Questioning the Slump Test

If you were to contract a new house, you can request a slump test on the concrete before your foundation is poured. This is a very accurate test to demonstrate the quality of the concrete being used in your house. If it slumps too much it is bad. If the concrete doesn't slump at all it is bad.

But let's say, hypothetically, your slump is just right and the contractors proceed with the construction of your dream house. Then a few years after you have moved in and are enjoying your house, there is a knock on your door. You answer it and find standing there one of the workers who helped build your house. He tells you with shame on his face that the contractor somehow faked the slump test. The concrete that was used to pour your foundation was inferior quality and will begin to crack and cause all sorts of problems.

Now every time you hear an odd sound in your house, you think, "Is this it? Is the house going to fall in or the walls begin to crack?" You have that doubt in your mind. You are fearful of adding on or even hanging something on the wall, because if the foundation isn't sound you could loose it all. And all of this is caused because someone you don't even know put a question in your mind.

I see this all the time in the media and in today's schools. Talking heads and academic scholars question the Word of God and those questions begin to wear on us as Christians. Over the next few weeks, I am going to handle a few of the most prevalent questions that are out there, slamming you in the face every day.

Let me leave you this morning with just this bit of encouragement from Scripture:

2 Timothy 3:16-17 "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind."

So if God cannot lie, and all Scripture is inspired (or breathed) by God, then it stands that there is NO lie in Scripture. Those that try to tell you otherwise are just trying to get you to doubt that which no man should doubt.

Sola Scriptura