Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth. Getting To The Truth Sometimes Differences In Understanding...

Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth

Getting To The Truth• Sometimes Differences In Understanding Arise

Between Reasonable, Sincere People.• We Should Seek The Truth:– The Bible Affirms The Correspondence View

of Absolute Truth.– The Bible Rejects The Relativistic View.

• We Should Seek To Be of One Mind:– 1 Corinthians 1:10, Romans 14:1-8

• We Should Remember God Is Absolutely True– Romans 3:4

Accurately Handling God’s Word• Requires Prioritizing Jesus Over Tradition.– Mt. Gerazim: Deuteronomy 11:29, John 4:20

• Requires Understanding Figurative & Literal Language.– “Elijah” Malachi 4:5, Matthew 11:14

• Requires Keeping Scripture In Context.– Matthew 4:6, 2 Peter 3:16-17, Galatians 3:24-27

• Requires Attention To Detail.– John 21:18-22

Getting To The Truth• “One who is determined to know and

to do the will of God will struggle with those “hard to understand” passages until he finds, not a plausible interpretation, not even a defensible interpretation but the ONE correct interpretation – what is in “the mind of the Lord.”• Sewell Hall, Hallmarks pg. 128

Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth