In his sermon titled 'The Sufficiency of Scripture,' Scott Brown emphasizes the inerrant and all-sufficient nature of the Word of God, using 2nd Timothy 3:14 as a foundational text. He highlights that a healthy church is one deeply rooted in Scripture, which shapes its culture and guides its members in all aspects of life. Brown discusses the transformative power of God's Word, referencing historical figures like Martin Luther and explaining its pivotal role in the Reformation. He underscores the importance of biblical conversion, the authority of Scripture, and the need for churches and individuals to put God's Word into practice, not merely contemplate it. Brown warns against the modern church's tendency to overlook the sufficiency of Scripture, leading to spiritual dislocation. He explains the law's role in Scripture, distinguishing between moral, ceremonial, and judicial laws, and stresses the need for meditation on Scripture to truly understand and apply it. Brown concludes by asserting that the sufficiency of Scripture is foundational to the Christian faith, linking it to the sufficiency of Christ himself, and warns against adding to or subtracting from God's Word, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all Scripture.

Please find 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse 14. 2nd Timothy 3 verse 14. This is the inerrant, all-sufficient, sweeter than honey, Word of God. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. Let's pray. Father thank you for giving us wisdom from heaven. This song that we just sang what a comfort it is to know that you have wisdom for your creatures and it is you who have made us and we are not our own we are the sheep of your pasture oh Lord now come and feed your flock amen please be seated We're continuing our studies in First Timothy. Really the focus is the Word of God.

A healthy church is a church saturated with the Word of God such that her circulatory system just shapes the whole culture of her life together. And so throughout 1st and 2nd Timothy, Paul is appealing to the need of the church in Ephesus for the truth of God from the Holy Scriptures in every area of life and so this week we're going to conclude a three-part series on 1st Timothy 1 8 we've been hovering over 1st Timothy 1 8 for three weeks We'll move on after this Sunday and we all of this really under the banner of the goodness of the law of God. Today we turn toward the sufficiency of scripture but every every great move of God every soul that is saved every church made strong every marriage restored begins with obedience to the Word of God. The wisdom of God is there. We've just been celebrating the Reformation.

Martin Luther explained how the Reformation revolutionized the world, and it did revolutionize the world. We're feeling the shockwaves of it even today. He said this, I simply taught, preached, and wrote the Word of God. Otherwise I did nothing. While I slept the word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it.

I did nothing. The word of God did everything. And I think he captures really the power of the word of God in the soul of man. The only way to rebuild America is to rebuild the church and the only way to rebuild the church is to recover biblical conversion and the only way to rebuild biblical conversion is by restoring the authority of the word of God in the church. And it it makes me think of you know our church you know Hope Baptist Church what kind of church What kind of church is this anyway?

Or when people think about this church, what do they think about this church? I hope that they think two things, that they love one another and that they take their Bibles very seriously. They love the Word of God. It's a church that trembles at the word of God. It's a church that desires to put the word of God into practice, not just to think about it and let the concepts rot in their brains, but to push it out in the street and in their homes, that their lives have been altered by the word of God.

I do believe the people in this church, their lives have been altered by the word of God. I've seen it over many, many years. I pray that we have a childlike trust in the word of God, that we take it at face value, that we believe in other words that it is sufficient, that it's all that we need for life and godliness. And it's so important because the Word of God is a navigation system for life. You know as a sailor you have to chart, you have a chart as your guide and you use the wheel to follow the course.

But there's danger of wind and currents, and you need to have a course charted. And the word of God is that course that is charted for all of us. And the first thing the Word of God does is it leads you to save the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. It's the Word of God that gives you the knowledge to be saved, which is the beginning really of all transformation. And then after you are saved, you have this source of truth, this well of wisdom to draw on every day of your life to just do the the constant course corrections that we need all through life to keep us from drifting off course from being blown in the wrong direction from careening out of control from being tossed about by every wind of doctrine, every emotion, every friend, every cultural fad, every new movement, every new shiny thing that will actually lead you nowhere.

