SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/05/2025 9:17 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-9
“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
continue quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary relating to these two
wonderful verses. As mentioned this will
take me a fairly long time to get through this, but I think that this will be
the last one as far as the introduction.
“Scripture
also is complete. Jude admonished his
readers to ‘contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to
the saints’ (Jude 3). John closes the book of Revelation, as well as the entire
Old and New Testaments, with this sobering warning from the: ‘I testify to everyone who hears the words of
the prophecy of this book: if anyone
adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book;
and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall
take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are
written in this book’ (Rev. 22:18-19).
“False religious systems that claim to be Christian invariably
expose their falsehood by their view of Scripture. Mormonism considers The Book of Mormon to be as divinely inspired and authoritative as the
Bible, in fact more son, because they view that book as being a latter-day,
updated revelation from God. Christian
Science views Science and Health, With
Key to the Scriptures in the same way.
Some charismatics claim to have received special revelations from God,
which, if genuine, would carry the same divine authority as the Bible. For most of the twentieth century, a large
percentage of members and a higher percentage of clergymen in most major
Protestant denominations have not recognized the Bible as being wholly revealed
by God and inerrant. Those views and
many others like them share the common heresy of considering Scripture to be
incomplete or inadequate.
“It
is because of such distorted and destructive views of Scripture within professing
Christendom that biblical believers must, more than ever before ‘contend
earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints’ (Jude
3). As in the early church, the greatest
danger to the church has always been from within. Paul warned the godly, mature church at
Ephesus, pastured first by the apostle and then by Timothy, and led by godly
elders, ‘I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you,
not sparing the flock; and from among
your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the
disciples after them’ (Acts 20:29-30), emphasis added).
“In
the remainder of verse 16, Paul declares that Scripture is profitable four
believers in four important ways: For
teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.”
And with that we finally are finished with this
rather long introduction that was to me very factual and also very interesting
as MacArthur wrote about things in the Old Testament and also in the New
Testament. This verse in 2 Timothy is
for sure one of the most important verses in the entire Bible. I look forward
to looking at these verses as I begin doing this in my next SD.
6/5/2025 9:35 AM
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