Welcome to "Issues and Answers."
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You know today we're
gonna talk about the Bible.
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Did you know that the Bible
was written in Hebrew and Greek?
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Well, for some of
you who are watching
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you may still feel that
it is in Hebrew and Greek
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because you do not
understand it completely.
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We are going to go
through how to study your Bible,
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yes, a self-help
study for you and for others
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who are willing
to know how to peruse
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through God's word
intelligently and proficiently.
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And to help us today
our two very special guests,
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one whom we had on
another show, it is Daniel Mesa.
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He is pastor of the
Revelation Promises Hope,
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SDA Church and
Maranatha Bible Fellowship
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SDA Church in
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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And he has
brought his best friend,
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evangelist David Asscherick
of the Mission College
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in the Black Hills in
Hermosa, South Dakota.
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Welcome to the
program, gentlemen.
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Thank you. It's
very nice to be here.
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So we are going to learn
about how to study our Bibles.
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Well, I'm
excited about this. Amen.
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Where do we begin?
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We begin with David.
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Well, the
Bible, it's interesting
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that you would say that it
was written in Hebrew and Greek.
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It's actually written
in Hebrew, Greek and--
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Aramaic. There
was a third language.
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Do you know what it was?
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Aramaic. Aramaic, you got it.
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It was written in Hebrew.
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Of course, the Old Testament
is in Hebrew and Aramaic
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and the entire New
Testament was written in Greek.
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And it's interesting
to me that you would say
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that many people
might still feel like
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it's written in those
languages because I have found
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that very few people
really understand the Bible.
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I hate to say that but as
we travel around the country,
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it's really perplexing to me,
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and I Sir Daniel was a pastor,
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that there are very few people
who really seem to have a grasp
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on the totality of
Scripture, what's being taught.
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And the Bible is
definitely a unique document.
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The Bible is written on
three different continents
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over a period of probably
about 1500 different years
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by not less than
37 different authors.
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These authors ranged in their
vocations from being a farmer,
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Jeremiah was a scribe,
Matthew was a tax collector,
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Peter was a fisherman,
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so various
socio-economic backgrounds,
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cultural backgrounds,
over 1500 different years,
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3 different
continents and it all coalesces
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into one volume
that we call the Bible,
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which is really
66 different books.
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And so when
you're perusing this,
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this volume it's not
a-- it's not a normal book,
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it's not an ordinary book.
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It's unique and so therefore,
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we must understand
how to study this Bible.
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And that's what we
want to talk about today.
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Well, I think it's
neat that you're here
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because we'd had Daniel
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tell us how he came to
the Lord in our last program
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and I understand that
there is a special story
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about your baptisms.
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Yes, actually I
was in California,
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baptized June 6th, I
think it was or July 6th.
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And he was baptized
the 8th, 2 days apart.
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He was in South
Dakota and just a short time
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afterwards the Lord
brought us together.
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And at that point
we'd become best friends.
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And I'd mentioned before
that we wanted to work together.
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So we prayed
together that the Lord
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would lead us
together to work together.
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And we've been
best friends ever since.
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So it's been quite a blessing.
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Wonderful. Amen.
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So, David, you're going to share
with us some key principles
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on how to study or
how to learn the Bible.
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Understand the Bible.
Understand the Bible, okay.
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We have five principles.
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We've distilled it
down to five principles,
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that if you'll follow
these five principles--
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they are principles
that are actually derived
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from the Bible itself.
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And if we'll understand
these five principles,
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we will be able to arrive
at an accurate understanding
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of what the Bible is teaching.
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I need to tell a little story.
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This is how some
people study the Bible.
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Perhaps, you've
heard of this before.
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People will
say, "Well, you know,
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I'm in such a
hurry in the mornings
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that I just flip through and I
just say, 'Lord, speak to me.'"
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And they open it up and,
you know, whatever the text is,
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this is God's
voice to them that day.
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And I'm not discounting
the fact that God can do that.
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There's a little story,
somebody studying the Bible and,
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"Oh, Lord, I'm in a hurry,
I just need a quick devotion"
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and it says,
"Judas hung himself."
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Oh, this is not a
particularly good devotion,
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so he closes it and he...
"Go thou and do likewise."
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Oh, this is not a
good study at all.
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So he says, "Lord, I need--
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I really need you to give me
a good devotion this morning."
