How to Apply Scripture

Sovereign Grace Family Church

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July 25, 2019

00:00: Well, good evening and welcome to Lecture 7, Class 7 in our Fundamentals of Bible Study.
00:07: Has everyone enjoyed the course so far? Good.
00:10: I'm very glad and we're drawing to a conclusion tonight on our study in the book.
00:18: We're going to be doing our last look at Dr.
00:21: Hendricks' book.
00:22: Next week we are going to be taking all the lessons that we have learned and we're going to apply them to direct scriptural interpretation and application and observation.
00:34: We're going to be doing that in class.
00:36: In fact, tonight you're going to have an opportunity to recommend some passages.
00:41: That will be later in the class.
00:44: Before we leave tonight, I want to take a couple of recommendations for you.
00:48: I have some ones that are already on my mind, but maybe you have some that are on your mind that you'd like for us to do in class.
00:54: I also have the outline of your final paper.
01:00: It's a little shorter than the one we did for history class, four to six pages.
01:04: And I have a list of passages that you can either choose from or I will choose for you if you feel like you would rather have...
01:16: I know, Pastor Mark, you said you didn't want to do something you'd already done.
01:18: So if you want, I'll just pick something for you to do.
01:21: But this is what you're going to receive.
01:24: And this has the passages that I'd like for you to choose from.
01:27: And there's several on here.
01:29: So there's a chance everybody could do something different.
01:32: Or at least most of you do something different.
01:38: We have come again, like I said, to our last night in the book.
01:42: And our study through the book has been relatively simple.
01:47: It is looking at the subjects of observation.
01:50: What does the text say? Interpretation, what does the text mean? And application, how does it work? How does it apply to my life and my situation? Tonight, we're going to be looking at four steps to application.
02:11: This is taken directly from your textbook.
02:13: We're going to look at nine questions to ask.
02:17: This is both in your textbook and your workbook.
02:20: And then we're going to actually be going over a text tonight as well.
02:24: But tonight isn't observation and interpretation as much as it is application.
02:29: Because that's the subject that we're still dealing with.
02:31: So we're going to be going immediately almost to application, even though we'll have to do some preliminary observing and interpreting before we do that.
02:41: You'll notice I gave you a copy of the text we're going to be looking at.
02:45: It's printed.
02:46: And it's on the table when you came in.
02:49: I did that, one, so that we'd all have the same translation, but also so you could write on it.
02:54: So I know not everybody likes to scribble in their Bible.
02:58: And especially if it's during a class, you might want to write some extra notes down.
03:02: So I gave you something that we can literally walk through it, draw lines on it, make our connection points, and then draw our applications.
03:11: So let's look first at our four steps to application.
03:17: This is in your textbook.
03:20: So you don't necessarily have to take notes unless you just want to.
03:23: You can just simply make a note of what page that you're on.
03:26: What page is the four steps to application? 319.
03:30: 319, thank you.
03:31: So if you have your books and want to open them to 319, you may.
03:34: And then you can look at that as we go along.
03:43: The four steps to application are simply this.
03:47: Number one, to know.
03:50: Number two, to relate.
03:53: Number three, to meditate.
03:56: And number four, to practice.
03:59: So we're going to go over each of these briefly and talk about how we would use them.
04:05: The first one is to know.
04:09: Now, if you have done the process of observing and interpreting properly, if you have taken the time to truly observe the text and truly seek to have a right understanding of the text, then you should know what the text is teaching.
04:25: But I want to add something else as a thought.
04:29: You should not only know what the text is teaching, but you should also know what the text is not teaching.
04:38: Oftentimes, application goes awry when people try to force something the text simply does not say.
04:49: I'll give you an example of one that has happened to me years ago.
04:56: I was at a hospital.
04:58: I do several hospital visits every month.
05:02: I'm visiting people in the hospital.
05:04: And at this particular time, I took a man with me.
05:07: He wasn't an elder or deacon of the church.
05:09: He was just a man here at the church.
05:10: And he wanted to visit the hospital with me.
05:12: And so I took him along.
05:14: And we were visiting a man who was quite elderly and was not doing well.
05:22: And so I went up to his room.
05:25: I prayed for him.
05:27: And in the midst of the prayer, at some point, I don't know at what point in the prayer, but at some point in the prayer, I said, Lord, we do not know what your will is.
05:36: But we pray in regard to the health of my brother that you would have your will be done.
05:44: If your will is to heal, we would glorify you.
05:46: And Lord, if not, I pray you would give him strength to endure whatever it is you have him to face.
05:52: Lord, we thank you for all of your blessings.
05:56: You know, your will be done.
05:58: Amen.
05:59: And the man thanked me for praying with him.
06:02: It's a pretty common thing that I would pray.
06:05: And as we went out of the room and began to go toward the elevator, I could tell that my companion was more than a little put off by what I had said.
06:19: In fact, he was visibly agitated.
06:22: And so by the time we got to the car, I said, well, what is it that's wrong? And he said, I don't think you should pray that.
06:33: OK, what what did I do wrong? He said, well, I don't believe that you should pray for God's will to be done.
06:43: I think that you should pray God heal him because it's always God's will to heal.
06:53: And I said, well, what makes you think that that's the case? And he said, well, the Bible says that.
07:04: And at the time he could not pull the verse out because I asked him, you know, chapter and verse, please, you know, if you if you say the Bible says it, I'm going to ask you where and if you can't show me, that's a problem.
07:17: Because, you know, it might it might say it.
07:20: But if you don't know, don't say it says it if you don't know it.
07:23: And so I know later that the passage he was referring to is in the Gospel of Mark, where Jesus has a man come to him and say, if you will heal me.
07:38: And Jesus said, if I will, I will be healed.
07:41: You know, and he and he says those words, I will be healed.
07:44: And that statement has been taken by the health and wealth groups out there to mean that it is always the will of God to heal every person and every situation.
07:58: And fast forward a little bit to a time when here at the church, we had a young girl who was sick and she had a tumor in her brain and I was praying for her.
08:13: And after I prayed, a man walked up to me and he said, God already told me she's healed.
08:23: Never pray that prayer again.
08:24: He had verbally accosted me.
08:28: Do not pray that prayer because I know she's already healed.
08:35: Well, God was apparently this man did not hear from God.
08:43: This young girl is now with the Lord.
08:46: And that man is a false prophet and a liar.
08:52: It's a dangerous thing to go around telling people, God told me when he didn't.
08:59: And it's also dangerous to make claims that the Bible promises everyone healing all the time when it clearly does not.
09:09: And so when I say you should know the text, I add, you should also know what it doesn't say.
09:17: Even though Jesus told that man, I will be healed.
09:20: And he did say those words.
09:22: That does not constitute a blanket promise for every person that has ever lived.
09:29: Johnny Erickson Tada is one of the great women of faith of our modern generation.
09:35: She is a tremendous blessing to the church and is herself a paraplegic who lives without the use of her arms and legs.
09:44: Has so since she was a high schooler and she jumped into a swimming pool and broke her neck.
09:51: And she lives in the agony of not being able to use her body.
