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Why is the Bible reliable, authoritative, or even necessary? DeYoung tackles these questions and more as he builds a compelling case for trusting, using, and relying on Scripture as the Word of God for all of life.
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My trust in Gods Word is greater, my submission to Gods Word is deeper, and my love for Gods Word is sweeter as a result of reading this book. For these reasons, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
David Platt, Senior Pastor, The Church at Brook Hills,
Birmingham, Alabama; author, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith
from the American Dream
This little book is a highly readable introduction to Scriptures teaching about Scripture that preserves the contours of a responsible and informed doctrine of Scripture, without getting bogged down in arcane details. Buy this book by the case and distribute copies to elders, deacons, Sunday school teachers, and anyone in the church who wants to understand a little better what the Bible is. Bad doctrine springs in part from ignorance. Blessed are those teachers and preachers in the church who, like the author of this book, combat ignorance by getting across mature theology in a lucid style that avoids generating theological indigestion.
D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament,
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
One of my prayers for the next twenty years of ministry, if the Lord sees fit to grant me that, is that we might see the level of biblical literacy exponentially grow. For that to happen we must learn what the Scriptures are and how heavily we can lean on them. Kevin DeYoung serves this end well in Taking God At His Word. May the God of the Word be known and cherished all the more because of this little book.
Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor, The Village Church, Dallas, Texas; President, Acts 29 Church Planting Network
This is a brilliant, succinct, yet thorough study of the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, based on what Scripture says about itself. Clarity and passion are the distinguishing marks of Kevin DeYoungs writing, and this may be his finest, most important work yet.
John MacArthur, Pastor, Grace Community Church,
Sun Valley, California
If youre looking for a clearly and simply stated doctrine of Scripture, here it is. Kevin DeYoung has accomplished his aim of communicating what the Bible says about the Bible. Hes done it with the qualities we have come to anticipate from him: efficiency, pastoral care, wit, and rigor. Most of all, he has let the Word speak for itself.
Kathleen B. Nielson, Director of Womens Initiatives,
The Gospel Coalition
Taking God At His Word
WHY THE BIBLE IS KNOWABLE,
NECESSARY, AND ENOUGH, AND
WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOU AND ME
KEVIN DeYOUNG
Taking God At His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
Copyright 2014 by Kevin DeYoung
Published by Crossway
1300 Crescent Street
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.
Published in association with the literary agency of Wolgemuth & Associates, Inc.
Cover design: Faceout Studio, www.faceoutstudio.com
First printing 2014
Printed in the United States of America
Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway. 2011 Text Edition.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
All emphases in Scripture quotations have been added by the author.
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4335-4240-4
ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-4243-5
PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-4241-1
Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-4242-8
Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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To the saints who are in East Lansing,
for listening to a decades worth of sermons
and always taking God at his Word
My soul keeps your testimonies; I love them exceedingly.
PSALM 119:167
This book begins in a surprising place: with a love poem.
Dont worry, its not from me. Its not from my wife. Its not from a card, a movie, or the latest power ballad. Its not a new poem or a short poem. But it is most definitely a love poem. You may have read it before. You may have sung it, too. Its the longest chapter in the longest book in the longest half of a very long collection of books. Out of 1,189 chapters scattered across 66 books written over the course of two millennia, Psalm 119 is the longest.
And for good reason.
This particular psalm is an acrostic. There are 8 verses in each stanza, and within each stanza the 8 verses begin with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet. So verses 18 all begin with aleph, verses 916 with beth, verses 1724 with gimel, and on and on for 22 stanzas and 176 versesall of them exultant in their love for Gods word. In 169 of these verses, the psalmist makes some reference to the word of God. Law, testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, rules, promises, wordthis language appears in almost every verse, and often more than once in the same verse. The terms have different shades of meaning (e.g., what God wants, or what God appoints, or what God demands, or what God has spoken), but they all center on the same big idea: Gods revelation in words.
Surely it is significant that this intricate, finely crafted, single-minded love poemthe longest in the Bibleis not about marriage or children or food or drink or mountains or sunsets or rivers or oceans, but about the Bible itself.
The Poets Passion
I imagine many of us dabbled in poetry way back when. You know, years before you had kids, before you got engaged, or, if youre young enough, before last semester. Ive written a few poems in my day, and even if we were best friends I still wouldnt show them to you. Im not embarrassed by the subject matterwriting for and about my lovely bridebut I doubt the form is anything to be proud of. For most of us, writing a love poem is like making cookies with wheat germits supposed to be the real thing but doesnt taste quite right.
Some love poems are amazing, like Shakespeares Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, and all that jazz. Beautiful. Brilliant. Breathtaking.
Other poems, not so much. Like this poem I found online by a man reliving his teenage romantic genius:
Look! Theres a lonely cow
Hay! Cow!
If I were a cow, that would be me
If love is the ocean, Im the Titanic.
Baby I burned my hand on
The frying pan of our love
But still it feels better
Than the bubble gum that hold us together
Which you stepped on
Words fail, dont they? Both in commenting on the poem and in the poem itself. Still, this bovine- and bubble gumthemed piece of verbal art does more with subtlety and imagery than the entry entitled Purse of Love:
Girl you make me
Brush my teeth
Comb my hair
Use deodorant
Call you
Youre so swell
I suppose this poem may capture a moment of real sacrifice for our high school hero. But whatever the earnestness of intention, it is strikingly bad poetry. Most poems written when we are young and in love feel, in retrospecthow shall we say?a bit awkward. This is partly because few teenagers are instinctively good poets. Its about as common as cats being instinctively friendly. But the other reason our old love poems can be painful to read is that we find ourselves uncomfortable with the exuberant passion and extravagant praise. We think, Yikes! I sound like a nineteen-year-old in love. I cant believe I was so over-the-top. Talk about melodramatic! It can be embarrassing to get reacquainted with our earlier unbounded enthusiasm and unbridled affection, especially if the relationship being praised never worked out or if the love has since grown cold.
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