Dale Partridge - Ultimate Marriage #28： Is the Bible Perfect, Reliable, and without Error？

00:00:00.000 hey and welcome to ultimate marriage today we are talking about is the Bible

00:00:16.140 perfect reliable and without error big conversation about the Bible today critical

00:00:22.200 to your marriage critical to your family critical to your walk so we're excited to

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00:01:28.060 It's not that.

00:01:30.000 We've actually been thinking about starting another podcast under ReLearn Church.

00:01:37.380 The reality is that we've decided we want to just have one podcast.

00:01:41.580 We don't want to have two, Ultimate Marriage and the ReLearn Church podcast.

00:01:45.880 We really do believe God's call doesn't ever call us to compromise our family.

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00:02:07.540 And we wanted to extend the scope of what we're talking about.

00:02:11.680 We talk a lot about marriage and family.

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00:02:22.740 And we want to talk more about theology and church issues and verse studies,

00:02:30.380 cultural things that are facing the church right now and facing marriage and family.

00:02:37.160 However, we're going to still talk about marriage and family,

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00:03:45.120 so big conversation we've sought some counsel on how to do that and we just made the decision

00:03:51.520 that i think that's the best thing because it gives us a wider scope um there's more areas to

00:03:56.820 talk about yeah and we're still going to talk about marriage and family a lot totally because

00:04:00.680 it's the core of ministry um so we're going to talk about the bible today yeah we're going to

00:04:06.840 get into the Bible today. Um, Dale is going to be doing a lot of the teaching today. Um, but I will

00:04:12.660 be here to give my two cents and help facilitate some of that conversation. And you're actually

00:04:17.040 opening with this and I'm going to open. Okay. So we're talking about the Bible today. What is the

00:04:23.120 Bible? The Bible is the record of God's word to mankind. This is like a simple question that a

00:04:29.440 lot of people just haven't thought about. Yeah. What is the Bible? Yeah. So super simple, but

00:04:33.680 the super simple answer is the record of God's word to mankind. So that being said, how do we

00:04:39.020 come to our faith in Jesus Christ? In Romans 10, 17, it says, so then faith comes by hearing

00:04:45.660 and hearing by the word of God. Yeah. So there's a huge connection point right there is that

00:04:50.300 our faith comes through the word of God through hearing it, by hearing it. And that's what the

00:04:56.800 Bible is, is God's word to mankind. And so this is, there's some connection points that we're

00:05:02.260 going to make here yeah so what does the bible say about the word of god so in hebrews 4 12 it

00:05:08.900 says for the word of god is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing

00:05:13.880 even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts

00:05:21.160 and intents of the heart this is like one of my favorite scriptures it's so manly it is but you

00:05:29.700 should memorize that we should that's not our memory verse for today but it's a good one um

00:05:34.420 just to memorize that yeah so when you hear this that scripture and these you know what is the

00:05:39.440 bible and how do we come to our faith in jesus christ and what does bible say about the word of

00:05:43.100 god um do you feel prepared to defend why you believe that the bible is true uh we have to

00:05:50.180 remember that so many people think that it is so weird and it's so strange that we live our lives

00:05:55.840 according to this thing that they think is just this ancient book.

00:05:59.540 Totally. It is.

00:06:00.520 It's abnormal to the culture.

00:06:02.180 Yeah, like our whole lives are based around this book.

00:06:05.740 People think that's very strange.

00:06:07.880 But in 1 Peter 3.15, it says,

00:06:10.440 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts

00:06:13.340 and always be ready to give a defense

00:06:15.520 to everyone who asks you a reason

00:06:17.660 for the hope that is within you

00:06:19.420 with meekness and fear.

00:06:22.380 So, Dale, does this really mean

00:06:24.480 that we are always to give an answer to just anybody and everyone who asks?

00:06:28.480 Yeah, this is a really important question.

00:06:31.120 This scripture, 1 Peter 3.15, that word defense, to give a defense or an answer,

00:06:36.920 that's the word we have for apologia in the Greek, apologia, give an answer, defense.