09:58: And yet she lives with joy in the Lord.
10:02: She's married.
10:04: She has a wonderful ministry.
10:05: Johnny and Friends is her ministry.
10:08: And she will be the first to tell you there have been people in her life that have told her that the reason why she is not healed is because she does not have enough faith.
10:17: Those of you who knew Sybil Taylor, member of our church, who was a paraplegic.
10:22: Yeah, Johnny's a quadriplegic.
10:26: Sybil's a paraplegic, was injured as a child, lost the use of her legs.
10:31: She had people tell her the reason why you're not standing is you don't have enough faith.
10:35: And I never met a person in my life more faithful than Sybil Taylor.
10:39: She was a member of our church and a lovely woman of God.
10:44: And it just broke my heart that people would say something so asinine.
10:48: I didn't come here tonight to beat up on faith healers, by the way.
10:51: I'm just telling you, this is one example of knowing the text and knowing what it doesn't say.
11:01: So you need to do that with whatever text you're in.
11:04: What does it say? What does it not say? What are you assuming because of your background, because of your system? We talked about the systems that we all come from, whether they be Baptist systems or Methodist systems or dispensational systems or Calvinistic systems or Arminian systems.
11:20: What is your system imposing upon this text? These are questions we have to ask.
11:29: So know the text.
11:30: What is it really teaching? The second thing is to know yourself.
11:35: So if you need to know the text, you need to also know yourself.
11:40: You need to assess your own personal assets and liabilities.
11:43: It's interesting to speak in business terms like that, but really what that's saying, and this is the language Dr.
11:49: Hendrick chooses in the book, he says, our assets remind us of what God has done for us, and our liabilities remind us of what God needs to develop in us.
11:59: We have things that God has already done, and He is working in us, and there are things that we are still needing development in.
12:08: And so that's often how we see the application.
12:13: And why my application might be different than yours, because my growth in a certain area may be different than your growth.
12:20: Therefore, I may have, and again, excuse the business language, but the assets and liabilities.
12:24: I may have assets you don't have.
12:25: You may have assets I don't have.
12:27: I may have liabilities you don't have, and you may have liabilities I don't have.
12:30: Therefore, I'm looking in the text, where does this address me? Is it encouraging me in something I'm doing right? Or is it challenging me in something I'm not? Therefore, this is where it gets personal and somewhat relative, because how is it affecting you individually? Often, we do not grow because we do not know what we need, or we're not honest about what we need.
13:02: You know who the biggest liar to you is? You.
13:08: Yeah, we lie to ourselves.
13:09: We are self-deceived, and it's difficult to know yourself.
13:15: And so that's what Dr.
13:19: Hendricks is saying.
13:20: And I like this verse, if you want to write down a passage to think about.
13:23: Paul says this in Romans 12, 3.
13:25: This is the verse right after the verses that we looked at in the opening of this class.
13:30: Verse 3 says, For by the grace given to me, I said everyone among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
13:49: Be honest with yourself about yourself.
13:54: I love the fact that it says God assigns us faith in that passage.
13:57: By the way, if you want to draw an additional application out of that passage, is that faith is something God gives us.
14:03: We don't bring that to the party.
14:05: That's a gift from God.
14:08: And there is a reminder there in Romans 3, and we're operating in the faith God has assigned.
14:14: Therefore, do I need more faith in an area? God, give me the faith.
14:19: You know, what did the man say? One of my favorite verses of scripture, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.
14:26: Right? And that's what we need.
14:29: That's where our liabilities are, where we lack faith.
14:32: God, give me more grace.
14:35: Give me more faith.
14:37: So that's the no.
14:38: That's number one, no.
14:40: Number two, relate.
14:46: The gospel affects every area of life.
14:50: Look at the text you're studying in light of various areas of life and seek to relate it to the text.
14:59: Ask, does this relate? Does this text relate to how I worship God? Does this text relate to how I treat my spouse or my friends or my pastor or my pastor? I'm not all you're going to get.
15:19: Does this text relate to how I spend my free time? Does this text relate to how I spend my money? Does this text relate to how I behave in the workplace or the office? Does this text relate to how I respond to authority? Think about Romans 13 for a moment.
15:46: What's the first part of Romans 13 about? The authority of man's government, right? Government of men, by men, right? And what's the text say? Submit to the governing authorities because the governing authorities have a particular type of ministry.
16:11: You know, they're called deacons in that passage.
16:13: The word for deacon is used.
16:14: That the government is a deacon, a minister of the law of God and that the government's purpose is to bring punishment on the evildoer.
16:26: We get to our ethics class, we're going to look at the subject of capital punishment.
16:32: That's a big question.
16:33: And there are people who are Christians on both sides of that ethical question.
16:38: And so we are going to look at that passage which says that the government does not bear the sword in vain, right? But ultimately, again, the question, how does this, how do I respond to authority when I read this passage? You know, am I afraid when I see the cops slow down because I knew I was going too fast to begin with? That's just a small example.
17:04: There's all kinds of ways that we can see this relate to our lives.
17:09: And again, you go down, just keep going.
17:13: The third thing, the third step is the step of meditation.
17:20: The step of meditate.
17:23: This is on page 324, 325.
17:28: And Dr.
17:29: Hendricks says this.
17:32: He said he had a friend one time who he was having struggling, he was struggling mentally and he went to his friend and his friend said, you're behind in your think time.
17:43: And when I read that quote in the book, I thought, you know what? As a pastor, I know exactly what he means because there's a lot of weeks where by the time Sunday rolls around, I haven't had a lot of think time.
17:56: I've had to force myself to study because of other things drawing for my attention, whether it be family, whether it be church-related issues, whether it be anything else.
18:08: And I haven't really had time to think.
18:12: And I would say of all the things we don't do much anymore, it's sit and think.
18:20: People used to have thinking chairs.
18:23: You know, they'd go and they'd sit in their chair and just think.
18:25: Now our chairs are all aimed at the television In fact, I don't know if you've ever seen that episode of Friends where Joey met a girl and the girl said, I don't have a television.
18:36: And he said, well, what's all your furniture pointed at? I always thought it was a great question.
18:41: Well, you don't have a TV.
18:42: What's all your furniture pointed at? You know, so that's the way we, you know, we center our lives around that one-eyed wonder in our house, you know? And so we don't have a lot of time to sit and just think.
18:53: And so are we behind in our think time? Another quote from the book, true meditation is pondering the truth with a view to letting it help and readjust our lives.
19:05: It's pondering the truth to let it readjust our lives.
19:09: Now, when we discussed meditation, or rather, excuse me, when we discussed observation early in the course, we've already gone over the subject of meditation once.
19:19: Because in the observation portion, there's a time where we can meditate on what the text says.
19:24: But now this is another opportunity to sit and think about how the text applies.
19:31: And this meditation is about learning all we can about ourselves in relation to the text.
19:38: Remember Psalm 1, verse 1 and 2, blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord.
19:49: And on his law, he meditates day and night.
19:56: Most of us know that food that is cooked over a slow heat, over a longer period of time, tastes better than something that is nuked in the microwave for two minutes on high.
