Dec. 20, 2024

Biblical Interpretation Series

Biblical Interpretation Series

A look at a series on Biblical Interpretation found on the Sermons 2.0 app

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A look at a series on Biblical Interpretation found on the Sermons 2.0 app

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon, everyone.

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It is Friday, December the twentieth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently two fifty six pm Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas, Friday, December the twentieth. Now,

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I guess I'm supposed to be saying it's the most

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wonderful time of the year. But ladies and gentlemen, I

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say this every year. This is never the most wonderful

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time of the year for me. It really really isn't.

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I talk about all my frustrations about this time of

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the year. I talk about it and just a lot

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of just negative feelings, bad feelings, sometimes discouragement, sometimes depress

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it just and maybe it's even multiplied or magnified this

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year for a lot of reasons. Maybe there's just a

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lot of reasons why. I mean, if you go back

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to December twenty twenty three and you listen to some

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of those broadcasts, I mean, I didn't even think I

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would still be broadcasting at this point. I mean, I

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mean I figured the church would be gone by December

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twenty twenty four. Long gone. I figured the podcast most

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likely would be gone by December twenty twenty four. So

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there's a lot of me that didn't even plan for

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it to be here. In a lot of ways, I

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just there was a part of me, at least even

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if I said the right words, there was at least

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a part of me just like, hey, this is all over.

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It's all come to an end. You had a good run.

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It's the end. Just prepare for and you kind of

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prepare for it, and then you kind of look around, going, wait, weird,

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December of twenty twenty four. How did we went from

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December twenty twenty three. It's basically over to December twenty

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twenty four, and it's like now what now?

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What?

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Now?

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What? Well?

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I know the one thing I need to do is

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try to bring at least something to some kind of

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satisfying conclusion, right, and which is the sermon's two point

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zero app sermon challenge. I need to bring that to

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some type of satisfying conclusion. Now in my mind, once

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I realized, okay, I'm still going to be here at

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the end of December, all right, I can bring this

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series to a conclusion. Well, then it became a parent

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Well I'm not going to be able to really broadcast

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from like I don't know, I don't know the exact dates,

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but there's going to be some days leading up to

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basically the end of December three the last three days

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of December. Maybe right there at the end, I'm not

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going to be able to turn on the microphone and

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really bring it to an end on I don't know,

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New Year's Eve. I mean, wouldn't that be a good

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time to bring it to a conclusion, right, I mean,

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right there the last day of twenty twenty four. I mean,

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that makes the most sense, right that, But it's not

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going to work that way. Then it's like, well, now

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what do I do? Okay, how do I bring this

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to a conclusion? And how do you even bring this

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to a conclusion? Right? How do you really end? Hey, guys,

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we've spent all year, I mean, and do I really

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I mean, at the same time, I've got to be

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very careful here, correct, I mean, come on, let's just

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be honest, right, this entire sermons two point oh app

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sermon challenge that we started in December of twenty twenty three.

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If you if you just go back and look at

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the podcast, I think we can all agree it's driven

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the entire podcast. It's driven the podcast. It's driven what

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is being preached at the church. It really took over everything.

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It really dominated the entire year, even though I had

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all kinds of other ideas for at least part of

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twenty twenty four. The Sermon's two point oh app sermon

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challenge that we started in December of twenty twenty three

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dominated twenty twenty four. It took over, it drove, it

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controlled the narrative. It I mean, it was the thing.

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When you've given really that much time and effort to it,

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you've got to be very careful when you reach the

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end of twenty twenty four because if I start trying

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to figure out, well, I wonder how many people participated.

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I wonder how many people can pull out their notebook

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and say, look, I listened to at least one sermon

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every day of the entire year. And what if I

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discover that it may have been driving me, it may

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have been controlling everything I was doing, but for the

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majority of people, they were not even participating. I mean,

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do I really want that information? I probably, I probably don't.

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I don't. I probably don't want that information. But then

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ultimately doesn't matter, right, should I even worry about whether

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I see I mean, like you just get into all

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of these questions. So all of this, it's just making

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the end of this year very very, very complicated and difficult.

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And I can this time of year, oh man, oh

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the story. Yeah, there's so much about this time of

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year that just but so what can I do? What

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can I do? I can sit here, I could create

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little episodes talking about, you know, the difficulties many people

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face during the holiday season. We could talk about seasonal depression.

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We could talk about trauma. I mean, I could do

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a lot of that. But that's just I mean I

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do that a lot anyway with the holidays because I

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always feel bad for people who are suffering. That doesn't

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really accomplish much, and that only probably just leads me deeper, deeper, deeper,

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deeper into the dark pit that I don't like to

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be in. Right, So, most likely, though it still will

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probably happen, probably at eleven o'clock or midnight somewhere Christmas Eve,

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Christmas Day, I'll probably have the microphone on talking about

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those exact types of things because well, I maybe it helps.

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I don't know so, because I do feel bad for

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anyone caught in those similar situations. Who knows, who knows?

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I mean, there's so much we could discuss, but I

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do know this, I've got to do something right. So

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the sermons two point oh app sermon challenge, that's what

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we have to focus on. That's where we have to go.

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So here's what I want to do. First thing. And

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I know that was a six minute long, you know,

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rambling introduction, but you get the IEA. Maybe the rambling

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there kind of captures my own feelings right here, not

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really knowing exactly what to do because it is I do.

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I feel a little bit kind of lost right now

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where to go? And I am also just contemplating. There's

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a lot of things I could also talk about, contemplating

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what was the overall lessons learned from the sermon's two

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point oh app sermon challenge, And I don't know if

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I've got any. Yeah, there's maybe some frustrating lessons, but

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there's also some positive ones as well, but I don't

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really want to get into that right now. So here's

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what we're going to do. We're reaching the end of

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the year. I want to point you to a series

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on the Sermon's two point oh app that could provide

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you lots of content between now and the end of

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the year, even if on those days that I can't broadcast,

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you could really end the year strong. So I want

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to point you to the series, and we're gonna review

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one of the messages in the series and the reason

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I chose it. It's only twenty three minutes long, so

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that's a nice easy one to try to review, and

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it just adds another episode into this. Well, what's been

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a very long series. It's taken up the entire year.

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So the broadcaster and question I want to point you too.

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If you have the Sermon's two point oh app, you

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may want to open it right now. Look for Central

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Baptist Church of Orange Park. Central Baptist Church of Orange Park.

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They currently have two thousand, one hundred and eighty one

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sermons available all right, Central Baptist Church of Orange Part

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they currently have two and eighty one sermons available right there.

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It just gives you, you know, a lot of content

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to listen to. Now. The only reason I stumbled upon

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this is today. At numerous times I've sat here in

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front of this microphone, going, man, I gotta do something.

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What do I do? I gotta do? I don't know

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what do I do? What do I do? What do

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I do? And just getting more frustrated. Well, I kept

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looking at new sermons and different things, and I found

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a message entitled let me see here. The message was

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entitled Biblical Numerology Part eight, Biblical Numerology Part eight, and

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I was like, oh, man, okay, wow, eight parts on

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biblical numerology. That I could take that apart. Now, I

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may get so frustrated and irritated by it, but I

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definitely would like to possibly hear it. So I'm like, well,

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I can't just start reviewing a part eight. Let me

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go find part one. So I went to find part

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one and I realized, oh, this is in a series

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entitled Biblical Interpretation. Biblical Interpretation, and I noticed they have

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thirty six sermons in this series. All right, So the

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broadcaster let me go back, is Central Baptist Church of

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Orange Park. If you find it, then just go down

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again to sermons two point oh. App anyone can download

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it Google Apple, It's free. Anyone can download it. But

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if you kind of swipe down, you'll see recent sermons

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Biblical Numerology Part eight you'll see that, but if you'll

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kind of go down to recent series, you'll see the

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series Biblical Interpretation thirty six sermons. The first sermon was

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in February the fourteenth, twenty twenty four, so they've been

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working on this series all year, all right. And the

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very first message, which was how to be a Student

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of the Bible Part one. Then there was how to

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be a Student of the Bible Part two, and I

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thought about grabbing one of those, but I'm like, I

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bet you it's going to be the basic stuff. It

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wouldn't hurt to hear it. But you know, I want

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to be interested as well. I want to jump in

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this as well. So I just kind of looked and

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looked and I'm like, oh, wait, here we go, here

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we go. We have general Laws of Biblical Interpretation, General

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Laws of Biblical Interpretation, and this one was preached on

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March the six, twenty twenty four, and I'm like, okay,

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let's choose that one. So General Laws of Biblical Interpretation

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they have part one, Part two, Part two B, Part

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two C, Part two D, Part two E. All of

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General Laws of Biblical Interpretation now, what I would like

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to do is I mean, and I'm not saying I'm

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going to be able to pull this off, but I

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definitely want to listen to all of these I would

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like to review all of these laws of Biblical interpretation.

