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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got the Bible because the Holy.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Spirit moved upon the apostle to write what is written.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Doctor Tony Evans says, the same spirit who inspired scripture
helps you receive it.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
What is true of the Holy Spirit's work in the
Biblical writers.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
To record God's work is true.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
In your Christian life, to hear God's voice.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. There's a difference
between human opinion and divine truth. Today, doctor Evans explains
how the Bible wasn't just written by people, it was
breathed out by God himself. Let's listen as he unpacts
(00:44):
how inspired scripture equips us for everything God causes us
to do.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We've all known the feeling of being inspired. Perhaps it
was hearing a choir sing and being lifted up because
of the melodious voices that impacted us. Perhaps we know
inspiration from a poem that was read or a speech
(01:12):
that was spoken. Inspiration is that feeling of exaltation you
get because something lifts your spirit from where it was
to a higher level and you find encourriagement and motivation
(01:33):
and stimulation because you've been inspired.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The Bible is inspired.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But when the Bible talks about being inspired, it's not
talking about simply a high level of human achievement. No,
that word takes on unique special meaning when applied to
God's Word.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's why I would ask you to me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
In two Timothy, Chapter three, verse sixteen, all scripture is
inspired by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and
training in righteousness, that the Man of God may be
adequate equipped for every good work. The first line is
(02:21):
our focus. All scripture is inspired by God. First of all,
what do I mean? What does the Bible mean by inspired?
The doctrine of inspiration or the inspiration of scripture refers
to the process by which God oversaw the composition of
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scripture so that its message was recorded without error. Revelation
is what God said. Inspiration is the recording of what
God said so that it was kept preserved without contamination.
(03:11):
The Bible declares to be the statements of God through men,
not merely man's statement about God. Psalm one forty seven
says this about God's speaking in God's word. Verse fifteen,
(03:32):
he sends forth his command to earth.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
His word runs very swiftly.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
He gives snow like woolves scatters the frost like ashes.
He casts forth his ice as fragments. Who can stand
before the cold? He sends forth his word and melts them.
He causes his wind to blow, and the water is
to flow. He declares his words to Jacob. His statues
(03:59):
is ordinances to Israel. God speaks his words. The place,
according to two Timothy three, where these words were captured
is called scripture. The Greek word gruphaeian that referred to
that which was written over and over again. We see
(04:20):
that the word of God was written. One John five
point thirteen says, these things have I written under you.
God is for writing, because the Bible says in Deuteronomy
nine ten that the ten Commandments were written with the
finger of God. The Bible was written so that there
would be a record of the very words of God. Therefore,
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there is nothing in scripture that God did not say.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's scripture that God holds too.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Another important verse in this regard is Romans chapter sixteen,
verse twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now to him who is.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Able to establish you according to my gospel and the
preaching of Jesus Christ. According to the Revelation of the mystery,
which has been kept secret for a long time past,
but now it is manifested, and by the scriptures of
the Prophets, according to the commandment of the Eternal God,
has been made known to all nations, leading to obedience
(05:24):
of faith. He says, the scriptures of the Prophets came
by commandment of the Eternal God.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So we start off by defining inspiration.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The process by which God oversaw the composition of scripture
so that its message was recorded without error. Now that
raises a question, how did God do it? Do want
you to turn here to tewod Peter Chapter one, because
the implications of this are not only implications for the scripture,
(05:55):
but for your life Verse twenty. 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 the human will. In other words,
Jon Dian's get up and say, let me make scripture today.
(06:18):
But men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
How did we get scripture? Here's how we got scripture.
We got scripture because men were moved by the Holy
Spirit to write it. What is true of the Holy
Spirit's work in the Biblical writers. To record God's word
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is true in your Christian life, to hear God's voice.
So scripture didn't come because the man said, let me
write the Bible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Scripture came because.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Men were moved along Holy men. Thus their salves were up.
