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February 2, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know | February 2, 2026
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  • From the pulpit of the
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  • First baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress.
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  • Welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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  • In a world in which everyone's opinion
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  • Is considered equally valid,
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  • Christian beliefs are under attack.
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  • More than ever, we need to stand firm
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  • On the clear teaching of god's word.
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  • And over the next several weeks,
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  • We're going to dig into 10 core christian beliefs
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  • That can anchor your faith on solid ground.
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  • Today we'll start
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  • With the most foundational doctrine of all,
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  • The inspiration of the bible.
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  • My message is titled
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  • "what every christian should know about the bible",
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  • On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Do you ever feel uncertain about what you believe
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  • Or struggle to put your faith into words?
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  • In a world where truth shifts with every cultural trend,
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  • Christians need solid ground to stand on.
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  • In "what every christian should know",
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  • Dr. robert jeffress equips you to understand
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  • 10 core doctrines of christianity.
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  • Build your faith and your families on biblical truth
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  • The bible uses many different metaphors
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  • To describe the church.
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  • The church is referred to as the body of christ
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  • Or the bride of christ, or the vineyard, or the sheepfold.
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  • But to me, one of the most intriguing images of the church
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  • Is found in 1 timothy 3:15,
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  • Where paul refers to the church as the pillar
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  • And the support of the truth.
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  • In paul's day, great architectural structures
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  • Were supported by columns or pillars,
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  • And paul is saying that the church is that pillar,
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  • That supporting instrument that lifts up
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  • The truth of god for a darkening and decaying world.
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  • Over the next 10 weeks,
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  • We're going to be looking at the 10 pillars,
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  • The columns that support historic christianity.
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  • If we, the church, are to be the support,
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  • The foundation, the thing that lifts up the truth of god,
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  • We need to know what that truth is.
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  • We're going to talk about
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  • What every christian should know about the holy spirit,
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  • What every christian should know about salvation,
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  • What every christian should know about the church,
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  • What every christian should know about the end times.
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  • But today we're going to start
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  • By looking at the most foundational belief of all,
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  • What every christian should know about the bible.
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  • In fact, on your outline, you see an image
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  • Of historic christianity being held up by these 10 pillars,
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  • And the first is the bible.
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  • Now, this is not true graphically,
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  • But it's true theologically.
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  • This pillar is really the load bearing pillar,
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  • Every other truth rest on this.
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  • Now, some people may question that.
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  • They might say, "well, i thought jesus christ
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  • Was the foundation of the church."
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  • He is, he's the cornerstone.
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  • But think about it, what would we know
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  • About jesus christ apart from the bible?
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  • I mean, yes, there are some historical documents
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  • That mentioned jesus outside of the bible,
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  • But we would know nothing about the deity of christ
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  • Were it not for the bible.
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  • The bible records his miracles.
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  • We wouldn't know that jesus died on the cross
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  • To forgive us of our sins, would know he died on a cross
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  • But we wouldn't know why apart from the bible,
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  • And we certainly would not know that jesus christ
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  • Is coming back again one day were it not for the scripture.
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  • Everything we know about jesus comes from the bible.
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  • And if there is a crack in that pillar, that column,
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  • Then the whole christian faith comes crumbling down.
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  • So today we're going to answer the question,
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  • "how can i know the bible is the word of god?"
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  • We're going to talk about the inspiration
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  • And inerrancy of the bible.
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  • Have you ever wondered, as you've read the bible,
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  • "how do i know this actually happened?
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  • How do i know this is true?
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  • What is it that separates the bible from the koran
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  • Or the book of mormon or any other religious book?"
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  • Well, let's look first at three reasons
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  • We can trust the bible.
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  • First of all, the bible is inspired.
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  • Thomas edison famously said one time,
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  • "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
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  • Well, the apostle peter said famously,
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  • "the bible is 100% inspiration."
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  • Peter, paul, luke, moses, david,
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  • They didn't wake up one morning and say,
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  • "you know, i think i'll spend an hour
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  • Writing some scripture today."
