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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why is the Bible truth? Because it's author it's truth.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Doctor Tony Evans says, truth isn't just what the Bible declares,
it's who it comes from.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Scripture is truth.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It will never adjust to you, but it will do
wonders when you adjust to it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the Alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. In a world
where truth can feel like it's up for debate, doctor
Evans takes us back to the source. In today's lesson,
he explains why truth isn't something we create or feel.
It's something revealed and according to Jesus in John seventeen seventeen,
(00:42):
that truth is found in God's word. Let's join doctor
Evans as he reveals why Scripture must be the ultimate
standard by which everything else is measured.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
We'll live in a day when there's a major question.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's Pilot's question when he looked at Jesus and asked,
what is truth? The concept of truth is challenged on
many fronts. It's been said that that's hardly a college
or university that you go to anymore that bleeds in
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such a thing as absolute truth. To the question what
is truth? There are a multiplicity a myriad of response.
The agnostic says, we can't know truth. So the agnostic
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simply says, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I just don't know. I'm not sure, So.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He becomes the perpetual questioner about the reality of this
thing called truth. The rationalist says truth is limited to
what you can logic conceive of. Rationalism focuses on the
mind then simply says what the mind can conceive of
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as being reality is in fact truth. Therefore, if the
mind cannot conceive of it, you cannot declare it to
be truth. The positivist says that truth is that which
the scientific method validates. If science authenticates it and concludes it,
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then we can perhaps regard it as truth. And then
there is fidism, which says that truth is subjective.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's personal. It's what you feel at the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Therefore, what's true for me may not be true for
you because I don't feel you. It's not where I am.
The pragmatist says that truth is what works. If it works,
it's true. If it doesn't work, it's not true. So
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they're just practical. They simply want to know, does it work.
The Bible talks about people ever learning and never coming
into the knowledge of the truth. Going to schools, going
to conferences, going to events, reading books, reading magazines, watching
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television shows, looking at newscasts, and are constantly gathering more
data without gathering more truth. What do we mean by truth?
What's the nature or the definition of truth? When we
say truth, we are referring to that which corresponds to
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what really is.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
To speak of truth, we're dealing.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
With a final standard by which reality is measured and to.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Which all things must conform.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Jesus says in John eight, verse thirty two, these famous words,
and you shall know the truth, and the truth will
make you free. Please notice he didn't say you will
know a truth. You will know the truth. By putting
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the article the in front of it. He depicts truth
not as one thing among many things, but as a
definitive body of reality.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You shall know the truth.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Not only does truth exist, but the truth that exists
can be known.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now the question is what won't be our standard for
knowing the truth? Well, we determine it. You have your truth,
I have my truth, We have our truth. Who's truth
is the truth?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now we could appeal to a number of things to
say this is how we will determine the truth. We
could appeal to our feelings and say, I feel this
is the truth. The only problem with feeling truth is
that you might feel it one way today and another
way tomorrow because feelings change. And look at how many
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times we have changed our minds based on how we feel.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't feel it today.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So our feelings are genuine, they are not definitive because
they are not reliable.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
They shift regularly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
We can determine truth, or we could argue that we
can determine truth.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
By our intellect. We could reason our way to it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The only problem with reasoning your way to truth is
that our knowledge is finite.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's not unlimited. It's limited.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Therefore, what we know today may change by information we
learn tomorrow. Well, there is another way, perhaps we might
go about determining truth. Perhaps we should look at the
opinion polls.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What do the majority say?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I remember watching one Shoe who wants to be a millionaire,
and one of the options they give you is to
let the audience help.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You, and you're always tempted to choose the majority.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
If two thirds of the audience declare that this is
the answer, Well, then it's best to go that way.
And on this particular show, this man banks his million.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
On the audience. The audience was wrong, but it was
the majority.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now, you can't base truth on opinions because polls change quickly.
Yet truth is critical for a straight line. You've got
to have a rule, a ruler, something that measures whether
something is true or whether something is false, whether something
(07:31):
is right, or whether something is wrong. Those who would
argue from the scientific method, which fundamentally functions on probabilities, possibilities,
and potentialities. Truth deals with a final standard, a fixed
standard that's no negotiable by.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
The other factors.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
As perhaps you've heard me say before one and one
equals that has been established as a mathematical fact that
one in one equals two. Now what happens today If
I don't feel like one in one equals too, I'm
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not feeling you today. I feel like today one and
one are equal three, and I feel very strongly about it.
