Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How can you tell whether you're interpreting the Bible correctly? Today, Sinclair Ferguson illustrates common ways of mishandling Scripture and gives us principles for studying God's Word to reach its intended meaning.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is featured teacher for several Ligonier teaching series, including Union with Christ. He is author of many books, including The Whole Christ, Maturity, and Devoted to God's Church. Dr. Ferguson is also host of the podcast Things Unseen.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do we read our Bibles? |
| 0:02.5 | How do we understand the scriptures? |
| 0:05.6 | One thing for us to proclaim the inerrancy and authority of Scripture, |
| 0:11.6 | but possible for us, in a sense, to deny both by the way in which we mishandle and misuse the Word of God. |
| 0:19.8 | The word of God. |
| 0:31.8 | As a new Christian, having spent my first 18 years of life with no Bible reading or Sunday school, I had no framework or context to help me understand the scriptures. |
| 0:37.3 | And sadly, for some Christians today, |
| 0:39.9 | due to the widespread biblical illiteracy, you can spend 18 years in some churches and face the |
| 0:46.1 | same challenges that I did. So today, on this Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind, Sinclair Ferguson |
| 0:52.5 | will share several principles to show the |
| 0:55.1 | covenantal nature of Scripture, to help us understand it better, and to see the relationship |
| 1:01.0 | between the Old Testament and the New, the Old Testament figures, and our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 1:07.1 | And today only, to help you in your lifetime of study, we're offering a copy of the Reformation |
| 1:12.5 | Study Bible when you give a donation of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org. |
| 1:17.8 | I'll tell you more about the study Bible at the end of Dr. Ferguson's message. |
| 1:23.4 | This message was from a Ligonier Ministries National Conference back in 2002. |
| 1:29.0 | The theme of the conference was War on the Word, |
| 1:32.3 | and that war has only intensified over the past two decades. |
| 1:36.1 | So here's Dr. Ferguson with a message on rightly dividing the word. |
| 1:43.9 | Well, now, we are turning for this session in our Bibles to Paul's second letter to Timothy, |
| 1:51.0 | and I want to read some verses there, well-known verses from chapter 3 and into the beginning |
| 1:59.0 | of chapter 4, 2 Timothy chapter 3 and into the beginning of chapter 4. |
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