Can I Trust The Bible? Series

But when we look INTO God’s word… we can see many examples of how His Word benefits us…

Let’s look first to King David! He is a central character in the OT, and he wrote much about the word of God! David fully believed that God was revealed in Scripture. David believed that God’s Word was there for us to know God, and David trusted His Word.

In Psalms, David wrote:

Ps 12:6 [ESV]

The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times

David believed God’s Word was the most valuable thing he could ever experience or know…

Ps 18:30 [ESV]

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true;he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

David understood the protective nature of God’s word for those who read it and trusted in it…

Ps 33:4 [ESV]

For the word of the LORD is upright,and all his work is done in faithfulness.

David believed that God’s Word revealed the right life to live, and that God is faithful in His promises…

Ps 33:6 [ESV]

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

David believed and trusted in God… He knew that the creation around him was a result of the spoken word of God!

Ps 119:11 [ESV]

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

He placed great faith in God’s word to help him to live as God would have him live… God’s Word will help us to flee from and resist our sinful nature.

Ps 119:105 [ESV]

“Your Word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path…”

David fully understood that the Word of God revealed the right path for his life… that it lit the way for his life and actions!

Jesus in His teaching also was an example of great benefit for those who use, read and apply God’s Word to their lives:

First, look at Jesus in the wilderness after 40 days of fasting! Satan approaches Jesus to tempt Him, but Jesus rebuffs Satan by doing what? By using the Word of God! Look at Matt 4:3

3 And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." 4 But he answered, "It is written…”

We can see this process repeated by Christ two more times, once in v.7 and the next in v.10… We too can use God’s Word to avoid evil and rebuff temptation in our lives!

We also see Jesus using Scripture to repudiate false teaching and misconception about God… do you remember the story the Pharisees approached Jesus with in Matt 22?

It was a ridiculous story about 7 brothers. The oldest brother married a woman, but died. His brother then married her to give his dead brother an heir, as per their custom… but he died before that could happen. This happened 5 more times… all the brothers marrying this woman and dying before they could produce an heir.

The question asked by the Pharisees is found in Matt 22:28 [ESV]

28 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her."