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By Rosco Brong
Published in the Berea Baptist Banner August 5 , 1991.
HOLY LETTERS
Every true Bible student knows that in the New Testament the word
“scripture” (Gr. graphe), whether singular or plural, is never used in any
other sense than of what are called in the verse preceding our text “the
holy scriptures,” literally “the holy letters” (Gr. grammata). Attempts of
modernistic mistranslators to make “scripture” in text include uninspired
writings represent either gross ignorance or deliberate deception.
DIVINELY INSPIRED
Our text, therefore, says and means exactly what the true people of God
have believed and known through the centuries: ALL scripture, as the
word is used in the New Testament, is divinely inspired, or more literally,
“God-breathed.”
Included in this scripture are all the “holy letters” which Timothy knew
from childhood, and now also the writings in what we know as the New
Testament. Peter assures us that holy men of God did not write for us
their private interpretations according to their own will, but spoke as they
were carried along by the Holy Spirit. The same apostle classifies the
inspired epistles of Paul with “the other scriptures” (II Pet. 1:20, 21;
3:15,16).
“The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of
earth, purified seven times” (Ps. 12:6).
“Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in
him” (Prov. 30:5).
“Let God be true, but every man a liar” (Rom. 3:4).
God is not the author of the confusion (I Cor. 14:33) that prevails in
professed Christianity today. If all the people who claim to worship God
would only trust and obey His Word, we should not be plagued with such
a multitude of so-called Christian but contradictory denominations.
“The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the
Lord is sure, making wise the simple” (Ps. 19:7).
FOR REPROOF
“Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved” ( John 3:20).
“The word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it”
( Jer. 6:10).
Indeed, “the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart” (Heb. 4:12).
For all who will be “doers of the word, and not hearers only” ( Jas. 1:22),
the scripture is proven to be profitable for reproof.
FOR CORRECTION
Not only does the scripture rebuke us for being wrong; it also tells us how
to get right. Recognizing an error is one thing; correcting it is another: the
scripture is profitable for both.
“Ye are clean,” Jesus told His disciples, “through the word which I have
spoken unto you” ( John 15:3).
Whatever may be wrong in our lives, we need not continue in error: the
God-breathed scripture is profitable for correction.
FOR DISCIPLINE
KJ translation says “for instruction in righteousness.” The word for
“instruction” or “discipline” is translated “chastening” and
“chastisement” in Hebrews 12:5- 8.
Solomon reminds us that “A reproof entereth more into a wise man than
a hundred stripes into a fool” (Prov. 17:10).
To be fit and fitted out as a servant of God he must know and heed and
profit from the scripture received through holy men from the breath of
God.