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And for some reason, I can't You heard me kind

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of pause for a minute because I was looking at

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all these messages. Hang on, let me let me reach

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down here. I feel I could be wrong. Hang on,

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I just feel like I kind of feel like some

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of this may be taken from the Schofield the Scofield

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Reference Bible. Right now, we used some of this in

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our study of dispensations, and we use the Scofield Reference

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Bible because in the in the beginning of the Scofield

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Reference Bible, you have introduction, right, you have a panoramic

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view of the Bible, and within a lot of that,

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I think someone could take it and turn it into

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general laws of biblical interpretation. I really do. So. I

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could be wrong, but I'm gonna hold my scho Filled

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Bible here because I think that this is where it

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was taken from. If so, we've already covered this, but

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obviously it may be broken down in a different way.

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Let me see, is there anything else? Hang on, let

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me go to the back here. Okay, no, just the

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beginning part. So yeah, I mean they maybe they based

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it a little bit on this. We'll find out. We'll

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find out. Just when I was looking at this, I'm like, man,

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because it's got, for example, it's got the law of

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first mention, the law of first mention. We read about

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that and talked about that law of first mention and

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our study on dispensationalism using the Schofield reference Bible, the

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law of progressive mention, the law of progressive mention. Well

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that when you have the law of first mention and

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the law of progressive mention, that is really the scho

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filled his whole reference. I think he uses the first mention.

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the first mention of something, the last mention, and then

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something in the middle. So it just seems like that

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this is very much based off Schofield system. So yeah,

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particular law. See, they got the general laws particular law

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of biblical interpretation. That's interesting. The dispensation principle introduction dispensation

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number one innocence, dispensation two, conscience, dispensation three, human government.

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a church that's dispensational, and I'm going to argue most

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likely greatly influenced by the Scofield reference Bible. I could

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be wrong, but that's what I'm sensing now that I'm

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looking at it. So what we're going to do is

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we're just going to take general laws a Biblical interpretation

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part one and we're just going to jump in and

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see how far we can go. We'll just see how

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far we can go. And this is a part of

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you've missed a lot. There's an entire series there. You

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can find the series if you'll look us up on

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the Sermon's two point oh app Theology Central. If you

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you can find the entire series. I think it's a

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wild ride. I think it's been crazy. But what's I

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think what's most interesting is if you look at many

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oh app challenge, which is kind of crazy the way

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it's really dominated everything, But I think this should be.

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I mean, look, I always want to become a better

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student of the Bible. You know how much I care

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about Hermoneutics, how much I care about biblical interpretation. So

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I always want to listen to anyone offer me the

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laws of biblical interpretation because whenever you say general laws

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or particular laws of biblical interpretation. Now this is nobody

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likes when I say this, but we have to admit this.

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here are the particular laws. Let me make it very clear,

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other churches would tell him that his laws are wrong

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and they would have their own laws. And if no

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Christians can agree on the actual laws of biblical interpretation,

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then there's never going to be an agreement on interpretation

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because we can't even agree on the laws that is

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supposed to govern interpretation. And even when you have Christians

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who say that they agree with certain laws, like you know,

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they'll say, well you interpret scripture with scripture. Everyone says that,

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and they come up with a completely different interpretation, so

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that law doesn't even guarantee agreement and interpretation. So it's

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really it's much more a free for all than anyone

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wants to admit. But I definitely want to hear the

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laws he's going to put four. We will analyze them,

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critique them, discuss them. Maybe we will agree, maybe we'll disagree.

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If he took a lot of this from Schofield, you know,

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did not. And we're gonna find out right now.

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How he first turn to Secrepedter chapter one. Secrepeter Chapter one.

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There's a lot of confusion today among those who name

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the name of Christ. Satan is using some of this

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confusion to keep those who were lost blind to the

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truth of the Gospel. There are many believers who are

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ignorant of the whole counsel of God, especially as it

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relates to Church truth, and much of the confusion that

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prevails today stems from faulty interpretation of the Word of God.

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Okay, so his basic premise here, there's much misas understanding,

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much confusion, and it comes down to faulty interpretation. Of

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God's word. Now again, we have to just be honest

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about this. A Presbyterian will say that Baptists reject infant

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baptism because of our faulty interpretation of God's word. A

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Baptist will tell a Presbyterian, the reason you reject only

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believers baptism by immersion, and the reason you don't reject

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infant baptism is because of your faulty interpretation of the Scripture.

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reject Calvinism is because of your faulty interpretation of the

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Word of God. The non Calvinist will tell the Calvinists,

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the reason you believe Calvinism is because of your faulty

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interpretation of God's work. And it goes on and on

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and on and on and on and on and on.

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is the right way, and everyone else's way who disagrees

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with him, is the wrong way. Do you see how

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maddening that is?

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Only just throw your hands up and go, well, what's

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the answer. I don't know what the answer is, but

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so he's like, hey, so basically the way he's saying,

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is those people who misunderstand. Come on, let's be a

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little bit more blunt. Those people who disagree with his interpretation,

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they do so because of their faulty interpretation. And of

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course the people who disagree with him would say the

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reason he disagrees with them is because of his faulty interpretation.

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Is there any hope? Sometimes I don't think there is,

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Usually it stems from people just not getting in the

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study in the Word of God, period. But if they

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are going about it the wrong way, can also cause

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confusion as well.

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So let me ask a question now here we'll get

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to a practical question. Do you think all of the

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confusion and disagreement within Christianity do you think it arises

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from a lack of Bible study? Or do you think

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it arises because people don't know how to accurately study

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and interpret the Bible? Is it because of Is it

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because of a lack of study in general, they just

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don't really study. Or is it because they don't have

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the skill and the knowledge and how to properly study

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and interpret the scripture? Is it because of a lack

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of skill and a lack of knowledge and how to study.

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Where do you think all the problems originate? What do

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you think? I really want you to answer that question

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for yourself. If we could just get everyone to really,

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really study, if we could get everyone really to study,

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would that fix the problem? I'm going to argue that. Look,

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there's a part of me that would wants to say, look,

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the lack of well, let me stay it this way.

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I will, I will, I will say this, The lack

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of study would not be such an issue if you

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would take people who don't really study in any in

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depth way and they would stop trying to act like

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they're experts and they know and they can just say

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this or this or this or this. Look you go

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to any Christian website, Look at the comments, Look at

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the things people are saying. Their ability to handle the

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scripture is astoundingly bad. It's it's so foolish, it's I mean,

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we're not even talking about just disagreements and doctrines. The

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things they're saying, the way they're quoting scripture. They don't

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have a clue on how to handle scripture. But they

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all think they're experts. That's the thing. In the Protestant world.

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to even pretend to study. But you just get to

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go tell everyone you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong,

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you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. Look at this, Look

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at this, look at this, and this quote any scripture

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without any any attempt even put it in context. Maybe

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we would have less confusion and division if we would

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have more humility and the people who go you know what,

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that much study. I've never studied this. I've never studied this.

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I'm just gonna be I'm not gonna be so dogmatic

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and so aggressive and so assertive. I'm going to take

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a little more humble approach. I think that would go

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a long ways. But that's never going to happen. But

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to be fair, I think I used to be more

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on the team. The problem is nobody studies. I think

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I don't agree. Now I don't know if that's the case.

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been a Christian, the longer you've been a Christian, and

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the more sermons you've listened to and the more books

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you've read, you begin to realize. You've got Presbyterians who

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spend their life studying, studying, study, studying. It's not a

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lack of study. Yet they think Baptists are completely wrong.

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study will say the Presbyterians that they're wrong. The Presbyterian

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they're wrong. The Charismatics will tell the Presbyterian, the Baptist,

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and the Lutherans that they're all wrong. The Church of

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Christ and all of these, whether it's Church of Christ,

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Assemblies of God, Charismatic, Pentecostal, Baptist, whichever kind of Baptist, reform,

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non reform, you just name the group. You have people

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within all of those groups who've dedicated their lives to

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studying the Bible. Yet confusion and disagreement rain. It just

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continues to dominate and rain like it's not I don't

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think it's a lack of study. Now I do believe

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those who don't actually engage in meaningful study yet act

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like that they're experts. That does need to stop. I mean,

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that stuff drives me crazy. And that's such a Protestant thing.

