"What's Important to Us?" Biblical Faithfulness

"What's Important to Us?" Biblical Faithfulness
Pastor Miles
July 6, 2014

Core Value #1: We are committed to Biblical Faithfulness -
Believing that the Bible is the Word of God, submitting to it as the ultimate guide and final authority on all matters to which it speaks.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭16-17‬ ESV)

1. The Bible is important to us because of what it is.
All Scripture is breathed out (INSPIRED) by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬ ESV)

knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (‭2 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭20-21‬ ESV)

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. (‭2 Peter‬ ‭3‬:‭15-16‬ ESV)

2. The Bible is important to us because of what it does.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and PROFITABLE (USEFUL) for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬ ESV)

and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, (‭Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭17‬ ESV)

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (‭Hebrews‬ ‭4‬:‭12‬ ESV)

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭16-17‬ ESV)

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. (‭Psalm‬ ‭119‬:‭9, 11‬ ESV)

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (‭Psalm‬ ‭119‬:‭105‬ ESV)

But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" (‭Matthew‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬ ESV)

since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever." And this word is the good news that was preached to you. (‭1 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭23-25‬ ESV)

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— (‭1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭2‬ ESV)

3. We submit ourselves to the scriptures.
We are committed to Biblical Faithfulness - Believing that the Bible is the Word of God, submitting to it as the ultimate guide and final authority on all matters to which it speaks.