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Study To Show Yourself Approved. 9 of 11

Steven Findley
05/11/25 - Sunday AM Bible Study

Series: An Eleven Part Series Aimed At Developing And Increasing Bible "Study" Skills.

Alright so we're using a little bit different format last week might I use my tablet to read a lot but not to study a lot and so a few things I was trying to show you wasn't coming through so I decided alright well we're just going to use the tool I use primarily for that job so we can so we can look at it a little bit.
So we're picking up I'm not going to even do too much review from last week but last week we talked about doing word studies some of the basics on how to do it and then also some of the pitfalls of it you know and so when you're doing a word study you know really I guess if you're going to say some of the pitfalls is you know you go to define a Greek word but you don't really know how Greek word.
And that's where you get yourself in the trouble you know you don't understand entomology you don't understand certain things about it and so really I think when you're doing a word study when you're defining words if you take a disposition of humility and say I don't know more than I actually know then that's really going to help you out along the way.
And really that's what it comes down to I've heard so many people try to say okay well every time it's used it means this but that's not every time it's used or they'll say they'll say see this is this word this Greek word in this word it's a conjunction so here's what it means and that's not what it means because they don't know how to study Greek they're just know how to you know break a word apart and I was trying to show you that it's last week but you know that's the thing is is if you don't know how
you don't know how Greek works then you're never going to be able to you're always going to have trouble with understanding it so as we as you go through I think really doing word studies and working with with things you don't understand well it's always good just to have an element of humility and go for the high level definition look for wisdom right if you don't know something it's all right.
It's always good to get a mentor who does and so if you're using a lexicon or if you're using a scholar that's usually going to be decent information if you use Bible translation the law times are going to use decent information and contrast and compare you may not be qualified Greek scholar but you probably are good at pattern recognition and critical thinking.
So if you're reading what people who do know it say about it and you recognize a pattern in that then you can say okay this pattern seems consistent I feel comfortable repeating this or if you you know you look at it you're like okay every time it's used like for instance you what you will come across in the King James Bible the word Easter.
Now it's the word for Passover and it's the only time Passover is translated Easter in the entire Bible it and you say okay well there's this pattern of it being translated as Passover you look at the Greek word okay it's the same Greek word as the other ones but it says different word well why is that in there why would you suppose they would throw an Easter instead of Passover on one time in the new King James or in the King James Bible.
Well yeah they were just you know their belief system right it's it's a biased creeping into the language they're using or maybe they're trying to communicate the Passover is Easter and so but they're using a you know it's but you say okay well that pattern isn't consistent so I'm not going to go with that and so there's some things like critical thinking and pattern recognition even if we're not Greek scholars we can do that stuff and we're God designed our brains to do it.
That's like why everyone thinks they see me everywhere because as soon as I see a yellow FJ they think it's Steve right like you never probably notice the yellow FJ until you met me and now that you know me you see me everywhere so it's same thing as if you're you know if you get pregnant or your wife gets pregnant all of a sudden there's pregnant ladies everywhere.
Your brain is pre-programmed to do pattern recognition so if so just use your strict play to your strengths don't really step outside your lane by trying to be present yourself as a Greek scholar when you're not you know say within your be humble say within your limitations.
And you'll generally steer clear of trouble. The next thing I want to talk about is I primarily want to talk about commentaries this morning but I want to talk about cross references for a moment so in the top of top right hand column of your handout it says with cross references so I couldn't put this I didn't bring this graphic or whatever but there's a graphic online and it's basically draws a line between
between every scripture that's referenced by every other scripture and there's something like within the Bible I think there's three million words or something like that and 60,000 times it it quotes itself.
So the Bible quotes itself 60,000 times so that's a cross reference a lot of times you'll see this sort of thing where you know Paul will quote Isaiah or Jesus will quote Deuteronomy or
and you'll also see the language they're using so there's a quotation which is what you're like you put quotation marks right it's like that's exactly what they said there's a citation which is a lot of times what I end up doing because I can't remember exactly what they said but
I tell you here's basically what they said and then there's an illusion where that is I'm using the same language same speech patterns as the Bible would use.
