Well, what about the Holy Spirit? “Howbeit when He, Who is the Spirit of Truth, shall come, He shall guide you into all Truth,” [John 16:13]. What did the Holy Spirit do? He came to guide the human family into all Truth. He came to leave us the Will and Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ—the revelation of God Himself—the Truth. And we have it! This book [the Bible] is inspired! It is inbreathed! Isn’t it interesting that the word “spirit” can be translated “breath?” When the “breath” departs us, we’re dead. And a doctor writes on the death notice, “expired”—expirito—a Latin word that means “the spirit has left.” The same thing is true if the Holy Spirit leaves us—we are without the Spirit of God and we’re not God’s child anymore. We’re spiritually dead.

This book is a spirit-filled book. The men who wrote it were inspired by the Spirit. Paul said, “All Scripture is inspired of God, and is profitable for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God…” and you can translate it this way… “may be perfect, completely furnished to every good work,” [2 Timothy 3:16-17]. There’s nothing lacking in this Word. He’s given us all things that thoroughly furnish us unto salvation.

But who gave the Word? The men who wrote it were instruments. I don’t believe their personality was destroyed. I think the Spirit worked through them and used them, and what we have is what God wanted the world to know.

Hey, do you know that there’s no book that’s been attacked like the Bible? It’s 2,000 years old and our New Testament is still going strong. It has been translated into more languages, tongues and dialects than any other document in all the world. It holds the record as the most translated document in all of the world. The Old Testament, along with the New Testament, completes the Bible—and the Old Testament is the second most translate document in all the world. The New Testament has been translated far more than any document. Hey, it’s still on the “Best Seller List.” Now, people may get it to press flowers in or to hold pictures, but it still sells more than any other document in the world.

So, it came from the Holy Spirit. And we’re talking about Truth. The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible to record for us the Truth, and the Holy Spirit is called “the Spirit of Truth.” “Howbeit when He Who is the Spirit of Truth shall come, He shall guide you into all Truth,”[John 16:13].

What about the church? Well, the church is the spiritual body of our Lord Jesus Christ. He’s the head, and we’re the body. (These are metaphors.) Jesus is the bridegroom, and we’re the bride. He’s the King, and we’re the kingdom. All of these metaphors describe a beautiful relationship. 1 Timothy 3:15 says that the church is “the pillar and ground of the Truth.” (That’s the old King James translation. I still like that—“pillar and ground.”) Well, if we were to put it in more modern language, we’d say that it’s the columns that support the whole superstructure of a building, and the foundation—that’s the ground.