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So he goes one
more time and it says,
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"What thou doest, do quickly."
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So this is not a legitimate way
to study the Bible obviously.
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And sadly, many
people are employing
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these same kinds of principles.
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You know, we laugh at it.
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It's clever, but
people are employing
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these kinds of
happenstance principles
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to understand the Bible.
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The Bible as we have
said is a unique book
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and God has given us ways,
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principles in which we can
use to understand the Bible.
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And these principles are
derived from the Bible itself.
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We'll give five
principles as I've said.
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And the first principle is
this, I'm going to read here
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if you'd like to
look in your Bible,
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it's in 2 Timothy 3:16,
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2 Timothy 3:16.
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The Bible says this,
"All scripture is given
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by inspiration of God, and
is profitable for doctrine,
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for reproof, for correction,
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for instruction in righteousness
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that the man of
God may be perfect,
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thoroughly furnished
unto all good works."
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And here we find the first key
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that's going to help us
to understand the Bible.
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We need to
understand that the Bible
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makes an
incredible claim about itself.
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Prior to becoming a Christian
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I studied into
eastern religions.
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I read a large
portion of the Hindu holy book
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call the Bhagavad-Gita as it is.
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I've read large
sections of the Koran.
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I'm a voracious reader.
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But I have learned
that no other holy book
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that I'm aware of makes the
claim to be the word of God.
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The Bible is unique and
that it makes that claim.
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Now just because
it makes the claim
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doesn't
necessarily mean that it's true
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but we have to treat
this Book as a unique Book
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just by virtue of the
fact that it makes the claim.
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Now the key passage
here I wanted to look at is,
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"All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God."
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And the first principle that we
derive from the Scripture itself
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is that in order to
understand the word of God
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we must rely upon the
author of the word of God
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who according to
this verse is God.
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And that's the first
principle, reliance upon God,
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upon the Holy Spirit to
lead us and to guide us.
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And, Daniel, I know you're just
charged up with the text here.
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That's right. I want
you to turn to John 16.
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John 16 gives us one of those
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principles of
studying the Bible,
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reliance upon the
Spirit saying that
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"all inspiration is
given by"-- oh, I'm sorry--
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"all Scripture is
given by inspiration of God."
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The inspiration is,
you know, by the Spirit
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and in John 16:13, we read
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"Howbeit when He, the
Spirit of truth is come,
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He will guide
you into all truth."
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Not just some, but all truth.
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And so the promise
is that God will lead us
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through His Spirit into truth.
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We're also told
that the Bible is truth,
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"Your word is truth,"
it says in John 17:17.
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But if we finish
the text it says,
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"For He shall not
speak of Himself."
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We learn in a few verses
after and a few verses before,
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he is speaking of Christ.
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"But whatsoever He shall
hear, that shall He speak
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and He will show
you things to come."
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So the promise here is
just really quite a blessing.
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God's going to lead you
through His Spirit into truth
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but also reveal things to come.
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And just as David
said this is a unique Book.
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This Book has promised not
only to reveal the will of God
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and lead us into
truth, but things to come.
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So we don't always
have to be in darkness
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not knowing the things
or only knowing the things
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that are behind
and what are present
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but God has promised also
to reveal to us the future.
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So before we even open the
Book we can know that it's fact,
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that it's coming from God
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and that as we study
God through the Holy Spirit,
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His Holy Spirit
will guide us. Amen.
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And that's principle number one.
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Because the Bible
is a spiritual book,
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we can't just come to it
like we would come to any other
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historical work
or work of antiquity.
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We need to come
to this Book saying,
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"Lord, you wrote the
Book. Now teach me the book."
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You know, He is going
to be the best teacher
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if He is the author.
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I'm reading now from 2 Peter,
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just quickly,
chapter 1 verse 19.
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He says, "We have also a
more sure word of prophecy;
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whereunto you do
well that you take heed,
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as unto a light that
shineth in a dark place,
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until the day
dawn, and the day star
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arise in your
hearts knowing this first
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that no
prophecy of the Scripture
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is of any
private interpretation."
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So it's not up to
Karen to determine
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what the Scripture says
or David or even Daniel.
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How can we be so
sure that the Scripture
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is not a private interpretation?
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The next verse is the key.
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He says, "For the
prophecy came not in old time
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by the will of man
but holy men of God spake
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as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost."
