Robert Jeffress - How Can I Know The Bible Is True? (Part 1A)

January 10, 2025 | S25:E17

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - How Can I Know The Bible Is True? (Part 1A) | January 10, 2025
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress and
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  • Welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Just look at the colors in a summer sunset or a field of
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  • Spring flowers and you can clearly see the fingerprints of
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  • A divine creator.
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  • But how can we be certain that this spiritual being is the god
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  • Of the bible and not some other religion?
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  • The answer lies within the scripture itself.
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  • And today i'm going to explain why the bible can be trusted.
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  • We're answering the question, "how can i know the bible is
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  • True?" on today's edition of pathway to victory.
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  • Jeffress: it's one thing to acquiesce to the claim that
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  • Somewhere out there, there's an intelligent being who's
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  • Responsible for matter that exists around us and oversaw the
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  • Complexity of the universe.
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  • But it's a giant leap to conclude that that intelligent
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  • Being is the personal god of abraham, isaac, and jacob, a god
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  • Who implanted himself in the womb of a teenager in a remote
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  • Corner of the earth, and nine months later gave birth to the
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  • Son of god, a man who would die on a wooden cross to atone for
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  • The sins of all people, who would be raised from the dead on
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  • The third day after his crucifixion, and is coming back
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  • Again to earth to reward the righteous and punish
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  • The unrighteous.
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  • I mean, why couldn't the intelligent being who created
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  • Everything be allah of the quran of islam?
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  • Why couldn't it be the force from "star wars?"
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  • Why couldn't it be any number of thousands of gods who are
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  • Out there?
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  • Well, the answer is the bible.
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  • It is through the bible that we have the revelation of
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  • Everything we need to know about god: who he is, his name, his
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  • Attributes, his plan and purpose for the world, his desire for
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  • Your life and my life.
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  • Of course, there are a lot of religious books that claim to be
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  • The depository of truth about their respective gods.
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  • So the real question is, how do we know the bible is true?
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  • If everything of importance we know about god comes from the
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  • Bible, how can we know the bible is true?
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  • Maybe you've asked that question yourself.
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  • You've had children or grandchildren who have asked
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  • That question.
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  • You know, they have normal doubts.
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  • I mean, is there any evidence, for example, outside of the
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  • Bible that the events of the bible took place?
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  • What about the so-called contradictions in the bible, in
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  • The gospels and other places?
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  • How do you explain those?
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  • How do we know that the copyist copied the original
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  • Manuscripts correctly?
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  • How do we know we have the right books of the bible?
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  • Why are there 66?
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  • Why not 33 or 107?
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  • Who decided what's in the bible?
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  • This is not just an intellectual discussion.
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  • If satan ever wants to get a foothold in your life, he'll do
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  • It by causing you to question the validity, the veracity of
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  • The bible.
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  • I had that happen in my own experience.
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  • Many of you know my story.
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  • I grew up in a christian home, grew up in this church, was
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  • Called to the ministry when i was in high school, went to
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  • College excited, and then i heard some college professors,
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  • Religion professors, who sowed seeds of doubt about the
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  • Veracity of the scripture, talking about all the errors and
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  • Contradictions in the bible.
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  • And i was tempted to turn my back, not just on my call to
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  • Ministry, but on christianity as a whole.
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  • I mean, if you can't trust the bible, why even bother?
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  • You may be tempted in that way to doubt.
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  • You know, satan's first line of attack, as i said, is to cause
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  • People to doubt the word of god.
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  • Remember what the serpent said to eve in the garden?
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  • "has god really said?"
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  • And we all have to ask that question.
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  • Has god really spoken through the bible?
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  • And, if so, how do i know it can be trusted?
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  • That's what we're going to talk about this week and next week as
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  • We answer the question, how can i know the bible is true?
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  • Now, first of all, we need to define what we mean by "true."
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  • What do we mean when we say, the bible is true?
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  • There are two words i want you to write down.
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  • One is the word inerrant.
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  • Inerrant.
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  • That word simply means without error.
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  • Dr. charles ryrie, who was a great theologian and was a
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  • Member of this church for many years, defined it this way.
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  • He said, when we say the bible is inerrant, we're simply
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  • Saying the bible tells the truth.
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  • It tells the truth.