Truth says that your feelings have to adjust to this
mathematical truth. Suppose you say, well, I went to college
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two and my intellect says that that ought to be questioned. Well,
you can question it all you want, but it's been
established as a mathematical fact, and therefore your intellect will
have to adjust. Let's say you argue from your moral instincts. Well,
let's say the majority of the people around you said no,
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it would not change that reality because that has been
established as a mathematical fact. In other words, we assume
truth exists except in the areas where we don't want
it to exist. So that raises the question what's the
source of truth? John chapter seventeen. Jesus again is speaking.
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Let me read a couple of verses verse three, and
this is eternal life, that they may know thee the
only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
So he refers to the only true God, referring to.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
His father, and then he says, in verse seventeen, sanctified
them in the truth.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Thy word is truth.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Jesus Christ makes the astounding statement that the Bible is
the truth. An astounding statement. Now for Jesus to make this,
(10:31):
ha'sy the right or wrong. If he's wrong, then maybe
we ought to.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Question everything else. He says.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If he's right, the implications of staggering as to how
we view and look at the Bible.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
When doctor Evans continues in a moment, he'll point out
the deeper knowledge and relationship the Truth makes possible in
our lives. Don't go away.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
The thing about serving an infinite God is that no
matter how much you know about him, there's always more
to learn. So whether you're brand new to scripture or
an experienced ministry professional, there's something for you. At the
Tony Evans Training Center. You'll find online courses covering core
concepts of the faith, working at your own pace and schedule.
You'll dig deep into the historical context of the book,
(11:24):
uncover the key teachings, and learn how to apply them
in real world situations. There's lots of exclusive content from
doctor Evans to keep you interested and motivated, and an
online forum where you can ask questions, get answers, and
collaborate with other students. The more you learn, the more
you'll want to learn.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Give it a try.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
The Tony Evans Training Center a world of discovery anytime anywhere.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You can find out more about the Tony Evans Training
Center when you visit our website at Tonyevans dot org.
And while you're there, be sure to check out how
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Request your copy of this exclusive resource package online today
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hundred eight hundred thirty two twenty two, where someone from
our friendly resource team will be glad to assist you. Now,
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let's get back to doctor Evans with more of today's message.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Look at first John, chapter five, verse twenty says, and
we know that the Son of God has come and
has given us understanding in order that we may know
him who is true, and we are in him who
is true, in his son, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
This is the true God and eternal life.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Second Epistle of John, just a page over. He says
at the end of verse one, but also all who
know the truth verse two, for the sake of the truth.
In the verse three, truth and love. Beginning of verse four,
I was glad to find some of your children walking
in truth Verse one of third John, whom I love
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in truth. Verse three, I was glad when brethren came
and be witness to your truth. That is how you're
walking in truth. I have no greater joy than this
to hear that my children are walking in truth verse eight.
Therefore we ought to support such men that we may
be fellow workers with the truth.
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Verse twelve.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Dmitrius has received a good testimony from everyone and from
the truth itself. We also bad witness, and you know
that our witness is true. You get the impression the
Bible bleeds in truth, that there is a thick standard
by which reality is measured. Why is there this unapologetic,
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non compromising, definitive statement about truth. Because of the nature
of God. He said in Chapter five, verse twenty, God
is true. That's not saying simply that God tells the truth.
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So John wants you to know that God not only
tells the truth, but he is truth. In other words,
he defines it. He is the embodiment of it. It
is one of his attributes. So therefore everything about God
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is true because God himself is true. It is truth
by nature, not simply truth by practice.
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So what's the point. If God is the.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Author of the Bible, and he is responsible for us
in it, then his word must be as true as
his nature. It is amazing that people will believe what
the Bible says about other things but not believe.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What the Bible says about itself. No way.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
They'll go to the Bible to prove a point that
they want to prove using the Bible and believe that
that verse ought to be used to make that point
without believing what the Bible says about itself. And so
when we talk about the Bible, we're talking about God's
word being truth because its author is absolutely perfect in
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every detail, and it is his word. So why is
the Bible truth? Because its author it's truth. Big Ben
in England is the standard. If you want to know
what time it is, you can ask anybody you want to.