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I have the ability and the authority to interpret the Bible,

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and then they all claim that their interpretation comes from

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God just becomes maddening. But I think the reality is,

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I mean, just in twenty twenty four and one of

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the things we have learned from the sermon's two point

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oh app sermon challenge is I'm not going to sit

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here and say that all those pastors and all these

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sermons that we've reviewed is because that I disagreed so

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strongly with was because they did not study. That would

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be I may have implied it when I get frustrated, right,

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But the reality is they've studied, and I've studied. We

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just came to absolutely c one thousand percent different conclusions

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about the text how all of those pastors handled Isaiah

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forty through Isaiah fifty five that I've become so frustrated about,

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well they've studied. I just completely disagree with their inclusions.

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a matter of studied or know how to study. It's

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not about a matter of study or even knowing how

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to interpret. I think here's the issue. It doesn't matter

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if you study, doesn't matter if you don't study. As

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long as nobody can agree on the laws of interpretation,

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how a tech should be interpreted, which hermaeneutical system you

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should or shouldn't use. Since there is no agreement on

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any of that, they will never be agreement. Whether you

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study or don't study, it's never going to matter because

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everyone can just interpret the scriptures anyway they want. They

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literally can come up with the laws of interpretation that

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will lead them to their conclusion. They can always make

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the Bible say what they wanted to say. And we

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saw that just yesterday and the whole loop twenty two

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by a sword next thing, you know, well, that means

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I can buy fifteen guns. How did you get from

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there to their rescriptive descriptive sword? Like all the problems

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with that, it doesn't matter, doesn't matter. So I think

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the issue isn't really Maybe I'm answering the question for you.

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Maybe it's not a lack of study. Maybe it's not

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even an issue of knowing how to study, how to interpret.

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I think the issue is there is no agreed upon rules.

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There's no agreed upon law and how to approach the scriptures. Now,

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some people say there are agreed upon Well, if there

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was such agreement on how to approach, then shouldn't the

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agreement and interpretation be very very very close. And guess

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what it's not.

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There are many differences over doctrine that are rooted in

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the methods of biblical interpretation that are used, and so

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it's absolutely necessary to be grounded in the basic principles

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of correct biblical interpretation. And over a number of weeks,

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that's what we are intending to do here. Tonight, We're

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going to take a look at the general laws of

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biblical interpretation, will begin with it, and take a look

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at the part of the supreme rule. The supreme rule

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is interpret scripture with scripture. And I want to use

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this basis for this tonight. Sec Peter Chapter one, and

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let's pick up in verse number sixteen. Verse twenty is

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what we're gonna use. But let's look at verse sixteen

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Peter says, well, we have not followed cunningly devised fables

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when we made known unto you the power and coming

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of our Lord Jesus Christ. But were eye witnesses of

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his majesty. For he received from God, the Father, honor

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and glory when there came such a voice to him

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from the excellent Glory. This is my beloved son, in

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whom I am well pleased. Remember Peter. Peter and some

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of the other disciples were up on the mount of

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Transfiguration to see that, see that actually happen. And he

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says in verse nineteen, he says, we have also a

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more sure word of prophecy, where until you do well

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that you take heed as into a light that shineth

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in a dark place, until the day dawn and the

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day star arise in your hearts. Knowing this first, here's

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our text for the night. Knowing this first, that no

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prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

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Okay, if he said first Peter, and you were lost

468
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for some reason, my brain was saying, he said first Peter,

469
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but it's a number that was actually second Peter. Chapter one,

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verse twenty, And he's going to go that the key

471
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verse is knowing this first, that no prophecy of the

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scripture is of any private interpretation. Knowing this first, that

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no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation

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tewod Peter one twenty. I want you to write that down.

475
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Now.

476
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I've already kind of asked you a question, is the

477
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problems that we have because of a lack of study

478
00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:37.240
or a lack of knowing how to study? And I've

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kind of challenged it. I think the issue is because

480
00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:42.279
nobody can agree on, well, what are the rules? But

481
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that's going to be kind of my argument. But all right,

482
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you can go with whatever you want to do here.

483
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Now we have another issue. What does it mean that

484
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no scripture is of any private interpretation? Are you guilty

485
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:06.920
of private interpretation? No scripture is of any private interpretition?

486
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:10.920
What does that actually? I mean, what does that actually

487
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:14.119
refer to it? Because if it's not, are you guilty

488
00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:16.759
of offering a private interpretition? Am I guilty of offering

489
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a private interpretation? What does this mean? And remember, not

490
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everyone agrees on what this means in church history. If

491
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you think they do, you're sadly mistaken. So we'll get

492
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into that. And also he said, basically, the supreme rule

493
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:33.119
of Bible studying, the supreme law is interpret scripture with scripture. Yeah,

494
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we're gonna have some questions about that as well, but

495
00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:39.079
let's see if he offers what it means by well

496
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of any private interpretation.

497
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Okay, So for prophecy came not in old time by

498
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the will of man, but holy men of God spake

499
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as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. You ever

500
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heard somebody say, well, you know, you can believe that

501
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:02.039
that's what it says, but I leave it says this. Well,

502
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:05.559
the thing is is what doesn't really say. It's not

503
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:07.559
a matter of what you think it says, not a

504
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:09.359
matter of what I think it says. It's a matter

505
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of what does it say, because what it does say

506
00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:17.319
is the truth, and that's what we need to be

507
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:24.039
concerned with. And first, for instance two thirteen, Paul said,

508
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which things also we speak not in words which man's

509
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wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual

510
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.440
things with spiritual comparing spiritual things with spirituals What I

511
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want you to get we're to interpret scripture with scripture

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is its own best interpreter. A passage of the Bible

513
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should be interpreted by comparing it with other parts of

514
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the Bible. And that's why in the first couple of sessions,

515
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:58.599
you know, I talked to you about some good tools

516
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to have on hand to be able to stay the

517
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.519
Bible and that treasury of scripture knowledge that helps you

518
00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:06.839
compare scripture with scriptures.

519
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:11.480
Okay, all right, so we have so much going on here.

520
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We have so much going on here. Okay about this

521
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idea of comparing scripture with scripture and what exactly that means,

522
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and what does it what does it not mean? And

523
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in all the different issues here, I'm gonna look here, yeah, okay, Oh,

524
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:32.160
we got a lot to go. We got a lot

525
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:33.640
to work on here, We had a lot to work on.

526
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:35.480
I'm gonna let this play out a little bit more

527
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because I already kind of want to just hijack this

528
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and jump in and go all right, well, let's look

529
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at these two passages that he's offered, because he's he's

530
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just reading these passages and then just saying, well, hey,

531
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that just means interpret scripture with scripture. Is that one

532
00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:52.920
of that actually even is talking about? And what does

533
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it mean? No private interpretation, He's not really articulated exactly

534
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what any of this means. There's a lot here to unpack.

535
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:03.839
Let's let him see what he does here, or let's

536
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.720
let me state that correctly. Let us see what he

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does here.

538
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:13.680
The best source that I know of, it's a source

539
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:21.079
I have used in my full fifty years of being saved.

540
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:29.240
It's just a long time been a trusted resource to

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00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:35.680
help you find related passages to what you're studying. Now,

542
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:40.119
let's look at, first of all, what is private interpretation

543
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of scripture. Well, a private interpretation can be one in

544
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which a scripture passage is isolated or kept private from

545
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.599
and interpreted without any reference to the rest of scripture.

546
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:57.559
In other words, it's pulled out of context.

547
00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:04.359
Oh wow, Okay, so he's saying that no private interpretation

548
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:08.640
means no taking a verse out of context. It's private

549
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because you're separating it from the rest of the Bible.

550
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:15.559
Is that what Second Peter one twenty is about. Oh,

551
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.160
let's just do a little bit of seeing how other

552
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sources describe this. Now, Second Peter Chapter one, verse twenty

553
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appears within a broader passage, which you could probably if

554
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:30.079
you want to try to find the textual context, probably

555
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.200
be Second Peter Chapter one, verses sixteen through twenty one,

556
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and in this section Peter seems to be defending the

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reliability and divine origin of scripture. Peter contrasts the eyewitness

558
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testimony of the apostles with myths. He does that in

559
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verse sixteen. He emphasizes the inspiration of the prophetic word

560
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in verse twenty one. The context is key to understanding

561
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:55.559
the verse as it deals with the authority and interpretation

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of scripture. Okay, so there's the context, right, all right,

563
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:04.960
so we got that. Now, no prophecy of scripture. Let's

564
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take if you look at first Peter one twenty knowing

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this first that no prophecy of the scripture? What is

566
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exactly that? And remember he just said of any private interpretation.

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This just means don't take a verse and rip it

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out of its context. But we got to go back

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to it. Says before that, no prophecy of the scripture?