20:12: Well, the reason for that is because quality time usually yields a quality result.
20:22: And microwave food doesn't usually taste that good.
20:26: Same thing with our thinking time.
20:29: If we just fast forward and don't take the time to really slowly digest what this is saying, then we probably won't get a very good result.
20:43: Quality in yields quality out.
20:47: Often yields quality out.
20:50: Step four is practice.
20:55: Dr.
20:55: Hendricks said this, he said, The word of God experienced is the word of God enjoyed.
21:00: The word of God experienced is the word of God enjoyed.
21:03: As long as the word is just a series of facts and figures, it will not make an impact.
21:08: It has to be seen as practical because it is practical.
21:13: Scripture was written to train us.
21:16: What does the Bible use as an illustration of the Christian life? Two primary illustrations of the Christian life.
21:25: One is the athlete and two is the soldier.
21:30: We are told in 1 Corinthians 9, Every athlete exercises self-control in all things.
21:36: They do it to reserve a perishable wreath, we for an imperishable.
21:39: So the metaphor there is that we are like an athlete who's training for the big game.
21:45: And in the Corinthians situation, they would have had the games that were the Isthmian games that were held there in Corinth.
21:53: It was very similar to the Olympic games at that time in history.
21:57: And so Paul is using the Olympic athlete.
21:59: You think about how much dedication an Olympic athlete has to have.
22:04: I watched the other day a video of the first time Michael Phelps ever won a qualifying race to go to the Olympics.
22:12: He was 15 years old.
22:15: And he didn't look like he does now.
22:18: He looked a lot smaller.
22:20: His face looked a lot different.
22:22: He just didn't have the same physique that he has now.
22:26: Because since he had that qualification, he dedicated himself.
22:32: Now I know he kind of went off the rails, but let's use a good example.
22:34: He dedicated himself to being the absolute best swimmer in the world.
22:39: And he was.
22:42: And that again is the example.
22:44: Paul gives us the example of the athlete.
22:46: What does the athlete do? He practices.
22:49: He puts to practice what he knows.
22:53: And also the soldier.
22:55: Second Timothy 2.3 says that we are to suffer as a soldier of Christ Jesus.
23:01: Athletes and soldiers cannot be successful unless they implement their learning and put it to use.
23:09: I've been real excited as my son has been away at boot camp for the last six weeks.
23:14: And we're getting close to in two weeks.
23:16: We're going to be flying out to Texas to get to see him graduate.
23:20: And one of the first letters he wrote back to us was that he had learned how to march.
23:26: And I remember being in ROTC when I was in school and learning the basics of marching and how to how there was certain ways that you would turn.
23:36: If you're all marching in formation, you all have to turn.
23:38: You know, as the one would turn, the next would take a step and turn.
23:41: The next would take a step and turn.
23:42: Looked like a giant game of snake from your old cheap cell phone, you know.
23:46: But everyone would move around and you'd learn to salute and learn to do those things correctly.
23:51: And that's all he's been doing for eight weeks.
23:53: And some of it has no value other than simply to teach him how to be a disciplined individual.
23:59: Learning to make your bed does not make you a better soldier, but it does make you a more disciplined individual.
24:04: And so he's told make your bed every day and do it right and do it properly.
24:10: And so there's this thing about discipline.
24:12: That's the parts often left out of the Christian life is the idea that we are called to be disciples.
24:19: And a disciple is what? A person who disciplines himself after his master.
24:23: He learns from his master and he actually, Paul says, I buffet my body and bring it under subjection so that while I have having preached to others, I myself would not become an outcast.
24:38: Now, I don't think that that means that Paul literally beat himself with a rod, as has been practiced in some monastic communities where they use flails and they flagellate themselves.
24:51: I don't think that that is what the apostle Paul did.
24:54: I think what he meant is the spiritual disciplines were his life.
25:00: And he lived as a soldier for Christ.
25:02: He got up in the morning and he knew what he was born to do.
25:06: And what he was called to do.
25:08: And he did it.
25:10: And so this, again, is putting into practice our faith.
25:17: And you're not going to be able to put everything you read and everything you study into practice immediately.
25:23: But you can and should look for ways to immediately begin practicing what you read by asking, what can I do now in this text? Is there anything in this text I can do right now? That I could change something.
25:38: You know, I heard years ago and I and I believe this to be true.
25:42: It said, it says, if worship doesn't change us, then we haven't really worshipped.
25:47: And I think about that every time I come in on Sunday morning to worship with the church.
25:51: You know, if I don't if I don't leave here having been affected by the word of God, having been moved by the word of God, if I haven't been changed, it's not worship.
25:58: If worship doesn't change, it's not worship.
26:00: And I think the same can can be said for scripture.
26:03: If the scripture doesn't change us, are we really seeking to know it more than just on an academic level? Are we really seeking to have it? You know, it's like the man who asked Dr.
26:15: Hendricks, you know, he said, I've been through the Bible five times.
26:17: He says, yeah, but how many times has it been through you? You know, you can read through it, but it might not make it through you.
26:27: Dr.
26:27: Hendricks said, there's too much application stays at the level of good intentions because we talk about the end of the journey without specifying when, where and how we're going to take the first step.
26:38: That's where I want to be.
26:39: But I don't have any intention on how to get there.
26:41: That's what I'm hoping to accomplish.
26:43: But I don't have a plan and I don't take the first step.
26:48: And so I never make it any any.
26:52: I don't ever make any positive strides towards growth.
26:56: So that's putting it to practice.
26:59: Let's move now to the nine questions to ask.
27:03: These are relatively simple, but I do think if you were, if you were studying a passage of scripture, and I want to encourage you this, when you do your papers, those of you who plan to get the certificate and do the credit, those of you who are, are, I say, take these with you when you get to the application point and ask these questions as simple as they may be.
27:24: They may get you writing on something you never even thought about before.
27:27: And they may give you a helpful step forward in putting your paper together.
27:39: The nine questions are on the, are in the workbook, section 58.
27:45: But they're also in the, in the textbook.
27:47: I'm not sure what page in the textbook.
27:51: What is it? 339.
27:53: Thank you.
27:55: So here are, here are the nine questions.
27:57: And we're just going to say a few things about each one.
28:01: Number one, is there an example for me to follow? Is there an example for me to follow? There's not always an example for you to follow.
28:11: It's not always about that.
28:13: Not all the texts are narratives.
28:15: Not all the texts have a straight example.
28:18: But when there is an example, when there is something that is exemplary, or maybe an example of what not to do.
28:25: I talked about this last night.
28:26: I was preaching on demons and demons possession.
28:30: And I said there was a man in the book of Acts who, who tried to cast out a demon.
28:36: And the demon said, you know, Jesus, I know.
28:39: And Paul, I've, I've heard of.
28:41: But, but you, I don't know.
28:42: And he, and the guy took a whooping over it.
28:44: I mean, that's the, again, that's the Keith Standard version.
28:47: But that's basically what happened.
28:48: And, and the point is, is, is, is what's the, maybe that's the example we shouldn't follow.
