Why You Can Trust the Bible
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INTRO
WOG - Bible - Love it… Learn It… Live it
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 17 God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.
Useful - The Bible is supposed to be in every part of your life
Purpose - prepare you an I to do the good works He has for us to do.
ILL of the Muslim guy that slapped the Christian and said now… turn your cheek… thought that he has a got ya verse… we all probably worry about that.
We are going to learn some apologetics… Josh McDowell, RW, Josh.org Evidence that demand a verdict.
Why the Bible Can Be Trusted
Why the Bible Can Be Trusted
35 Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.
7 Reasons the Bible can be trusted.
1. It is historically accurate.
1. It is historically accurate.
4 The words of the Lord are true and all his works are dependable.
A lot of people don’t believe parts of the Bible. The first 11 chapters ?
Three tests of historical accuracy.
1. Eyewitness accounts
1. Eyewitness accounts
2. Recorded and copied with extreme care.
2. Recorded and copied with extreme care.
Scribes had a standard that no one else ever had. They transcribed letter by letter.
Pent. Find the middle letter and count forwards and backward and if the number did not match the original, they threw the whole thing away.
Dead Sea Scrolls - letter for letter accurate
3. Archaeological Confirmation
3. Archaeological Confirmation
Hitite Empire - confirmed in the 1900s’
2. It is scientifically accurate.
2. It is scientifically accurate.
God is the God of the universe. He created it… medical laws…
Bible has never been contradicted by science… science evolves… go back and read your third grade science books. Look at computers.
5 Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for he issued his command, and they came into being. 6 He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.
Bible is not a science book so it doesn’t use a lot of science language.
1861 French Academy of Science 51 Incontrovertible Scientific Facts that Prove the Bible is Wrong
1861 French Academy of Science 51 Incontrovertible Scientific Facts that Prove the Bible is Wrong
Problem - since that time, all 51 have been disproven.
Science during the day - don’t show up in the Bible.
The Earth was flat
The Earth was flat
They should have looked in the Bible.
22 God sits above the circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers to him! He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them.
The Earth had to be held up
The Earth had to be held up
Greeks - Atlas
Hindu - Globe sat on the back of an elephant on the back of a which stood on the back of a sea turtle which stood on the back of a serpent that swam through out the sea
Egyptians - earth stood on the 5 pillars. Moses was trained in this because he was raised Egyptian.
JOb
7 God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.
How did Job know? Maybe God told him.
The number of the stars could be counted.
The number of the stars could be counted.
Parkus 150 BC 1,022
Tolemy - 1026
If they had just read Jeremiah…
22 And as the stars of the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister before me.”
Medical Science
Hyprocates beleived humoralism.
Too much Blood made you sick
Too much Blood made you sick
Blood letting. GW died on the 3rd time they Bleed him. If they would have read Lev…
11 for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the Lord. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic Plague
- 1/4 of the people in the people died. No concept of contagion.
4 “But if the affected area of the skin is only a white discoloration and does not appear to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair on the spot has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the person for seven days.
6 And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times.
3. It’s prophetically accurate.
3. It’s prophetically accurate.
Risk - If man wrote it, there was a big risk in one not being true.
Over 300 prophecies about Jesus and the last one for him was 400 years before he came on the scene.
David prophesied the crucifixation before anyone was doing crucifixation.
Dr Peter Stoner - Science Speaks - studie probability.
Chances of grabbing a red ball from a bucket of 9 white balls - 1/10
Probability of one person fulfilling just 8 of the prophecies of Jesus.
One person fulfilling 8 prophecies is 1 in 10 (17) power 100,000,000,000,000,000
One person fulfilling 8 prophecies is 1 in 10 (17) power 100,000,000,000,000,000
If you took that many silver dollars and covered the state of texas and colored 1, and put a guy blindfilded in a helicopter and let him down and he grabs the red one.
One person fulfilling 16 prophecies is 1 in 10 (45)
One person fulfilling 16 prophecies is 1 in 10 (45)
One person fulfilling 48 prophecies is 1 in 10 (157)
One person fulfilling 48 prophecies is 1 in 10 (157)
It’s impossible. How did that happen? Perhaps the prophecies were from God.
21 or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God.
Thats why Jesus says…
56 But this is all happening to fulfill the words of the prophets as recorded in the Scriptures.” At that point, all the disciples deserted him and fled.
Only Scripture in those days was the OT
Some of these are yet to be fulfilled and you don’t want to be on the wrong side of those prophecies.
6 Then the angel said to me, “Everything you have heard and seen is trustworthy and true. The Lord God, who inspires his prophets, has sent his angel to tell his servants what will happen soon.”
It takes more faith that the prophecies of the Bible just happened than it takes to believe they came from God.
4. It is thematically unified.
4. It is thematically unified.
Written by 40 people over 1600 years… 12 nations… 3 continents. Same theme...
How did that happen.
27 Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
5. It’s trusted by Jesus.
5. It’s trusted by Jesus.
People … I love Jesus but I don’t know about the rest of that book. If you are going to love Jesus, you have to trust what he trusted.
18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved.
Jesus trusted the whole Bible.
People say things have changed… people don’t believe like that anymore.
Listen, if something is going to change, you change… the Bible doesn’t change.
If you believe what you like in the Bible but don’t believe what you don’t like, it’s not the Bible that you trust but yourself.
If you believe what you like in the Bible but don’t believe what you don’t like, it’s not the Bible that you trust but yourself.
There is no way it’s not true and I still have more to give you.
It is pure, true…
I will trust it because Jesus trusted it. I may not understand it all, but I trust it.
6. It has survived all attacks.
6. It has survived all attacks.
Why was it attacked?
Could it be that the enemy of your soul wants to keep you far from it. He doesn’t want you to have anything to do with the Bible.
The Bible is the most despised, derided, denied, disputed, dissected, debated, outlawed and destroyed book ever.
The Bible is the most despised, derided, denied, disputed, dissected, debated, outlawed and destroyed book ever.
And it’s still going.
Read this...
24 As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades. 25 But the word of the Lord remains forever.” And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.
I love the Bible.
Voltaire - smart guy -
Within 100 years the Bible will be forgotten. Voltaire
Within 100 years the Bible will be forgotten. Voltaire
The only thing that’s been forgotten was that quote. His home became the French bible Society… That’s some God humor.
Here is the question.
What is going to be the final authority in your life? The Word or the world?
What is going to be the final authority in your life? The Word or the world?
authority - I am going to live by it. Im going to read it, study it, discuss it and live by it even though I may not agree with it…
The culture seems to be trending the other way, but I am not changing.
This last proof you can test. Try it for a year and see what God does in your life.
First 15 - give him at least 15 min every day… come to as many services as you can. When we do a marriage conference, come to it. When we do a parenting conference this year, come to it. When we do a Financial conference this year, come to it.
7. It has transforming power.
7. It has transforming power.
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
A disciple holds onto His teaching and the truth will
change your life
change your families
change your kids
change your relationships
change your life.
Prayer
Pray with me
God your word is true, accurate, flawless, perfect. We put our trust in your word regardless wether we understand it or not. We give it authority in our lives. Help us to learn it, love it and live it.
My prayer for the church
God is not looking for people to just come to church and play church, he is looking for people who will hold into Him. How? Surrender.
If you just received Jesus
Next Steps - Now What…