Jesus believed in the fulfillment of every word of the Old Testament.

He corroborated the great truths of the Old Testament as well.

If you're going to believe in the deity of Jesus, you have no option but to believe in an

infallible and inerrant scripture because he did.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. When a Mason is building a brick wall, he starts by snapping a chalk line on the ground.

The perfectly straight chalk mark is the Mason's guide for keeping the bottom row aligned.

Without that line to follow, the whole structure can end up crooked and unstable.

Well, when it comes to making decisions and seeking direction in your marriage or in parenting

and how to serve your church, what's your chalk line? What's your guide? You'd probably say the Bible.

But why are you so confident that scripture is the right standard to follow? How would you explain

to an unbeliever where that

trust comes from? John MacArthur helps boost your confidence in God's word as he continues his

study, making a case for the Bible. And now here's John with the lesson. The Bible is still

the truth of God, the only truth of God, and nothing but the truth of God.

Now how do we know this to be true?

We as Christians know this to be true because the Spirit of God has granted you the gift

of confidence in the Word.

You understand that, but I want you to see how important it is to have the internal evidence

of the Scripture to bolster that heart conviction that the Spirit of God has granted to you.

Let me just give you two words to think about, infallible and inerrant.

Infallible. Infallible. And I like to use that word maybe just in a personal way. You could argue a lot about what it could mean. It's got a little flexibility in it as does the word inerrant.

But let's use the word infallible to say that God has so inspired Scripture that it is the

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