2023-07-02 Sanctuary Service

I know, I think one question that's related to it, that I want to bring out right at the beginning of today that I think is really important and I think he's a key reason. Why? Sometimes, we we struggle to have the level of fidelity to it, that we kind of would want is actually the issue of authority. Popular Topic in America. And the UK at the moment, all flirty with me with the logic, you see, I think one of the major reasons though, I maybe you Don't always have as much Fidelity of loyalty to this book. It's because I don't know whether I actually always believe it has the authority that deep down. Probably I should have I think if we prefer if someone has loyalty is psorophora tea in your life, the greater Authority. Someone has the moon actually. You you tend to have great loyalty to the right. You might grow up with the parental figure that you really respect and as a child would typically they have tremendous Authority in your life. And so it's actually pretty easy to have great loyalty and closeness because of the level of authority that that person has in your life. You even kind of State in a kind of slightly humorous. Way, you know, in the movies when the police are interviewing someone and give us the name of your, you'll be your boss and the like, are you joking? Do you have any idea what that guy could do to me? You're just the police. You cannot protect me a mother, right? She saying is the authority of this. This person I work through or what for is so much. Greater then you my loyalty is here right now. In Russian. But the Bible, the reason I think this is the central idea I want to work with today. I think a major reason we can sometimes back off from real loyalty and closeness to the Bible is because deep down we know I'm convinced that it has the kind of authority that sometimes I think we should have So, I want to look at this question, today's Fidelity, but I mentioned at the beginning, the kind of the Fist, the topic of authority and the movements of our hearts. And I mind with regard Fidelity without actually realizing the issue kind of underneath the issue, the real issue I think is authoritative and I just want to State the obvious, just be cognizant of the fact that most of us struggle with authority. Okay? Most of us think that to have freedom We must have very little or no authority over us. Most of the time we live in an age where You know you just stripping of historic authority figures has never been more pronounced parents teachers. Police politicians pasta, we live in a time where Jim really more than ever when we think will Pharmacy. I bet you in. If I say that what you will throw it to you probably feel a bit heavy. And I think we'll do, the Bible does speak against tyranny. Which is a really bad usable, start with c. The Jesus models Glory submission to Authority, you can get, but you cannot get around that. I'd invite us as full and broken people into trusting him into a new life of submission, to authority to God, and the things that he has been around that, that's the real cool question. But if we don't understand that, you know, Fidelity the scriptures is in many ways deeply connected with the issue of having authority over all of us, struggle with her, not to take me to get to the root of it station or is that just a cool thing going on in the news today. Number one, why we don't have Fidelity or loyalty to scripture number two? Why we should have Fidelity description and number three, how can we have some Fidelity description of a little bit more of a electric heart? Fail. I hope that's okay. I sent you a big hot guy. I'm sure I'll get it. So I can do some point, but I thought with the subject like this, it's really important that no one tries to emotionally manipulate us into just having an emotional experience, cuz I think it's a really huge topic. I wouldn't want to annoy, is anyone? I want us to think. But also appropriately feel once we're kind of convinced of things are not, okay, and this is just my personal View and I know it's a phony big thing so I'm going to do a little bit of this pie but I'll do my best to just to serve us today. As I often think there's some of that, just a big topics of this book lead. After they found ya, living in San Francisco for 6. In the twenty-first century, there are probably five main categories of human. In this world that when we think about Fidelity description, you'll probably see yourself from one of these kind of cats agrees on a sliding scale of fidelity to your loyalty description. Okay. The first two are probably people who would say, I don't have a Christian worldview. The next three of those. You probably would say. I do have a question, well for you, okay. Let's quickly went through them. I would say those, who would say no Fidelity to the Bible by Donnie's bunkers in a little bit about the new atheists of Christopher Hitchens, or Richard Dawkins would be good famous examples of people who would say, yeah, in this book. I have absolutely zero loyalty to her because because not only do I not believe in God, but this book is, it is actually more Elite dangerous. It's not it's not morally neutral Tom, it's very more dangerous and it's just crazy, you know, it's full of crazy things. There's a bunch of why I don't believe in God, but I have any Fidelity to this book. In the US, you probably might know this. But our nation that Prides itself on on, on having a Christian to the Heritage and big and the constitution of July will just keep on the even here in this place that really a vet, they tries to in many ways. Historically, bill with a Christian Foundation, you don't need me to tell you. The vat is Shifting and changing at a extraordinary right to keep any any like any of, you know, look on the, on the news, I was sent from Winnie two weeks ago. I'm going tonight. Winnie on the BBC News. It was reporting that in a school in Utah. The Bible has been completely banned. Now, in Salt Lake City County, because it's it's seen as vulgar and violent, that parts of the Bible are both those things. Enormously. If you look at this book as a historic document, it is. I mean just to say, the obvious, this is huge amount of violence in it. And if you don't believe, An adult who is throughout this but ultimately trying to communicate the goodness of God and you just focus on the judgment. It's not entirely logical kahera incoherent, to say that.