The Word of God focuses you in the right direction and it's such a protection from deceptions and a harmful inward impressions. It keeps you from the slavery of your own passions and those around you. So the word of God is so critical and of course the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture teaches us to keep the word of God central in our life, in our personal lives, in our church, in our work, in our relationships because God has given us direction for all of those things. There's not a single problem you'll ever have that's not addressed in the Word of God. I have been in hundreds and hundreds of counseling sessions, some of them very, very difficult and thorny, but I have never been in a counseling session where the word of God did not speak to that situation.

And Everything hinges on whether the people will heed and obey the Word of God. The Word of God is so powerful and so wonderful. Now 1 Timothy breathed the sufficiency of Scripture. In 1st and 2nd Timothy, Paul is writing to Timothy, a young pastor in the city of Ephesus, and he's showing him how to conduct himself in the church of God. And Timothy is setting things in order but there are tremendous challenges there were there were teachers who were distracting the church from her mission and there were some very difficult men there and Paul said himself he said I fought with beasts in Ephesus But Paul is teaching Timothy to fight the good fight of faith with the Word of God to create a healthy church and hopefully it's a church where people think about that church and they think those people take the word of God seriously.

They actually try to put it into practice, which is often very disruptive. If you try to put the word of God into practice, you look weird, and that's just the way it is. So what we've been hovering over is this statement in 1st Timothy 1 8 the law is good if one uses it lawfully and then he says and this is in accordance with the gospel, the law and the gospel hang together. They complement and they support one another. And what Paul is telling Timothy to do is to establish what he calls sound doctrine or literally healthy doctrine, healthy teaching because lots of unhealthy teaching was flying around in the Ephesian church.

And this whole matter of healthy teaching, It has everything to do with our information diet. All of us are on a diet. We're on an information diet. Some of your diets are bad and some of them are better than others. But all of us have an information diet, and this is what the sufficiency of scripture really speaks to.

Now last night I was reading a section of Pilgrim's Progress to some of my grandchildren, and we met Pliable, Pliable. He, pliable, weak in the face of social pressure, easily persuaded to follow Jesus for a minute, and enthusiastic but very shallow, no conviction of sin, unprepared for hardship, that was pliable. And he's really describing a category that you meet in the world. We are very pliable creatures. We are easily radicalized And we are being radicalized actually by the, if you're on the internet, you're being radicalized by the algorithms, you just need to understand that.

And you're gonna keep getting fed the things that you wanna hear to make you more like yourself. And other people like you out there. But Paul here he was addressing really a first century version of this and for Timothy and his ministry because the people were being radicalized by myths and genealogies and stories and fanciful tales and fascinating ideas just like we are all the time. We just live in this age of distraction but the sufficiency of scripture speaks to all of these things that are upon us now. I saw a statement by Matthew Henry a couple of weeks ago about the great disputes of the age.

Listen to this. Even disputes about great and necessary truths draw off the mind from the main design of Christianity to eat out the vitals of religion, which consist in practice and obedience as well as in faith, that we may not hold the truth in unrighteousness but may keep the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." What he's saying is that even important controversies can draw your mind off and divert you from what you really ought to be thinking about and what ought to be doing. So as you know we focused on this statement the law is good and it's what Paul is speaking about is that it's beautiful it's it's excellent it's it's the root of all moral beauty the law is good the Bible is beautiful and of course that's why there are dozens of metaphors to help us to understand how wonderful the Bible is. You know, it's like honey that brightens the eyes. It's like water that cleanses and refreshes.

It's like bread that sustains. It's like milk that nourishes you and seed and rain and fire and a hammer and a sword and a mirror and gold and treasure. This is the word of God. The law of God is good and I wanted to spend some time speaking about that. We really talked about this is healthy teaching the law is healthy teaching and the law makes you healthy we talked about there's tremendous research about that really is indicating that the the only the only place in in America where you really find social cohesion is in regular churchgoers.

