The Scripture Cannot Be Broken!

My favorite sermon on the Word of God and one of my favorite sermons ever is Pastor Kevin DeYoung's sermon from the 2014 gathering of Together For The Gospel called: Never Spoke a Man Like This Before: Inerrancy, Evangelism and Christ’s Unbreakable Bible

John 10:35: Scripture cannot be broken!

I especially love the way Pastor Kevin ended this sermon:

Jesus held Scripture in the highest possible esteem. He knew his Bible intimately and loved it deeply. He often spoke with language of Scripture. He easily alluded to Scripture. And in His moments of greatest trial and weakness – like being tempted by the devil or being killed on a cross – He quoted Scripture.

His mission was to fulfill Scripture, and His teaching always upheld Scripture.

He never disrespected, never disregarded, never disagreed with a single text of Scripture.

He affirmed every bit of law, prophecy, narrative, & poetry. He shuddered to think of anyone anywhere violating, ignoring, or rejecting Scripture.

Jesus believed in the inspiration of Scripture, down to the sentences, to the phrases, to the words, to the smallest letter, to the tiniest mark. 

 

He accepted the chronology, the miracles, & the authorial ascriptions as giving the straightforward facts of history.

He believed in keeping the spirit of the law without ever minimizing the letter of the law. He affirmed the human authorship of Scripture while at the same time bearing witness to the ultimate divine authorship of the Scriptures.

He treated the Bible as a necessary word, a sufficient word, a clear word, and the final word.

It was never acceptable in His mind to contradict Scripture or stand above Scripture.

He believed the Bible was all true, all edifying, all important, and all about Him. He believed absolutely that the Bible was from God and was absolutely free from error. What Scripture says God says, and what God said was recorded infallibly in Scripture.

Jesus submitted His will to the Scriptures, committed His brain to study the Scriptures, and humbled His heart to obey the Scriptures.

In summary, it is impossible to revere the Scriptures more deeply or affirm them more completely than Jesus did. The Lord Jesus, God’s Son and our Savior, believed His Bible was the word of God down to the tiniest speck & that nothing in all those specks & in all those books in His Bible could ever be broken.

Amen! Hallelujah! What a Savior! And What a Word of God we have!

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