Visalia for 2 years. And I remember every night as a family in Genesis with your family and you go smoke a little bit, just do it if you don't, you don't pick it up when you read it. Big fight. All right. I mean are you know what happens in this but it's not like some little light, you know, any Blyton book, it's this shocking. The point in Texas, in a public library recently, they find the Bible in Kansas City days. There's a big purse right now to get the Bible out of various public libraries there as well. Are you coming from this view. That the Bible as I put hair? Is it is bad. It's more than that and it's okay. S. You I need my have that view. Here are you are so very welcome and I hope in some ways I'm demonstrating some real should have sympathy towards. I think that is actually just doesn't seem logical to that. Those who would be, who said, I didn't have Fidelity to the loyal to it. I think it actually positive. So this is really interesting and that she's so high up in the book group for 3 years together. This guy down for coffee, he is the brain the size of a planet and he's so humble, he never puts himself. He's so wise. So grateful for that group with your brother and I miss you. But anyway, have a group, we have many of the men that who I know. Christians, who did he love her come and gone at different times. And one of his girlfriend in the poking about is the fact that in in the academic world of the moment, there's a lot of positive use in the Bible. For example of Geico Tom Holland with a non-Christian historian who wrote Dominion? You probably heard of it massively popular.

No Spider-Man in a different town hall, and sorry. Very different love the guy, but he would say that the main should have values of the western culture that we live in that most of us, love are all from the Bible. She come from the typically, the life of Jesus. The seven values are often spoken about that. He would say, he says the atheist swim in the river of Christianity. That the world we live in is way more Christian than we even realize the values of it. So he would say freedom, Equity. If you guys are ready to commence compassion, consent, science and progress would all come. He would save from an understanding the Bible. I'm not a Christian, he said, but you can't understand the West without realizing it come from this book, one great quote that John Mark, Comer often says about the west of the moment is it wants the kingdom without the king? Okay, that's a great. We won the value. San Francisco to Craig's a that we love the values of Christ. We just don't want the authority of Christ in a life, okay? I would say. The group is yes to Fidelity. Yes, the Bible has some Authority but partly I need to be summarized as a liberal Viewpoint and liberalism which is not new. New kind of like who who write often very well because I think very well a good summary John stop, a great field. Agent said he's, is it? This is the Christ rules the rules that individual reason conscience experience and the consensus of educated opinion, that would be a reasonable summary. I personally think and often when someone has more of a liberal approach the Bible, they will see as a as a helpful literary to that has good great and wise teaching in it. That's that particularly can be interpreted in a multitude of different ways and would have a strong emphasis on like the metaphoric. So, yeah, you know, I would be tend to not be so much into like a literal understanding of positive. And would probably be happy to say that Christ. Was it was a good and profound teacher but not necessarily that he is raised from the dead in the king of the universe. Very, very quick summary of a liberal approach. How does Jesus govern his church? Where is he expressed? How is it expressed? Is it through the Bible? Otherwise, I would tend to say well Jesus coming to schedule for warranty issue is yes, Through the Bible. But through these