Why Bother with the Bible? (Part 3 of 6)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Some claim they get to know God by walking in nature or talking to Him while driving. These methods may acknowledge God’s existence or highlight His creation, but they’re not sufficient for salvation. Alistair Begg explores the vital link on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do Some people say the way they learn about God is by taking walks in nature or talking to him as they drive. |
| 0:34.0 | And these methods may acknowledge that God exists or point to his creation, but they're not |
| 0:39.7 | sufficient for salvation. |
| 0:42.4 | Today on Truth for Life Weekend, |
| 0:44.0 | Alistair Beg focuses on the vital link. |
| 0:47.0 | To Timothy chapter 3 and verse 14 but as for you continue in what you've learned |
| 0:59.5 | and have become convinced of because you know those from whom you learned it and how from infancy |
| 1:06.4 | you've known the holy scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through |
| 1:11.2 | faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is God breathed and is useful |
| 1:16.5 | for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training and righteousness so that the man of God may be |
| 1:22.2 | thoroughly equipped for every good work. |
| 1:25.0 | Amen. |
| 1:27.0 | But we said ourselves the task last time of addressing a very simple and yet straightforward |
| 1:34.7 | question, namely, why bother with the Bible? |
| 1:39.2 | Why bother with the Bible? |
| 1:42.1 | At the heart of all that we discovered last time we tried to nail down one |
| 1:46.0 | essential sentence which was quite straightforwardly in the Bible God was and is speaking to us. |
| 1:56.1 | During the week I came across a quote |
| 1:58.3 | from J.C. Ryle, the one time Bishop of Liverpool's |
| 2:02.0 | practical religion, in which he writes as follows |
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