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1 | What is this "open door?" | Rev 4:1 | Gary139 | 156588 | ||
Hello Brad, Thanks for that. I will seek the Lord for the truth of what you say and will bring to your thinking some of what the Spirit of Truth brings. I look forward to hearing your response to my response when I give it. I will of course say just one thing and that is that you were right to point out that love is the greatest of all these, however I assumed that because love is fundamental to christian living and needs to be applied to all scripture then you would automatically assume that. There is a far deeper revelation of the Lord that we can receive from scripture and I can understand where you are coming from. I was remiss in not clearly quoting in great detail everything that I tried to explain. We need to judge all of what we say by scripture but we also should not box the Lord in on how He may speak to us. I will forward you my thoughts and revelation of the book of revelation and the scriptures you have quoted. This is not to deceive or to hinder but to allow the soul to prosper in the Lord. God is Spirit and being a christian is purely supernatural (which we must bring and proclaim into the natural realm), we receive things from the supernatural realm, the Word of God cannot be truly understood without the counsul of the Holy Spirit, who of course is Spirit. If we want to encounter God on a whole new level then we must be prepared for things to seem a little bit out of the ordinairy. As I have said, my friend, I shall go through your answer prayerfully and see what I get. If I am wrong you will be the second to get an apology (the Lord will be the first). May you have a blessed bank holiday. Love in Christ Gary139. |
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2 | What is this "open door?" | Rev 4:1 | kalos | 156591 | ||
Interpretation and Application ____________________ "spiritualizing...too often ignores or denies all that may be learnt from the interpretation of a passage, and robs those to whom it belongs of a precious treasure" ____________________ Interpretation and Application 'It is of the utmost importance that we should clearly and constantly discriminate between these two. 'The Interpretation of a passage is one thing, but the Application of that passage is quite a different thing. 'The Interpretation of a passage belongs to the occasion when, and the persons to whom, or of whom, the words were originally intended. When that has been settled, then it is open to us to make an application of those words to ourselves or others, so far as we can do so without coming into conflict with any other passages. (...) 'It may even be, when the application is made in full accord with Scripture teaching given elsewhere, that it is not only true, but may have a far deeper and more real meaning than the interpretation itself; and may convey truths and lessons far beyond it. 'This is very different from the common practice called spiritualizing. This too often ignores or denies all that may be learnt from the interpretation of a passage, and robs those to whom it belongs of a precious treasure-, while it appropriates to itself or other parties the property which has thus been stolen. 'Such a practice cannot be too strongly deprecated; not only because of the injury done to the Word itself, and the mistakes involved, but because it is so wholly unnecessary. 'All the sweetness, all the blessing, all the truth can be obtained by a wise application, without in the slightest degree impairing the true interpretation. This may be left and preserved in all its integrity, and yet something really spiritual may be appropriated by application; all, in fact, that can be desired, without doing any violence to the Divine Word, as is done when its interpretation is not only ignored, but often when the application is actually substituted for the interpretation.' ____________________ www.bible.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. 2 Tim 4:3a NIV |
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