The Word of Truth
Good morning, Immanuel. All of Scripture leads us to Jesus.
“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness…” (2 Timothy 2:15-16).
Pastor TJ’s sermon on 2 Timothy 2:14-26 helped us to see the difference between irreverent babbling and rightly handling the word of truth. Irreverent babble leads people into a spiral of ungodliness, but rightfully handling the word of truth leads people to Christ. Indeed, the entire Bible is about Jesus and leads us to Him when rightly understood. Spurgeon says:
Don’t you know, young man, that from every town and every village and every hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road to London? So from every text in Scripture, there is a road toward the great metropolis, Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, ‘Now what is the road to Christ?’ I have never found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it, and if ever I find one . . . I will go over hedge and ditch but I would get my Master, for the sermon cannot do any good unless there is a savior of Christ in it.
Charles H. Spurgeon, “Christ Precious to Believers,” sermon at Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens, London, March 13, 1859.
God be praised!