In this session, what we want to do is complete our analysis of and application of to our own lives

the Westminster Catechism's answer to how can we know that the Bible is God's word.

We've just dealt really in quite an extended way just because it was so big in my own experience

with the statement that the scope of the whole is the glory of God.

And why from John 7 and John 5 and Romans 1 and our experience of the natural world,

all of that causes us when we open and immerse ourselves in this book to say,

this is it.

This is the explanation.

This coheres with who I am and what I have seen.

Now, the last words in that answer of Westminster is this.

By their light and power, that is the word God, by their light and power, that is the word of God, by their light and power, to convince the scriptures, by the scriptures light and power, to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation.

I'm going to pass over some of these because I want to get right to the main ones as I've experienced them.

So this is a JP text.

It's me.

Second Corinthians 4, 4 to 6, I think, comes close to, and there's one other one,

explaining what that means so that it works for me.

In their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might

not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

So what Satan tries to keep from happening is the seeing of a certain kind of light.

It's the light of the gospel.

So it's not a physical light.

This is troubling because it may suddenly feel like, whoa, that's kind of outside my experience,

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