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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There is no higher appeal that you can appeal to
than the word of God.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Doctor Tony Evans says, the Bible isn't just a good source,
it's the final word.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, the Supreme Court is to the laws of our land,
the Bible is the supreme authority of God's revelation and history.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. There's a difference
between inspiring words and authoritative ones. Today doctor Evan shows
how scripture offers both hope and encouragement backed by the
full authority of God. Let's listen.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Once the Supreme Court rules, all other viewpoints become irrelevant.
That is, everybody else must ad just There is no
court in the land that can overrule the Supreme Court
because the Supreme what the Supreme Court is to the
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laws of our land. The Bible is the supreme authority
of God's revelation in history. There is no higher appeal
that you can appeal to than the word of God.
I want to talk a bit about the authority of scripture.
There are many ways we could go at it. I
(01:24):
have chosen this one. In John chapter eight, because it
brings together a number of facets, and I want to
center in on one phrase that's located in verse thirty five.
Jesus says, if he called them gods, referring to a quote,
I'm gonna explain that in the moment to whom the
word of God came. And then he throws in a
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phrase that's kind of like just thrown in, he says,
And the scripture cannot be broken. It cannot be voided out,
it cannot be overruled, it cannot be sensed word. It
is in fact in errans. The Bible cannot be annulled.
It doesn't matter whether you agree with it or disagree
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with it. It doesn't matter whether you like it or don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
What this means is, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Says, which is an important phrase of itself, that even
we will receive the Bible as completely reliable and trustworthy
on every matter.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
That it records, affirms.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And speaks, or else we will look at it simply
as a collection of inspiring words. Now that distinction becomes
very important, because most people who go to church believe
that the Bible represents words from God, without it being
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the word of God. Many people believe the Bible to
be words from God God, but not the word of God. Now,
God does not simply want to give you inspiration from
his word. He wants you to experience the authority of
his word. It is not only words from God, it
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is the word of God. The reason why I have
confidence in prophecy, the reason why I could speak about
things to come and the prophecies that the Bible speaks,
is because I'm not just telling you words from God.
I am speaking about the Word of God. Everybody who's
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ever tried to destroy it has been destroyed first every
culture that has banned it. The culture's died before the
Bible died. That's because it can't be broken. In the
same way as I said that referees are the final authority,
they are only the final authority because they have a
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rule book that governs the game. So it is the
Bible is God's rule book, but it is also God's voice.
It is a very important passage. Verse thirty says Jesus
is talking. He says, I and my father.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Are what are one? He says, God and I are one?
Verse thirty one, And the.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Jews took up stones to stone him. They love to
throw stones at Jesus. They picked up rocks to throw
at him. Jesus answered and said, I showed you many
good works from the Father.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
For which of them are you stoning me? Why you
want to hurt me? What have I done to you?
I've only done good things.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The Jews answered, now watch, this is very important for
a good work.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
We do not stone you.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We're not stoning you because you've done bad things, but
for blasphemy? What did I say, because you, being a man,
make yourself out to be god man?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Here's a question. What did the.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Jews think Jesus meant when he said me and my
Father are one.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Or you don't have to guess.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
They tell you what they understood and the me They
understood Jesus to say I.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Am equal to God. And they wanted to kill it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Because Jesus was claiming a position and an authority that
they said.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No man should be able to claim.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And you're right, no man except the son of Man
should be able to claim it. And he claims and
establishes his own divine authority. He does this throughout scripture.
In Matthew twenty eight eighteen, he says all authority is
given to me in heaven and on earth. He makes
this claim to deity. In fact, even in Matthew chapter nine.
(06:02):
I'll just read it very quickly to you Matthew chapter nine,
verse six. They get upset with him. Jesus says in
verse two, he says to this man, your sins are forgiven.
