The Authority and Ability of God’s Word | Pastor Daniel Batarseh

Glorious worship. Would you agree?

Amen. Well, meet me in the word of God

as we continue to worship. Through the hearing and the

receiving of God's word and second Timothy chapter 3 and a

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very well-known passage of scripture.

Beginning here in verse 16. Would you pray with me one more

time, please. Lord, this is a familiar passage

of scripture. And we are in danger of allowing

familiarity to breed a contempt, but we ask Lord that you would

give us fresh Revelation and that it would speak to our

hearts, our hearts would be moved.

And Lord May the goal made the result of such a time together

in your word cause us to love your word to reverence it to

stand in all of it. Oh God.

Lord help us not fall into the Trap that this word though.

It is common though, here, week after week though, it occupies

many of our shelves and our nightstands Lord.

May it be seen today as what it is, the Living Word of God?

Oh Lord. Speak to your people.

Speak to us, reveal yourself to us.

Touch us draws closer to the person of Jesus Christ and your

name. We ask these things humbly

desperately. Amen.

And amen. And amen.

Verse 16 of 2nd. Timothy chapter 3, reeds.

All scripture. Is breathed out by God.

And profitable for teaching, for reproof for correction, and for

training in righteousness. That the man of God, may be

complete equipped for every good work.

I think we should read these verses one more time.

All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching,

for reproof for correction, and for training in righteousness.

That the man Of God, may be complete equipped for every good

work. Our time in this precious

epistle, is coming to a near end, as we are approaching the

last chapter of Paul's final letter before his death.

But before we transition into his concluding thoughts, we are

going to focus, our attention and plant ourselves.

And one of the most familiar and often quoted passages of all the

Bible. These two short verses

powerfully described and defined for us, the authority of God's

word, its nature, its function and its ability to change lives.

Now remember the context. Remember what Timothy was facing

the challenges of his day. Let's look at what is happening

around. These verses to help us

understand exactly why Paul is saying these things.

Timothy was facing primarily false, Teachers who are emerging

and they are presenting new ideas and New Concepts and

twisted versions of the scripture or total dismissal the

word of God all together. Therefore, Paul is going to

remind this young disciple of the divine origins of his

beliefs and now because this is supremely given to us by God,

that it triumphs over every man-made concept.

No matter how persuasive or beneficial in might be.

He wants him to see how this word is above all else.

Secondly, as we hear look at verse 13 again, while evil

people and Impostors Will Go On from bad to worse.

Deceiving and being deceived there is going to be a new

effort now to rebel against God, and that's only going to grow as

we approach the return of Christ and sinning against one another.

So there is this corruption that will increase.

Therefore Paul is going to tell his young disciple how he can

Grow in the opposite direction. How he can go from glory to

glory from Faith to Faith from love to love and it is found,

he's going to be reminded. It is found in your engagement

your absorb, some your, your obedience to the written word of

God. This is going to be a little

different Sunday service than usual because it's going to

demand you to be more attentive with the references that are

going to be brought to you. I hope you have your Bibles

firmly in your hands because in this particular message, I'm

going to do a lot less talking explaining commentating and a

lot more pointing to versus and a lot more putting verses

together for you to see the two main points of this message and

that is this number one, the authority of the word of God.

The authority of the word of God.

Is this? Just another book?

Among many other books? No, you're going to discover

that this is in fact, the very word of the Living.

God number two, not just the authority but the ability.

What can this word do? It can do what no other book can

do. And that is transform lives

miraculously as we engage with him.

The authority of God's word. We read here.

All scripture is breathed out by God.

What is scripture? What is Paul referring to here?

Well, surely we heard last week in verse 15 that there are these

things called the sacred writings, and that is a

beautiful way of describing. The Old Testament library that

you have in your Bible and that the Jews share with us and they

would call it the Tanakh and though they have different

orders of the books, the content is still the same and this is

what is known as scripture. This is what is known as the

word of God. This is, what is known as the

sacred writings, but what's different between us and the As

you know, is that we have an additional Library.

It is the New Testament Library, it doesn't contradict the old.

It is built upon the old. It is the Revelation that God

further is from the old Covenant and fulfills So the question is

begged this morning. Well what about that?

What about the New Testament books?

Are those just as authoritative? Are they just as much breathed

out by God and the sacred writings?

