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The Sufficiency of God's Word: Part Two “I hate and abhor falsehood but I love your law. Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws. Great peace have they who love your law and nothing can make them stumble.” Ps 119:163-165 “On the far side of every risk-even if it results in death-the love of God triumphs. This is the faith that frees us to risk for the cause of God. It is not heroism, or lust for adventure, or courageous self-reliance, or efforts to earn God’s favor. It is childlike faith in the triumph of God’s love-that on the other side of all our risks, for the sake of righteousness, God will be holding us. We will be eternally satisfied in him. Nothing will be wasted.” – John Piper, “Don’t Waste Your Life,” p. 95 |
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The Sufficiency of God's Word “Jesus replied, ‘Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?’” Mark 12:24 “In the beginning of this century the battle was over the inerrancy of the Scriptures. Today it is over the sufficiency of the Scriptures.” – Dr. James Boice Our Purpose: God’s Word is sufficient. God speaks and accomplishes His purposes (Isaiah 55:11). God’s Word is our food (Matthew 4:4). God’s Word is irresistible power (Jeremiah 23:29). God has spoken the words that are written down in our Bible (2 Timothy 3:16). When it is believed and received, it creates eternal life (John 20:31). Its truth sets apart the people of God (John 17:17). It opens the eyes of the blind (2 Corinthians 4:4-6). It gives life to the dead (Colossians 2:13). It grows the Church (Acts 12:24). It frees the captive (John 8:31-32). It gives hope to the weary (Romans 15:4). It brings joy to the heart (John 15:11). It brings glory to God (John 15:7-8). Nothing needs to be added to it and nothing needs to be taken from it (Deuteronomy 4:2). Nothing can be set alongside it (Psalm 119:89). God’s Word is sufficient! If we will believe it and proclaim it, God will glorify himself through it. |
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God’s Book of Joy “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:1-2 OUR PURPOSE: God is infinitely glorious. All that God has done in creation and redemption was done to enable us see and savor His glory. God speaks by the Holy Spirit and through the written Word to enable us to enter into the joy of the Lord. Therefore, it is the purpose of this session to help us to see that the greatest motive for devotion to God’s Word is not duty but delight. The Bible is a book of joy. May God give us a new joy as we devour his Word. |
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A Famine of the Word: [Amos 8:11-12]
[The third sermon in the series: “Give Me the Book!”] When we keep the Son at the center of the universe all things hold together in their proper orbit. But when we try to make one of the planets the center, chaos is the result. When we keep God at the center of their lives and seek to honor Him and serve Him, health, order and joy are ours. When any society exchanges the glory of God for that which he has made, and when it chooses to follow a lie rather than his truth, and when it chooses to ignore the God who created men, confusion reigns and society breaks down. That is the point of William Butler Yeats’ poem: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats |
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God’s Perspective on Man’s Problems:
[God’s Truth verses Man’s Theory] I. God’s perspective on life’s problems and mankind’s opposing view: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.” Prov 14:12 A. Man’s Theory: “Man is a Victim” “This approach sees man’s fundamental problem as ignorance of himself and his psychic injuries, rather than deliberate disobedience to and ignorance of the living and true God. Man’s primary need becomes esteeming himself more highly rather than dying to self and living for God. Its methodology of “man as victim,” rather than “man as sinner” challenges the biblical doctrines of man’s absolute culpability before the cross, the supremacy of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s sanctification, and most importantly the sufficiency and authority of Scripture for the believer.” [Jim Owen: “Christian Psychology’s War on God’s Word.”] |
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