And the Jews said what They went off verse three,
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and behold some of the scribes said to him this
fellow blasphems and Jesus, knowing their thoughts, saying, why are
you thinking evil in your heart? By the way, please
note that Jesus knowing their thoughts. And then Jesus hits
them with a bulls eye. He says, which is easier
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to say your sins are forgiven?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Or rise and walk?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, there's a man that can't walk, Jesus says, rise
and walk. All of a sudden, many can't walk and
get up and walk. Jesus now turns around and says,
your sins are forgiven. They get upset because Jesus is
saying your sins are forgiven, because in their minds only
God can forgive sins. So Jesus says, wait a minute,
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Wait a minute. You upset because I said your sins
are forgiven, but you weren't upset when I told him
to get up and walk.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Jesus said, it seemed like to me.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Anybody who can say you can get up walk, and
that man gets up walk, you should have no problem
with him saying your sins are forgiven because you need
to be divine to.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Do both, is what he is saying.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So they were always calling Jesus a blasphemer because of
his claim to divine authority. In fact, even in this
chapter John ten look at what he says verse eighteen.
He says, no one has taken my life from me,
but I lay it down on my own initiative. You
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can't kill me unless I want to die, and I
have authority to lay it down if I want to,
and I have authority to take it up again if
I want to. So you can't kill me left. I
decide to die today. And even if I decide to
let you kill me, which I'm going to do obviously
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for the purposes of the crucifixion, I will decide when
I want to get out.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now you ever tried that. I decide when I'm an
lie down die. I decide this commandment.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I received from the Father, and there arose I guess
so verse nineteen a division among the Jews because of
these words. And many of them were saying, he has
a demon, he's insane. Why do you listen to him?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
He craves that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So he could say he can die only when he died,
just chooses to die. He could rise when he wants
to rise. This man forgives sins. This man does all
this thing. He had just made a blind man see,
and now he hadn't really gone out there, because now
he says, and I'm God. They object to this statement,
which leads him to this statement about the Bible. The
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scripture cannot be broken because in their objection, he says,
verse thirty four, has it not been written in your law?
I said, you are God's If he called them gods
to whom the word of God.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Came and the scripture cannot be broken, do you.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into
the world, you are blaspheming because I say I am
the son of God. In other words, he say God
even recognized human people who are operating under his law.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He called them gods, small.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
G He said, if you're gonna call human people who
are only the flaring the word of God. You're gonna give.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Them a high status. How you gonna belittle me when I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Making blind people see? But the point about the Scripture
is this. Jesus argues his authority as the son of
God using one word from the Old Testament, the word
the small God, and says the Scripture it cannot be broken.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's authoritative. Now what's the point here? It is.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
If you can't even break one word a scripture. In
other word, if you can't even nullify one word, if
you can't make one word disappear, if you can't make
one word ineffective, if you can't make one word take
away its potency, then what's true of one word must
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be true of all words, all of the Bible. That
it goes down. Even the words cannot be broken, then
scripture cannot be broken.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
If not a single word of Scripture can be undone,
then its authority stands firm forever. And when doctor Evans
returns in a moment, we'll see how Jesus himself affirmed
that unshakable truth. First, though, I want to let you
know that the message you're hearing today is part of
Tony's powerful series The Glory of God's Word. This ten
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part audio collection explores the depth, authority, and life transforming
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you is our way of saying thanks when you support
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let's return to today's message from doctor Evans.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
The word of God will outlast you. You won't outlast this,
and Jesus claims that the scripture bears his authority. Let
me read it you a verse in Matthew again Matthew
twenty four, verse thirty five. Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away. So what God
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is saying is the Bible or scripture. What he says
will outlast history. Jesus makes a claim of authority. His
claim of authority is that he bears deity. Therefore, if
he has authority, and the Bible is the word of God,
the Bible must possess his authority.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
How much authority does he have? All authority?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So how much authority must his words have all authority?
Then how come we're not seeing his authority through his
word because we're not taking his word as authority. To
reject the authority of scripture is to reject Christ. The
Bible never loses its authority. It's always the word of God,
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but you don't experience its authority. It doesn't work, doesn't
see the work for you whenever it gets diluted with
human viewpoint.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
For God is not looking for assistance.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Everything he wanted said, he not only said, he preserved it.
But the reason why the spirit is not free to
work his supernatural activity in our lives is he's dealing
with diluted Do you remember the story at Saint King's
four Elijah the prophet, and there was a famine in
the land, and the people were hungry, and even the
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leaders were hungry, and Elijah came and cooked some food.