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So we've seen
just three Scriptures
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right as we get started here
that the Holy Spirit is the one
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who wrote the Bible
through the prophets
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but the Spirit
was the one inspiring.
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And so when we
come to the word of God
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principle number one is it's
not David's intellectual prowess
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or David's education
that's going to help him
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to understand the word of God
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but it's going to
be David's reliance
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upon the author
of the word of God.
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That's principle number one.
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You know, I think back
on how you said how you met.
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You know my brothers are
David and Daniel as well.
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And so here's a
David, here's a Daniel
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that are two worlds apart
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but yet the Lord has
brought them together.
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So the same Holy
Spirit and the same God
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who can bring people
together through circumstances
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can guide us
through His word as well.
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Amen. That's right.
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That's good. I like that.
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Well, our second
principle is not just
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that the Spirit teaches
us principle number one,
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but the second
principle is that the theme
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of the entire Scripture
from the beginning to the end
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is actually
Jesus Christ himself.
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Jesus is the
theme of the Scripture.
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In fact, go to John 5.
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John 5.
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For those of you at home,
that's in the New Testament,
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that's the fourth gospel,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.
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John 5:39,
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Jesus here is discussing
some issues with the Pharisees.
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These were the intelligent
people of Jesus' day.
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And Jesus says
this in John 5:39,
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He says,
"Search the Scriptures."
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And in the days of
Jesus, of course, the Scriptures
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would have been
just Genesis to Malachi.
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The New Testament would
not yet have been written.
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Jesus says, "Search
the Old Testament." Why?
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Why should we search it?
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"For in them you
think you have eternal life
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and they are they
which testify of Me."
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So Jesus is saying, from Genesis
all the writings of Moses,
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all the way up
through-- all of the chronicles
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and the
chronologies through the Kings,
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through Samuel, all the way
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through all the
Old Testament prophets,
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He says, all of those Scriptures
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they testify of
one central theme,
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the pulsating bottom
line of Scripture is Jesus.
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So when we're
going into the Bible,
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we're looking not
for little details here
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and little idiosyncrasies
here and little nuances here,
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we're looking for
the vast thing, Jesus.
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You remind of me of
another Scripture, David.
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In Luke 24:25,
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Jesus actually
believed the same thing
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that David was
just talking about,
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how that the whole entire
Scripture refers to Himself.
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He is the central theme.
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And in verse 25
of Luke 24, it says,
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"O fools, and slow
of heart to believe
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all that the
prophets have spoken.
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Ought not Christ to
have suffered these things,
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and to enter into His glory?"
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Verse 27, "Beginning at
Moses and all the prophets,
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He expounded unto
them in all the Scriptures
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the things concerning Himself."
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And so from Moses,
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just like David was
talking about the Old Testament,
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when He said
search the Scriptures,
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He's referring to
Genesis to Malachi.
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Jesus took Moses
and all the prophets
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and expounded or opened up,
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unpacked the Scriptures about
the things concerning Himself.
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And, you know, that reminds me
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of an
illustration I'd like to teach.
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When we're studying the
Bible we should do something
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what's called as Jesus said
"expounding the Scriptures".
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But I call it
unpacking the Scriptures.
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And it's much like
you take a suitcase, okay.
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You pop it open, you
open it up and you see
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that you've got in there a
few folded items of clothing.
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Well, you see a shirt there
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and you don't
really know the shirt much
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because it's folded up.
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So you take it and you
unfold it a little bit here,
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you unfold it a little bit there
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and find it's a
short sleeve shirt.
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And then you unfold
it here a little bit
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and there's an emblem on
it, "Jesus loves me," okay.
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You unfold it again and
you find it's a white shirt
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with the emblem,
"Jesus loves me."
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You turn it over and it
says "Jesus loves you too."
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So now you know the full
broad scope of this shirt.
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Well, then you put it on, okay.
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You go into your suitcase again
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and pull out what
looks like a pair of shorts,
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but you unfold it and,
or unpack it as it were
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and it's all of a sudden
a pair of pants with your,
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you know, perfect pockets
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and the kind that you like
perfectly and just your size.
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So you slip that one on too.
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You do the same
thing with the sweater,
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do the same thing with the
hat and all the other things.
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You unpack them,
find out all about them,
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whether you like them or not,
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if they fit and
then you put them on.
