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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What makes the Bible the most unique document you will
ever in tell?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Doctor Tony Evans says, the answer lies in who's behind it.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The Bible is not the Word of pay. The Bible
is the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. The Bible has
been called a book of wisdom, a life manual, even
a philosophical guide, but doctor Evan says it's much more
than that. Today he explains why Scripture is completely unique,
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unlike any other book in history, because it doesn't just
contain words about God. It is the Word of God.
Let's join him in Isaiah fifty five as he shows
how the Bible proves itself to be exactly what it
claims to be.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The Bible is the most important book in the world.
There is no book you will ever read, no writing
you will ever in tuna know in scripting that you
will ever see, that will be able to in any
form or fashion, compete with the Word of God.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Scripture is unique. The Bible is unique. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know for some people it's a philosophy book where
they put it alongside of other philosophical thought about the
meaning of life and the like.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
To others, it's a book.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
For wisdom, learning, for principles, for guidance, for wise sayings.
But the Bible is much more than that. There are
a lot of philosophy books, so the Bible wouldn't be unique.
There I can show you a lot of books full
of nice, quotable sayings and wouldn't make.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The Bible unique. What makes the Bible the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Most unique document you will ever encounter. It's simple. The
Bible is not the word of man. The Bible is
the Word of God. First of all, you must understand
that the Bible calls itself unique because the Bible calls
itself the Word of God, or sense this is true.
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That means that without ever leaving the Bible, the Bible
must authenticate itself as being unique, since it declares itself
to be so. Especially since in the Bible we read
in the same chapter, chapter fifty five, verse.
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Nine, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so.
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Are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts
higher than your thoughts.
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In fact, back up the verse eight, for my thoughts
are not.
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Your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways declares the Lord.
So that if the Bible is in fact the unique
word of God, it's thinking.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Should be higher than our thinking.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It should be different than our thinking, because if a
man could come up with it, that means.
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God didn't need to.
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In fact, the scripture is clear by the scripture that
the Bible did not originate with men. Here's a verse
we're going to appeal to a number of times throughout
the series, but you need to know it, and that
is two Peter.
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Chapter one, verse twenty.
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But know this first of all, that no prophecy of
scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation. For no
prophecy was ever made by an act of human will,
but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
In other words, nobody wrote anything until God told them
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in order for it to get into the Bible. So
the Bible is declaring its own uniqueness as.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Being the unique word of God.
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The main reason that we know the Bible is the
word of God is because Jesus said so. In fact,
Jesus says in Matthew chapter five, verses seventeen and eighteen
that the smallest letter of the smallest word that's recorded
in the Bible will come true, just like the Bible says,
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because it is the word of God. Now, what's the
implication of that. To reject the Bible is to reject Jesus,
since he endorsed it as the word of God. Jesus
declared over and over again that the word of God
was sourced in God, and the Bible has all the
credibility of any other historical document ever written. In fact,
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another argument for the uniqueness of the Bible is that
scripture is unique in its unity. It is unique like
no other book is unique.
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What do I mean?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The Bible was written by forty different authors, forty different
people over a time span of fifteen hundred years. It
was written from about fourteen fifty BC to ninety a
D over fifteen hundred years by forty different men. Now,
let me tell you about the background of these folks.
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Moses he's a political leader. Peter he's a fisherman, Amos
he's a herdsman. Joshua is a military general. Neil Mayah
is a cup bearer, Daniel is a prime minister, Luke
is a medical doctor. Solomon is a king, Matthew is
a tax collector. Paul is a Rabbi Moses was written
from a wilderness, Jeremiah was written from a dungeon.
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Daniel was written on a hillside.
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Paul was writing in prison, Luke was writing while traveling,
and John was writing while exiled.
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On the isle of patents.
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Now how you gonna get forty different men riding over
fifteen hundred years, living all over the place to come
together across that time span and wind up with one document.
The Bible is unique in its unity. It has got
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all this diversity and still comes up with sixty six
books making up one document and it not getting messed
over over time. Let me give you another reason why
the Bible is unique. The Bible is unique in its teaching.