570
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What is it exactly referring to? Well, according to some

571
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this refers not just to predictive prophecy, but broadly all

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divinely inspired writings in scripture. Peter seems to affirm the unique,

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God breathed nature of scripture. Distinguishing it from human ideas

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or opinions. So if we go with this idea, no

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prophecy of the scripture means all the scriptures, then no

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scripture is of any private interpretation. Right, so, no scripture

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is of any private interpret What we just heard said,

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no scripture is to be interpreted separated or privately from

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the rest of scripture. That's how he's interpreting that. All right, well,

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now this is very important. No prophecy of scriptures. Some

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would interpret the next phrase, or translate the next phrase,

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or state the next phrase as no prophecy of scripture

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comes from someone's own interpretation. Now this phrase seems to

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raise some significant interpretive questions. All right, some understand this

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as stating that individual readers should not privately interpret scripture

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apart from the guidance of the Church or tradition. Now

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that's how many Catholics would read it, right, Many Catholics

588
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would be like, you're right, no scripture is of any

589
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private interpretation. So hey, you Protestants, you don't have the

590
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:58.480
authority and right to interpret the Bible outside of the church.

591
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It's the church's power, the church's authority, no private interpretation.

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The Church must interpret it not the individual, and the

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00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:10.000
individual must submit to the church's interpretation. That would be

594
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very much a Catholic way of understanding this. Protestants reject that.

595
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Absolutely not. We don't need the church. I just need

596
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me the Bible now and will typically throw in and

597
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:22.519
the Holy Spirit. And again, you know my issue with that.

598
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If the Holy Spirit's the one helping us interpret the Bible,

599
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then there should be complete unity and agreement, all right,

600
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:32.360
So we can already throw that concept out. But Protestants say, no, no, no, no, no

601
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:36.719
private interpretation. That means, well, you've already heard one option.

602
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That means don't interpret it out of context. Is that

603
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what that means?

604
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Right?

605
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:49.400
Others see this statement. Others see it as a statement

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about the origin of prophecy. Others see it as a

607
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statement about the origin of prophecy, meaning that prophetic writings

608
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or scripture does not arise from profit's personal ideas or understanding,

609
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but from divine revelation. So this is not in any way,

610
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shape or form talking about how you and I interpret

611
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:10.760
the Bible. That what this is referring to is that

612
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the scriptures did not originate by one individual just writing

613
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his own interpretations or his own thoughts that the scriptures

614
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:23.000
are not the product of man's mind, but they are

615
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:27.480
the product of divine inspiration. That that's what this text

616
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:32.239
is about, right, let me quote again. Others see it

617
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as a statement about the origin of prophecy, meaning that

618
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prophetic writings did not arise from the prophet's personal ideas

619
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:44.840
or understanding, but from divine revelation. If you look at

620
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verse twenty one, for the prophecy came not in old

621
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:51.320
time by the will of man, but holy men of

622
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God spake as they were moved by the Holy ghosts.

623
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Verse twenty one supports this second second interpretation, not the

624
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:03.480
first idea, not the one where hey, this is saying

625
00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:06.639
that you can only interpret scripture. You can as a person,

626
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.840
as an individual, but only the church. Verse twenty one

627
00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:12.239
seems to go against that interpretation, and it seems to

628
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.159
go with the idea that this is not speaking about

629
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:18.199
you and I interpreting the Bible. This seems to be

630
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speaking about the origin of scripture, not the interpretation per

631
00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:27.119
se the way we would understand it. Because verse twenty

632
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:31.360
one supports the idea that because Peter explains that prophecy

633
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:34.760
came through the Holy Spirit, not human will. It's talking

634
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.440
about the origin of scripture. That's what it's talking about.

635
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:41.079
It's not talking about, hey, don't rip a verse out

636
00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:46.199
of context. It's saying that no scripture, none of them,

637
00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:51.840
was produced by the prophet's own private ideas, private interpretation.

638
00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:59.519
It was given by divine inspiration. That is the point here, right.

639
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:04.239
Verse twenty one clarifies that Peter's discussing the divine origin

640
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.559
of prophecy. The point is not about how readers interpret scripture,

641
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:10.719
but about how scripture itself was produced by the spirit,

642
00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:15.199
not human initiative. This is not how you interpret the Bible.

643
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:18.840
How this got turned into hey, don't rip a verse

644
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:24.039
out of context? That isn't firs Peter. Second Peter, Chapter one,

645
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:27.960
verse twenty is not in any ways. That has nothing

646
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.599
to do with what Second Peter one twenty is about,

647
00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:35.920
all right, Peter is emphasizing the divine origin of scripture.

648
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:38.320
It is not a product of human imagination, but of

649
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:42.159
God's Spirit working through human authors. This underscores the authority

650
00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:46.880
and reliability of scripture. While the primary focus is on

651
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:51.000
the origin of prophecy, the verse implicitly warns against treating

652
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.159
scripture as a purely human document open to arbitrary interpretation.

653
00:39:55.599 --> 00:40:01.159
Proper interpretation must consider its divine source and intent. Like

654
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:03.119
if you really want to know how to handle the Bible,

655
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:06.280
but you have to handle it believing it came from God.

656
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:09.039
So I can't just make it say whatever I want.

657
00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:11.480
If it came from God, then I've got to try

658
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:14.920
to understand the intent God gave that scripture. And I

659
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.280
can't just make it. I don't know. I can't make

660
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.960
Isaiah forty about me. I can't make Jeremiah about me.

661
00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:23.639
I have to go with what was the divine intent

662
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:33.880
of the scriptures. Now, this verse has been understood historically,

663
00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:37.440
or at least used historically, to argue for the need

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00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:41.559
for corporate discernment and interpreting scripture. While private study is valuable,

665
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:44.519
interpretation should be informed by the broader community of faith.

666
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:47.000
Well that's how it's been used. I just don't think

667
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:49.599
that's what it's about. I know Catholics like to use

668
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:51.840
it that way. I just don't think this is about

669
00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:55.760
It's about the origin of scripture, not about how you

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00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:58.159
interpret it. I don't think that that's how it should

671
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:07.199
be understood, all right, tewod Peter one point twenty emphasizes

672
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:11.000
the scripture's origin is divine, not human, and its authority

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00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:12.920
rest on the work of the Holy Spirit. It does

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00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:17.280
not explicitly address methods of interpretation, it indirectly challenges readers

675
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:20.199
to approach scripture with reverence and a recognition of its

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00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:26.679
divine source. That's what this is talking about. The context

677
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:34.719
demonstrates that, all right, if you go back to Second Peter,

678
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:39.880
Chapter one, verse sixteen. For we have not followed cunningly

679
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:43.280
devised fables when we made known unto you the power

680
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:45.079
and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we were

681
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:48.400
eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God, the Father,

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00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:51.159
honor and glory when there came such a voice to

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00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:53.679
him from the excellent Glory. This is my beloved son,

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00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:55.920
in whom I am well please. And this voice, which

685
00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:58.280
came from Heaven, we heard when we were with him

686
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:03.519
in the Holy Mount, literally eyewitnesses of the transfiguration. That

687
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:06.239
is an amazing thing. We all talk about how that

688
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.079
I would love to have been there to see that.

689
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:10.480
But then it goes on to say in verse twenty,

690
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we we have also a more sure word of prophecy.

691
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We have something that's even more sure more reliable than

692
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:22.599
being an eyewitness to the transfiguration. Where until you do

693
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:24.800
well that you take heed as unto a light that

694
00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:27.760
shineth in the dark place, until the day dawn and

695
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.360
the day star arises in your hearts. What makes this

696
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:34.920
what we have, better than the transfiguration? What makes it better?

697
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:35.320
Well?

698
00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:37.119
What this better thing is the scriptures?

699
00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:38.400
Why?

700
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:43.280
Because we know this first that no scripture was given,

701
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:49.000
was produced because of a private interpretation. No individual just

702
00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:51.760
came up with these ideas and wrote the Bible. This

703
00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:54.320
is arguing that the Bible that we have is of

704
00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:58.719
divine origin verse twenty one. And then, just to make

705
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:03.559
sure there's no confused usion for the prophecy, the scriptures

706
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:06.320
came not in old time by the will of man,

707
00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:10.239
but holy men of God spake as they were moved

708
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:15.920
by the holy ghosts. The scriptures of divine origin. That's

709
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:18.360
what this passage is about. Now, do you not see

710
00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:21.880
the irony in all of this? We have a series

711
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:25.840
on how to interpret the Bible that just went to

712
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:37.920
second Peter one twenty and misinterpret it is Oh man,

713
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:40.960
I mean, does that not make you laugh just a

714
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:44.800
little bit? He gave those of secretary what is private interpretation.

715
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:47.400
This means, don't rip a verse out of context, you

716
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.320
interpret scripture with scripture has nothing to do with this, literally,

717
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:54.480
not a thing it is. You just made the scripture

718
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:57.480
say something that was never it never intended to say

719
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.440
in second Peter one twenty, had nothing to do with it.

