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

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/30/2025 9:01 AM

 

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  PT-3 “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.”

 

            I mentioned last night when I finished yesterdays SD that because of the great importance of this section in MacArthur’s commentary that I was going to quote the entire section from his commentary, and t here are nine pages in his commentary and so this will take a fairly long time to finish this section, but I believe it will be well worth it for all who read it.

 

            “Jesus repeatedly used divinely revealed truths from the Old Testament to affirm His messiahship.  He declared, ‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water’’ (John 7:38), and ‘Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?’ (John 7:42).  As Jesus walked with the two disciples on the Emmaus road after His resurrection, ‘beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures’ (Luke 24:27).

 

            “In addition to His teaching that ‘Scripture [graphe] cannot be broken’ (John 10:35), Jesus said that ‘He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.  For I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, who to say, and what to speak.  And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me’ (John 12:48-50).  The words of the incarnate Christ are the words of God the Father; therefore to reject Jesus’ words is to reject God’s Word.

 

            “The men whom God assigned to write the gospels would not have been able in their mere humanness to remember accurately everything Jesus said or did.  For that reason Jesus promised that ‘the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you’ (John 14:26; cf. 15:26-27).

 

            The Lord would reveal additional truth after He returned to Heaven.  ‘I have many more things to say to you,’ He said, ‘but you cannot bear them now.  But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.  He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to You’ (John 16:12-14).

 

            “In 1 Timothy, Paul wrote, ‘The Scripture [graphe] says, ‘You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,’ and ‘The laborer is worthy of his wages’’ (1 Tim. 5:18), it is important to note that the first quotation is from the Old Testament (Deu. 25:4) and that the second is from Jesus’ own lips (Luke 10:7), that is, from the New Testament.

 

            “The Pentateuch (first five books of the Old Testament) contains at least 680 claims to divine inspiration.  Such claims are found 418 times in the historical books, 195 times in the poetic books, and 1,307 times in the prophetic books.  The New Testament contains more than 300 direct quotations and at least 1,000 indirect references from the Old Testament, almost all of them declaring or implying that they were God’s own Word.  The book of Hebrews opens with the declaration ‘God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son’ (Heb. 1:1-2).  The writer was speaking of both testaments, God’s speaking through ‘the prophets’ representing the Old and His speaking through ‘His Son’ representing the New.”

 

Spiritual Meaning for my Life Today:  In speaking of the last paragraph I have to say that that is an incredible amount of information to think about, as the Word of God is the most incredible Book ever written, a Book I surely like to study.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  I want to continue to think about the Lord as we go through these difficult times we are going through concerning my wife’s cancer.  The Lord is always faithful and He is the One I put my trust in as He guides us through the path He wants us to follow.  He is my Rock.

 

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