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In the same way, we should
be able to take the Scriptures
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and we should
search the Scriptures
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and expound everything, the
things concerning to Christ.
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And so you can
take one Scripture,
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any Scripture and
pull the first word.
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For instance, "For
God so loved the world."
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What does God mean?
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Unfold that, make it big,
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make it real,
apply it to yourself.
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For God so loved,
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so is obviously
an emphasis on loved.
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What does love mean?
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What does it mean to so love
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in opposite of or
in next to just loving.
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And so you can
unpack these things
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and then put that
article of word on.
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And so really, it's the
unpacking of the Scriptures
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that's something
that we should try
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to do every time we study.
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There's a point I
wanted to say on that
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and what Daniel is
talking about is almost like
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you would go into a
laboratory and use a microscope.
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Say you had a
piece of tissue here,
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you know, maybe it was a
piece of skin or something
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and you get under the microscope
and you really peer in
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and look at all of the details
of what you're looking at
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but there's not just a
microscope involved here,
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because if we were just
spending all of our time
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looking at the little
minutia we wouldn't understand,
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well, what is the big picture.
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And so there's
not just a microscope.
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That's point number
three by the way, Daniel.
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There's a
telescope. There's a telescope.
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You see, we
don't want to just stay
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honed in on all
the little words.
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We have to do that.
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But then we have to back away
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and be sure that the conclusions
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that we've
reached from that text
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agree with the
conclusion of the entire Bible.
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So point number one is
reliance upon the Holy Spirit.
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Point number two is that all of
the Scriptures point to Jesus.
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He's the central
theme of Scripture.
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Point number three is
unpacking the Scripture,
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letting every word
have its proper bearing.
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God so loved the world.
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And point number four is
that all of the conclusions
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that we reach from a particular
understanding of a verse
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need to agree with
what the other things
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that the Bible says.
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For example, you know, we
did our little illustration,
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you know, Judas hung himself.
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Go thou and do likewise.
What thou doest, do quickly.
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Well, you could
arrive at that conclusion
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but that would
not be a conclusion
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that's consistent
with the rest of Scripture.
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In fact, look at
the Book of Isaiah.
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This is point number four here.
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The Book of Isaiah
is in the Old Testament,
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not long after
Psalms, through Proverbs,
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through Ecclesiastes,
through Song of Solomon
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and you come to Isaiah 28.
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Our fourth point here is a
very important Scriptural point.
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And Isaiah 28,
beginning in verse 9
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there's a question being asked
here by the prophet Isaiah.
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The question is this,
"Whom shall He," that's God.
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"Whom shall God teach knowledge?
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And whom shall He make
to understand doctrine?
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Them that are
weaned from the milk,
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and drawn from the breasts."
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In other words, God teaches
His spiritual insights to those
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who are desiring to be
mature in the things of God.
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Not just those that are babies,
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you know, suckling
from the mother's milk
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but those that are
interested in actually learning
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and studying, the more,
you'd say, spiritually mature.
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Here's how He does it, verse 10,
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"For precept
must be upon precept,
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precept upon
precept, line upon line,
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line upon line, here a
little, and there a little."
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You see, Karen,
this is our fourth point.
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God teaches us
not just in one verse,
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He teaches us many
things out of a single verse
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but what He teaches
us in that single verse
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needs to be
consistent with what He shows us
00:16:57.02\00:16:58.82
in the rest of
Scripture. How does He do that?
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The Bible is
internally consistent.
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So what He says in
Genesis is consistent
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with what He says in Revelation.
00:17:05.97\00:17:07.34
What He says in
Isaiah is consistent
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with what He says here
and there and so we bounce.
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What does Isaiah say about it?
00:17:11.64\00:17:13.01
What does Jeremiah say about it?
00:17:13.04\00:17:14.54
What did the wise
man Solomon say about it?
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What did Samuel say about it?
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What do all of the various Bible
writers say about a given topic,
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line upon line,
precept upon precept,
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here a little
and there a little.
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And one of the key
ways that you can do that,
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you know, we might have somebody
sitting at home today saying,
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well, how can I do that?
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How can I go from here to there?
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I don't know where to go.
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I'll give you a key
word that often comes
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when we talk to
people. Go ahead.
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Wine in the
Bible. Wine in the Bible.
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How can I do a
research on wine in the Bible?
