Why Bother with the Bible? (Part 4 of 6)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Some people profess to be too smart to believe in God. Perhaps that describes someone you know? Well, the Bible has a clear warning and a message of hope just for atheists and agnostics. Join Alistair Begg as he examines that message on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The So, Some people see themselves as too smart or too intellectual to believe in God. |
| 0:30.1 | Maybe that |
| 0:35.0 | describes you or someone you know. The Bible has a clear warning as well as a message of hope for |
| 0:36.2 | atheists and agnostics. We'll look at that message today on Truth for Life |
| 0:40.8 | weekend. |
| 0:41.8 | Alistair Begg is teaching from 2 Timothy chapter 3. |
| 0:45.0 | We're looking at verses 14 through 17. |
| 0:49.0 | Our question has to do now with not what is the Bible, but has to do with what is the Bible for. |
| 1:01.0 | What is the Bible for? Here we have essentially two answers that Paul |
| 1:06.6 | chooses to give to Timothy at this point. Why should anybody bother with the |
| 1:11.4 | Bible? Well first of all there at the end of |
| 1:14.7 | verse 15 because it is through the holy scriptures the hearagrammata the holy writings that a man or a woman is made wise for salvation through faith |
| 1:29.3 | in Jesus Christ and secondly in verse 17 because it is by means of these same holy |
| 1:35.7 | scriptures that the man or woman of God can be thoroughly equipped for every good |
| 1:40.5 | work. Taking it down a couple of notches, it shows us how to be saved and |
| 1:48.2 | it shows us how to live when we have been saved. Incidentally, that's what gives me and my colleagues complete |
| 1:55.4 | freedom in teaching the Bible in the way that we do. Verse by verse and chapter by |
| 2:00.0 | chapter and book by book. Some are almost paralyzed in their approach to teaching |
| 2:05.9 | the Bible because they recognize that there is a great diversity of people |
| 2:09.5 | listening. Some of them have no idea about the Bible at all. |
| 2:13.0 | Some are unchurged and unlearned and disinterested, |
| 2:17.0 | whereas others have been around for a while. |
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