So if I said you know you've heard that it was said but I say to you I'm not quoting scripture by saying that because that's not in that order in scripture but I am using the same speech pattern Jesus use
in the sermon on the Mount so that would be an illusion to scripture and so with citations and quotations and illusions you have about 60,000 cross references in scripture so that's so
but you know I think okay if Jesus is going to be referenced cross referencing scriptures and if the apostles are going to be cross referencing scriptures then maybe that's something I should do too and the principle that you're going with on this
is let the Bible interpret the Bible that's a really important principle what does that mean you know we're reading in revelation well when it says he's coming
on a cloud in judgment well what does that mean well I could make something up and a lot of people do or I could let scripture I could let scripture interpret scripture and say what other
places in the Bible use that language and what was it talking about and then context might add a little more to it but that at least gives us a pretty solid foundation on which
to draw a conclusion whereas if I'm just taking something and saying well I feel like it means this or I think it means this or here's all the Greek words and so they mean this and no well the
Bible is quoting itself and so the Bible can translate the Bible so that's what you're doing with cross references but it's a it's a simple trick but it's a super useful trick because you might read
so what do I have up here on the screen I didn't eat plan this but let me let's find real quick all right for the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner so if I want to say some
Jesus is teaching on the kingdom of heaven okay where else does he teach this parable that that's a lot of times the question I ask is where
else does he teach this parable what else does he say in the parable so see how I got this little a here in my software it's not coming up too
but if I click on the a okay Matthew 1324 so this is not really similar it says the kingdom of heaven is like but then he's talking about the
tears so you say okay what's not a really helpful cross reference well what about vineyards says Jesus ever talk about vineyards okay well here's two sons who own a
vineyard and and so you can start going through and cross referencing things and it's and it's helpful so you might say okay yeah I want to see
this one hang on one second I'm going to open another I'm going to do something here so we can so we can all see it together just
just gonna take me a second to set up the screen all right there we are and then I want it to be so now we go vineyard okay Matthew 28 that's on on that side it's it's my
right your left or I guess it's probably your your right as well I'm just going to tell you what I see yes yes yeah what I'm looking
at it's on the right so I can just tell you what I'm looking at okay all right we're we're we're we're back on track okay so Matthew 21 28 okay here's that vineyard
reference again let's see what this one has and so it gives me a couple of so it gives me this one and that other one but you notice
it's not giving me the Old Testament references so that so a lot of times what I'll do is I'll say okay well let's look at 33
because I want the Old Testament reference we'll look right here see all the block caps it's quoting now Isaiah 51 so if I want that's a
quick way to get to Isaiah you say okay what's this talking about will we you go through okay cross reference this verse
which also is here's another cross reference I go there okay that's the block caps that's quoting the Old Testament
where in the Old Testament does it talk about a vineyard and then we see okay Isaiah 51 well where else does it talk about a vineyard
well here's Psalm 80 here's Jeremiah 12 here's Matthew 21 well you might go to Jeremiah on a cross reference because what I want is
Ezekiel somewhere in Ezekiel it talks about it and so but that that's how cross how cross references can be helpful see how you're like just
kind of following a chain but you're going to you might say okay one I have never heard of Psalm 88 what's that say and here you see
okay here's another vineyard reference to Israel and so you know and so you read this and you say okay that makes sense and what we're
doing is we're kind of learning what is the Bible say about vineyards how is it applied what is a vineyard have to do with the
kingdom of heaven okay well kingdom of Israel is compared to a vineyard and you can go through and you can find these things
and you say okay well now I kind of understand what the Bible says about vineyards so that's why the kingdom of
right and so so when you're using cross references it's just a good tool to kind of help you to say to find quickly scriptures that
talk about that and so there are other ways we can cross reference so for instance you might go here and if I say okay well I
want this word vine so everything is teeny tiny so I got to make it larger for you so all of a sudden see I have the word
vine come up and I can scroll through here and I say okay well that's the Greek word or Hebrew word so let's click on that this
brings me to my word study right here shows you okay well here's everywhere in the Bible that word used and I can go
through that way so this is a word search and so that's how I do a word search it's a lot quicker as well as trying to show you last
week it's probably microscopic to you but that's how I do a word search is I would just look it up on that and then you can
go ahead and see exactly what that word means so but that's what cross references are for so here's a few
things most Bibles have a cross reference column depending on the Bible you have you're going to have a different set
of cross references so I you know that's one of those things where you think oh well this just seems like standard
kind of things well no there's all sorts of different ones there is actually a book called it sometimes
this reference is TSK treasury of scripture knowledge and it's a book of cross references so if you want to say okay I don't
want just the Bible ones I want a few extra you can get a book like that it's it's free online if you use the free Bible app
stuff treasury scripture knowledge is a good resource for that sort of thing it's a little bit old but still pretty good I think
there's updated ones they're not exhaustive so you can find similar scriptures and here's another thing you look at the cross
reference you go there we look at it one of the things you have to do is discern does this have anything to do
with the other one because sometimes you you'll go to a cross reference and you're like that one was a dud like
these two have nothing to do with each other but if you don't filter that stuff there again it's the critical
thinking just pattern recognition of stuff you say okay these two have nothing to do with it one another
someone thought it did but I can't see the connection and so you just move on and so
but it's a good tool if you say okay I want to understand the scripture better or I want to find like
a lot of times I'm a lot of times I use it to say okay where else is I know this parable is elsewhere in the