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  • No, scripture was not initiated by an act of the human will.
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  • God is the one who inspired the bible,
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  • And he carried along those human authors
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  • To record his message.
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  • Inspiration is the process by which god
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  • Communicates his message without error,
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  • Using the personalities of men
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  • To compose and record god's message without error.
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  • 2 timothy 3:16 says, "for all scripture is inspired by god
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  • And profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
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  • For training in righteousness."
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  • You've heard me say many times that that word inspired
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  • Is the greek word theosneustos.
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  • All scripture is theos, god.
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  • Neustos, breathe.
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  • It is god-breathed, and as dr. crystal used to say,
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  • "and god doesn't have bad breath,
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  • He doesn't suffer from halitosis." (laughs)
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  • Every word of the bible is god-breathed.
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  • And think about how god did that just so miraculously.
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  • God's message was poured
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  • Through the human personalities of authors,
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  • And god's message includes the angry outburst of moses,
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  • The emotional outburst of king david.
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  • It includes the systematic reasoning of the apostle paul,
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  • It even includes the lies of satan written in genesis 3.
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  • If anybody asks you, "are there any lies in the bible?"
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  • Don't let 'em trick you,
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  • Yes, there are some lies in the bible.
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  • Satan's lie to eve, "you shall not die
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  • If you eat of this tree," was a lie
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  • But god wanted us to hear that lie as well.
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  • God inspired the scripture, he breathed the scripture.
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  • Secondly, not only is the bible god-breathed, inspired,
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  • Secondly, the bible is unified.
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  • It's unified.
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  • Do you ever remember in school having to do a group project?
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  • When we were in junior high school,
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  • Amy and i were in an english class together
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  • And the teacher loved to assign group projects.
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  • A group of students, small subset of students,
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  • Would get together and they'd be given a topic
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  • Like the civil war.
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  • And then we were to meet for weeks
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  • And put all this research together
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  • And come up with a unified project.
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  • I used to love those group projects
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  • Because amy would invariably end up in my group,
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  • I had a crush on her, i was too shy to ask her out,
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  • And so i would invite her over to my house
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  • To work on the group project.
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  • We poured a lot of saturdays into those projects,
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  • But the point is it didn't matter how long
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  • You spent on a group project. it always was a hodgepodge.
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  • You'd have, you know, a graph here, this here,
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  • Be written by different students, different styles.
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  • It never quite came together.
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  • I was thinking of that this week.
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  • The bible, when you think about it,
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  • Is the ultimate group project.
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  • Think about this, it was written by
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  • Over 40 different authors over a period of 1500 years.
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  • Authors came from various countries,
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  • Most of them didn't know one another.
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  • They used a variety styles,
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  • Some wrote history, some law, some poetry, some biography,
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  • And some personal correspondence.
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  • And yet it all fit together perfectly.
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  • It has one unified theme, and that theme is jesus christ.
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  • Jesus said in john 5:39, "you search the scriptures
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  • Because you think that in them you have eternal life.
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  • It is these that testify about me."
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  • The theme of the bible is jesus christ.
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  • You know, you compare that to the koran,
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  • And some of you're going to think
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  • I'm being anti-muslim when i say this.
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  • I actually got this from newsweek magazine 20 years ago,
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  • A feature story they did about the bible,
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  • And they contrasted the bible with the koran.
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  • And they talked about the fact that when you read the koran,
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  • It's just one thing after another.
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  • It doesn't fit together at all,
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  • It's an outburst here, something else here,
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  • But it's hard to find a single strand through the koran
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  • Which is interesting because it was written
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  • By one false prophet named muhammad.
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  • And yet you look at the bible, 40 different authors,
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  • 1500 years, and various countries.
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  • One of the authors was a shepherd, the other a king,
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  • The other a rabbi, the other physician.
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  • Yet the whole thing fits together perfectly,
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  • The one theme is jesus christ.
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  • The theme of the old testament is jesus is coming.
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  • The theme of the new testament is
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  • Jesus has come and saved his people,
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  • And is coming again to rescue his people.