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Excellent.
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If you wanted to do
research on wine in the Bible,
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what you would do
is you'd go to your
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local Christian book store,
you'd pick up a book called
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"A Strong's
Exhaustive Concordance."
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There are many
different concordances
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but the one I recommend
is the Strong's Exhaustive.
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It was compiled by a man
named James Strong back in,
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I think, 1600s.
It's not a commentary.
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It's a reference tool
that lists alphabetically
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every word that
appears in Scripture.
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So you go through the As,
through the Bs, through the Cs
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and you eventually come to
the Ws and you'd look up wine.
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And you'd have
there all of the times
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that wine occurs in the Bible.
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So what you
would do is, you'd say,
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what was wine in
the Bible in Genesis,
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look up those references.
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What was it in Exodus,
look up those references.
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What was it in
all the way through
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Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua
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and as you
looked up the totality
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of what the Bible says about
wine in all of the Scripture,
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then you'd have a
biblical understanding
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of what the Bible
teaches about wine.
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That's the telescope.
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Daniel talked
about the microscope.
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You might take one text
that mentioned wine in it
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and you'd unpack the
Scripture and say, oh, okay.
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So I understand
what this is teaching.
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But you better be
sure that the conclusion
00:18:39.19\00:18:40.85
that you arrive
at in your microscope
00:18:40.88\00:18:43.57
agrees with the
telescope. You understand?
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That's right.
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If you're looking
at a little cell tissue
00:18:47.31\00:18:49.03
here underneath the microscope,
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when you pan out,
you're looking at,
00:18:50.59\00:18:52.38
say, a cat or
you're looking at--
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you don't know what
you're looking at precisely
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but as you pan out
what you see panning out
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always agrees with
what you see panned in.
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You're not adding anything new.
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All of it has to agree and
that's the fourth principle.
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Biblical consistency and
this is one of the great ways
00:19:04.82\00:19:08.40
that we can know that
the Bible is inspired.
00:19:08.43\00:19:10.88
As we've suggested
written by 37 different authors
00:19:10.91\00:19:14.05
on 3 continents over a
period of 1500 different years
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and yet they
agree in every detail
00:19:16.87\00:19:19.51
and every
specificity with one another.
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I mean, this is incredible on,
00:19:21.70\00:19:23.07
no doubt, the most
controversial subject
00:19:23.10\00:19:24.71
in all of human
existence, God. That's right.
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Total internal consistency
and that's point number four.
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And, you know,
Jesus Christ even believed
00:19:30.77\00:19:32.74
in the consistency of the Bible
00:19:32.77\00:19:35.17
because we've
already mentioned in Luke 24
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where He went from
Moses and expounded unto them
00:19:37.74\00:19:39.92
all the things
concerning Himself
00:19:39.95\00:19:42.06
through all the prophets.
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We also learnt that
Paul did the same thing
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if you read
through Romans Chapter 3.
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He basically
took the Scriptures,
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the Old Testament,
took sections of Scripture,
00:19:50.25\00:19:53.36
compiled them into one
section and taught us about
00:19:53.39\00:19:56.64
the depravity of
man's human nature.
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But there's another
section of Scripture
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that I'd like to turn
to, 1 Corinthians Chapter 2
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and referring to what David was
talking about in Isaiah 28:10,
00:20:05.64\00:20:10.89
here a little, there a little,
00:20:10.92\00:20:12.29
line upon line, and
precept upon precept.
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We have the same
thought in the New Testament,
00:20:13.72\00:20:15.11
1 Corinthians 2:13,
00:20:15.14\00:20:19.26
referring to the
Spirit of God reveling to us
00:20:19.29\00:20:21.49
things that are
unknown to normal people.
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We are spiritual
people. Verse 13.
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"Which things also we speak,
00:20:26.20\00:20:28.28
not in the words
which man's wisdom teaches
00:20:28.31\00:20:31.25
but which the
Holy Ghost teaches,
00:20:31.28\00:20:33.84
comparing spiritual
things with spiritual."
00:20:33.87\00:20:38.69
You know, one thing
I like about the Bible
00:20:38.72\00:20:40.42
is that it is researched
and intellectually sound.
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The Bible has footnotes.
00:20:47.31\00:20:48.73
And like you were saying
the Strong's Concordance,
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well, isn't there a mini
version of that in the Bible?