They were removed along, so that they recorded scripture using
their own styles, own vocabulary, own personality, but all expressing
what God intended to be recorded from his revelation.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Sort of like electricity in your house.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
The same sauce, but each appliance uses it differently. Toaster
uses it to heat bread and pop it up. A
refrigerator uses it to cool things down or to freeze them.
A stove uses electricity to heat things up. A can
open and use the electricity to open something. In other words,
(07:33):
all the appliances are different, but they use the same
source to do what they were created to do. Paul
is not Peter, Peter is not John. They're all different,
and Neel Mayah is not Samueling David is not Solomon.
But even though all the biblical writers were different, it
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was the same spirit that moved in them, so that
the uniqueness of their personality was reflected in the recording
of scripture.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Now, what's the application of your life?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
When the Holy Spirit moves on you, He's not gonna
move you to do what he's moving me to do
because we have different roles. I'm a toaster, you a
can open up. So by application, you don't want to
mimic me. I don't want to mimic you put your
saale up. Let me put my sale up. Because the
(08:31):
Holy Spirit's leading us differently. But the Holy Spirit moves
today in the application of the volun truth, so that
you know exactly what he wants you to do. That's
why in the Bible there is this dynamic between what
was written in the spirit. For example, the seven Churches
of Asia. In Revelation two and three, it says that
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the word of God was told to John to write,
and he was told by God's spirit to write in
Revelation chapter one, verses ten and eleven, and when he
he wrote to the seven churches of Asia.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But at the end of each church.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He says he that hath an ear let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches, because it was written,
but it was the words of the Holy Spirit that
got written. In other words, if it wasn't the holy
ghost words, it never got written because He wouldn't remind
them or guide them into something he didn't want recorded.
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So in the Bible, watch this. Now you only have
what God wants you to know. Don't misunderstand it. You
don't have everything in the Bible. You don't have everything
in the Bible. God has not revealed everything about himself.
Deuteronomy twenty nine twenty nine says, let the secret things
of God remain secret. In other words, don't get in
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the stuff you don't know nothing about. If he didn't
tell you, guess what He doesn't want you to know it.
Eternity is going to be filled with new revelation, new revelation.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
God, you ain't seen nothing yet. You look at all that.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We praise God for all that God has done, all
the animals, all the different races. You look at the
universe and the stars and the sun, and this thing
is going.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
On for thousands and thousands and thousands and.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Thousands of years. And the thing that you can look
at the universe. Science is still studying the universe. And
you ain't seen nothing yet. And a reason I can
say that ain't is now in the dictionary. You haven't
seen a thing yet about the new manifestations of the
revelation of God, but what He wants us.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
To know regarding life relationship with him.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
The spiritual realm has been recorded in the Word of God,
and it is the word of the Spirit. It's not
only the word of the book, it is the word
of the Spirit, that which God desired to be recorded.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Doctor Evans will point us to a powerful verse the
types all those scriptural relationships together when he continues in
just a moment, don't go away the biblical.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Roles of husbands and wives, the source of our authority
as believers, understanding the concept of grace, winning spiritual battles.
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Speaker 3 (12:06):
Before we get back to today's message, I want to
quickly remind you that what you're hearing is part of
Tony's eye opening series, The Glory of God's Word. This
ten part audio set unpacks how scripture reveals God's heart,
his authority, and his power to transform lives and right now,
we are offering the complete series as our gift when
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hundred thirty two twenty two to get all the details. Again,
that's Tonyevans dot org or call one eight hundred eight
hundred three two two two. Now let's rejoin doctor Evans
for the second part of today's lesson.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
A great verse that brings these concepts together of the
Word and the Spirit and the human author and the
Divine Author is Acts Chapter one, Verse sixteen. I read
it to you, Acts one, sixteen, brotherren. The Scripture had
to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the
mouth of David concerning Judas who became a guide to
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those who arrested Jesus. The scripture the Bible had to
be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, how did the Holy Spirit talk?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I can't see him through David. He used the man.
When you come to church on Sunday, here's your request.
Your request is, Lord, use the preacher for the Holy
Spirit to talk to me. See that's your request. What
you want is God, use the human mouth to talk
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to me about what the Holy Spirit wants in me
in my life for my direction. I want to hear
from the Holy Spirit, not just a human mouth piece.