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  • It is all one theme, that is an evidence
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  • Of the inspiration of the scripture.
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  • The bible is inspired, it's unified..
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  • Thirdly, the bible is inerrant, it is inerrant.
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  • Now, you hear that word a lot.
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  • Maybe you don't know what it means,
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  • It simply means the bible is without error.
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  • Now, there are some critics, some skeptics today
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  • Who think the whole doctrine
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  • Of the inerrancy of the bible is something new,
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  • It's something recent, it was conjured up
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  • By a bunch of evil old men
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  • In the southern baptist convention
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  • Who wanted to take over the convention,
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  • So they invented this idea of inerrancy.
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  • Anybody who says that is ignorant beyond description,
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  • Doesn't deserve to be listened to.
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  • You look at history, the inerrancy of the scripture
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  • Has always been a foundational belief of the church.
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  • First of all, the scripture itself
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  • Testifies to its own inerrancy.
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  • 100s of times you find in the old testament passages
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  • Containing a variation of this phrase,
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  • "the lord said, the lord said."
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  • Look at exodus 21, god spoke all of these words.
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  • Isaiah 1:2, "for the lord speaks."
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  • Jeremiah 1, "to whom the word of the lord came."
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  • One of the most interesting examples of that
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  • Is found in psalm 95:7.
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  • The psalmist said, "today, if you would hear his voice."
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  • Now, those words were written in about 1,000 bc.
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  • We don't know for sure what psalmist said it,
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  • But it's in the scripture.
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  • "today, if you would hear his voice."
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  • More than 1,000 years after that, in the first century 80,
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  • The writer of the new testament book of hebrews
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  • Quotes psalm 95:7.
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  • But notice how he quotes it in hebrews 3:7.
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  • He said, "therefore, just as the holy spirit says."
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  • In other words, what the psalmist wrote in psalm 95:7,
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  • The writer of hebrews is saying
  • 00:12:26.958 --> 00:12:29.627
  • It was the holy spirit who was actually writing those words.
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  • The bible claims to be inerrant.
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  • Jesus, by the way, believed in the inspiration
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  • And inerrancy of the old testament.
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  • For example, he affirmed the genesis account of creation
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  • And god's blueprint for marriage in matthew 19:4-6.
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  • Remember what he said to the pharisees,
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  • "have you not read that he who created them,
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  • Male and female, created them that way from the beginning.
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  • Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother
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  • And shall cleave to his wife,
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  • And the two shall be one flesh."
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  • What a great word for us today.
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  • Again, have you heard people say,
  • 00:13:05.630 --> 00:13:07.098
  • "oh, god never addressed homosexuality,
  • 00:13:07.098 --> 00:13:09.601
  • He never addressed gay marriage."
  • 00:13:09.601 --> 00:13:10.969
  • Yes, he did. he addressed it right there.
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  • He said, "here is god's pattern."
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  • God is the one who makes you male or female,
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  • It's not male female?
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  • He's made you male or female,
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  • And god's plan for marriage is one man
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  • Comes together with one woman
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  • In a lifetime commitment called marriage,
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  • And any variation from that is against god's will.
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  • That is the clear teaching of scripture.
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  • And how does jesus justify it?
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  • He does it by going back to the old testament.
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  • He used the story of jonah and the great fish
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  • To illustrate his resurrection.
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  • In matthew 12 he said, "just as jonah
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  • Was in the belly of the fish
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  • For three days and three nights,
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  • So shall the son of man be in the ground."
  • 00:13:51.943 --> 00:13:55.847
  • And then he used, of all things,
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  • The story of noah and the building of the ark
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  • As a reference to his second coming in matthew 24:37-39.
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  • He said, "for just as it was in the days of noah,
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  • So shall it be in the coming of the son of man."
  • 00:14:11.029 --> 00:14:15.199
  • Now, you know what's interesting to me about that is
  • 00:14:15.199 --> 00:14:17.568
  • Jesus took the three most disputed stories
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  • In the old testament,
  • 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:22.240
  • The critics love to ridicule
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  • The idea of god creating man
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  • Instead of man evolving from some primordial soup.
