Thursday, May 29, 2025

PT-2 “The Inspired and Inerrant Scripture” (2 Tim. 3:16-17)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/29/2025 9:27 AM

 

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  PT-2 “The Inspired and Inerrant Scripture”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                              Reference:  2 Timothy 3:16-17

 

            Message of the verses:  16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”

 

5/29/2025 8:55 PM

 

            I did not get my Spiritual Diary done for this morning because I had to take my wife to an appointment to get a procedure done that we pray will help to get rid of any remaining cancer in her body.  I have been studying and thinking and doing some research on Psalm 139:16 “Your eyes have seen my formless substance; And in Your book were written All the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.  David is the author of the 139th Psalm and some commentators say that this verse only applies to David, and some say that it is for everyone.  My thoughts are that God is in control and He is the one who determines when a person is born and when a person will die, and that is what many commentators have said about this.  I spoke with a couple of our Pastors at our church and they think the way that I do about this.  Now think about using this verse to witnesses to somebody and then explain to them that God is in control of when you were born and when you will die, and this use that information to tell them that you don’t know when they will die, and so it is a good time now to accept the forgiveness that God offers them through the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ when He did for them on the cross.  One of the attributes of God is that He is all knowing and so that means that He certainly knows when a person will be born and when they will die.  Now back to the kind of treatment that my wife is beginning to receive for any more cancer that may be in her body after having her operation almost four weeks ago.  All the cancer that we know that she had in her female organs has been removed, and it is our prayer that she does not have any more in her body, but about 8-9 weeks ago when we knew she had cancer she went on a new type of diet, a diet that has very little to no sugar in it, especially the kind of sugar that come out of a box.  Cancer loves sugar and so the less you put into your body the better your body is to fight cancer.  She got a large dose of vitamin c this morning and will continue to have this done for a while as this is a good way to fight cancer.  It works on the line of taking insulin which is something else we are looking into.  A person who does not have high blood sugar who is under professional care gets a shot of insulin in the morning and then the cancer in their body will run to it and the insulin will kill it.  Ok that is enough update on my wife, and once again I ask those who read this will pray for Sandy, that the Lord will be merciful to both of us and allow her to get rid of her cancer, and I will say thank you in advance.

 

            I am just going to begin looking at the subject “The Inspired And Inerrant Scripture” by quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary as it may be the best way for me to do these Spiritual Diaries on this wonderful subject about Scripture.

 

            “Scripture is inspired and inerrant in both testaments. All Scripture refers to the New as well as to the Old Testament.  As noted above, the hieros grammata (‘sacred writings’) were the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament), which Timothy had been taught from childhood (v. 15).  Graphe (Scripture), on the other hand, was commonly used in the early church not only of the Old Testament but also of God’s newly revealed Word, in what came to be called the New Testament.

 

            “During His earthly ministry, Jesus gave powerful and unambiguous testimony to the divine authority of both testaments.  The four gospels contain the first divine revelation after that of the Old Testament prophets, which had ceased some four hundred years earlier.  Jesus’ declaration that ‘Scripture [graphe] cannot be broken’ (John 10:35) applied specifically to the Hebrew Scriptures but also, as will be seen, to the totality of Scripture, that is, to both testaments, which together compose God’s written Word.

 

            “Early in His ministry, Jesus said of the Old Testament, ‘Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.  For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished’ (Matt. 5:17-18).  Later He said, ‘It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail’ (Luke 16:17).

 

Spiritual Meaning for My life Today:  This sections has just renewed my love for the Word of God, something that God has given me a love for when He saved me over 51 years ago.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  We, (my wife and I) trust that the Lord will be glorified as He guides us through the test of cancer we are going through.

 

5/29/2025 9:28 PM

 

             

 

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