Anybody can preach a sermon. You need to hear from
the Holy Spirit. So you know God was talking to you,
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and so it says when it came to recording of scripture,
David said it. But it was the word of the
Holy Spirit. So then what is the result of the
scripture that we have. What's the bottom line. Because of inspiration,
the Holy Ghost was the project manager of the recording
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of scripture. You have a perfect and complete text, a
perfect and complete Bible. Proverbs Chapter thirty, verses five and
six says, every word of God is tested. He is
a shield of those who take refuge in him. Do
not add to his words. Lett he reprove you and
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you be proven a liar. Don't be adding no more
books to the Bible, versus to the Bible or thoughts.
Everything he wanted said, he tested it and it got
in just like he wanted it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
So don't add to his words, or you're going to
be the.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
One proven wrong. Another benefit of scripture or nature of scripture,
All of scripture is equally the word of God. Now,
I know some of you got your read letter versions.
How many read letter versions we got? The red letter
versions for those of you who don't know, are versions
of the Bible that highlight all the words of Jesus
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and read. In other words, they make the words that
came directly out of the mouth of Jesus, kind of
like super special words. But all scripture is inspired by God.
So whether either said it, or Paul said it, or
Peter said it, or David said it, or Esther said it,
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it is an accurate rendition of what God wanted recorded.
Or to put it in the words of John thirteen
thirty five, the scripture cannot be broken. You can't take
part of it and skip the part you don't like.
The bottom line is when God has spoken, it is
the final word. All other words must adjusted that word
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because it is the final word. When we say that
all scriptures inspired, it's like saying.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
All ducks wattle.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That means ducks used to wattle in the old days,
ducks wattle now, and the ducks that aren't born yet
will waddle.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It's just the nature of ducks to wattle.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
What just as all ducks wattle, all scripture is inspired.
If it was in the Old Testament, it was inspired
in the New Testament. It inspired because it was overseen
by God. And then, finally, from this passage two Timothy III,
we find one of the great statements, all scriptures inspired
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by God is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, training in righteousness.
That the man of God may be adequate, equipped for
every good work.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Scripture is sufficient for all of life.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Teaching, It'll tell you what you need to know, reproof,
it'll tell you where you've gone wrong, correction, It'll tell
you how to get it right.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Training in righteousness.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It will tell you how to live life as God
intended it to be lived, that the man of God,
a woman of God, the person of God, may be adequate,
have enough equipped, have all the tools for every good work,
all that God wants you to do. There is nothing
related to your life God didn't cover in scripture. You say,
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but I don't know what scripture to turn to. I
don't know where to look. That's the job of the
Holy Spirit. If you listen carefully, listen carefully, you'll hear
things from.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The spiritual realm.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You may turn on Christian radio and be listening to
a preacher not knowing that God had that program that
day for you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Many of you have already experienced that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Because you knew God was responding to your question at
that time in that place by His spirit. Everything you
need to be, all God want you to do, is
already in scripture. When I was a kid, we had
these three alleys in the back of my house, and
this was where we cut our teeth. Athletically. You had
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to be able to perform in the alley. If you
couldn't perform in the alley, you didn't get to the
big feet. You started off in the alley. And our
great dream in the alley was knocking out somebody's window.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We lived for that because in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Order to knock out somebody's window, that meant you hit
a home run over the garages to the houses on
the other side of the garage and to hear that
glass crack, of course you were running, but to hear it,
to hear that glass shatter bad. I'll never forget the
first time I hit my first home run and it
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went over the garage and right through the upstairs window.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I was running the bases, I was jumping, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
The thought that I hit the ball that fall and
run well.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I was outside playing one day and my brother came
and said, I'm up at that.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I'm up at that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's like the ninth in and n and it's you know,
the winning runners on base or I'm the running run
or something, and so so I'm counts like two and
two and my brother comes and he says, Mama said,
stop what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And come home right now. Now.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
This ain't this, ain't this, ain't no mama situation here.
