March 2026
Sola Scriptura, Solus Christus, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Soli Deo Gloria
(Scripture Alone, Christ Alone, Faith Alone, Grace Alone, Glory to God Alone)… how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. (II Timothy 3: 14-16)
Paul draws our attention to these familiar words. Verses 15, 16, of II Timothy 3. Here we learn that the Bible is all we need to make us wise unto salvation in Christ Jesus. Paul rejoices in this passage that Timothy has been taught the Holy Scripture from his youth. Paul continues to address Timothy as a young man, which may be of comfort to some of us because Timothy was perhaps forty-years old at this time. Timothy has known the Holy Scripture from his youth.
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young. Because you have been made wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus through your knowledge of the Holy Scripture.
That is the very purpose for which those Old Testament Scriptures were written, to lead Paul and Timothy and you to a knowledge of salvation in Christ Jesus. We need no other book. No other teacher. The Word of God alone.
The Bible prepares us for the coming of Christ by showing us how sin entered into human experience in the beginning of human history, and how the contagion of sin spread through the human race across the ages, and how God, in the Old Testament, sought to deal with sin through His righteous laws and commandments.
But, oh, how God’s people resisted, time and time again and, oh, how we resist today.
Finally in the pages of Holy Scripture, we see how God sent Jesus His Son, to take the burden of our sin upon Himself. To die in sin and for sin on the cross. To save His people from sin and then we read, in the New Testament, how Jesus rose again on the third day to give His people newness of life.
It is in the pages of Holy Scripture that we hear God calling a people into fellowship with Himself through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. The call comes to people,
Come to Christ, ask Him to forgive you and He will forgive you. He will accept you and give you new life.
That’s what we find in the Bible, and that is why we confess that whatever it is that man has to believe to be saved, is taught only in the Scripture.
God’s Word is enough to lead us to salvation in Christ Jesus.