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| 1/25/2016 4:35:18 AM |
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rtay
Port Saint Lucie, FL
65, joined Aug. 2010
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The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart.” This looks at Scripture as doctrines. Precepts are doctrines. These are not suggestions. These are not nice ideas. These are not sort of floating truths that become reality when you existentially experience them. These are absolute truths. They are the precepts, or most translations might say the statutes of the Lord. That’s a very strong word. They are divine doctrines. They’re not just suggestions for life, they are absolute principles for behavior, principles for living life.
People say, “Well, you’re too theological, you’re too doctrinal.” Everything in the Bible is doctrine. Doctrine simply means a truth, a truth, a truth – a truth established, a truth communicated, a truth understood. You don’t want to live your life without that – divine precepts. And so Scripture is divine doctrine and it is right. Now this is not right as opposed to wrong in Hebrew. It’s a right path. So it is doctrine that lays out a right path.
I love the story of the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip in Acts, chapter 8. And after he had been reading Isaiah 53 and didn’t understand it, and Philip explains it to him, and he believed and he was baptized. He went on his way rejoicing because the Word of God had become the path in which he walked. Scripture is our joy.
Where do you get your joy? Joy comes from the Word of God applied to in living a right kind of life, walking the right path, “Letting the word of Christ – ” Colossians 3:16 “ – dwell in you richly.” Joy in life is not from what you possess, from what you possess. Man’s life does not consist in the abundance of things that he possesses. It doesn’t come from self-indulgence. It doesn’t come from seeking self-gratification, self-promotion. It doesn’t come from some ambition fulfilled. True, lasting, unassailable, impregnable joy comes through the Word of God known and obeyed.
There’s another statement in verse 8: “The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.” The commandment of the Lord, that speaks of Scripture as divine decrees, divine mandates. They are authoritative, they are sovereign, they are binding, they are non-optional demands by God on man. Disobedience means judgment and obedience means reward.
These commandments, the NAS says, are pure. But the better translation is clear, clear – loosed, transparent, easily understood, accessible. Theologians would say the perspicuity of Scripture. It’s clarity. It gives clear direction for life.
There are people who would like us to think the Bible is dark and muddy, and ancient and out-of-date, and even irrelevant, and we can’t grasp its meaning because it’s far too old a book. There have been many movements in more modern times against the clarity of Scripture, and yet our Lord expected the unbelieving Jews of His day to understand their Old Testament because He repeatedly said to them, “Have you not read? Have you not heard? Have you not read? Do you not search the Scripture?”
It was all there, it was all clear, and they were all responsible for it. And the writers of the New Testament wrote these massive epistles that we love and cherish, take the epistles of Paul and sent those epistles to Gentiles with no religious history and no Old Testament knowledge and wrote them these profound epistles like the book of Romans and Galatians explaining the intricacies of the doctrines of grace and salvation to a bunch of first-generation believing pagans. There are no excuses for people who don’t understand Scripture, especially those who have been redeemed, and sanctified, and set on a right path, and who are now illumined by the Holy Spirit. No, the commandment of the Lord is clear. It’s clear and it enlightens our eyes. We see. We see the truth.
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| 1/25/2016 8:42:00 AM |
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bigd9832
Chicago, IL
63, joined Oct. 2007
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CLV Ps 19:8 The precepts of Yahweh are upright, rejoicing the heart; The instruction of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes;
H6490 piqquwd pik-kood'
or piqqud {pik-kood'};
from H6485; properly, appointed, i.e. a mandate (of God; plural only, collectively, for the Law).
Precepts are NOT doctrines.
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| 2/5/2016 7:22:51 PM |
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Equalizer21
Seattle, WA
53, joined Oct. 2014
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Rtay said: Where do you get your joy? Joy comes from the Word of God applied to in living a right kind of life, walking the right path, “Letting the word of Christ
I agree, being a doer of the WORD, not just a hearer only.
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| 2/7/2016 5:57:39 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 2/19/2016 6:35:50 PM |
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Equalizer21
Seattle, WA
53, joined Oct. 2014
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Nicely done, welcome new visitors.
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| 2/25/2016 8:48:58 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 2/25/2016 8:22:25 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 3/1/2016 3:20:50 AM |
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share_n_love
Fort Wayne, IN
60, joined Dec. 2012
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YHVH God's word will never become outdated because His Spirit of Truth interprets it for each of us as we grown in faith & understanding.
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| 3/1/2016 7:06:27 AM |
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ludlowlowell
Panama City, FL
63, joined Feb. 2008
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The Catholic Church interprets Scripture. Otherwise we get to the confused state of Protestantism, where if you have say 300 people in a congregation, each will read the Bible, and we will have 300 interpretations, and soon we don't have any idea WHAT Scripture means.
"How can I know [what the scriptures mean] unless some man show me?"
--Acts 8:31
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| 3/1/2016 5:23:41 PM |
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bigd9832
Chicago, IL
63, joined Oct. 2007
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The Catholic Church interprets Scripture. Otherwise we get to the confused state of Protestantism, where if you have say 300 people in a congregation, each will read the Bible, and we will have 300 interpretations, and soon we don't have any idea WHAT Scripture means.
"How can I know [what the scriptures mean] unless some man show me?"
--Acts 8:31
The Catholic church interprets Scripture wrongly.
CLV Ac 8:31 Yet he said, "For how should I be able, if ever someone should not be guiding me?" Besides, he entreats Philip, stepping up, to be seated with him.
Notice the word "church" is not used in this verse at all.
Yet there is an answer to this question...
CLV Jn 16:13 Yet whenever that may be coming--the spirit of truth--it will be guiding you into all the truth, for it will not be speaking from itself, but whatsoever it should be hearing will it be speaking, and of what is coming will it be informing you.
14 That will be glorifying Me, seeing that of Mine will it be getting, and informing you.
15 All, whatever the Father has, is Mine. Therefore I said to you that of Mine is it getting, and will be informing you.
No, it's not the church that will help understand the Scriptures. It is Jesus.
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