All right, so I'm beginning a new series if you want to turn to X to 16 and John 6.

Our flip, you know, however, you know, X to 16 and then I'll go to John 6 and I'm going to preach a series we get a series called

more than words and as I said Pastor James Loe will be here next week but then I'll be here

the next two and of course for Easter after that.

But this is about the Bible and God started speaking to me last fall to really help us understand and love God's word. And I say God's word because I do believe

it is God's word. And then I saw something in print where a person who has professed Christ was actually

attacking the Bible. It was so shocking the Bible.

It was so shocking to me, it was such an unbelievable attack.

And so I began to study this attack.

What it said was that we need to learn to read and interpret the Bible as other great works of literature such as Shakespeare.

I was shocked.

I couldn't believe it.

You know, Shakespeare, they say 80 or 90% of what he wrote was fictional.

He wrote some histories based on truth, but even they were fictional.

Just like when you see a movie day and it says based on a true story which means most of it's not true but

They just took a story and then Hollywoodized it and that's kind of what Shakespeare did. So and I'm not saying anything

negative about Shakespeare but to to compare the Bible to Shakespeare and a literary work and it even said and all of us should

interpret the Bible according to our worldview. I was shocked that I read I was reading this I was shocked and and it said thus and

it put in parentheses biblical interpretation. Okay well that's not what the doctrine of biblical interpretation. Okay, well that's not what the doctrine of biblical interpretation means.

And I'm going to go through this in depth in three more messages, the third message from this one.

I'm going to go in depth in this to show you how you know for sure

that the Bible is God's word and then it is inerit and infallible and it is

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