Give Me the Bible

Nelson Kidder – June 1, 2022

LET’S READ: PSALM 119:89; PSALM 119:97-104; PSALM 119:144; PSALM 119:160; ISAIAH 40:8.
AND SOME MORE: JOHN 17:17; JOHN 8:31-32; JOHN 16:13; 2 TIMOTHY 3:14-17; 2 PETER 1:16-21.
THE BIBLE CLAIMS IT IS THE WORD of GOD. {SEE 1 THES. 2:13}
BUT SOME WILL SAY, “HOW CAN WE BE SURE IT IS NOT JUST THE WORK of MEN?”

SOME WELL-KNOWN EXAMPLES of RELIGIONS WHO CLAIM THAT GOD SPOKE(SPEAKS) WELL AFTER THE “CANON of SCRIPTURES” (66 BOOKS):
ROMAN CATHOLIC – POPE – SPEAKS in the PLACE of GOD; HE CLAIMS TO BE “INFALLIBLE.” (NOTE 2 THES.2: 3-12; 1 TIM. 4:1-3)
MORMONS (LDS) – JOSEPH SMITH, B. YOUNG
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES – CHARLES T. RUSSELL

JUDE 3 – “THE faith once for all delivered…”
GALATIANS 1:6-12 – “not that there is another one…”
2 PETER 1:3 – “has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness…”
2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 – “all Scripture… complete…equipped for every good work.”
WHAT ABOUT “PROPHECIES”? – “they will pass away.” (1 COR.13:8)
WHEN DID “PROPHESY” END? – “when the perfect comes, the partial shall pass away.” (1 COR.13:10)
WHEN DID “THE PERFECT” COME? – WHEN GOD’S COMPLETE WILL HAD BEEN REVEALED THRU the WRITTEN WORD GIVEN BY the HOLY SPIRIT. (NOTE JAMES 1:25)

GOD’S PURPOSE FOR OUR SONGS: EXOD. 15; DEUT. 31:30–32:46; JUDGES 5; 1 COR. 14:15; EPH. 5:18-19; COL. 3:16.
WHAT DOES the CHORUS TEACH US?
WHAT DOES VERSE 1 TEACH US?
WHAT DOES VERSE 2 TEACH US?
WHAT DOES VERSE 3 TEACH US?
WHAT DOES VERSE 4 TEACH US?

KENNETH L. WOODWARD – RELIGION EDITOR of “NEWSWEEK”; 1982 ARTICLE – “THE BIBLE in AMERICA” vs. HIS 2016 BOOK – “GETTING RELIGION: FAITH, CULTURE and POLITICS”
BOTH ABOUT the INFLUENCE of RELIGION in USA
1982 – “the BIBLE HAS EXERTED AN UNRIVALED INFLUENCE on AMERICAN CULTURE, POLITICS and SOCIAL LIFE…”
2016 BOOK – “…MORAL RELATIVISM as the PREVAILING MORAL CONTEXT for MANY YOUNG AMERICANS…” and THEIR “UNWILLINGNESS TO HOLD THEMSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES.” (See JUDGES 21:25)
WOODWARD – SUCH MORAL CHAOS “SHOULD DISTURB US DEEPLY.”
LET’S READ PROVERBS 29:18

O. T. – “SOMEONE IS COMING”
N. T. – “THAT SOMEONE HAS COME”
O. T. – “JESUS CHRIST CONCEALED”
N. T. – “JESUS CHRIST REVEALED” (Luke 2:8-14; John 1:14; Acts 8:26-35; Eph. 3:1-7)
HANDOUT – CHRIST THROUGHOUT the BIBLE

1.) IT’S REASONABLE and LOGICAL (Isa. 1:18)
2.) BELIEVING IT MAKES FAR MORE SENSE THAN DISBELIEVING.
3.) BECAUSE SKEPTICS and CRITICS HAVE TRIED FOR MANY CENTURIES to DISPROVE IT, BUT HAVE FAILED!
4.) PREDICTED PROPHECY – YOU JUST COULDN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! Isa. 44:28-45 and 2 Chron. 36:22-23, etc.
5.) “WRITTEN REVELATION” IS CLEARER and IS PRESERVED FOR ETERNITY.
“OH, the B-I-B-L-E, YES THAT’S the BOOK for ME …!”

Nelson Kidder – Spring 2022