I believe the Bible to be the Word of God, the same way I believe Jesus Christ to be the

Son of God, the same way I believe God to be the God of Scripture who is a Holy Trinity,

the same way I believe that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, and that is because

God has wrought that confidence in my heart.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

So what do you think?

Should you read the Bible and worship the God who wrote it

because it can help you get things you want like a better job or good health or a spouse?

Well, as you'll see today, the Bible demands your trust not because it gives you everything you

want, but because it gives you everything you need. John MacArthur

will show you why you can trust God's word, continuing his compelling study titled Making a Case

for the Bible. Now, John, before we get to the lesson, you have built your entire ministry on the

conviction that Scripture is the Word of God. And many times along the way,

you've taught messages on trusting the Bible and on the sufficiency of God's word and on defending

the Bible, as you're doing in our current study. Would you say that the authority of Scripture

is under any more attack nowadays than in the past.

No, I don't think the scripture is under more attack today than it is at any other time.

It's always under attack.

You go back to the garden and what is Satan saying has God said.

He denies that what God said was actually said by God and he creates doubt in Eve's mind, and because he was able to get her

to buy into the fact that she couldn't trust God, she couldn't trust what he said, the entire

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