  • 00:14:26.978 --> 00:14:30.181
  • We have the creation of man, the story of noah and the ark,
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  • The worldwide flood, and jonah and the great fish.
  • 00:14:34.419 --> 00:14:37.655
  • Those are the three stories that critics ridicule,
  • 00:14:37.655 --> 00:14:42.393
  • And yet it's those three stories
  • 00:14:42.393 --> 00:14:44.629
  • That jesus went out of his way to affirm and said,
  • 00:14:44.629 --> 00:14:46.798
  • "no, it really happened."
  • 00:14:46.798 --> 00:14:49.067
  • You know, i remember some years ago
  • 00:14:49.067 --> 00:14:51.936
  • Bill o'reilly had a segment on his tv program
  • 00:14:52.904 --> 00:14:56.007
  • About some tv special about noah and the ark and so forth,
  • 00:14:56.007 --> 00:15:00.411
  • And bill made the offhand comment
  • 00:15:00.411 --> 00:15:02.981
  • That, you know, he thought noah and the ark was a fable
  • 00:15:02.981 --> 00:15:06.384
  • To tell a good story and so forth,
  • 00:15:06.384 --> 00:15:08.753
  • That it didn't really happen.
  • 00:15:08.753 --> 00:15:10.188
  • Well, he got into all kind of trouble
  • 00:15:10.188 --> 00:15:11.589
  • So he called me and said,
  • 00:15:11.589 --> 00:15:12.924
  • "you know, could you be on my show tonight
  • 00:15:12.924 --> 00:15:15.126
  • To talk about that and give the other point of view?"
  • 00:15:15.126 --> 00:15:19.297
  • And i said, "well, sure."
  • 00:15:19.297 --> 00:15:20.598
  • So i came on and he was making the point,
  • 00:15:20.598 --> 00:15:23.935
  • It doesn't matter really whether that story happened or not,
  • 00:15:23.935 --> 00:15:26.671
  • It's the lesson that it teaches.
  • 00:15:26.671 --> 00:15:28.473
  • And i said, "well, you know, think about it.
  • 00:15:28.473 --> 00:15:30.775
  • Jesus linked his second coming to the story of noah."
  • 00:15:30.775 --> 00:15:35.046
  • Just imagine jesus has said, "just as it was
  • 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:38.282
  • In the days of the easter bunny,
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  • So shall it be when the son of man comes."
  • 00:15:39.951 --> 00:15:42.820
  • Would you have any confidence
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  • That jesus was coming back again
  • 00:15:44.188 --> 00:15:45.890
  • If he linked his second coming
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  • To the story of the easter bunny?
  • 00:15:47.625 --> 00:15:49.227
  • No, both have to be true for the analogy to work.
  • 00:15:49.227 --> 00:15:53.131
  • And that's true here, jesus believed
  • 00:15:53.131 --> 00:15:55.233
  • These weren't just esop fables, these were actual stories.
  • 00:15:55.233 --> 00:15:59.604
  • By the way, it's not just the old testament
  • 00:15:59.604 --> 00:16:02.640
  • That is called scripture.,
  • 00:16:02.640 --> 00:16:04.075
  • The new testament is referred to as scripture as well.
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  • To me, this is so interesting.
  • 00:16:07.178 --> 00:16:08.513
  • In 1 timothy 5:18, paul was writing to timothy
  • 00:16:08.513 --> 00:16:12.183
  • Instructions for the church
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  • And about why the elders ought to be paid,
  • 00:16:13.751 --> 00:16:16.054
  • And he quote scripture to verify that idea
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  • That you ought to pay the elders.
  • 00:16:19.123 --> 00:16:21.359
  • Paul says, "for the scripture says,
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  • You shall not muzzle the ox while he's threshing."
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  • That's a quotation of deuteronomy 25:4.
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  • Paul's using scripture.
  • 00:16:30.501 --> 00:16:31.969
  • And then he quotes a second scripture,
  • 00:16:31.969 --> 00:16:34.338
  • "the laborer is worthy of his wages."