00:06:42.480 And this is a great question Veronica has asked.

00:06:44.380 Are we just supposed to give an answer to anybody who asks?

00:06:47.620 Actually, no.

00:06:50.040 And the reason is this.

00:06:51.540 there are two types of questioners and there are honest skeptics people who actually are honestly

00:06:59.520 skeptical and they want to know they're curious they want to learn yeah and then there's the

00:07:03.000 dishonest skeptic and the dishonest skeptic Matthew 7 6 talks about it Jesus says do not

00:07:10.220 give what is holy to the dogs nor cast your pearls before swine lest they trample under their feet

00:07:16.580 unless they trample them under their feet

00:07:19.120 and turn and tear you into pieces.

00:07:22.720 There are people sometimes who aren't actually curious.

00:07:27.240 They're just there to...

00:07:30.480 It's almost asking a question in a way to harass you.

00:07:33.240 Yeah, and Jesus does this all the time in the scriptures.

00:07:37.780 He's discerning if it's an honest skeptic

00:07:40.280 or a dishonest skeptic.

00:07:42.160 I think it's Pilate that asks him a question

00:07:44.480 And he goes, are you asking, or are you asking on behalf of somebody else?

00:07:48.480 And so understanding the questioner is critical about this.

00:07:53.060 So when somebody says to you, and this is so critical for marriage and family,

00:07:57.360 so this is absolutely connected, just for those that are paying attention right now.

00:08:01.380 You need to be able to teach your children this stuff.

00:08:03.460 This is basic Christianity 101.

00:08:05.480 For some reason, the church has not done the greatest job on teaching us how to defend our own faith,

00:08:10.120 probably because America hasn't really been in a place to defend it for so many decades.

00:08:13.580 centuries, but we are now. So when somebody asks you, why do you trust the Bible? Or somebody

00:08:19.640 asked me that. Like, why are we banking eternity and our moral compass on this ancient book?

00:08:26.720 My first response to these people is usually, why not trust the Bible? You see, a person

00:08:33.700 can only really doubt something if that person has something stronger or more solid to believe it.

00:08:41.840 And so I go, if you don't trust in the Bible, what do you trust in?

00:08:47.460 And most people, you know, usually respond with science or their intuition or, you know,

00:08:53.340 whatever historical evidence they have of their own life.

00:08:56.040 What they're really doing is they're creating their own paths, their own religion, their

00:08:59.380 own paths to God. 0.78

00:09:01.280 Next, I ask them, can I tell you why I think you should consider the Bible?

00:09:06.420 Like why I actually have so much faith and belief in this book.

00:09:10.900 And if they say yes, I give them this answer.

00:09:13.780 First off, I believe that truth as a category does exist.

00:09:20.600 It is a, it does exist.

00:09:23.040 Truth exists.

00:09:23.880 Truth's like unadulterated, pure, 100% truth does exist.

00:09:28.800 And we as humans have the ability to evaluate if something is true or false.

00:09:34.500 And I'll give you an example.

00:09:36.760 If I'm wearing black shoes, which I am right now, and I say, you know, I make this statement,

00:09:42.900 I'm wearing black shoes, and that person looks down at my feet, and indeed I am wearing black

00:09:47.700 shoes, that is a true statement. It's a fact. It's a fact. That's a true statement. So

00:09:51.560 truth does exist. We do believe that truth exists, which backs up that statement

00:09:59.860 that we can evaluate these things on our own.

00:10:04.020 Now, we can determine if something is true or false by two ways.

00:10:07.820 And I'm going to give you these two ways.

00:10:09.060 And we do this all the time.

00:10:10.340 If something is true, we're going to see confirmations,

00:10:14.660 accuracies, reason, harmonies.

00:10:18.660 Ultimately, things are lining up if something's true.

00:10:21.420 We use this discernment all the time.