And then it says, and one of the guys went
out to the field and found some wild cucumberbers, wild gords,
but they didn't look wild at him. They looked like, oh,
this will make the soup nice. And he put them
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in the stew. And so everybody started eating the stew.
And then it said, and they started throwing up, and
they cried out, there is death in the pie because
some God thought he would help out what God had provided,
and you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Wound up worse off.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Do you know you can come to church and be
worse off. You can go to Bible study and be
worse off because you don't know it. But you're putting
cucumbers in the pie. And it's the cucumber of human opinion.
Whenever you go to anything that is in addition to
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what God says, you are deluding what God says, and
therefore deluding the experience of its authority in your life,
and thus delaying your victory, because the word of God
is sure settled in heaven. Opinions come a dime a
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dozen't yah, You'll notice this talk shows everywhere. Now, good Lord,
I ain't know people had that much to talk about,
and it's really not that much.
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It's like the same things just done different ways.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You know, human viewpoint bibble by the hour. God can
give you a bottom line quick. You want to have
a one hour discussion. Whenever you add to or take
away from God's truth, you are diluting divine authority. There's
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a There was an umpire the old Negro Baseball League
named Bill clipp Bill Clem was a big, huge guy
and on one time true story, the score was tied
was the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
There was a man on third.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The batter hit the ball in the infield is the
bottom of the ninth, So if this guy on third
got insafe, then of course the home team would have
won the game. So the ball was hitting the ground
in the infield. The man on third blitzed home. He's
running home hard as he could, and he slid. He
slid in the home plate. It was real dusty, so
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dust flor everywhere. Catch you try to tag him out.
Catch you hit the ground too, and it was dust everywhere.
The home team came out of the dugout cheering save,
save save, because the visiting team ran out. He's out,
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he's out. He's out, and then's shouting. One team is
shouting save, the other team is shouting out Bill Clinton.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He took off his face guard and threw it down.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And said, everybody shut up, because he ain't nothing until
I say what it is. You got people on this
side telling you to do this. You got funk on
this side telling you to do that. You going, you
don't know what side to go to. Everybody be quiet,
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and let me tell.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You how it is. I am the bottom line. So
in closing, what do we say? Take your Bible.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Out of your spiritual museum. It's not impressive because you
carry it or because you have it sitting in your car.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Anybody have Bibles in their car. You ride with a
Bible in your car?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Rais ad raid an tell the truth, all right, don't
mean a thing, or because you got four of them,
one for each room.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Or here's the one, here's the one, you have it
sitting on the coffee dep.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Biblical authority means that the Bible possesses the right to
supremely define your decision making, that God has the right
to make up the rules for your life. You know
when I was growing up, you know what I did
from the time I could get out of the house
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till the time is some went down is play football.
That's all I wanted to do a year round, no
matter what other sport I was doing, I always made time.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
To play football. But let me tell you something I always.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Did when it was like in the community.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I brought the football. I brought the football.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And the reason why I wanted a quarterback. Okay, and
I wasn't about to nobody tell me get on no line. No,
I'm going to quarterback. Why it's my ball, God says,
I want to call the shots.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I got the ball. This is my book. How do
you call me?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Lord?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Lord? And do not what I say? Jesus?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
How do you say Hallelujah? Do not what I say?
How do you say Praise the Lord? And do not
what I say? How you say I'm a committede Christian?
And do not what I say? How you say I
love the Lord? He heard my cry? And do not
what I say. God doesn't want your verbalization. He wants
your response. He wants you to do like you do
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when you're driving your car. You come up over that
hill and you see the police car sitting on the side.
That's authority. Sitting over there, but you act like it.
He'll just say eighty miles an hour. Oh hey, your
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heart stops complitating, you start perspiring, and you try to
hit the brake. Not tried, because then they'll become obvious.
You try to act like you've been slowing down all
the time. That ain't nothing but fear. You know why,
because you run into authority that you respect, so you respond.
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In other words, the presence of authority creates.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
A response, not an analysis.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You know who doesn't respect police? Cause or police criminals?
