Every Christian has the capability to hear from God for themselves.

Dr. Tony Evans says the better you know the author, the clearer his message becomes.

The closer you are to the Holy Spirit, the more you pick up on what he wants to communicate to you.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Even the most beautiful sentence means absolutely nothing if it's written in a language you don't understand.

Today, Dr. Evan shows how interpreting scripture correctly is key to experiencing its power.

Let's join him to discover how God has provided us the tools we need to help grasp his message

accurately.

Communication involves three things. It involves a encoder.

An encoder is a person sending forth the message. It involves a decoder. That's the person on the other end

receiving the message. And it involves the message, the information being sent.

The goal of communication is to make sure what the decoder receives is what the encoder intended.

It was the job of the Holy Spirit to make sure that the message of God didn't get distorted.

So from 1400 BC to 90 AD, the Holy Spirit's job was to make sure the message that started

back here didn't get messed up down here.

Without that, communication over that bigger gap would not have been possible to stay accurate.

Today I want to say a word about interpretation because understanding is key to making the Bible meaningful in your experience.

Many people avoid the Bible because they say, I don't understand it.

It doesn't make sense to me.

So the issue is interpretation or ascertaining the meaning of scripture.

We have a technical word for this.

It's called hermeneutics.

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