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3.
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The Purpose of the Bible
The Land of the Bible
The Story of the Bible – Old Testament
The Story of the Bible – New Testament
The Message of the Bible
The Authority of the Bible
 Three definitions
 Three Disclaimers
 Arguments for the authority of Scripture
 Christ’s view of the Old Testament
 Christ’s provision for the New Testament
 The Apostles’ authority confirmed
 Some conclusions
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The Interpretation of the Bible
The Use of the Bible
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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God.
(Matthew 4:4b ESV)
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God.
(Matthew 4:4b ESV)
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna,
which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might
make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man
lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
(Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV)
You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.
Matthew 4:7b ESV)
You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.
Matthew 4:7b ESV)
You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him
at Massah.
(Deuteronomy 6:16 ESV)
You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you
serve. (Matthew 4:10b ESV)
You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you
serve. (Matthew 4:10b ESV)
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by
his name you shall swear.
(Deuteronomy 6:13 ESV)
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many
things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the
scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
(Mark 8:31 ESV)
But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?
(Matthew 26:54 ESV)
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe
all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the
Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?
(Luke 24:25, 26 ESV)
… everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the
Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their
minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is
written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from
the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be
proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things. ”
(Luke 24:44b-48 ESV)
[Jesus] said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read
it?
(Luke 10:26 ESV)
Have you not read this Scripture:
(Mark 12:10a ESV)
And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the
commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! … thus
making void the word of God by your tradition that you have
handed down. And many such things you do.
(Mark 7:9, 13 ESV)
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because
you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
(Mark 12:24 ESV)
Scripture cannot be broken
(John 10:35b ESV)
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is
accomplished.
(Matthew 5:18 ESV)
WHAT HAD BEEN SAID
WHAT JESUS SAYS
Don’t murder
Don’t even be angry
Don’t commit adultery
Don’t even lust
Don’t divorce without a certificate
Don’t divorce except for infidelity
Don’t lie under oath
Don’t lie
Limit retaliation to the harm done to you Don’t retaliate
Hate your enemy
Love your enemy
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The Purpose of the Bible
The Land of the Bible
The Story of the Bible – Old Testament
The Story of the Bible – New Testament
The Message of the Bible
The Authority of the Bible
 Three definitions
 Three Disclaimers
 Arguments for the authority of Scripture
 Christ’s view of the Old Testament
 Christ’s provision for the New Testament
 The Apostles’ authority confirmed
 Some conclusions
7.
8.
The Interpretation of the Bible
The Use of the Bible
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ALL
WORD
NOTES
AND POWERPOINT
PRESENTATIONS ARE
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