I'm I'm out there with my boys. Okay, I'm at bat.
The game rides on my shoulder. So I gave a response.
I said, I'm coming. Mama said come right now, and
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to tell her whether you stop what you were doing. Now,
Mama wasn't out there. That was baby brother out there.
That wasn't no mama, it was baby brother. So I
ain't gonna hit my home run, you know, yeah, I did.
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I'm gonna hit my home run. I'm gonna win this game.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So I go home. Mama say you punish for the
rest of this week. You can't go out in the
alley and play.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I said, but Mama, why not, she said, because you
didn't do what I told you. I told you to
stop what you were doing and come home right away.
You late, I said, but Mama, I want She said,
I don't want to hear that. I don't want to
hear that you didn't do what I told you. But
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that could I argue, but you didn't tell me. My
brother told me if you were out there, I'd have
responded differently. But since you weren't there and it was
my brother, that doesn't carry the same weight.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
If my brother accurately communicated.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
My mother was nowhere to be found. But if he
accurately commune indicated what Mama said, Mama didn't have to
be out there. He was representing Mama's voice, even though
Mama was living but nowhere to be seen. And even
though she wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
His word carried her authority. Why because he gave me the.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Authorized words, She authorized him to take her word to me.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
So even though it came through somebody else, I was.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Accountable back to her, not to him, because it was
the voice of Mama communicated through brother to me.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
When you don't take seriously.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
The word of God, it's not you reacting to the
human author because they are authorized to speak on behalf
of God. So when you skip this, you have skip God.
And therefore God is the one you have to deal with,
because this book is both the word and words of
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the Living God.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Amen, Doctor Tony Evans reminding us that when we encounter
the Bible, we're encountering the very voice of God. Today's
message is part of Tony's compelling series, The Glory of
God's Word, a ten part look at the authority, clarity,
and divine power of Scripture. It's designed to help you
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engage with the Bible on a deeper level and apply
its truth to every area of your life. And right now,
when you support the Ministry of the Alternative with a
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Speaker 2 (24:20):
Have you ever tried.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Reading something over and over and then one day it
just clicks? On Monday, doctor Evans explains how those aha
moments come from the Holy Spirit who brings Scripture to
life and opens our eyes to God's truth. We'll be
sure to join us
We got the Bible because the Holy.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Spirit moved upon the apostle to write what is written.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Doctor Tony Evans says, the same spirit who inspired scripture
helps you receive it.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
What is true of the Holy Spirit's work in the
Biblical writers.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
To record God's work is true.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
In your Christian life, to hear God's voice.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. There's a difference
between human opinion and divine truth. Today, doctor Evans explains
how the Bible wasn't just written by people, it was
breathed out by God himself. Let's listen as he unpacts
(00:44):
how inspired scripture equips us for everything God causes us
to do.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We've all known the feeling of being inspired. Perhaps it
was hearing a choir sing and being lifted up because
of the melodious voices that impacted us. Perhaps we know
inspiration from a poem that was read or a speech
(01:12):
that was spoken. Inspiration is that feeling of exaltation you
get because something lifts your spirit from where it was
to a higher level and you find encourriagement and motivation
(01:33):
and stimulation because you've been inspired.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The Bible is inspired.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But when the Bible talks about being inspired, it's not
talking about simply a high level of human achievement. No,
that word takes on unique special meaning when applied to
God's Word.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's why I would ask you to me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
In two Timothy, Chapter three, verse sixteen, all scripture is
inspired by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and
training in righteousness, that the Man of God may be
adequate equipped for every good work. The first line is
(02:21):
our focus. All scripture is inspired by God. First of all,
what do I mean? What does the Bible mean by inspired?
The doctrine of inspiration or the inspiration of scripture refers
to the process by which God oversaw the composition of
(02:44):
scripture so that its message was recorded without error. Revelation
is what God said. Inspiration is the recording of what
God said so that it was kept preserved without contamination.
