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Voddie Baucham - Can You Trust The Bible Since It Was Written By Men? · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: We have a reliable collection of historical documents written down
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  Speaker 1: by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses. So far,
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  Speaker 1: we just got a good history book. Now it gets good.
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  Speaker 1: They report to us supernatural events. Look at what he
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  Speaker 1: says here. Verse 17. For when he received honor and
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  Speaker 1: glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this
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  Speaker 1: was made to him by the majestic glory. This is
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  Speaker 1: my beloved son with whom I am well pleased. And
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  Speaker 1: we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we
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  Speaker 1: were with him on the holy mountain. Now we got
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  Speaker 1: the Mount of Transfiguration. Now we got supernatural events, not
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  Speaker 1: superhuman events. We have supernatural events. stuff you can't get
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  Speaker 1: good enough to do. We're not talking about psychosomatic healings.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about a woman with an issue of blood
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  Speaker 1: who is healed instantly. We heard earlier about the man
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  Speaker 1: with the withered hand, healed instantly. Men who were blind
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  Speaker 1: from birth, deaf from birth, mute from birth, men who
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  Speaker 1: were lame from birth, healed instantly. One of my favorites,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus tells the disciples, y'all go to the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the lake, I'll meet you. later on on the boat, somebody,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who, they say, hey, did Jesus say
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  Speaker 1: how he was coming?
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  Speaker 2: No, why?
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  Speaker 1: Because he, he coming. Or my favorite of them all, Friday, dead, Sunday, risen.
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  Speaker 1: We have a reliable collection of historical documents. written down
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  Speaker 1: by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses. They report
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  Speaker 1: to us supernatural events, and those events took place in
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  Speaker 1: fulfillment of specific prophecies. We're not talking that General Nostradamus
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  Speaker 1: type stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Specific prophecies.
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  Speaker 1: For example, when Jesus is on the cross, interestingly, when
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  Speaker 1: he's on the cross, I don't know, let's just imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Go back, shall we, if we will. Let's go back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, first century and we're Jewish people and we
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  Speaker 1: probably talk about our Old Testament. Maybe we use Aramaic
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  Speaker 1: when we speak to one another. And I want you
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  Speaker 1: to open your Bible, for example, to Psalm number 22,
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  Speaker 1: which is where we're going here for a moment. If
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  Speaker 1: I wanted you to do that, I couldn't tell you
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  Speaker 1: to open to Psalm number 22 because we've only had
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  Speaker 1: chapters and verses for a few hundred years. If it
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  Speaker 1: was the first century and I was speaking to you
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  Speaker 1: in Aramaic and I wanted you to turn to Psalm
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  Speaker 1: number 22, I would have to tell you to turn
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  Speaker 1: to the title of Psalm number 22, which would have
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  Speaker 1: been the first line of Psalm number 22.
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  Speaker 2: So I'd have to.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you to open your scroll to Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.
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  Speaker 1: Or my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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  Speaker 1: Now that ought to sound familiar because it's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said while he was being crucified. I know you
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  Speaker 1: know this, but I like it so much. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: it anyway. Psalm number 22, verse 1. My God, my God,
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  Speaker 1: why have you forsaken me? Look at verse 6. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a worm and not a man, a reproach of men
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  Speaker 1: and despised by the people. All who see me sneer
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  Speaker 1: at me. They separate with the lip. They wag the
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  Speaker 1: head saying, commit yourself.
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  Speaker 2: To the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him because he
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  Speaker 1: delights in him.
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  Speaker 2: Sound familiar?
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  Speaker 1: That's what's being said to Jesus while he's being crucified.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verse 12. Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong
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  Speaker 1: bulls of Bashan have encircled me. They open wide their
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  Speaker 1: mouth at me as a ravening and roaring lion. I'm
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  Speaker 1: poured out like water.
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  Speaker 2: All my bones are out of joint. My heart is
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  Speaker 2: like wax. It is melted within me. Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Pierce them in the side. Puncture the pericardium. Blood and
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  Speaker 1: water rush out. Look at verse 15. My strength is
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  Speaker 1: dried up like potsherd and my tongue clings to my jaws.
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  Speaker 1: How about this wine vinegar on this sponge, Jesus? Because
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  Speaker 1: you did say I thirst. Verse 16. Dogs have surrounded me. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: that's Gentiles. A band of evildoers has encompassed me. One
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  Speaker 1: on the right and one on the left. They pierce
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  Speaker 1: my hands and my feet. I can count all of
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  Speaker 1: my bones.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because nobody had to break your legs to hasten your death.
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  Speaker 1: They divide my garments among them and for my clothing,
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  Speaker 1: they cast lots. Folks, that was written a thousand years
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  Speaker 1: before Jesus was born. It was written by a man
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  Speaker 1: who never once saw crucifixion in his life because crucifixion
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  Speaker 1: had not yet been invented. That is why Peter can
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  Speaker 1: say back in our passage, verse 19, so we have
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  Speaker 1: the prophetic word made more sure. We have a reliable
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  Speaker 1: collection of historical documents written down by eyewitnesses during the
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  Speaker 1: lifetime of other eyewitnesses. They report to us supernatural events
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  Speaker 1: that took place in fulfillment of specific prophecies. We just
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  Speaker 1: looked at a couple of examples of that. And then
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  Speaker 1: here's the kicker. They claim their writings are divine rather
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  Speaker 1: than human in origin. Look down with me at verse 20.
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  Speaker 1: But know this first of all, that no prophecy of
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  Speaker 1: Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation. For no
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  Speaker 1: prophecy was ever made by an act of human will,
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  Speaker 1: but men, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke from God.
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  Speaker 1: They claim these are God's words and not theirs. That's
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  Speaker 1: why these prophecies were fulfilled hundreds or thousands of years afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they use phrases like, and thus says the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, and God said
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  Speaker 1: to Abraham. They say these are God's words and not
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  Speaker 1: men's words.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I hear you. But see, that's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to believe that because they know that men
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  Speaker 1: wrote the Bible. And when we say it's the word
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  Speaker 1: of God, they say, no, it's the word of men
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  Speaker 1: because men took pen to paper. And you cannot trust
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  Speaker 1: things that were written by men.
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  Speaker 2: That's always interesting to me. You know why? Because back
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  Speaker 2: in school, I don't remember anybody, you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: math class. Well, you got something wrong. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to use Pythagorean theorem there. You know, the A
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  Speaker 2: squared plus B squared equals C squared thing, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't use Pythagorean theorem there. You got this wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You can't mark me off for that. That came out
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  Speaker 1: of a math book. A man wrote that math book.
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  Speaker 1: That means it's fallible. Just because man took pen to paper,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't trust what's written. The question you
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  Speaker 1: ask is this, is what's written reliable? Is it internally consistent?
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  Speaker 1: Is it corroborated? What's corroboration? I don't know, maybe three languages, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic,
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  Speaker 1: three continents, Asia, Africa, Europe, over 40 authors, most of
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  Speaker 1: whom never met one another, who wrote over a period
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  Speaker 1: of some 1,500 years and tell one singularly woven together story.
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  Speaker 1: How's that for corroboration?