You Can Trust the Bible

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

• What does it mean for Scripture to be “God-breathed” (the King James Version says, “inspired by God”)?
• If all of Scripture is useful, what should we do with it?
  
• What does it mean to be “thoroughly equipped”?
  
  
• How equipped do you believe you are? What have you been equipped to do?
  
  
• If God’s Word has been given to us to equip us, what will happen if we neglect it?
  
  

2 Peter 1: 20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

• How did those who wrote the Bible know what to write?

Isaiah 40:7 The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

• Why does this passage say that people are grass?
• Why will God’s Word stand forever?
• What should your attitude be if you encounter people who don’t accept God’s Word as true?

Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

• What is the purpose of a lamp?
• What must you do to get the benefit of God’s Word being a lamp?

Matthew 7: 24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

• Will the person who obeys God’s Word face storms? What will happen when they do?
• What kind of experience do you think Jesus is talking about when he describes a person’s house collapsing?