What The Bible Is All About: “Why The Bible Can Be Trusted”

What The Bible Is All About

“Why The Bible Can Be Trusted”

11/24/24

Pastor Mark England

Psalm 119:105 (ESV) Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Colossians 3:16 (NIV) Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

Matthew 24:35 (NIV) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

1. The Holy Bible is accurate.

Psalm 33:4 (CSB) For the word of the Lord is right, and all his work is trustworthy.

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2. Recorded and copied with .

3. confirmation.

2. The Holy Bible is accurate.

Psalm 148:5-6 (NLT) Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for he issued his command, and they came into being. ⁶ He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.

The earth was .

Isaiah 40:22 (CSB) God is enthroned above the circle of the earth.

The earth has to be .

Job 26:7 (CSB) He stretches the northern skies over empty space; he hangs the earth on nothing.

The number of could be counted.

Jeremiah 33:22 (NLT) …the stars of the sky cannot be counted.

Too much made you sick.

Leviticus 17:11 (NLT) …for the life of the body is in its blood.

Psalm 12:6 (CSB) The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.

3. The Holy Bible is accurate.

One person fulfilling prophecies is 1 in 10¹⁷ (100,000,000,000,000,000)

One person fulfilling prophecies is 1 in 10⁴⁵

One person fulfilling prophecies 1 in 10¹⁵⁷

2 Peter 1:21 (NIV) For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 26:56 (NLT) But this is all happening to fulfill the words of the prophets as recorded in the Scriptures.”

Revelation 22:6 (NIV) The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”

4. The Holy Bible is unified.

The Holy Bible was written over a period of in over a countries on continents by in different languages.

Luke 24:27 (CSB) Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.

5. The Holy Bible is by Jesus.

Matthew 5:18 (NIV) For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

If you believe what you in the Bible, but don’t believe what you don’t , it’s not the Bible that you trust, but .

6. The Holy Bible has survived .

The is the most despised, derided, denied, disputed, dissected, debated, outlawed and destroyed book ever.

“Within 100 years the will be .” – Voltaire

1 Peter 1:24-25 (NIV) … the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

Will I God’s Word or ?

Will I it or ?

Will I follow the or The ?

7. The Holy Bible has power.

John 8:31-32 (CSB) Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. ³² You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Dear God, from this day forward, I will accept the Bible as Your flawless Word to me and I will make it the Final Authority for my life, even when I don’t understand it, when it’s not popular, easy, or even when I don’t like it. You are God and I am not. Thank You for loving me enough to speak to me through Your Word. I want to LOVE Your Word, LEARN Your Word, and LIVE Your Word.