There are a lot of books that teach there is
a God, but there is no other book that teaches
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there is a triune God, that there is one God
composed of three persons who are distinct in personality while
at the very same time being one in essence. No
other book teaches that. Why what another book teaching? Since
the Bible is unique, let me tell you another teaching
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of the Bible that makes it like no other book.
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And this is probably the Biggie Jesus Christ.
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There has been no character ever invented anywhere in history
that can compete with the uniqueness of Jesus Christ.
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Who else goes around talking.
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About being born of a virgin? I call that pretty unique.
That's a one of a kind kind of situation to
declare he was born of a virgin. What other man
do you know who is both God and man at
the same time. One minute, he's hungry, the next minute
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he's feeding five thousand. He's hungry because he's man. He's
feeding five thousand because he's God. One minute, he's thirsty,
so he needs to drink because he's man.
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Next minute he walking on water because he's God.
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One minute he has to sleep because he's tired because
he's man. The next minute he's raising lideries from the
biggest sleep ever dead, and he gets up out the
grave because he's God. In other words, Jesus is unique.
But wouldn't you expect Jesus to be unique if the
Bible is unique? Because the Bible has to self authenticated
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self as being unique. And Jesus Christ is the most
unique man that ever lived. As they said in the
New Testament, never a man spake like this man. Okay, well,
let me tell you how unique Jesus is. Jesus didn't
just say I'm appoint you to God. He also said
I'm the God. I'm pointing you too.
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That's unique.
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Jesus didn't say just look over there as God. Guess
what he said. He said, come together every Sunday and
do this in remembrance of me taking the place of God.
Not only that, but he received the worship that only
belongs to God.
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You remember Thomas.
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Thomas came Jesus, and he said, I don't believe. I
don't believe until I see it. If I don't see it,
I don't believe it. Jesus says, here, touch my hands,
touch the hole on my side, touched the nail prince
in my hand. Thomas fell on his faith, and guess
what he said. He said, my Lord, my God. He
said you are my God. And guess what Jesus didn't
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correct him. In fact, Philip Philip my boy John fourteen.
Phillip says, you know, Jesus, it's been nice you've been.
We've been we've been running with you, we've been hanging
out with you for three years, you know, and you aye, Jesus.
But but when we gonna see the big Daddy. We
won't see Big Daddy the Father.
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And he guess what. Jesus says, have I been with
you this long?
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And you still don't understand? And then he throws it
right out there. He said, when you have seen me,
you have seen the Father. You've just seen him in
human turn. And then then Jesus threw the Jews off
one day. He think he really threw the Jews off.
They said he was. He was saying, you know what
he was gonna do with these gon rides from the
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dead and all that, and the Jew said, look, you
just a young man. You hadn't been around here long.
And Jesus says, before Abraham was I am. Now, now
what he was supposed to say was before Abraham I
would have been bad enough. Before Abraham was I was?
But he didn't say before Abraham was I was? He
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used the term God used the Moses. When Moses said,
who should I say some me? God said, you tell
him I am that I am sent you before Abraham.
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I am.
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I am the ever present one. In fact, he says,
Abraham saw mo.
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Day and was glad. I think that's pretty unique. You
won't find this person in any other book.
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When doctor Evans continues in a moment, he'll share more
of the Bible's unique insight into mankind's origin and purpose.
The message Tony has been bringing today is the first
installment in his current teaching series, The Glory of God's Word.
This ten part collection highlights the uniqueness, power, and divine
origin of Scripture and how embracing its truth can reshape
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Here's doctor Evans with more on the uniqueness of the Bible.
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It is unique about its description about man. It explains
in detail where man came from. It explains in detail
where the universe came from. It explains that man is
the creature of the earth, but yet he breathes with
the breath of God. It explains your deepest need because
it explains why nothing in nature can meet your deepest need.
