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How Inspired Scripture Gives Us Jesus: The Inspired Readers - Steffen Jenkins

What does it mean to say that Scripture is 'inspired'? We see that Scripture is what it is because God is who He is. In Scripture, God Himself speaks and offers us His Son and all that He has won for us. By hearing Scripture with faith, we do more than learn about Jesus: we enter into a relationship with Him. This is part five in a five-part Master Class series on 'Word of Life: How Inspired Scripture Gives Us Jesus'. 5. The Inspired Readers We have seen that the same Spirit who inspired the Bible is also at work in us as we receive the Bible. Christ helps us as we hear and read, by His Spirit. The good news is that Christ helps us, by His same Spirit and also through His body. As individuals, we are not the only Christians whom the Spirit helps to hear and read the Bible: we are surrounded by others, who are Jesus’ gift to the Church, as we all build each other up. God uses ‘people, not only in the narrow sense of prophets and apostles, pastors and teachers, but also including parents and relatives, schoolteachers and friends generally’. - Herman Bavinck Find more great talks like this at https://www.FOCLonline.org. Remember to like and subscribe to see all of our talks! Steffen G. Jenkins is half German, half Welsh, was born in Spain but again in England. He serves as Senior Lecturer in Greek and Biblical Studies at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom. He has served at various seminaries in Cuba, as tutor in Biblical Languages at Tyndale House (Cambridge, England), and as pastor in an evangelical Presbyterian church. He is the author of Imprecations in the Psalms: Love for Enemies in Hard Places (Pickwick); a Greek textbook for pastors who have forgotten their Greek or who want to start from scratch (Cambridge University Press); Scripture is Inspired (Union Publishing); and the forthcoming Hearing God’s Voice in Leviticus (IVP) and Enjoy the Psalms (Union). He is no good at sports (whether playing, watching or discussing). 26MCL0425E