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  • Where does that come from?
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  • Did you know that phrase
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  • Isn't found anywhere in the old testament?
  • 00:16:40.645 --> 00:16:42.880
  • That phrase comes from a new testament book, luke 10:7,
  • 00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:47.018
  • That had just been written a few years earlier
  • 00:16:47.018 --> 00:16:50.154
  • Than paul wrote his letter to timothy.
  • 00:16:50.154 --> 00:16:52.657
  • Paul was saying what luke wrote,
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  • A new testament writer, is scripture.
  • 00:16:54.992 --> 00:16:58.930
  • Interestingly, even the apostle peter,
  • 00:16:58.930 --> 00:17:02.200
  • Who, you know, didn't see eye to eye with paul
  • 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:04.535
  • On a lot of things,
  • 00:17:04.535 --> 00:17:05.970
  • Admitted that paul's words were scripture.
  • 00:17:05.970 --> 00:17:09.040
  • In 2 peter 3:15-16 he refers to the letters of paul
  • 00:17:09.040 --> 00:17:13.845
  • As a part of the scriptures.
  • 00:17:13.845 --> 00:17:17.148
  • No, this idea of inerrancy,
  • 00:17:17.148 --> 00:17:19.450
  • That the bible is without error, is not some new idea.
  • 00:17:19.450 --> 00:17:23.654
  • Our late member and theologian, dr. charles ryrie,
  • 00:17:23.654 --> 00:17:26.958
  • Said it best when he said,
  • 00:17:26.958 --> 00:17:29.193
  • "inerrancy simply means the bible tells the truth."
  • 00:17:29.193 --> 00:17:33.931
  • When you read the bible,
  • 00:17:33.931 --> 00:17:35.333
  • You can know you're reading truth and not error.
  • 00:17:35.333 --> 00:17:39.804
  • Well, a discerning mind would say,
  • 00:17:39.804 --> 00:17:42.106
  • "well, you've just tried to use the bible
  • 00:17:42.106 --> 00:17:44.742
  • To prove the bible is true.
  • 00:17:44.742 --> 00:17:46.544
  • That's circular reasoning.
  • 00:17:46.544 --> 00:17:48.446
  • Is there any evidence outside of the bible
  • 00:17:48.446 --> 00:17:51.449
  • That it is god-breathed and without error?"
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  • I'm so glad you asked that question,
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  • Because on your outline i have four evidences
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  • For the trustworthiness of the bible.
  • 00:18:01.659 --> 00:18:04.562
  • Let me briefly go through them with you.
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  • First of all, the dates of the new testament book.
  • 00:18:06.430 --> 00:18:10.234
  • It wasn't that long ago.
  • 00:18:10.234 --> 00:18:12.003
  • I remember in college hearing this,
  • 00:18:12.003 --> 00:18:14.272
  • That critics of the bible,
  • 00:18:14.272 --> 00:18:16.240
  • In fact, most people believe that the new testament books
  • 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.443
  • Were written 100 to 150 years
  • 00:18:19.443 --> 00:18:22.246
  • After the fact of jesus' birth, death, and resurrection,
  • 00:18:22.246 --> 00:18:27.151
  • And that the gospel accounts were just fraudulent names
  • 00:18:27.151 --> 00:18:30.288
  • Slapped onto the gospel,
  • 00:18:30.288 --> 00:18:31.856
  • Attributing them to an earlier apostle.
  • 00:18:31.856 --> 00:18:34.892
  • But now even the most liberal critics concede,
  • 00:18:34.892 --> 00:18:37.862
  • Because of archeological manuscript discoveries
  • 00:18:37.862 --> 00:18:40.731
  • That most of the new testament was written
  • 00:18:40.731 --> 00:18:42.833
  • Between 40 and 65 ad.
  • 00:18:42.833 --> 00:18:46.370
  • That means many of the books of the new testament
  • 00:18:46.370 --> 00:18:49.173
  • Were written within a decade of the events of christ.