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Because before man began to live, God had to breathe
into him the breath of life. And he didn't live
until he got the breath of God. And you still
don't live until you get the breath of God. The
only thing you can do without the breath of God
is exists. Oh, here's another uniqueness. The Bible is unique
about it the way of salvation. Guess what Every other
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religion known to mankind tells you what you must do
to make yourself acceptable to God. The Bible, unlike any
other religious book, says men are saved not by works,
They're saved by grace. Every other religion, you earn your
way in Christianity based on the Bible says, you can't
earn your way in. God had to come down and.
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Make provision for you, offering you grace.
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He became your substitute. You don't have to find your
own way to get to God. To The Bible's unique
and is teaching. Let me give you another way. The
Bible is unique. The Bible is unique in its impact,
or as Hebrews Chapter four, verse twelve says, the Bible
is living and powerful. It's alive. Jesus said, man shall
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not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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It's alive.
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God spoke, and the Bible says the worlds came into existence.
He didn't go check with an architect.
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You know what he said. Let that be. That's some
powerful words.
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God is the only being in the universe who doesn't
need raw material to get the job done. Scripture is
unique in another way. Just have two more to give you.
Scripture is unique in its history. No book, no book,
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and I'm telling you no book. Somebody say, no book
in human history has been preserved like the Bible. Why
wouldn't it be. If God is the author, he gonna
take care of his book.
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No book.
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They outlawed it, they destroyed it, and they killed people
for printing it. Wickcliff Bible Translators is known for John Wickcliffe,
who printed the Bible so the people could get it,
and they killed it. They tore down the printing presses.
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The Bible even records the story in Jeremiah thirty six.
The king said getting rid of that book, and the
king threw the word of God in the fire to
get rid of it. Why would the king throw the
word of God in the fire the same reason herd
wanted to kill Jesus when he was born.
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The king didn't want to have to answer to it,
so he threw it in the fire. Guess what God said?
God said to things.
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That book is not the only thing that's gonna bear
at number one, number two, Jeremiah, don't give me some
new scribes. I'm gonna tell them what the king burned,
and that's gonna rewrite it. Oh, let's come to a
more contemporary day. Voltaire, remember you study philosophy, and that
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was a French philosopher of Voltaire.
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Voltaire was an atheist.
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He said there is no God, and then he jumped
away out there. He says, and this Bible in fifty
years will be a non existent document.
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That's what Voltaire said. Voltaire died, but that's not the kicker.
Let me get a kicker. They turned his.
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House into a Bible printing press. So the very house
where he said the Bible would be dead was printing Bible.
God will make a fool out of you. It's like
it's like the great philosopher said God is dead, and
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then he signed his name. The philosopher died and somebody wrote,
he is dead, signed God. God promises his word would
abide forever. One Peter one twenty three saw him one nineteen,
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verse eighty nine. Matthew twenty four to thirty five says
heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall
last forever. So there's no destroying bibles here. Thet's gonna
get rid of Bibles. And no book has sold more
than the Bible. But why would you expect anything different.
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If God is marketing his own book, you would expect
it without sell every other book by every other author.
One more way that scripture is unique.
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It is unique. Here's a killer, here's a killer. This
kills me. This is one of the great proofs of
the Bible. It is unique in its accuracy.
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Now you supposed to get something wrong unless you God.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You can only have a perfect book if you are
a perfect person. Now watch this. You're supposed to make
some mistakes. You know why. The Bible authenticates itself prophecy.
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It talks about things well in advance of them happening
in detail.
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Watch just now.
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Michael five, written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus,
says that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
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Now, Beckleham, is that me?
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I mean, if you wanna pick someplace, pick a big
city where you got your chances, you know a little
higher to get it right.
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Bethlehem is that big? Where was Jesus for Bethlehem? Prophesied
hundreds of years before his birth.
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The Bible predicted the fall of the Babylonian Empire by
the Medo Persian Empire. The Medo Persian Empire, Daniel says,
would be defeated by the Greek Empire. The Greek Empire
would be defeated by the Roman Empire. Now all you
gotta do is close your Bible and go to your
history book.
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If you go to your history.
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Book, you discover from secondar History, not Christians, that the
Babylonian Empire was destroyed by the Medo Persian Empire, which
was overcome by Alexander the Great.
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In the Greek Empire, which was overcome by Rome.