00:10:23.700 If something is false, we are going to see contradictions,

00:10:27.260 clashes, failures, conflicts. Ultimately, things are not lining up, and we do this, again, all the

00:10:34.860 time. So with that logic, if you just take that to the Bible, and you actually fully consider it,

00:10:41.220 you read it, you actually study it, you see what people are saying about it. It's a book with 66

00:10:47.120 books written over a 1,500-year period with about 40 different authors, and it's all telling this

00:10:54.660 really cool, unified, miraculous story that leads up to Jesus Christ. And I think it's actually

00:11:03.080 more amazing that it wasn't one author, but that it was many authors. It actually works in its

00:11:08.960 favor of showing how incredibly miraculous it is that there's a unified theme with 60 different

00:11:16.020 books, 1,500 years of space, and 40 different authors. And so if the Bible, again, using that

00:11:27.560 structure, contradictions, accuracies, truth, false, using that structure, if the Bible

00:11:35.780 made several claims, like one after another, that came back false in history, that came back false

00:11:42.200 in philosophy, that came back false in theology, that came back false in archaeology, you could

00:11:49.560 see kind of a level of systemic contradiction and failure. And those clashes would give you

00:11:58.980 valid reason to believe that the Bible is not true. And that's a pretty, you should be able 1.00

00:12:04.700 to do that. The problem is that's not the case. The harmony and the accuracy of the Bible is so

00:12:11.500 amazing. It's really incredible. Yeah. It's just amazing when you start looking at it and studying

00:12:17.500 it. So there's no ancient book that has aligned so accurately with ancient archaeology. Like

00:12:24.720 there's archaeologists that are totally atheists that use the Bible as their cornerstone document

00:12:31.440 on finding ancient relics. And so it is absolutely like come up over and over and over again. I can

00:12:39.620 give you a hundred examples we don't have time um speaking of time time is based off of the bible

00:12:47.420 anno domini a.d the year of our lord it's 2019 because of the time of the bible based off of

00:12:57.300 that based off of jesus's life um there's no other book that is predicted the future over and over

00:13:05.460 again, if you look at the prophecies of Daniel and how they land on top of Alexander the Great

00:13:10.880 and just these incredible studies, you can start to see this like prophetic schema, this connection

00:13:17.600 point that is just so good that you start to see the supernatural. So there's just so much there

00:13:24.100 behind the Bible and you need to be prepared to kind of defend this from so many different angles

00:13:29.680 because the word of God is constantly going to be attacked. Yeah, you can talk about the

00:13:34.080 unarguable fruitlessness of follow our fruit fullness yeah of following the bible like in

00:13:40.200 other words um divorce and adultery or racism and human trafficking um all crime is a result

00:13:47.740 of people who have chosen not to follow the bible yeah it's like it's self-evident you follow the

00:13:53.700 bible and the world works better totally totally um it is the world's bestseller the bible it's

00:14:00.940 the world's best seller. Billy Graham once said a really great quote, quote, quote, quote. He said

00:14:05.080 a really great quote. He said it weird too. A really great quote. Um, and it is, it has been

00:14:12.660 ridiculed, burned, refuted, destroyed, but it lives on. The Bible is the anvil that has worn out many

00:14:19.180 hammers. Yeah. There's, I think that like the numbers are in the billions, maybe a couple

00:14:27.360 billion copies of the bible is what what is you know i think it's just an estimated number but 0.99

00:14:33.820 it is absolutely the world's bestseller far above the quran far above any other holy you know holy

00:14:41.420 book um the bible beats them out ultimately uh when you see the miraculous element the harmonies 1.00

00:14:49.800 the confirmations the accuracies like del was saying um when you see the authenticity this is

00:14:55.660 why people can believe that the bible is true yeah there's not like people like there are people at

00:15:01.460 oxford and cambridge and some of these incredible institutions universities the smartest people in

00:15:06.580 the world that come to the same conclusion the bible is true look up john lennox this guy's like 0.97

00:15:12.780 one of the smartest people on the planet and and these the bible isn't for dumb people who have

00:15:18.120 just like need something to lean on is what a lot of people say no the bible lines up with science

