Re: God's strength knows only the limitation of you not receiving it.

In our first article on all-sufficiency, printed in last month's TRUTH MAGAZINE, we emphasized that Jesus Christ is an all-sufficient Savior. If you ever had any doubt that He is sufficient, we hope that we removed that doubt. In this article we want to suggest that the Bible is an all-sufficient book. By "all sufficient," we merely mean that the Bible is equal to the end proposed by God for it. It is all that we need to lead us from earth to heaven. The fact that the Bible is the product of an omnipotent God should be sufficient proof to demonstrate to us that it is sufficient to accomplish God's purpose for it. The Bible affirms its own inspiration of God (2 Tim. 3:16, 17; 2 Pet. 1 :20, 21; I Cor. 2:13; Gal. 1:12). The Bible also refers to God as an infinite God who is perfect in all His ways (Ps. 18:30; Isa.. 55 :8, 9; 1 Cor. 1:21-25). Therefore when God gave us the Bible, being an Almighty God (Rev. 4:8), He made the book adequate to the ends He proposed for it.

The Bible Claims To Be an All-sufficient Book. Not only does the Bible claim for itself inspiration, it also DE CLAREs that it is all-sufficient. Observe what the Bible claims for itself in the following passages.

• 2 Tim. 3:16, 17 - "Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work." By the Scriptures the man of God is outfitted unto every good work.

• 2 Pet. 1 :3, 4 - "Seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that called us . . ." What more could you want?

• John 20:30, 31 -- "Many other signs therefore did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book: but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name."
• The Holy Spirit guided the inspired writers to reveal "all truth" (Jno. 16:18) for all time (Jude 3). No other revelation is needed.

• "Isa. 55:10, 11 - "For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." The Bible may not accomplish everything some man may think it should accomplish. But God DE CLAREs it will accomplish everything He wants it to accomplish. That is precisely what we mean when we say the Bible is an allsufficient book. We mean it is capable of performing the things that God intended that it perform.

• Man is not able to find his own way to heaven (Jer. 10:23), If he were, there would have been no need for the Bible. But since men flounder in the quagmires of sin, God gave them a revelation to "open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God" (Acts 26:18). The gospel is God's power to save (Rom. 1:16), and it is perfectly sufficient, being "able to save your souls" (Jas. 1:21).