Unleashing God’s Word In Your Life, Part 4: The Word on the Word
Unleashing God’s Word In Your Life
Lesson 4—The Word on the Word
- Imagine the Bible is on trial for claiming to be something it is not, God’s Word, and you are the counsel for the defense.
- What witnesses could you call to testify to the truthfulness of the Bible?
- The Bible writers—several thousand times these men claimed to be writing the Word of God.
- They made no apologies for what they said or wrote—instead, they spoke with an air of authority.
- They wrote of things no one of their time could have known.
- The only reasonable source of the information was out-side of themselves.
- They constantly claimed to be speaking for God, and veri-fied that outer Bible writers spoke for God as well.
- OT writers referred to their writings as God’s Word 3,808 times.
- NT writers quoted the OT at least 320 times, and called the OT “Scripture.”
- Acts and the Epistles also bear witness to this claim.
- They made no apologies for what they said or wrote—instead, they spoke with an air of authority.
- We can also call Jesus Christ as witness.
- He believed every word of the OT.
- A full 10% of the verses in the NT recording Jesus’ own words, are Him quoting from the OT.
- The only possible verdict is that the Scriptures are indeed God’s inspired Word.