00:15:23.760 this is a beautiful, beautiful book. There's a quote that I heard not long ago from an older

00:15:30.480 pastor. And he says, even the dust of this book is gold. And so just the idea that the Bible is

00:15:38.000 so valuable, it's so incredible. But you can't defend what you fully haven't accepted. And that's

00:15:44.520 what we're talking about today. We should have done this as like our first episode, because

00:15:49.760 this is so critical for the rest of everything that we've ever said this is a podcast about

00:15:57.700 biblical truth this is foundational yeah i i don't open up a study you've seen me how many

00:16:02.140 times have i've given this message oh many every time we start a bible study um or host an event

00:16:09.040 this is generally the first topic that you'll speak on yeah you need to land the plane here

00:16:14.880 if you don't believe that the bible is authoritative if you don't believe that the bible

00:16:17.920 is true, um, then nothing else matters. Yeah. We can't have a Bible study or to have a podcast

00:16:24.040 about the biblical doctrine. Yeah. Cause there's no foundation to go back to. Yeah. So do you

00:16:29.820 believe the Bible is true? Now you might think that's a dumb question. Um, but the current state 0.99

00:16:34.700 of the church should tell you otherwise it's not a dumb question. No. 50% divorce rate, 68% of men 0.58

00:16:41.140 are looking at pornography on a regular basis in the church. 78% of the next generation kids

00:16:47.380 are leaving the faith by the age of 18? 78%. That's a big deal, guys. Only 11% of Christians

00:16:55.060 have read the entire Bible. Less than 5% of Christians have shared the gospel, are sharing

00:16:59.640 the gospel with one person per year. Come on, guys. It's a proper question. Do we actually

00:17:06.780 believe this thing, or is it just some book that has some good principles that's convenient when

00:17:11.800 we need it? You know, and again, now just because you believe it doesn't mean you behave it,

00:17:16.920 And that's what a lot of people, oh, yeah, yeah, I believe the Bible's true.

00:17:20.620 But there's no evidence in your life.

00:17:23.960 And so I want to talk about that.

00:17:25.500 I want to help you guys land the plane so that you can defend the Bible and glorify God.

00:17:30.740 And so every married couple should know how to do this.

00:17:35.320 You have to be able to teach your children how to do this. 0.64

00:17:38.700 Why do you believe the Bible is true?

00:17:40.440 so when it comes to the bible the new testament makes a few monumental claims that we need to

00:17:47.080 confront and one of them is second timothy 3 16 i'll let veronica read this all scripture is

00:17:52.720 breathed out by god and profitable for teaching for reproof for correction and for training in

00:17:57.860 righteousness that the man of god may be complete equipped for every good work this is the memory

00:18:03.860 verse for today core scripture um when it says that the man of god that word man in the greek

00:18:09.180 is anthropos which means mankind human so man or woman um so do you believe that scripture is true

00:18:16.360 like do we believe that all scripture is breathed out by god all of it um this is an important

00:18:26.060 question you know a lot of people will refute this by saying like well hey you know this is um

00:18:32.560 paul is talking about the old testament scriptures he's not talking about the new testament scriptures

00:18:36.880 Old Testament scriptures is breathed out by God, but I, you know, I don't know about the New

00:18:40.240 Testament. Did Paul really not know that he was writing scripture? I'm going to tell you he

00:18:47.740 absolutely did, and I'm going to tell you why. In 2 Peter 3, 14 through 16, it says,

00:18:54.380 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by him in peace,

00:18:59.580 without spot and blameless, and consider that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation,

00:19:04.600 as also our beloved brother Paul

00:19:07.380 according to the wisdom given to him

00:19:09.840 has written to you

00:19:10.840 as also in all his epistles

00:19:13.380 speaking in them of these things

00:19:16.160 and which are some hard to understand

00:19:18.580 which untaught and unstable people

00:19:21.660 twist to their own destruction

00:19:23.600 as they do also with the rest 0.77

00:19:27.260 of the scriptures, capital S.

