Daily Devotion With Pastor Dan – September 17th, 2020.
The all-sufficiency of the Scriptures is an important doctrine. For the Scriptures are completely adequate – 2 Timothy3:16-17 . God has provided all that we need for life and godliness – 2 Peter 1:3. We do not need further revelation, we have the faith delivered “once for all” to the saints – Jude 3. Thus we have that which is able to build us up and give us our inheritance – AcYa 20:32.
As Paul prepared the Ephesian elders for the time when he would be gone, he commended them to the word of God’s grace Ac 20:29-32. It is this Word that was able to build them up, and give them their inheritance Acts 20:32.
With Timothy, Paul did the same when writing his last letter to him where he admonished Timothy to continue in the things he had learned 2 Timothy 3:14. He first referenced the Holy Scriptures known since his childhood 2 Timothy 3:15. When Timothy was a child, the only scriptures available was what we have recorded in the Old Testament, so Paul clearly had the Old Testament scriptures in view. He then spoke of the value of “all Scripture” 2 Timothy 3:17-17. That which was inspired of God, that which had the ability to make the man of God “complete.” Oh the wonder and awe of God’s spoken and written Word. If both the Ephesian elders and Timothy needed the word of God after Paul’s departure, much more do we today! To fully appreciate why, consider what 2 Timothy 3:14-17) reveals to us!