So many people, when they think internal testimony of the Holy Spirit, they look at the Bible,

and then they look away and say, okay, Holy Spirit, is it true? Tell me, that's not the way he does it.

It is by and with, the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with, by and with.

It's as you keep looking, as you keep looking, you see.

How can we know that the Bible is the Word of God?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explains that while historical evidence plays a role,

it is ultimately the Holy Spirit's witness through the scriptures that convinces us of its divine authority.

This seminar was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church

in September 2001. So here's my approach. And I'm going to take my starting point from the Westminster

Catechism. And I'm going to take it apart piece by piece

to see whether its argument for the validity of the scriptures as a whole is true. This is not

building upon what we just saw from Paul. That was one approach. Now I'm taking another approach.

This is...

The Westminster Catechism, 1646, roughly, was developed as a summary of the scriptures, and it's

written for the church.

It's written for lay people.

It's written by people who, with way more experience than me, experienced things like me about God's truth and authority

in the word and inexperience, and wanted to develop a warrant for the scriptures that

layman would have access to. See, I know perfectly well that if I developed the most sophisticated, historically controlled, scholarly

reasoning for the resurrection and the authentication of the ministry of the Apostle Paul,

and I developed a 10-week seminar on it, and I got everybody in the church to come,

and I did it, and I wowed in the church to come, and I did it,

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