1. The Plumb Line of God’s Word

2. “The Bible is a product of man, my dear. Not of God…man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions.” Davinci Code

3. “The Bible—banned, burned, beloved. More widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it; dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those read it. Yet soldiers carry it in to battle believing it more powerful than their weapons.

4. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints. Pieced-together scraps of Scripture have converted whole villages of pagan Indians. Yearly, the Bible outsells every best-seller. Five hundred million copies were published last year alone. Portions have been translated into more than 2000 languages and even carried to the moon.

5. Literary classics endure the centuries. Philosophers mold the thoughts of generations unborn. Modern media shapes current culture. Yet nothing has affected the rise and fall of civilization, the character of cultures, the structure of governments, and the lives of the inhabitants of this planet as profoundly as the words of the Bible.” Charles Colson

6. The Plumb Line of God’s Word

7. “You Christians have in your keeping a document with enough dynamite in it to blow the whole civilization to bits; to turn society upside down; to bring peace to this war-torn world. But you read it as if it were just good literature, and nothing else” Mahatma Ghandi

8. The Plumb Line of God’s Word

9. For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:12-13

10. The Uniqueness of the WORD

11. Unique in its Continuity Unique in its Circulation Unique in its Translation Unique in its Survival Unique in its Influence

12. The Inspiration of the WORD

13. “The doctrine of inspiration declares that God enabled the human writers of Scripture to be agents of divine revelation, so that what they wrote was not only their writing but in a higher sense the very Word of God without error. The origin of Scripture’s content is found ultimately in God.” ~R.C. Sproul

14. II Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture inspired by God profitable for teaching, for reproof,for correction, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. is and

15. The Value of the WORD Psalm 119

16. It reveals GOD “How blessed are those whose way is blameless, Who walk in the law of the LORD. How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.” Psalm 119:1-2

17. “Ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of God.” Jerome, an early church father

18. It Keeps us from SIN “How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word. With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments. Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You.” Psalm 119:9-11

19. It gives us UNDERSTANDING “From Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.” Psalm 119:104

20. It gives us GUIDANCE “Your word is a lamp unto my feet And a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:105

22. Delighting in God’s WORD

23. It supplies LIFE “he said to them, "Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law. For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess." Deuteronomy 32:46-47

24. “Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God,

25. by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.” Deuteronomy 17:18-20

26. It supplies NOURISHMENT for growth “like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,” 1 Peter 2:2

27. It is powerful in BATTLE “And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” Ephesians 6:17

28. You cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know!