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All Scripture, Every Word
June 07, 2015
We need to study all of the scriptures, whether Old or New Testament. The entire Holy Bible is one continuous story of God and His plans for mankind. The key to understanding is to rightly divide the word of God by keeping it in its context. Allow it to mean what God says that it means, no less and no more. Do not detract from, or add to, the word of the Almighty God. - Bernie Parsons
All Scripture, Every Word
by Bernie Parsons
Presented to Globe church of Christ on 06-07-2015
Presented to Load church of Christ on 07-12-2015
The Bible is an entire story, not two separate accounts called Old
Testament and New Testament. As such, all of the scripture is useful in
our studies to discern the will of God.
Matthew 4:1 "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to
be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward
an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God,
command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Jesus testified that every word from God’s mouth is significant, as the
apostle Paul corroborates.
2 Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good
works."
The apostles were studying, quoting, and preaching from the Old
Testament scriptures.
2 Timothy 1:1 "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God
the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience,
that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and
day;
4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may
be filled with joy;
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which
dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am
persuaded that in thee also."
2 Timothy 3:14 "But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned
and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are
able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good
works."
Timothy learned the law and prophets at the feet of his mother and
grandmother. Paul reminded him that all scripture is given by
inspiration of God. He noted that the Old Testament scriptures were
profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in
righteousness, bringing a man to spiritual maturity and completion,
having everything necessary for produce all good works.
2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
The apostle Paul reminded Timothy that the scriptures required diligence
and carefulness in properly understanding and presenting God’s word.
Many say that we should not study from the Law and the Prophets as the
New Testament has superseded them. What that they do not understand is
that there are universal laws of God presented both in the old law and
the message of the gospel. These laws of God never change and never go
away.
Acts 24:10 "Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to
speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a
judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve
days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man,
neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the
city:
13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call
heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which
are written in the law and in the prophets:
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that
there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of
offence toward God, and toward men."
The two most prominent eternal laws are to love God completely and love
your neighbor as much as you love yourself.
Matthew 22:35 "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a
question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
The apostle Paul reiterated these commandments:
Romans 13:8 "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that
loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not
covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended
in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law."
Since Jesus had nailed the ordinances of the Law of Moses to His cross,
it is obvious that Paul is repeating eternal laws of God, and not
ordinances contained in the Law.
Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and
vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and
power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without
hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the
dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which
was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them
openly, triumphing over them in it."
But Jesus was not “more perfectly teaching the Law of Moses and the
Prophets” as some of our brethren claim. Instead, He brought to this
earth the commandments of God for all of us.
John 5:46 "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he
wrote of me.
47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"
John 12:44 "Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not
on me, but on him that sent me.
45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me
should not abide in darkness.
47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I
came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that
judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in
the last day.
49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I
speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak."
Matthew 10:32 "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will
I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before
my Father which is in heaven."
