All this week we've been thinking about the Bible as God's word, His living word, His

active word, His working word, the God breathed word.

And we've been specially reminding ourselves of Paul's famous words to Timothy about

the scriptures being useful in our lives, teaching us doctrine, reproving our sin, bringing

healing and correction, transforming us, equipping us to serve our Lord Jesus Christ.

And this is Paul's last word in this section of his letter.

He says the scriptures ultimately have in view training us in righteousness.

He actually uses a word that really means child training.

His instruction is instruction of a father to his children, bringing us up in the family

likeness, bringing us up to be more like our elder brother, the Lord Jesus Christ.

You probably know that this is my father's world and if no one has done it, I think someone

should write another hymn to go along with it, a hymn about the Bible.

This is my father's word.

We could probably use the same chun.

So at the end of the working week, here we are, the Bible is God's word and His words,

it's His mouth.

The words are carried to us by the breath of the Holy Spirit.

And as Christians, we sense that as we respond to it, we are always saying, Abba, Father,

teach me more, make me more like Jesus.

When you think about it, the wonderful thing is that the scriptures instruct us no matter

whether we are rocket scientists or very simple people.

You remember how the scriptures teach us that they make us wiser than even those who

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