Why Bother with the Bible? (Part 2 of 6)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
God speaks clearly through Scripture, yet it’s possible to misinterpret an isolated passage. Study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life as he teaches some Bible study principles to follow to help you better understand what God is saying.
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| 0:00.0 | The The At Truth for Life, we believe God speaks clearly to us through his word, but it's |
| 0:29.7 | possible to misinterpret an isolated passage. |
| 0:33.0 | Today on Truth for Life weekend, |
| 0:35.0 | we'll learn how to better understand what God is saying |
| 0:38.0 | as we study the scriptures. |
| 0:39.0 | Alistair Begg is teaching from 2 Timothy Chapter 3, we're looking at verses 14 through 17. |
| 0:51.0 | So who wrote this Bible? Well ultimately God wrote the Bible, but man wrote the Bible. |
| 0:57.0 | BB Warfield in a very helpful quote says, if God wishes to give the people a series of letters like Paul's, he |
| 1:08.9 | prepares a Paul to write them. And the Paul he brought to the task was a Paul who could |
| 1:17.3 | spontaneously write such letters. But here's the issue. The church did not write the Bible. Profits and apostles wrote |
| 1:30.3 | the word to the people of God and the reliability of what they wrote lies in the fact |
| 1:38.1 | that behind them is the work of the Holy Spirit and this is the reason why the church has no right to |
| 1:46.7 | rewrite what God has written. In the scriptures, God was and is speaking to us. If you want to listen to God, open your Bible. |
| 2:03.5 | The safest way to hear God speak |
| 2:07.1 | is to read your Bible |
| 2:09.5 | and beware of every other notion |
| 2:12.1 | about how you're going to hear from God. |
| 2:15.0 | The mystical ideas that have come out of the dark centuries, |
| 2:18.0 | understandably so, when they didn't have a Bible to guard them and to keep them, |
| 2:22.0 | they came up with all kinds of notions. |
| 2:25.0 | I warrant you that some of the craziest people you will ever meet are the people who have decided that the Bible is insufficient for them when it comes to hearing from |
| 2:35.9 | God. And some of the bypassed meadows of contemporary evangelicalism are directly related to a willingness to listen to books no matter how |
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