720
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:02.840
While you're trying to teach people how to interpret the Bible.

721
00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:05.559
How can you teach people how to interpret the Bible

722
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:09.159
when you're misinterpreting the very Bible. What you're teaching them

723
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:19.079
how to interpret? Oh man alive. I mean when it

724
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.920
comes he came up with like the most common interpretations. Well,

725
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.760
this is arguing against individuals interpreting the Bible, so therefore

726
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:28.440
you need the church, or this is speaking of the

727
00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:30.920
divine origin of scripture. And he comes along and just

728
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.239
adds a third one. Doesn't even bother to acknowledge the

729
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:36.880
history of this text and how it's been happened. No, no, no,

730
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.840
he just dogmatically asserts what this text is teaching is

731
00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:44.880
you don't privately interpret one scripture apart from the rest

732
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:47.800
of scripture, has not anything to do with this passage.

733
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:52.360
Passage was never intended to imply that infer that speak

734
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.039
to that it's not what it's about.

735
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.920
I get, well, this is what it says. Well, what

736
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:03.159
is the context that is saying it in and what

737
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:09.079
is the there's a context within the passages that you're reading.

738
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:17.840
You're right, there's a context. The Second Peter one. You're

739
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:20.440
exactly right. There's a context.

740
00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:20.800
Now.

741
00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:23.840
Okay, now I know I'm getting frustrated, but let me

742
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:27.360
take a step back. All right, Obviously I'm disagreeing here,

743
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:28.760
but that's okay. I still want you to listen to

744
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.079
the entire series. I still want you to download it

745
00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:33.199
while you're doing things for the holiday. Go listen to

746
00:45:33.239 --> 00:45:35.960
this entire series. But here's what I want you to remember.

747
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:37.159
This is a very important point.

748
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:37.599
You're ready.

749
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:45.199
It's a very important point. You can know perfectly. You

750
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:49.199
can have perfect knowledge of the proper rules of biblical interpretation.

751
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.719
You can know them, you can have them memorized, you

752
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:55.559
can recite them on a test and make a hundred

753
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:59.320
and get an A plus. Doesn't mean that we always

754
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:03.199
use those proper rules when we actually start handling the scriptures.

755
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:05.320
He knows the rule. He just says, you've got to

756
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:08.039
see the context. He went to Second Peter one, sixteen

757
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.800
through twenty interpreted Verse twenty completely separate from the context. Well,

758
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.599
he Jay is arguing against not doing that. If he

759
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:17.639
put it in its context, he may go, well, maybe

760
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:20.519
second Peter one twenty is really speaking about the origin

761
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:24.559
of prophecy, not about Well, don't riperverse out of context.

762
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:31.119
There's a context within the book that you're reading, and

763
00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:35.119
there's a context within the whole of scripture, and you

764
00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:38.280
need to be concerned about all of that. Let's take

765
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.880
a look at John Chapnember sixteen. It's the next place

766
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:46.719
we want to go. John's Gospel Chapumber sixteen, and give

767
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:53.519
you an example here of what we're talking about. John

768
00:46:53.679 --> 00:47:01.400
sixteen and verse number twenty three. Jesus is speaking here,

769
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:05.159
and he says, and in that day you shall ask

770
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.519
me nothing very rarely I say unto you. Whosoever you

771
00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:13.760
what's wherever you shall ask the Father in my name,

772
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:17.840
he will give it you. Well, that's a great promising

773
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.679
that it's a great promises, but it can sometimes be

774
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:28.119
misinterpreted of what it's not saying. Interpreting this verse privately

775
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:33.400
could easily lead to a name it and claimant, which

776
00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:36.079
that's not what it's doing. That name it and claim

777
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:39.480
it teaching whereby all Christian needs to do to receive

778
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:41.719
anything he wants, it's just to ask for it in

779
00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:44.679
Jesus' name, just to just take that tag, that little

780
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.320
uh in Jesus name to the end of your prayers.

781
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.280
And but what's yours? Lord wants you to buy me

782
00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:58.000
merches bins in Jesus name. Amen. That was a stupid

783
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:01.880
song back whenever I was growing up, But it shows

784
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:06.800
the idiocy of what I'm talking about. When we take

785
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:11.119
time to compare scripture with scripture, it shows that prayer

786
00:48:11.639 --> 00:48:16.000
is conditional, and to ask him also shows us what

787
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.679
asking Jesus' name means. So asking in Jesus' name is

788
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:23.599
more than just putting in Jesus name on the end

789
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:28.760
of your prayer. I mean, I put in Jesus' name

790
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:31.880
when I pray on there, but that doesn't make it

791
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:38.079
in Jesus' name. What we're talking about when we're asking

792
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:42.840
Jesus' name and how are we to pray, Well, let's

793
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:48.719
take a look at several places, Okay.

794
00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:51.679
So he goes to John sixteen twenty three, and in

795
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.760
that day you shall ask me nothing verly, rarely I

796
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.519
say into you whosoever you shall, whatsoever you shall ask

797
00:48:57.639 --> 00:48:59.480
the Father in My name, he will give it you.

798
00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:01.920
Now he's gonna go, So what does it mean to

799
00:49:02.199 --> 00:49:04.480
pray in his name? Well, we'll slow down, slow down,

800
00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:07.400
slow down, tom out, tom out. Where are we even

801
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:13.559
going here? The verse says, and in that day? Don't

802
00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:18.400
we have to identify that day? Why is he jumping here?

803
00:49:18.440 --> 00:49:23.440
In that day? This phrase in that day? Does it

804
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:26.159
possibly refer And I'm just asking the question because I'm

805
00:49:26.199 --> 00:49:27.760
doing this in real time, so it's not like I've

806
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.760
done an extensive amount of study here. Is it possible

807
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:34.360
this refers to the period following jesus resurrection and ascension.

808
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.280
Is this referring to? Hey, there in that day? There's

809
00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:46.000
a day coming, all right? And it maybe it marks

810
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:53.000
a transition, maybe from Jesus earthly ministry to now him

811
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:58.519
being in heaven interceding. It goes on to say, in

812
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:02.760
that day you will ask nothing thing of me. Now,

813
00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:06.199
could this be understood possibly that the disciples will no

814
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:10.639
longer need to ask Jesus directly for answers or guidance.

815
00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:16.360
Maybe maybe their relationship with God will take on a

816
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:19.679
new dimension, mediated by the spirit and grounded in jesus

817
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:24.199
completed work. I mean, after jesus resurrection, many of their

818
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:27.119
questions and uncertainties will be resolved they come to understand

819
00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:31.559
his mission, the significance of his death and resurrection. I mean,

820
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:34.679
what what what? What does that mean? You will ask

821
00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:40.079
nothing of me? Is this the idea that now you

822
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:41.400
I said, you're not going to be able to come

823
00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.079
to me directly. So now you're going to ask God

824
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:46.400
in my name, but you're not going to come directly

825
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:50.039
to me. So I mean, like there's a lot of

826
00:50:50.159 --> 00:51:00.480
there's a lot here that we have to figure out.

827
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:05.039
I mean, there's a lot more I could say here.

828
00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:06.800
I'm just looking at the verses a lot more. But

829
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.320
he's just immediately going to Jesus name what we have

830
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:13.760
to identify, and in that day you shall ask me nothing.

831
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:17.400
I mean clearly something. This is the is the key here,

832
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:20.679
This Versus demonstrating there's gonna be a transition and a change.

833
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:22.360
What is that transition and change?

834
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:22.679
Right?

835
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.280
But he wants to go to other verses about praying

836
00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:27.480
in the name, and I guess what he wants to

837
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.559
demonstrate here is if we just do some random cross referencing,

838
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:32.440
we can figure out what this verse means. But if

839
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:34.840
we're gonna do some random cross referencing, don't we have

840
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:38.000
to start with I don't know, maybe the controlling phrase

841
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:42.199
of the entire verse. And in that day this is

842
00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:45.239
talking about in that day, we got to identify exactly

843
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.800
the win before. I mean, don't we have to do that?

844
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:55.880
Look at the first John, chapter five. We are to

845
00:51:56.079 --> 00:52:03.239
ask according to his will? Okay, ask according to his will?

846
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:13.159
One John five, verse fourteen and fifteen says, and if

847
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:17.719
we know that he hear us, whisever we ask, we

848
00:52:17.880 --> 00:52:23.360
know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

849
00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:27.800
But back up the verses of fourteen I miss verse fourteen. Okay,

850
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.239
And this is important. This is the confidence that we

851
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:33.679
have in him that if we ask anything, look, it

852
00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:39.079
is according to his will. He heard us. If you're

853
00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:43.480
asking something that's not according to his will, don't expect

854
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:45.519
to get what you're you're asking for.

