The Bible’s Infallibility • 10.27.24
Nick Lees   -   October 27, 2024

The Bible’s Infallibility

Responding rightly to the truth about Scripture

  1. Consider the truths we’ve been given about God
  2. Adopt Jesus’ view of Scripture
  3. Believe, obey, and hope in God’s infallible promises

Sermon

Good morning, church family! (Introduce self, welcome guests)

Dismiss 4th + 5th graders

Ushers + Bibles

Today we are closing out our series on The Word of God. It has been a short but important study on the doctrine of the Bible. I hope it has been invigorating for you to consider the significance of God’s Word for your life. It is the written expression of God’s authority, teaching you how to know and follow Him; it is sufficient, containing all that you need for life and godliness; it is inerrant, speaking and revealing the truth from God; and, as we’ll hear today, it is infallible. If you’d like to keep learning, I want to encourage you to go check a book out of the church library in the foyer:

  • Taking God at His Word – Keving DeYoung
  • Why Trust the Bible? – Greg Gilbert
  • 30 Days to Understanding the Bible – Max Anders

These are a few of many books, booklets, pamphlets that we have on the Word. There are literally too many to list! (Resource Library slide)

Before we dive into our study for today, I want to give you a heads up on what is coming next month. If you’ve never been around our church during the month of November, it is known as Stewardship Month. Stewardship month is an opportunity for us to learn and review principles of biblical stewardship. It is based on several key beliefs:

  • God owns everything and I own nothing.
  • God entrusts me with everything I have.
  • I can either be a wise or poor steward of what God has entrusted to me; He wants me to be a wise steward
  • God can call me to give an account at any time and it could be today

We’ll get into this more next week. This year our sermon series for November is going to be on Stewardship of the Holy Spirit. We’ll spend time learning about the oft-overlooked third member of the Trinity. We also have our annual Stewardship Celebration on the calendar for Sunday, 11/17. This is our church’s thanksgiving celebration – we’ll have a meal catered by Hy-Vee, and it will be a sweet evening of fellowship, worship, and testimonies of God’s work in our body this year. I hope you’ll plan to be there! It’s from 5-7pm, so please put it on your calendars.

Let’s turn our attention now to the study of the Word of God. As we’ve said throughout this series, our aim has been…

Responding rightly to the truth about Scripture

Let us begin as we…

  1. Consider the truths we’ve been given about God

We are starting with a little review! Over the past several weeks, we’ve learned quite a bit about God’s character and how it directly relates to His Word. It began three weeks ago with observing the truth about God’s authority.

  1. His authority

As God, he has all authority. He has demonstrated that in numerous ways, from the Creation account to the Exodus, to the Words he spoke through His prophets and then brought to pass, as well as the miracles of Jesus Christ as he healed the sick, cast out demons, calmed the seas, multiplied the loaves, and raised the dead, to the final day of Judgment when Jesus returns as the just judge. From start to finish, the Bible reveals God’s authority. And, as we previously heard, His spoken word became His written word as he inspired the prophets and apostles to write it down. You may recall the word from 2 Timothy 3:16 – theopneustos – “God-breathed”. God guided and protected the whole process of remembering and recording the Scriptures. Because God has all authority, His Word is authoritative. And our call was to submit to this authoritative word. Meaning we order our lives around its teachings. Have you sought to do that this month? …

Then in week two we observed the truth about God’s self-sufficiency.

  1. His self-sufficiency

Or as Pastor Jack put it – His “enoughness”. This is the reality that God has always been, always is, and always will be. He has not needed anything from anyone at any point. In and of Himself, He is complete or enough. Yet from that “enoughness” He has chosen to share His sufficiency with us. He is all that we need and to communicate this and help us embrace it He has provided His sufficient Word. As Pastor Jack helped us see through numerous passages – the Bible is fully sufficient for guiding human life and understanding faith. Our call was to recognize that God is enough, to trust that God has given us all that we need for life and godliness in the Scriptures, and to make it our aim to study, meditate on, and obey God’s sufficient word. How has that gone over the past several weeks?

