Beloved, the symptoms in your body may be there, but they’re not truth. God’s Word IS TRUTH. And God says, “By Jesus’ stripes, you are healed!” (see 1Pe 2:24)
JOSEPH PRINCE
UNDERSTANDING THE WHOLE BIBLE
Exegesis means approaching the Bible by pulling from what it says. We are trying to learn what it says and what it means, and we are trying to draw something out of the Bible that is actually there. By contrast, eisegesis is when we approach the Bible and insert what we think is there, what we think it means. For example, exegesis of Matthew 24 involves reading the preceding chapters. In these chapters we find Jesus declaring unfolding judgment against Jerusalem. With this backdrop, it is easy to understand what the disciples meant when they asked Him, in Matthew 24, when these things will happen. It is clear they were referencing the judgments Jesus talked about in the preceding chapters. This is what it means to draw meaning out of Scripture based on the actual content and context of the Scripture, not on our preconceived ideas. By contrast, many modern views of Revelation are a good example of eisegesis. For example, when people read about the eagle in Revelation that is flying and declaring woe (see Rev. 8: 13), they assume the eagle must refer to the United States of America, because the eagle is the national symbol. This is eisegesis, because it clearly is not what John meant. The United States did not exist in John’s day, so he could not have been referring to it. The root issue here is how we interpret Scripture.
Dr. Jonathan Welton, Ph.D.
Understanding the Whole Bible
>>> h-a-l-l-e-l-u-j-a-h <<< WHEN A FEARFUL, UNKIND OR UNPLEASANT THOUGHT DROPS INTO YOUR HEAD AND YOU SUMMARILY DISMISS IT IT DOESN'T MOVE ON TO THE NEXT UNSUSPECTING VICTIM. IT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE DESTROYED IT !!
The Baptist fought the Pentecostals, Pentecostal fought the charismatics, the charismatics fought the word of faith, the word faith fought the Grace guys, the grace guys fight the kingdom and present truth, and on and on it goes we always have to fight what’s above us rather than look into it and really study it. – Lynn Hiles
DOES FEAR RULE IN YOUR LIFE ?
WHEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU’RE RIGHT WITH GOD, AND YOU KNOW THAT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS ALSO RIGHT WITH GOD •BUT• YOU FEEL AFRAID … GO AHEAD AND DO IT !! . DO IT AFRAID !!!!! . [DOING SO WILL LEAD YOU RIGHT •OUT• OF FEAR !!]
Psalm 27:1 KJV
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1 AMP
THE LORD is my Light and my Salvation–whom shall I fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life–of whom shall I be afraid?
Personal measuring rod
I believe that everyone can have a personal measuring rod of his own private discovery that will reveal whether he is a little bit “off” center or not.
We want to be in the center of God’s will, right? Being slightly off means there is some confusion, a tad bit of distress – neatly camouflaged as ‘normal’ and a proclivity toward a touch of mental laziness.
On target, or at the center, however, has me loving every person I can possibly think of with the sweetest, most compassionate understanding imaginable. This sweetness, this compassion, this understanding has precious little to do with human emotions and the like. It’s all about Jesus whose incredible works superceded the natural laws of this present dimension.
PUTTING OFF FOR A MORE CONVENIENT TIME ?
I see progress, YOUR NAME, but then it gets nullified by ‘futuristic’ declarations. “I’ve just got to….” You’re already there. You don’t have to do anything. Realize right now that you’re there right now. Your mind can’t trick you. Nothing and nobody can. This is it right here, right now, no future at all – just Spirit, God, good … including and especially … you!
What matters?
If you ponder … deeply … the kingdom of God and the fact that it’s spreading unchecked (it’s doing so by virtue of the fact that it’s already here) filling every nook and every cranny in every country and nation, then nothing else will matter.
Many, many dimensions
SEEING FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE : A REAL GOD–PERSPECTIVE !!
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Physicists have uncovered strong evidence that extra dimensions do indeed exist. Yet predating these physics discoveries by more than nineteen hundred years are the words of the prophets and apostles who penned the sixty-six books of the Bible. These ancient authors, under the inspiration of One who exists both in and beyond the universe and the universe’s ten space-time dimensions, described phenomena—such as the creation event, miracles, Jesus’ post-resurrection capacities, as well as paradoxical doctrines—that require the existence of extra dimensions, or the functional equivalent of extra dimensions. These writers assured their readers that God’s ways and thoughts are beyond our human limits, but that “eternity,” some unknown reality beyond this universe, is somehow inscribed within us. Now we have the opportunity and the privilege to see from a new perspective—and to integrate—what yesterday’s Bible authors and today’s physicists affirm about reality beyond the cosmos.
Beyond the Cosmos
Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D.
I believe that everyone can have a personal measuring rod of his own personal discovery that will reveal whether he is a little bit “off” center or not.
We want to be in the center of God’s will, right? Being slightly off means there is some confusion, a tad bit of distress, neatly camouflaged as ‘normal’ and a proclivity toward a touch of mental laziness.
On target, or at the center, however, has me loving every person I can possibly think of with the sweetest, most compassionate understanding imaginable. This sweetness, this compassion, this understanding has precious little to do with human emotions and the like. It’s all about Jesus whose incredible works superceded the natural laws of this present dimension.
Jesus, the social misfit!
See me, see the Father. Those were his words. Okay, so:
Healing the son of his birth nation’s enemy;
Freeing the captive, death row adulterous woman and Sabbath breaking man;
Breaking the Sabbath;
Breaking the Kosher table laws;
Breaking the laws about touching the unclean, after not sacrificing for his sin;
Turning water into wine and being blamed for being a drunk while drinking with sinners at their homes;
Telling off the Religious elite;
Messing up the Temple;
Denying the Temple as being God’s Temple;
Disagreeing with sacrifice;
Upsetting the religious elite and government officials;
Refusing to pledge allegiance to his birth nation and it’s king;
Refusing violence and retaliation;
Doing good, blessing and loving all, to include those who deemed him enemy, tortured and killed him, in doing so refusing a Holy, Religious or Just War;
Being Merciful;
Forgiving;
Dying;
Defeating Death, Hades and the Grave;
Emptying Hades;
Resurrecting.
That’s how Father does life, not like Cain, but more like Abel, with his own change in reaction: forgiveness, not vengeance.
Dominic Moes