04/05/2019
PAY ATTENTION TO WORDS
Ephesians 3:3-4
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ. (KJV)
All of God’s revelation to us is written in words. The first thing to note about the Bible is that it is written in words and human language not heavenly language. That means that you don’t have to go to heaven to understand words of the Bible. The Bible is written by men who used human intelligence to communicate spiritual truths.
So to understand the Bible we must pay attention to words in details. All that Jesus would do concerning his death, burial, resurrection, ascension and glorification were all written before he came, yet the Pharisees and the Sadducees did not see it, so Jesus kept asking them many times if they had not read.
Paul also made it clear that that when we read then we would understand his knowledge in the mystery of Christ. A careful attention to Bible words prevents us from reading the Bible out of context, because with that, you would easily know that same words in many cases do not have same meaning everywhere. Paying attention to Bible words glorifies God because it leads to correct interpretation of his person and character.
Confession: I give myself diligently to the study of bible words, I pay attention to them, because it’s an apostolic instruction to do so.
Additional Studies
Ephesians 3: 3 -4
Mark 12:10
1Timothy 4:13
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