WORD OF GOD SPEAK

by Steve Matson

II Timothy 3:16-17 [16] All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, [17] that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

For 4 weeks, I am teaching through a series at Journey entitled Word of God Speak. We are a church that is saturated with bible content.  The desire that I have for this series is that we would also be a church that gladly submits to the word of God.

One of my main resources in preparing this series has been Taking God at His Word, by Kevin DeYoung. Below I have quoted Kevin.  I encourage you to buy and read this book because I believe that this is a resource that will continue and deepen the effort of my preaching series.

"No words can express what is needful in our dying hour. But there are words to sustain us at that moment, and in every moment from this hour until that. They are words of truth, the words of life, the never-failing, never-falling, Christ-exalting, spirit-inspired, God-breathed words of Holy Scripture. Sticking with the Scriptures may seem like a light thing now, but we will feel the weight of it someday. There will come a time when it will be shown whether our lives were founded upon trivialities or realities. So let us not weaken in our commitment to our unbreakable Bible. Let us not wander from divinely exhaled truth. Let us not waver in our delight and desire. God has spoken, and through that revelation he still speaks. Ultimately we can believe the Bible because we believe in the power and wisdom and goodness and truthfulness of the God whose authority and veracity cannot be separated from the Bible. We trust the Bible because it is God's Bible. And God being God, we have every reason to take him at his word." (Taking God at His Word, page 124)