And these people have half the rates of depression, hypertension, their marriages are better. Just across every measure of life, the teaching of the word of God makes people healthy that's that's the point that Paul is making to Timothy and and then we turned from the law is good to the law is applicable. That was last Sunday, the law is applicable. The law is good if one uses it lawfully, there's a lawful and unlawful use of the law. And we turned to the Baptist Confession of 1689 in chapter 19 which speaks of the law, the law of God, and there are many important things in this section that we breezed over last Sunday.

And first is that the law of God was written in the heart of man at creation and Adam and Eve understood the law of God. They understood the Ten Commandments and then it was codified, you know, by Moses later on. And we talked about the fact that it's important that we know how to read our Bibles because you have different ways that the various laws of God are treated. There are three different purposes of the law. There's the moral law, the ceremonial law, and the judicial law.

And it's really important that you understand those distinctions so that you know how to read your Bible and get out of it with God embedded in it for you. The treasures that are there are understood when you understand these three categories of the law. And of course you have the moral law which is perpetual, you have the ceremonial law which was fulfilled and abolished in Christ, and you have the judicial law which expired with the state of that nation, but it is interpreted today according to the general equity or the general principles of that law. And if you understand the categories of the law, you'll be able to glean the messaging of those laws. You have many people today, when they think about the Old Testament law, well a friend of mine described it like this, they think of the Old Testament law as an old garrulous woman who just babbles on and on and on then every once in a while something good is said and then she babbles on and on people think about the Old Testament like that there are all these incomprehensible ceremonies and civil laws what do you do with them well The truth is that these laws are distinguished in the Bible, which is why we believe in these three categories, that the Old Testament itself distinguishes the Ten Commandments from the other laws, and secondly that the Old Testament distinguishes moral obedience from the sacrificial ceremonies.

First Samuel 15, 22, to obey is better than sacrifice. And then in the New Testament, the ceremonial laws are treated very differently compared to the moral laws, very, very differently. In First Corinthians 7, 19, Paul speaks of circumcision as inconsequential, it's the ceremonial law. In Hebrews 9 and 10, the ritual regulations and sacrifices were temporary. They were pictures of Christ.

So when you read the ceremonial law, you're seeing pictures of Christ, illustrations, dozens of them, beautiful ones, to help you understand Jesus Christ in his fullness and then the New Testament applies judicial laws through their underlying principles the unmuscled ox in Deuteronomy 25 is used to argue for the support of ministers. You have dozens and dozens of pictures like this in the Bible, but it's important that you understand the law of God in its category so that you know how to read your Bible so that you know how to apply it in your life. So that was the the law is applicable and you know one of the things that seems to be missing, it's in the world that we live in, is the taking of time to meditate on the word of God. You know, the Puritans spoke about this quite regularly, the art of meditation, to pause and not run onto the next thing. You know, you have this idea of the five minute quiet time where you kind of, you're reading, you're run.

But there's something really important in meditation in letting it sink in, being quiet and reflect and pause and examine yourself to pray over it and to take the time to determine what kind of action you should take. Because the law of God is applicable, it's actually meant to be put into practice. Well today we turn to the sufficiency of Scripture. This is such a vast subject. I'm just going to be able to scratch the clear coat on this thing.

It really is such a vast subject. But this is a very prominent theme in 1st and 2nd Timothy. It appears in every chapter multiple times in every chapter. Over and over again in 1st and 2nd Timothy, Paul is explaining the importance of healthy teaching or what he calls sound doctrine. And he begins in verse one eight, the law is good if one uses it lawfully.

In verse 19 he says if you turn away from it you suffer shipwreck. In chapter 2 verse 4 he calls the church to pray for governors and authority. Why? So that they might come to the knowledge of the truth. This is the truth of Scripture.

In chapter 2 verse 11 he makes it clear that women should come to the church to learn, to learn the Word of God. You get to the qualifications for elders in chapter 3. They're not novices in the word of God. Deacons in chapter three verse eight through thirteen they hold the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience in other words they hold the word of God close to their heart with a clear conscience and you have in chapter 3 verse 15 you have the nature of the church the church is the pillar and ground of the truth Timothy just pounds this over and over Again I have three pages of this in my notes. I'm tempted to I'm going to have to cut it short but in in chapter four the church is being threatened by men who depart from sound doctrine and they're embracing the doctrine of demons.

