The following 10 quotes are from Tim Chester’s new release, Scripture Is Supreme. Scripture is Supreme is the second volume in the Essential Series, edited by Michael Reeves.
- “To say that Scripture is supreme is to say that the Bible has authority in everything that really matters—time and eternity, earth and heaven, humanity and God.”
- “God the Father has chosen to reveal himself. God the Son is his revelation.”
- “We accept the supremacy of Scripture because we accept the supremacy of its author.”
- “Scripture is where we hear God’s voice.”
- “Through the Holy Spirit, God himself speaks through the Bible as it is read and preached. That’s why Scripture is our supreme authority—because it is the voice of God.”
- “The supremacy which God-through-Scripture claims over us is the loving, liberating, life-giving rule of a loving, liberating, life-giving God. If ever we have reason to doubt this, then we can look to the cross, for at the cross we see the love of God in all its height, depth, and breadth (Rom. 5:8).”
- “Faced with two competing statements of fact, we believe the Bible. Faced with two competing courses of action, we follow the Bible. Reason, experience, and tradition are all good companions to Scripture. But problems arise if we ever let them become rivals to Scripture.”
- “The supremacy of Scripture is not a dictate imposed on us by a faceless despot. The words of Scripture are the words of Jesus, the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for this people.”
- “Scripture is alive and kicking. There is a constant process in which God is reshaping our lives through his Word, reclaiming his life-giving supremacy over our hearts.”
- “God becomes supreme in our hearts not by battering us into submission but by gently changing our desires and fuelling our love. This is why we read the Bible every day: to hear God speak to us in love and so be energised to serve him.”
