Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

The oldest parts of Tbe Bible (the first 5 books were written as long ago as 3,500 tears

SO how can we trust a book that is so old and we have no originals?

thousands of prophisees have come true

597 BC Ezekial predicted that

Nebuchadnezzar would destroy villages

He would build a seige mound

many nations would would attack tyre

the city would be flattened like a rock

stones timber and soil would be thrown into the sea.

at the time it was one of the most secure and weathiest in the entire world massive walls they even had an island city so that they had a place to escape to

Secular History

Nebichadnezzer came up against the city

after he built a seigh mound the people moved out to the island city and he could not attack it

in 330 B.C. Alexander the great attacked

again the inhabitints moved out to the island city

Alexander wanted the island city too so he took the rocks timbers and soil and dumped them inot the sea and made a bridge to the island city.

This prediction was more than 250 yers in the future (Divine assistence

2. The Fall of Babylon

Babilon was also one of the richest cities in the world

the walls were 75 ft thick and 300 ft high

it was surounded by the great river euphrates that made a moat around the city that was as much as 250ft across

Jeremiah and Issiah prophisied the end to Babylon

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Secular History

The eurphraties river went under the city

siris the keeg of the meeds and the persions redirected the river to cause it to go into a bason and marched his troops under the wall of the city

When that happened the babylonians were drunk and feasting

and the city was taken

Theese are just two examples of prophesy yet every single prophicy found in the scripture took place

The dead sea scrolls backed up what the Bible says

They are surely one of the greatest discoveries in modern times

They are surely one of the greatest discoveries in modern times

They are divided into two categories Biblical and non Biblical

Fregments of every book of the Hebrew cannon were found

The Issiah scroll found relitivly intact is 1000 years older than any previously know coppy making them the oldest group of the old testement found

Suptuagint-4th Centery

Dead sea Scrolls-

Canonicity

The cannon is the 66 books in our Bible and our the only inspired books

The word cannon comes from greek and herbrew words that litterally means a measuring rod.

Therfore canonicity describes the standard that books had to meet to be reconized as scripture

To determine the cannon Scholers gathered together at church councils in the first several ceturies for the puropse of officially reconizing books as inspired they simply reconized what God had already determined

Tests of Cannonicity

The Test of Divine Insperation-Does it claim to be divinely inspired?

Is it inspired

THe test of Human authorship-Is the book Written by an accredited agent of God such as a prophet, christ, or one of His apposles If not, did the writer have the gift of prophecy (David, Daniel) or a relation to a prophet or an apostle (Mark, Luke) that would raise his book to the level of their writings?

Can the book be traced back to the time and/or the writer from who it professes to have come?

The Test of Authenticity

The Test of Authenticity

Is the book factually true?

It is noteworthy that Bible authors did not use the false

philosophical and scientific opinions of their times.

have the gift of prophecy (David, Daniel) or a relation to a prophet or an apostle (Mark, Luke) that would raise his book to the level of their writings?

Can the book be traced back to the time and/or the writer from who it professes to have come?

The Test of Testimony

The Test of Testimony

Was the book universally recognized by the Jews and/or by the Christian church as being God's Word?

Does the Holy Spirit bear witness to the regenerated reader that the book is His Word?

The Test of Agreement

Does the book agree doctrinally with the teachings of known canonical books?

While there is progression in the Bible's revelation of doctrine, there is no contradiction.

Is the content of the book of such spiritual character that it is in harmony with the dignity and majesty of God?

The appocropha also does not pass the test of cannoncity.

Texts

matt 5:17-

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2 Tim 3:15-1

Paul is writting to timothy about the authority of Scripture

Notice what he says in vers 15

From the point Timothy was a little Child his mother and grandmother taught him the holy scriptures, the sacred writings.

This was the Old testement,

Notice what it says in the next sintence

“Which were able to make thee wise unto salvation”

There is enough in the Old testement to become a believer.

The context here is Timothy is a yong pastor and some were questioning the newer scripture so Paul goes on to say

All Scripture is

Paul mooves from the holy writings to all scripture

meaning the whole of scripture, leaving nothing out.

-Inspired

Litterly means God breathed

Paul is instructing timothy The Scripture is from God, although God used men to produce scripture the ultimate origin was God

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-Profitble

Scripture is valuable because it corrects false teaching while Building up believers to live Godly lives

Profitable for teaching

-our primary resourse for all christian teaching should be the word of God

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-Profitable for corecting

-To rebuke false teachers and admonish those who believe there teaching

-Profitable for training

-training in doing what is right or what is in accordence with godlyness

Th man of God may be

-Complete

-equiped

-for every good work

Scripture helps believers fulfil the work of the ministery 1 tim 4:1-5

Scripture is a gift to Gods people God has not left timoth or the belivers in ephisis to do good works on there own He provided them with scripture and each other for doing good in the name of Christ

He didnt leave the early church then and he cirtenly has not left us todat

The Bible is as true and profitable today as it was when Paul wrote this letter to timothy

The word of God is able to divide all parts of the human being

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