And the best way to answer that is to see what Jesus Christ said

about his own words and to see what the apostles were

commissioned by the Lord, Jesus Christ believed about their own

writings. And once we see that, we are

realize that there is a Harmony not The harmony, but there is

equal value, equal authority, to both Testaments.

We should comfort our souls. And so the first place, I would

encourage you to turn to in your Bibles is actually two places.

You're going to have one hand tucked in the Old Testament.

Another hand tucked in the new and the old you're going to turn

to Deuteronomy chapter 18 in the new, you're going to tuck your

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hand into John chapter 5. beginning in verse 46, There's

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all scripture include the New Testament or is it limited to

the prophets of old? Let's see what the Lord Jesus

Christ said in John chapter 5 verse 46 to 47.

John 5:46–47

John chapter 5. I always encourage you to bring

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your Bible so that you can see the word for yourself.

And you can have a mental map of your own Bible.

You can get to the point where you read your Bible so much

where you may not know their reference be like, I know, it's

in this side of the page on that side.

Have anybody else relate to that?

Yeah, that's the beauty of God's word.

When you have a copy of it verse 46, for if you this is Jesus

speaking for. If you believed Moses, you would

believe me for he wrote of me, but if Do not believe his

writings. How will you believe my words?

The first thing to observe here is that Jesus Christ.

Testifies that Moses who is revered by the Jews.

Obviously, the mediator of their Covenant, Moses wrote of Jesus

Christ, and there are many references to that, some Shadows

some types, but there is the most famous the most known

prediction of the person of Jesus Christ, hundreds of years

before his Incarnation, and that is where your hand is in the Old

Testament and Deuteronomy chapter 18 and beginning.

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In verse 15, we read Moses, speaking to the nation of Israel

saying, the Lord your God will raise up for you.

A prophet like me from among you.

From your brother's it is to him, you shall listen, the

Muslims love to use the scripture to say that it speaks

of Muhammad that he is that Prophet to come.

And you can just simply answer by saying, so, is he among the

Jews? I don't know.

Muhammad was a Jew because it says from among you from your

brother's it kind of closes the conversation very quickly.

But look at this part, it is to him.

You shall listen. That's important because this

future Prophet who will be like Moses will have something very

important to say and it will call for the people to pay

attention to what he has to say. Notice that Moses says that

there will be a prophet like me many prophets have come after

Moses but there's going to be a particular messenger from God

who be very much similar to this amazing man of God.

Who had a unique relationship with God.

What are the similarities between this future profit?

As we know fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ and Moses

will number one God himself testifies that he communicated

to Moses in a way that he didn't with others face to face

directly from God. He might say that God has done

that with other prophets, but what makes Moses even more

unique, are the Miracles that he performed the signs and the

Wonders? And we see Jesus performing,

very similar signs and wonders and miracles.

In fact, the most common one is when he multiplied the bread and

the fish, we're in the wilderness and the Jews,

understanding this prophecy and the Jews understanding what

Moses was able to do by the power of God.

Saw what Christ did in John chapter 6 and they made the

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connection themselves. You don't have to turn there.

But in verse 14, look at the reaction has Jesus Made bread,

seemingly appear out of nowhere. Just like the Manna in the

wilderness. S.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said this

indeed is the prophet who is to come into the world, this is

him. This is whom Moses spoke about,

even they were convinced, but as you heard earlier, this Prophet,

who would be like, Moses would be similar.

Because Moses was this mediator. He was the liaison.

He was the communicator of the old Covenant at that mountain,

with the law being given. And yes, you know, this, that

the Lord Jesus Christ is the mediator.

Either of the New Covenant. And so, these things are plain

and obvious and it all makes sense with Jesus comment, when

he said, if you don't believe his writings, how will you

believe my my words? How will you believe my words?

Well, what do you have to say? Lord, that is so important.

Why do we have to believe your words?

Is there something that you have to say that we have to adhere to

and Listen and Obey? Well we don't have to, we don't

have to guess. Let Moses speak on behalf of the

Christ and the answer will come to us.

When you scroll down and Deuteronomy 18, look at Verse 18

God is speaking now and he's speaking to the people and he

was saying I will raise up for them.

A prophet like you from among their brothers and they'll give

this, I will put my words in his mouth.

And he shall speak to them all that.

I command him. And whoever will not listen to

my words that he shall speak, in my name, I myself will required

it of him. So the words of this future

Prophet who will be like, Moses will be the very words of God.