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  • Now, you have to define "truth."
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  • You have to make sure enough you've got a broad enough
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  • Definition of truth.
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  • Truth includes approximations.
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  • For example, if you said, 10,000 people came to the game last
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  • Night and somebody counted, and said, well, it was really
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  • 10,007, did you tell a lie?
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  • No, you were giving an approximation.
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  • The bible includes things like that.
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  • Free quotations.
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  • Sometimes writers of the bible paraphrase other scripture.
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  • They don't quote it word for word.
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  • That's not untruth.
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  • We do that all the time.
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  • It includes languages of appearance.
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  • When the bible talks about the four corners of the earth,
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  • It's not saying that the earth is flat.
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  • Today we use the language of appearance.
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  • Your meteorologist, weatherman on your favorite tv channel,
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  • Talks about the sunrise and the sunset, the time.
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  • Is he lying?
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  • We know the sun doesn't rise or set.
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  • It's the language of appearance.
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  • You find that in the bible as well.
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  • The controlling verse of scripture that talks about the
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  • Bible being inerrant is 2 timothy 3, verses 16 and 17.
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  • We read those verses just a few moments ago.
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  • "all scripture is inspired by god and profitable for teaching,
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  • For reproof, for correction, for training and righteousness, so
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  • That the man of god may be adequate and equipped for every
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  • Good work."
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  • "inspired by god," that greek word is theopneustos.
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  • Literally, all scripture is god-breathed.
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  • Every word came from the breath of god that you have in
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  • Your bible.
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  • And as dr. criswell used to say, "god doesn't have
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  • Bad breath.
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  • Everything he says is good and can be trusted."
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  • That's what inerrancy is.
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  • The bible tells the truth, that describes the product, the
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  • Product you have, the bible is without error.
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  • There's a second word, and that is "inspired."
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  • And that word describes the process by which god
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  • Communicated his message to us.
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  • Maybe you've wondered, how could imperfect people produce a
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  • Perfect bible?
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  • Well, peter answers that question in 2 peter 1:21, "for
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  • No prophecy of scripture was ever made by the act of the
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  • Human will, but men moved by the holy spirit spoke from god."
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  • God oversaw the process of inspirational.
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  • And that leads to the definition of inspiration
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  • I want you to look at.
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  • I've put it on your outline.
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  • Inspiration, and this came from dr. ryrie,
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  • "inspiration is god's superintending of human authors
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  • So that, using their own individual personalities, they
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  • Composed and recorded without error in the words of the
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  • Original autographs, his revelation to man."
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  • That's a mouthful right there.
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  • Now, we're gonna do something.
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  • For the next five minutes, we're all gonna go to seminary, okay?
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  • Would you like to go to seminary just for five minutes?
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  • We're gonna have a seminary course, crash course, on
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  • Bibliology, the study of the bible, and we're gonna use
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  • This definition.
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  • Let's take it phrase by phrase.
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  • Inspiration, first of all, involves "god's
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  • Superintending men."
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  • When we say the bible is perfect, we're not saying the
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  • People who wrote it are perfect.
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  • Moses, peter, paul, all the writers of scripture were
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  • Imperfect people.
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  • So how did they produce a perfect bible?
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  • God oversaw.
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  • He superintended the process.
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  • Secondly, god used "their individual personalities."
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  • That refers to the dual authorship of the bible.
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  • God's the one who initiated scripture, but he communicated
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  • Through the individual personalities of those who wrote
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  • The bible.
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  • He used the emotional outburst of king david, the angry rebukes
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  • Of moses, the skepticism of solomon.
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  • He used the systematic reasoning of the apostle paul.
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  • He used the individual personalities to produce
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  • The bible.
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  • And how did he do it?
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  • He had these men "compose and record."
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  • God composed and recorded the message.
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  • Now, let's look at that word "recorded."
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  • That means dictation.
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  • Did you know some parts of the bible were literally dictated
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  • From god to those who wrote the scripture?
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  • Think about the ten commandments in exodus 20, or think about in
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  • Revelation 2 to 3, the message that jesus sent to the
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  • Seven churches.
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  • He told john, the apostle, john, basically, get a pen and a piece
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  • Of papyrus and write this down word for word.
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  • That's how the message was communicated.
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  • But not all the bible.