  • 00:18:49.173 --> 00:18:52.677
  • Mark, the earliest gospel,
  • 00:18:52.677 --> 00:18:54.579
  • Just a few years after the resurrection of christ.
  • 00:18:54.579 --> 00:18:57.949
  • Why is that important?
  • 00:18:57.949 --> 00:18:59.083
  • Why does that give us confidence
  • 00:18:59.083 --> 00:19:00.785
  • In the trustworthiness of the bible?
  • 00:19:00.785 --> 00:19:03.254
  • Because when these books came out
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  • And started being circulated,
  • 00:19:05.723 --> 00:19:07.625
  • There were people who were alive
  • 00:19:07.625 --> 00:19:09.293
  • When these events the gospels referred to took place.
  • 00:19:09.293 --> 00:19:13.831
  • And so if these books were fictional,
  • 00:19:14.632 --> 00:19:17.435
  • Made up, not trustworthy,
  • 00:19:17.435 --> 00:19:19.303
  • They would've been discarded immediately.
  • 00:19:19.303 --> 00:19:21.505
  • Instead, they were accepted and treated as scripture.
  • 00:19:21.505 --> 00:19:25.009
  • Corresponding to that, secondly,
  • 00:19:25.009 --> 00:19:26.711
  • The early acceptance of the message.
  • 00:19:26.711 --> 00:19:29.680
  • Not only did these new testament books record these events,
  • 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:33.985
  • But apparently the earliest followers of christ
  • 00:19:33.985 --> 00:19:37.021
  • Believed them so much
  • 00:19:37.021 --> 00:19:39.223
  • They were willing to give their lives for these beliefs.
  • 00:19:39.223 --> 00:19:42.193
  • Remember, most of the new testament converts,
  • 00:19:42.193 --> 00:19:44.495
  • Early converts, were jews.
  • 00:19:44.495 --> 00:19:47.231
  • And notice how quickly they changed their belief system.
  • 00:19:47.231 --> 00:19:51.068
  • I mean, almost overnight
  • 00:19:51.068 --> 00:19:53.471
  • They changed their day of worship from saturday to sunday.
  • 00:19:53.471 --> 00:19:56.807
  • They gave up the sacrificial system,
  • 00:19:56.807 --> 00:19:59.410
  • They exchanged the act of circumcision, the mark of faith,
  • 00:19:59.410 --> 00:20:04.115
  • They replaced that with baptism.
  • 00:20:04.115 --> 00:20:06.017
  • All of these seismic changes
  • 00:20:06.017 --> 00:20:08.286
  • Show that they actually believed
  • 00:20:08.286 --> 00:20:10.621
  • What they were writing and proclaiming.
  • 00:20:10.621 --> 00:20:13.658
  • You know, it's true, religious zealots throughout history
  • 00:20:13.658 --> 00:20:17.461
  • Have given their lives for false beliefs,
  • 00:20:17.461 --> 00:20:21.766
  • But the key is they thought it was the truth.
  • 00:20:21.766 --> 00:20:24.902
  • No religious zealot intentionally gives his life
  • 00:20:24.902 --> 00:20:29.073
  • For what he believes is a lie.
  • 00:20:29.073 --> 00:20:31.309
  • The point is the disciples were willing
  • 00:20:31.309 --> 00:20:33.511
  • To endure imprisonment, torture, and death
  • 00:20:33.511 --> 00:20:36.047
  • Rather than recant the testimony
  • 00:20:36.047 --> 00:20:37.948
  • That they had seen the risen christ.
  • 00:20:37.948 --> 00:20:40.384
  • A third evidence that's external
  • 00:20:40.384 --> 00:20:42.486
  • For the inspiration of the scripture
  • 00:20:42.486 --> 00:20:44.455
  • Is the fulfilled prophecies that the bible records,
  • 00:20:44.455 --> 00:20:48.125
  • Prophecies from the old testament that came true in history.
  • 00:20:48.125 --> 00:20:52.897
  • And by the way, there are no fulfilled prophecies
  • 00:20:52.897 --> 00:20:55.700
  • In the book of mormon.