Are you a spiritual criminal? Moving right along?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Let's that's who doesn't respect authority? Criminals?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
In a word, the Bible is authoritative. It means what
it says. It says what it means, and it works
if you stop mixing it. The problem is people only
want the parts of the Bible that they like. They
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want sermons to tickle their ears. That's why Paul told
Timothy preach the word, because people are gonna be looking
to have their ears tickled because they don't want the truth.
They want to feel good. There's nothing wrong with feeling
good as long as truth is making you feel that way.
But when a liar is making you feel good.
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Then it's illegitimate.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We decorate it, we carry it, we acknowledge it, we
open it, we read it, we talk to other people
about it.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It's got a high position.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
It just has no authority because we don't allow it
to veto anything.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
In our lives.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We don't allow it to vote on things we don't like.
So we don't see it's authority, and we don't see it.
How all we got is another religious book? You got
the position? Talk to me about the.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Authorigny, Doctor Tony Evans, reminding us that God's Word is
meant to rule, carrying real authority in every part of
our lives. Now, don't forget. The lesson we heard today
comes from Tony's sermon series entitled The Glory of God's Word,
a ten message journey through the truth, power, and divine
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origin of Scripture. It's a great way to strengthen your
understanding of why the Bible matters and how it can
transform your life. And for a limited time, when you
make a contribution to help support the Alternative Broadcast Ministry,
we'll send you this complete audio collection as our gift,
along with a special bonus. Tony's powerful book, The Transforming
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Word designed to help you experience scripture spiritually and personally.
This special package will only be offered for a few
more days now, so visit Tonyevans dot org or call
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to make the arrangements again. That's Tonyevans DOTRG or by
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phone at one eight hundred eight hundred three two two two.
There's no doubt that words hold power. They can leave
a mark on us, for better or worse. Tomorrow, doctor
Evans explains how God's word goes even deeper, cutting through
confusion to bring clarity and lasting change. Be sure to
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join us for this powerful look at the transforming truth
of scripture.
There is no higher appeal that you can appeal to
than the word of God.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Doctor Tony Evans says, the Bible isn't just a good source,
it's the final word.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, the Supreme Court is to the laws of our land,
the Bible is the supreme authority of God's revelation and history.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. There's a difference
between inspiring words and authoritative ones. Today doctor Evan shows
how scripture offers both hope and encouragement backed by the
full authority of God. Let's listen.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Once the Supreme Court rules, all other viewpoints become irrelevant.
That is, everybody else must ad just There is no
court in the land that can overrule the Supreme Court
because the Supreme what the Supreme Court is to the
(01:02):
laws of our land. The Bible is the supreme authority
of God's revelation in history. There is no higher appeal
that you can appeal to than the word of God.
I want to talk a bit about the authority of scripture.
There are many ways we could go at it. I
(01:24):
have chosen this one. In John chapter eight, because it
brings together a number of facets, and I want to
center in on one phrase that's located in verse thirty five.
Jesus says, if he called them gods, referring to a quote,
I'm gonna explain that in the moment to whom the
word of God came. And then he throws in a
(01:47):
phrase that's kind of like just thrown in, he says,
And the scripture cannot be broken. It cannot be voided out,
it cannot be overruled, it cannot be sensed word. It
is in fact in errans. The Bible cannot be annulled.
It doesn't matter whether you agree with it or disagree
(02:10):
with it. It doesn't matter whether you like it or don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
What this means is, Jesus.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Says, which is an important phrase of itself, that even
we will receive the Bible as completely reliable and trustworthy
on every matter.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
That it records, affirms.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And speaks, or else we will look at it simply
as a collection of inspiring words. Now that distinction becomes
very important, because most people who go to church believe
that the Bible represents words from God, without it being
(02:53):
the word of God. Many people believe the Bible to
be words from God God, but not the word of God. Now,
God does not simply want to give you inspiration from
his word. He wants you to experience the authority of
his word. It is not only words from God, it
(03:18):
is the word of God. The reason why I have
confidence in prophecy, the reason why I could speak about
things to come and the prophecies that the Bible speaks,
is because I'm not just telling you words from God.
