THE POWER, USEFULNESS, AND PURPOSE OF THE WORD

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

The Bible is the most enduring, valued book in human history. It continues to be a best seller and for good reason. For no other book is an authoritative collection of the very word of God Himself, the Maker and Master of all creation. And with that, no person can find the nature of God and His will for mankind without reading what He says.

Need confirmation that the Bible is the very Word of a perfect God and therefore is inerrant in every way because it’s Author cannot error in anything He does?

We need only look at two of my favorite verses in the New Testament when it comes to the scriptures, verses 16 and 17 of 2 Timothy 3. Look at these words again here:

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

When God breathes onto anything, He does so to bring it alive. We learn this in the very beginning of the Bible in the second chapter of the Book of Genesis.

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. v. 7

God breathed Adam into existence and every person afterwards became a descendant of him and his wife, Eve.

Now, God needed to inform and instruct His created mankind and so He provided them His holy Word and as we see in today’s passage, “all scripture is God-breathed” which means it is a powerful, living Word, as alive and mighty as the God who provided it. It’s little wonder that we find in the Old Testament and then quoted by Jesus, the following:

“Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4

God, the Creator, grants life and God, the Sustainer, keeps His people spiritually healthy through His word that they are to use in the following ways:

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.

It’s not enough to just say you believe in God. You must read and study His breath-infused scriptures and then put them into practice. For through His Word, we will find our Lord teaching us more about Himself and His plan for the life of ourselves and others. Through His living Word, He will convict, rebuke, and correct us as He shines a light into our darkest places and exposes the sinfulness we need to rid ourselves of. Finally, through the teaching and correcting, our God is training us to be the righteous people He desires us to be as Her molds and shapes us to be as we were created, in His own image (Genesis 1:26).

So we know the power of God is found within His breathed scriptures and these scriptures are to be used so to exercise righteousness in everything we do. When this happens in our lives, we experience the purpose God has within this process.

...so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The Christian life is not one meant to be stagnant and sedentary. Rather, it is to be as lively as the very God who grants it, the God who has good works He wishes to achieve through every single believer, those who have committed themselves to His service.

Embrace the God-breathed scriptures and use them as intended and you will find yourself “thoroughly equipped for every good work” that the Lord wants you to carry out. And if you look at our world today and the propensity of people who are in need today, both physically and spiritually, you will see there’s more work to be done than workers to do it. This is why no one can afford to simply stand on the sidelines. God doesn’t approve of it and none of us who believe in His name should settle for it.

Friends, our Lord is speaking truth in power to us today through these two closing verses from the third chapter of 2 Timothy. I pray these living words provided by our living God will be used in such a way to ignite your passion for serving the One who calls us to perform good works in His precious and holy name.  

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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