otherwise I've mentioned to you as well. Falsely. I would say as those who are yes, some level of fidelity. So these are Christians, again, partly, but Would be wouldn't be in the classic liberal camp, and I have summarized, the other than 300 convention today are the Roman, Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox, and the anglicans. Not just an honest, but to be really transparent, my family, my mom and dad are anglicans. My sister is a charismatic Catholic and my Big Brother's nice meal for those Christian. And I love you family. If you listening, and I feel a bit daunted choking on this subject, I think it's fair to say that the question of, where, where does Kroy hyena Christ is the head of the church? How did he get in the church now? How does he Express his authority to the Bible? Where are the otherwise? I think these huge expressions of Christianity, which I have huge respectful and love for, with say, again, yes, the Bible has Authority, but only partly I think I'll be a fair description. It would, it would have some authority over the Christians life. Alongside other things that if you're part of that expression, appreciate it. You need to take equally as seriously in some ways, maybe even more seriously. So, for example, of this, the Catholics, we talked a lot about the magisterium Greatwood, which is, which is the teaching Authority, given to the pope and to his Bishops, So that would be a lot for the Bible, but they would be a tremendous love for for the magisterium for the early church. Fathers as not just interesting but having white and divine white more so than even the Bible, instead, like a billion Catholics summer, we'll probably got this is Miles already. But as far as I understand it, the Catholic Church would say no authority authority, more than the Bible comes to the magisterium Secondarily the Eastern Orthodox, Christian branch of Christianity, which my brother is a new member again, they would love the Bible, but they returned to talk about holy tradition which includes the Bible but it will start with the Creed, the seven acumenical council's, The Divine Liturgy, which they would do every single week. I know so many of the writings of the other Church fathers, So again, it wouldn't be that. The Bible is irrelevant when it sits mean, it has no place but it's already is I want to take a looted that sounds bad. It's just one of many different sources of of of how an Orthodox Christian would invite receive Christ Authority in their life. Of course, there is a the point of trying to make. It has a slightly less Level of fidelity is a terrible sentence for Jackie. There's a lower level of fidelity season. Because of that makes sense. I have this is helpful

I know and I have tremendous love for them. Can Judge David Cassidy talk about the three-fold cord of scripture reason and tradition as the three ways that crushing forces of his authority, do they put some checks Bud Light catch, you wandering on the strength of these other expressions of Christianity is that is that Protestant churches tend to be very mono sensory. It's all about all about this isn't listening to a sermon With your ears, right? And buildings are very straight down. Where is schumann's? We already have five senses. We can smell and we can see what we can taste and we can touch. I want a wonderful strengths about other expressions of Christianity Catholic, Catholicism or Orthodox. Christianity, Christianity, what is there, a very good at thinking? How do we help humans know God, in terms of what we smell or taste of what it looks like? The feel of things, okay, that's why many actually love other expressions are Christianity because it's very strong in terms of being multi-sensory either. One of our weaknesses is that we tend to just think about You know, just what you're going to hear. Really? It's an oversimplification but you get the point is to have yes Fidelity description.

