E257 | Making Sense of Scripture
The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown
Sandals Church
5 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Debrief Podcast, Pastor Matthew and Tammy talk about how important it is to read the Bible in context—especially when certain verses seem confusing, contradictory, or even wrong. They explore how understanding the bigger picture of Scripture can bring clarity to difficult passages and help us avoid misinterpreting what God is really saying. Join us as we tackle some difficult questions about the context of specific verses in the greatest book ever written.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown. |
| 0:06.0 | On this show, Pastor Matt sits down with his friends to answer your questions about life, Jesus, and the Bible. |
| 0:12.9 | Let's get into the episode. |
| 0:16.2 | Well, welcome back to another episode of the Debrief with Pastor Matthew Stephen Brown. |
| 0:22.3 | And before we jump into today's questions, we were recently in the South. |
| 0:28.0 | Yes. |
| 0:28.4 | And we saw a billboard that really struck you that said... |
| 0:33.5 | Jesus is the answer to all your problems. |
| 0:35.5 | Jesus is the answer to all of your problems. And that kind of |
| 0:40.9 | bothered you, which was interesting to me. And we've been discussing that a little bit lately. And so I thought, |
| 0:47.4 | that's a really great thing, I think, to maybe put out there. Jesus is the answer to all of your |
| 0:52.5 | problems. And you disagreed with that. |
| 0:54.7 | Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? |
| 0:56.4 | I think it's an oversimplification. So if you have a drunk that gives their life to Jesus, |
| 1:00.1 | you still have an addict that's now saved by grace, but has to work through their addiction. |
| 1:08.1 | So what I think that tells people is if I just, if I just get my life |
| 1:12.6 | right with Jesus, all my problems will disappear. And what I would say is when you get your life |
| 1:17.1 | right with Jesus, you now have the power through the Holy Spirit to deal with your problems. And he |
| 1:22.7 | will walk you through those things. But Jesus is not the answer to my problems because I'm my problem. |
| 1:30.0 | So, you know, it's like the song Jesus take the wheel. Well, you're driving. So, I mean, |
| 1:36.1 | can you imagine you're on a bus and the driver? Jesus take, no, no, no, bro. Your job is to drive. |
| 1:41.6 | You need to drive. And so I think what Christians do is we kind of throw our hands up in the air. |
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