The Holy Spirit

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• The Holy Spirit
• The Bible

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Bible Quiz

• What language was the Bible originally written
  in?
• The Old Testament was written mostly in Hebrew,
  with some Aramaic parts. The New Testament was
  written in Greek.

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Bible Quiz

• How many languages has the Bible been translated
  into?
• The Bible has been translated into about 2,400
  different languages.

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Bible Quiz

• How many books are there in the Bible?
• 66 books

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Bible Quiz

• How many books are there in the Old Testament?
• 39 books

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Bible Quiz

• How many books are there in the New Testament?
• 27 books

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Bible Quiz

• How many authors?
• 40

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Bible Quiz

• Over what period of time was the Bible written?
• 1500 years

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Bible Quiz

• What is the longest book in the Bible?
• Psalms

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Bible Quiz

• What is the shortest book in the Bible?
• 2 John (no. of verses), 3 John (no. of words)

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Bible Quiz

• What is the longest book in the New Testament?
• Luke

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Bible Quiz

• How many chapters are there in the Bible?
• 1,189, with 929 chapters in the Old Testament
  and 260 in the New Testament.

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Bible Quiz

• How many verses are there in the Bible?
• 31,102, with 23,145 in the Old Testament and
  7,957 in the New Testament.

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Bible Quiz

• When did chapters and verses first appear in the
  Bible?
• The Geneva Bible published in 1560 was the first
  to use chapters and verses.

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Bible Quiz

• What is the longest verse in the Bible?
• Esther 89
• So the kings scribes were called at that
  time, in the third month, which is the month of
  Sivan, on the twenty-third day and it was
  written, according to all that Mordecai
  commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the
  governors, and the princes of the provinces from
  India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven
  provinces in all, to every province in its own
  script, to every people in their own language,
  and to the Jews in their own script and language.

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Bible Quiz

• What is the shortest verse in the Bible?
• John 1135
• Jesus wept.

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Gods Word is Truth

• John 1717 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
• Your word is the truth. So let this truth make
  them completely yours.

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Truth Revelation Christ
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INSPIRATION

• 2 Samuel 232
• "The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me his
  word was on my tongue."

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INSPIRATION

• Isaiah 5921
• "As for me, this is my covenant with them,
  says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, and my
  words that I have put in your mouth will not
  depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of
  your children, or from the mouths of their
  descendants from this time on and forever," says
  the LORD.

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INSPIRATION

• Job 328 New King James Version (NKJV)
• But there is a spirit in man,And the breath
  of the Almighty gives him understanding.

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INSPIRATION

• Hebrews 37-10 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
• A Rest for God's People
• It is just as the Holy Spirit says, "If you
  hear God's voice today, don't be stubborn! Don't
  rebel like those people who were tested in the
  desert. For forty years your ancestors tested God
  and saw the things he did. "Then God got tired of
  them and said, You people never show good sense,
  and you don't understand what I want you to do.'

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INSPIRATION

• Hebrews 96-8 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
• But this is how everything was when the
  priests went each day into the first part of the
  tent to do their duties. However, only the high
  priest could go into the second part of the tent,
  and he went in only once a year. Each time he
  carried blood to offer for his sins and for any
  sins that the people had committed without
  meaning to.
• All of this is the Holy Spirit's way of saying
  that no one could enter the most holy place while
  the tent was still the place of worship.

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INSPIRATION

• Hebrews 1015-17 Contemporary English Version
  (CEV)
• The Holy Spirit also speaks of this by telling
  us that the Lord said, "When the time comes, I
  will make an agreement with them. I will write my
  laws on their minds and hearts. Then I will
  forget about their sins and no longer remember
  their evil deeds."

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INSPIRATION

• Acts 116 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
• He said My friends, long ago by the power of
  the Holy Spirit, David said something about
  Judas, and what he said has now happened. Judas
  was one of us and had worked with us, but he
  brought the mob to arrest Jesus.

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INSPIRATION

• 2 Peter 120-21 New International Version (NIV)
• Above all, you must understand that no
  prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophets
  own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy
  never had its origin in the human will, but
  prophets, though human, spoke from God as they
  were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

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INSPIRATION

• 2 Timothy 316-17 New International Version (NIV)
• All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful
  for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training
  in righteousness, so that the servant of God may
  be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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INSPIRATION

• Why is it so important to affirm that the Holy
  Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible?
• JF Walvoord
• The Holy Spirit A Comprehensive Study of the
  Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
• "... inspiration guarantees accuracy and gives
  divine authority ..."

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• "A proper statement of meaning of inspiration is
  ... that God so supernaturally directed the
  writers of the Scripture that without excluding
  their human intelligence, their individuality,
  their literary style, their personal feelings, or
  any other human factor, His own complete and
  coherent message to man was recorded in perfect
  accuracy, the very words of Scripture bearing the
  authority of divine authorship."

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• The work of inspiration was not accomplished by
  an impersonal force, by a law of nature, or by
  providence alone but the immanent Holy Spirit,
  working in the hearts and affairs of men,
  (revealing) ... the truth of God ... bearing in
  its pages the unmistakable evidences that the
  hands which inscribed them were guided by the
  unwavering, infinitely wise, unfailing Holy
  Spirit.

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INSPIRATION

• Why is it so important to affirm that the Holy
  Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible?
• Accepting that the Holy Spirit inspired the
  writers of the Bible gives to our faith
  confidence in the Word of God. Confidence in the
  Word of God is essential to faith and life.

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ILLUMINATION

• Hebrews 412 New International Version (NIV)
• For the word of God is alive and active.
  Sharper than any double-edged sword, it
  penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,
  joints and marrow it judges the thoughts and
  attitudes of the heart.

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ILLUMINATION

• 1 Corinthians 214 New International Version
  (NIV)
• The person without the Spirit does not accept the
  things that come from the Spirit of God but
  considers them foolishness, and cannot understand
  them because they are discerned only through the
  Spirit.

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ILLUMINATION

• John 1027 New King James Version (NKJV)
• My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and
  they follow Me.

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ILLUMINATION

• Colossians 316 The Message
• Let the Word of Christ the Message have
  the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in
  your lives.

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ILLUMINATION

• John 1613 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
• The Spirit shows what is true
• and will come and guide you
• into the full truth ...

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LIFE APPLICATION

Self or Spirit? "I'm listening ... What do you
want me to do?"