Today's Sermon:
G. (Bible Study) O. A. T.
Rick Gustafson, church elder

“The Old Testament which we have is the Old Testament Jesus himself used, believed, and regarded as ‘the mouth of God’. He freely quoted various parts of the Old Testament as the word of God or Scripture. We may therefore safely receive it s thirty nine books as the word of God.
“Jesus did not say: ‘Forget about your Old Testament readings now that I am alive!’
On the contrary, he continued to emphasize the absolute authority of God’s word. He encouraged his disciples to understand it and to believe its testimony. In fact it was only after Jesus explained the message of the Bible to them that they began to understand who he was!
Sinclair Ferguson, Out of the Mouth of God p.26,28

“What are the Scriptures for? First of all, to make men and women wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. In other words, the Bible is a book about Jesus. In the Old Testament, Jesus is predicted. In the Gospels, Jesus is incarnated. In the Acts, Jesus is preached. In the Epistles, Jesus is explained. And in the Revelation, Jesus is expected. But when we go into the Bible, from the beginning all the way to the very end, we are encountering a book which comes to us in our foolishness, which comes to men and women in their lostness, which comes to folks whose minds have been darkened by the god of this age, who are blind to things, and it is the Scripture which is able to make dumb people wise. It is the Scripture that is able to make blind people see. It is the Scripture that is able to make deaf people hear. And it is totally sufficient. You see, that is why it is a call to the proclaiming, to the disbursing, to the conveying, of the Bible that we are called.” Alistair Begg, Sufficiency of the Word

Application: The Sufficiency of Scripture

1) God’s Word is Sufficient for.....

“And that, you see, is the challenge in our day. Hinduism says that God has incarnated himself many times; we say only once. We cannot both be right. Judaism says that Jesus was not the Messiah; we say he was. We cannot both be right. Buddhists say if we would clean up our act and do a little better, God will accept us; we say we cannot clean up our act and God will not accept us on the basis of what we do. We cannot both be right. So we are stuck with the particularity of Jesus Christ. And it is in that essential truth that all of the sufficiency of Scripture is conveyed.Alistair Begg, Sufficiency of the Word

2) God’s Word is Sufficient for....

The law displays God’s righteousness and justice and shows us how high the standard really is. The law can only address the problem of sin from the outside.
The righteousness promised in the gospel is brought about by the Holy Spirit and works from the inside.
The gospel not only reveals the glory of God by showing Christ to us but also transforms us in His image ”with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Dr. John Koessler, Today in the Word, October 2021

3) God’s Word Gives Us.....

4) God’s Word Reveals.....