You ought to desire the word like a baby desires milk.

Do you understand a baby desires milk not because they like the flavor,

but there have a built-in mechanism that triggers the reality that they have the need.

They are dependent on it.

For the best that life has to offer. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

There's nothing that says you couldn't have a jacket without pockets or a car without a trunk

But one thing's for sure you can't separate ideas from words

Now that concept the importance of words, ties directly to another concept,

divine inspiration, the miraculous process by which 40 or so men were used by God to reveal biblical truth.

Truth you can trust because it comes from God himself.

And John MacArthur will examine the inspiration of scripture today on grace to you.

Thanks for joining us on this Monday as John continues his series

titled How to Get the Most from God's Word

and now with a lesson here's John. The Bible is revealed truth. In it,

God speaks. New Testament writers affirm the Old Testament as God's word. In fact, 320 times

New Testament writers quote the Old Testament as God's word.

One thousand times they allude to it as God's word

in a clear and definite reference to some Old Testament passage.

So 1300 times New Testament writers affirm the Old Testament

and they do it in the law, the Pentatuke, they do it in the history books, they do it in the minor prophets, the major

prophets, and the holy writing. Psalms, proverbs, ecclesiastic,

song of Solomon, and so forth. In other words, they affirm every section of

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