Then last week we discussed God’s truthfulness.

  1. His truthfulness

The context of this study was a discussion on The Bible’s Inerrancy which is closely related to our topic today The Bible’s Infallibility. Because they are closely related, I want to quickly review the main points from last Sunday.

When it came to inerrancy, we said it…

  • Begins with recognizing God’s truthfulness

We established that God is the only true God and the source of truth. He is the God that corresponds to reality, and all his knowledge and words are both factual and the final standard of reality. You may recall God’s own self-revelation in Exodus 34:6.

Exodus 34:6 (ESV)

6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, (Heb. Emet)

Or in Jeremiah 10:10…

Jeremiah 10:10 (ESV)

  10     But the Lord is the true (Heb. Emet) God;

he is the living God and the everlasting King.

          At his wrath the earth quakes,

and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

We covered many passages from both the Old and New Testaments that supported this understanding. And from this view of God, we then progressed to the conclusion that…

  • As God’s Word, Scripture is inerrant

Inerrant – incapable of being wrong (COED); free from error (MW).

What the Scriptures say, God says. They are the God of Truth’s Words; therefore, they are full of truth and free from error. They have the truth necessary for our salvation and our sanctification (growth in holiness). Unfortunately, many false teachers have sought to undermine our confidence in the truthfulness/inerrancy of the Word… We must be wise and discerning in whom we listen to regarding the Word. Our conclusion at the end of it all was…

  • I must believe, obey, and hope in God’s inerrant word

If you were here, you may recall the repeated phrase, “GIVE ME THE WORD!” This is the appropriate response to the true revelation about salvation from sin and eternal death. This must be our response if we want to learn to live a holy and fulfilling life that pleases God and ends in eternal life. Has this been your response?

If you missed out on any of these sermons, please go back and listen to them!

Today, as I mentioned, we’re closing out the series by studying The Bible’s Infallibility.

I’d like to show you how this concept overlaps yet is distinct from our topic last week – Inerrancy. I’m going to do that through a quote from Pastor RC Sproul.

The church historically has seen that the Bible alone, of all the written literature in history, is uniquely infallible. The word infallible may be defined as “that which cannot fail”; it means something is incapable of making a mistake. From a linguistic standpoint, the term infallible is higher than the term inerrant. Though the words have often been used virtually as synonyms in the English language, there remains a historic technical distinction between the two.

The distinction is that of the potential and the actual, the hypothetical and the real. Infallibility has to do with the question of ability or potential; that which is infallible is said to be unable to make mistakes or to err. By contrast, that which is inerrant is that which, in fact, does not err. As an illustration: a student can take a test made up of twenty questions and get twenty correct answers, giving him an inerrant test. However, the student’s inerrancy in this restricted arena does not make him infallible, as mistakes on subsequent tests would verify. 

Sproul, R.C.. Can I Trust the Bible? (Crucial Questions) (pp. 26-27). Ligonier Ministries. Kindle Edition.

Inerrancy and infallibility do share overlapping definitions, yet as Dr. Sproul helpfully clarifies, infallibility goes further than inerrancy. Not only is the Bible free from error, but it is incapable of ever making an error. It is not possible because God cannot make mistakes or be wrong. Let me put the definitions on the screen.

Infallible – incapable of making mistakes or being wrong; never failing; always effective (COED); incapable of error (MW)

Inerrant – incapable of being wrong (COED); free from error (MW).

It seems the COED definition of inerrancy was perhaps a bit too overstated compared to MW. It really took on some of the definition meant for infallible. That just goes to show how interchangeably these terms have been used in our modern language. But I believe it is important to maintain their distinctions too.

I believe that there is value in studying the distinction in the belief of the Bible’s infallibility. My hope is that our study today would be of great encouragement to you. Because God’s Word is infallible, His many promises cannot be broken. They are never failing. We have a God who speaks words that can be relied upon.