855
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:52.480
Oh. I just love how Christians say some of these

856
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:54.679
things and they don't ever seem to catch on to

857
00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:58.039
all the complications and implications. So let me just ask

858
00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:01.440
you a question. Is it God will that you stop sinning?

859
00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:06.079
Is it God's will that you be holy as he

860
00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:09.880
is holy? Is it God's will that you'd be perfect

861
00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:13.280
as your heavenly father in heaven is perfect. Is it

862
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.960
God's will that you love God with all your heart, mind, body,

863
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:19.440
and soul. Is it God's will that you love your

864
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.480
neighbor as yourself? Is it God's will that you do

865
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:25.440
all things without grumbling and complaining? Is it I can ask?

866
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:28.320
I could just go from all the commands in scripture?

867
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:31.199
Are they God's will? And you would be like absolutely? Well,

868
00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:34.639
then just say, God, grant me the ability to keep

869
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:40.039
all of your commandments perfectly? Is that God's will? Yes?

870
00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:54.679
Do you get it? God? I asked that I never

871
00:53:54.840 --> 00:54:01.280
sin again? Is that going to happen? Is it that simple?

872
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:01.960
Oh?

873
00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:05.840
Hey, don't expect God to do it. If you're asking

874
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:08.039
something against his well, well, just ask the things that

875
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:10.079
would clearly be a part of his will and tell

876
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:12.920
me if you get those things, you're still gonna There's

877
00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:14.960
still lots of complications here, but I guess we're not

878
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.480
going to get into all the complications because Christians never

879
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:19.199
want to deal with all the complications.

880
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:26.519
Also, James Chapterer One Good James, Chapter one. We're to

881
00:54:26.599 --> 00:54:34.000
ask in faith, I and This is specifically talking about

882
00:54:36.159 --> 00:54:40.119
praying for wisdom. If you lack wisdom, ask of God.

883
00:54:41.519 --> 00:54:45.639
Look James one, Versuber five and six. Here James one,

884
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:49.960
verse five says, if any of you lack wisdom, let

885
00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:54.159
him ask of God that give us to all men liberally,

886
00:54:54.679 --> 00:54:57.760
and abraideth not, and it shall be given him. But

887
00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:02.199
let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that

888
00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:05.280
wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with

889
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:09.519
the wind and haunts. So we're ask in faith. When

890
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:13.519
we ask in faith, that's according to we're asking according

891
00:55:13.559 --> 00:55:19.639
to God's according to the word of God. Then look

892
00:55:19.639 --> 00:55:24.039
at John chapter fifteen, verse number seven. John chapter fifteen,

893
00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:32.079
verse number seven, we need to ask. Is one that's

894
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:37.559
abiding in Christ? Jesus says here in John fifteen and

895
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:42.079
verse seven, he says, if ye abide in Me and

896
00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:45.880
my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you will,

897
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:48.960
and it shall be done unto you. Well, see, the

898
00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:51.840
will will God for our lives is for us to

899
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:54.880
abide in Christ, for Christ's words to abide in us.

900
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:58.719
And if we do that, then we'll be asking in

901
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:05.800
His name. We'll be asked according to his will. So,

902
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:12.000
second of all, a private interpretation can be one whereby

903
00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:16.360
the interpreter himself establishes the meaning of a scripture according

904
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:22.400
to his own definition. Private means pertaining to self, that is,

905
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:27.559
one's own by implication private or separate. And a good

906
00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:30.559
illustration of this is found in the Gospel of John,

907
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:35.400
Chaptermber three and verse number five. John, Chaptermber three and

908
00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:36.440
verse number five.

909
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:41.679
Please note, so he didn't do anything with that John

910
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.840
sixteen passage. He didn't. He just read some cross references.

911
00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:46.440
And I guess that's supposed to be like, oh, now

912
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:48.960
we can interpret the passage. We didn't even come close

913
00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:51.880
to interpreting that passage. We didn't even deal with in

914
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:54.400
that day. What does that even mean? We didn't deal

915
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:57.119
with anything. And then he goes to first John, one

916
00:56:57.119 --> 00:57:00.280
of the cross references, which raises more questions than the

917
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:03.239
John sixteen passage. And we didn't get any answers there,

918
00:57:03.320 --> 00:57:07.360
because this is what I call the shotgun approach. Right, Oh,

919
00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:09.400
we got a word here, Let's just look up other

920
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:12.159
verses that have the similar word boom. We interpreted the

921
00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:16.000
Bible to shoot just kind of send out the buckshot

922
00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:18.239
and all of its directions. Just look and just link

923
00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:22.480
all of these disconnected verses together. I say, look what

924
00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:24.920
I did. I did Bible study. No you didn't. You

925
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:30.679
just you just linked together completely separate verses that are

926
00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:32.719
not even in the same context, might not even be

927
00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:35.559
speaking about the same thing, and say say, I've come

928
00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:38.639
to some kind of conclusion. Now, that's like some crazy

929
00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:42.000
person in the basement drawing string between one news article

930
00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.880
and another news article and goes, see they're all connected.

931
00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:49.719
It's a great conspiracy. No, you can't just link random

932
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:54.480
verses in the Bible together. Oh, scripture with scripture. Oh

933
00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:56.559
that I can connect this verse to that verse to

934
00:57:56.599 --> 00:57:59.559
that verse. You're connecting verses in many cases, different authors,

935
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:05.400
in some cases hundreds of years, separated, different purpose, different contexts,

936
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:08.320
And we're like, it's linked together, it uses the same word.

937
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:12.840
Does it work that way, ladies and gentlemen. And in

938
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.440
that particular case, his cross references did not help us.

939
00:58:16.440 --> 00:58:25.599
In fact, the cross reference led to more questions. Yeah, okay,

940
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:32.599
let's see.

941
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:36.079
In John three, in verse number five, of course, Jesus

942
00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:41.480
is talking to Nicodemus here, and he's informing Nicodemus that

943
00:58:41.559 --> 00:58:44.920
he needs to be born again. In fact, verse three,

944
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:47.679
let's pick up. In verse three, Jesus answered and said

945
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:50.079
unto him, very very last, saying to the except a

946
00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:53.039
man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

947
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:56.480
Nagodina saith unto him. How can a man be born

948
00:58:56.559 --> 00:58:58.679
when he is old? Can he enter the second time

949
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:03.119
into his mother's womb be born? Jesus answered, very rarely,

950
00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:05.400
I say unto the except a man be born of

951
00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:08.519
water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the

952
00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:13.199
Kingdom of God. A lot of folks just stop reading there, okay,

953
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:16.760
But the comparison of what he's saying there, except a

954
00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:19.239
man be born of water and of the spirit, he

955
00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:22.280
cannot enter the Kingdom of God. It's given me clarification

956
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:26.159
in verse number six, that which is born of the flesh,

957
00:59:26.760 --> 00:59:29.719
the woman's water is broken when they're when you're born

958
00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:35.559
of the flesh, what the you come through that broken water?

959
00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:38.480
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and

960
00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:41.239
that which is born of the spirit is spirit. And

961
00:59:41.320 --> 00:59:45.199
so you got to be born of the water and

962
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:50.679
of the spirit. Now, uh. The common private interpretation of

963
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:54.800
this passage is that baptism is essential for salvation. People

964
00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:56.679
look at they're born of water. You've got to be

965
00:59:56.719 --> 00:59:59.440
baptized to be saved. That's not what it's talking about.

966
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:05.599
And I love that he says a private interpretation. What

967
01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:08.480
he means by that, Well, it's a private interpretation because

968
01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:12.199
I disagree with that interpretation. And know what he's going

969
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:15.960
to do is he's just going to go, oh man,

970
01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:26.320
this is so oh yeah, I'm okay, let's just let

971
01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:28.239
this finish.

972
01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:31.920
And applying the rule of comparing scripture with scripture, you

973
01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:34.679
can come to understand that that's not what it's talking about.

974
01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:40.159
Many other scriptures clearly separate baptism from regeneration. Even the

975
01:00:40.199 --> 01:00:43.960
apostle paul in one Corinthians one seventeen said, for Christ

976
01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:46.800
sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel,

977
01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:50.039
not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ

978
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:55.400
should be made of non effect. The context here shows

979
01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:58.960
that it refers to the physical birth. John three six

980
01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:03.199
contrast the womb with the work of God's spirit. The

981
01:01:03.239 --> 01:01:06.880
symbolism of water indicates the new birth to be a

982
01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:09.719
work of the Spirit of God through the Word of

983
01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:15.679
God and a couple other passages Fesians five twenty six,

984
01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:19.199
so that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the

985
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:21.760
washing of the water by the word.

