God Breathed

Simply put, we as Christians, we have to believe and submit to the sufficiency of scripture. The sufficiency of scripture means that the bible is enough. We don't need extra theories or new revelations. We don't need the experts. We don't need all of these different things. We just need the bible. The bible is enough. Scripture is sufficient because it is the only light of truth shining in a dark world. [00:18:19] (39 seconds)

Imagine if I you know, we talk about this a lot. Imagine if I never held my wife's hand. Imagine if I never called her back on the phone. Imagine if she wrote me 40 letters over and over and over again, year after year, and I never read them. I said, oh yeah, well, we're married, we're good, but, you know, she wrote me all this stuff, but I'm not gonna respond to that text. Well, when I go home for dinner, it's not gonna be very good. [00:35:52] (33 seconds)

You and I, friends, we have to think critically and use the bible as a compass, as a map, a GPS, all of the analogies. Right? We have to look to God's word, and we have to submit to God's word and say, you know what, Jesus? I don't understand this, but your way is better. Your ways are higher than mine. I may not understand why this is going on, but I'm going to trust and submit to you, king Jesus. [00:41:00] (30 seconds)

Instead, we need to have the bible as the supreme court of our life, and have everything under it fall into that. We have to view the Bible as the highest authority. And if a scientific theory, or the experts, or whatever, if it doesn't match up with the Bible, well, we should just excuse them and throw it out. Science is good and beautiful and true when it's when scripture is viewed as the highest authority. [00:24:08] (28 seconds)

You see, friends, our Jesus, the word became flesh. He is the light, and he's divinely inspired, and his word is also the light. His divinely inspired word is a light to all mankind. Mankind. Because the bible is the light, the bible contains all of the necessary knowledge for salvation and righteous living. [00:20:32] (31 seconds)

And friends, I want you to take seriously your eternity. I want you to take seriously the letters of scripture. I want you to read all of the books of the bible, all 66 books. I want you to take seriously that one day, man, we will either see weeping and gnashing of teeth and say, why God am I not in heaven with you? Or we will be glorified and resurrected and worshiping the Lord saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is to come. [00:36:44] (40 seconds)

I want you to imagine a court. You've got the supreme court as the bible. Then your lower court, you've got, you know, church history, the local church, your pastor, all all these things. Right? And then you have your feelings. Now a lot of times, people in our culture today say things like, man, I just I can't really point to anything, but I feel like this is true. I don't really know, but I just my heart is telling me this or that. And I just gotta tell you, friends, I don't mean to burst your bubble, well, guess I do, but yeah. Your feelings are the lowest court in our life. [00:31:50] (42 seconds)

Friends, the word of God, it's a shield in our strength. The world will be lost worshiping false gods without a lamp shining in the dark, a lamp shining across the wind and the waves, and pointing people to light and life. Scripture is that light, and we have to shine the light of the Bible so that our children and our grandchildren, our friends and our neighbors don't worship demonic gods. [00:17:44] (29 seconds)