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1 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243919 | ||
The Apostle Peter tells us, about the experience on the Mount of Transfiguration (cf Matthew 17:1-6): "For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, 'This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased' -- and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain." (2 Peter 1:16-18) "So we have the prophetic word [Scripture itself] made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. (v19) Then Peter tells us with great clarity, the primary principle of Biblical interpretation: "But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." (vv20-21) God Himself is speaking to man in the Word. Who else should interpret it than the recipients of the writing? If you write to your Aunt Mildred, would you think that anyone other than Aunt Mildred should interpret what you have written with the intent of her interpretation? Clearly, thinking that sort of distortions that Peter says are symptomatic of the unlearned (those who refuse to learn from Christian teachers), unstable (those who have lives built upon something other than the Rock), and unprincipled (those who show no evidence of a Holy Spirit transformed life) (vv3:16-17). So Peter concludes with this advice to the true believers: "You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace [gifted to the believer through the Holy Spirit] and knowledge [from the Scriptures] of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen." (vv17-18) Again, thank you Lockman, for understanding the principles of Sola Scriptura so well, that you provide such a careful and learned translation for all to receive the very Word from our God and Father! |
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2 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | EdB | 243921 | ||
“If you write to your Aunt Mildred, would you think that anyone other than Aunt Mildred should interpret what you have written with the intent of her interpretation?†Great Illustration! Let us take it a step further: Now suppose your Aunt read these letters for 1500 years interpreting them as she believed you meant them, then one day a group of “enlightened individuals†came to Aunt Mildred and said you have been reading these letters all wrong! Your logic and your intellect should tell you that what the writer meant was totally different than your interpretation. You must be weak minded to have missed this or you had a hidden agenda. However on further research we find the people that are saying this are the ones that have an agenda. Now suppose we look at the situation almost 600 years after the fact the people that tried to destroy Aunt Mildred’s reading of the letter are still around but very much in the minority to those that agree with most parts of Aunt Mildred’s reading of the letter. Yet those that oppose Aunt Mildred interpretation refuse to accept that some people really don’t care how they interpret the letters to Aunt Mildred because they see much more important issues to be dealt with. Yet the protesters of Aunt Mildred’s interpretation will not stop trying to shame people into their way of thinking. They will even challenge a person’s belief system, their walk through life and even their intelligence in an effort to render Aunt Mildred’s interpretation of the letter invalid. |
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3 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243922 | ||
"I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." (Ephesians 4:1-6) As explained so clearly in the first portion of this epistle, God has brought dead people to life and estranged people together -- through the Gospel! Any other groups using some other means of unity are not the His body, but something else! Thus we strive for this unity... not one of our own making... but one of His making. To help us do this, He has equipped us individually: "But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift." (V7) By looting the world to give gifts to the church (vv8-10). "And he gave some as apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ." (vv1-12) Note that this is not based on some mystical experience of Aunt Mildred! He actually gave us men through history to help us understand clearly what God has spoken. (The liberal view always resists history.) And for what reason has God given us (the church) these gifts? "Until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge [not magic] of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ, so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming." We can actually study these gifts to the church and see to what extent they rightly interpret the Word. They are not infallible, but instruct us. The human trickery and deceitful scheming, always arises from those who will not accept this great gift of Christ to His church. They must not, lest their heretical and faulty teaching be exposed. They will even say that these gifts are all demonic. Not by study and careful analysis in the light of reason and the Holy Spirit who is creating this unity. On the contrary, the live and teach bigotry -- "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself." Watch the blanket posts down through the years here in the forum. There is a knee jerk resistance by some, despite even the efforts of Lockman to resist this denominational bias from going on and on contrary to the intentions of our Lord and His Spirit. The nature of these posters are always evident, for they seek to divide, disparage, and destroy rather than to unite, accept, and build-up the Body of Christ. Note the responses to any effort to elevate Christ, His Word, and His Holy Spirit. The evidentiary trail continues. It cannot help itself -- for such is the world and the prince and power of the air. |
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4 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | EdB | 243923 | ||
I think the original illustration said, “If you write to your Aunt Mildred, would you think that anyone other than Aunt Mildred should interpret what you have written with the intent of her interpretation?†Are now to understand that God gave us men down through history to help us understand what a letter written to Aunt Mildred should have read to Aunt Mildred? Wasn’t the hue and cry of the Enlightened Generation that every man was capable of understanding for himself what scripture was saying? Why do these men have a better understanding than any other man? Does this not neglect that for 1500 before this Aunt Mildred and others did read and understand but then the Enlightened Ones said oh no you have it all wrong it is like this? Again Aunt Mildred had received the letter, had read it for herself and had lived by her interpretation of that letter for 1500 years. Then one day “Enlighten individuals†came on the scene and said, “Oh Aunt Mildred you have it all wrong, here is what these letters are really saying.†When Aunt Mildred questioned the Enlightened ones they told her she was using mysticism and low view of the letter and that a high view without the mysticism the letter said thus and such. However Aunt Mildred and almost everyone agreed with Aunt Mildred had interpreted from the letters were in fact correct and that they should now worry about what others said. However those that disagreed with Aunt Mildred refused to let the issue die and even now 600 years later they still demand they are right and everyone else is wrong. |
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5 | The Word Gifted to the People of God | 2 Pet 1:17 | DocTrinsograce | 243924 | ||
QED. | ||||||