986
01:01:23.559 --> 01:01:28.199
No, Wait, you said the water is the fluid. When

987
01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:32.000
the woman's water breaks, we come through that water. Now

988
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:34.039
you're going to Epesis five twenty six and saying the

989
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:36.559
washing of the water is the word? So is the

990
01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:41.000
water the physical fluid? Or is the water the word?

991
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:42.960
Which is it?

992
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:52.599
And one Peter one twenty three were says being born

993
01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:56.400
again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the

994
01:01:56.440 --> 01:01:59.800
Word of God. We're born again by the word, and

995
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:02.199
the word is what does the washing? Amen?

996
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:09.679
So is the word? The water? Is the water the word?

997
01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:10.000
Please?

998
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:13.239
You just told me the water is contrasted with being

999
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:15.440
born of the flesh. Well, being born of the flesh,

1000
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:17.800
that doesn't anything to do with the word being water.

1001
01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:20.039
So I don't understand.

1002
01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:25.840
Word by the word which live within the body forever? Well,

1003
01:02:25.960 --> 01:02:29.920
are there any exceptions to this rule? Well, quite, frankly no.

1004
01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:35.840
I understand it, though, that there are instances where a

1005
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:40.119
word occurs in only one place in the Bible, and

1006
01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:45.360
that makes it a direct comparison impossible. But understand too

1007
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:49.159
that all the essential doctrines of the Word of God

1008
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:54.920
are based upon numerous scripture references and passages. When you

1009
01:02:55.079 --> 01:02:57.199
just pull something out and you try to make a

1010
01:02:57.199 --> 01:03:01.039
doctrine around one verse when there are many clear versus

1011
01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:04.639
that show that that's not what it's talking about. Say

1012
01:03:04.719 --> 01:03:08.039
you have a problem. Some things mentioned in the Bible

1013
01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:11.920
may not be fully understood, but these do not affect

1014
01:03:12.079 --> 01:03:16.000
areas of doctrine, and some of these things will remain

1015
01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:19.320
in the realm of speculation on this side of glory.

1016
01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:24.400
And an example of this is does anybody understand the

1017
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:30.840
urim and the thumbum of Exodus twenty eight, verse number thirty.

1018
01:03:31.079 --> 01:03:47.639
Look at Exus twenty eight, Exodus twenty eight and verse

1019
01:03:47.719 --> 01:03:53.000
number thirty. Well, let's back up to verse number twenty nine.

1020
01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:57.320
Says here in Eron shall bear the names of the

1021
01:03:57.400 --> 01:04:01.840
children of Israel, and the breastplate about the garments there

1022
01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:06.760
of the priest. Aaron was the priest i Preacht, and

1023
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.239
he has a breastplate of judgment upon his heart. When

1024
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.719
he goes in to the holy place for a memorial

1025
01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:22.119
before the Lord, continually excuse me, and now shall put

1026
01:04:22.159 --> 01:04:26.000
in the breastplate of judgment, the urim and the thumbun,

1027
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:30.119
and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, and he shall

1028
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:34.599
go in before the Lord. Aaron shall bear the judgment

1029
01:04:34.719 --> 01:04:37.960
of the children of Israel upon his heart before the

1030
01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:43.119
Lord continually. Now all that can be determined from this

1031
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:46.760
reference here, and I've given you some other references that

1032
01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:52.400
you could look up on your own. But what you

1033
01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:56.000
can tell is that they were. It was some means

1034
01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:01.360
by which God indicated his will, the will, his will

1035
01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:06.239
for Israel through the High Priest. Now no one can

1036
01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:11.840
say for certain exactly what they were and how they functioned.

1037
01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:16.920
But listen, we don't have that today. It's not a

1038
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:21.159
concern for us. Jesus put that in the past for us.

1039
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.360
And when you have an instance like this, you have

1040
01:05:25.400 --> 01:05:29.199
to check the context. Often the immediate context will show

1041
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:35.239
what it's meant by a particular word. If the context

1042
01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:38.559
didn't tell you what it is, check a dictionary. If

1043
01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:41.079
the word is one of the few archaic words in

1044
01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:44.960
the King James version, you can refer to the Oxford

1045
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:49.719
English Dictionary, or what I use in my office is

1046
01:05:49.719 --> 01:05:52.960
the eighteen twenty eight American Dictionary of the English Language

1047
01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:56.960
by Noel Webster. And if the word is a noun,

1048
01:05:57.760 --> 01:06:01.599
a Bible dictionary may shed light on its meaning, especially

1049
01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:08.679
as it applies to places and objects of Bible lands

1050
01:06:08.760 --> 01:06:13.599
and then find the word in the Strong Exhaustive Concordance

1051
01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:15.800
of the Bible and to look up the definition in

1052
01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:20.280
the Hebrew Dictionary for the Old Testament or Greek Dictionary

1053
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:24.519
for the New Testament. But one of my favorite resources.

1054
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:26.719
I mentioned this Also.

1055
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:32.360
It's crazy that this was preached in twenty twenty four

1056
01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:36.079
and he's telling people to grab a Strong's Concordance for

1057
01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:39.159
crying out loud. It's twenty twenty four. Now you may

1058
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:42.719
be using strong system, but nobody's going to go Who's

1059
01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:45.840
going to grab a physical copy of STRONGS and try

1060
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:48.039
to do You remember how difficult that was to look

1061
01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:50.079
up and you've got to flip back and find the number.

1062
01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:52.440
You could just do it on the Blue Letter Bible

1063
01:06:52.440 --> 01:06:54.280
app you just go to the anti linear and boom,

1064
01:06:54.320 --> 01:06:56.360
there it is. And then you've got Fayres, You've got

1065
01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:01.880
Strong's definition, you've got cross reference, You've got who would

1066
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:05.039
be looking it up in a STRONGS in twenty twenty four.

1067
01:07:05.519 --> 01:07:09.400
What in the name of Bubblegummy, who would be doing that?

1068
01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:12.480
That's crazy. This reminds me like when when I first

1069
01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:14.719
became a Christian and started learning. I mean, I used

1070
01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:17.920
a STRONGS concordance. I carried that thing with me everywhere

1071
01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:20.360
I went. I mean I loved the strongs concordance. By

1072
01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:24.079
no means am I speaking negatively of a strongs concordance.

1073
01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:26.559
Everyone should have had one, but now everyone has one

1074
01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:32.679
on their phone. Who's gonna Yeah, just weird to me

1075
01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:35.599
the way he's describing, like using the physical.

1076
01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:39.559
Copy when we were talking about resource at the half.

1077
01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:43.679
This is about manners and customs of the Bible. But

1078
01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:48.400
even they have difficulty with this one particular thing. Okay,

1079
01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:52.960
when you when you look in here, it does have

1080
01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:57.360
the breastplate, and it does talk about the Urine and

1081
01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:01.320
the Thumbe, which means lights and perfect and he tells

1082
01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:06.000
you that in here. But he said, he said precisely

1083
01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:09.400
what these were. No man knows. They were used as

1084
01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:13.119
a means of consulting Jehovah in cases of doubt, and

1085
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:17.279
he gives them references here. How they were used cannot

1086
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:21.319
be now told. Some think that the twelve stones were

1087
01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:24.399
the Urim and the Thummian, the stones themselves being the

1088
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:27.800
Urim or lights, and the names of the tribes engraving

1089
01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:31.479
on them being the Thumian or the perfections, because they

1090
01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:37.840
represented the tribes in their tribal integrity. From the fact

1091
01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:41.039
that the Urim and Thummim are said to be in

1092
01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:44.800
the breastplate. Others again think that they were separate from

1093
01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:49.039
the twelve stones and were put into the pocket behind them.

1094
01:08:49.560 --> 01:08:53.680
Some supposed them to have been three precious stones which

1095
01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:57.279
were placed in this pouch of the breastplate to be

1096
01:08:57.479 --> 01:09:03.079
used for casting lots to decide questions of doubt, and

1097
01:09:03.439 --> 01:09:07.159
that one of the stones was engraving with yes on

1098
01:09:07.319 --> 01:09:10.600
and another with no, and the third without any inscription.

1099
01:09:11.800 --> 01:09:14.439
The storm drawn out by the high priests would indicate

1100
01:09:14.479 --> 01:09:18.199
the answer affirmative, negative, or no answer to be given.

1101
01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:21.399
And this may have been so, but there is no

1102
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:26.520
proof of it. When you when you come like this,

1103
01:09:26.760 --> 01:09:28.760
the best you can say, as well, we'll find out

1104
01:09:28.760 --> 01:09:32.520
when we get to Glory. Amen. There's some things that

1105
01:09:33.079 --> 01:09:35.640
we don't have to know. We don't have to know that.

1106
01:09:37.279 --> 01:09:39.720
It's not something we need to know. I mean, it's

1107
01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:42.760
it's good to to have good resources. And this is

1108
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:46.640
this is one of the most excellent manners and customers books.