(03:11):
The Bible declares to be the statements of God through men,
not merely man's statement about God. Psalm one forty seven
says this about God's speaking in God's word. Verse fifteen,
(03:32):
he sends forth his command to earth.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
His word runs very swiftly.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
He gives snow like woolves scatters the frost like ashes.
He casts forth his ice as fragments. Who can stand
before the cold? He sends forth his word and melts them.
He causes his wind to blow, and the water is
to flow. He declares his words to Jacob. His statues
(03:59):
is ordinances to Israel. God speaks his words. The place,
according to two Timothy three, where these words were captured
is called scripture. The Greek word gruphaeian that referred to
that which was written over and over again. We see
(04:20):
that the word of God was written. One John five
point thirteen says, these things have I written under you.
God is for writing, because the Bible says in Deuteronomy
nine ten that the ten Commandments were written with the
finger of God. The Bible was written so that there
would be a record of the very words of God. Therefore,
(04:47):
there is nothing in scripture that God did not say.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's scripture that God holds too.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Another important verse in this regard is Romans chapter sixteen,
verse twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Now to him who is.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Able to establish you according to my gospel and the
preaching of Jesus Christ. According to the Revelation of the mystery,
which has been kept secret for a long time past,
but now it is manifested, and by the scriptures of
the Prophets, according to the commandment of the Eternal God,
has been made known to all nations, leading to obedience
(05:24):
of faith. He says, the scriptures of the Prophets came
by commandment of the Eternal God.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So we start off by defining inspiration.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The process by which God oversaw the composition of scripture
so that its message was recorded without error. Now that
raises a question, how did God do it? Do want
you to turn here to tewod Peter Chapter one, because
the implications of this are not only implications for the scripture,
(05:55):
but for your life Verse twenty. 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 the human will. In other words,
Jon Dian's get up and say, let me make scripture today.
(06:18):
But men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
How did we get scripture? Here's how we got scripture.
We got scripture because men were moved by the Holy
Spirit to write it. What is true of the Holy
Spirit's work in the Biblical writers. To record God's word
(06:41):
is true in your Christian life, to hear God's voice.
So scripture didn't come because the man said, let me
write the Bible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Scripture came because.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Men were moved along Holy men. Thus their salves were up.
They were removed along, so that they recorded scripture using
their own styles, own vocabulary, own personality, but all expressing
what God intended to be recorded from his revelation.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Sort of like electricity in your house.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
The same sauce, but each appliance uses it differently. Toaster
uses it to heat bread and pop it up. A
refrigerator uses it to cool things down or to freeze them.
A stove uses electricity to heat things up. A can
open and use the electricity to open something. In other words,
(07:33):
all the appliances are different, but they use the same
source to do what they were created to do. Paul
is not Peter, Peter is not John. They're all different,
and Neel Mayah is not Samueling David is not Solomon.
But even though all the biblical writers were different, it
(07:56):
was the same spirit that moved in them, so that
the uniqueness of their personality was reflected in the recording
of scripture.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Now, what's the application of your life?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
When the Holy Spirit moves on you, He's not gonna
move you to do what he's moving me to do
because we have different roles. I'm a toaster, you a
can open up. So by application, you don't want to
mimic me. I don't want to mimic you put your
saale up. Let me put my sale up. Because the
(08:31):
Holy Spirit's leading us differently. But the Holy Spirit moves
today in the application of the volun truth, so that
you know exactly what he wants you to do. That's
why in the Bible there is this dynamic between what
was written in the spirit. For example, the seven Churches
of Asia. In Revelation two and three, it says that
(08:52):
the word of God was told to John to write,
and he was told by God's spirit to write in
Revelation chapter one, verses ten and eleven, and when he
he wrote to the seven churches of Asia.
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But at the end of each church.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
He says he that hath an ear let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches, because it was written,
but it was the words of the Holy Spirit that
got written. In other words, if it wasn't the holy
ghost words, it never got written because He wouldn't remind
them or guide them into something he didn't want recorded.