If I’m not saying it plainly enough, I want to show you the beauty of infallibility as it relates to trusting the unbreakable promises of God.  After all this is Jesus’ view of Scripture. Jesus viewed and treated Scripture as the trustworthy, unbreakable Word of God. Let me show you. Consider this interaction that Jesus had with the Jews in Jerusalem. After revealing himself to be the Christ and to be one with the Father, here is what happened next:

John 10:31–36 (ESV)

31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Let me set the scene for this passage. The Jews are angry with Jesus for claiming to be God! Notice how Jesus responds. He references an obscure verse in Psalm 82:6 that really seems unrelated to the specific matter at hand. But Jesus’ point is not so much the context of Psalm 82 as what he says about the words he is citing – “and Scripture cannot be broken”. The word for broken in the Greek means to loose, release, dismiss, or dissolve. Here it carries the sense of breaking, nullifying, or invalidating. By saying this, Jesus is affirming that Scripture is unbreakable or infallible. His point is that if God’s Word speaks like this, then he accepts it as true, and they have no reason to be upset that he would say something consistent with God’s unbreakable word.

I know that may seem like a bit of a convoluted argument, but it is one of the ways we see Jesus demonstrating his utter trust in the words of Scripture. He viewed it as unbreakable such that he could use an obscure Old Testament reference to drive home a point with the Jews of his day. Jesus knew the Word and took God at His Word. Consider how Jesus responded to the devil when he was tempted prior to beginning his public ministry:

Matthew 4:1–11 (ESV)

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written,

          “ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,

          “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’

and

          “ ‘On their hands they will bear you up,

lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ”

7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ” 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written,

          “ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God

and him only shall you serve.’ ”

11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

Do you hear what Jesus does each time Satan tries to tempt him? He responds – “it is written…” and then quotes Scripture! Jesus’ view of Scripture is they are the very words of God, full of truth to live by. Do you understand the significance of what Jesus is doing here? He is refuting the lies of the enemy with the truth of the Word. Jesus had spent time studying and committing the Old Testament words of God to his heart so that they were on His mind and tongue in time of need! How often do we consider that Jesus prioritized the study of God’s Word in His own life?

Jesus demonstrates that He believes the Scriptures are authoritative, sufficient, and trustworthy/without error. He takes God at His Word and by that belief He overcomes the Devil and can serve as our perfect High Priest and Savior. Then, after beginning his public ministry, he goes on to say the following in Matthew 5:

Matthew 5:17–20 (ESV)

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

The word translated abolish here is the same Greek word we heard earlier translated as broken in John 10:35. Jesus has not come to break what He views as unbreakable. Rather He has come to bring them to completion. Jesus is the fulfillment of all that the Old Testament Scriptures pointed towards. He affirms that every iota (the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet) and every dot (the tiny graphical markings which distinguish similar Hebrew letters) will remain until all is accomplished. This is a powerful statement about the unbreakable, sustaining nature of God’s written Word.

Or how about Matthew 12? In this text, Jesus speaks of the prophet Jonah as a historical event that will have direct consequences on his present-day audience.

Matthew 12:38–42 (ESV)

38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” 39 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

41 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

Jesus treats the teaching of Scripture about Jonah as fact. He speaks of it alongside of real historical figures such as the Queen of Sheba and Solomon. He uses the repentant Ninevites of Jonah’s day as a foil for the unrepentant Jews of his day. This is yet another example of Jesus’ view of Scripture – it is true, it is unbreakable, it is infallible, and it is to be believed and acted upon.

