16 - life and death
Deu_30:17-20 - heart change = hell
(and
see Pro_30:4)
Jesus and children honoring parents
Traditions over truth, but you can find truth:
Mat_15:1-9 / Mar_7:1-13
Acts: beware lest this Scripture comes upon you
>Saul
samuel, and disobedience... relitive interpretation of Scripture
Compare
absolute truth
How can I know?
Meditate
day and night...
as
you walk along the path
Other verses to
consider for certainty:
Luk_1:3-4; Joh_20:31; 1Jo_5:13
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sound whol
som words, words of lord jesus
This is a brief explanation of
why the Bible is true, not a “proof” that the Bible is True.