All of this has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture and Paul is urging Timothy to focus on teaching. He says, till I come give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine, meditate on these things, give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all take heed to yourself and to your doctrine to your teaching Continue in them for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you and over and over again and from first and all the way to the end of second Timothy the Apostle does the very same thing in second Timothy 2 14 he tells Timothy to rightly divide the word of truth. He says be diligent to present yourself approved to God a worker who does not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth but shun profane and idle babblings for they will increase to more ungodliness and their message will spread like gangrene so the apostle is very very clear in first and second Timothy There's just so many places second Timothy for the letters is Paul's second letter ends with this. I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and at his kingdom.

Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and teaching for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but according to their own desires because they have itching ears they will heap up for themselves teachers and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables but you be watchful in all things." Well this is the theme of 1st and 2nd Timothy that Scripture is sufficient and we'll continue to see this as we as we go through as we'll just continue to watch the doctrine of the sufficiency of scripture just oozing out of Paul's letter to Timothy and remember Paul is writing this letter at the very end of his life He's going to die and he knows it and he is fortifying, securing almost as a last ditch effort the integrity of the church upon what? Upon the sufficiency of scripture. Now over the years this has been an urgent message that we have attempted to proclaim here that the church the modern church has turned away from the sufficiency of scripture. And you know the house of God is in ruins because of it.

The gates have been torn off. The wall of Jerusalem has fallen down. That's what's happened in the modern church. And really our only hope is to return to the words of Jesus Christ and to embrace them and to esteem them more highly than anything else. Open your Bibles to 2 Timothy 3 and find verse 16.

This is really the flagship verse in the New Testament on the sufficiency of Scripture. This is the classic statement I'll just call it the flagship New Testament testimony of the sufficiency of Scripture. Verse 16, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." Now in this statement, you have in this single statement, You have the inspiration of Scripture that God breathed the Scriptures. You have the inerrancy of Scripture and you have the authority of Scripture all contained in these two verses And let me read to you paragraph six in the Baptist confession of 1689. You have a copy of it on the back of your outline if you want to read along with me.

This is paragraph number six. The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture unto which nothing at any time is to be added whether by new revelation of the Spirit or the traditions of men." And that is I think one of the clearest statements of the sovereignty of God. Confessions explain what the scriptures say. They don't stand above scripture, they stand underneath Scripture. But in many ways, this really is a statement that asks all of us a question.

If all of you had was the Scriptures, How would you live? It's a really important question. Some people have framed it in what they call the desert island challenge. If you were stranded on a desert island and all you had was the Word of God, How would you live? What would your family look like?

What would your church look like? What would your work look like? What would your marriage look like? What would anything look like if all you had was the word of God. But unfortunately, the church in modern times in the 20th century particularly, set aside the doctrine of the sufficiency of scripture.

And you find many evangelicals today they believe that scripture is inerrant in other words it's without error but they don't believe it's sufficient and it's a it's a tremendous it causes tremendous dislocation in local church life and in people's personal lives. Because the scripture is not simply inerrant, it is sufficient, it equips you for every good work. The Lord Jesus was quoting Moses when he said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. This is how God has designed mankind. You know we were singing all creatures of our God and King this morning and I know this may seem so silly but it just occurred to me that I am a creature.

I am a creature that was created by God. My life is not my own. I'm here because God in his sovereign plan caused me to have life and I am a creature and creatures are designed to look to their Creator. It's really very simple but the Bible is so sufficient that we are commanded in multiple places not to add to it or to subtract from it. Actually the book of Revelation actually ends with a curse against those who would add and subtract to the Word of God.

The Bible says that it's so sufficient that it's purified and tested seven times and of course we we've been considering the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture in in any kind of legitimate conversation about the Reformation, the doctrine of sola scriptura, scripture alone. The sola scriptura, the first of the five solas, is the keystone of all the solas. Without the sufficiency of Scripture, the other solas in the Protestant Reformation don't really make any sense. So It is the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture that the church needs and it's what we need to continually to make the center of our life together. Now the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture is interesting.

