January 24, 2021 | By the Book Part 3 | Dr. Jeff Jackson | First Redeemer Church

By the Book, Part 3 – 1/24/21

The Bible is the inspired Word of God

The Bible is the inspired Word of God
The Bible is necessary for Salvation and Godliness

The Bible is the inspired Word of God
The Bible is necessary for Salvation and Godliness
The Bible is Sufficient

Example: Exam with no class

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV2011)
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The Bible is Sufficient
The Bible contains everything God intends for us to know

Clarification: NOT everything you want to know

Deuteronomy 29:29 (NIV2011)
29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

So What?
Don’t add to it

Don’t add to it
Legalistic demands

Examples: Music, Dancing, Birth Control

Unless the Bible specifically teaches that something is sinful, or some general principle of Scripture prohibits something, it is not – in and of itself – sinful.

John 14:15-17 (NIV2011)
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth.

Don’t add to it
Legalistic demands
Modern “revelations”

Example: Cults

The second “so what”:
Deuteronomy 12:32 (NIV2011)
32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

Don’t take away from it

Don’t take away from it
Picking and choosing

Example: Cooking

Don’t take away from it
Picking and choosing
Neglecting context

Story: Illinois man’s vacation to FL