It's not that I don't know if it does exist in my nose. Write the fifth. One is the most important one. In my view is yet fully is full Fidelity description. Great. There are two Brodrick, the fast as those who prefer to be like literally or fundamentalists, who would really strongly? Yeah, laying on the side of what if it says that? It literally means that. And I do think sometimes, that is a very important poster of the hall. Sometimes, I think, because the Bible is such a big variety of of literary genres that isn't always entirely helpful. You know, if you just shut everything down in a very impassioned /, Fair b, y, which I think can be the danger of, of that type of Christianity. The final group within the kind of fully fully full Fidelity. Great. Without you could say, reprocessing evangelicals. Believe in scripture alone, it means that ultimately Load traditions of fine and helpful and good. Ultimately, it is about the Bible. Ultimately believes it is. The What's The Phrase? The scripture is the Royal scepter by which Christ rules is church, is is in, is that we would we would attempt to have full Fidelity description. But I would also want to acknowledge that. That doesn't mean I always a purely literal interpretations of our protection. Just a moment. I think broadly, those five categories. Kind of hopefully, summarized roughly most people, and people tend to land and hopefully have some explanation as to why people don't have. Talk of agility description on a sliding scale. Should we have for Fidelity? The scripture, when the Christianity that we know and love, don't have that same kind of as, you know, as the Protestant Evangelical, a question. And I think there's two reasons why I would humbly want to still argue for Sola, scriptura personally, or do I think we can absolutely humbly, go all of this family, great things, you know, that we can learn from other Traditions, I would pass me when I argue to die. Humbly the boldly for two reasons. Number one, Jesus. Losing my biggest point is like, what was Jesus's attitude to the Bible? The scripture a number two, Scriptures claims about itself, OK Google? Then Jesus Jones. Said this, the reason that we submit primarily to scripture traditions and no bad at all but Primerica Prime replaceable 30. The reason we submit primary scripture is because Jesus did Jesus did, and he urged his followers to do the same. Jesus did, and she supposed to do the same. He goes on to say the voluntary submission of the Son of God, to the word of God is of huge importance. So when you look at Jesus, the fact that he submitted to it. Is a number one reason. Why I personally I ultimately choose to submit to him very simple reason, but it's actually often not full about to be honest with you. How did Jesus submit to Authority scripture history, stuff, you cook examples Bible, Matthew chapter 4, this is one of the most well-known, wonderful B.

Just powerful and how Jesus submits to 22 the authority of scripture. The temptation of Jesus verse 1, then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. OCTA fasting for 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, if you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread and Jesus answered it is written man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. And then the devil took him to the holy city and have him stand on the highest point of the temple. If you are the Son of God, he said, so yourself down for it is written. He will command his angels concerning you and they will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone when Jesus answered him. It's also written, do not put the Lord, your God to the test. Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world and that Splenda all day. So I will give you. He said, if you will Bow Down and Worship me, but Jesus said to him away from me, Satan for it is written. Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. And then the devil left him at Angels Came and attended to him. Now, you see his three times, Jesus saying it is written, it is written, it is written. It's all from Futurama, 6 and Deuteronomy ice. Now, I love reading the Bible in a year. I try and do it Deuteronomy. Not always that easy, okay? Don't get me wrong but a little bit, but Jesus doesn't say like that to say this he doesn't see. I was not going to Bible study when we were just going through this passage when somebody's been sent the first ever a time that if it, why did Jesus, if he was God, why does he keep on quote in the Bible the time I don't get it. Why is even need to do that's almost irritating.

What, why you think that might be? And the discussion came out was he must think it's quite informative, then if he's choosing to do, use it as his defense, he's not just coming from his own in Montana, with RIT, he sang, it's written, it's written, it's written. That is huge. Amen, I think that's massively compelling, massively compelling. He says it. It said he sang in in his three replies. You know, he's like, oh, you must be starving, you know, make some bread rolls and he eats enough for me, I want to eat, I love to eat, but this stuff is like different types of food and then he tried to use the scripture in the second Temptation. You throw yourself off and Hillside you do that you're trying to twist and test God what's he saying? I sing in the Bible's Karen you're trying to confuse us with your ninja skills and actually

And then the first time, I'll give you one of this and he's like, no way. I'm worshipping the father, I only, I believe that's what my father says. And that's how I'm going to live. This is the Son of God, submitting to the word of God. I need powerful, secondarily. We see, not just in these moments for Jesus, but in his very like vision for his life being pointed out by guy's clever than me, that Jesus brings together to kind of summarized his vision for his life, to Mega themes of the Old Testament. The first magazine is the son of man, that credible to the mysterious figure, in the Book of Daniel, who's going to be raining and ruling and powerful. And if you take

That's what a Jewish person would have thought.

