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T HE ■K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S judgments endureth forever.” (R. V. Some of thy word is truth.) Psa. 119:89: “Forever, O Lord, thy Word is set tled in heaven.” Psa. 138:2: “Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name”—that is,—above every other attribute; the Word is the equiva lent of all combined. (2 Tim. 3:16.) “Every portion of Scripture is given by inspiration of God.” In the Old Testament over 900 times it says: “The Lord said” or its equiva lent,—560 times in the Pentateuch, and 200 times in the Historical books. Jesus Christ held the Old Testament in His hands and set His seal to their verity. (John 5:39): -, “Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.” Luke 24:27; “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” Luke 24:44: “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.” He declared the Scriptures to be the truth (John 17:17): “Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth,” and in this very prayer he jclaims to have come from God (John 17:5): “And now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” The Apostles set their seal to the in spiration of Scripture (Acts 1:16; 4:25; 3:18, 21; 1 Thess. 2:13), and so Paul writes in Heb. 1:1, 2: “God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
856 v. 11, The caution and compensation in keeping the Word; vs. 11 and 12, Care concerning secret sins, and commitment of life to the keeping power of God; v. 14, Careful to have a life well-pleas ing to the Lord and calling upon the Lord for His help. 2 Tim. 1: vs. 14 and 15, Continuance in the teaching of the Word of God given from childhood; v. 16, Confirma tion of the inspiration of the Scripture; v. 17, Confidence in this power to per fect the man of God. (1) The Inspiration of the Scripture. I n s p i r a t i o n is “breathing” or “breath”. Theologically, it is an in spiring or divine influence on the sacred writers by which they were able to re ceive and communicate Divine truth. Verbal inspiration is an inspiration which extends to words and forms and expressions of Divine truth. Plenary inspiration is a kind of inspiration which precludes all defects in the utter ance of the message. An evangelical church is supposed to believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the orig inal Scriptures, — an inspiration in which the Holy Spirit, acting on the minds of holy men, caused them to write and utter the Word of God. The Scrip tures not only contain the Word of God, but they are the Word of God. The whole Godhead was joined to the whole manhood and became the incar nate Word (Logos). So the written Word is perfectly divine and perfectly human, corresponding to the Deity and humanity of Jesus Christ; infallible, because the Word of God; intelligible, because in the language of men. Be cause human, we understand it; because divine, we trust it as the unerring Scrip ture. If not verbally and plenarily in spired, how could we implicitly know and trust it as the mind of God? The Word of God claims for itself in spiration (Psa. 119:160): “Thy word is true from the begin ning; and every one of thy righteous
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