But if their watch doesn't agree with big Ben's clock,
they're wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Big Ben is the stand.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Radio stations, TV stations and individuals all set their watch
the big Ben. What God is saying about his word
is I am the standard? Now that leads us to
a final question. Truthful is the Bible? Well, I've implied it,
but now I want to be more specific about it.
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The Bible is here's a word that you need to
be familiar with, in errant.
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In errant.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The word in errant means without error. In other words,
it is the perfect truth of God. It's not see.
Some people will say the Bible contains truth, but that
doesn't equal the Bible being true everywhere. The Bible is
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true on whatever it speaks. Now, most of what it
speaks is about life. But in speaking about life, sometimes
it throws in some history. Sometimes it throws in some science.
Sometimes it throws in some geography. But when it puts
it in there.
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It's right about that too. Of course it would be.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
If God made the universe, he would know what he's
talking about. So why it's not a science book. When
it speaks scientifically, it's accurate. While it's not a secular
history book. When it brings in secular historical material, it
is totally accurate because it is truth.
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It is an error and errans.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
He says that the original autographs are true in everything
upon which the Bible speaks, that when God gave the
Bible to those who wrote it, they wrote it perfectly,
and that gives us in the inspiration, which we'll talk
about later.
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But they wrote down the Bible perfectly.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
If there are errors in the Bible, as some suggest,
then as far as we are concerned, once you show
me one. Now I gotta raise the question about how
many more?
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Because if I can't trust one part of it, why
should I trust any part of it.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Some people, when they go to buy Bibles want the
red letter edition. How many red letter editions do we
have out there? Okay, that's fine, that's fine. The red
letter edition that basically are the words of Jesus are
printed in red all right.
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Well, let me help you with that.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
The whole book is red letter, all right, And that's
fine if you want to highlight the words of Jesus.
But it's all the word of his Daddy, the word
of God. Therefore it all must be truth. Jesus one
day was being tempted by the devil, and if the
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devil told him what he told him to turn the
stones and the bread. You know what Jesus said, He said,
it is written. Now watch the situation. The situation is
Jesus is hungry. He's fasted for forty days and forty
ninth so eating food right now is a pretty good idea.
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He's hungry.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Guess what the devil says. The devil says, let me
meet your need. Guess what Jesus says. Jesus said, it
is written. He appealed to scripture. But listen to what
he says. Man does not live by bread alone. But
by what by? How many are to hear you? How many?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
By every word that preceeds out of the mouth of God.
But notice the correlation.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The every word that proceeds out of the mouth of
the Lord, he says, connects to it is written. So
the words that proceed out of the mouth of the
Lord have been recorded.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That scripture.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's why Paul can say in two Timothy three sixteen,
all scripture is inspired by God. The word God breathed
all scripture, every word that proceeds out of the mouth
of God. If there's era anywhere, that could be era everywhere.
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You can't pick and choose and say the Bible is
right here and wrong there.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
If it's part of the scriptural text.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Now true, the Bible has been translated, copied over and
over over centuries. God did not let us keep the
original manuscripts. The original manuscripts are extinct.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You let it be copied.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Probably the main reason is to not allow the Bible
to become.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
A worshiped artifacts.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We have a common day reality of that because you
go over to Israel now and over in Israel they
have encased It's one of the great tourist attractions, and
it's called the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls
are the greatest find of the twentieth century. It's the
greatest Biblical find of the twentieth century because what the
Dead Sea Scrolls let us know is that the Old
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Testament that we used today was the same Old Testament
that they used in Jesus's day, and that it has
been copied correctly. But my point is when they discovered
the Dead Sea Scrolls, validating the Old Testament's accuracy to
what we have today, and that that thing was transcribed,
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particularly the Book of Isaiah, which was totally intact, and
that's the whole story within itself about how the Dead
Sea scrolls were hidden, and how they were found by
a shepherd boy who mistakenly, you know, whose lamb fell
into this hole and he was looking for his lamb
and ran into these things. And so when they discovered
the treasure that they had, they built a monument around it.