Isaiah on. Jesus uniquely bring those two together if you want to summarize Jesus vision for his life, it was the son of man is here. He's going to get Glory but by dying. I need this is mind-bending thing that no one was expecting. He brings together this image of power and Regal Majesty naked alone. His whole vision for life was not from a paperback, it was from the Scriptures. It was from these books that we often don't even bother reading, right? Sometimes I was a bit long. You know, I need to know. This is everything to me, not Reinventing something. This is a plan that before God made Jupiter. We came up together and we was speaking about a whispering about and I'm living in these books. I know I'm here, I'm a very identity is bringing these two glorious books together. Hallelujah. So wonderful fan thing in his life, for his compulsion. Did you see the energy of Jesus, go pick up on that? You see these must phrases again, and again, when when people are trying to suggest different ways for him to live, Jesus was no get behind me, the son of man, must the son of man, must the son of man must there was his compulsions like pulsating power in Jesus's life and it always came from his understanding of scripture about himself. He wasn't, it wasn't finding energy in a different place. He got it from there and Luke 9:22. Did the son of man must suffer? You know, when that voice comes in all your life, should be more comfortable, Tom, Jesus, but no, I know my Bible of mine strange, that sounds he must suffer in certain ways and John 1227. He says the son of man must be lifted up his resurrection and Ascension. And not 9:30. He says the son of man must be delivered into the hands of his betrayus. Jesus. Look like, every single detail has been written all these different office leading up to my time. Every single detail, I'm going to fulfill it matters to me. He was a he was a man of detail as well as passion and poetry. And then he was a man of detail. His compulsion came from his understanding of the authority of the Bible comes through again. And again, so important for the lights, Johnston, again, memorably said, Jesus Christ, above all else was a controversialist. Now, that's a claim. I kind of like that thing is, is that Jesus Christ was not this like, Hey dudes, he was constantly in debate and discussion with the religious leaders of the day, he was constantly controversial to them in the two main. The two main camps that you often see the Sadducees in the Pharisees. Actually, the issues were really to do with a view of the scripture. To think about it, the Sadducees, they subtracted from scripture, apparently the Sadducees believe in the pentateuch, which is the first five books they didn't believe in the prophets and the writings, which is the other, it's the Old Testament. So if some idea that Jesus spoke about was not in the first but they rejected it for example, the resurrection Do it snow in the first place, not in the pentateuch, so we can ignore it. And Jesus, let you said some, have you not read the scriptures? Have you not read that? It's there. I'm now about to do it. Don't rip it out. It's a very important part of the Bible. So the Sadducees subtracted it, the Pharisees added. they were always trying to squeeze you in kind of scripture like The moms and traditions, that Jesus, like, don't do that. You're adding or trying to add. To the Bible story. For example, in Mark chapter 7, I think we go to come up. I'm here. They start getting really angry with the disciples because they haven't washed her hands. Okay, the folding mail and Jesus like, you have to wash your hands before you eat male in the Old Testament that apparently doesn't he send to them? You have invented showing me things. They start talking about. Something could call them, which was another invention by them. Where I bought you spiritually. Can you put your money? You place your money to the church and then you just left your parents without anything. I need like the Bible says, honor your mother and father that's Bible school bond. Is it tradition? That you think sounds great. It's not not from the Bible, doesn't have a pharmacy and he says these words that. All right, she true? And kind of hunting and searching just as much now for us here in San Francisco. He says, in verse 18 says, you have let go, you don't have to dallatee to the commands of God and you holding on to human traditions. I need to get an advance for things more scary still. Thus you notify of God. By your Traditions that you have handed down and you do many things out that if there was one point I want you to remember it is this point, it is with respect why I am nervous about any religion or any expression of Christianity. The Purge traditions. Alongside the word of God. This is it. And I'm a simple, man. I don't really willing and obviously, I've already said people are daily. Love.

