How God Confirms Scripture: Breath, Unity, Prophecy, Preservation

You don’t build a life on sand, and you don’t build faith on slogans. We open Scripture to ask a hard question with an honest lens: can the Bible be trusted, not just cherished? Starting with 2 Timothy 3 and 2 Peter 1, we trace a compelling line from divine inspiration to human authorship, from one unbroken story to fulfilled prophecies that met their mark in history.

Together we unpack what God breathed means and why it matters for authority and confidence. We look at how holy men were carried by the Spirit, so the words we read are not private opinions but God’s revelation through real voices. The unity of sixty six books across fifteen centuries forms a single arc—creation to new creation, promise to fulfillment, the Lamb anticipated and the Lamb enthroned. Along the way, we note the grounding evidence of archaeology, geography, and historical touchpoints that keep this from drifting into myth.

We also follow the thread of preservation through centuries of challenge and see the most personal confirmation of all: transformed lives. The word that pierces also heals, turning addicts sober, the angry gentle, the hopeless anchored. If you’re skeptical, bring your questions and test the claims. If you’re seeking, hear the clear invitation to be born again and step into a hope that holds when everything else shifts. Listen, share with someone who needs courage today, and if this conversation strengthens you, subscribe, leave a review, and tell us which confirmation spoke most to you.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Setting The Theme: Without Excuse
• 2:21 Reading 2 Timothy 3 And 2 Peter 1
• 5:36 God Breathed: Inspiration Explained
• 12:51 Carried By The Spirit: Holy Men Wrote
• 20:06 David’s Example Of Divine Speech
• 25:51 One Story: Scripture’s Miraculous Unity
• 33:01 Accuracy In History, Science, And Place
• 39:11 The Force Of Fulfilled Prophecy

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:24

Well, welcome to Words of the Word of God today. It is a joy to have you with us today as we open the scriptures together and hear the living and powerful word of our great God and our Savior Jesus Christ in the series titled Without Excuse. We have seen or been looking at the ways God has revealed himself to mankind in creation, in our conscience, by writing his law upon our hearts. And as we are concentrating now supremely in his written word, how he's revealed himself in his word. In segment one of message three, we saw that the Bible is not just a book, it's God's living voice to humanity. In segment two A, we saw the divine foundation of Scripture's trustworthiness. The God who cannot lie has given us a word that cannot fail. That was yesterday's broadcast. Today we moved from the foundation to the confirmation, from why the Bible is trustworthy to how God has proven it is trustworthy. Now that we have seen why scripture is trustworthy because it flows from God who cannot lie. We are ready to see how God has confirmed that trustworthiness in history, the history of his word. Now we're talking about his word now, how he has confirmed that trustworthiness in history, prophecy, unity, accuracy, and preservation. Segment 2A, which was yesterday's broadcast, revealed the character of the author. Today in segment to B will reveal the character of the book, the character of the book itself, the Word of God. The God who cannot lie has given us a book that cannot fail. And today we will see the evidence he has woven into his word to prove it. We have a lot of wonderful revelations given to us today. And I will intend you to turn in your Bibles to 2 Timothy chapter 3, and then hold your place there, and then turn over to 2 Peter chapter 1. We'll be reading 2 Timothy chapter 3 first and then moving into 2 Peter chapter 1. So keep your place there. 2 Timothy 3, we'll be picking up in verse 15. And here the Word of God says, now if you're not with us, just pause the broadcast. I encourage you to pause it and pick it back up and read along with us as we go. But for the sake of time, I'm going to go ahead and get started because this is kind of a lengthy message, and I'm going to ask you to bear with us today. Let's try not to set God on a time clock. We have time, hours and hours and hours of every day to look at social media and the brain rot that's on there. So let's give God some time and let's give him the glory today. 