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  • In fact, most of the bible wasn't dictated.
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  • It was composed.
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  • For example, in psalm 51, david cried out, "be gracious to me,
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  • O god, according to your lovingkindness."
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  • He was desperate.
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  • "be gracious to me" after this great sin i've committed.
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  • "be gracious to me, o god, according to your
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  • Lovingkindness."
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  • Now, was he taking dictation when he wrote that?
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  • God said, "be," be, "gracious," gracious, "to," to, "me," me.
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  • "lord, is there a comma after 'me' or not?"
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  • You think that's how it happened?
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  • No, he used the personality of the psalmist to produce that
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  • Message, and that's what we have in the bible.
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  • Some of the bible's recorded.
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  • Some of it is composed.
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  • But it is all used communicate his revelation.
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  • Now, pop quiz in our seminary crash course.
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  • Are there any lies in the bible?
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  • How many of you would dare to say yes?
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  • How many of you would say, "no, i'm absolutely sure there are no
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  • Lies in the bible?"
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  • Raise your hand if you're convinced.
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  • Now, let me show you why you're wrong.
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  • There are lies in the bible.
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  • The first lie came from satan when he told the woman, "you
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  • Shall not die if you eat of the tree."
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  • Now, that was a bald-faced lie.
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  • But god's message included the lies of satan.
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  • So when we talk about god's revelation, his message, that
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  • Has to be broad enough to include the lies of satan.
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  • It has to include research.
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  • For example, luke didn't see jesus up close and personal.
  • 00:12:26.101 --> 00:12:30.973
  • His gospel wasn't based on eyewitness experience.
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  • He researched, he tells us, his material.
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  • He went to the best sources to get his information.
  • 00:12:38.047 --> 00:12:41.217
  • So god's message has to include research, has to include
  • 00:12:41.217 --> 00:12:44.954
  • Emotional outbursts, like paul in romans 9, verses 1 to 2.
  • 00:12:44.954 --> 00:12:49.391
  • It even includes quotations from non-biblical sources.
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  • You know, every now and then, i'll quote from somebody, and
  • 00:12:53.195 --> 00:12:55.197
  • I'll get an angry email.
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  • How could you quote from that person?
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  • Don't you know they're a pagan philosopher?
  • 00:12:58.400 --> 00:13:00.536
  • Well, guess what?
  • 00:13:00.536 --> 00:13:01.904
  • Even paul quoted pagan philosophers.
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  • In titus 1:12, he quoted a pagan poet of his day to talk about
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  • How worthless the cretans were.
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  • God's message included quotations from
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  • Non-biblical sources.
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  • It includes approximations, paraphrases of scripture, the
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  • Language of appearance.
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  • God communicated his message through these men.
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  • He did so, next, "without error."
  • 00:13:26.061 --> 00:13:29.064
  • That means there's no mixture of error with the absolute truth of
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  • The bible.
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  • And, finally, he did so "in the words of the original
  • 00:13:34.937 --> 00:13:38.540
  • Manuscripts" or autographs.
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  • When we say, the bible is without error, we're talking
  • 00:13:40.943 --> 00:13:45.014
  • About the original manuscripts, that original letter paul sent
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  • To corinth, that original letter that john penned on the island
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  • Of patmos.
  • 00:13:54.290 --> 00:13:56.058
  • But here's a problem.
  • 00:13:56.058 --> 00:13:57.960
  • We don't have those original autographs anymore.
  • 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.597
  • We have copies of them.
  • 00:14:01.597 --> 00:14:03.299
  • In fact, i'm gonna talk next week about the amazing fact that
  • 00:14:03.299 --> 00:14:06.802
  • There are over 25,000 manuscripts of the
  • 00:14:06.802 --> 00:14:10.072
  • New testament.
  • 00:14:10.072 --> 00:14:11.573
  • There are more manuscripts of the new and old testament than
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  • Of any other work of antiquity in history.
  • 00:14:14.443 --> 00:14:18.113
  • And they proved the accuracy of the bible.
  • 00:14:18.113 --> 00:14:20.182
  • We'll get into all that next week.
  • 00:14:20.182 --> 00:14:21.517
  • But the fact is we don't have the original manuscripts.