I am speaking about the Word of God. Everybody who's
(03:39):
ever tried to destroy it has been destroyed first every
culture that has banned it. The culture's died before the
Bible died. That's because it can't be broken. In the
same way as I said that referees are the final authority,
they are only the final authority because they have a
(04:01):
rule book that governs the game. So it is the
Bible is God's rule book, but it is also God's voice.
It is a very important passage. Verse thirty says Jesus
is talking. He says, I and my father.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Are what are one? He says, God and I are one?
Verse thirty one, And the.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Jews took up stones to stone him. They love to
throw stones at Jesus. They picked up rocks to throw
at him. Jesus answered and said, I showed you many
good works from the Father.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
For which of them are you stoning me? Why you
want to hurt me? What have I done to you?
I've only done good things.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The Jews answered, now watch, this is very important for
a good work.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
We do not stone you.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We're not stoning you because you've done bad things, but
for blasphemy? What did I say, because you, being a man,
make yourself out to be god man?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Here's a question. What did the.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Jews think Jesus meant when he said me and my
Father are one.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Or you don't have to guess.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
They tell you what they understood and the me They
understood Jesus to say I.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Am equal to God. And they wanted to kill it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Because Jesus was claiming a position and an authority that
they said.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No man should be able to claim.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And you're right, no man except the son of Man
should be able to claim it. And he claims and
establishes his own divine authority. He does this throughout scripture.
In Matthew twenty eight eighteen, he says all authority is
given to me in heaven and on earth. He makes
this claim to deity. In fact, even in Matthew chapter nine.
(06:02):
I'll just read it very quickly to you Matthew chapter nine,
verse six. They get upset with him. Jesus says in
verse two, he says to this man, your sins are forgiven.
And the Jews said what They went off verse three,
(06:25):
and behold some of the scribes said to him this
fellow blasphems and Jesus, knowing their thoughts, saying, why are
you thinking evil in your heart? By the way, please
note that Jesus knowing their thoughts. And then Jesus hits
them with a bulls eye. He says, which is easier
(06:46):
to say your sins are forgiven?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Or rise and walk?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, there's a man that can't walk, Jesus says, rise
and walk. All of a sudden, many can't walk and
get up and walk. Jesus now turns around and says,
your sins are forgiven. They get upset because Jesus is
saying your sins are forgiven, because in their minds only
God can forgive sins. So Jesus says, wait a minute,
(07:15):
Wait a minute. You upset because I said your sins
are forgiven, but you weren't upset when I told him
to get up and walk.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Jesus said, it seemed like to me.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Anybody who can say you can get up walk, and
that man gets up walk, you should have no problem
with him saying your sins are forgiven because you need
to be divine to.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Do both, is what he is saying.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So they were always calling Jesus a blasphemer because of
his claim to divine authority. In fact, even in this
chapter John ten look at what he says verse eighteen.
He says, no one has taken my life from me,
but I lay it down on my own initiative. You
(08:08):
can't kill me unless I want to die, and I
have authority to lay it down if I want to,
and I have authority to take it up again if
I want to. So you can't kill me left. I
decide to die today. And even if I decide to
let you kill me, which I'm going to do obviously
(08:28):
for the purposes of the crucifixion, I will decide when
I want to get out.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now you ever tried that. I decide when I'm an
lie down die. I decide this commandment.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I received from the Father, and there arose I guess
so verse nineteen a division among the Jews because of
these words. And many of them were saying, he has
a demon, he's insane. Why do you listen to him?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
He craves that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So he could say he can die only when he died,
just chooses to die. He could rise when he wants
to rise. This man forgives sins. This man does all
this thing. He had just made a blind man see,
and now he hadn't really gone out there, because now
he says, and I'm God. They object to this statement,
which leads him to this statement about the Bible. The
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scripture cannot be broken because in their objection, he says,
verse thirty four, has it not been written in your law?
