The Word of GodPart II:

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The Word of GodPart II The Reliability of the
Bible
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It did bulge out obviously through my dress but
I prayed, Lord, send your angels to surround me
and let them not be transparent today, for the
guards must not see me or my Bible. I felt
perfectly at ease. Calmly I passed the guards.
Everyone was checked, from the front, the sides,
the back. Not a bulge escaped the eyes of the
guard. The woman just in front of me had hidden
a woolen vest under her dress it was taken from
her.
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They let me pass, for they did not see me.
Betsie, right behind me, was searched. But
outside awaited another danger. On each side of
the door were women who looked everyone over for
a second time. They felt over the body of each
one who passed. I knew they would not see me,
for the angels were still surrounding me. I was
not even surprised when they passed me by but
within me rose the jubilant cry, O Lord, You do
answer prayer! I thank You for protecting my
BibleYour Word. I can face Ravensbruck
unafraid. Corrie ten Boom, A PrisonerAnd
Yet.
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What is your final authority in Life?

• Escapism
• Cynicisim
• I dont get mad. . .I get even
• (3) Humanism
• (4) Supernaturalism

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Is the Bible reliable? Is the Bible (truly) the
Word of God? 2 Timothy 31417 1. All
Scripture is God-breathed.
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Matthew 2737 Above his head they placed the
written charge against him This is Jesus, The
King of the Jews. Mark 1526 The written
notice of the charge against him read The King
of the Jews. Luke 2338 There was a written
notice above him, which read This is the King of
the Jews. John 1919 Pilate had a notice
prepared and fastened to the cross. It read
Jesus of Nazareth, The King of the Jews.

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2 Peter 11921 It is the Word of God
through the words of human beings
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The mouth of the Lord spoken (Isa 120) God spoke
by the mouth of his holy prophets (Acts 318,
21)
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FUNDAMENTALISM LIBERALISM God spoke (Hebrews
11), determining what he wanted to say, yet
without smothering the personality of the human
authors. Human beings spoke (2 Pet. 121), using
their faculties freely, yet without distorting
the truth which God was speaking through them.
John Stott, The Contemporary Christian, 169
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I Thess 213
And we also thank God continually because, when
you received the word of God, which you heard
from us, you accepted it not as the word of men,
but as it actually is, the word of God, which is
at work in you who believe.
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• Is the Bible reliable?
• Is the Bible (truly) the Word of God?
• All Scripture is God-breathed.
• Jesus believed the Scriptures to be the Word of
  God.

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Matthew 4110 Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds from the
mouth of God (Matt 44)
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Luke 1729 John 632 John 314 Matthew
123940 John 17
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I have given them your word, and the world has
hated them, for they are not of the world any
more than I am of the world. My prayer is not
that you take them out of the world but that you
protect them from the evil one (John 1714, 15).
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Sanctify them by the truth, your word is
truth. John 1717.
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And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets,
He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the
things concerning Himself. Luke 2427.
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The Written Word points to the Living Word