28:55: Is being a, being a little arrogant in how we operate and dealing with the demonic.
29:06: So is there an example to follow or maybe an example to avoid? That's a good question.
29:12: That's a good way to start.
29:14: Be careful.
29:15: I want to add a thought to that.
29:17: Be careful putting yourself as the hero of the story.
29:22: Jesus is the hero.
29:23: So like when I think about David and Goliath, I'm not David.
29:28: I'm Israel hiding behind a rock.
29:33: And Jesus is David who goes out and slays my giant.
29:38: You know, that's a oftentimes and every time you've heard it, probably that's David.
29:41: You're David, you know, and the Goliath is your enemy.
29:44: You know, you know, we, we, we have a savior and he's not me.
29:50: He's not us.
29:51: He's not you.
29:52: It's Christ.
29:53: And so, so be careful where you see yourself in the story.
29:57: If you're always the hero, there's probably a problem in that.
30:01: So now is that, does that mean I can't ever see David as an example of faith standing against, you know, the bad things? No, I'm just saying is, is the way I would relate it first is, is I, I wouldn't be David.
30:12: I would be possibly one of his brothers or one of the other guys behind the, behind the enemy or behind the, the protection of the, of the line.
30:22: The second thing, is there a sin to avoid? Is there a sin to avoid? That's not always clear.
30:29: We talk about this.
30:30: When we get to our ethics class, we're going to talk about how to identify what is sin.
30:36: You know, there are times, I mean, have you ever had somebody tell you something was a sin when it's not? I mean, and they judge you for it.
30:45: They would tell you that you are, you're sinning because of something and it's not a sin.
30:51: That, that I think is probably a bigger problem at, in this geographical area than it would be maybe in other places in the United States, because we live south of the Bible belt.
31:05: And a lot of people have grown up with a Christian culture, but not a biblical literate situation, not in a biblical literate situation.
31:18: So they've heard that, you know, we don't smoke and we don't chew and we don't go out with boys that do.
31:22: And that's the attitude, right? But it has not a lot to do with what the Bible says and a lot more to do with the culture.
31:30: In fact, I would say this.
31:31: A lot of people have issues with homosexuality, not because the Bible says it's wrong, but because they have a personal distaste for homosexuality.
31:41: And that's wrong too.
31:43: If that's your reason is that you think it's icky, then that's not biblical.
31:50: You know, I have a biblical reason for saying, I believe that homosexuality is a sin, but I love people who are homosexuals and I want to see them come to the Lord.
32:00: That's my goal.
32:01: You know, I don't think they're icky.
32:03: I think that they're misled and misunderstand their purpose in life.
32:07: But that's different than simply saying I have a distaste for them or somebody, you know, think of all kinds of ways that people would think things are sin that aren't.
32:17: As a pastor, I get this a lot.
32:20: Pastor, did you know that so and so was doing X? And I said, first of all, why are you telling me? And second of all, I don't care because X is not a sin.
32:36: And if X was a sin, you should be at their house talking to them.
32:43: Matthew 18 says, if your brother sins against you, go and tell him privately.
32:49: And if you cause him to repent, then you've won your brother.
32:54: It ain't my business until the third step, unless I'm part of the group that goes on the second step.
33:01: If you're unfamiliar with church discipline, there's three primary steps.
33:04: The private conversation, the two or three witnesses conversation, and then take before the church.
33:10: And like I said, most people go right to the pastor, you know, did you know he was doing this? Don't care.
33:19: They don't want to hear it, but just don't care.
33:23: Did he hurt you? No.
33:25: Is it wrong? Well, I don't know.
33:30: Is there a sin to avoid? That's a big question.
33:34: Is it sin or, you know, so that's it again.
33:37: We can move on.
33:38: There's nine of them.
33:39: Can't give a story for everyone.
33:41: Is there a sin to avoid? Maybe, maybe not.
33:44: Is there a promise to claim? Now, I'm a little careful on that language.
33:49: Dr.
33:50: Hendricks uses some language that I personally don't use.
33:52: I don't use the term claim for promises, only because it's so tied up in the health and wealth language of name it and claim it type things.
34:05: But I understand what he's saying.
34:07: And I'm using his language because we are using the book.
34:09: What he means is if there's a promise here that God has clearly made for God to love the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that every person who believes on him will not perish, but have everlasting life.
34:21: And if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, then you can know that you've believed on him and that you will be saved because you have a promise in that text.
34:29: I mean, it's making it simple, right? There is.
34:33: That's what he means.
34:34: He's not saying claim your Mercedes Benz, as some people would contort the text to say.
34:44: Number four, is there a prayer to repeat? Now, on this one, got to be careful because there are times where I think we become parents.
34:59: But I do think that learning scripture to pray scripture is a good idea because oftentimes people will tell me, I just don't know how to pray.
35:09: And I say, well, just read the scripture and read back to God what he has said and pray the scripture.
35:18: And that's a good way to start.
35:19: One of the books that I really recommend is called The Valley of Vision.
35:23: It's a book of Puritan prayers.
35:25: And it's a wonderful tool.
35:27: If you just want to learn how to pray from other men who were godly prayers.
35:33: And and so but yeah, if you see a prayer now, I do think sometimes people go a little overboard like the prayer of Jabez and stuff like that, where they where they take one little prayer and they make an entire doctrine out of it.
35:45: But if there's something that's valuable there that you can use in your prayer life, use it.
35:50: It doesn't have to be a prayer might just be a text that you can use in your time of praying.
35:57: So is there a prayer to repeat? Do you all know the Lord's Prayer? Okay, not everybody does anymore.
36:04: You know where I learned it? In school.
36:07: When I was a little boy, we used to do the Lord's Prayer in school.
36:10: Do you remember? Did they do that? Do you remember that? Did you go to Callaghan school? Huh? Now, when I was a kid in Callaghan Elementary School and in the intermediate school, we did the Lord's Prayer.
36:22: Well, yeah, and I am not that old.
36:24: I mean, I am, but I'm not telling you.
36:27: What I mean, though, is it was still, you know, in certain places, it was still done.
36:32: And that's where I learned it.
36:35: And it's just amazing reality.
36:39: So there are prayers.
36:40: I think it is good.
36:41: You know, in our church, we do the Lord's Prayer.
36:43: We used to do it every Sunday.
36:44: We don't do it every Sunday anymore.
36:45: Just sort of got out of the habit.
36:46: But we used to recite it every Sunday as a teaching tool.
36:50: Not because we wanted to break Matthew 6, where Jesus said, don't pray in vain repetition.
36:54: You have to be careful about that.
36:55: But we wanted our kids to learn it.
36:57: And I have told them, I learned it in school.
36:59: I want you to learn it in church.
37:01: You should learn these prayers.
37:03: So that's number four.
37:05: Number five, is there a command to obey? Now, if you want to make a note, you do need to recognize the difference between the indicative and the imperative.
37:16: The indicative is a statement of what is.
37:19: The imperative is a statement of what should be or what must be.
37:23: So if I say, that chair is there, that's indicative.
37:29: If I say, put that chair there, or move that chair, that becomes an imperative.