2 Timothy chapter 3. We'll pick up reading there in verse 15, where the word of God tells us and that from now, this is the Apostle Paul. Let me set the context here. The Apostle Paul's epistle to Timothy. Now there's a 2 Timothy, so this is Paul writing his last epistle because he reveals to Timothy later on that he is going to be put to death. His life is coming to an end. And he is sending this epistle to encourage Timothy as a young pastor. And if I'm not mistaken, Timothy was a pastor there, at least for a while in Ephesus. And it wouldn't be too long after this that Timothy would be martyred for the cause of Christ as well. But uh that's for another message. But for today's message, let's start reading in verse 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. And focus really help us. Let's focus together on these next two verses. All, notice that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction and righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect. That is not sinless perfection. There was only one man that ever walked the face of this earth that was sinless, and that was Jesus Christ Himself. That word perfect here means complete, complete, mature in the Word, that we may be mature and complete in the Word, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly. That word thoroughly means fully equipped, furnished unto all good works, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Now, if you will turn right over to 2 Peter chapter 1, it's not far over in your Bibles there toward the end. Let's read this together. We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth into in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. I love that part right there. Unto a light that shineth in a dark place, and there's no darker place, as scripture reveals to us in Jeremiah, than the depravity of the human heart, the darkest place, but his light shining in through his word is what he's speaking of. Verse 20. Knowing this first, really focus on these two verses here. Knowing this first that no prophecy of scripture, and scripture, when both Paul and Peter are referring to scripture, they did not have the New Testament, they did not have the New Testament in mind. They were referring to the Old Testament, the Old Testament Scriptures. Now let's pick it back up there in 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 20. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Beloved, in these passages, the Holy Spirit gives us several clear confirmations, divine fingerprints showing us why the scriptures we hold in our hands can be trusted without any hesitation. These confirmations rise straight from the Word of God. And we're going to together today walk through each one of them as we move along here. So let's let's go ahead for the sake of time and get started by looking at this uh first confirmation that's revealed to us. Number one, God breathed out his word. The Bible is not man's thoughts about God, it's God's revelation of himself to man. Can I repeat that? The Bible is not man's thoughts about God, what he created in his mind about God. It is God's divine revelation of himself to all humanity. Paul says there, he says, on all scripture. If you notice that, I drew particular attention to that. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. That's the phrase we want to focus on. By inspiration of God, which means God breathed. Just as God breathed life into Adam, God breathed out his word into scripture. He did not breathe into scripture, he breathed, it's the it's the breath of God, the breathing out of God, his living breath. But he breathed that same breath of life into Adam in the Garden of Eden when he created him. The Bible is alive because the author is alive, and it is eternal, and it endures forever because the author is the eternal God Almighty. And notice Paul says all scripture, not some, not most, not the parts we like, not the parts certainly that culture approves of, all scripture, the word of God, the God who cannot lie, tells us that every book, every chapter, every verse, every word is God breathing. This is why the Bible speaks with one voice. This is why it never contradicts itself. In fact, I will I've said it many times, and you'll notice as you follow along in this ministry that I use scripture, I've always said to support scripture, because we don't need to really give our opinions. We can expound upon what the scriptures say, but it's not good for us to give any kind of opinion that we can't support by the authority of the word of God, because it is a living, breathing, powerful word of God. This is why it stands when everything else falls. Because its source is God Himself. And what did we say about God yesterday? What was confirmed in his word yesterday from Hebrews chapter 6, that God cannot lie. He is immutable, he cannot change, therefore, his word cannot change. Praise God. I pray that this is blessing your heart as much as is mine. The second thing that the Spirit has revealed to us is not only has God breathed out his word, but God moved holy men to write his word. By the Holy Ghost. And I'm sure everyone has heard the word uh triune spirit or the trinity or the triunity of the spirit, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Well, we see all uh active in this verse here, because if you think about it, Christ is the Lagos, the outward expression of God. So we can say he is involved in this. He was involved in creation, he is eternal, he is co-eternal and coexisting with God. Uh, to speak of one is to speak of the other, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. So when Peter tells us holy men of God spake, let's read that scripture once again. Turn with me over there to 1 Peter, and we'll read verse, start there in verse 19 and read down through 21. We have also a more sure word of prophecy whereunto you do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star rise in your hearts. Knowing this first that no prophecy of Scripture is of any interpretation, any private interpretation, excuse me. For the prophecy came not in old time. That means in the old time, the prophets and all the writers of scripture, and it goes on into the New Testament as well, but it talks about all scripture. Remember what Paul said all scripture, so he confirms basically what Peter is building upon here. