Amen! An excellent biblical sermon/message preached by Pastor Josh Buice. Praise Christ.

One of the best sermons I have heard. So biblical and so true. Glory to the King.

Mensagem maravilhosa, devemos sempre crer na suficiência das escrituras. 👏👏👏

Thank u for teaching the Truth... To God be all the Glory!!

*Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your conferences!* I will likely never be able to attend any in person. So, I cannot tell you how much it means to me to be able to watch them online. God bless you all at G3!

Praise be to God!!

Amen 💜

Wow... gotta go back and listen and write down so many things. Great sermon ty sir. R.C. Sproul would have been proud of you sir!

This is awesome. Thank you for speaking the truth. You've opened my eyes

Wow! What a Powerful Sermon Message👍☝️

Scripture is Enough!

Wow! This was so good🔥🔥!!!

Amen!

Phenomenal sermon

Just as amazing as watching it live stream. THANK YOU for your faithfulness to God's Word.

The preacher asks, "The question is, "Is God's word complete?"" As if to say, God no longer speaks outside of the Scriptures. "Either we have a closed cannon or not...we don't need any more heavenly tourists..." What is really sad about this group of Christians is that they cannot hold the supremacy and all-sufficiency of the scriptures in tension with God's very nature to speak to His people through the Holy Spirit. You don't have to be threatened by people who claim to have gone to heaven or hell. Or people who pray contemplatively to listen for God's voice when we have such a rich historical account of people who regularly "heard" from God. Apostle Paul comes to mind. It almost sounds like they love the written word, more than the living Word. God gave us the written word, so that we can experience the living God. The Scriptures don't point to itself, but to its Author. God didn't inspire 40+ authors over 1500 years, and explicitly gave some 33,000 promises and 6468 commands just so he could stop speaking for eternity and remain a God enshrined within his holy scriptures. Why? Why would God do that? All-sufficiency of scriptures does not need to imply that God has given all that is sufficient for our life in his written word, that would imply that our faith is purely intellectual. Even the preacher himself doe not experience God in such a purely logical and intellectual manner. He too has feelings and emotions for God. He too loves God with his heart, his soul, and mind and that is why he fights to advocate for the importance of God's Word. But the way in which he goes about fighting for God ends up denying an integral dimension of our relationship with Him: God still continues to inspire His people through His Spirit living within them. God still breathes to this day. God still has new prophecies to give to His people about tomorrow. God still provides miraculous experiences to His people who need them. If God chooses to give someone an out-of-body experience to heaven in order to save them, who are we to tell him, "You can't do that Lord!" Not every story about heaven comes from attention-seeking behaviour. A child wakes up from a coma and do you think that the first thing that comes to his mind is, "If I tell people I went to heaven while I was "dead" then I'm going to get so much attention." Really? Doesn't it sound far more likely that perhaps the amount of attention, living under a microscope your whole life, living with such an incredible story, eventually became a burden because people kept judging him based on his experiences? Anyways, I urge you, dear brothers and sisters, you cannot neatly box the living God into a neat definition the way this preacher does. God is not a closed cannon. Believers throughout all of history have understood this about God. God reveals what is sufficient for us, but reserves so much of himself a mystery to us. I want to urge you, do not to love the written word of God, more than the living Father in heaven who wants to be your ALL, who wants to be involved in every decision of life, small and big, and who wants you to truly experience the promise of His written word: "I will never leave you nor forsake you. I will be with you always." The Emmanuel promise of God is a promise that God is present with us in every facet of life if only we will take off our blinders and presuppositions about God. Peace be with you.

This convicted me so much of how I have responded to my pastor and his wife. How impatient I have been with them :/ how patient the Lord was and is with me! Oh what mighty words are spoken in this sermon! Bless you all ❤️

I’ve never, not even for a second, regretted leaving Reformed Christianity for Catholicism. Best thing I’ve ever done. So thankful for the Catholic Church. 🙏🏻📿⛪️

Did he quote Bruce Springsteen at the end?

“ALL Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (II Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬) “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬-‭19‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

What about just believing the "GOSPEL" and being saved. I Corinthians 15:1-4 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

Major errors of the reformation is to treat the Bible as if it’s a coherent textbook of theology doctrine or morality as if the purpose of scripture is to give us a coherent account of Christian life. That’s not the point of scripture and nothing in the Bible says that about itself. You pick up the Bible and it is a disparate book of different genre cobbled together over thousand of years by different people without clear form of organization to it. The catholic position has always been that the Bible is more or less unintelligible apart from the structure of catholic sacred tradition (including the Catechism of the Catholic Church) that provides that coherence. Did Jesus tell us to believe some abstract theological doctrine like a proposition of the nature of God or salvation? Never. If fact what you find in Jesus’ pedagogical method is something different. Mark chapter 4 tells us that Jesus never spoke a word to the people without saying something in the form of parables. Matthew chapter 13 tells us that Jesus spoke in parables precisely because they are hard to understand. Jesus did not want to be easily understood. He wanted to be provocative. He wanted to be thought provoking. Jesus did teach by demonstrative provocation to reveal to the people their own hardness of heart. He showed them that they were unwilling to make a stand in favor of human dignity by forcing them to give an answer and they refused to do so. He deliberately transgressed social mores. He would eat with tax collectors and sinners, he would spend time with lepers, he taught his disciples to eat with unwashed hands. All these were to provoke a response, to generate an insight, to unveil a truth about people’s characters. Why? Because he was trying to reorient them in the world, not to an abstract set of belief system but to the actual dignity of human beings and an imitation to the love of God who causes the rain to fall on both the righteous and the wicked. The teaching of Jesus is deeply oriented towards the reformation of character, and that’s where this profound continuity with St Paul comes in. The whole point of the Gospel for Paul is that we should have the mind of Christ. The whole ministry of Jesus is about trying to elicit, provoke, invite, tease this transformation of consciousness so that we live these sacrificial lives in favor of the poor, the weak and the outcast. Paul says that’s the goal, to have this kind of mind. Paul’s message was to treat others better than yourself, live charitably in community reconciling differences and don’t sleep around. This is so difficult for the human person to follow. For St. Paul the tribal division he was concerned with is jews and gentiles, and the model of reconciliation is the self emulation of Jesus who was willing to be crucified and killed to serve those that otherwise would have an enmity with. This was what inspired MLK Jr in the civil rights movement in that he would offer himself and the lives of his community in a non violent protest in the hopes of loving their opponents into treating them charitably. That’s the spirit of the gospel.

Wasn’t Paul referring to the OT in this passage? Timothy only had the Jewish Scriptures to read in his youth. This passage says nothing about the written Scriptures being the ONLY Rule of Faith for the Christian. The “reformers” started the splitting of the Body of Christ and it continues today. Can words printed on paper settle disputes involving orthodox Christian dogma? Every heretical idea put forward to be believed was backed up by the heretic’s individual exegesis of Scripture! No PROTESTant conference will stop the division. The Bible itself is Tradition of Jesus’s One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Thanks be to the Catholic Church for giving us the 73 !!!!!!! Books of the canonized Bible.