Rules to interpret Scripture | Rapp Report Daily 0056 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. One of the most important things for a
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- Christian is to rightly handle God's word. This is essential because any group, whether it be a cult or atheist or anyone that is going to come after and attack
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- Christianity, they have one thing in common. They will all misrepresent and mishandle
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- God's word. They will not interpret it following the proper rules of interpretation. Paul gives this encouragement to Timothy as he was encouraging him to study
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- God's word so that he would be sound in doctrine and teaching others sound doctrine. Paul says in 2
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- Timothy 2 .15, Do your best to present yourselves to God as one approved, a worker, who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
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- And that's something that should be our goal. We should have a goal to be standing approved before God, rightly handling his word so we have no shame.
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- When cultic groups or atheists want to come and attack us, we need to be able to handle
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- God's word rightly. When we have troubles and trials and sins that enter our life, we need to rightly handle
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- God's word to be able to live sound in faith. And the first principle that I want to take time this week to look at is identification.
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- We need to identify what type of literature we are dealing with. There's several types of literature in the
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- Bible and each one of them have different rules. There's historical narrative, there's poetic literature, there's wisdom literature, there's prophecy, and there's instruction.
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- And each one of those have different rules and this week we're going to take a look at those different rules and how to interpret them.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.