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And these are copies, so you know, if it was
the original text, people would be worshiping. But while the
Bible is to be honored, the goal of the Bible
is its author, and even to turn the Bible into
an image would be sin. To treat the Bible as
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an idol, that is, to worship a book in place
of its author. But what we then have, based on
all the manuscripts, we have accumulated trustworthy translations of the
original that are infallible.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
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Why is the Bible truth? Because it's author it's truth.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Doctor Tony Evans says, truth isn't just what the Bible declares,
it's who it comes from.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Scripture is truth.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It will never adjust to you, but it will do
wonders when you adjust to it.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the Alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. In a world
where truth can feel like it's up for debate, doctor
Evans takes us back to the source. In today's lesson,
he explains why truth isn't something we create or feel.
It's something revealed and according to Jesus in John seventeen seventeen,
(00:42):
that truth is found in God's word. Let's join doctor
Evans as he reveals why Scripture must be the ultimate
standard by which everything else is measured.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
We'll live in a day when there's a major question.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's Pilot's question when he looked at Jesus and asked,
what is truth? The concept of truth is challenged on
many fronts. It's been said that that's hardly a college
or university that you go to anymore that bleeds in
(01:16):
such a thing as absolute truth. To the question what
is truth? There are a multiplicity a myriad of response.
The agnostic says, we can't know truth. So the agnostic
(01:36):
simply says, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I just don't know. I'm not sure, So.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He becomes the perpetual questioner about the reality of this
thing called truth. The rationalist says truth is limited to
what you can logic conceive of. Rationalism focuses on the
mind then simply says what the mind can conceive of
(02:10):
as being reality is in fact truth. Therefore, if the
mind cannot conceive of it, you cannot declare it to
be truth. The positivist says that truth is that which
the scientific method validates. If science authenticates it and concludes it,
(02:37):
then we can perhaps regard it as truth. And then
there is fidism, which says that truth is subjective.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's personal. It's what you feel at the moment.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Therefore, what's true for me may not be true for
you because I don't feel you. It's not where I am.
The pragmatist says that truth is what works. If it works,
it's true. If it doesn't work, it's not true. So
(03:18):
they're just practical. They simply want to know, does it work.
The Bible talks about people ever learning and never coming
into the knowledge of the truth. Going to schools, going
to conferences, going to events, reading books, reading magazines, watching
(03:39):
television shows, looking at newscasts, and are constantly gathering more
data without gathering more truth. What do we mean by truth?
What's the nature or the definition of truth? When we
say truth, we are referring to that which corresponds to
(04:02):
what really is.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
To speak of truth, we're dealing.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
With a final standard by which reality is measured and to.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Which all things must conform.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Jesus says in John eight, verse thirty two, these famous words,
and you shall know the truth, and the truth will
make you free. Please notice he didn't say you will
know a truth. You will know the truth. By putting
(04:35):
the article the in front of it. He depicts truth
not as one thing among many things, but as a
definitive body of reality.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You shall know the truth.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Not only does truth exist, but the truth that exists
can be known.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now the question is what won't be our standard for
knowing the truth? Well, we determine it. You have your truth,
I have my truth, We have our truth. Who's truth
is the truth?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now we could appeal to a number of things to
say this is how we will determine the truth. We
could appeal to our feelings and say, I feel this
is the truth. The only problem with feeling truth is
that you might feel it one way today and another
way tomorrow because feelings change. And look at how many
(05:34):
times we have changed our minds based on how we feel.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I don't feel it today.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So our feelings are genuine, they are not definitive because
they are not reliable.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
They shift regularly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
We can determine truth, or we could argue that we
can determine truth.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
By our intellect. We could reason our way to it.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The only problem with reasoning your way to truth is
that our knowledge is finite.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's not unlimited. It's limited.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Therefore, what we know today may change by information we
learn tomorrow. Well, there is another way, perhaps we might
go about determining truth. Perhaps we should look at the
opinion polls.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What do the majority say?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I remember watching one Shoe who wants to be a millionaire,
and one of the options they give you is to
let the audience help.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You, and you're always tempted to choose the majority.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
If two thirds of the audience declare that this is
the answer, Well, then it's best to go that way.
And on this particular show, this man banks his million.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
On the audience. The audience was wrong, but it was
the majority.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Now, you can't base truth on opinions because polls change quickly.