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So in the Bible, watch this. Now you only have
what God wants you to know. Don't misunderstand it. You
don't have everything in the Bible. You don't have everything
in the Bible. God has not revealed everything about himself.
Deuteronomy twenty nine twenty nine says, let the secret things
of God remain secret. In other words, don't get in
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the stuff you don't know nothing about. If he didn't
tell you, guess what He doesn't want you to know it.
Eternity is going to be filled with new revelation, new revelation.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
God, you ain't seen nothing yet. You look at all that.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We praise God for all that God has done, all
the animals, all the different races. You look at the
universe and the stars and the sun, and this thing
is going.
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On for thousands and thousands and thousands and.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Thousands of years. And the thing that you can look
at the universe. Science is still studying the universe. And
you ain't seen nothing yet. And a reason I can
say that ain't is now in the dictionary. You haven't
seen a thing yet about the new manifestations of the
revelation of God, but what He wants us.
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To know regarding life relationship with him.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
The spiritual realm has been recorded in the Word of God,
and it is the word of the Spirit. It's not
only the word of the book, it is the word
of the Spirit, that which God desired to be recorded.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Doctor Evans will point us to a powerful verse the
types all those scriptural relationships together when he continues in
just a moment, don't go away the biblical.
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for the second part of today's lesson.
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A great verse that brings these concepts together of the
Word and the Spirit and the human author and the
Divine Author is Acts Chapter one, Verse sixteen. I read
it to you, Acts one, sixteen, brotherren. The Scripture had
to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold by the
mouth of David concerning Judas who became a guide to
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those who arrested Jesus. The scripture the Bible had to
be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit foretold.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, how did the Holy Spirit talk?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I can't see him through David. He used the man.
When you come to church on Sunday, here's your request.
Your request is, Lord, use the preacher for the Holy
Spirit to talk to me. See that's your request. What
you want is God, use the human mouth to talk
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to me about what the Holy Spirit wants in me
in my life for my direction. I want to hear
from the Holy Spirit, not just a human mouth piece.
Anybody can preach a sermon. You need to hear from
the Holy Spirit. So you know God was talking to you,
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and so it says when it came to recording of scripture,
David said it. But it was the word of the
Holy Spirit. So then what is the result of the
scripture that we have. What's the bottom line. Because of inspiration,
the Holy Ghost was the project manager of the recording
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of scripture. You have a perfect and complete text, a
perfect and complete Bible. Proverbs Chapter thirty, verses five and
six says, every word of God is tested. He is
a shield of those who take refuge in him. Do
not add to his words. Lett he reprove you and
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you be proven a liar. Don't be adding no more
books to the Bible, versus to the Bible or thoughts.
Everything he wanted said, he tested it and it got
in just like he wanted it.
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So don't add to his words, or you're going to
be the.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
One proven wrong. Another benefit of scripture or nature of scripture,
All of scripture is equally the word of God. Now,
I know some of you got your read letter versions.
How many read letter versions we got? The red letter
versions for those of you who don't know, are versions
of the Bible that highlight all the words of Jesus
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and read. In other words, they make the words that
came directly out of the mouth of Jesus, kind of
like super special words. But all scripture is inspired by God.
So whether either said it, or Paul said it, or
Peter said it, or David said it, or Esther said it,
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it is an accurate rendition of what God wanted recorded.
Or to put it in the words of John thirteen
thirty five, the scripture cannot be broken. You can't take
part of it and skip the part you don't like.
The bottom line is when God has spoken, it is
the final word. All other words must adjusted that word
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because it is the final word. When we say that
all scriptures inspired, it's like saying.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
All ducks wattle.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That means ducks used to wattle in the old days,
ducks wattle now, and the ducks that aren't born yet
will waddle.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
It's just the nature of ducks to wattle.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
What just as all ducks wattle, all scripture is inspired.
If it was in the Old Testament, it was inspired
in the New Testament. It inspired because it was overseen
by God. And then, finally, from this passage two Timothy III,
we find one of the great statements, all scriptures inspired
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by God is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, training in righteousness.