Would would love traditions and can I see this job at? I am pretty sure we're going to Traditions Traditions. Here's the thing. Is there is a a subtle tradition and it can be a mindset, could be consumerism to be. Individualism, it could be just an assumption about the love of God. That means we kind of oh, we reject certain parts of scripture that I actually I just that Holiness as well as love. So the question for us to write down, if there's one thing we write down, is what are the Traditions that we might have? That potentially could nullify the word of God. What are the kind of unconscious things that you hold really close and I hope really close Zip could mean we actually holds that view closer than the very words of God. Now, one of the other interesting things about Jesus, he never ever see if we have it. When we struggle with it, with the Bible, not once just Jesus say, the problem is with the Bible. every single time he says, the problem is with Enough. He's saying that's There are things in our hearts that mean, we will struggle with, its of the Bible. But the default needs to be that the Bible is trustworthy, good and true. And that the issue is with us. For example, a long time. In 2, Timothy 4:3. Which is a scary prophecy is wild from Timothy 2 Timothy. He says, for the time will come, when people will not put up with sound Doctrine instead to suit their own desires, that will gather around them, a great number of teachers to stay with the itching ears will want them to side, that's so scary, isn't it? Jesus is diagnosis of the heart. Is that the heart is the issue is the key thing. He says, for example, ignorance traditionalism. Naivety dullness deafness foolishness opposition to God. Fair in stubbornness, when people don't understand something that God has said, Jesus is seems that the scriptures are clear? Haven't you read the scriptures? I'm not the people on muddled frequently in our arrogance. We assume it is the other way round and Jesus is M. I was like this, this book is my authority. It is it is the thing I live by and there are going to be times when you need to understand that you're reading it with a heart and mind still really pretty broken until you're going to just you just going to need to humbly choose. Where is the ultimately is, is the issue do I Is the Bible untrustworthy? Is it is it? Is it something that's that's not to have proper Authority in my life? Or am I the older I get the pig in this method? Did the delusions I have in my life but the lack of thin. It's so humbling. The older you get, the more I see the judgmental, I see the pride agreed, the Fiat, the anxiety of how God's thoughts and read the Bible and of course, I struggle with it, as you do, But there is a kind of like, what is our default going to be right, where it was going to be? Is it going to be tomorrow with us?

So Jesus, let me just send the quote by Andrew Wilson. The Bible has big difficult sticky questions and engaging carefully with them is important. But if we stopped that we risk ourselves immediately on the defensive, instead we need to see Jesus as the starting point. Ultimately, you see our trust in the Bible stand, for my trust in Jesus Christ, the man who is gold king of the world crucified risen and exalted, I don't trust in Jesus because I trust the Bible I trust the Bible because I trust in Jesus. You see anything that I love him and I'm just started to follow him. So if he talks and acts as if the Bible is trustworthy, Authority and good, I will to even if some of my questions remain unanswered or my aunt says, remain unpopular. I love that. He sang ultimately it starts that way around. What was Jesus's attitude towards the Bible? And if if I say I love Jesus and I and I I want to follow him. His voluntary submission to the word of God, as the Son of God has to be up after I think so. I think we should have told you the scripture. No. Just Jesus without the big one. It just what the Bible says about itself. A kind of says you know, knowing me is a really amazing thing. Alright, to load a different ways for example, the next slide

Thanks are in 2. Timothy says, all scripture is god-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking correcting and training in righteousness. So, the servant of God, may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Next next one says in Hebrews, 4:12 of God is living and active is sharper than any two-edged sword, pissing to the division of Soul and Spirit of joints and Marrow Discerning, the thoughts and intentions of the heart. It's saying this thing is really a wonderful dangerous when you read it. I mean I can upset the sun set again, my big brother who at age, 50 recently came to Christ, these incredible academic, brilliant guy teaches, it's time for 27 years. He just read the gospel of Mark and get chills, they're multiplying.