Yet truth is critical for a straight line. You've got
to have a rule, a ruler, something that measures whether
something is true or whether something is false, whether something
(07:31):
is right, or whether something is wrong. Those who would
argue from the scientific method, which fundamentally functions on probabilities, possibilities,
and potentialities. Truth deals with a final standard, a fixed
standard that's no negotiable by.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
The other factors.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
As perhaps you've heard me say before one and one
equals that has been established as a mathematical fact that
one in one equals two. Now what happens today If
I don't feel like one in one equals too, I'm
(08:15):
not feeling you today. I feel like today one and
one are equal three, and I feel very strongly about it.
Truth says that your feelings have to adjust to this
mathematical truth. Suppose you say, well, I went to college
(08:40):
two and my intellect says that that ought to be questioned. Well,
you can question it all you want, but it's been
established as a mathematical fact, and therefore your intellect will
have to adjust. Let's say you argue from your moral instincts. Well,
let's say the majority of the people around you said no,
(09:07):
it would not change that reality because that has been
established as a mathematical fact. In other words, we assume
truth exists except in the areas where we don't want
it to exist. So that raises the question what's the
source of truth? John chapter seventeen. Jesus again is speaking.
(09:37):
Let me read a couple of verses verse three, and
this is eternal life, that they may know thee the
only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
So he refers to the only true God, referring to.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
His father, and then he says, in verse seventeen, sanctified
them in the truth.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Thy word is truth.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Jesus Christ makes the astounding statement that the Bible is
the truth. An astounding statement. Now for Jesus to make this,
(10:31):
ha'sy the right or wrong. If he's wrong, then maybe
we ought to.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Question everything else. He says.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If he's right, the implications of staggering as to how
we view and look at the Bible.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
When doctor Evans continues in a moment, he'll point out
the deeper knowledge and relationship the Truth makes possible in
our lives. Don't go away.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
The thing about serving an infinite God is that no
matter how much you know about him, there's always more
to learn. So whether you're brand new to scripture or
an experienced ministry professional, there's something for you. At the
Tony Evans Training Center. You'll find online courses covering core
concepts of the faith, working at your own pace and schedule.
You'll dig deep into the historical context of the book,
(11:24):
uncover the key teachings, and learn how to apply them
in real world situations. There's lots of exclusive content from
doctor Evans to keep you interested and motivated, and an
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Look at first John, chapter five, verse twenty says, and
we know that the Son of God has come and
has given us understanding in order that we may know
him who is true, and we are in him who
is true, in his son, Jesus Christ.
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This is the true God and eternal life.
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Second Epistle of John, just a page over. He says
at the end of verse one, but also all who
know the truth verse two, for the sake of the truth.
In the verse three, truth and love. Beginning of verse four,
I was glad to find some of your children walking
in truth Verse one of third John, whom I love
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in truth. Verse three, I was glad when brethren came
and be witness to your truth. That is how you're
walking in truth. I have no greater joy than this
to hear that my children are walking in truth verse eight.
Therefore we ought to support such men that we may
be fellow workers with the truth.
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Verse twelve.
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Dmitrius has received a good testimony from everyone and from
the truth itself. We also bad witness, and you know
that our witness is true. You get the impression the
Bible bleeds in truth, that there is a thick standard
by which reality is measured. Why is there this unapologetic,
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non compromising, definitive statement about truth. Because of the nature
of God. He said in Chapter five, verse twenty, God
is true. That's not saying simply that God tells the truth.
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So John wants you to know that God not only
tells the truth, but he is truth. In other words,
he defines it. He is the embodiment of it. It
is one of his attributes. So therefore everything about God
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is true because God himself is true. It is truth
by nature, not simply truth by practice.
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So what's the point. If God is the.
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Author of the Bible, and he is responsible for us
in it, then his word must be as true as
his nature. It is amazing that people will believe what
the Bible says about other things but not believe.
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What the Bible says about itself. No way.
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They'll go to the Bible to prove a point that
they want to prove using the Bible and believe that
that verse ought to be used to make that point
without believing what the Bible says about itself. And so
when we talk about the Bible, we're talking about God's
word being truth because its author is absolutely perfect in
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every detail, and it is his word. So why is
the Bible truth? Because its author it's truth. Big Ben
in England is the standard. If you want to know
what time it is, you can ask anybody you want to.
But if their watch doesn't agree with big Ben's clock,
they're wrong.
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Big Ben is the stand.