00:20:51.41\00:20:53.47
That's right, I
appreciate you having said that.
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In the center of many Bibles
00:20:55.78\00:20:57.79
you'll find
between the two columns,
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you'll have a kind of
a reference point here.
00:21:00.50\00:21:03.42
And this is what's
call the marginal reference.
00:21:03.45\00:21:05.53
Let's see if we can
get a picture of it.
00:21:05.56\00:21:06.93
Sometimes it's called
the center column reference.
00:21:06.96\00:21:09.70
Just turn your Bible
around there and let's see if--
00:21:09.73\00:21:11.21
In that center column reference
that you have right here,
00:21:11.24\00:21:14.46
basically what you have is,
00:21:14.49\00:21:16.76
for example, here's
a bold, Chapter 1:2.
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And these are going
to the other Scriptures
00:21:19.98\00:21:21.85
that reference the same topic
00:21:21.88\00:21:23.72
that you're dealing
with in this Scripture.
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Now this becomes very,
very helpful for you especially,
00:21:25.62\00:21:27.81
if you're not extremely learned
00:21:27.84\00:21:29.63
in the things
of the word of God.
00:21:29.66\00:21:31.19
When you first come,
you pick up the Bible
00:21:31.22\00:21:33.06
and you can
just go to any place.
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You pick it up and
as you read this verse,
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then you have, say, here four
or five or six other Scriptures
00:21:36.33\00:21:39.12
that are going to
reference similar topics
00:21:39.15\00:21:41.41
like wine or angels
or hell or death or love,
00:21:41.44\00:21:45.88
any of these topics and you
can just bounce back and forth.
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A marginal reference
here, a reference here,
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a reference
here, a reference here,
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a reference
here, a reference here.
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This is a systematic
way to go through the Bible
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and be sure that the conclusions
that you are arriving at,
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lead by the
Spirit, looking for Jesus,
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unpacking the individual words,
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allowing the
totality of Scripture
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to have its bearing
upon Genesis to Revelation,
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all of it making
the same sense together,
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a unified document, these
are the first four principles.
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If you follow these, you
can be sure that the conclusions
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that you're
arriving at are accurate
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and most of all
biblical conclusions.
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That's very interesting.
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Now can you give us a practical
example of how to do this?
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I think so.
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In my marginal reference
here, for example, the scripture
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that Daniel just read to
us in 1 Corinthians 2:13.
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The verse is "Which
things also we speak,
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not in the words
which man's wisdom teacheth
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but which the
Holy Ghost teacheth,
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comparing spiritual
things with spiritual."
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Now as I look at my
marginal reference here
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it refers me to
Chapter 1 of that same book,
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verse 17, "For Christ
sent me not to baptize,
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but to preach the gospel
not with wisdom of words,
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lest the cross of Christ
should be made of none effect."
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And clearly here
the marginal reference
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is on that word wisdom.
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So we learn over here that we're
not looking for man's wisdom,
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we're looking for the
wisdom that God teaches
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by comparing
spiritual with spiritual.
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Paul over here
further elaborates
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on the idea of man's
wisdom and how it's insufficient
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to lead us to a
correct understanding
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of the word of God.
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Now if you would
enlarge upon that even further.
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What does the New Testament
have to say about man's wisdom?
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What does the New
Testament have to say
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about God's wisdom, the two?
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What does the whole
Bible have to say about wisdom?
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And as you bring that
microscope and pan out,
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pan out, pan out, pan out,
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you're going to have a
very biblical understanding
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of man's wisdom
versus God's wisdom.
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There's never an ending to
learning God's word, is there?
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Amen. I love that.
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And there's an important point
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that I need to make
on this and that is this,
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many of the Bibles that
people have today are called,
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maybe you've heard of
this before, study Bibles.
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And what this
means is basically,
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you go into a
bookstore, a Christian bookstore
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and they'll have a study Bible.
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I've seen the
women's study Bible
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and the men's study Bible
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and even the
African-American study Bible,
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the prophesy study
Bible, the father study Bible.
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What that means
is, is that man has now
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put his comments onto
what the word of God says.
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Now those are
not all bad in that.
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Somebody has done a
study but then that--
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we have not done a study,
right? That's exactly right.
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It's not that these
things are bad necessarily.