So, our second takeaway this morning in responding rightly to the truth about Scripture is…

  1. Adopt Jesus’ view of Scripture

I chose to emphasize Jesus’ view of Scripture because He is our Lord and God, and we know that He does not lie. If Jesus had these views of Scripture, then who are we to adopt a different view? This flies in the face of liberal scholars, churches, and denominations who seek to undermine and erode people’s confidence in the Word of God. As we heard last week, God foretold that there would be such false teachers in the last days. Do not be fooled by those who want to deceive you into doubting God’s Word! As Pastor Jack pointed out two weeks ago, that is the M.O. of Satan… “Did God really say?” When you hear that kind of language you should immediately be on guard and start putting a little “hiss” along with it to help you distinguish who it is really from… “Did God really ssssssssssay?”

  • Did God really sssssssssssay that lust whether hetero or homosexual is sin? Yes, he did.
  • Did God really sssssssssssay that the Bible’s view of Creation and the Flood is true? Yes, he did.
  • Did God really sssssssssssay that there is only one exclusive way to eternal life in Jesus Christ? Yes, he did.
  • Did God really sssssssssssay that hell is a real place and that it will be absolutely awful to spend eternity there? Yes, he did.
  • Did God really sssssssssssay “to preach the Gospel and if necessary use words”? Well, no, actually he didn’t say that. I put that one in here because just as it is important not to remove things from the Bible, we also must not twist what is already there by adding extra things to it. We are told to open our mouths to preach the Gospel; it is not a matter of just living a good life in front of people. You have to tell them the reason for the hope that is within you.

I’m sure we could go on with identifying other popular lies or additions to the Scriptures, but that is where I’m going to stop for now. The whole point of this exercise was to show you the dangers of relying on man’s view of Scripture over Jesus’ view of Scripture. In his book, Taking God at His Word, Pastor Kevin DeYoung writes:

Jesus held Scripture in the highest possible esteem. He knew his Bible intimately and loved it deeply. He often spoke with the language of Scripture. He easily alluded to Scripture. And in his moments of greatest trial and weakness-like being tempted by the Devil or being killed on a cross-he quoted Scripture.

His mission was to fulfill Scripture, and his teaching always upheld Scripture. He never disrespected, never disregarded, never disagreed with a single text of Scripture. He affirmed every bit of law, prophecy, narrative, and poetry. He never for a moment accepted the legitimacy of anyone anywhere violating, ignoring, refining, or rejecting Scripture.

Jesus believed in the inspiration of Scripture-all of it. He accepted the chronology, the miracles, and the authorial ascriptions as giving the straightforward facts of history. He believed in keeping the spirit of the law without ever minimizing the letter of the law. He affirmed the human authorship of Scripture while at the same time bearing witness to the ultimate divine authorship of the Scriptures. He treated the Bible as a necessary word, a sufficient word, a clear word, and the final word. It was never acceptable in his mind to contradict Scripture or stand above Scripture.

He believed the Bible was all true, all edifying, all important, and all about him. He believed absolutely that the Bible was from God and was absolutely free from error. What Scripture says, God says; and what God said was recorded infallibly in Scripture.

This, then, can be the only acceptable answer to the question posed at the beginning of this chapter about Jesus’s doctrine of Scripture: it is impossible to revere the Scriptures more deeply or affirm them more completely than Jesus did. Jesus submitted his will to the Scriptures, committed his brain to studying the Scriptures, and humbled his heart to obey the Scriptures.

The Lord Jesus, God’s Son and our Savior, believed his Bible was the word of God down to the sentences, to the phrases, to the words, to the smallest letter, to the tiniest specks and that nothing in all those specks and in all those books in his Holy Bible could ever be broken. (Kevin DeYoung, Taking God at His Word, pages 109-110)

I don’t know about you, but I trust Jesus over anyone else! I want to know what Jesus says and believes about Scripture. I want to imitate his depth of knowledge and conviction about God’s trustworthiness and infallibility! Do you? This is going to require us to be students of the Word who are prayerfully asking God to let it sink in and change our hearts/minds/lives. And, if you are struggling with a particular issue that the Scriptures speak to, can I encourage you to invite others in? Let others who know the Word walk with you and reason with you. We need one another to speak the truth when we are struggling with the deception of lies. When you’re wrestling with “Did God really say?” let faithful brothers/sisters in the Lord help you see “Here’s what God says.”