God will place his words in his mouth.

He will command them exactly what to say and he will fulfill

what he's been told to say. In fact, the words of this

Prophet are so serious, So important, So Divine that those

who would refuse according to verse 19 to listen to what he

has to say, there will be consequences, I myself will

require it of him. And we know that Jesus, Jesus

Echoes exactly what Moses is saying here concerning his own

Ministry in his own message. How will you believe my words?

Because Moses said that there's going to be one like him and he

has something to say and what he has to say is in fact, the very

words of God, When you scroll back now go to John, chapter 12.

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Look what Jesus says in verse 48 about his word.

John 12:48 Jesus is speaking about his words the one who

John 12:48

rejects me and does not receive. My words has a judge.

The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

We pause and say that, it's very dangerous to boast in biblical

knowledge, because the more light you get, the more

judgment, you will receive. So be very, very careful and

boasting about biblical knowledge.

Because according to this the word that we receive that we are

exposed to will be our judge verse 49.

For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the father who

sent me has himself given me a commandment what to say and what

to speak. It's right.

There is exactly what Moses said he's going to come and he's

going to speak. What has been commanded to him

and if you don't listen to what he says, God says I myself will

required it of you and here comes the Lord.

Jesus Christ. Saying, if you do not receive my

words, this word will judge you because everything that I am

saying to you has been given to me by the father who commanded

it to me. There's no denying that Jesus

Christ's words are the words of God.

And if they are the words of God and they are divine revelation,

If they are divine revelation, then they are scripture like

what Moses predicted he would be commanded and Jesus says I was

commanded Moses says he would have something to say and those

who refuse to listen will be judged Jesus.

If you don't listen to me, you will be judged.

No mere. Man, can say that.

This is the prophet of prophets, the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Now, you might not be convinced or maybe might satisfy some

skepticism. And there's so many places you

can go to. There's so many places to prove

this but I like this one. This one's neat.

It's found in the gospel of Mark. when you go to Mark

Mark 13:31

chapter 13 verse 31, it's going to be a little bit of a marathon

this afternoon. Look what Jesus after he

finishes teaching on the end times after he finishes talking

about the signs that will come before his return.

He concludes with this Divine stamp of approval.

He says something about his words that if the if the

Christian here's that they understand with ease.

If you believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, you can hear

what Jesus is about to say and say well, that makes sense, I

believe he is God. But to the Jewish mind, Who sees

a mere man and is challenged by this concept of God becoming man

though. They shouldn't because the

scriptures prove it over and over.

This would have been Blasphemous.

This would have been just shocking to hear, Mark, 1331

Jesus puts us exclamation mark to his teaching on the last days

and he says Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words

will not pass away my words. Do you eat it to us?

We say, Amen. But to the Jew.

They go. Who Do You Think You Are?

My words will not pass away. Why would this be so shocking?

Because he dared to take the prerogative that solely belongs

to God and His word alone, and applies it to himself.

Jesus Takes a perogative, a statement that God Alone makes

about his word. And he says, my word is equally

Eternal and equally reliable and equally permanent.

Because the prophet Isaiah said, in chapter 40 verse 8, the grass

withers, the flower Fades, but the word of our God will stand

forever. Are you saying your words are

the same as the word of our God? Are you saying that the humanity

is frail? Mankind will fade?

That your word will stand Until the End of the Age?

And Jesus without blushing, without hesitation says my word,

my word will never pass away because my words are the very

words of God that might help. I may settle the skeptical hard

and we can go on and on and on about what Jesus words mean and

the authority of his words. But I think the more debatable

area is well okay, that's fine. But what about the apostles

then, what about the apostles because you even some people who

innocently or Deceptively say, well, I I follow the letters of

red and that is becoming more and more common and I'll tell

you why in a moment. But these people fail to realize

that the very words of the Apostles, are the words of

Christ. And if the words of Christ are

the words of God, just do the math.

Jesus in John chapter 16. This is incredible.

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And verse 12, he speaking to his own before his passion.

He speaking to those 12 that have fault him Faithfully for

years and he's about to speak now about his departure but he's

also going to give a comforting promise.

They've been chosen for this Apostolic Ministry and he's not

going to leave them behind without assistance and guidance

but he says something quite remarkable and verse 12 of

chapter 16, I still have many things to say to you.

But you cannot bear them now. You know, it's amazing after

three and a half years of ministry on Earth.