37:35: It changes, even though the object of the statement is the same, the chair.
37:40: How we address the chair changes whether it is indicative or imperative.
37:46: Oftentimes, people take indicative statements and force them into imperative statements.
37:53: They make laws where there's no law.
37:55: They make rules where there's no rules.
37:56: So we have to be careful about taking the indicative and making it an imperative.
38:01: So is there a command? And is it in the form of a command? And is the command for you? Give you a good example.
38:10: Rich young ruler runs to Jesus.
38:12: And he says, good teacher, what must I do to be saved? Jesus said, he gave him the commandments, you know, honor your father and mother, love, you know, love the Lord your God with all your heart.
38:23: And he says, these things I've done since my youth.
38:25: And he says, one thing you lack, go and sell everything that you have.
38:29: And the young man went away sorrowful because he had great wealth.
38:36: And now there are people who will tell you that that command that Jesus gave to that rich young ruler is to apply to every Christian for all times.
38:45: And therefore, no Christian can ever have any real possessions.
38:50: And therein you have things like the monastic movement where you abandon all personal possessions and you sell all that you have and give everything to the poor and live a destitute life, a life of poverty.
39:03: Here's my issue with that.
39:05: The Bible doesn't teach that.
39:08: And Jesus's command to the rich young ruler is not a universal command.
39:13: It is a command to one individual whose problem was his issue with greed.
39:20: I mean, that's to simply boil it down.
39:22: His issue was he didn't own his possessions.
39:24: His possessions owned him.
39:26: And Jesus pointed out his sin.
39:30: Could have just as easily been lust or anything else that Jesus pointed out.
39:34: But Jesus knew the heart of man and he knew exactly where to point the needle to stick it right into the heart of the man.
39:42: And that was right where the needle needed to go.
39:45: So now, having said that, if the passage is meant to be interpreted that everyone of every age and every Christian is to be impoverished, number one, if that were the case, there would be no Christian businessmen.
40:05: There would be no Christian managers and leaders.
40:10: There would be no Christian offices.
40:13: There would be no Christian because we'd all be in poverty.
40:20: And there would be no one to help those that were in need because everyone would then be in need.
40:27: You see the problem.
40:29: It's a defeating situation where it would just roll into a constant state of poverty.
40:36: I don't have any problem with the idea that Truett Cathy was a millionaire.
40:42: Truett Cathy was the man who created Chick-fil-A restaurant and he died a millionaire.
40:48: I don't know if he was a believer.
40:50: I know he professed being a believer.
40:52: I don't sit here in judgment over his faith, but I will say this.
40:56: His testimony was that of being a Christian and the fact that he has money or had money when he died is not the problem.
41:04: The problem is whether or not that money had him, just like the man in the story.
41:08: And based on how he did his business and how he ran his business and keeping people out of work on Sundays so they could go to church, I think all those are good indicators that he was probably a believer.
41:20: Again, basing it only on the, I don't know enough about him, so you come later and tell me that he was a scoundrel, I don't know.
41:26: But I'm saying based on the externals, there's no reason to say that because he had money, he couldn't be a believer.
41:33: So again, this is a passage that is a command given to an individual that's often applied across the board when it's not intended to be.
41:44: Number six, is there a condition to meet? This is sort of like a command, but not always.
41:50: Is there something that the text is saying that we need to do before something else will happen? For instance, let's say you feel like you've been called to be an elder in a church.
42:02: You go to 1 Timothy chapter 3, there are the conditions to being an elder, right? Now those conditions are there for the purpose that the church might know how to decide when they are calling a man to that office, whether or not he qualifies.
42:19: So there's the conditions.
42:21: I want to just move a little more quickly because time's gotten away from me.
42:25: Number seven, is there a verse to memorize? Again, if you're studying a chapter, you may come across a verse and say, boy, this verse would be great when I'm evangelizing or this verse would be great when I'm dealing with my struggle with depression or whatever.
42:41: So I'm going to memorize this passage because this passage speaks to my soul.
42:45: There's a way to apply the text.
42:50: And is there a passage to memorize? Number eight, is there an error to mark? Now, that does not mean is there an error in the scripture.
42:59: There's no error in the scripture.
43:01: Is there an error in your situation that you need to mark? And then finally, is there a challenge to face? I'm sorry, go back to number eight.
43:12: It's not an error in your situation because that's a sin.
43:13: Is there an error the person or the person in the story or the narrative has made that you want to mark their error? Like the story of David and Bathsheba.
43:22: What was the error? What was the error, error, error of David with Bathsheba? Thank you, Pastor Mark, because that's actually the answer is there wasn't just one error.
43:35: Error.
43:36: I can't get it out.
43:38: Yeah, what's the mistake here? The first thing, he wasn't where he was supposed to be.
43:43: You know, all the kings are out at battle.
43:44: He's at home.
43:46: He sees a woman naked.
43:48: He decides to keep looking.
43:50: Right.
43:50: It's not a sin if you accidentally see it, but it's a it's a sin if you actually see it twenty seven times.
43:57: I'm just saying it's it's no longer an error.
44:01: It's a sin.
44:03: But that mark the error.
44:04: And how how does this what does this teach you? You know, and you go on and he just made error after error after error.
44:10: He's like watching the Knicks or the Cubs play.
44:12: Error after error.
44:17: Finally, is there a challenge to face? Is there is a person or the narrative proposing a challenge? Is the person facing a challenge? How are they dealing with it? Is it a good example? Is it a bad example? All right.
44:33: We have 10 more minutes before we take our break.
44:36: There's no chance we're going to get through all of this, but we're going to try.
44:39: I'd like for you to pull out your Ephesians six paper.
44:46: And if we how many of you did your homework? So, OK, after the break, I want to go over the homework.
44:52: So let's try to get through at least some of this before our break.
44:59: All right.
44:59: I'm just going to read the text and then again, we're not really trying to do observation interpretation just because of time.
45:11: If you're unfamiliar with this text at all, I'll try to make a few observational interpretational points to help make sure everybody's together.
45:20: But really, the idea is we're trying to draw an application that you can literally walk out of here tonight and apply.
45:26: That's what that was my goal.
45:27: I want to give you something that you can literally put in your in your quiver tonight.
45:33: You take your arrow, put it in the quiver.
45:35: You got it ready to go.
45:36: All right.
45:37: He says, finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
45:42: Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
46:00: Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand firm, stand, therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness and as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace and all circumstances, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the spirit with all prayer and supplication to that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for the saints and also for me that words may be given to me and opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly as I ought to speak.
46:54: Now, again, this is a long section of text I wanted to primarily focus on verses 13 to 17, but I gave you verses 11 to 12 as the introductory context and verses 18 to 20 as the concluding context of that section.
47:13: But focus with me, if you will, on verses 13 to 17, noticing that he uses the phrase the armor of God.
47:24: What type of language is being employed when the apostle says take up the whole armor of God? It's military, but what type of, what genre? It's figurative or metaphor.
47:40: It's a metaphor, right? We know that he's not talking about physical metal or steel chain mail armor.