This is leading to our final takeaway in this study of God’s Word. Responding rightly to the truth about Scriptures is a call to…

  1. Believe, obey, and hope in God’s infallible promises

Here is where we really get to have some fun. For the remainder of our time together, I want to draw our attention to a variety of promises that we see God making in the Scriptures. Because God is infallible and therefore His Word is infallible, that means these promises are infallible or incapable of being wrong/broken. We’re going to categorize them in three ways:

  • Promises to believe
  • Promises to obey
  • Promises to hope in

Now, please understand that some or all of these will overlap into multiple categories. This is my manmade attempt to give us a framework for our responses. So, let’s begin with some promises in Scripture that call us to the response of faith/belief.

  • PROMISES TO BELIEVE (RELATING TO SALVATION)
    • God would send the seed of woman to crush the serpent

Genesis 3:15 (ESV)

15      I will put enmity between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring;

          he shall bruise your head,

and you shall bruise his heel.”

This is a promise that has been fulfilled through the birth, life, ministry, and D/B/R of Jesus Christ of Nazareth!

  • God has a New Covenant wherein he will transform our desires

Jeremiah 31:33–34 (ESV)

33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

This is again a promise that is being fulfilled in the New Testament era. In the church era, God transforms the hearts of people who are dead in their sin to be made alive in Christ and able to know and obey Him!

  • God redeems and adopts those who believe in His Son

John 1:12–13 (ESV)

12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

  • God makes us into a new man/woman through faith in Christ

Romans 8:11 (ESV)

11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

  • When we believe in Jesus, we are no longer condemned

Romans 8:1 (ESV)

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  • When we confess our sins, he is faithful to forgive us

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  • For those who believe, there is assurance of eternal life

John 10:27–29 (ESV)

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

  • Jesus is returning to save and to judge

Revelation 1:7–8 (ESV)

7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

  • There is an eternal judgment for those who do not repent and believe

Revelation 20:11–15 (ESV)

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

  • PROMISES TO OBEY (UNTO SANCTIFICATION)
    • As Christians, God empowers and calls you to spread the Gospel

Acts 1:8 (ESV)

8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

  • If you bring your burdens to Jesus and take up his yoke, you will find rest for your soul

Matthew 11:28–30 (ESV)

28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

  • When you pray and trust Christ, his peace will guard you

Philippians 4:6–7 (ESV)

6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

  • Suffering is not meaningless, but a preparation for the eternal weight of glory

2 Corinthians 4:17 (ESV)

17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

  • PROMISES TO HOPE IN
    • God’s Word always accomplishes God’s purposes

Isaiah 55:10–11 (ESV)

10      “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven

and do not return there but water the earth,

          making it bring forth and sprout,

giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

11      so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;

it shall not return to me empty,

          but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,

and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

So, study it. Allow God to work in you! Share it. Aid God working in others!

  • God is gracious to his people

Psalm 103:10–12 (ESV)

10    He does not deal with us according to our sins,

nor repay us according to our iniquities.

11    For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

12    as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

  • Nothing can separate us from the love of God

Romans 8:38–39 (ESV)

38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • God is working all things together for his people’s good

Romans 8:28 (ESV)

28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

  • God will finish the good work he began in you

Philippians 1:6 (ESV)

6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

  • God will bring us to be with him in perfection

Revelation 21:1–4 (ESV)

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

There are so many promises of God that we simply do not have time to bring up today. That is one of the beauties of studying God’s Word, there is always more to learn and rejoice in! As we close out this series, I want to yet again call you to faith in Jesus Christ and to faithfully follow Him by being a student of His Word. A DOER of the Word and not a HEARER only.

Let’s pray.

Pray