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The Bible says that the the Greek Empire would.
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Be divided three ways.
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Well, all you got to do is go to your
history books and you're discover that when Alexander died, three
generals came in and split up the Kingdom of Greece
in the three different ways.
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Now watch this.
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The Bible says that the Roman Empire was gonna fall,
and when the Roman Empire Europe fell, that it was
going to break off into a ten nation confederacy. And
this ten nation confederacy would come together to form a
united Roman Empire. That wasn't luck or chance. God knows
what's happening before it takes place. The Bible authenticates itself
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because of.
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It is prophetically true.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It is prophetically accurate and therefore dependable. Close with the
Great Tragedy. Here's a great tragedy that we trusted with
our lips, We honor it with our mom but we
don't believe it with our lives. How do we know
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we don't believe it.
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Don't we believe it?
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We carry it sometimes we got to sitting up on
the shelve, maybe on the coffee table.
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Okay, how do we know? Here's why you know you
don't believe it.
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Because you go to every other source for your solutions.
Somebody didn't hear me. You run to everything but it
to fix what's wrong. It's not the first place you go,
it's the last place you go. And when you go
to it last, that's because you believe in it last.
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Because what you believe in your head always shows up
in your feet. So if God's way is the last
way when all else fails, try to We try last
in our finances. We tried last. In our relationships. We
tried last. In our careers, we tried last, and our orientations,
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we tried last in our communications. We tried last, last, last, last.
And we wonder why we gotta go years without stuff
getting right. We go years without stuff getting right because
for us, it's not unique. It's just another book that
our honor because I was raised to honor it. But
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it has no life, it has no power. It's just talk,
God just talking. He just wanted to talk one day.
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So we just wrote a book. It has no power
at all.
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And as long as that's what you believe, that's what
you'll see nothing.
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If you don't believe it, you won't see it. For you.
It'll be a dead book.
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Lifeless, empty. You'll get up and read it in the
morning and say, how boring. You know why it's boring?
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Come God, No, you're not gonna do nothing with it,
And so it becomes an empty document. Ah.
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But when you understand it is the breadth of God
on paper, If the breadth of God on paper, then
you'll discover it's a lie.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Doctor Tony Evans reminding us of the power of God's
word when we approach it with faith and a heart
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What makes the Bible the most unique document you will
ever in tell?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Doctor Tony Evans says, the answer lies in who's behind it.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The Bible is not the Word of pay. The Bible
is the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. The Bible has
been called a book of wisdom, a life manual, even
a philosophical guide, but doctor Evan says it's much more
than that. Today he explains why Scripture is completely unique,
(00:34):
unlike any other book in history, because it doesn't just
contain words about God. It is the Word of God.
Let's join him in Isaiah fifty five as he shows
how the Bible proves itself to be exactly what it
claims to be.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The Bible is the most important book in the world.
There is no book you will ever read, no writing
you will ever in tuna know in scripting that you
will ever see, that will be able to in any
form or fashion, compete with the Word of God.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Scripture is unique. The Bible is unique. Now.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know for some people it's a philosophy book where
they put it alongside of other philosophical thought about the
meaning of life and the like.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
To others, it's a book.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
For wisdom, learning, for principles, for guidance, for wise sayings.
But the Bible is much more than that. There are
a lot of philosophy books, so the Bible wouldn't be unique.
There I can show you a lot of books full
of nice, quotable sayings and wouldn't make.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The Bible unique. What makes the Bible the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Most unique document you will ever encounter. It's simple. The
Bible is not the word of man. The Bible is
the Word of God. First of all, you must understand
that the Bible calls itself unique because the Bible calls
itself the Word of God, or sense this is true.
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That means that without ever leaving the Bible, the Bible
must authenticate itself as being unique, since it declares itself
to be so. Especially since in the Bible we read
in the same chapter, chapter fifty five, verse.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Nine, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts
higher than your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
In fact, back up the verse eight, for my thoughts
are not.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways declares the Lord.