1109
01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:49.039
If it's gonna have it in there, this would have

1110
01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:53.279
had it. This is from my college days at Tennessee

1111
01:09:53.279 --> 01:09:57.800
Temple when I first got this, so very very good

1112
01:09:57.840 --> 01:10:04.800
resource too. But that's just an example of sometimes what

1113
01:10:04.840 --> 01:10:09.079
we're talking about, interpreting scripture with scripture may may not

1114
01:10:09.159 --> 01:10:12.720
help you a whole lot. Okay, a truth that the

1115
01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:14.760
third thing here we see a truth we can draw

1116
01:10:14.840 --> 01:10:19.000
from other truths. The Word of God is in error

1117
01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:24.479
and infallible, and therefore no passage in the Bible will

1118
01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:29.760
ever contradict another passage. Pal one hundred and nineteen, verse

1119
01:10:29.800 --> 01:10:33.239
one sixty says thy word is true from the beginning,

1120
01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:38.439
and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever. John

1121
01:10:38.520 --> 01:10:42.079
seventeen seventeen. Jesus said he prayed to the heavenly Father.

1122
01:10:42.119 --> 01:10:46.520
He says, sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth.

1123
01:10:47.800 --> 01:10:52.600
Skeptics are always claiming the Bible is full of contradictions.

1124
01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:56.199
You have heard anyboce tell you that, or try to argue, well,

1125
01:10:56.279 --> 01:11:00.119
that'll book just full of contradiction. Well, show me one.

1126
01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:02.760
That usually gets them because they don't know of any

1127
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:07.760
They just heard it all their life and they'll repeat

1128
01:11:07.800 --> 01:11:10.560
what they've heard. But most of them about taking time

1129
01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:14.720
to try to do a serious look at the thing.

1130
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:19.399
But it's also true that the application of this supreme

1131
01:11:19.560 --> 01:11:24.720
rule will resolve most any difficult or problem texts Interping

1132
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:29.159
scripture with scripture, understand that some of the Bible is

1133
01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:34.279
like milk, It's easily digested and understood. But much of

1134
01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:38.319
the Bible is like strong meat. It requires diligence, searching

1135
01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:43.520
and studying. Yeah, if you're going to study the Bible

1136
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:49.000
in a shallow way, expect to have shallow knowledge. If

1137
01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:52.159
you're going to study the Bible deeply and to dig

1138
01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:56.239
for the truth in the way that Proverbs chapter number

1139
01:11:56.279 --> 01:11:59.960
two says that we're to dig for the wisdom of God,

1140
01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:05.359
then that that will help some uh, some examples of

1141
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:11.680
apparent contradictions and difficulties. I've given you there, and we're

1142
01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:17.319
gonna we're gonna stop here. Let me let me encourage

1143
01:12:17.319 --> 01:12:21.560
you to study those on your own. I'm not gonna

1144
01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:24.039
say that we're gonna come back and finish this.

1145
01:12:26.199 --> 01:12:29.960
Well, there you have it. The big takeaway is he

1146
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:32.720
took second Peter one twenty. Let me go back to it,

1147
01:12:35.039 --> 01:12:37.560
and I still want you to listen to the entire series.

1148
01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:39.840
I still want you to listen to the entire series.

1149
01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:42.479
Obviously I got frustrated, but here's what I want you

1150
01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:47.079
to see from this, right. My frustration is not me saying, hey,

1151
01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:49.279
don't go listen to this, or it's not worth your time,

1152
01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:52.319
or it's not beneficial. Go listen to all thirty six messages,

1153
01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:56.359
all right, please do so my frustration is is that

1154
01:12:56.439 --> 01:12:58.840
his whole thing at the beginning was there was so

1155
01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:03.680
much confus usion and misunderstanding because people don't know how

1156
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:07.439
to interpret the Bible or they just don't study. And

1157
01:13:07.479 --> 01:13:09.760
we talk and asked you that question. Well, what's so

1158
01:13:09.960 --> 01:13:16.039
frustrating is what this demonstrates is new. He took knowing

1159
01:13:16.119 --> 01:13:19.159
that this first that no prophecy of scriptures, of any

1160
01:13:19.199 --> 01:13:23.039
private interpretation, and he did not even interpret that passage

1161
01:13:23.079 --> 01:13:26.800
even we're remotely close to how it should be interpreted.

1162
01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:29.640
So that you know what that demonstrates, I say, he

1163
01:13:29.720 --> 01:13:34.119
misinterpreted Secreputer one twenty. He's teaching a course on how

1164
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:37.600
to study the Bible properly and interpret it properly, and

1165
01:13:37.680 --> 01:13:41.119
he would disagree with my interpretation. So that means no

1166
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:44.199
one can agree on how to interpret the scriptures. So

1167
01:13:44.239 --> 01:13:46.960
it's not an issue of well, no one studies, or

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that no one knows how to study. We can't agree

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on the rules used to study. We can't agree on

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the rules to interpret. So I mean that that's the issue,

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and that's the that's never going to be resolved. You're

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never going to fix all the difficulties and all the

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confusion because Christians will never agree. Can anybody agree on

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how to interpret second Peter one twenty. I think there's

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only one way to understand it. This is not talking

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about interpreting it like in Bible study. This is talking

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about the origin of scripture. No scripture originated from someone's

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own private thoughts, private interpretation. All scripture originated from the

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inspiration of God. There were God breathe. That's what the

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text is about. All right, we'll stop there, so go

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listen to the rest of that. I want you to

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hear the whole series. Let me let me pull up

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the information again so that you can find it. The

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entire series is called Biblical Interpretation. There's thirty six sermons.

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It is from Central Baptist Church of Orange Park. Go

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download all thirty six and then over the holiday holidays

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if you're busy, if you're traveling, just pull one of

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them up and just listen to all thirty six. But

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think carefully about what's being said, think about it, and

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just remember he did that example of cross referencing from

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John sixteen. Did not even come close to interpreting that verse,

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did not answer anything. It just in fact it he

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just strung together some verses that seem to be somewhat

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you know, casually related, and then just say, well, there

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we go. We did it. You didn't do anything. It

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didn't fix anything. That's maddening to me. The first the

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first John passage raises even more questions. Okay, how do

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we understand that? And we could go through church history

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and all the struggles Christians have had trying to understand, well,

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do we have gods? Do we break God's will down?

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This is his this is the will he ultimately has,

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but this is the will. Well, well, you can get

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all kinds of discussions. I won't even get trying to

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answer all of it. We could spend hours. You know,

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God's perfect will, God's allowable, all all the different ways

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you can break it down. Why why does God not

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answer prayers to basically stop sinning? Like I mean, we

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could go all all day. There's so many issues, but

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of course we Christians don't want to deal with those, right,

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not the never ending problem. All right, Bet, I'll stop there.

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Thanks for listening. Everyone, have a great day. It is Friday,

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December the twentieth means the holiday weekend, a holiday week

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is well, it basically starts this evening. So have a

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wonderful time with your family. I hope it's a great one.

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If you're one of those people where you're going to

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be lonely alone, it's it may be depressing and discouraging.

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You have my complete sympathy, empathy, my understanding. It can

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be a rough, rough time, and find things you love

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to do. Make the most of what you have. You

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can't worry about what other people have. You can't worry

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about what you don't have. All you can do is

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focus on what you do have and try to make

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the most of that and just let everyone else do

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their thing and not worry about it. All right for

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everyone else. If you've got a lot, if you've got family,

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and just be man, make the most of what you

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have because other people don't have that. Other people don't

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have what you have, so if you've got it, be

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grateful for it. If you don't find what you do have,

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whatever it is, don't compare it to what other people

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have and make the most of it. We can do

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a long discussion about that, but it is that time

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of year, so hey, you can grab you a Bible

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a notebook and spend your time listening to thirty six

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sermons on biblical interpretation and end the year strong with

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the the Sermon's two point zero app sermon challenge. You

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definitely can do that. So however it plays out for you,

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hopefully it's good. Just know this, it'll be over before

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we know it.

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Right.

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For those who have a hard time with it, we're

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going to wake up and it's going to be over.

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The Christmas will be over. Then we'll get through New

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Years and then boom, we're done with all of those holidays,

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and then we can move on and not have to

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worry about it till next year. For those who enjoy it,

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it'll be over before you know it, so you enjoy it.

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For the other people who have to endure it, just

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endure it. It won't It will feel like an eternity,

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but before you know it, it will be over and you'll

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be on the other side, and then you can move forward.

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So wherever you find yourself, because you will find people

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in very drastically different situations. Thanks for listening. Everyone, have

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a great holiday, great Christmas, great New Years. God bless