Jesus, admits here that there are still many other things that

he had to teach concerning. His person concerning his work,

concerning his will for the church, but he tells them why he

did not teach them up to this point because they could not

bear them now, You can't handle this.

Now it'll be too overwhelming for you.

It will be confusing and that makes total sense.

And so what are what are one of the reasons why he does not

teach them what he says he wanted to, but he couldn't.

I believe it's because he had to First died.

He had the first be buried. He had to First resurrect and

ascend before the further Revelations would even make

sense to the minds of the disciples.

Because we see over and over that when Jesus even tells them,

blatantly I'm going to be surrendered, I am going to die

and I'm going to rise. They were confused.

They could not accept it. They could not understand it.

And if they couldn't understand the beginning of his Redemptive

purposes, how would they understand the things that it

would accomplish, how it to understand the things?

I would be as a result of his death and Resurrection when they

couldn't even understand him dying and resurrecting?

So he puts a limit to what he teaches them because they could

not understand it. They could not bear it.

Yes, they were sorrowful. That's one part.

But I believe they were limited in their understanding and the

things that he would want to teach would only make sense

after the events of his Redemptive purposes being

accomplished after his sacrificial atonement, then

these teachings would make sense to the Mind Into the Heart.

But it gives him a promise in verse 13.

When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the

truth for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever.

He hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things

that are to come. He will glorify me for.

He will take. What is mine and declare it to

you? You are my Apostles, you will be

the foundation of the church through your teaching and I want

to promise you now, this is what Christ is saying that the agent

will deliver these further, Revelations will be the person

of the Holy Spirit. He will be given to you and he

will tell you exactly what you need to know.

He will guide you into all truth and the primary application of

that deals with the New Testament.

Writers who will Who will give us this Library?

The promise is you are going to receive the revelation.

To complete, what I want to say to the world and to my people.

You don't have to turn there but early on he says about the Holy

Spirit. He will teach you all things and

John 14:26. He will teach you all things and

John 14:26

bring all the things that I've said to you to remembrance.

And if you ever met somebody who said, and I've heard this from

somebody wants many, many years ago.

You know, if I'm in doubt of the New Testament, I just go to the

words of Jesus. Paul John Peter.

Yeah. But they're like, you know, But

the letters in red, that's where I go to.

And if anybody ever says that or maybe you believe that I would

say, well what do you do with the scripture like this?

Because Jesus said that the holy spirit will not speak on his own

authority. The Holy Spirit who work through

the apostles was not giving something additional or less

than what does it say here? That he will take.

What is mine? Jesus said he will take.

What is mine? And make it known to you?

So you go to First Corinthians and you see Paul writing to a

church, and immediate context has is the troubles that they

have. And if people that he's

communicating to that, he's minutes or to Paul's writings.

Yeah, but Jesus is words, John, same thing.

Why is this crucial? Because we're coming to a day

where people are saying, well, Jesus didn't speak about

homosexuality, so it must be okay.

Jesus wasn't very clear about gender roles within the local

church and the home. So we will pop.

Well, yeah, but that's Paul. That was Peter.

Jesus said that what they would receive from the spirit would be

from him. So they're actually Jesus's

words. So, what you gonna do with that?

They are his words through the apostles and these chosen men

who received the promise of the Holy Spirit to experience a

supernatural work of being inspired in a specific moment.

To write holy writ, they themselves knew they themselves

were convinced that their content at certain times were in

fact given by Jesus Christ. By the spirit, they knew that if

you believe that the New Testament was just compiled

accidentally and that the apostles did not know what they

were writing, would be inspired and we come to this point where

we would have the scriptures. No, no.

They in fact, knew it though, they were not in control of when

they would be inspired. They knew that they were by the

Holy Spirit carrying them along. Proof of that is in second Peter

in chapter 3. in verse 1, Peter says this is now the second

letter that I am writing to you Beloved in both of them, I am

stirring up, your sincere Mind by way of reminder that you

should remember. Now look at this verse to that

you should remember the predictions of the Holy prophets

and the Commandment of the Lord and Savior through your

apostles. You should remember the

predictions of the Holy prophets.

And we know that those prophets were the men who spoke and

Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and Mayhem, and Malachi

and Deuteronomy, remember their predictions and look where he

places his own writings with the other 11.