  • 00:14:21.517 --> 00:14:24.720
  • So isn't this kind of a worthless argument to say the
  • 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.323
  • Bible is without error, but we don't have the
  • 00:14:27.323 --> 00:14:29.625
  • Books that were without error?
  • 00:14:29.625 --> 00:14:30.960
  • We don't have the manuscripts?
  • 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.361
  • Not at all. it's very relevant to us today.
  • 00:14:32.361 --> 00:14:35.497
  • For example, let's say you've got a $50 bill in your wallet
  • 00:14:35.497 --> 00:14:39.201
  • Or purse right now.
  • 00:14:39.201 --> 00:14:40.536
  • You didn't give it an offering. you've got that $50 bill.
  • 00:14:40.536 --> 00:14:46.275
  • Now, that $50 bill was produced by a plate, an engraved plate,
  • 00:14:46.275 --> 00:14:54.817
  • According to the government specifications.
  • 00:14:54.817 --> 00:14:57.453
  • Where is that plate right now?
  • 00:14:57.453 --> 00:14:59.021
  • Well, you've never seen it.
  • 00:14:59.021 --> 00:15:01.123
  • It's stored in the treasury department.
  • 00:15:01.123 --> 00:15:02.891
  • It may have even been destroyed by now.
  • 00:15:02.891 --> 00:15:06.328
  • But whether or not that original plate that you don't have,
  • 00:15:06.328 --> 00:15:09.932
  • Whether it was legitimate or counterfeit, has great relevance
  • 00:15:09.932 --> 00:15:14.403
  • To whether your $50 bill is any good or not.
  • 00:15:14.403 --> 00:15:18.273
  • It is impossible to have an errant, or illegitimate
  • 00:15:18.273 --> 00:15:24.213
  • Original, and have a perfect copy.
  • 00:15:24.213 --> 00:15:26.949
  • You just can't do it.
  • 00:15:26.949 --> 00:15:28.484
  • It makes all the difference in the world whether or not the
  • 00:15:28.484 --> 00:15:31.854
  • Original manuscripts were produced without error.
  • 00:15:31.854 --> 00:15:36.225
  • Is there any evidence that the original manuscripts from which
  • 00:15:36.225 --> 00:15:39.928
  • Our copies were derived are without error?
  • 00:15:39.928 --> 00:15:44.633
  • Let me share with you several of the strongest evidences for the
  • 00:15:44.633 --> 00:15:48.437
  • Inspiration of the bible, that we can trust the bible.
  • 00:15:48.437 --> 00:15:52.007
  • We're gonna talk about three of those evidences today and a
  • 00:15:52.007 --> 00:15:55.144
  • Final one next time.
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  • First of all, consider the bible's claims about itself.
  • 00:15:56.512 --> 00:16:01.383
  • The bible claims to be inerrant.
  • 00:16:01.383 --> 00:16:03.385
  • Now, you say that's circular reason.
  • 00:16:03.385 --> 00:16:05.087
  • We say, i know the bible is true because the bible says
  • 00:16:05.087 --> 00:16:07.723
  • It's true.
  • 00:16:07.723 --> 00:16:09.091
  • I will admit, it's the weakest argument, but it's important
  • 00:16:09.091 --> 00:16:13.395
  • Because we have to know, are we claiming something about the
  • 00:16:13.395 --> 00:16:16.432
  • Bible that the bible doesn't claim about itself?
  • 00:16:16.432 --> 00:16:19.735
  • Are we hyping the bible to say it's inerrant?
  • 00:16:19.735 --> 00:16:23.005
  • I had seminary professors, college professors, who said,
  • 00:16:23.005 --> 00:16:26.375
  • This idea of inerrant, the bible nowhere claims to be inspired
  • 00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:30.546
  • And without error.
  • 00:16:30.546 --> 00:16:31.914
  • That's just some man-made claim.
  • 00:16:31.914 --> 00:16:34.016
  • No, let's look at the old testament.
  • 00:16:34.016 --> 00:16:36.218
  • First of all, the old testament itself claimed that the old
  • 00:16:36.218 --> 00:16:39.788
  • Testament was inspired hundreds of times.
  • 00:16:39.788 --> 00:16:42.324
  • I have some of those times written on your outline.