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However, we need to be
very careful to understand
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that somebody else's conclusions
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might not be
the right conclusion
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or the biblical conclusion.
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So I just--there's a warning.
There's a caution there.
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Nothing against
study Bibles as such,
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but be sure that the
conclusions that you are drawing
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are the conclusions that
God's wisdom has taught you,
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not what man's
wisdom has taught.
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And the best way to do
that is to study for ourselves.
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That's exactly right.
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Following the
principles that we've been
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speaking of right
now. You've got it.
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So we've got
our four principles.
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Principle number one is that
we rely totally upon the Spirit.
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Principle number
two is that Christ
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is the great central
theme of the Scriptures.
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Principle number
three is unpacking
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all of the
particularities, the words,
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the nuances of an
individual verse or passage.
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Point number four is
that all of what we learn
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has to be internally
consistent so it doesn't--
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the Bible doesn't teach
that black is white on this side
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and white is black on this side.
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It's always black is
black and white is white.
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It's internally consistent.
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And point number five,
Karen, is a very important one.
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And it has to do
with application.
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When God teaches us
something in His word
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it might require a
change in the way we're living,
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the way we're
conducting ourselves,
00:25:07.99\00:25:09.36
the way we
think, the way we move,
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the way we
breath, the way we live,
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the way we talk. It
might require a change.
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And if it does, we
need to be willing to do
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what God has shown us.
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And I think Daniel
has a Scripture here
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that he's just
desiring to show us. I do.
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and this is a blessed passage,
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one that I took very--
made very close attention to
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when I became a Christian.
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It says in verse 19, "If
you be willing and obedient,
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you shall eat of
the good of the land."
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And so applying
everything that you have learned
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as a result of Bible study,
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at the end of
your study, make it--
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You know, being willing like
you said, I think that's key.
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Anytime you go
into a new exercise,
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into a new job or
for a new class even,
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you have to be
willing to be taught.
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You have to have a
teachable spirit. That's right.
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And surely we need to have
that as we open God's word,
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wouldn't you say? That's right.
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And be willing to do the
things that God shows us.
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I'll just quote you a beautiful
Scripture in John 7:17.
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Jesus says, "If any
man will to do his will,
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he shall know of the doctrine,
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whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself."
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Jesus says if you want
to know the will of God
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you must first be willing
to follow the will of God.
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See, God is not just
showing us things in the Bible
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to satisfy our insatiable
curiosity for understanding,
00:26:27.51\00:26:30.76
and for wisdom,
and for knowledge.
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When God reveals something to us
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He wants us to follow it,
to love it, to believe it,
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to live it and that's
principle number five.
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What God has
shown let us walk in.
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You know, my dad he
used to say things to me,
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he'd say, "David, I
want you to clean your room."
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He wasn't telling me
just to clean my room
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from my understanding,
00:26:46.75\00:26:48.12
he wanted me to clean my room.
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And so it's not just that
we look at what God had said.
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Oh, this is neat. God has
said "that does so is sin."
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Well, that's great.
Now I know that it's sin.
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God says it's sin and
if you're involved in it,
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why don't you depart from
it? Why don't you leave it?
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And a willingness to
follow what God has shown us,
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this makes all the difference.
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God will teach those
people who are willing to obey,
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who are willing to listen,
who are willing to learn,
00:27:09.99\00:27:11.99
who are willing to follow
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and that's
principle number five.
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Let us apply the
principles that we've seen.
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Well, let us pray
and ask the Holy Spirit
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to help us all as we
study God's word to listen
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to the voice of the
Holy Spirit as He teaches us.
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Will you offer a prayer for
us please, David? I'd love to.
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Our great Father in heaven,
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we rejoice to see today that You
have revealed to us principles,
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Father, derived from Your word
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that will enable us
to understand Your word.
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Lord, what a
blessed privilege we have
00:27:38.48\00:27:40.07
that You have given
us this special Book
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and we ask now that as
people that have been listening,
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they've learned
these principles,
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they see that they are biblical,
00:27:45.93\00:27:47.30
as they go to
study their Bibles,
00:27:47.33\00:27:48.70
we pray that You
will send Your Holy Spirit
00:27:48.73\00:27:50.32
to guide them into all truth
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as you've
promised in John 16:13.
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We love you, Lord, and
we thank you for Your word
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and we thank you that you have
today taught us how to study,
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In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
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