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Thank you so much for having me.

Today, we're going to finish off the series by talking about why it all matters.

Actually, just before I do that, let me just mention, I work for an organization called Apologetics Canada.

And we are doing a conference in September at Hope Bible Church in Oakville on...

Oh, nice.

Okay, we have some representation.

If the thief on the cross is pulled off the cross

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A lot of background work this week in filling out the topics that we've been going through.

We talked on Sunday about what Jesus' view of the Bible, of Scripture, was, is.

And we talked about on Monday, or that evening, about what Jesus' Bible looked like, to give us context to what he's talking about.

On Monday, we then talked about what Jesus' Bible isn't.

And then yesterday, we talked, we filled out more of those gaps.

And today, we're going to be talking about why the Bible is essential for the church.

And so sola scriptura

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Well, it is a pleasure to once again this morning be able to open the word of God with you and learn from what it has to teach us.

We've learned about Jesus's view of the Bible, his kind of theological perception of what we'd maybe refer to as inspiration.

We've learned about what Jesus's Bible was in his day when he refers to scripture, what that's talking about.

And yesterday, touching on what Jesus's Bible wasn't.

And today, we're going to be talking on Jesus in the Bible.

And specifically, we're going to be looking at Old Testament passages that push forward what, when Jesus says in the passage, we're going to look at in Luke 24, point to him.

And so Yahweh himself, but also from

So we're looking at this passage

and focusing on this particular line that Jesus says, Scripture cannot be broken.

We looked yesterday morning at Jesus's view of Scripture.

Last night, we talked about what Jesus's Bible looked like.

So Jesus's theological perspective on the Bible and then what Jesus's Bible actually was.

This morning, we're going to talk about what Jesus's Bible isn't.

And we're going to expand upon this idea when we look at other passages traditions of the umbrella of Christianity, groups like Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, we find that particularly in their Old Testament, they have more books.

Now, they're still recognized

know,

well, why do we have different Bibles? Well, we don't really have different Bibles though.

This is a conversation that I want to elaborate on tonight.

And hopefully this is educational and can really elucidate for us how we can take Jesus at his word.

The whole counsel of God can be preached and applied to us today.

Now, as we start, I want to define two words for us.

Canon, which means ruler list, and apocryphal, which means obscure, doubtful, or secret.

Jews

The core

divide between the two groups centered not just on divine scripture, and the authority of it, but on how to apply it to contemporary circumstances.

The Sadducees insisted that only the written Torah itself could bind Jewish practice, while Pharisees maintained that God had given Moses both a written law and oral teachings, the traditions passed down through generations, which both held equal authority.

And when the temple is destroyed in AD 70, when the Romans march in after the time of Jesus and they destroy Jerusalem, they destroy the temple, the Pharisees They become what we refer to today as modern Orthodox Judaism.

They become the rabbis and they develop their faith and practice into what we see as modern Judaism today.

And we still have this kind of understanding and system of the written law and the oral law.

As time goes on, those oral laws are codified.

If we want to stand firm in this world, we

Um, what's your perspective on whether or not a Christian can lose salvation?

Hmm.

I would say ultimately what we see within the testimony of scripture is that if someone truly has had, in the language of salvation that we see in the Bible, their heart of stone removed and they're given a heart of flesh, they're empowered by the Spirit.

And we look at something like John chapter six where Jesus says, "All the Father gives to me, I will raise up on the last day and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand." I think it is impossible for a true genuine believer to lose their salvation.

Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't people who have, like, profound experiences where they think that they are born again and then maybe later in their life they backtrack on that or something like that.

I mean, the parable of the, the seed and the sowers, right, s- communicates this.

There are people that are gonna fall on rocky ground.

And I guess another question that could lead off of this is how much of being saved is on the individual versus God's timing?

Like, w- how close is it?

Um, in some ways it's very close, and in other ways it's not.

So that's the story of Utnapishtim, which is kind of a side story in the Epic of Gilgamesh where, um, Gilgamesh is, he realizes his mortality and he's trying to find eternal life, and there's this guy, Utnapishtim, who he runs into who tells him this story of w- the gods gifted him with eternal life because he saved all the animals on a boat.

And so there are actually parallels between that and, say, the Genesis 6 Noah Ark story, uh, in, like, making a big boat, putting all the animals on it, and then they get off and they make a sacrifice to, in his case, the gods, in, in the Bible, God.

And I think what you're looking at there is probably a cultural remembrance of something that did take place.

And so you have these adjacent cultures who they're existing within this framework of the ancient Near East, and you're seeing these kind of parallel echoes of things that actually did happen.

So there are definite parallels, but I think sometimes people look at those and they overplay that.

Right.