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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 55 - Hermeneutics—How to Properly Interpret the Bible

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The most simple definition for the word hermeneutics is the art of interpretation, which is the practice of understanding God’s word for yourself and communicating His word to others in a manner that honors what He means to say. 2 Timothy 2:15 says “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word.” Hermeneutics is not just something our pastors should do. As Christians, we all need to be men and women of the Word. We need no...

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It's important for us to remember that the Bible was not written to us, but it was written

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for us.

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And the difference that is that when I understand, when I interpret or I observe the Bible,

0:15.1

and I think about the text or the chapter that I'm reading, for me to be able to understand

0:18.8

who wrote it, why it was written, who it was written to, what general themes was trying

0:23.5

to get across, I have to ask those questions because I'm reading a 2000 plus year old

0:29.7

letter that was written in a different context to a different group of people in a different

0:35.4

language.

0:36.4

And so it's not the same as me grabbing my phone and reading a text from easy because

0:40.7

I come to that knowing the context, knowing the environment, knowing the culture, knowing

0:46.1

who wrote it, and why it was written to me.

0:48.8

But we don't often know those presuppositionally when we're reading our Bibles.

1:00.0

Trivia, notice where the emphasis is, friends, I know a lot of you have a lot of questions

1:06.3

about us.

1:07.3

I do.

1:08.3

What an assumption.

1:10.3

Why?

1:11.3

The question is why, yeah, why in the world.

1:15.8

Maybe just how you are anchoring the show, that's the only question you have.

1:20.0

Miracles, yeah.

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Miracles of miracles.

1:22.0

But yeah, random trivia guys, that'd be something good that I just brilliantly thought

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