The Inerrancy Of Scripture

Old Testament

The Israelites saw Scripture as historical information (Ps. 105,  Ps. 106)
God selects men as prophets to speak His Word (Deut. 18:18)
God instructed the prophets to preserve His Word (Isa. 30:8)
God instructed the prophets to record His Word (Isa. 8:1)

New Testament

The NT authors claim they wrote the words of God (1 Cor. 14:37)
God inspired all Scripture (2 Tim. 3:16)
The NT authors acknowledge the truthfulness of OT prophecy (Acts 1:16)
The NT authors accepted OT prophecy concerning Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:22–23)
The NT authors accepted OT people and events as factual (1 Tim. 2:13)

Jesus

Jesus uses the OT to resolve issues (Matt. 4:4)
Jesus says that all OT prophecy will come to pass (Matt. 5:17–18)
Jesus taught that the OT prophesied of Him (Luke 24:27)
Jesus says that Scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35)
Jesus certifies the inerrancy of the soon-to-be-written NT (John 14:26; 16:13)
Jesus referred to OT events and people as factual history (Matt. 12:38–41; Luke 17:26–30)

Excerpt From...
Story, D. (1997). Defending your faith (61). Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications.

You Are Faithful My God

My heart aches for you my God.
My soul waits for you my God.
I've come far to find you here.
In this place will I draw near.

And your Spirit soars me.
To the highest heights.
From where I'll not look back.
I'll keep trusting you.

For I know you are faithful my God.
For I know you are faithful my God.

From the land of the barren.
We will cry out for rain.
Fill our hearts God.
I'll keep trusting you.

For I know you are faithful my God.
For I know you are faithful my God.

Your Spirit inside me holds me close.
In your wonderful presence, I let go.
I cleanse my hands.
You burn my heart.
I cry out for love.
You set me apart.

And your Spirit soars me.
To the highest heights.
From where I'll not look back.
I'll keep trusting you.

For I know you are faithful my God.
For I know you are faithful my God.

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Right Paths

He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Psalm 23:3b

I cannot on my own do any righteous act (Romans 3:10). I am totally depraved. My flesh constantly leans toward sin. But God will not leave me to my own devices. He wills my sanctification (Phillipians 1:6). He disciplines me because he loves me (Hebrews 13:6). There are two reasons for this:  first, he is my Father in heaven and wants good for me (Romans 8:28), but more importantly, as I am an ambassador for him, he wills my actions to be righteous so that he is glorified. So, it is guaranteed that I will be sanctified because of God's word and because of God's glory. I can rest in the fact that God will guide me in paths of righteousness. Yet if I purposefully stray, the hand of God is to be feared for he will not leave me there for long. His name is too glorious to allow that to happen.

Moody's Experience of the Holy Spirit

. . .Well, one day, in the city of New York, oh what a day, I cannot describe it, I seldom refer to it.  It is almost too sacred an experience to name.  Paul had an experience of which he never spoke (for) fourteen years.  I can only say, God revealed Himself to me and I had such an experience of His love that I had to ask Him to stay His hand.  I went out preaching again, the sermons were no different and I did not present any new truths and yet hundreds were converted.  I would not be placed back where I was before that blessed experience.

Rebellion

"We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God." A W Tozer


Rebelling sounds purposeful, loud and obvious, but there is a rebellion which is a withholding of a part of oneself knowingly from God. This is where I struggle. This is usually not visible to the watching world. It may even seem insignificant if it were discussed with a spiritually astute friend. Yet I have found that anything withheld from God influences our experience of him. It doesn't influence our position from a salvation standpoint, but affects our communion with him. He who knows the good he ought to do, but doesn't.... sins.

Restore My Soul.

He restores my soul. Psalm 23:3a

O Lord my soul is empty. Fill it up again. Give me your Holy Spirit. The world sucks the life from me. The weight is too great. Yet your yoke is easy and your burden light. O Lord forgive my sin against you. Against you and you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Lord I pray that you would lift my head up. Give me assurance of your love. Show me your glory. My soul is restored as I see your majesty, power, holiness and love. Fill up my soul with the fullness of you.

Edward's Experience of The Holy Spirit

As I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view, that was for me extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God as mediator between God and man and His wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.  The grace that appeared so calm and sweet appeared also great above the heavens, the person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent and an excellency great enough to swallow up all thoughts and conceptions, which continued, as near as I can judge, about an hour, which kept me a greater part of the time in a flood of tears and weeping aloud.  I felt an ardency of soul to be what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated, to lie in the dust and to be full of Christ alone, to love Him with a holy and a pure love, to trust in Him, to live upon Him, to serve Him, and to be perfectly sanctified and made pure with a divine and heavenly purity.