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do you do When the Apostle Paul was mentoring and training his protégé Timothy for church leadership,

he stressed to him the importance of depending on scripture

just as Jesus had done. Today on Truth for Life Alistairbegg explores Paul's

teaching to discover why God's word is not only profitable, it's absolutely

necessary. We're continuing a series titled The Work of the Word. word.

Father, as we turn to your word before we come around the table as Jesus has bid in us. We pray that you will constrain and curtail

our thoughts and guide them into your truth because as we were thinking this morning as we were thinking this morning, as we were learning this morning, that you have

breathed out your word and your word is profitable for teaching. Teach us, we pray.

For your son's sake, amen.

Well, I want essentially to give you three more observations that would have been part of this morning

if I hadn't done such a poor job of trying to keep time.

And I want to do so largely from the Sams and particularly from Sam 119.

For those of you who went present this morning we're still going through 2nd Timothy we've reached the

section where Paul at the end of chapter 3 as reminds Timothy that the

scripture the Bible is breathed out by God and because of the authority that is in it as the very

word of God and the breath of God it therefore is profitable in a number of areas, four he mentions in particular. And when these aspects of

teaching ministry are in place, then Timothy and others like him can anticipate that the people of

God expressly, he says, the man of God will then through the teaching of God's

word be equipped for every good work.

And as I was preparing for this Sunday, and as I had in mind our closing hymn from this morning,

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