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The Infallible Word of God (Part 2)


Four additional truths about the Bible:
5. The Bible is the united Word. 
Think with me a minute – 66 books, at least 1500 years from the time the first one was written to the last one, 40 different authors (with many of those who wrote did not have access to what the others had written), several languages, different continents, and hundreds of topics. Yet the Bible is a united book. It is bound up in a common theme: the eternal purposes of God for the redemption of sinful man. We could put 40 people in the same room today, tell them what we wanted them to say, and give them an outline; and they could not come close to having such unity. The Bible’s unity is astonishing, one of the strongest arguments for the validity of the Scripture is its unity.

6. The Bible is the conclusive Word of God
This is extremely important. "For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book" (Rev. 22:18-19).
One may say, "That is talking about the book of Revelation." That is true. But we cannot write anything else without adding to it. It does not matter if that refers just to the book of Revelation or if it refers to all the inspired Word of God from Genesis to Revelation. There is nothing else to be added, the canon of Scripture has long been closed.
The Bible is the conclusive Word of God. Since that is true, everything we need is found within its pages. We simply need to diligently study and willingly obey what God has said. If someone says, "I have a new revelation from God," do not believe him. It is not so. The Bible has no new chapters and verses. There are no addenda to it. Nothing new is to be added.
Every theological and moral dispute that we face must be brought to the Word of God. That is where it is measured. Every experience we have is brought the Word of God. We cannot measure truth by our experience. We measure our experience by the truth. Many false sayings are being passed off as spiritual truths. The Bible is to gauge. Check the sayings against the Bible.

7. The Bible is the inerrant Word of God
Since it is divinely inspired, it is without error. The Bible is not a scientific textbook; but everything the Bible touches upon scientific fact, it is without error. It is not a history book; but all historical events recorded are true. Men have scoffed at the history of the Bible; yet every time an archaeologist turns a spade over, he verifies God's Word. Whatever God utters is true without error. What the Bible teaches is without error. Not everything the Bible contains is without error, meaning that some things that are recorded are untrue. There are some false sayings contained in the Bible, such as the false saying of the serpent when he told Eve that if she disobeyed God, God would not punish her, and she would not die as God had said (Gen. 3:4). That certainly is not the truth. The Bible contains false sayings of Satan. We need to be very careful as we study the Word of God to allow the Spirit of God to pinpoint for us the areas were false sayings and false prophets or quoted. However, what the Bible teaches is without error.

8. It is transforming Word of God
The greatest witness for the Word of God is what it does to us. "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" (Heb. 4:12). The greatest testimony to the Word of God is that it transforms human life. Wherever the Word of God is read and proclaimed, comfort and strength is given to those who were bereaved; wisdom and guidance is distributed to those who are confused; those who were slaves to evil are liberated from their sins and evil habits, and their lives are transformed. Wherever the Word of God has touched, it has brought transformed lives.
That is not true of anything else. Personally, before coming face to face with Jesus Christ, before trusting him as my Lord and Savior, I had read many books but none of those books transformed me from the inside out, none of them had the power to do that. The Holy Spirit took the Word and applied it to my heart. When he did, habits I could not break were broken. Peter said that we are born again by the Word of God, “having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1 Pet. 1:23). There is no new birth apart from his Word. It is the transforming Word.

So the question is, do you believe that the Bible is God's inspired, infallible, inerrant Word? If so, what does that look like!


Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version (NKJV).

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