00:19:30.360 peter looks at paul's writings as scripture the early church views paul's writings and peter's

00:19:41.140 writings and james writings and john's writings as scripture first thessalonians paul writes

00:19:48.340 first thessalonians 2 13 paul writes this statement he says for this reason we also

00:19:53.260 So thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of man, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

00:20:11.520 Okay, Paul knows he's writing scripture.

00:20:16.700 So when he says all scripture is breathed out by God

00:20:19.200 and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,

00:20:21.960 and for training in righteousness that the man of God may be complete,

00:20:24.000 equipped for every good work,

00:20:25.500 he knows that it's the New Testament canon as well.

00:20:30.060 He knows that the words that he's writing are authoritative,

00:20:34.200 and he's talking about those scriptures too.

00:20:37.380 And when it says that the man of God may be complete,

00:20:41.160 I want to ask you guys a question.

00:20:43.160 do you look at the bible as the means in which you can find completion

00:20:49.260 in completion in your understanding completion in your wisdom completion in your marriage

00:20:55.280 completion in your parenting completion in your business is the bible where you look

00:21:01.740 to complete yourself and the word complete means perfect whole it means nothing needed to be

00:21:09.120 needed to add to make it complete.

00:21:13.460 So, second scripture, and then 1.00

00:21:15.360 Veronica's going to jump back in here in a second. Second scripture 1.00

00:21:17.540 that's kind of a

00:21:19.440 twin parallel with the

00:21:20.760 Timothy verse

00:21:23.200 is Hebrews 6.18.

00:21:25.760 And this is said a few times in the scriptures.

00:21:27.840 It is impossible for

00:21:29.520 God to lie.

00:21:31.580 So, we say that

00:21:33.580 all scripture is breathed out by God,

00:21:35.180 and that it's impossible for God to lie.

00:21:37.060 We got a serious

00:21:38.020 statement right here a big claim that we have to ask ourselves if we can believe scriptures

00:21:45.620 without flaw because if god can't lie and all scriptures breathed out by god then that means

00:21:50.240 scripture must be perfect reliable and without error um and it's funny because a lot of people

00:21:59.400 will doubt certain parts of scripture but they won't doubt the gospel like they go oh yeah like

00:22:07.280 hey, the gospel, hey, saved by grace through faith. You know, 1 Corinthians chapter 13,

00:22:12.920 the love chapter. We love that chapter. But when it comes to this unpopular stuff,

00:22:17.500 this uncomfortable stuff over there, yeah, I don't know if that stuff's inspired.

00:22:21.400 And I go, so you'll take the gospel from the Bible as if it's perfect and inspired.

00:22:28.400 But then a few verses later where it gets tough and uncomfortable and inconvenient,

00:22:31.780 you won't take that. That's cherry picking the scriptures. You go a little bit of this,

00:22:36.800 a little bit of that. You created your own religion. It has nothing to do with believing

00:22:41.680 that all scripture is authoritative. Yeah. Take what they like, leave what they don't.

00:22:44.960 Yeah. This is very common in the church today. Take the gospel, leave out the hard stuff.

00:22:51.780 It's a buffet approach to scripture. So that's really what we're talking about.

00:22:55.640 Yeah. And an even bigger question to ask is, are you willing to believe in Jesus,

00:22:59.860 but not Jesus's belief in the authority of scripture? Yes. Because Jesus totally believed

00:23:05.740 that the Bible is true yes he believed that the Old Testament was a was historical fact and he

00:23:11.160 commissioned the apostles to write the New Testament yeah during Jesus's three-year ministry

00:23:16.360 he quotes several different I think like 78 different verses from 16 different Old Testament

00:23:22.940 books and those books are Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy 1st Samuel 1st King 2nd

00:23:28.340 Chronicles Psalms Isaiah Jonah Micah Hosea Malachi Zechariah and Daniel he calls these references

00:23:35.040 the scriptures the word of god and the wisdom of god jesus how crazy it is is it that we're

00:23:42.180 going to believe in jesus but not jesus's position on scripture like you can't believe in jesus and

00:23:49.280 then not believe like take his position jesus absolutely believed in the authority of scripture

00:23:55.720 and even the hard passages like creation um the most references from jesus and his ministry are

00:24:02.800 to the book of Genesis.