  • 00:16:42.324 --> 00:16:44.860
  • The bible says, "and god spoke these words," or "thus sayeth
  • 00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:48.330
  • The lord," or "the words of jeremiah, to whom the word of
  • 00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:51.733
  • The lord came."
  • 00:16:51.733 --> 00:16:53.302
  • Over and over again, the old testament says this is the word
  • 00:16:53.302 --> 00:16:56.038
  • Of the lord.
  • 00:16:56.038 --> 00:16:57.406
  • In psalm 95, we read these words, verses 7 and 8, "today,
  • 00:16:57.406 --> 00:17:01.844
  • If you would hear god's voice, do not harden your hearts as
  • 00:17:01.844 --> 00:17:05.914
  • They did at meribah in the days of massah in the wilderness."
  • 00:17:05.914 --> 00:17:10.719
  • Now, that psalm was written about 900 bc, 900 bc.
  • 00:17:10.719 --> 00:17:16.425
  • We don't know who wrote that psalm, but it's included in the
  • 00:17:16.425 --> 00:17:19.428
  • Old testament.
  • 00:17:19.428 --> 00:17:20.829
  • A thousand years later, the writer of hebrews in the new
  • 00:17:20.829 --> 00:17:23.866
  • Testament quoted from psalm 95.
  • 00:17:23.866 --> 00:17:27.136
  • Listen to how he quotes from it.
  • 00:17:27.136 --> 00:17:29.071
  • "therefore, just as the holy spirit says, 'today, if you hear
  • 00:17:29.071 --> 00:17:33.709
  • God's voice,'" and so forth, "'don't harden your hearts.'"
  • 00:17:33.709 --> 00:17:36.678
  • We don't know who the human writer was.
  • 00:17:36.678 --> 00:17:38.881
  • The writer of hebrews says it doesn't matter.
  • 00:17:38.881 --> 00:17:41.517
  • It was the holy spirit who wrote those words.
  • 00:17:41.517 --> 00:17:45.487
  • The apostles themselves claimed that the
  • 00:17:45.487 --> 00:17:48.090
  • Old testament was inspired.
  • 00:17:48.090 --> 00:17:49.424
  • We've already looked at what paul said in 2 timothy 3, "all
  • 00:17:49.424 --> 00:17:52.995
  • Scripture is theopneustos."
  • 00:17:52.995 --> 00:17:55.230
  • He was talking primarily, but not exclusively, about the
  • 00:17:55.230 --> 00:17:58.367
  • Old testament.
  • 00:17:58.367 --> 00:17:59.701
  • Peter, in 2 peter 1, talked about, "no scripture came about
  • 00:17:59.701 --> 00:18:03.839
  • By act of human will, but men carried along by the holy spirit
  • 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:08.377
  • Spoke from god."
  • 00:18:08.377 --> 00:18:09.745
  • Jesus himself believed in the inspiration of the
  • 00:18:09.745 --> 00:18:13.148
  • Old testament.
  • 00:18:13.148 --> 00:18:14.483
  • The old testament was complete by the days of jesus.
  • 00:18:14.483 --> 00:18:17.019
  • He knew it. he studied it.
  • 00:18:17.019 --> 00:18:18.754
  • He believed it was inspired by god.
  • 00:18:18.754 --> 00:18:21.190
  • You know what's really interesting?
  • 00:18:21.190 --> 00:18:23.192
  • Is that jesus seems to have gone out of his way to put his stamp
  • 00:18:23.192 --> 00:18:27.496
  • Of approval on stories that are ridiculed by liberals the most
  • 00:18:27.496 --> 00:18:31.667
  • In the old testament.
  • 00:18:31.667 --> 00:18:33.202
  • For example, biologists scoff at the idea that humanity came from
  • 00:18:33.202 --> 00:18:37.940
  • One man and one woman.
  • 00:18:37.940 --> 00:18:39.942
  • And, yet, in matthew 19, jesus affirmed that.
  • 00:18:39.942 --> 00:18:42.811
  • He was talking about the issue of marriage,
  • 00:18:42.811 --> 00:18:44.746
  • But he said in matthew 19:4, "have you not read that he who
  • 00:18:44.746 --> 00:18:50.018
  • Created them from the beginning made them male and female?"
  • 00:18:50.018 --> 00:18:55.390
  • Singular, one man, one woman.