47:48: He's talking about something that is spiritual, but he's using a physical example.
47:53: Therefore, it's a metaphor.
47:55: He's not saying take up something that's like it.
47:57: That would be a simile.
47:58: He says, take up the armor of God.
48:01: Therefore, it becomes a metaphor.
48:03: The armor of God is a metaphor, and he says that we're taking it up, that we are able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand firm.
48:12: Who are we standing firm against? Well, that is told to us in verses 11, 12, which are referring to the devil and the cosmic powers and spiritual forces.
48:21: That's referring to the demonic realm that we battle, and he tells us we're not wrestling against flesh and blood.
48:28: We're wrestling against those things that we can't see.
48:31: We often think our enemy is the person standing in front of us.
48:34: We don't realize it is the heart within them, and it is the demons that have influenced them, whether directly or indirectly, that we are really battling.
48:44: Oftentimes, we would do better to battle on our knees than we do to battle physically, meaning battling through prayer.
48:51: It reminds me of what Martin Luther said.
48:54: He said, I have so much to accomplish today.
48:56: I'm going to have to pray at least three hours just to get it all accomplished.
49:01: I'm going to have to spend at least three hours in prayer just to get everything I've got to do done today, meaning that's the way he saw his life.
49:08: I've got to be in prayer because that's how I really accomplish what God set me out to do.
49:15: So that gives us the context for the armor of God.
49:19: It's a spiritual armor.
49:21: There's a spiritual battle.
49:23: Therefore, take it up, and he gives us six pieces of armor.
49:30: The first is the belt of truth.
49:34: Why a belt, and why truth? Now, I'm going to base this on my personal interpretation, having studied this text at length on my own.
49:44: You may have studied it differently.
49:46: You may have come to a different interpretation.
49:49: Hopefully, we haven't.
49:50: Hopefully, my interpretation is accurate.
49:52: But if you want to challenge me later, feel free.
49:55: But I'm going to base my application on the interpretation that I have arrived at simply because of time.
50:00: We don't have time to argue.
50:01: So if you do have something to interject, we'll do that later.
50:06: But the belt of truth I see as referencing the reality that the belt of the armor is the part of the armor that holds everything together.
50:17: And truth is what holds our reality together.
50:21: It's what holds our faith together.
50:23: Truth is the thing that brings everything else together.
50:26: If what we believed isn't true, everything's going to fall apart.
50:30: Paul tells us that in Romans or 1 Corinthians 15.
50:35: He says, if Jesus is not raised from the dead, we are of most or of all men to be the most pitied.
50:40: Because it's not true, then everything falls apart.
50:44: So the belt then represents that which holds everything together.
50:49: Therefore, how do we apply truth? We have to remember that's the foundation.
50:54: That's what's holding everything together.
50:55: If what we believe isn't true, if it's just hope, if it's just pie in the sky, it's not real.
51:02: And if it's not real, it can't be counted on in a day of real trouble.
51:07: The next thing he says is to put on the breastplate of righteousness.
51:11: Now, I want to say there are two ways to understand the term righteousness here.
51:17: And I, again, because of time, cannot spend a lot of time on this.
51:21: But righteousness is understood in two ways in Scripture.
51:25: One is the righteousness of Christ, which is perfect and which is imputed to us when we become believers.
51:33: His righteousness becomes our righteousness, and that is the righteousness in which we stand.
51:39: And there is the practical righteousness which is given to us when we become believers.
51:44: We are called, we are noted among the righteous, not among the wicked.
51:47: We are called righteous because of the righteousness of Christ, but also the practical sanctification.
51:52: We are called to walk in righteousness, not in wickedness.
51:56: So, what is to guard my heart? Because that's what a breastplate does.
52:02: And I think both can have application, even though I would tend to lean towards the righteousness of Christ as being the righteousness that the breastplate represents.
52:12: But I think if I'm dealing with sin, I'm exposing my heart to an attack of the devil.
52:18: And I do think that that can be an application of this text.
52:22: If I am toying with sin, or if I'm engaging in sin, I'm opening up that breastplate and exposing my heart to an attack of the devil.
52:32: Therefore, I need to seek to walk in practical righteousness and trust in the righteousness of Christ as my true righteousness.
52:42: Okay? Again, you may want to debate that later.
52:46: I'm just saying that I understand there's two ways.
52:48: And I'm not trying to ride the fence.
52:50: I've already told you, I lean towards it being a reference to the righteousness of Christ.
52:54: But I can see how it would apply to my practical walk.
52:59: Do you want to say something, Johnny? I'm sorry.
53:04: Yep.
53:11: Absolutely.
53:16: Absolutely.
53:21: And that's what I'm saying.
53:22: You're opening, you're basically taking your bulletproof vest.
53:25: If you think of like the modern day expression of a breastplate would be like a bulletproof vest.
53:29: You're like a police officer who refused to wear his vest that day.
53:32: You're just giving yourself over to the potential of an attack.
53:36: The next is the shoes of your feet, which are shod with the readiness of the gospel of peace.
53:42: This one's often confusing for people.
53:44: I think that this references the feet of the person who would run after the battle back to the city and give the announcement.
53:56: You've heard the expression, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news? The reason for that is when the war had been won, the messenger would run and they would see his feet as he ran and say, how beautiful is the feet of those who bring good news? If the war is defeated, you might not even see him because he might be dead on the battlefield.
54:17: But if you see him, he's probably going to be walking back with his tail between his legs and you won't see those beautiful feet moving.
54:25: And so what is this telling us? This is telling us as we go with the gospel, we are to go and be excited.
54:33: We are to go and be our feet are to be ready to go and share that gospel and to do so with the invigoration of the truth.
54:45: The next is after the shoes, we have the shield of faith.
54:52: The shield of faith is supposed to extinguish the flaming darts of the evil one.
54:57: This is an interesting picture because the Roman shield was not like what often we think of in European military.
55:05: We often think of a shield as a small, either pointed or round thing that was kept on the left arm and the right arm had a giant sword.
55:14: But in the Roman army at this particular time, the shield was the same height as the person and they could get their whole body behind it.
55:21: And so the shield represented an entire block that you could get behind.
55:26: And so what is the faith here? The faith is what it stands between you and the enemy is faith.
55:33: And so faith there becomes a wall between you and your enemy who is seeking to shoot those darts at you.
55:45: The next one is the helmet of salvation.
55:51: What is the helmet protect? Your mind and what is it that often comes into our mind is doubt.
56:02: That's right.
56:04: Yes, absolutely.
56:06: Going back to the very beginning, did God really say, right? And so our mind is to be protected by the truth and the reminder of our salvation.
56:17: So when the devil comes to bring doubt, we remind ourselves of our savior.
56:23: I'm a great sinner.
56:24: Christ is a greater savior.
56:26: He's much better at being a savior than I am at being a sinner.
56:31: And so I remind myself of those things.
56:34: Last is the only offensive tool.
56:38: And that is the scriptures.
56:41: It says in verse 17, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.
56:47: That, of course, is best illustrated by the Lord Jesus Christ, who, when he faced Satan, the only tool he used was scripture.
