Well, Wednesday night, we're going to continue verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book, right through the Bible.

And we're in the gospel of Luke. So if you turn to Luke chapter three, that's the chapter we'll study Wednesday night.

And we draw our text from Sunday morning from our upcoming Wednesday passage.

I've just got a little short verse that I will sort of use as a springboard to talk about

a kind of a topic that I think is important and will be really helpful with knowing how to

interpret scripture and having rightly learned how to divide the word of truth, as the Bible says of

itself. And it's an important topic. And it starts with

this most incredible individual, John the Baptist. I've always loved John the Baptist as a Bible

character. He's kind of, you know, the guy that went off the grid. He's the guy that was,

he was normally supposed to be very formal. He was supposed to be a very, you know, ordained priest.

Remember his mother and father, Zachariah and Elizabeth?

They were both descendants of Aaron himself,

which put him at a very high order, the order of Abidja,

which if you know your priesthood, that's a high order of priesthood of the Jews.

So Zachariah was serving, but he was one of the last good guys. The reason John the Baptist

didn't go right into his father's footsteps and what he was supposed to do, because the

priesthood had become so corrupt. You know, it was less spiritual, more political. And so john the baptist he bails he says i'm not

going into the priesthood he should have technically been serving in the in the temple in jerusalem but instead

he goes out into the wilderness much farther than you know um you know my natoo Libre went out into the wilderness.

If you know that reference,

but, uh,

yeah,

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