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Radio stations, TV stations and individuals all set their watch
the big Ben. What God is saying about his word
is I am the standard? Now that leads us to
a final question. Truthful is the Bible? Well, I've implied it,
but now I want to be more specific about it.
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The Bible is here's a word that you need to
be familiar with, in errant.
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In errant.
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The word in errant means without error. In other words,
it is the perfect truth of God. It's not see.
Some people will say the Bible contains truth, but that
doesn't equal the Bible being true everywhere. The Bible is
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true on whatever it speaks. Now, most of what it
speaks is about life. But in speaking about life, sometimes
it throws in some history. Sometimes it throws in some science.
Sometimes it throws in some geography. But when it puts
it in there.
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It's right about that too. Of course it would be.
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If God made the universe, he would know what he's
talking about. So why it's not a science book. When
it speaks scientifically, it's accurate. While it's not a secular
history book. When it brings in secular historical material, it
is totally accurate because it is truth.
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It is an error and errans.
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He says that the original autographs are true in everything
upon which the Bible speaks, that when God gave the
Bible to those who wrote it, they wrote it perfectly,
and that gives us in the inspiration, which we'll talk
about later.
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But they wrote down the Bible perfectly.
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If there are errors in the Bible, as some suggest,
then as far as we are concerned, once you show
me one. Now I gotta raise the question about how
many more?
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Because if I can't trust one part of it, why
should I trust any part of it.
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Some people, when they go to buy Bibles want the
red letter edition. How many red letter editions do we
have out there? Okay, that's fine, that's fine. The red
letter edition that basically are the words of Jesus are
printed in red all right.
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Well, let me help you with that.
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The whole book is red letter, all right, And that's
fine if you want to highlight the words of Jesus.
But it's all the word of his Daddy, the word
of God. Therefore it all must be truth. Jesus one
day was being tempted by the devil, and if the
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devil told him what he told him to turn the
stones and the bread. You know what Jesus said, He said,
it is written. Now watch the situation. The situation is
Jesus is hungry. He's fasted for forty days and forty
ninth so eating food right now is a pretty good idea.
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He's hungry.
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Guess what the devil says. The devil says, let me
meet your need. Guess what Jesus says. Jesus said, it
is written. He appealed to scripture. But listen to what
he says. Man does not live by bread alone. But
by what by? How many are to hear you? How many?
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By every word that preceeds out of the mouth of God.
But notice the correlation.
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The every word that proceeds out of the mouth of
the Lord, he says, connects to it is written. So
the words that proceed out of the mouth of the
Lord have been recorded.
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That scripture.
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That's why Paul can say in two Timothy three sixteen,
all scripture is inspired by God. The word God breathed
all scripture, every word that proceeds out of the mouth
of God. If there's era anywhere, that could be era everywhere.
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You can't pick and choose and say the Bible is
right here and wrong there.
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If it's part of the scriptural text.
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Now true, the Bible has been translated, copied over and
over over centuries. God did not let us keep the
original manuscripts. The original manuscripts are extinct.
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You let it be copied.
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Probably the main reason is to not allow the Bible
to become.
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A worshiped artifacts.
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We have a common day reality of that because you
go over to Israel now and over in Israel they
have encased It's one of the great tourist attractions, and
it's called the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls
are the greatest find of the twentieth century. It's the
greatest Biblical find of the twentieth century because what the
Dead Sea Scrolls let us know is that the Old
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Testament that we used today was the same Old Testament
that they used in Jesus's day, and that it has
been copied correctly. But my point is when they discovered
the Dead Sea Scrolls, validating the Old Testament's accuracy to
what we have today, and that that thing was transcribed,
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particularly the Book of Isaiah, which was totally intact, and
that's the whole story within itself about how the Dead
Sea scrolls were hidden, and how they were found by
a shepherd boy who mistakenly, you know, whose lamb fell
into this hole and he was looking for his lamb
and ran into these things. And so when they discovered
the treasure that they had, they built a monument around it.
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And these are copies, so you know, if it was
the original text, people would be worshiping. But while the
Bible is to be honored, the goal of the Bible
is its author, and even to turn the Bible into
an image would be sin. To treat the Bible as
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an idol, that is, to worship a book in place
of its author. But what we then have, based on
all the manuscripts, we have accumulated trustworthy translations of the
original that are infallible.
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