We are continuing our discussion today about biblical worldview. If you have your Bibles, you might turn to one of the great Scriptures on the Scriptures themselves, 2 Timothy 3:16-17. If we are going to have a worldview that we call biblical then we have already seen that we have to draw that from Scriptures itself. Biblical worldview is seeing life through the lens and teaching of Scripture. If we are going to do that, then we must believe that the Word of God is given to us by Himself as what we call in this passage, “inspired of Him.” I believe if you are going to have a biblical worldview it is essential that you have a view of the Scriptures that it is God-breathed. 2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.” Now, the Legacy Bible from Master’s Seminary in California has done a recent upgrade from the NASB Bible and instead of using the term “inspired” as the NASB does, it says “God breathed.” So, the word inspired means breathed out. It is the very breath of God. A biblical worldview would incorporate the understanding that the Scriptures are breathed out by God. He says, all Scripture – every aspect of Scripture, all 66 books of Scripture, or what we call the Canon of Scripture, is God-breathed. It comes from the very breath of God.
It says the Word of God is profitable for four things:
1. Teaching – it tells us what is true.
2. Reproof – it tells us when we have gone astray and when we are wrong.
3. Correction – not only does it tell us when we have gone astray, but it tells us how to be corrected.
4. Training and Righteousness – when we put all of this together the Scripture takes us through a training process where the Word of God, when we meditate on it and study it, trains us to think like God and to live as God wants us to live.
2 Timothy 3:17 says, “so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” We have this person of God, the child of God, who believes this way and looks at Scripture from this angle. They are equipped, mended. This Word is used in the gospel to speak of mending of nets. It is the picture that a hole in a net for a fisherman won’t help him catch many fish. So, the fishermen would bring their nets up on the shore and mend those nets and fix those holes and throw them back out and use them again as they were now equipped for what they were made to do. Here, it is speaking of, equipping, or mending us. Fixing those holes in our lives so that we are equipped for every good work. The adequacy and sufficiency of Scriptures equips us for every good work . . .