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, by the Holy Ghost. The word moved here in this verse means carried along as like a ship driven by the wind. The writers were not inventing ideas, they were not giving opinions, they were not writing their own interpretations, they were carried, they were guided, they were directed, borne along by the Holy Spirit himself. And the Holy Spirit, might I say, is not an it. He is a he. They were moved by the Holy Spirit as he moved them along. And beloved, one of the clearest examples of this is found in the last recorded words of King David. You'll find that in 2 Samuel 23, verses 1 and 2. Uh, and I'll go ahead and read, but you can you can pick up later for your study. It'd be so good to listen back through the message and go back and study out for yourself, and you'll see what I'm talking about just being a great example, a remarkable example of how they were moved. And revelation and inspiration is basically what we were talking about. Revelation being those things that men wrote that they could not make up of them own selves. They had to, it had to be revealed from a divine source, which is none other than God who cannot lie. But this verse right here, I want you to go back and study this out. Maybe that's some homework you can take up in your own time, just to study this out. And I think do it prayerfully and allow the Holy Spirit to speak to your heart as you move through these scriptures. Now, uh, here in 2 Samuel 20, verse uh excuse me, chapter 23, verses 1 and 2, we'll pick up in verse 1. Now, these be the last words of David. David, it specifically says, which David, the son of Jesse, said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of God, of Jacob, and the sweet, the sweet psalmist of Israel, said. Verse 2, the Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word, whose word, God's word, was in my tongue. Think about that for a few moments. David did not say, I had a thought. He did not say I wrote what I felt, he did not say these are my reflections about God. No, he said, the Spirit of the Lord spake by me. He spake through me, he used me as the tool by which he spoke. And his word, God's word, was in my tongue. This means the very words David spoke were the words of God placed on his tongue, placed in his mouth, placed upon his uh speech pattern, uh, led and carried along and moved as he wrote. Uh we know at as reading the Psalms how uh beautiful they are and how encouraging they are, and how uh much they glorify God. And I tell you, if you read the Psalms, you cannot help but know that these were not the private thoughts of David that came out of his mind. Uh, even though he had a heart after the after God's own heart, uh, you know, he was a a uh a sinful man as he fell into adultery with with Bathsheba and had her husband murdered. Now he was chastised for that, but later uh again blessed and brought back to his permanent place there as the king of Israel. However, he was never the king that he was meant to be before that sin. He was never and could not be the father that he needed to be for his children, as is the record is is established there in the word of God through the Old Testament, Absalom and so on, all that happened with all that and him losing his kingdom uh to Absalom and so on and so forth, the great upheaval that happened uh because of that great sin. However, my thing is and my point being, David, even though he was and had sinned against God, was used of God in a mighty way, as we attest to our own self as we read the psalm. He was the sweet psalmist of Israel, as he says. David was the instrument, but God was the author. David was the mouth, God was the voice. And beloved, the Holy Spirit was the driving force. He was the driving force, the one who carried David along, the one who placed God's words on David's tongue, the one who ensured that what David spoke was not David's own opinion, but God's revelation. David was not trying to figure out what to say, he was not trying to interpret God's thought, he was not trying to express his own ideas about God. He was moved, he was carried, he was born along by the Holy Spirit, by the Holy Ghost, as he wrote. This is inspiration. This is what is known as revelation. You'll hear if you ever hear a theologist or a great uh scholar if you're reading or you hear him say plenary verbal inspiration, that means we believe the whole of scripture is inspired. Every word, every sentence, every book, every chapter, and so on and so forth. This is how God ensured that every word written in Scripture was his word, and it was pure, perfect, and without error. Thirdly, God confirmed