Wait A Minute

Problem: “Wait a minute! You just said that all Scripture is God-breathed and that the whole Bible
is the Word of God, but I thought men wrote the Bible (such as David, Moses, Paul, Luke and Matthew).
How can the Bible be God’s Word if it was written by men?”

We find the answer here is 2 Peter 1:21 – For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

God was preparing David to write Psalm 23:1 even before David was born! The same was true for
Jeremiah. God was preparing Jeremiah to be a prophet even before he came forth out of his mother’s
womb.(see Jeremiah 1:5).

David grew up and became a shepherd. One day as he realized the loving care and protection of
the LORD, he wrote, “The Lord is My Shepherd. God the Holy Spirit was moving David in such a
way that the words that David wrote were exactly the words that God wanted
him to write. Listen to what David himself said at the end of his life in 2 Samuel 23:2-“The
The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.