I said, you are God's If he called them gods
to whom the word of God.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Came and the scripture cannot be broken, do you.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into
the world, you are blaspheming because I say I am
the son of God. In other words, he say God
even recognized human people who are operating under his law.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He called them gods, small.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
G He said, if you're gonna call human people who
are only the flaring the word of God. You're gonna give.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Them a high status. How you gonna belittle me when I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Making blind people see? But the point about the Scripture
is this. Jesus argues his authority as the son of
God using one word from the Old Testament, the word
the small God, and says the Scripture it cannot be broken.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It's authoritative. Now what's the point here? It is.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
If you can't even break one word a scripture. In
other word, if you can't even nullify one word, if
you can't make one word disappear, if you can't make
one word ineffective, if you can't make one word take
away its potency, then what's true of one word must
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be true of all words, all of the Bible. That
it goes down. Even the words cannot be broken, then
scripture cannot be broken.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
If not a single word of Scripture can be undone,
then its authority stands firm forever. And when doctor Evans
returns in a moment, we'll see how Jesus himself affirmed
that unshakable truth. First, though, I want to let you
know that the message you're hearing today is part of
Tony's powerful series The Glory of God's Word. This ten
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part audio collection explores the depth, authority, and life transforming
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you is our way of saying thanks when you support
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let's return to today's message from doctor Evans.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
The word of God will outlast you. You won't outlast this,
and Jesus claims that the scripture bears his authority. Let
me read it you a verse in Matthew again Matthew
twenty four, verse thirty five. Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away. So what God
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is saying is the Bible or scripture. What he says
will outlast history. Jesus makes a claim of authority. His
claim of authority is that he bears deity. Therefore, if
he has authority, and the Bible is the word of God,
the Bible must possess his authority.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
How much authority does he have? All authority?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So how much authority must his words have all authority?
Then how come we're not seeing his authority through his
word because we're not taking his word as authority. To
reject the authority of scripture is to reject Christ. The
Bible never loses its authority. It's always the word of God,
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but you don't experience its authority. It doesn't work, doesn't
see the work for you whenever it gets diluted with
human viewpoint.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
For God is not looking for assistance.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Everything he wanted said, he not only said, he preserved it.
But the reason why the spirit is not free to
work his supernatural activity in our lives is he's dealing
with diluted Do you remember the story at Saint King's
four Elijah the prophet, and there was a famine in
the land, and the people were hungry, and even the
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leaders were hungry, and Elijah came and cooked some food.
And then it says, and one of the guys went
out to the field and found some wild cucumberbers, wild gords,
but they didn't look wild at him. They looked like, oh,
this will make the soup nice. And he put them
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in the stew. And so everybody started eating the stew.
And then it said, and they started throwing up, and
they cried out, there is death in the pie because
some God thought he would help out what God had provided,
and you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Wound up worse off.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Do you know you can come to church and be
worse off. You can go to Bible study and be
worse off because you don't know it. But you're putting
cucumbers in the pie. And it's the cucumber of human opinion.
Whenever you go to anything that is in addition to
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what God says, you are deluding what God says, and
therefore deluding the experience of its authority in your life,
and thus delaying your victory, because the word of God
is sure settled in heaven. Opinions come a dime a
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dozen't yah, You'll notice this talk shows everywhere. Now, good Lord,
I ain't know people had that much to talk about,
and it's really not that much.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's like the same things just done different ways.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You know, human viewpoint bibble by the hour. God can
give you a bottom line quick. You want to have
a one hour discussion. Whenever you add to or take
away from God's truth, you are diluting divine authority. There's
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a There was an umpire the old Negro Baseball League
named Bill clipp Bill Clem was a big, huge guy
and on one time true story, the score was tied
was the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
There was a man on third.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
The batter hit the ball in the infield is the
bottom of the ninth, So if this guy on third
got insafe, then of course the home team would have
won the game. So the ball was hitting the ground
in the infield. The man on third blitzed home. He's
running home hard as he could, and he slid. He
slid in the home plate. It was real dusty, so
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dust flor everywhere. Catch you try to tag him out.
Catch you hit the ground too, and it was dust everywhere.