his word through unity. He confirms his word through unity. The Bible is a miracle of unity. It's more than a book, I like to say, it's a library of book. It has 66 books by 40 different authors. Now listen to this. Listen to this amazing and remarkable facts, okay, about the Word of God. And I want you to think about this. Take 40 different people from all walks of life, put them in one room and tell them you want them all to separately go in different places and give them a topic to write about and see how much unity is involved when you all come back together and put all those thoughts together. It would be a mess. But listen. To the remarkable revelation and the unity of God's word. It's a library of books as it contains 66 books. But these 66 books were written by 40 different authors, written over a period of 1,500 years, written on three different continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe. It was written in three different languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. And it was written by men from completely different walks of life. And look at the diversity of the writers. Moses, a prince raised in the courts of Egypt. Daniel, a statesman serving in the palaces of Babylon. Ezekiel, the captive living among exiles by the river Chabar, Paul, a tent maker and prisoner riding from Roman confinement. Luke, a physician and careful historian, Amos, a shepherd and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. David, a king ruling in Jerusalem, Solomon, a wise man, a royal philosopher, and Peter, and there's many more, there's others, but I'm just covering some of the main ones. And Peter, a fisherman from Galilee, and also John, an aged apostle, exiled on the Isle of Patmos, for Revelation, the book of Revelation. All with different occupations, different social positions, different life circumstances, different cultures and eras, and different personalities. And yet, the word of God, the very book that we hold in our hand, the divine book, the word of God, it carries one story, one message, one savior, one plan of redemption. The book of Genesis begins with creation. The book of Revelation ends with new creation. Genesis introduces the Lamb. Revelation enthrones the Lamb. Genesis shows the fall. Revelation shows the restoration. How can this be? Because behind every human writer stood one divine author. The unity of Scripture is God's fingerprint upon his word. Not only that, but fourthly, God confirmed his word through accuracy. I believe this is the fifth point, excuse me. God confirmed his word through accuracy. The Bible is accurate in everything it touches. Historically accurate, archaeology has confirmed the Hittites, Jericho's walls, David's kingdom, the Babylonian captivity, Pilate's inscription, the pool of Bethesda, every discovery shouts the Bible is true. Geographically accurate the Bible is. The Bible speaks of real places, real kings, real nations, not myths. And the more archaeology goes along, the more and more the Bible is proven true. Long before Science discovered, uh, according to Scripture, the earth was hung from nothing. The stars are innumerable. You find that in Genesis 15, verse 5. The life is in the flesh, excuse me, the life of the flesh is in the blood, but Leviticus chapter 17, verse 11, and the water cycles, Ecclesiastes chapter 1, verse 7. God has already spoken it before science could ever prove it true or not true. Well, we know it's true, and it doesn't matter what man says. The accuracy of scripture is God saying, My word is true. Not only that, but that's God confirmed his word through prophecy. Peter calls Scripture a more sure word. He says, We also have a more sure word of prophecy. Why? Because prophecy proves the Bible is divine. Hundreds of prophecies fulfilled. I'm just gonna give you a few. There's many more, but we're gonna cover the main ones that deal with Christ. Christ's virgin birth, his birthplace, his betrayal, his crucifixion, the details of, and praise God, his resurrection and his ascension back to glory, where he's seated at the right hand of Majesty on high, at the right hand of God the Father. No other book in history contains fulfilled prophecy like the Bible. I wish I had time to go into great detail about this, and maybe one day, Lord willing, we will as the Spirit leaves. But I have to move on for the sake of time because I want to cover all this. It's very important. I don't want to hydroflane our way through, and I'm not trying to, but I want to take our time. But I really wish I had time to settle down, and maybe one day the Lord will give me that opportunity, and I pray He will. Y'all pray for me that He'll open that up to us. Uh, this is God saying, I have spoken and I have fulfilled it. Praise God for that. I hope and pray that you're receiving the encouragement that I am today. And sinner friend, uh, if you are not finding much hope or help in the world, we're telling you of a place, we're telling you of a word that you can trust, and we're telling you of a God that loves you, a God who loved you so much he sent his only son to die at a place called Calvary and suffer a horrendous