57:01: And Satan even tried to turn it around on Satan, tried to use scripture on him.
57:06: And it didn't work because he knew the Bible better than the devil.
57:10: So there are six small points of application, some that you may already have, some that you may need to work on, some that may be new and you hadn't heard that before.
57:24: Six points of application from just a few verses that we could walk out of here tonight and begin practicing.
57:31: And that was just a simple illustration of how to make application from a text of scripture.
57:37: Let's take our break and we'll come back and look at our homework and talk about next week.
57:42: Everyone's back and we have our last little bit.
57:48: Yeah, I'm interested to know.
57:49: I'd love to look at that, by the way, if you want to, if you said you have it, bring it with you.
57:53: I want to look at it.
57:55: All right.
57:56: So we we're supposed to read over six exercises, sixty five to seventy three and choose one and complete it.
58:08: And there were passages from Ecclesiastes, from Galatians and from other passages in Jeremiah.
58:15: I'd like to take an opportunity and listen to everyone, but unfortunately, I don't think we really have time to go through and let everyone speak.
58:24: But did let's go to one that has some answers here.
58:29: Did anyone do.
58:32: Sixty six on Galatians.
58:35: OK, was there anything in that that you would like to share with the group? I don't want to put you on the spot, but if there is anything from your from your from your application of that text that you might want to share with us.
58:50: I'm accustomed to reading the last part, which is the spirit.
58:53: And when I read the first part, that's a that's a very good thing to say.
59:04: There are some things God just is not going to put up with, because I do think we do end up oftentimes making God out to be more like Santa Claus than God.
59:12: And we sort of just feel like he has an unending rope.
59:16: But you're right.
59:17: There are some things he's not going to put up with.
59:20: Did anyone do number 67? Yes, brother, what did you this is considering the house and taking them seriously, examining the text and repenting where that's where Jeremiah was and all that stuff.
59:55: And he's like, yeah, no, you don't do that.
59:59: You don't care.
01:00:01: I tell you that we don't take the warnings of God very seriously.
01:00:06: And I say we I'm using the universal.
01:00:09: We mankind does not take the warnings of God very seriously.
01:00:11: We never have even in the garden did not take the warnings of God very seriously.
01:00:15: So that's a that's a very good application.
01:00:18: Who did anyone do? Sixty eight.
01:00:21: As I said, I'm not going to get to everybody tonight, but I'm just looking.
01:00:23: Yes, Miss Kelly.
01:00:32: Mm hmm.
01:00:39: Can you talk up a little bit, dear? I hear people take parts of the scripture a lot.
01:00:47: Yep.
01:00:49: Oh, yeah.
01:00:50: Philippians, a great quote, pass a great quote book, but very few people have ever studied it.
01:00:54: Yeah.
01:01:01: Yeah, these are good things.
01:01:02: But to go back, I never realized that he's talking about two in the church before.
01:01:11: Yeah.
01:01:11: Oh, wait.
01:01:13: And how you can apply everything they're saying right back to to to people in the church.
01:01:26: Be thankful to God for his sovereign for everything, even in this world.
01:01:31: He's sovereign.
01:01:32: And we're both focused on God.
01:01:34: We're going to be able to keep peace and be able to work through things.
01:01:37: We may not be the best friends.
01:01:39: It doesn't say we have to be.
01:01:40: But we're going to love each other in Christ.
01:01:42: And we're going to love Christ.
01:01:48: That's awesome.
01:01:49: And you just showed how observation became a writer or more right interpretation, and then a more appropriate application.
01:01:57: So good job.
01:01:57: That was very good.
01:01:58: Good.
01:02:00: Number 69.
01:02:02: Did anyone choose 69? Yes, Miss Kara.
01:02:12: I was first born in Deuteronomy 2017.
01:02:16: And it was like kind of just I kind of went all over the place with it.
01:02:19: Because you can look at it different, different views.
01:02:23: And Esau, he just, to me, it's like he gave it up for that fleshly, you know, for the red stew.
01:02:29: And then here's Jacob taking advantage of this saying, sell me a bird drink.
01:02:34: And it was just how Esau didn't think.
01:02:38: And it's kind of like sold himself short.
01:02:42: I don't know if that's making sense.
01:02:44: It's kind of I was just reading about it.
01:02:46: And then Abraham and Paul do the same thing.
01:02:49: Yeah.
01:02:50: It's just like, to hurry and satisfy that worldly desire or something instead of seeking the long term, you know, with seeking God out for it.
01:03:00: Absolutely.
01:03:02: And there and just to add a thought, because every time I think of Jacob and Esau, I'm always reminded of sovereignty and responsibility.
01:03:10: Because obviously, God is sovereign.
01:03:12: He chose Jacob from the womb, Romans tells us, but Esau is still responsible for everything he did.
01:03:22: He's still responsible for his behavior.
01:03:24: God's sovereignty never alleviates man's culpability.
01:03:29: You are judged for your intentions and what you did.
01:03:34: And so you go back to his behavior, right? He sold his birthright for a pot of stew.
01:03:41: That was his that was what he wanted.
01:03:44: So yeah, we spend all night on that.
01:03:47: Yeah, no, that's great.
01:03:58: Yeah.
01:03:59: Anyone do number 70? 70 was out of favor with this group.
01:04:05: I see.
01:04:07: Mark one.
01:04:08: Wow.
01:04:08: Okay.
01:04:09: All right.
01:04:10: How about 71? Said Leviticus was also not real popular with this group.
01:04:18: Okay.
01:04:20: I do.
01:04:21: I tell you Leviticus.
01:04:29: Preparing a way for sin to be atoned for in the light of the gospel, you're gonna look at Leviticus and just cringe.
01:04:35: Yeah.
01:04:36: But I love Leviticus with that mindset.
01:04:39: Absolutely.
01:04:40: I love Leviticus 10.
01:04:43: Nadab and Abihu.
01:04:44: I mean, I don't love the reality of what happened to those men.
01:04:47: But there's a great lesson there about worship.
01:04:51: Not offering up to God what he has not commanded.
01:04:55: Leviticus 10, one through three is a and you know what grabs me about that passage not to change subject, but when it says and Aaron held his peace.
01:05:05: He just watched his two sons get burned to death.
01:05:10: And Moses said, for those who approach God said to Moses, those who approach me, I will be regarded as holy.
01:05:19: And Aaron held his peace.
01:05:23: Let's just give you give you a shudder.
01:05:26: Yeah.
01:05:27: All right.
01:05:28: Second Peter three.
01:05:32: Anybody? 72? Okay.
01:05:36: How about 73? Nobody made it that far into the handbook.
01:05:40: Okay.
01:05:42: No one? Okay, that's fine.
01:05:44: That's fine.
01:05:46: Did you guys feel like the handbook or the workbook has helped you throughout the class? Doing these exercises? Well, the good thing is you now get it's yours.
01:05:55: Obviously, you purchased it.
01:05:56: You now can take this and you can continue.
01:06:00: You know, six months from now, you can do the whole class again, just by yourself, pull your workbook out, do the ones you didn't do.
