Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, September 22nd.

The Bible is unlike any book ever written.

Let's begin an eight-session series to learn about the origins and significance of the Bible, the book of books.

Behind everything that God does, there's a divine purpose. Sometimes those purposes are very clear.

Sometimes they're almost mysterious. God, what are you up to in my life? So sometimes they seem to leave us

hopelessly, helplessly wondering, Lord, what are you up to? But there's one thing for absolute certain.

He has made it very clear in the Bible why he gave us this book. Why did God give us this book

we called the eternal Word of God? This infallible, inerrant, eternal word of the living God, penned by some 40 men over a period of

almost 1,600 years, from different vocations in life, from three different continents. And yet,

even though written for some 1,600 years, no inconsistencies, no contradictions whatsoever, one central theme from Genesis

to Revelation, absolutely inexhaustible in its depth of meaning, and absolutely indestructible

in its presence, and always on the bestseller's list in the marketplace no matter what.

Why did God give us this book we call the Holy Bible?

They come in all kinds of versions and yet in essence it is simply the living word of the

living God.

Why did he give it to us?

Well, that's what I'm going to talk about

in this message, and I'm going to turn, if you will, to 2 Timothy chapter 3. Second Timothy

chapter 3, the Apostle Paul writing to Timothy tells us exactly why he gives us his word. And you

will recall that one of the major problems that the Apostle Paul had after he

established his churches was the fact that deceivers, that is, he says evil workers, those who did not

know the truth, would slip in and try to cause all kind of confusion by preaching all kinds of false

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