  • 00:20:55.700 --> 00:20:57.101
  • There are no fulfilled prophecies in the koran,
  • 00:20:57.101 --> 00:20:59.937
  • Or any other book, but we have just 100 of examples
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  • Of prophecies made in the old testament
  • 00:21:04.742 --> 00:21:07.845
  • That were fulfill later in the old testament
  • 00:21:07.845 --> 00:21:09.980
  • Or in the new testament.
  • 00:21:09.980 --> 00:21:11.582
  • Let me give you just a couple of examples of that.
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  • To me, one of the most fascinating
  • 00:21:14.051 --> 00:21:15.953
  • Is one recorded in 700 bc in the book of isaiah.
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  • Isaiah, the prophet, recorded in isaiah 39:5-6
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  • That babylon would one day conquer the nation of judah,
  • 00:21:27.031 --> 00:21:31.402
  • The southern kingdom of israel, and take her captive.
  • 00:21:31.402 --> 00:21:34.538
  • Now, what's interesting is
  • 00:21:34.538 --> 00:21:35.940
  • When isaiah made that prophecy in 700 bc,
  • 00:21:35.940 --> 00:21:38.876
  • Babylon was not a major world player,
  • 00:21:38.876 --> 00:21:41.345
  • It was a minor country.
  • 00:21:41.345 --> 00:21:44.014
  • But isaiah didn't stop there.
  • 00:21:44.014 --> 00:21:46.016
  • He said, "not only would babylon become the world power,
  • 00:21:46.016 --> 00:21:49.387
  • Not only would he take god's people captive,
  • 00:21:49.387 --> 00:21:52.123
  • But he also predicted that one day babylon
  • 00:21:52.123 --> 00:21:54.925
  • Would be overthrown by another nation,
  • 00:21:54.925 --> 00:21:56.894
  • The nation of persia."
  • 00:21:56.894 --> 00:21:58.462
  • He prophesied that in isaiah 21:9,
  • 00:21:58.462 --> 00:22:01.532
  • Persia is modern day iran.
  • 00:22:01.532 --> 00:22:03.801
  • But he didn't stop there,
  • 00:22:03.801 --> 00:22:05.202
  • He said, "god would raise up the king of persia,
  • 00:22:05.202 --> 00:22:08.172
  • A man named cyrus, who would give the orders
  • 00:22:08.172 --> 00:22:11.675
  • That would allow judah
  • 00:22:11.675 --> 00:22:12.910
  • To go back to her homeland in israel."
  • 00:22:12.910 --> 00:22:16.547
  • And he made that prophecy.
  • 00:22:16.547 --> 00:22:18.315
  • Isaiah wrote that in 700 bc,
  • 00:22:18.315 --> 00:22:20.751
  • 100 years before cyrus was even born.
  • 00:22:20.751 --> 00:22:24.889
  • Isaiah was able to pinpoint this character,
  • 00:22:24.889 --> 00:22:27.591
  • Call him by name, prophesy what he would do,
  • 00:22:27.591 --> 00:22:30.394
  • And that's exactly what happened in 586 bc,
  • 00:22:30.394 --> 00:22:33.497
  • Babylon took judah captive.
  • 00:22:33.497 --> 00:22:35.833
  • We know that in 539 bc persia conquered babylon,
  • 00:22:35.833 --> 00:22:41.071
  • And in 538 bc king cyrus decreed
  • 00:22:41.705 --> 00:22:44.442
  • That israel should go back to her land.
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  • The bible is vastly different from the koran
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  • And the book of mormon, and any other religious book,
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  • Because it is the only book inspired by god and not man.
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  • God himself breathed every word of the bible,
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  • And for that reason we can be confident
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  • Make plans to join us again next time
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  • As i share more reasons why we can trust the bible,
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series "what every christian should know".
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  • The unifying element in the bible
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  • And the bible reminds us just as god was faithful
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  • To work out his will and the lives of those strange people
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  • Who lived 1,000s of years ago, who did strange things,
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  • God is also working in my life and your life
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