I need to Jesus is like nice guy, terrifying in the best way. Like thousands of demons that one man in this to 3000 pigs. Get filled with demons in a bobbing around in the leg, that's terrifying. Just does that is one of his days. What I mean, who is this for the Bible is

It's so inspiring because of who is talking about credible, unbelievers, many, who do not have a question with you. I'm having conversations with more and more friends and we doing book groups and then I read the Bible and the hunger to get into the Bible. And I think at the same time, tragically in the church, there is more Bible illiteracy than ever. I think somebody was a shoe-in. We read the Bible. Will we reach blogs and we kind of worried about a tiny bit and you got this paradox

And then the truck. So I don't know much about it really is credibly but in a good way in a very destructive. Good way the Bible claims about itself, Psalm 119, I'm running out of time but just read Psalm 119. But it's a it's a it's just claims about you all day royalty, just made by the great, God bless him, this book, if you just spend any time with it, it counts as you with a Capital C changes your life. It's not it's not like logical. It's just super natural living and active. Next one, My extra large planes to the dust. I am depressed. I am depressed to my call. I am despairing of Life revive me and refresh me, according to the monster train on a massive promise. It's a promise, this book can change your most serious issues of mental health. I mean, I praise God for medicine. I'm open to old, but this book, Hallelujah, it doesn't do something. I haven't got time to go through the rest of something. But believe me, slowly. And to take one at a time. I love when the new king or queen of England is a pointed ears and they give them a Bible. These words, this is the most precious thing. That's one of the folds The most precious thing this world foods and they give it to the king of a queen. I believe that I really believe it. I don't tell you my good friend of mine that I think the biggest issue that we will face it on a lifetime is the authority, scripture, is every other good discussion to buy ultimately comes back. I think so often to do we ultimately see this as a book, not just of interest of authority cuz if I do I will have Fidelity. I will have growing loyalty to it even when I don't understand it all or it makes me feel really vulnerable with my friends or even confused. So I say it healthily angry goat. Sometimes lament is a Biblical expression, you can limits, so sounds like the men took it. Why why? God yes do that. Use the words. If need be to express your pain in the Bible, doesn't say you going to pretend everything. Fine. Okay, at Old, it gives you a wonderful bandwidth to be humid, 2 days to finish with United. Me direction, we need to die and say, Dive In. And we need to Delight in the delight. And okay. So is it a whole another tool I could do on interpretation? I just have no time for that today but I will say is stupid basic principles. Number one, ask what type of literature 66 books in this? In this, in this, in this Library 9 in the Bible? What type of literature am I reading? Is it meant to be understood or is it powered tree or is it wisdom, or is it apocryphal writing? You can just files of results as you can Google. Now, ask yourself number one, you know, use your brain, what type of genre is the number to what did the original author, want the original audience to originally know? Such a helpful and don't just see yourself as the hero immediately. All I'm just like David to ask yourself first as a discipline and then what that does is it leads us to do very wonderful questions. What does this tell us about God? I'm what does it tell us about people, most summons on the Sunday, we break into groups. Announced that question we having today. Those two questions are more profound than they sound, that's so helpful. Even, it's obscure passage tells me about God is like a satellite satellite, fine. You know, the satellite and then down, think of the scripture that. What about you father? Even buried deep in the subscriber. That the Bible says, tell me about you or You Are Holy and then I'll come down to how it applies to my life. So interpretations vital, but I'm trying to finish staring your hunger, actually, more than anything in the Bible. That is so simple and just, I read it every day, please like, you know, I'm do. Whatever is needed to just daily, you know, build that hunger. Sometimes you need to just discipline yourself because you're hungry and that it's a bit like your salad, right? I'm like salad. I do like that. I didn't realize I didn't, but sometimes the words like that cuz our hearts are a bit broken, the kind of cartridge you to read it daily, use your lips. Don't just read, internally speak out. Loud faith comes by hearing even when you speak it to yourself, use used audio book Bible, you know, where you can just have it playing. I'm a growing up at one of my earliest memories is, the Bible is Thurman's in the Bible being played in my house and my dad's shaving, and some of them going to be sending a message on, is a cassette cassette waking up. Just getting into your household, are The View with parents, who a parent's, you know, you just let the word of God.

