So far, we have looked at the Westminster Catechism with these six or so indications,

they're sometimes called indicia, of traits of the Bible, which are its own way of validating itself in the minds and hearts of people.

Its majesty, its purity, and now we come to by the consent of all of its parts, by the agreement.

In other words, the Bible, as diverse and big as it is with all of its different authors

is an amazingly coherent story.

There's nothing like this book written across all those thousands of years by all those different authors that has a storyline so amazingly coherent as this book.

You won't find any book like this anywhere in the world, composed like this by so many

writers across so many years, having one consistent, redemptive historical storyline that

comes to consummation in Jesus and then or in somebody and then

works its way out into the world. So let's look at the specifics. This is what, this is what

they're trying to get at, that when you take the Bible as a whole, what's the impact that it makes

on you that would either lead you to believe or not to believe in it.

And it's saying it leads you to belief in it by the amazing consent or agreement of all of its

parts.

Next 1043, to him, all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.

Now, that way of talking is a testimony to the coherence and the unity of all that the prophets bear witness to and how it is all centering on the Messiah

and how he is going to bring about the forgiveness of sins.

X 2622.

To this day, I have had the help that comes from God.

And so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets

and Moses said would come to pass. The prophets and Moses saying what Paul is saying. So you got one part of Scripture, Moses. That's the penititude.

Another part of Scripture, the prophets. And another part of Scripture, Paul. And Paul is saying

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