So that if the Bible is in fact the unique
word of God, it's thinking.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Should be higher than our thinking.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It should be different than our thinking, because if a
man could come up with it, that means.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
God didn't need to.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
In fact, the scripture is clear by the scripture that
the Bible did not originate with men. Here's a verse
we're going to appeal to a number of times throughout
the series, but you need to know it, and that
is two Peter.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Chapter one, verse twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But know this first of all, that no prophecy of
scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation. For no
prophecy was ever made by an act of human will,
but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
In other words, nobody wrote anything until God told them
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in order for it to get into the Bible. So
the Bible is declaring its own uniqueness as.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Being the unique word of God.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The main reason that we know the Bible is the
word of God is because Jesus said so. In fact,
Jesus says in Matthew chapter five, verses seventeen and eighteen
that the smallest letter of the smallest word that's recorded
in the Bible will come true, just like the Bible says,
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because it is the word of God. Now, what's the
implication of that. To reject the Bible is to reject Jesus,
since he endorsed it as the word of God. Jesus
declared over and over again that the word of God
was sourced in God, and the Bible has all the
credibility of any other historical document ever written. In fact,
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another argument for the uniqueness of the Bible is that
scripture is unique in its unity. It is unique like
no other book is unique.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
What do I mean?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The Bible was written by forty different authors, forty different
people over a time span of fifteen hundred years. It
was written from about fourteen fifty BC to ninety a
D over fifteen hundred years by forty different men. Now,
let me tell you about the background of these folks.
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Moses he's a political leader. Peter he's a fisherman, Amos
he's a herdsman. Joshua is a military general. Neil Mayah
is a cup bearer, Daniel is a prime minister, Luke
is a medical doctor. Solomon is a king, Matthew is
a tax collector. Paul is a Rabbi Moses was written
from a wilderness, Jeremiah was written from a dungeon.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Daniel was written on a hillside.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Paul was writing in prison, Luke was writing while traveling,
and John was writing while exiled.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
On the isle of patents.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now how you gonna get forty different men riding over
fifteen hundred years, living all over the place to come
together across that time span and wind up with one document.
The Bible is unique in its unity. It has got
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all this diversity and still comes up with sixty six
books making up one document and it not getting messed
over over time. Let me give you another reason why
the Bible is unique. The Bible is unique in its teaching.
There are a lot of books that teach there is
a God, but there is no other book that teaches
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there is a triune God, that there is one God
composed of three persons who are distinct in personality while
at the very same time being one in essence. No
other book teaches that. Why what another book teaching? Since
the Bible is unique, let me tell you another teaching
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of the Bible that makes it like no other book.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And this is probably the Biggie Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
There has been no character ever invented anywhere in history
that can compete with the uniqueness of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Who else goes around talking.
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About being born of a virgin? I call that pretty unique.
That's a one of a kind kind of situation to
declare he was born of a virgin. What other man
do you know who is both God and man at
the same time. One minute, he's hungry, the next minute
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he's feeding five thousand. He's hungry because he's man. He's
feeding five thousand because he's God. One minute, he's thirsty,
so he needs to drink because he's man.
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Next minute he walking on water because he's God.
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One minute he has to sleep because he's tired because
he's man. The next minute he's raising lideries from the
biggest sleep ever dead, and he gets up out the
grave because he's God. In other words, Jesus is unique.
But wouldn't you expect Jesus to be unique if the
Bible is unique? Because the Bible has to self authenticated
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self as being unique. And Jesus Christ is the most
unique man that ever lived. As they said in the
New Testament, never a man spake like this man. Okay, well,
let me tell you how unique Jesus is. Jesus didn't
just say I'm appoint you to God. He also said
I'm the God. I'm pointing you too.
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That's unique.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Jesus didn't say just look over there as God. Guess
what he said. He said, come together every Sunday and
do this in remembrance of me taking the place of God.
Not only that, but he received the worship that only
belongs to God.
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You remember Thomas.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Thomas came Jesus, and he said, I don't believe. I
don't believe until I see it. If I don't see it,
I don't believe it. Jesus says, here, touch my hands,
touch the hole on my side, touched the nail prince
in my hand. Thomas fell on his faith, and guess
what he said. He said, my Lord, my God. He
said you are my God. And guess what Jesus didn't
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correct him. In fact, Philip Philip my boy John fourteen.