It There's a positive force to it and there's also a negative force to it. It is positively, it's embracing something. It's the scriptures and negatively it's a rejecting principle. It's a rejection of all things that contradict it and that's why Luther said it this way. He said, Lord don't send me visions or dreams or even angels.

I am content with one gift, the scriptures. They supply all that is necessary for life. I want to talk for a moment about the importance of the sufficiency of scripture. We need to recognize that when we use the terms the sufficiency of scripture, We are saying at the same time that Christ is sufficient because Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh. Jesus Christ is the author of all Scripture.

The Bible makes it very clear that the Lord Jesus Christ is the author of the Old Testament and he's the author of the New Testament. The sufficiency of scripture is the sufficiency of Jesus Christ himself. And that's why we read here in 1st, in 2nd Timothy 3, 16, and 17, the scripture is God breathed. You can't talk about God the Father without simultaneously talking about the Word of God and you can't speak of the Word of God without speaking of Jesus Christ himself who is the word made flesh. Every word of scripture is a word of Jesus Christ.

This is how highly we ought to esteem every single word of word of the word of God. And that's why the word of God is the voice of God. The word of God is the shepherd staff for the church. Now it shouldn't surprise us that there has been a long war against the sufficiency of Scripture. It's been a six thousand year war against the sufficiency of Scripture and it begins in Genesis.

The war against the sufficiency of scripture is always a war against the holiness of God and his word and every skirmish over the sufficiency of scripture is happening over adding or subtracting from the Word of God and these skirmishes occur all throughout history and you know what they occur in our own hearts as well. Lucifer rejected the sufficiency of Christ. He wanted his own will, his own way. He rejected humility. He rejected submission.

That was the first skirmish in the war. And then Adam and Eve were engaged in the next battle for the sufficiency of Scripture. What was Eve struggling with? She was struggling with the sufficiency of God. Has God really said?

And she questioned and her husband questioned the sufficiency of Christ and they rebelled. All through history, from Noah to Nimrod, to Abraham and Sarah struggling with the sufficiency of the word of God, they were told what to do, but they decided to do what everyone else was doing and of course their lives were a mixture of believing in the Word of God and and then faltering in that. You find Lot preferring the culture of Sodom. You have Moses who esteemed Christ and yet sometimes he faltered. You have David who faltered but he also declared the law of the Lord is perfect you have the kings of Judah one skirmish after another over the sufficiency of the Word of God you find this in the prophets you find You find it with Jesus and dealing with the devil in the wilderness for 40 days.

The devil was tempting him with abundance and fame so that he might set aside the word of God. You have the churches in the Galatian region who were threatened by abandoning the sufficiency of scripture. Paul says to them in Galatians 1 6, I marvel that you're turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel. Well, the skirmishes over the sufficiency of scripture began early and they're continuing on and those skirmishes continue in our own hearts. We just need to recognize that.

What has God said? Most of our discouragements, most of the things that The wrong turns that we make, they're focused on a skirmish over the sufficiency of Scripture in our lives. I think it's helpful also to just recognize some of the implications of the sufficiency of Scripture. Scripture is a whole and you cannot detach a single section or a single genre of Scripture. You have millions of people in churches who actually have a dark view of the Old Testament.

They think it doesn't have anything to do with them. They have this idea that in the Old Testament God is mean and in the New Testament Jesus is sweet. You have the idea that the Old Testament is about rules and the New Testament is about relationship. So you have these views of the Old Testament and the New Testament. You cannot separate any part of the Bible.

The Bible is so beautifully interconnected and the more you read it, you see how it's connected just like the cells of your body are connected. Luther said this he says I've observed this that all heresies and errors have originated not from the simple words of scripture as is so universally asserted but from neglecting the simple words of scripture. But when we read our Bibles we just need to recognize it's all connected and it's all meant to teach us and this is why Moses from Moses all the way to the Apostle John in the book of Revelation, it's complete and you cannot add or subtract anything from it. Moses said it in Deuteronomy 4, Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live and go in and possess the land which the Lord your God of your fathers is giving you. You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you." And John ends the book of Revelation with that very same admonition.