In the same category equal and worth equal in authority and the

Commandment of who the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

The apostles writings were just as relevant and reliable and

authoritative as those of the ancient prophets in the Old

Testament. And so even the early church

learned to submit to the words of the Apostles, as though, they

were divine in origin. And that's clear here.

And this should excite us to a certain degree.

Because Jesus is telling telling them that this is going to

happen in Peters experiencing and he's what he's saying to his

people is that you should be reminded what we're saying comes

from Christ. Comes from the Lord himself your

savior and our savior. What about Paul?

Paul was additional Paul was in among the twelve.

So many Paul. I mean, I know this sounds crazy

but you have to understand, this is how people think.

This is a people actually think they chop it up in such a way

and they really believe that not all scripture is breathed out by

God. Now you believe that, but there

is a world increasing and even an academic settings that will

say otherwise So narrow it down. We go from all scripture Old

Testament. Now we come to the words of

Jesus, they're Divine, okay, there's no much argument there.

Okay, the 12 there. Well, what about Paul then?

Paul was Paul's third number 13, the same chapter, you scroll

down to verse 16 of second, Peter He's speaking about Paul's

writings, you can go to verse 15 actually and count the patience

of Our Lord as salvation. Just as our beloved brother

Paul. I love how Peter speaks about

Paul our beloved brother. Tenderness and compassion our

beloved brother Paul, also wrote to you to the wisdom, given him.

Now, look at this, as he does in all his letters.

When he speaks in them of these matters, there are some things

in them that are hard to understand, that comforts me,

There are some things in them that are hard to understand,

which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction,

as they do the other scriptures. so, even Peter Speaking about

Paul's letters is saying that they're scripture as they do

implying. What that Paul's writings are

just as much scripture as Moses writings.

And people twist them. And I, as I said earlier, I'm

comforted to know that some parts are hard to understand.

So if you have difficulty, reading some, postures of

scripture, you don't understand what's being said, it's okay.

Even Peter did Notice this incredible connection and I hope

that this brief time but at least settle your soul to

realize that when God through Paul says all scripture, he

really meant all scripture. Now, if you want to know how the

Bible has been developed and how why we have these particular

books in our library, you can come ask us after the service,

that's a whole another session on its own.

But within the testimony of the word of God itself, we know that

from the sacred writings to the words of Jesus.

To the words of the Apostles it is considered as the very truth

of God from God's heart and mind himself.

And this is encouraging, because we go on to read here.

That all scripture, all scripture is breathed out by

God. Sounds, poetic sounds profound

sounds powerful. What does it mean?

What does it mean? Breathe out by God?

It's an expression only found in this verse in all of the Bible

though, the meaning is expressed in different ways at different

portions of the Bible. This phrase itself is unique to

this text and the purpose of this claim is to make sure that,

although you and I believe that the Bible has been written by

individual writers with their respective personalities.

The origin, the origin is God, It's God.

And now, God in his wisdom, does not give us the mechanics.

Does that give us a step-by-step process of how that

inspirational work happened? Did they go into a trance and

start writing? I don't think so.

But we don't have that we not given that.

All God believes is sufficient for his people.

And for a world who is skeptical to know is that at certain times

with certain men, God used them to say exactly what he wanted to

say and it is found in our Bibles today.

Breathe out the same way that your words are accompanied by

your breath. You breathe out your words.

This written word are the very words of God does not Inspire

reverence in US. That this book that we are

hearing from today. It's not Paul's thoughts, not

Peters thoughts? Yes, God work through them.

It's ultimately the Lord himself.

These are his commands. These are his instructions.

This is his counsel. This is his revelation.

All from time to time. We need to be reminded of that

so that we can tremble. When we come to this word, and

I'm afraid that with, with such availability, we are losing that

sense of reverence because you can download God's word, it's

just an app, right? Beside Instagram and Facebook.

There's God's word. Be reminded today that are no

matter what platform. It's found its still God

speaking. It's God speaking.

And in order to even show how connected God's word is to him,

you may have never heard this before but I hope it inspires

some excitement in you this afternoon in order to show just

how connected God is to his word.

The holy spirit in the Bible sometimes listen to this uses

the word God and scripture interchangeably.

In other words, when God has said something, sometimes the

New Testament will just say and scripture said, when it was in

fact, God who said it. And there are other times that

when there is a clear scripture given by specific author, The

New Testament was say, God said that God said that and I want to

show you just two examples of that.

