ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION.
2 Timothy 3, beginning in verse 16: All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Romans 15 v 4 reads: For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. All Scripture is for my learning but not all Scripture is for my obedience, thus we are commanded in 2 Timothy 2 v 15 to do the following. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
This is the key that unlocks the Scriptures and opens the eyes of our understanding. It is shocking to many Christians, if not blasphemous to say to them that the whole Bible is for our learning but not every thing is for our obedience and yet the Bible is crystal clear on the subject. Before we get into specifics, it should be noted, that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, so everything in the Bible is accurately recorded. It is not the clever thoughts nor ideas of men. Whenever someone says to me that the Bible was written by men, my response is usually in this manner. Written with the hands of men, inspired by God.
As I mentioned earlier, that there are many Christians who considers it almost blasphemous to say the whole Bible is not for our obedience, neither is everything about us, because they think every applies, yet we know that God makes it virtually impossible for us to do so. For example, are we under the law of Moses? Do you shed the blood of bulls and goats and offer it up to God as a sacrifice for the forgiveness of your sins? Why don't you do that today? Because if you did, you would be making a mockery of the Cross of Christ, because you now understand that His death on the Cross was the once and for all sacrifice for the payment of all sins. Do you pray like David in the psalm for God to kill your enemies and blot out their name from under heaven? Or do you apply Romans 12 v 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse? Yet there are things in the psalm that you can use to make spiritual applications under grace, but the program under which they were living, was very quite different from the present dispensation of grace of God. After David committed adultery with Bathsheba, he was paid a visit by Nathan the prophet, who confronted him about his sin, which led to his repentance recorded in psalm 51 beginning in verse 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. If we were to pray for God not to cast us from His presence nor to take His Holy Spirit from us, in the present dispensation of grace, we would be placing ourselves back under the law. Before the Crucifixion of Christ, God the Holy Spirit never indwell the prophetic saints, He rested upon only a few of God's servants, until Gods purpose was accomplished, not so under grace. Not only are we indwelt by the Holy Spirit but we are sealed into the body of Christ until the day of the rapture. You are not impressing God if you are praying the way David did, because they never had this ceiling. Ephesians chapter 1 verses 13 – 14: In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession. God has given to us His Holy Spirit as a guarantee or as a downpayment that He intends to acquire the whole possession. How many times have we heard people saying if you don't forgive others, neither will God forgive you, and of course they are quoting the words of the Lord Jesus in the gospels. Matthew 6 vs 14 – 15: For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. But we have to remember that the Lord Jesus was ministering under the law of Moses to the children of Israel. He had not yet gone to the Cross, the dispensation of grace was still a secret hidden in the heart of God ( Ephesians chapter 3 ). Under grace we have total forgiveness of sins the moment we trust Christ as our Savior. Colossians 3 beginning in verse 12: Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you must also do. See how different the message of grace is from the law of Moses. Under grace God does not forgive us on the basis of how we forgive others. Why? Because as members of the body of Christ, we have been forgiven of all trespasses because of Christ's death on the Cross for our sins and there in lies our motivation to forgive others. Colossians 2 beginning in verse 13: And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.