Adrian Rogers was a motivator, an encourager, and a leader of the faith. He was also passionate about

presenting scriptural application to everyday life circumstances, and you'll hear that in today's

message. Now, let's join Adrian Rogers. Look at the scripture, 2 Timothy chapter 3 in verse 16. It is a key seminal scripture on the word of God.

Listen to it. All scripture, not some, all is given by inspiration of God. That means it is the breath of God.

It doesn't mean that the scriptures are breathed into.

What that literally means, that word theonustus, means that the scriptures are the breath of God.

All scripture is given by the breath of God.

What you're hearing right now is the breath of Adrian.

You see, my lungs have air, and my diaphragm and my chest muscles are pushing that air up over through my esophagus, over my larynx, and my tongue and my teeth and my lips

are forming that into particular sounds.

And by the way, it's passing over my vocal cords that are vibrating.

And so what you're hearing literally is the breath of Adrian.

Scripture is the breath of God.

It is as true as if God Almighty stood in the pulpit and spoke those words.

That's the reason Jesus said in Matthew 4, 4, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word.

Now listen to this, that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Now, when you read the Bible with that in mind, that what you're hearing is really the breath of God, the words of God,

over and over and over again in the Bible, the Bible calls itself the word of God literally thousands of times the Word of God.

So look at it again. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable

for doctrine. That means what is true for reproof. What is wrong? For correction, how to get

right, for instruction and righteousness, how to get right, for instruction

and righteousness, how to stay right, that the man of God may be perfect. That word perfect,

teleos means mature. You want to be a full-grown Christian, that you may be mature, thoroughly furnished

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