This is this is exciting. One is found in the book of

Galatians. Galatians chapter 3 They're the

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rustling of the leaves. Galatians chapter 3.

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Look what look what Paul says, look at this.

Masterful statement in verse 8 of Galatians chapter 3, And the

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scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by

faith. Preached the gospel beforehand

to Abraham saying in you shall all the nations be blessed.

Hold on, read that slowly. Who's foreseeing?

Who's preaching the gospel to Abraham?

who's saying it's not a who it's a, what the scripture, the

scripture foreseeing, the scripture preaching, the

scripture saying but you go back to Genesis 12 where this quote

is taken from and you realize that it's God who's speaking to

Abraham God is the one who said in you shall all the nations be

blessed. And yet Paul, by the spirit goes

on to say, actually it was scripture who said it Paul

personifies scripture. As a scripture, can see, as

though, scripture can preach as a scripture, can say because

what's credited to God, he actually credits it to

scripture. For what reason to show, just

how connected scripture is to the heart and mind of God.

He does the same in Romans 9 verse 17, you don't have to turn

Romans 9:17

there. he says, and the scripture said to pharaoh, And

then he quotes what God said about pharaoh and exodus.

Well God said it. Yeah but scripture said it

because whatever God says is scripture.

So Paul even personifies the written word of God, to a

certain extent, by saying when God said it, it's divine

revelation. And he does the opposite, he

does the opposite when a human writer wrote something.

He says God said it and that's found in Hebrews as an example.

And Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7 I told you were going to a lot of

Hebrews 3:7

verses today and Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7.

Hebrews 3:7

We read this Therefore as the holy spirit says, today if you

hear his voice, do not Harden. Your hearts as in the Rebellion

on the day of testing, in the wilderness, he quotes Psalm, 95

7 to 11. And it's clear that a psalmist

wrote this. It's a psalmist, in fact, giving

instruction to the people of how to respond to God.

Don't Harden your hearts. That's a preaching thing.

That's an instruction think today, if you hear his voice, do

not Harden your hearts, some would say that's David.

And actually David, when you go down later on, we're told it's

David. But he doesn't say the psalmist.

He doesn't say. As David says, he says who as

the holy spirit says, The holy spirit.

Is God, what does that mean? What, when you read the Psalms,

you're not just reading David, you're not just reading asaph,

you're not just reading, Moses. You're reading God.

Speaking to you. And in fact, in the next chapter

in chapter 4 verse 7, we are told with the same Psalm that

God spoke through David through. David the holy spirit says today

if you hear his voice. Not David.

Yes, David was the instrument. Yes, David was speaking with his

personality, his poetic ability but it was God who said he was

God, who said it. And so you see how God even in

the word, conjoins his word with who he is, they're inseparable.

These things reveal him, they speak of him the same way, your

words reveal who you are, God's word reveals who he is and I

hope we understand that. I hope we see that this is

Supernatural that it's Inseparable from who he is but

you might be in an honest way asking.

Well how How does this ancient Spirit woven series of tax

applied to my Martin life? You've proved it.

I hope all scripture means all scripture, including the words

of Jesus, including the words and the writings of the Apostles

that when they spoke God spoke, but what does that mean for me?

What does that do for me? Oh you ask the wonderful

question and Paul. After speaking about the

authority of God's word, this Breathe Out book goes on to

speak about the ability of God's word and you heard it its

profitable for teaching. It's Trouble for reproof for

correction for training in righteousness.

So that the man of God, may be complete equipped for every good

work. Now we read in verse 15 of

second. Timothy chapter 3 that these

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sacred writings make us wise for salvation.

When you come to this book even the Old Testament you can be led

to saving faith. But he goes on beyond that.

It's more than just that it's more than just bringing you to

the place. Where your soul is secure in the

hands of a merciful god by Faith by repentance it is adequate

enough from that place. It is adequate enough to make

you healthy spiritually to make you whole to make you pure, to

make you strong, to make you fruitful to make you effective

to make you discerning. To be complete.

Complete this and speak about moral perfection.

It speaks about being mature in the things of God, and we do

strive on to Perfection, but complete in the sense that you

are furnished with all that, God would want to furnish you with.

And what do we need? Do we need 10 texts?

Do we need the Book of Mormon, do we need?

No, no just the Scripture. It is sufficient.

