Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

On today's podcast, Benjamin Glad and Nancy Guthrie outlined principles for making sound biblical connections

and letting scripture interpret scripture. Their presentation was recorded at our 2025

National Conference. So you're here, I suppose, because you want to figure out how to better put biblical theology into action,

whether that is in your teaching, your preaching, or maybe just your own Bible study,

or as you take in teaching and preaching. And Ben and I are encouraged that there's so much interest in biblical theology because it has become so important to both of us,

has helped us to make sense of the Bible.

The Bible is an amazing book, isn't it?

40 human authors, one divine author.

And when we see how this divine author has put together his book, the amazing coherence.

I mean, isn't that stunning?

How coherent the messages of the Bible across all of these books.

And that means that as we get more familiar with the Bible, we want to grow in our ability to see how it connects to other texts.

And not simply for curiosity's sake, but because we really want to dig down and get into the intended meaning and the most appropriate applications and

implications of the text. Now, I imagine when you've heard people do biblical theology,

you've been intrigued, haven't you? When you hear it done well, maybe you've been annoyed

when you thought it wasn't done quite so well. And so we want to talk today about how to grow in our skills to do it

well. And so we're going to talk about, we're going to do our best to talk about in 45 minutes,

three tools, three biblical theological tools that you and I can bring to the text to help it understand it more clearly and therefore

then to be able to communicate it, teach it more thoroughly and helpfully.

So here's the three tools we're going to talk about, hopefully about 15 minutes each.

We want to talk about quotations and illusions.

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