00:24:03.640 Yeah, from the beginning.

00:24:05.060 Yeah, from the beginning.

00:24:05.880 He references the flood.

00:24:07.600 He even references Jonah and the great fish.

00:24:10.600 If you struggle with Jonah,

00:24:12.240 well, you know what?

00:24:13.420 Don't believe in Jesus

00:24:14.440 because Jesus believed in Jonah.

00:24:16.640 He talks about being in the belly for three days.

00:24:20.500 So this is one of those things that you go,

00:24:22.680 are you going to believe in Jesus

00:24:23.800 and not his position on scripture?

00:24:25.760 It's a crazy idea.

00:24:28.260 So you and your heart need to determine

00:24:30.480 if this book's true.

00:24:35.520 You know, assure and do so

00:24:36.660 in proper historical cultural context

00:24:38.980 using hermeneutics.

00:24:41.140 I just finished an advanced

00:24:43.580 graduate studies class on hermeneutics

00:24:46.040 at Western Seminary,

00:24:48.420 which is the science and art

00:24:51.560 of interpreting scripture.

00:24:53.380 And so you want to do it properly.

00:24:55.100 You know, there's things

00:24:55.600 that are descriptive in the scriptures

00:24:57.020 and there are things

00:24:58.180 that are prescriptive in the scriptures.

00:25:00.480 polygamy is descriptive. It recorded that polygamy occurred. The Bible doesn't endorse

00:25:06.560 or tell you, prescribe you to be a polygamist. And so you got to learn how to determine those

00:25:12.600 things. And we're going to bump into some passages in this podcast that are hard, difficult,

00:25:18.480 unpopular, uncomfortable. And if you haven't landed the plane on, if the Bible's true,

00:25:25.080 then you're going to struggle through this um and you might have some questions how was the

00:25:31.880 bible put together um was it just a bunch of dudes in a room that decided how to put these books

00:25:36.560 together no that's the short answer um you can research that on your own time um but but find

00:25:44.480 those answers it's actually quite beautiful how the bible was put together and how divinely inspired

00:25:49.260 it was, the process, and how it was really the church that put it together and determined

00:25:55.280 if it was authoritative, not a group of people.

00:25:57.840 But you need to answer these things in your heart, because the heart cannot exalt what

00:26:02.800 the mind rejects.

00:26:04.740 So if your mind is like stuck somewhere, you struggle with a piece of scripture, your heart

00:26:11.780 will never be able to exalt it until your mind can go, yeah, I get it, I believe it,

00:26:15.980 I understand it.

00:26:19.260 And so, do you view this book as an instruction manual of good principles?

00:26:27.960 Or do you view it as the word of God?

00:26:29.880 It's authoritative in the way that you live.

00:26:33.460 And I'm going to close with a couple things here.

00:26:36.660 Is that we can't forget that all God's doctrine is motivated by love.

00:26:43.260 So, even the hard stuff.

00:26:45.420 It's because he loves us.

00:26:46.400 It's because he loves us.

00:26:47.400 um we know this as parents right totally that's not fun sometimes to discipline your child or to

00:26:54.760 correct them or to give them instruction but you do it because you love them you do it because you

00:26:59.060 love them um his commands in scripture aren't really demands they're really signs of affection

00:27:05.300 and we got to look at scripture through that lens and remember as i always say on the show

00:27:10.540 that we are the beneficiaries of obedience, not God.

00:27:18.040 We are.

00:27:19.760 Like it's our best interest to follow the scriptures.

00:27:26.460 Every time we try to rub against scripture,

00:27:30.120 we try to prove God's laws maybe don't exist

00:27:34.260 or that they're not valid.

00:27:35.720 We don't end up breaking God's laws.

00:27:37.460 We end up breaking ourselves.

00:27:38.280 and we end up proving that God's laws exist for our benefit.