It is enough. It is it is God's necessary and

sufficient truth to tell you exactly what he wants you to

know about him. It is exactly what God wants to

say to you about. Who you are with him or without

him. What this world is, what this

world will become. Is enough for you to know how to

act, not to act. There's nothing more that you

need that I need. And this written word and that

will only be exciting, really to the person who would strive to

be, what he tells him that he is to Timothy a man of God.

You men of God listen you want to be a man of God.

This will equip you to be a man. If you don't care about being a

man of God, this Bible will not be attractive to you.

If you don't want to be a woman of God, you will not be

attracted to this book. But if you strive after coming

to Salvation to the wisdom of God's word to say now, Lord make

me into a man of God. And this is the place to be.

This is where you draw that wisdom from.

And as you hear it, as you receive it as you engage with

it. It's super naturally Works in

you and begins to shape you and change you from glory to glory

to glory. You do not read this book every

morning because that's what a good little Christian does.

You come to this word because it is God's way of speaking into

your life. As he spoke into creation, let

life come Let order come. Like chaos be calmed in your

heart and your mind and your behavior.

But the difference between you and the trees and you and I and

the planets, and the water is that they do not have the

ability. To say, no.

When God said trees come up. Yes.

Sand, come up, yes, mountains, come up.

Yes. But when it comes to you and I

when God's word is exposed, as you have to submit to it, in

order for it to work in you What I love about this truth is that

if this is the source that brings about a certain kind of

person, a man of God or woman of God, then as a local church, as

we make this word central, then we can know what to expect from

our people. And that is to be trained in

righteousness. That is to be quit.

That is to be complete. The only way that you can have

such caliber of people in a local church is when you elevate

the word of God and you, Teach it, you use it to reprove, you

use it to preach and teach and instruct and then only then will

you see a people arise to be Mighty Warriors for the kingdom

of God? Only then nothing apart from the

word of God. And yet, here we are hearing a

different methods to draw. I am not interested in drawing

people in and neither is the Bible.

The Bible is interested in creating certain type of people.

That can only happen from the word when the word is sung, when

the word is converse, when the word is declared only, then will

we see like, Timothy men and women of God, and when this word

is Central, you know what happens, it weeds out, the

people who don't want it. It weeds out those who think

that they can live in sin and worldliness and come and take

refuge among God's people. This word is so sharp that when

it is declared by the power of the Holy Spirit, the person who

does not want Sin, Cara their lives while For his life from

such a place. But to those who say, oh God, do

what he need to do, whatever surgery you need to do, cut it

out, mold me shape me. Put me in the fire melt me so

that you can create something beautiful, and me, a local

church. That puts the word of God is

supreme and primary will be an oasis in a Wilderness for such a

person. They will come and drink, they

will sit and they will receive. Even if they have to go

Coast-to-Coast to receive the word from the Lord.

You want to be a man of God. Come to the word.

God, wrote a book. God wrote a book and God has

ordained it. Since he has made Covenant with

a people. That they would hear from him

through a book. And if you have a copy of his

book, It means that in his good Providence.

God longs to speak to you. I know we pray say God speak to

me and we want the Mount Sinai experience.

Not realizing that the Mount Sinai experience was to create

the very word that he would communicate his people with God

spoke and God still wants to speak.

Notice? I didn't say, God wants you to

come to his word to learn something about him.

I didn't say that. I said, God wants to speak

currently to you, and I want to prove that to you in our final

text as we close in a moment and the gospel of Matthew chapter

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22, I want you to see how Jesus believe how this word spoke, and

still speaks. And the gospel of Matthew

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chapter 22. He speaking to.

The Sadducees. They didn't believe in the

Supernatural. They didn't believe in the

resurrection. They didn't believe in angels

and somebody jokingly said well no wonder they were called the

Sadducees sad you see? They don't believe in things.

I should make you rejoice. In Matthew, 22 verse 31.

Matthew 22:31

Jesus speaks to them because they try to Corner him with a

question about the resurrection. They thought they were clever

and look what he does. So masterfully.

And as for the resurrection of the Dead, have you not read?

What was said to you by God, I am the god of Abraham and the

god of Isaac and the god of Jacob.

He is not God of the dead but of the living.

Jesus is a master apologists. Evangelist knew that the

Sadducees only held to the first five books of the Bible, didn't

hold to the prophets then hold to the historical narratives,

they held to the first five books.

