We're going to talk about the principles of first mention.

The principles of first mention.

Now let me explain to you what this is.

There's a what was called a law in theology, the law of first mention. And it means when something is first

mentioned in the Bible that you get an understanding of the definition of that

word to be able to understand the rest of the Bible.

Now, sometimes you might go online to learn a little bit more about something.

Let me just tell you that there's always something negative about everything on line.

There's stuff positive, there's stuff negative.

So I looked a little sweet and I thought, man, look at the negative.

Well here's what happens with any truth, any truth, whether it's prosperity or health or grace, any truth, some people go too

far with it, so others back off of it. So it's the same thing with the law first mentioned so there are some that goes

very very too far with it and they take things out of context and they it's not

any time you talk about something as a principle in scripture, it has to be congruent with

the rest of scripture.

So there are people who go too far, so now there are people who've totally backed off.

But let me just give you a few words here. When we talk about the law first

mention, you also have to understand the law of context, the law of consistency, and

the law of congruency. In other words you have to keep it in context.

It has to be consistent with the whole of God's word and it has to be congruent with God's nature and character.

There is my, hopefully my seminary part for today, okay? I'll try to be

funnier here in a minute, but I'll just give you that all right to understand.

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