3. Have You Not Read? – v.26 Are You Not Mistaken B/c You Do Not Know the Scriptures? – v.24  The Scriptures are All-Sufficient Unto Life & Godliness – 2 Pet.1:3 2 Peter 1:3 As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue

4. Have You Not Read? – v.26 Are You Not Mistaken B/c You Do Not Know the Scriptures? – v.24  The Scriptures are All-Sufficient Unto Life & Godliness – 2 Pet.1:3 1 Corinthians 4:6 Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other.

5. Have You Not Read? – v.26 Are You Not Mistaken B/c You Do Not Know the Scriptures? – v.24  The Scriptures are All-Sufficient Unto Life & Godliness  The Scriptures Teach by Necessary Inference

6. Mark 12:26-27 “But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.”  Argument Based on God’s Very Nature!  Necessary Inference Based on the Verb Tense

7. Have You Not Read? – v.26 Are You Not Mistaken B/c You Do Not Know the Scriptures? – v.24  The Scriptures are All-Sufficient Unto Life & Godliness  The Scriptures Teach by Necessary Inference  God Expects Us to Understand What We Read!

8. Ephesians 3:3-4 How that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) Luke 10:26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” What is Written = Your Reading of It John 12:48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him-- the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. “Well, That’s Just Your Interpretation.”

9. “The Bible Doesn’t Say You Can’t Do It.” Sons of Aaron, Tribe of Levi 1 Chronicles 23:13 All other tribes including other Levites Who Can Be A Priest To The LORD? 2 Chronicles 13:8-12 Who Is God With?

10. Have You Not Read? – v.26  “Me, Myself & I” Will Stand in Judgment for What I Did in Life 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

11. Have You Not Read? – v.26  “Me, Myself & I” Will Stand in Judgment for What I Did in Life  Swayed by the Majority, or Conviction from My Bible Study? John 12:42-43 Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

12. Have You Not Read? – v.26  “Me, Myself & I” Will Stand in Judgment for What I Did in Life  Swayed by the Majority, or Conviction from My Bible Study? Galatians 1:8-9 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed….so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

13. Have You Not Read? – v.26  Does Ignorance of God’s Word = Innocence Before Him? 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 …when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power.