death and bleed every drop of his blood in the ground there, yes, that that story is found in Scripture. And by it, God says, I have spoken and I have fulfilled it. And if I say, and all the fulfilled promises speak to the uh authority and it speaks to the truthfulness of God's word. Because if all the prophecies of the Old Testament have been fulfilled, and majority of the New Testament has been fulfilled, Christ has come, he's died on the cross, and he's been resurrected and ascended back to heaven. We know because all those prophecies have been fulfilled, all the ones that are promised in the future in the book of Revelation, first and second Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians chapter 15, all of those dealing with the pre-tribulation rapture, the tribulation period, seven years of tribulation, and three and a half of tribulation, three and a half of great tribulation, Jesus Christ returning to set up his millennial kingdom here on the earth. We know all that's coming true because all the other prophecies have been fulfilled. God says, I have spoken and I have fulfilled it, and I will fulfill it. Not only that, but God preserved his word through the ages. God not only inspired his word, he preserved his word. Psalms chapter 12, basically verse 6 and 7, and I don't quote the whole thing here. He says, Thou shalt keep them, speaking of his words, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them. Kings have tried to burn it, empires have tried to ban it. Atheists tried to destroy it and deny it. Skeptic tries to discredit it. Satan has tried in every way to silence it, but the Bible stands. Why? Because God, the God who breathed it out, has kept it preserved through the ages. There's so many stories behind that. I really wish I could remember them all, but my memory fails me. But if you ever get a chance to listen to Pastor Joe Fosh at Calvary Chapel in Philadelphia, he really, really can delve deep into this stuff because I wish I had it, but he's got a memory, a steel trap memory. Either that or he's got somebody writing his notes out really well. That's all I can say. But moving on, God has all also proves his word through transformed lives. Probably the most powerful witness of his word is the transforming of lives, the transforming of heart. No other book changes lives like this book does. The drunkard becomes sober, the violent person becomes gentle, the immoral becomes pure, the helpless and hopeless become help and find hope. The dead in sin are made alive. Praise God. Why? Because the Bible is living. Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12 says, For the word of God is quick, that means it's alive and powerful, that means it's active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The book, this book saves. This book sanctifies. This book strengthens, this book sustains, this book saves and transforms. Only if it's properly applied to your life, only if you're open to it. You can't just say, I don't believe nothing it says and never pick it up. You can't say you hate it without reading it. How can you hate the word of God if you've never read it? I I will guarantee you this if you pick up the word of God and you never have, and you say, Lord, show me something from your word that will transform my heart, it'll happen if you really mean it. If you really need it. God will make it happen. I can promise you that. I can attest to that personally. This book says. Now I was thinking to the unbeliever. You must understand that as God loves you, he also tells you, and because he loves you, he tells you that there is judgment coming, and that you must receive Christ as your Lord and Savior before it's eternally too late. And I'll give you a scripture that you can put your name in. For God so loved the world, you're part of that world, the cosmos, all of all of humanity. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. But if you reject him because you love your darkness more than you love the light that Jesus Christ brings into a heart and the word of God brings into a heart, then you must understand this. Hebrews 9 27 says, And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Jesus told Nicodemus, lest the man, very less man, you excuse me. I'll let me let me try to quote this. Let's just turn over there and read this. Lord's directed me here, and I didn't go yesterday, so let's go today. Turn over with me to John chapter 3. I'm not gonna try to quote it because I'll I'll mess it up. I'm only human, so y'all bear with me and just bear with me. I know we're going kind of long today, but praise God, we're getting a blessing from it. Amen. Uh there was a man, it's starting in verse 1 of chapter 3, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God. For no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, truly, truly, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said, You must, it's emphatic, you must be born again. Like I was trying to say yesterday, if you are born once, you will die twice. If you're born once, only the physical birth, then you will die physically, and then you will die spiritually, eternally separated from