STANDING IN THE GAP (1 OF 9)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Revelation 1:1-11
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Standing in the Gap (1 of 9)
Series: God Goes to War
Jeff Strite
Revelation 1:1-11
OPEN: This morning I'm going to teach you a little about something that's called ''Hermeneutics''. Hermeneutics is the description of how to read and understand your Bible.
When I was in Bible College I had a professor who told us that whenever the Bible had a lot to say on a given topic, almost every scholar was unanimous in agreement as to what the Bible said on those topics. BUT, whenever there are only 2 or 3 verses on a given topic there will be a whole host of opinions by various scholars on what the Bible meant.
II Timothy 3:16-17 tells us: ''All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.''
So all Scripture is God-breathed.
It's all good stuff.
Every verse and every chapter has power and meaning.
But a few years back, it occurred to me that although every verse is God's Word, God has a tendency to spend more time and ink on certain things in the Bible than he does on others.
For example:
Genesis has 50 chapters and covers a time period of about 2000 years. As you can imagine, there's a lot of early history that Genesis doesn't tell us about.
But by contrast, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy have a total of 137 chapters and cover only 120 years of God's history.
One book - Genesis - covers about 2000 years.
Four books - Exodus thru Deuteronomy - cover 120 years.
Where's God's focus? Where's He spending His ink and paper?
Well, obviously on those four books.
That's not to say Genesis is unimportant. It tells us of the beginnings of God's creation and of Israel... and lays the foundation for everything else we believe about God.
But the next four books focus on God's righteousness and His expectations of His people, and obviously God felt it was important to spend His ink and paper on telli ...
Series: God Goes to War
Jeff Strite
Revelation 1:1-11
OPEN: This morning I'm going to teach you a little about something that's called ''Hermeneutics''. Hermeneutics is the description of how to read and understand your Bible.
When I was in Bible College I had a professor who told us that whenever the Bible had a lot to say on a given topic, almost every scholar was unanimous in agreement as to what the Bible said on those topics. BUT, whenever there are only 2 or 3 verses on a given topic there will be a whole host of opinions by various scholars on what the Bible meant.
II Timothy 3:16-17 tells us: ''All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.''
So all Scripture is God-breathed.
It's all good stuff.
Every verse and every chapter has power and meaning.
But a few years back, it occurred to me that although every verse is God's Word, God has a tendency to spend more time and ink on certain things in the Bible than he does on others.
For example:
Genesis has 50 chapters and covers a time period of about 2000 years. As you can imagine, there's a lot of early history that Genesis doesn't tell us about.
But by contrast, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy have a total of 137 chapters and cover only 120 years of God's history.
One book - Genesis - covers about 2000 years.
Four books - Exodus thru Deuteronomy - cover 120 years.
Where's God's focus? Where's He spending His ink and paper?
Well, obviously on those four books.
That's not to say Genesis is unimportant. It tells us of the beginnings of God's creation and of Israel... and lays the foundation for everything else we believe about God.
But the next four books focus on God's righteousness and His expectations of His people, and obviously God felt it was important to spend His ink and paper on telli ...
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