Phillip says, you know, Jesus, it's been nice you've been.
We've been we've been running with you, we've been hanging
out with you for three years, you know, and you aye, Jesus.
But but when we gonna see the big Daddy. We
won't see Big Daddy the Father.
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And he guess what. Jesus says, have I been with
you this long?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And you still don't understand? And then he throws it
right out there. He said, when you have seen me,
you have seen the Father. You've just seen him in
human turn. And then then Jesus threw the Jews off
one day. He think he really threw the Jews off.
They said he was. He was saying, you know what
he was gonna do with these gon rides from the
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dead and all that, and the Jew said, look, you
just a young man. You hadn't been around here long.
And Jesus says, before Abraham was I am. Now, now
what he was supposed to say was before Abraham I
would have been bad enough. Before Abraham was I was?
But he didn't say before Abraham was I was? He
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used the term God used the Moses. When Moses said,
who should I say some me? God said, you tell
him I am that I am sent you before Abraham.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I am.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I am the ever present one. In fact, he says,
Abraham saw mo.
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Day and was glad. I think that's pretty unique. You
won't find this person in any other book.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
When doctor Evans continues in a moment, he'll share more
of the Bible's unique insight into mankind's origin and purpose.
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Here's doctor Evans with more on the uniqueness of the Bible.
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It is unique about its description about man. It explains
in detail where man came from. It explains in detail
where the universe came from. It explains that man is
the creature of the earth, but yet he breathes with
the breath of God. It explains your deepest need because
it explains why nothing in nature can meet your deepest need.
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Because before man began to live, God had to breathe
into him the breath of life. And he didn't live
until he got the breath of God. And you still
don't live until you get the breath of God. The
only thing you can do without the breath of God
is exists. Oh, here's another uniqueness. The Bible is unique
about it the way of salvation. Guess what Every other
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religion known to mankind tells you what you must do
to make yourself acceptable to God. The Bible, unlike any
other religious book, says men are saved not by works,
They're saved by grace. Every other religion, you earn your
way in Christianity based on the Bible says, you can't
earn your way in. God had to come down and.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Make provision for you, offering you grace.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
He became your substitute. You don't have to find your
own way to get to God. To The Bible's unique
and is teaching. Let me give you another way. The
Bible is unique. The Bible is unique in its impact,
or as Hebrews Chapter four, verse twelve says, the Bible
is living and powerful. It's alive. Jesus said, man shall
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not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's alive.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
God spoke, and the Bible says the worlds came into existence.
He didn't go check with an architect.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know what he said. Let that be. That's some
powerful words.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
God is the only being in the universe who doesn't
need raw material to get the job done. Scripture is
unique in another way. Just have two more to give you.
Scripture is unique in its history. No book, no book,
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and I'm telling you no book. Somebody say, no book
in human history has been preserved like the Bible. Why
wouldn't it be. If God is the author, he gonna
take care of his book.
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No book.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
They outlawed it, they destroyed it, and they killed people
for printing it. Wickcliff Bible Translators is known for John Wickcliffe,
who printed the Bible so the people could get it,
and they killed it. They tore down the printing presses.
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The Bible even records the story in Jeremiah thirty six.
The king said getting rid of that book, and the
king threw the word of God in the fire to
get rid of it. Why would the king throw the
word of God in the fire the same reason herd
wanted to kill Jesus when he was born.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
The king didn't want to have to answer to it,
so he threw it in the fire. Guess what God said?
God said to things.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That book is not the only thing that's gonna bear
at number one, number two, Jeremiah, don't give me some
new scribes. I'm gonna tell them what the king burned,
and that's gonna rewrite it. Oh, let's come to a
more contemporary day. Voltaire, remember you study philosophy, and that
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was a French philosopher of Voltaire.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Voltaire was an atheist.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
He said there is no God, and then he jumped
away out there. He says, and this Bible in fifty
years will be a non existent document.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
That's what Voltaire said. Voltaire died, but that's not the kicker.