God, cast into hell in the lake of fire throughout eternity. But if you're born twice, that means you've experienced the natural birth, the physical birth, and the birth from above. Being born of the Spirit, receiving Christ into your heart, and being in dwelling with the Holy Spirit. All this is found in Scripture now. The word of God we're talking about is proven in the Word of God. If you're born again, you'll only die once. If you're born twice, you only die once because you've only suffered the physical death. You're promised eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, because he in his resurrection defeated death, hell, and the grave, and he conquered sin and the power of Satan for our benefit, for us to receive. All we have to do is be willing to accept him. So, sinner friend, what you must understand, just as uh God loves you, he's also telling you that one day without Christ, you will face judgment, and you're going to face it either way, because we who are born again and are saved and are true born-again believers will face judgment as well. But ours will be the Mima seat. We will receive the rewards that we have earned, and the ones we could have earned that we didn't earn will be burnt up like wood and stubble, but our souls will be saved. That is only a it's like a uh a seat uh in the Olympics or something where you'll get your rewards that you've earned. But not only that, but you must also understand this, sinner friend, every promise of salvation is true. We kind of already spoke on this, but I'm gonna give you a verse that I gave you yesterday. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How much more promise can you receive than that, center friend? There is nothing in this world that can offer you what God offers you. There is nothing in this world, and no one in this world will do for you what Jesus Christ has done for you. There is no word that you can stand on in this world other than the word of God, because every word of it is true, and every word of it is authoritative, and every word of it is God breathed out. And the Holy Spirit carried the authors along as they wrote. And we've proven that through this message. God has proven it to our hearts. Not only that, sinner, friend, and I'm gonna move on for the sake of time. Every call to repentance is true. Metanoia, that means making a change in your life, turning, turning around, turning uh, and turning completely from where you're at now in the sin and in the world, no matter what you're involved, and don't let anybody tell you you're too bad to be saved. That's hogwash and that's a lie from Satan. Don't you listen to it? God says, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And if you're willing to repent, that means you're confessing and you're turning from that sin and you're turning to God and you're placing your faith in Christ Jesus. You will be saved. But it says right here in Acts chapter 3, verse 19 about repentance. Repent ye therefore and be converted. That's what conversion is. Repentance. You're turning away from the life you're in, and you're turning to God by fleshing your faith in Christ, that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing have come from the presence of the Lord. And there's no greater time of refreshing than when your soul is saved, and when you're born again into the family of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. But you are not without hope. You are not without help. Run to Christ, flee for refuge, lay hold upon the hope set before you today. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, child of God, if this book is true and it is, then we know our salvation is secured. We know our forgiveness is real. We know our hope is anchored. We know our future is certain. We know our Savior, our God, our Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh, Yahshua, Jehovah Saves, Yahshua. He's faithful. Oh, he's faithful. We can stand on his word today, we can rest in his promise, and we can trust his unchanging truth. Pray with me as we close today, and I'll go ahead and say this. Thank you for joining us today. And I look so forward to the next time we can share in a word from the word of God. God bless you all. Now pray with me as we close. Father, we thank you for your perfect word. Inspired, preserved, and forever settled in heaven. Strengthen our faith, Lord. Open the eyes of our hearts, anchor our souls, draw lost sinners to Christ, and that they may come to the saving knowledge of his gospel. Oh Lord, please deal with that sinner today. Lord, we have spoken your word. You have spoken your word, Lord. Your truth has been told. Lord, just change hearts, transform lives through it, Lord. I just pray. Sanctify your people through your truth. Your word is truth, as Jesus would tell us. In Jesus' holy name and for your glory I pray. Amen. In closing, now we have seen why scripture is trustworthy and how God has confirmed its trustworthiness, and we are ready to move on to segment three, where we will look at the divine authority of Scripture, what it declares, what it demands, and what it requires of every soul. Thank you and God bless.