NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Witness of Church History
Aired: 2022-08-10
Duration: 02:51


=== Choose Pure Scripture Over Man's Interpretation (02:50) ===

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[00:00:19]  Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
[00:00:25]  You're listening to Daily Truth.
[00:00:30]  Some of us, maybe we haven't verbalized this, maybe it's not something that is conscious in our minds, but at least, at minimum, subconsciously, we act as though there is this dichotomy.
[00:00:40]  There are two viable options.
[00:00:43]  One of them is to submit to the interpretations of Scripture by men, and then the other is to choose or select or submit to the pure, unadulterated Scripture in and of itself.
[00:00:56]  Now, if those are the two options, then certainly, 10 times out of 10, I would choose the latter.
[00:01:02]  Certainly, I would want to choose the pure, unadulterated Word of God over the interpretations of man.
[00:01:09]  But that's naive.
[00:01:11]  It's ignorant at best and arrogant at worst because, at the end of the day, there is no way to bypass an interpretation of Scripture.
[00:01:21]  All Scripture, when we are reading it, seeking to understand it, and certainly to apply it to our lives and the lives of others in the local church, is to interpret Scripture.
[00:01:32]  The options that we have set before us is not merely to.
[00:01:36]  To choose or submit or recognize the interpretation of Scripture by men or to choose the unadulterated Scripture itself.
[00:01:45]  Rather, the option is to submit to the interpretations throughout the witness of 2,000 years of church history as the church, led by the Holy Spirit, has been interpreting Scripture for two millennia or to submit to our own personal interpretation of Scripture.
[00:02:00]  See, when a pastor gets up and preaches and says, I'm not going to use Calvin and I'm not going to use so and so and I'm not going to use this or that or he or she.
[00:02:09]  I'm going to give you the pure, unadulterated Bible.
[00:02:13]  Well, unless he merely quotes the scripture and then prays and sits down, he did not give you the pure, unadulterated Bible.
[00:02:21]  He gave you an interpretation of scripture.
[00:02:23]  But rather than giving you a faithful interpretation of scripture offered by several people, millions of people, in fact, over 2,000 years of church history, he decided to give you his interpretation.
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