Let me get a kicker. They turned his.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
House into a Bible printing press. So the very house
where he said the Bible would be dead was printing Bible.
God will make a fool out of you. It's like
it's like the great philosopher said God is dead, and
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then he signed his name. The philosopher died and somebody wrote,
he is dead, signed God. God promises his word would
abide forever. One Peter one twenty three saw him one nineteen,
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verse eighty nine. Matthew twenty four to thirty five says
heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall
last forever. So there's no destroying bibles here. Thet's gonna
get rid of Bibles. And no book has sold more
than the Bible. But why would you expect anything different.
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If God is marketing his own book, you would expect
it without sell every other book by every other author.
One more way that scripture is unique.
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It is unique. Here's a killer, here's a killer. This
kills me. This is one of the great proofs of
the Bible. It is unique in its accuracy.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Now you supposed to get something wrong unless you God.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You can only have a perfect book if you are
a perfect person. Now watch this. You're supposed to make
some mistakes. You know why. The Bible authenticates itself prophecy.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It talks about things well in advance of them happening
in detail.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Watch just now.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Michael five, written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus,
says that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Now, Beckleham, is that me?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I mean, if you wanna pick someplace, pick a big
city where you got your chances, you know a little
higher to get it right.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Bethlehem is that big? Where was Jesus for Bethlehem? Prophesied
hundreds of years before his birth.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
The Bible predicted the fall of the Babylonian Empire by
the Medo Persian Empire. The Medo Persian Empire, Daniel says,
would be defeated by the Greek Empire. The Greek Empire
would be defeated by the Roman Empire. Now all you
gotta do is close your Bible and go to your
history book.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
If you go to your history.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Book, you discover from secondar History, not Christians, that the
Babylonian Empire was destroyed by the Medo Persian Empire, which
was overcome by Alexander the Great.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
In the Greek Empire, which was overcome by Rome.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
The Bible says that the the Greek Empire would.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Be divided three ways.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, all you got to do is go to your
history books and you're discover that when Alexander died, three
generals came in and split up the Kingdom of Greece
in the three different ways.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Now watch this.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
The Bible says that the Roman Empire was gonna fall,
and when the Roman Empire Europe fell, that it was
going to break off into a ten nation confederacy. And
this ten nation confederacy would come together to form a
united Roman Empire. That wasn't luck or chance. God knows
what's happening before it takes place. The Bible authenticates itself
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because of.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It is prophetically true.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It is prophetically accurate and therefore dependable. Close with the
Great Tragedy. Here's a great tragedy that we trusted with
our lips, We honor it with our mom but we
don't believe it with our lives. How do we know
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we don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Don't we believe it?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We carry it sometimes we got to sitting up on
the shelve, maybe on the coffee table.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Okay, how do we know? Here's why you know you
don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Because you go to every other source for your solutions.
Somebody didn't hear me. You run to everything but it
to fix what's wrong. It's not the first place you go,
it's the last place you go. And when you go
to it last, that's because you believe in it last.
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Because what you believe in your head always shows up
in your feet. So if God's way is the last
way when all else fails, try to We try last
in our finances. We tried last. In our relationships. We
tried last. In our careers, we tried last, and our orientations,
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we tried last in our communications. We tried last, last, last, last.
And we wonder why we gotta go years without stuff
getting right. We go years without stuff getting right because
for us, it's not unique. It's just another book that
our honor because I was raised to honor it. But
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it has no life, it has no power. It's just talk,
God just talking. He just wanted to talk one day.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
So we just wrote a book. It has no power
at all.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And as long as that's what you believe, that's what
you'll see nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
If you don't believe it, you won't see it. For you.
It'll be a dead book.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Lifeless, empty. You'll get up and read it in the
morning and say, how boring. You know why it's boring?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Come God, No, you're not gonna do nothing with it,
And so it becomes an empty document. Ah.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But when you understand it is the breadth of God
on paper, If the breadth of God on paper, then
you'll discover it's a lie.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Doctor Tony Evans reminding us of the power of God's
word when we approach it with faith and a heart
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