Interpreting the Bible
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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If you struggle to understand certain passages of Scripture, you’re not alone. So how should we approach Bible study? Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg introduces our next series by establishing helpful principles for interpreting God’s Word.
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| 0:00.0 | The It may be If you're struggle understanding certain passages of the Bible, you're not alone. |
| 0:29.6 | How should we approach our study of scripture? |
| 0:32.1 | Today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:33.2 | Alistairbegg introduces an upcoming series by establishing some |
| 0:37.6 | helpful principles for reading and interpreting the Bible. |
| 0:40.8 | We're looking at 1st Samuel Chapter 21. |
| 0:47.0 | I find myself this week referring to a phrase that I think is sort of falling out of everyday life. |
| 0:56.4 | I may be wrong on that and the phrase is, just let me get my bearings. |
| 1:02.4 | The reason the phrase was in mind was because as I came to the 21st chapter of 1st Samuel, |
| 1:09.6 | I found myself saying, as it were, out loud, I just need to get my bearings and some of you will have read ahead |
| 1:16.4 | others of you have only come across it now for the first time in listening as I've read |
| 1:21.6 | it and immediately it will strike you as a |
| 1:24.5 | fairly peculiar incident. The story of David once again he's on the run he shows up |
| 1:30.0 | at the priestly city he asks for five loaves and a sword and then he makes a run for it. |
| 1:36.0 | He runs into the apparent security of foreign territory in Gath, the city of Goliath. He is uncovered. He decides that in order to keep up the subterfuge, |
| 1:49.0 | as he's on the run, he will disguise himself as a crazy person, which he clearly does a very good job of and then once again he runs off and in chapter 22 he is once again found hidden in a, the cave of a dolum. |
| 2:05.0 | So I read it all, and I read it again, and I said again, |
| 2:10.0 | I just need to get my bearings. |
| 2:12.0 | Now, what I want to do is provide us with a long |
| 2:16.5 | introduction to the text. It is purposeful on my part and I hope it will prove |
| 2:21.5 | helpful to you. Now let me enter this introduction by saying this, |
| 2:26.7 | that our use of the Bible does not end with our understanding of the text. It is actually our understanding of the text which gives us |
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