I hope you brought your spiritual appetite to this PODCAST. You are in for quite a bountiful banquet, all courtesy of James.
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You want to talk about a Gentle Jesus…
As you will hear in the PODCAST, there is no clearer picture of Jesus’ gentle heart than this, courtesy of Paul and his Galatian readers.
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You are in for a real treat, I do believe.
As you are about to hear in this week’s PODCAST, it’s one of the most basic principles of proper biblical interpretation, the ground rule of hermeneutics.
Ready? Here it is: “The Bible is the best commentary on itself.”
Ever heard that before? Well, you’re going to get a classic example of that rock-solid (pun intended) truism right now.
Let’s start with this: Peter, it seems, was obsessed with stones and rocks. And that for a very good reason.
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I cannot think of a more beautiful tribute to committed Christ-followers everywhere—including YOU—than Jesus’ words here in the Sermon on the Mount: “You are the salt of the earth.”
As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, Jesus, ever the master of the metaphor, came up with a doozie with this one.
“You are the salt of the earth.”
I am excited about this for a couple of compelling reasons:
1. The rich and rewarding meaning of this metaphor, which we will get to in a moment.
2. “You are the salt of the earth” provides us with a wonderfully enriching teachable moment, one where I get to take you behind the scenes, as it were, and demonstrate for you in real time how we arrive at the proper interpretation of a passage—this passage in Matthew 5—and from there how to make an appropriate application of a passage—any passage—to our lives today.
So you’re getting a two-for-the-price-of-one in this podcast — What the passage means, and how we arrive at its meaning.
Because truth be told, one of the reasons the Church in America is, IMHO, sadly diminishing its influence in our world today is precisely because of a misunderstanding and misapplication of this beautiful verse, “You are the salt of the earth.”
So we have a lot going on here in this Jesus in HD Encore Podcast—an encore because I am currently leading a Study Tour in Israel, returning to Peter in HD next week.
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This is going to be fun, and oh-so-instructive.
This is the kind of a lesson I LOVE to teach.
Did you realize that in Matthew 5:18, Jesus made one of the single most dramatic, declarative statements He would ever make?
In one sweeping sentence that we explained at length last week, Jesus affirmed the Bible — every book, chapter, verse, word, letter — as absolute truth.
Through the process of Revelation, whereby God revealed Truth to His writers, and the process of Inspiration, whereby God guided His writers to write down that Truth w/o error, we now hold in our hands a precious book that 2 Timothy 3:16 (CEV) rightly calls “God’s Word.”
Revelation. Inspiration. In this PODCAST, we consider together a matter of Interpretation. How to understand the Bible… properly.
#WhatDoesItMean???
Because the sad fact is this: By stringing a few unrelated verses together, people can literally make the Bible say anything they want it to say. Anything! And they do.
We.Do.Not. We have far too much respect for the Bible to play fast and loose with its divinely inspired text.
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