The Restoration of God's People Part 3

... but there is something here that is in the background but it's clearly here that we need to focus on because of the needs of our day. And what is here is the principle of how we know God's word. I mean, how we have confidence that this book, these sixty-six books are the word of God.

And we need to understand that because if we don't have confidence in the truthfulness of this book, that we have the right sixty-six books, it'll undermine our ability to be mighty in the scriptures and mighty in prayer.

What we're going to look at today is the concept of canonicity. The word is "canon", canon. And the question we're going to ask is, "How do we know that the sixty-six books we have in the Bible are the right sixty-six books?"

This may not be something you've thought about in recent years but it's something you'll probably encounter at some point and many of you may have thought about this recently because it's part of a contemporary attack on the Bible...