00:27:43.600 And so I promise you,

00:27:45.420 when you bump into something in the scriptures that's hard,

00:27:47.820 it could feel hard to be obedient, right?

00:27:51.360 Totally.

00:27:52.560 But what's harder than being obedient?

00:27:55.580 Not being obedient.

00:27:57.220 Yeah, we have to believe that the safest,

00:27:59.740 the most joyful place we'll ever be in life

00:28:03.480 is under the instruction of Jesus Christ and his word.

00:28:07.280 Yes.

00:28:07.340 every time we move out from under his will and every time we move out from under his ways

00:28:12.700 life is going to get harder yes it's going to get more confusing and it's going to get more painful

00:28:16.880 i mean just look at any couple that's had a divorce

00:28:20.820 if you just followed what the scriptures said it wouldn't have happened

00:28:26.540 um and so a quote we say often your marriage has a hundred percent chance of success

00:28:36.000 if you just do it God's way and not your own.

00:28:39.940 And so are the scriptures authoritative

00:28:41.820 in how you live?

00:28:43.200 This is a short teaching on like just this idea.

00:28:49.060 Yeah, it's a much more broad of a topic,

00:28:50.920 but we had to shorten it for the podcast.

00:28:52.620 Yeah, so, but land the plane

00:28:54.580 because if you're not here,

00:28:57.860 you're always going to be emotionally driven

00:29:00.720 and not just driven by the word of God

00:29:03.420 because dude I'll tell you

00:29:05.420 there's scriptures in there

00:29:06.540 that are hard for me

00:29:08.000 I go Lord really

00:29:09.840 like you want it that way

00:29:11.940 like that's not what I want to do

00:29:13.880 that doesn't feel right to my flesh

00:29:16.260 I think it's Galatians

00:29:17.540 says that the desires of the

00:29:20.080 of the spirit war against

00:29:21.760 the desires of the flesh

00:29:23.840 so that you do not do the things

00:29:26.260 that you wish

00:29:26.820 it's that our flesh is an enemy

00:29:30.320 of the spirit

00:29:31.100 and so when we bump into these hard things it's like oh i don't want to do that but the word of

00:29:40.300 god i promise you it's easier to follow than to not follow um memory verse for this episode

00:29:47.960 veronica will read it second timothy 3 16 all scripture is breathed out by god and profitable

00:29:53.200 profitable for teaching for reproof for correction and for training in righteousness that the man of

00:29:58.480 God may be complete, equipped for every good work. Guys, you got to memorize that scripture. It's so

00:30:04.420 good. It's so important, especially when in times of doubting. So again, this was actually a faster

00:30:10.720 show than I thought. Yeah, this was good. Our notes are like really long and I was like, this

00:30:14.120 is gonna be a really long show. I don't know if we're gonna have time. Yeah, we went through it

00:30:17.260 really quick. So we got a couple more shows coming up. We're going to do a good Q&A probably for the

00:30:22.100 next episode. Hit another episode talking about some marriage stuff and then we're going to get

00:30:26.380 ready for, again, branding this podcast with the new name, Real Christianity, which is going to

00:30:33.340 again, broaden out that topic. You don't need to do a thing. Don't worry about that. If you want to

00:30:39.200 see the notes of this episode, you can just go to ultimatemarriage.com, go to the podcast page.

00:30:44.660 This is episode number 28. All the show notes there, the scriptures, all that kind of stuff

00:30:48.760 is available for you. And that's it. That's it for the show today. Until next week. Until next

00:30:55.660 Wednesday. Thanks for listening to Ultimate Marriage. Take care. Thank you for joining us

00:31:01.040 on this episode of Ultimate Marriage. If you're homesick for a stronger marriage,

00:31:04.560 visit our website at ultimatemarriage.com and consider enrolling in our one-year

00:31:08.500 online marriage mentor program. Also, if you're interested in learning more about building a

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Dale Partridge - January 16, 2019

Ultimate Marriage #28： Is the Bible Perfect, Reliable, and without Error？

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