There are there two ditches in this there we one ditch you can call it antinomianism anti-law no law or Phariseeism. Antinomianism takes away from the Word of God. Antinomianism says that doesn't apply to me. Antinomianism says all I need is my heart. I'm free from the law.

And they misconstrued Paul's statement, I'm not under law, but under grace. They haven't read the whole section, which makes it very clear that all of us are obligated to keep the law of God. But then you have Phariseeism, this adds to the word of God. Antinomianism takes away from the word of God. Phariseeism adds to the word of God.

Jesus spoke about this in Mark 7. He said you nicely set aside the commandments of God for the sake of your tradition. The Pharisees heaped up all kinds of laws not biblical about the Sabbath about everything. That's Phariseeism. We need to just recognize how critical it is that we cleave to the word of God as a church, that it's our chief identity that these are people who love the word of God.

One of my favorite books on scripture was written by a theologian in the 1800s by the name of Lewis Gowson and he wrote a book called God Breathed and he gives this remarkable illustration of the Word of God. He pictures a giant piano and across 40 centuries the Word of God is this gigantic piano and God is like a musician and he has all eternity in front of him and he's at this glance he sees he's playing the fallen world and he plays through his everlasting counsel all the harmony of the gospel and the law and he's playing all the keys on the left-hand creation and on his right hand redemption and glorification and he plays all through Eden and Mesopotamia and Egypt and Athens and Rome and Patmos he's playing all through the geographies of the Bible all the conditions that ever existed all the countries all the all the situations in life and that's what the Bible is It's a picture from beginning to end. And we actually need all of it. And it's just such a beautiful, beautiful thing. I heard a story a little while ago about a pastor in the early part of the 20th century.

His name was Harry Ironside. He was an evangelist. He was the pastor at Moody Church during the 30s and 40s. But before that, he was an evangelist in San Francisco. And one time he was preaching on the streets of San Francisco and he was giving his testimony.

He was talking about how Jesus Christ saved him and how Jesus Christ saved sinners and as he came near the end of it a man walked up he said he looked like a an educated man and the man handed him a card with his name on it and he recognized the man's name as an influential atheist and an influential person and he turned the card over and The card on the other side said, I challenge you to a debate next Sunday afternoon at four o'clock to debate your Christianity and my agnosticism. And so Harry Ironside publicly in front of the whole crowd, he said, I accept, I accept, under these conditions, you will bring two people, a man and a woman, and you will bring them and they will testify to the changes that have happened in their life to the blessings that have fallen upon their life by accepting your agnosticism they will come and testify to how God rescued them from this or that sorrow and I will bring a hundred people and they will testify to what the gospel has done for them and Harry Ironside says with that the man waved his hand and he the debate never happened and the reason is Jesus Christ's word does change your life you are rescued from the gutter and he continues to bless you your whole life long and it keeps going and going and going and it will never end not even in eternity will it end because Jesus Christ's word is sufficient and it's effectual and the law is good and the law is applicable and the law of God is sufficient for life and godliness.

And I pray that this church would hang on to the sufficiency of Scripture and be guided by Scripture and Scripture alone as we continue our life together. I want to close with something Spurgeon said he was preaching on Hebrews 4 the passage of scripture that says that the Word of God is a two-edged sword. He says this, why the book has wrestled with me, the book has smitten me, the book has comforted me, the book has smiled on me, the book has frowned on me, the book has clasped my hand, the book has warmed my heart, The book weeps with me and sings with me. It whispers to me and it preaches to me. It maps my way and holds up my goings.

It was to me the young man's best companion, and it is still my morning and evening chaplain. You can live without many things. You can live without riches. You can live without recognition. You can live without comfort and pain, and you can live without many things, but you cannot live without the word of God.

It is your life. Would you pray with me? Lord we thank you for giving us such a treasure in your word it is sweeter than honey it is like a fire it's like water oh Lord it's so good We thank you for giving us such a wonderful treasure That we might walk in it all the days of our lives Amen