That the man of God may be adequate, equipped for
every good work.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Scripture is sufficient for all of life.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Teaching, It'll tell you what you need to know, reproof,
it'll tell you where you've gone wrong, correction, It'll tell
you how to get it right.
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Training in righteousness.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It will tell you how to live life as God
intended it to be lived, that the man of God,
a woman of God, the person of God, may be adequate,
have enough equipped, have all the tools for every good work,
all that God wants you to do. There is nothing
related to your life God didn't cover in scripture. You say,
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but I don't know what scripture to turn to. I
don't know where to look. That's the job of the
Holy Spirit. If you listen carefully, listen carefully, you'll hear
things from.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
The spiritual realm.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
You may turn on Christian radio and be listening to
a preacher not knowing that God had that program that
day for you.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Many of you have already experienced that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Because you knew God was responding to your question at
that time in that place by His spirit. Everything you
need to be, all God want you to do, is
already in scripture. When I was a kid, we had
these three alleys in the back of my house, and
this was where we cut our teeth. Athletically. You had
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to be able to perform in the alley. If you
couldn't perform in the alley, you didn't get to the
big feet. You started off in the alley. And our
great dream in the alley was knocking out somebody's window.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We lived for that because in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Order to knock out somebody's window, that meant you hit
a home run over the garages to the houses on
the other side of the garage and to hear that
glass crack, of course you were running, but to hear it,
to hear that glass shatter bad. I'll never forget the
first time I hit my first home run and it
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went over the garage and right through the upstairs window.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I was running the bases, I was jumping, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
The thought that I hit the ball that fall and
run well.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I was outside playing one day and my brother came
and said, I'm up at that.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I'm up at that.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's like the ninth in and n and it's you know,
the winning runners on base or I'm the running run
or something, and so so I'm counts like two and
two and my brother comes and he says, Mama said,
stop what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And come home right now. Now.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
This ain't this, ain't this, ain't no mama situation here.
I'm I'm out there with my boys. Okay, I'm at bat.
The game rides on my shoulder. So I gave a response.
I said, I'm coming. Mama said come right now, and
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to tell her whether you stop what you were doing. Now,
Mama wasn't out there. That was baby brother out there.
That wasn't no mama, it was baby brother. So I
ain't gonna hit my home run, you know, yeah, I did.
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I'm gonna hit my home run. I'm gonna win this game.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So I go home. Mama say you punish for the
rest of this week. You can't go out in the
alley and play.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I said, but Mama, why not, she said, because you
didn't do what I told you. I told you to
stop what you were doing and come home right away.
You late, I said, but Mama, I want She said,
I don't want to hear that. I don't want to
hear that you didn't do what I told you. But
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that could I argue, but you didn't tell me. My
brother told me if you were out there, I'd have
responded differently. But since you weren't there and it was
my brother, that doesn't carry the same weight.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
If my brother accurately communicated.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
My mother was nowhere to be found. But if he
accurately commune indicated what Mama said, Mama didn't have to
be out there. He was representing Mama's voice, even though
Mama was living but nowhere to be seen. And even
though she wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
His word carried her authority. Why because he gave me the.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Authorized words, She authorized him to take her word to me.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
So even though it came through somebody else, I was.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Accountable back to her, not to him, because it was
the voice of Mama communicated through brother to me.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
When you don't take seriously.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
The word of God, it's not you reacting to the
human author because they are authorized to speak on behalf
of God. So when you skip this, you have skip God.
And therefore God is the one you have to deal with,
because this book is both the word and words of
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the Living God.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Amen, Doctor Tony Evans reminding us that when we encounter
the Bible, we're encountering the very voice of God. Today's
message is part of Tony's compelling series, The Glory of
God's Word, a ten part look at the authority, clarity,
and divine power of Scripture. It's designed to help you
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Speaker 2 (24:20):
Have you ever tried.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Reading something over and over and then one day it
just clicks? On Monday, doctor Evans explains how those aha
moments come from the Holy Spirit who brings Scripture to
life and opens our eyes to God's truth. We'll be
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