You have an anime. Satan is a liar. Okay, so if you don't go I've got to get this into me somehow. You are going to have the World, the Flesh and the devil lying to you, you're in a Critic, once you to feel condemned and worthless and a pile of rubbish. Okay, let alone the world alarm Satan. So I'm being honest with you or not in neutral territory, you are in enemy territory and this is your greatest friend. That's why efficient six. Finishes with the armor of God, the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. You have to have something of a military approach the Christian Life. Okay? You can't just be passed as you have. To realize that being in a river is going to carry this way. It's not just it's not still, you have to start swimming upstream and the word of God wonderfully just will carry you. I'm in ways other ways, don't finally the light in it, the light in it. What I mean by that is you allowed to bring a Bible scholars in the world, who died? Who aren't Christians, who don't know. God, Who would know the Bible but would not Delight in it, okay? To once you are convinced of its Authority and you've done some element kind of testing of it, I want to encourage you to develop a heart of enthusiastic fight trust in the promises of the Bible. And I know you're very clever. Most of you. I know we live in an age where we're very we should have dinner together and we could be seen as a kind of, you know, a childlike thing with the spice trust really does. Look like a certain. Why do understand that? I don't know, saying the coochy mustache, that you must think about it. But there's also finally, I would say, tell me what is written on the first time that that that person just like spoke Bible, NIV Bible, you know, that they just came out with those kind of people who, who just tumble out the Bible. She is living and active. It's just in the I want that for my life, I really do and What are the final? The things I've never done before the last 12 months, and it's the most game-changing practical. They're going to finish with this. Of the way of reading the Bible has changed homes life. And I was just me, maybe do already in fact will be referred to a similar thing. We talked about journaling, let me give you an example and then we'll finish. This is David speaking to God, if I believe the Bible is authoritative by believe that I can trust the spirit wrote the Bible. Then I'm going to buy 5. Take the input implied promises as well as the explicit promises and start to speak them over Tom Show, okay? Cuz no one else mentioned it to me. My phone is doing it. So it says that for example, let me save it to God. You know, when I sit arised, you perceive my thoughts from afar, might you decide my going outside? My lying down, you are familiar with all my ways before. What is on my tongue? You know, it completely unload. This is how I would take that in my car at times a plot to my life. his me like talking to myself, Tom He has searched you. And he knows you. Think about that song, you want to be known a lot. You like to tell people about those problems that you'll You like 10 leaks, just how challenging things are wrong. Your father knows you. He sees you. I know Tom, he knows when you sit, and when you rise to tell him, that's good news. Because this world is all about Rising, it's all about what activity in going, but you'll father sees also when you sit, he sees, when you have a nap and you feel a bit guilty, I need he sees it and he loves you and he's giving you sleep because he loves you and he wants you to rest. Tom, he discerned you're going out. So unless you're lying down. Can I have a Hallelujah? He just turns he sees that I did not text you. When you rest these familiar tone with all your wife, you know, he knows you look before he always says, this is my boy. I mean, not many people. Can finish my sentences. Jersey County vet, but Jesus can finish my sentences.

You know, it completely you have me in such wonderful and such knowledge is too wonderful to see the difference taking it. And speaking it to myself, not just agreeing with it to God. Agreeing with the father's affection for me, from the Bible, not just making up, but sang Love. What are the promises of how you say, a son or daughter of God? How do you help me? Get into my bones but just try it. Just try if you don't do that, just try it is dynamite. It is so life-changing. When you feel full In the mornings, you can actually get out, but if we spend our life, constantly needing from others, it showed everything and I'm slow. I suppose it's just taking the promises of God in and applying it to myself, but it's life-changing. So I will finish them. The Bible has one a racist bone. I said that she said the line thoughts are here. My God expressed in words Divine, the utterance of heavenly Clips in every sacred line Shoei. Hashmi, finished him. How do you want to do?

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