So what he does to prove his case as he goes to the first

five books to prove the resurrection And he goes to the

Book of Exodus. But more than that, he says,

have you not read? And then he finishes that

statement with what was said to you.

By God. Have you not read?

What was said to you. Well, that's interesting because

he quotes Exodus and that burning bush scene where Moses

approaches this Burning Bush and God speaks to Moses.

And when you go to Acts chapter 7 and you don't have to turn

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there, Stephen goes to this incident as well in his last

message, before he is executed. And he clearly says, in Acts 7.

What the Lord said to him being Moses and he engages with the

same reference, Stephen says, what the Lord said to him?

Jesus says what the Lord said to you, What do you mean to you?

God spoke to Moses that was the immediate context.

And yet Jesus still says in this text that even though in the

immediate context God spoke to Moses God was actually having in

mind something for you to hear. God in his mind, obviously,

wrote it and recorded it for Moses, but he also had in mind

that for future Generations. When they would read that

portion of scripture among all of it, they would understand

that God was actually saying something to them as well.

You Sadducees hundreds of years after what this happened, where

this happened, God actually was saying something to you.

Did you hear it? Did you hear what God Said in

Exodus? When he spoke to Moses he was

in. Just speaking to Moses he was

speaking to you and he's still speaking to us in 2021 2022 2023

2024 T he's still speaking. What does that mean?

This phrase proves to me in essence then when I come to his

word Not just the, the obvious instructions given to me and you

as Christians and Philippians and Ephesians do this, don't do

this. Even when I come to Exodus, God

has something to say to me. From Genesis to Malachi although

its historical. As ancient its narrative, it's

descriptive and yet still according to the words of Jesus,

God wants to speak to me through those stories.

He wants to speak to me through Leviticus.

He wants to speak to me in Malachi and Zechariah.

That will make all the difference in your approach to

the word of God. That will make all the

difference. It will be much more exciting to

come to something like the Old Testament.

And not think that the ultimate motivation is.

So I can memorize certain truth, so that when I'm quizzed, I can

show that I'm sharp. Who cares.

What, what are we seeing here? Come to the word of God because

God wants to say something. You should get giddy my brother.

And my sister, when you finish a book in the Old Testament,

you're ready to come to a new one.

You should prepare yourself old God, what are you going to say

to me? What are you going to speak?

To me? What are you going to reveal

yourself to me through this text because God had in mind through?

Jesus Christ, that when you see these things and read these

things, he would say something. and I hope you would feel that

way when you read God's word, because as you come with that

kind of an attitude, You will go deeper in your knowledge of him

in a way that would be so rich and so real.

And so transformative that you will not be the same as you

discipline yourself to have a conversation with god.

When God speaks to a heart, that's willing to receive what

he wants to say. That heart cannot remain the

same. It cannot.

Now if you come to this book to receive data and information,

then that can only go so far when you are disconnected from

this book and you don't realize that it's actually God's means

of speaking and communicating to you won't go very far and being

equipped as a man of God. But when you come from cover, to

cover ready for the Lord to speak to you, although you will

be furnished. You'll be molded, you will be

transformed. Something will happen to your

conversation style, will change your outlook will change victory

over sin becomes more available and more experienced something

happens. But you have to believe that

it's God's voice first. Jesus said it and I hope today

this afternoon that you would leave here with a greater itch

and a holy way a greater appetite.

When you fail to feel the motivation to come to God's word

realize what Jesus said to these Sadducees, he wants to say

something to you. He wants to say something to

you. But we thank you for your word

this afternoon. Thank you that all scripture is

breathed out by God. And this world will be held

accountable to the word. Thank you that we have.

Received the wisdom from this word for salvation.

But Lord, we don't want your salvation.

We want to be Sanctified, we want to be a man of God, a woman

of God. What help us believe, what?

Christ himself said of his word that it speaks to us, you speak

to us. Even in this day you had in mind

from eternity past that Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers

Deuteronomy and everything after that.

Would be your way of speaking. Revealing.

Communicating to us. Lord.

We just ask in this moment that there would be a renewed love

for the word and in this moment we in response to his show you

reverence As we sing to the Living God with his living book.

Breathing us, Breath of God, Fresh Life, fresh hope, and

fresh Faith to continue in this walk Faithfully, as we walk in

the word, in Jesus name, we pray.

Amen, let's stand and Worship the Lord together, shall we?