01:06:06: Go through another course and observing go through another time of practicing interpretation, another time of of application, just just use the handbook, use the workbook.
01:06:17: You have Dr.
01:06:18: Hendricks, and I want to I want to give you another thought.
01:06:21: On YouTube.
01:06:23: You can go and watch Dr.
01:06:25: Hendricks teach lectures on this course for free.
01:06:30: I would have told you this earlier in the class, but I didn't want you to watch him yet.
01:06:35: But during the next four weeks, as you're preparing your papers, if you want to increase your understanding, you can go watch him give his lectures on observation, interpretation and application are absolutely free.
01:06:50: And you'll probably be reminded of some of the things that you've learned in the class.
01:06:54: So be a good opportunity for you when you're doing your paper.
01:06:59: Now, here are the things that we need to do in the last five minutes.
01:07:03: Number one, you have homework this week to turn in next week.
01:07:09: 20 more observations on Romans 12, one and two, you gave me 10.
01:07:17: When you first started your very first night of class, you brought 10 observations.
01:07:21: Now I'm asking for 20 more observations.
01:07:24: If your observations bleed into interpretations and applications, I won't be surprised.
01:07:30: But try to make them simply observing things.
01:07:34: And if again, if you're having trouble remembering how to observe, go back and read the book, go back and watch those YouTube videos, see if they're helpful to you.
01:07:43: That is part of your final grade is those 20 additional.
01:07:48: Remember what we said Dr.
01:07:49: Sproul did for his class first night, 50 applications and then you go home and 50 more.
01:07:55: And so again, we're doing sort of the same thing, but with observations and I'm telling you anything.
01:08:00: I remember the night we did the thing with the table and it was, it was had all the items on it.
01:08:06: And I said, you know, tell me, what do you observe? And Gary Childers, the table has four legs.
01:08:12: And it wasn't that you that said that Gary, that don't, you know, well, I remember, and I think it was you.
01:08:19: And I just remember thinking, wow, that's outside the box.
01:08:24: That's thinking that that's a real observation that most people would just assume and not think about.
01:08:31: So, so 20 observations on the, on Romans 12, one and two.
01:08:39: Do you, and the next thing, next week, it's going to be complete practical from the moment we start to the moment we end.
01:08:48: The first hour next week, I'm literally just going to have verses on the board.
01:08:53: You're going to have printouts of the same verses, and we're just going to do practical skills of what we've learned in this class.
01:09:01: Do you have passages that you would like for us to go through as a class? Maybe something that you feel is difficult, maybe something that you'd like to hear how I would break it down.
01:09:14: Maybe something that you just find interesting.
01:09:18: Does anyone, you want to take a second look? Okay.
01:09:36: Okay.
01:09:42: Okay.
01:09:46: I don't know if we'll get to do that much.
01:09:48: What's the passage that it's, it's 11.
01:09:50: Yeah, that's what I thought.
01:09:51: Okay.
01:09:53: That's really the part we'll focus on.
01:09:55: Yeah.
01:09:55: Okay.
01:09:55: We'll look at that.
01:09:57: And that, that would be, like I said, that that's one that'll cause some, maybe not debate, but it'll be interesting to hear people's thoughts.
01:10:07: Does anyone else have a one they'd like to throw into that? We'll probably get to do about four or five if time allows.
01:10:22: 19 to 21.
01:10:24: Is that the, regarding, huh? Okay, good.
01:10:31: Yeah.
01:10:31: All right.
01:10:32: And that's part of the, the sermon on the mount.
01:10:35: So yeah, so it's a three chapter context that we can, we can draw down.
01:10:40: Okay.
01:10:41: All right.
01:10:42: Anyone else have something they'd like to recommend? If, if you don't choose something, I'm literally going to do what I preached on the last few weeks is I've already done this.
01:10:50: I had a cool work.
01:10:51: I mean, I'm literally, I mean, I've, I've already, I kind of set myself up because I wanted, I didn't want to come in cold and I've studied those passages.
01:11:00: So it's either going to be, we're going to look at hell, which is what I did preach on last week or heaven, what I'm preaching on this week or possibly something out of Galatians, which I've been doing at set free.
01:11:13: Okay.
01:11:13: Throw it out.
01:11:14: I might not do it all, but Genesis one, Genesis six, one through four.
01:11:19: Okay.
01:11:20: Is this the, Oh, is that the Nephilim? I'll tell you exactly how I, cause I'm going to preach Genesis, uh, starting in September.
01:11:32: I'll tell you how I understand it.
01:11:33: I'd be happy to walk through it and show you how I arrive at the destination that I do.
01:11:38: Um, I tend to take the same interpretive, uh, as, as Dr.
01:11:43: R.C.
01:11:43: Sproul did.
01:11:44: I don't know if you're familiar with his position on it.
01:11:46: I think so.
01:11:48: I think it's similar to Moody's.
01:11:50: I don't believe that they are angels, the sons of God intermarrying with the daughters of men.
01:11:58: I don't, yeah, I don't either, but that's what we can do to be a great discussion.
01:12:02: Yes.
01:12:06: Now there's that.
01:12:07: Now you're talking my language because I literally just got done preaching James, James five.
01:12:11: What now? Yes, that's very good.
01:12:18: And, uh, having just preached and taught through that, uh, I can, I can walk through that and show that that is an often misunderstood and misused when it, when referring to the issue of healing.
01:12:30: Um, but yeah.
01:12:32: Okay.
01:12:32: So there's several here that I can, anybody else? Yes.
01:12:38: Okay.
01:12:39: Remind me what that is.
01:12:40: Cause huh? Oh, I love that passage.
01:12:44: It's often misunderstood.
01:12:46: I'd love to walk through that.
01:12:47: That'd be great.
01:12:48: Entire lives don't never turn away from.
01:12:50: That's right.
01:12:51: That's how I understand it, but we'll look at why.
01:12:53: Yeah.
01:12:53: All right.
01:12:54: Anyone else? Yes.
01:12:59: Yeah.
01:12:59: Okay.
01:13:00: I know what you're referring to.
01:13:07: All right.
01:13:08: Last but not least, that's what we're doing in class next week.
01:13:11: But at the end of the class, I'm going to have a copy of this for you.
01:13:16: Um, this is the, the final, and we're going to go over what is required on your final next week.
01:13:24: We'll spend the last 20 minutes after the break, exactly what you're expected to do.
01:13:28: If you're not doing the final paper, you know, you, you could leave at the break time if you wanted to, but hopefully you'll stay for the whole thing.
01:13:35: And, uh, I'm going to ask for a request since everybody got their shirts tonight, wear your shirts next week and we'll take a class picture.
01:13:41: All right.
01:13:42: Can we end with a prayer? Father, thank you for this time that we've been able to be together.
01:13:47: Thank you for all of these folks who have a desire to learn and to study your word.
01:13:52: May we not only learn it, but may we apply it to our hearts and Lord, may we do that by the power of the spirit for without the spirit, we will never be able to discern or understand or apply the word of God.
01:14:03: And it's in Christ's name we pray.
01:14:05: Amen.