2. But as for you, continue in what you have learned
and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you
learned it and how from childhood you have been
acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able
to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ
Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
and for training in righteousness, that the man of
God may be competent, equipped for every good
work.
3. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ
Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and
by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word;
be ready in season and out of season; reprove,
rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and
teaching. For the time is coming when people will
not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears
they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit
their own passions, and will turn away from
listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 3:14-4:4 (ESV)
6. 1. We ALL Need Washed With the Word
2. The Word is ALIVE, relevant for today.
7. For the word of God is living and active,
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to
the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and
of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and
intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)
8. I will delight in your statutes; I will not
forget your word.
Psalm 119:16 (ESV)
9. History Timeline
• 1400 - 1500 BC: God wrote the 10
Commandments in ancient Hebrew on stone.
• 500 BC: 39 books that make up the Old Testament
were completed and preserved in Hebrew on
scrolls.
• First Century AD: New Testament had been
completed and was preserved in Greek on
papyrus.
• 393 AD: Synod of Hippo officially approved the
New Testament for the entire Church.
10. History Timeline
• 500 AD: Bible had been translated into over 500
languages.
• 600 AD: Bible was restricted to only Latin. All
other versions were considered illegal.
• 400-1400 AD: Known as the “Dark Ages.”
• 500’s - 1300’s: Secret Bible society made up of the
“Culdees” continued to study God’s word.
• 1380: John Wycliffe translated the Bible into
English.
11. History Timeline
• 1415: John Hus burned at the stake for his stance for
the Bible. Wycliffe’s bibles used to start the fire.
• 1517: Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Thesis on
the church door at the church in Wittenberg.
• 1526: William Tyndale printed the first English Bible.
• 1536: Tyndale was incarcerated before he was
strangled and burned at the stake. Before dying,
Tyndale prayed, “Oh Lord, open the King of England’s
eyes".
• 1539: King Henry VIII finally allowed (and even
funded) the printing of an English Bible.
12. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 (ESV)
