― Also find us at www.MyChurchNotes.com ―
If we go back to the Greek, the word for “inspiration” means “God-breathed.”
When we say the Bible is the Inspired Word of God, we mean that the Creator breathed his words though the human authors that penned the physical text.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us:
“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.”
All Scripture…
This means the parts we like and the parts we don’t. We should look at the Old Testament to learn the nature of God and how he interacts with humanity, and the New Testament reveals the New Covenant given by our Lord though Jesus, who died on the cross to bring us salvation from our wrongdoing.
…is breathed out by God…
God used human authors, but the content is fully his. When we read the Bible, we take in the spoken words of the Father.
…and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness…
Passages in the Word can be inspirational in different ways. We might be awed, but we also might be humbled, corrected, or more knowledgeable than we were before. What we take from the Word is up to us.
…that the man of God might be complete, equipped for every good work.
If we fail to spend time in the Bible—reading, studying, thinking on what we’ve read throughout the day—we won’t be complete Christians. We won’t be equipped for doing God’s work.
We will let him down when he needs us most.
Paul was the New Testament’s most prolific author. God must have found the man imminently receptive and useful as a receptacle for sharing his thoughts with mankind. We should listen. After all, it’s not Paul speaking. It is God.
When we’re inspired by the Word, we’re finding truth in the spoken voice of God.
Copyright © 2017 MyChurchNotes.net
Code: FGO.I.04.17a.vp.esv