So you “don’t take the Bible literally”? What you actually mean is you “take,” or hijack, and rob God’s Words from yourself and others as though they were not actually necessary to obey to gain life.

The Words of God are not subject to your cross-examination

The Bible is not on trial, you are!

Repent of Cross-Examining the Scriptures or be rejected by their scrutiny against your contemptible soul!

Gen_3:1 - Adam, Eve and the serpent: “Did God really say” (Cross-examining: Gen_3:4-6)

- It is the very herald of all evil that first emboldened man to think he had a place to cross-examine the Words of God

Num_15:30-31 - Don't be presumptuous against God's commands

Num_15:32-36 - Stoned for picking up sticks: That will teach you to take God’s commands figuratively!

Deu_21:18-21 - Moses on stoning children

Heb_12:25 – see discernment teaching for more

\/ no escaping!!

Heb_2:1-3, Heb_3:17, Heb_10:28, Heb_10:29

Mar_7:8-13* / Mat_15:1-9 - Jesus agrees with literally stoning children (He said you should have done it under the old covenant!)

[*context: Mar_7:1-13]

Deu_8:2-3 – Live by Every WORD the proceeds out of the mouth of God (Mat_4:3-4)

Deu_5:32 – not to the right or the left

Deu_30:_ carful to obey the voice of the Lord…

Mat_5:17-20 - Every little Word, nay, even every letter Counts!

Joh_12:47-50 - Judged by the Word I have spoken on the last day

Mat_7:13-27 - Do what I told you to do (esp. Mat_7:21-27)

Live by Every Word

(Sept.: Jer_26:2)

Moses, Jesus and Paul Prove it is Serious!

Mat_5:17-20 - the New Covenant is about iotas and keraias

“Moses is the one who accuses you” (Moses was like their ‘Paul,’ for the OT)

Joh_5:45-47 CAB Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you have hoped. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

Every Transgression

Heb_2:2-4 CAB For if the word which was spoken through angels was confirmed, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, 4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

Paul Wrote Scripture: Will you be as the Pharisees were with Moses?

1Th_2:13 CAB Because of this we also give thanks to God unceasingly, so that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received not the word of men, but just as* it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work** in you who believe.

* Greek: “ἀλλὰ καθώς ἐστιν ἀληθῶς, λόγον Θεοῦ”

** Greek: “ἐνεργεῖται” – as in “energizes”

SEE: “The New Testament is authenticated”:

http://www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/FAQs.html#NT

Paul is the Man Sent for the Gentiles

Act_26:16-18 CAB But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will yet reveal to you, 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18 to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

(Also: Act_9:15 - Chosen vessel for the nations)

Paul’s Writings are Scripture

2Pe_3:15-16 CAB and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

Scripture Definition:

2Pe_1:20-21 CAB knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes about from one's own interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being brought along by the Holy Spirit.

Compare this with what Peter says previously:

1Pe_1:24-25 CAB For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, 25 but the word of the LORD endures forever." Now this is the word which was proclaimed to you.

Matthew 23

Mat_23:16-36 - Hypocrites… Lawlessness (Mar_7:6-13)

esp.:

Mat_23:16-22 - Temple & Alter: Gold Lust vs. Spiritual Substance

Mat_23:23-24 - Tithe, gnat vs. camel,

Mat_23:25-32- outside of cup > White washed tombs

Mat_23:32-33 - Guilt > snakes > Hell

Mat_23:34-36 - Persecution > guilt

1Co_14:37 - If spiritual, acknowledge the Epistles = the commandments of God

1Th_2:12-13 - You accepted it as it is in truth, the Words of God

2Th_3:13-14 - Whoever does not obey our word by this epistle…

2Pe_1:20-21 - No private interpretation

Solid Words of Confirmable Truth

Words of Truth

LXX	MT
Pro_22:21 CAB I therefore teach you truth, and knowledge good to hear, that you may answer words of truth to them that question you.	Pro_22:21 KJ2000 That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you might answer the words of truth to them that send unto you?

My Doctrine is Not my Own

Joh_7:16-18 EMTV Therefore Jesus answered them and said, "My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me. 17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking on My own authority. 18 He who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

>> see Joh_5:1… do the will of the father… not my own…

Divine words:

Joh_3:11, Joh_5:30, Joh_6:38-40, Joh_6:44, Joh_8:28, Joh_12:49, Joh_12:50, Joh_14:10,Joh_14:24, Joh_17:8, Joh_17:14; Rev_1:1

Moses Said the Same: Num_16:28

Truth Overcomes Education:

Psa_119:97-104; Psa_119:130;

Evil speakers of Human words:

Joh_3:31, (Don't be men: 1Co_3:3; )

No Private Interpretation

2Pe_1:19-21 EMTV And we have the prophetic word made more sure, which you do well to heed, as a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes about from one's own interpretation^G1955, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being brought along by the Holy Spirit.

G1955 ἐπίλυσις epilusis ep-il'-oo-sis

From G1956; explanation, that is, application: - interpretation.

All Scripture

2Ti_3:13-17 EMTV But evil men and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Consider: The sufficiency and Divine Continuity of Scripture

Tit_2:11-15 KJ2000 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live sensibly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of good works. 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you.

mouths must be stopped

Doctrine Must be According to godliness:

2Ti_4:1-8

- While pagans talk about “doctrinal diversity,” disciples talk about truth

- pagans say, you can’t know truth, so we need many gods

- Disciples say, you only need one God because there is only one truth

- disciples say: You can know truth and hold others acountable to that truth by charging them to repent

> ho. sp convicts world of sin...

> It is your job to find truth, not the preacher's job to prove it

Choose which G/god You will serve:

Now, by an actually honest declaration:

Are you choosing to be a pagan or a follower of Jesus?

> If of Jesus, then you have no right to interpretations and opinions

Jos_24:15 KJ2000 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

You can know truth:

Jas_1:21 ect.

Rom_10:6-10 KJ2000 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks thus, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?... 8 But what says it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Quotation from: Deu_30:6-20

Especially:

Deu_30:9-10 - rejoice over you for good

Deu_30:11-13 - not far in heaven (Rom_10:6)

Deu_30:14 - in your mouth (Rom_10:8)

Deu_30:15-16 - life and death

Deu_30:17-20 - heart change = hell

(and see Pro_30:4)

Jesus and children honoring parents

Traditions over truth, but you can find truth:

Mat_15:1-9 / Mar_7:1-13

Acts: beware lest this Scripture comes upon you

>Saul samuel, and disobedience... relitive interpretation of Scripture

Compare absolute truth

How can I know?

Meditate day and night...

as you walk along the path

Other verses to consider for certainty:

Luk_1:3-4; Joh_20:31; 1Jo_5:13

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