“Every scripture inspired of God is
also profitable . . . that the man of God may be complete.” 2 Timothy 3:16, 17
From
beginning to end the Bible maintains an organic unity. It is no disorderly compilation of human
minds, but is bound together by the working of the Spirit of God, so that what
we have today is fully at one with its origins. The five books of Moses stand
at the beginning of the record—and this is the significant point: all who wrote
afterward built upon them; they did not write independently. Joshua builds on
the foundation of the Pentateuch, and so does the author of the books of
Samuel.
Though
the writers are various, every book in the Old Testament builds on what went
before. And when we reach the New
Testament the same is true: the New uses the Old as its springboard. You cannot
discard the Old Testament and retain only the New Testament; neither can you
cut out the four Gospels and keep only the letters of Paul. God does not say one
thing yesterday and another thing today. His Word is one. From start to finish,
it lives and speaks to our need.
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