  • 00:18:55.390 --> 00:18:58.760
  • By the way, who assigns gender to people?
  • 00:18:58.760 --> 00:19:02.431
  • God does.
  • 00:19:02.431 --> 00:19:03.765
  • He's the one who makes them male or female.
  • 00:19:03.765 --> 00:19:07.202
  • What a foolish, ludicrous, stupid idea to think you can
  • 00:19:07.202 --> 00:19:11.440
  • Wave a surgeon's scalpel over somebody and turn them from a
  • 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.577
  • Man into a woman or a woman into a man.
  • 00:19:15.577 --> 00:19:18.413
  • No person can do that. only god gets to do that.
  • 00:19:18.413 --> 00:19:26.188
  • The key part of this is god made them one man, male and female,
  • 00:19:26.188 --> 00:19:31.727
  • Jesus said, or think about his resurrection.
  • 00:19:31.727 --> 00:19:36.231
  • Jesus attached his resurrection to the story of
  • 00:19:36.231 --> 00:19:39.768
  • Jonah and the great fish.
  • 00:19:39.768 --> 00:19:41.103
  • Again, skeptics say, "in the belly of a fish for three days?
  • 00:19:41.103 --> 00:19:45.240
  • No way."
  • 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:46.575
  • But listen to what jesus said.
  • 00:19:46.575 --> 00:19:47.943
  • "for just as jonah was three days and three nights in the
  • 00:19:47.943 --> 00:19:50.779
  • Belly of the sea monster, so shall the son of man be there
  • 00:19:50.779 --> 00:19:55.183
  • Three days in the heart of the earth."
  • 00:19:55.183 --> 00:19:58.820
  • Other people scoffed at the idea that there was ever a man named
  • 00:19:58.820 --> 00:20:02.758
  • Noah who built a giant arch in the middle of the desert and
  • 00:20:02.758 --> 00:20:07.329
  • Called for repentance.
  • 00:20:07.329 --> 00:20:08.664
  • And god eventually sent a flood and destroyed the earth except
  • 00:20:08.664 --> 00:20:12.968
  • For those who were in the ark.
  • 00:20:12.968 --> 00:20:14.803
  • And yet in matthew 24, verses 37 to 39, jesus attaches his second
  • 00:20:14.803 --> 00:20:20.575
  • Coming to the story of noah.
  • 00:20:20.575 --> 00:20:23.478
  • "for the coming of the son of man will be just like the days
  • 00:20:23.478 --> 00:20:26.682
  • Of noah.
  • 00:20:26.682 --> 00:20:28.016
  • For as in those days there were before the flood they were
  • 00:20:28.016 --> 00:20:31.019
  • Eating and drinking, and marrying and giving and
  • 00:20:31.019 --> 00:20:33.722
  • Marriage, until the day that noah entered the ark, and the
  • 00:20:33.722 --> 00:20:36.892
  • Flood came and took them all away; so shall the coming
  • 00:20:36.892 --> 00:20:40.462
  • Of the son of man be."
  • 00:20:40.462 --> 00:20:42.431
  • "just as it was in the days of noah, so shall it be in the
  • 00:20:42.431 --> 00:20:46.802
  • Coming of the son of man."
  • 00:20:46.802 --> 00:20:48.603
  • Jesus attached his second coming to noah.
  • 00:20:48.603 --> 00:20:51.873
  • A few years ago, i was on a popular talk show.
  • 00:20:51.873 --> 00:20:54.910
  • It was the most popular talk show of its time.
  • 00:20:54.910 --> 00:20:58.246
  • And the host said, "you know, pastor, i believe the new
  • 00:20:58.246 --> 00:21:03.085
  • Testament, but i just can't accept that story in the old
  • 00:21:03.085 --> 00:21:06.121
  • Testament about noah.
  • 00:21:06.121 --> 00:21:08.190
  • I just think it's a myth.
  • 00:21:08.190 --> 00:21:09.558
  • That couldn't be real."
  • 00:21:09.558 --> 00:21:11.693
  • And i said, "well, notice that jesus attached his second coming
  • 00:21:11.693 --> 00:21:17.265
  • To that story that you think is a myth."