The home team came out of the dugout cheering save,
save save, because the visiting team ran out. He's out,
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he's out. He's out, and then's shouting. One team is
shouting save, the other team is shouting out Bill Clinton.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He took off his face guard and threw it down.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And said, everybody shut up, because he ain't nothing until
I say what it is. You got people on this
side telling you to do this. You got funk on
this side telling you to do that. You going, you
don't know what side to go to. Everybody be quiet,
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and let me tell.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You how it is. I am the bottom line. So
in closing, what do we say? Take your Bible.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Out of your spiritual museum. It's not impressive because you
carry it or because you have it sitting in your car.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Anybody have Bibles in their car. You ride with a
Bible in your car?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Rais ad raid an tell the truth, all right, don't
mean a thing, or because you got four of them,
one for each room.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Or here's the one, here's the one, you have it
sitting on the coffee dep.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Biblical authority means that the Bible possesses the right to
supremely define your decision making, that God has the right
to make up the rules for your life. You know
when I was growing up, you know what I did
from the time I could get out of the house
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till the time is some went down is play football.
That's all I wanted to do a year round, no
matter what other sport I was doing, I always made time.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
To play football. But let me tell you something I always.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Did when it was like in the community.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I brought the football. I brought the football.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And the reason why I wanted a quarterback. Okay, and
I wasn't about to nobody tell me get on no line. No,
I'm going to quarterback. Why it's my ball, God says,
I want to call the shots.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I got the ball. This is my book. How do
you call me?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Lord?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Lord? And do not what I say? Jesus?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
How do you say Hallelujah? Do not what I say?
How do you say Praise the Lord? And do not
what I say? How you say I'm a committede Christian?
And do not what I say? How you say I
love the Lord? He heard my cry? And do not
what I say. God doesn't want your verbalization. He wants
your response. He wants you to do like you do
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when you're driving your car. You come up over that
hill and you see the police car sitting on the side.
That's authority. Sitting over there, but you act like it.
He'll just say eighty miles an hour. Oh hey, your
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heart stops complitating, you start perspiring, and you try to
hit the brake. Not tried, because then they'll become obvious.
You try to act like you've been slowing down all
the time. That ain't nothing but fear. You know why,
because you run into authority that you respect, so you respond.
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In other words, the presence of authority creates.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
A response, not an analysis.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You know who doesn't respect police? Cause or police criminals?
Are you a spiritual criminal? Moving right along?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Let's that's who doesn't respect authority? Criminals?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
In a word, the Bible is authoritative. It means what
it says. It says what it means, and it works
if you stop mixing it. The problem is people only
want the parts of the Bible that they like. They
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want sermons to tickle their ears. That's why Paul told
Timothy preach the word, because people are gonna be looking
to have their ears tickled because they don't want the truth.
They want to feel good. There's nothing wrong with feeling
good as long as truth is making you feel that way.
But when a liar is making you feel good.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Then it's illegitimate.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We decorate it, we carry it, we acknowledge it, we
open it, we read it, we talk to other people
about it.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It's got a high position.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
It just has no authority because we don't allow it
to veto anything.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
In our lives.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We don't allow it to vote on things we don't like.
So we don't see it's authority, and we don't see it.
How all we got is another religious book? You got
the position? Talk to me about the.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Authorigny, Doctor Tony Evans, reminding us that God's Word is
meant to rule, carrying real authority in every part of
our lives. Now, don't forget. The lesson we heard today
comes from Tony's sermon series entitled The Glory of God's Word,
a ten message journey through the truth, power, and divine
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origin of Scripture. It's a great way to strengthen your
understanding of why the Bible matters and how it can
transform your life. And for a limited time, when you
make a contribution to help support the Alternative Broadcast Ministry,
we'll send you this complete audio collection as our gift,
along with a special bonus. Tony's powerful book, The Transforming
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Word designed to help you experience scripture spiritually and personally.
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phone at one eight hundred eight hundred three two two two.
There's no doubt that words hold power. They can leave
a mark on us, for better or worse. Tomorrow, doctor
Evans explains how God's word goes even deeper, cutting through
confusion to bring clarity and lasting change. Be sure to
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join us for this powerful look at the transforming truth
of scripture.
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