Proper Hermeneutical Approach
Explaining the danger of turning Commands into Princples. Making sure that we are not trying to find loopholes in scripture to continue in Sin
The Importance of Sola Scripture
sola Scriptura. Latin for “Scripture alone.” This phrase refers to the Reformation conviction that only the Bible can serve as an ultimate authority for the church. Strictly speaking, the Reformers did not rule out church tradition as having any value, but they insisted that it be subordinate to the teachings of Scripture
Diagnosis: We are living in a time where we can see the road to hell getting wider and the road to the Kingdom getting smaller. This ugly truth has many factors, but none more deadly then the infusion of secularism and Holy scripture. The recipe of God mixed with worldly input and influences is destroying more souls, than cancer can destroy bodies.
8 Reasons for Obedience
Commands that we have made principles
Baptism: Over the centuries, and far removed from the early Church the command of baptism has now turned into a option. Baptism was and has never been meant to be optional.
Go therefore and bmake disciples of call the nations, dbaptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, aI am with you 1always, even to bthe end of the age.”
Honor Thy Parent: The average person would assume that they understand the context behind this commandment, but most of us don’t. This command that was originally given to men in the book of Exodus. has two meanings. The term “honor” implies submission to authority , and is based in a culture that takes age as a “crown of splendor” () and harshly condemns those who treat their parents dishonorably (). Jesus railed against those who would divert the practical implications of this obligation away from parents into strictly religious piety (), while at the same time recognizing that devotion to God was a higher relationship (). Paul cited this command as “the first commandment with a promise” (). Paul also upheld practical care for the elderly within the Church and emphasized that the care should be provided by family members whenever possible ().
Alcohol: It is true that drinking a little alcohol isn’t a sin, but we have been commanded not to become addicted to it. However, most individuals take the word addicted and compare it to drunkenness. However, drunkenness and addicted are very different, in the bible addicted is parallel to enslaved to wine. True one shouldn’t get drunk, but even more on shouldn’t be a slave to alcohol. However, this only implies to Deacons, elders shouldn’t be given to wine at all. Although translations are great, they tend to sometimes water down a verse not to offend.
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthie lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not covetous,
8 Likewise must deacõs be honest, not double tongued, not given unto muche wine, nether to filthie lucre,
Older women TP] likewise are to be reverent in behavior,
BULLET rnot slanderers
BULLET sor slaves to much wine.
For a bishop must be unreproveable, as Gods stewarde, not frowarde, not angrie, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthie lucre,
The Elder women likewise, that they be in suche behaviour as becometh holines, not false accusers, not given to muche wine, but teachers of honest things,
Divorce: To stay married is a command and divorce is not an option, unless the marriage has infidelity. However, a man or a women who divorces for anything else and remarries makes them both adulterous. Be careful who you marry because the consequences can be life shattering. We see this command broken often with no regard for the implications. Since the beginning divorce was not a goal of Gods. However, in the time of the mosaic law God allowed a man to write a certificate of Divorce. However, under the new Covenant Jesus kills that totally
He said unto them, Moses, because of the hardnes of your heart, suffred you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 I say therefore unto you, that whosoever shal put away his wife, except it be for whoredome, and marie another, committeth adulterie: and whosoever marieth her which is divorced, doeth commit adulterie.
18 ¶ Whosoever putteth away his wife, & marieth another, committeth adulterie: & whosoever marieth her that is put away from her housband, cõmitteth adulterie.
10 And unto the maried I cõmande, not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife departe from her housband.
11 But and if she departe, let her remaine unmaried, or be recõciled unto her housband, and let not the housband put away his wife.
12 But to the remnant I speake, & not the Lord, If anie brother have a wife, that beleveth not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.
13 And the womã which hathe an housbãd that beleveth not, if he be content to dwel with her, let her not forsake him.
14 For the unbeleving housband is sanctified by the wife, & the unbeleving wife is sanctified by the housband, els were your childrẽ uncleane: but now are they holie.
15 But if the unbeleving departe, let him departe: a brother or a sister is not in subjection in suche things: but God hathe called us in peace.