  • 00:21:17.265 --> 00:21:20.869
  • Just suppose jesus had said instead, just as it was in the
  • 00:21:20.869 --> 00:21:25.807
  • Days of the easter bunny, so shall it be when the son of man
  • 00:21:25.807 --> 00:21:30.278
  • Comes again.
  • 00:21:30.278 --> 00:21:31.713
  • If jesus attached his second coming to the easter bunny,
  • 00:21:31.713 --> 00:21:35.016
  • Would you have any confidence he's coming back again?
  • 00:21:35.016 --> 00:21:38.120
  • It makes no sense to try to link reality with a fictitious or a
  • 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:43.225
  • Myth of an occurrence.
  • 00:21:43.225 --> 00:21:44.893
  • It just doesn't make any sense.
  • 00:21:44.893 --> 00:21:46.795
  • The only way to prove reality is with other reality.
  • 00:21:46.795 --> 00:21:51.032
  • My point is jesus believed the stories of the old testament,
  • 00:21:51.032 --> 00:21:54.603
  • But it didn't stop there.
  • 00:21:54.603 --> 00:21:56.104
  • He believed every word of the old testament was inspired
  • 00:21:56.104 --> 00:22:00.709
  • By god.
  • 00:22:00.709 --> 00:22:02.077
  • For example, in matthew 22, jesus was arguing with the
  • 00:22:02.077 --> 00:22:04.980
  • Sadducees, a sect of the jews about the resurrection.
  • 00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:08.750
  • They didn't believe in eternity.
  • 00:22:08.750 --> 00:22:10.218
  • They didn't believe in a resurrection.
  • 00:22:10.218 --> 00:22:12.354
  • And so jesus proved to them that the old testament taught
  • 00:22:12.354 --> 00:22:15.390
  • The resurrection.
  • 00:22:15.390 --> 00:22:16.792
  • Matthew 22, verses 31 and 32, jesus said, "but regarding the
  • 00:22:16.792 --> 00:22:21.563
  • Resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was
  • 00:22:21.563 --> 00:22:24.900
  • Spoken to you by god?
  • 00:22:24.900 --> 00:22:27.269
  • 'i am the god of abraham and isaac and jacob.'"
  • 00:22:27.269 --> 00:22:31.339
  • Jesus said, "he is not the god of the dead, but of the living."
  • 00:22:31.339 --> 00:22:34.876
  • What jesus was doing was going back to exodus 3, verse 6, the
  • 00:22:34.876 --> 00:22:39.281
  • Story of the burning bush.
  • 00:22:39.281 --> 00:22:40.649
  • Remember god appeared to moses in the burning bush and told him
  • 00:22:40.649 --> 00:22:43.819
  • To go to pharaoh?
  • 00:22:43.819 --> 00:22:45.153
  • And moses said, "if i'm to go to pharaoh, who am i to say
  • 00:22:45.153 --> 00:22:48.089
  • Sent me?"
  • 00:22:48.089 --> 00:22:49.424
  • He said, "tell them i am sent you, for i am the god of
  • 00:22:49.424 --> 00:22:53.128
  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • I tackle seven important questions and provide
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  • Biblically-based answers
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  • You can embrace with confidence.
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  • Announcer: seven straightforward answers
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  • To seven pressing questions.
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  • The book "how can i know?"
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  • Jeffress: it's not a sin to have doubts.
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  • Sometimes doubt is a prerequisite to genuine faith.
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  • Jeffress: today we looked at the bible's claim that it is both
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  • Inspired and inerrant.
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  • And while i realize that doesn't necessarily prove that the bible
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  • Is true in and of itself, what i want you to understand is that
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  • When you claim that the bible is inspired and inerrant, you're
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  • Not claiming any more than what the bible claims about itself.
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  • Fortunately, there's even more evidence for the inspiration
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  • Of scripture.
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  • And next time, we'll look at two more pieces of evidence for the
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  • Trustworthiness of the bible, including fulfilled prophecy.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, "how can i know?"
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  • Jeffress: the bible wasn't written by one man.
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  • It was written by over 40 authors over a span of
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  • 1,500 years.
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  • It was written in geographical locations 2,000 miles away, from
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  • Babylon to jerusalem to rome.
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  • Those who wrote the bible were from various backgrounds: kings,
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  • Sheep herders, doctors.
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  • Male announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two
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  • Of the message, "how can i know the bible is true?"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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