Bible where else is it and and with that usually what I find if you go to the very beginning of the of the
parable so it may not the section you're in it you might have to go all the way to the beginning of the
teaching section but you'll find okay it'll have Matthew Mark you know all the references in the
gospels where this is taught so that's a good tool because a lot of times you want to read the parallel
accounts and cross references really help you find the parallel accounts cross references can help you
understand the biblical context a little bit that's a good tool so if you don't have read the Bible you're not
super familiar with it on a biblical on the full book basis then a cross reference can help you get a
biblical context without having to do all that extra work it's limited but it does if it can be helpful
you know the and there's all sorts of things like that and in there so cross references are helpful for that not
exhaustive and there may be other obviously similar scriptures that are not included in the cross references so
it's not it's again not exhaustive all right moving forward commentaries once you've done your own
observations and this is a discipline element right you need to be disciplined about this is okay I'm going to
read the Bible I'm going to answer the 17 questions I'm going to get familiar with the text I need to be able to
mentally say what comes next and what came before that level of familiarity I need to be aware of who's
talking and the progression of the talk what kind of literature it is once you know all that stuff you say okay
well now I'm going to read the commentary and commentaries can be very helpful tools but if you don't get to that
point first you read the commentary a lot of times what it can do is buy us your thinking it can kind of steer you
towards a certain conclusion and and so it can be depending on how good you are resisting that it's not
always a problem but sometimes it is so and when I say commentary I also mean notes in your study Bible
right so you read your study Bible oh that's just a note on the side like no big deal that's not commentary yeah it is so
familiar with the text before you read anything else that's a good discipline to get in until you unless you already
have familiarity with the text and you're just trying to look at look something up quick but
commentaries are written Bible studies of scholars theologians Bible students Bible teachers and preachers so real quick
scholars doesn't that sound like smart people yeah yeah and some of them are really smart but here's something
that is interesting you have a scholar and let's just say he is a Greek scholar or history scholar and he writes
doctorate level papers on whatever thing he's an expert in if he writes something and submits it for review he's going to have
peers review it and criticize it so if he gets something wrong he's going to look dumb and if you have a PhD you're not in the
business of looking dumb and so you will I was listening to a guy who wrote papers as a scholar and he said I he was in a
debate and he says why never really done much work on that and so he just gives kind of an overview and the guy
latches on to it how are you going to talk about something when you say you haven't worked on it he's like no no no no I do about
a thousand hours of research before I write a paper that's on my scholar level paper I've only done like maybe
two or three hundred hours of study on this right as though it's like okay so that's what scholars do and so he's like I
didn't do the study I've only studied it for a couple hundred hours I need to put a lot more into it to be an expert on it
but in their area of expertise a lot of times they put things out there that are watertight and they can
prove every statement they make in several ways so if you're reading in their area of expertise you
may not understand it but if you can it can be helpful and you have that same scholar go to a church in
preach and they'll preach something that you're like how did you even get this out of the Bible and they're like well that's not in my
area that's not for scholarship that's just me teaching the Bible I don't have this high level standard I try to achieve with that so I just
tell you what what it feels like to me you know like how can those two things coexist what they do like I've heard several people talk about that
yeah go ahead Bruce yeah well people can do that too right they can like they can what
they would they say they can pontificate you know they just like high level thought basically coming out their mouth but yeah some people do that or some
people just they don't hold themselves to the same standard so you have the scholar he writes in his area of
expertise does a good job then he shifts to something he's not as familiar with and he just does a trash job like there's a book I
used called the new daily study Bible by William Barclay and when he's defining words he's probably to give a functional
understandable definition of a Greek or Hebrew word this guy is just genius like he really does a good job and it's like he'll tell
you a story and in the story it describes and he's like okay here are all the things you got to notice this is all the
pieces to this word and it really comes together and you can really talk about it on a practical level tell
someone what to do with it and then he says something like well because of this and this obviously it was and I'm
like that is not obvious at all like that was such a leap of logic it makes no sense at all so soon as he goes
to certain doctrinal things he's just off the wall but when he's talking about defining words but you say
okay why do you use the commentary well because he's good at defining words and if he talks about that word he does
an excellent job and so I can use that I can't use the other stuff and so you just have to realize that a
commentator has strengths and weaknesses right I gave you some notes probably if you go through my notes like I
do every week I'm reading through and I'm like oh I forgot I put the wrong word in there or you know I put
them you know I I spelt that wrong or whatever didn't give me the red line like I spelt it wrong but it's
because it's just a different word that's very similar anyway so you go through and you find that's okay
well don't quote me there like fix it if you're going to quote me or you know but when you read my
paper you just take a what no okay Steve wrote that and Steve can make mistakes right as the same
thing is scholar wrote that he can make mistakes or theologian or Bible student or Bible teachers or
teachers we can all make mistakes so it's useful to confirm okay so here's second thing commentaries are
useful to confirm or challenge your own conclusions gain insight from that area of expertise of the
author or the commentator you can also find valuable cross references that do not show up in standard
cross referencing tools this includes Bible books scholarly works okay so real quick one of the like
like there's a few benefits of commentators I think are like the best benefits one is word definitions
I'm not a great scholar I have tools to understand it but the best tools are going to be really
someone who can explain it well because they have an expertise in it so that's super helpful
another helpful thing is cross references these guys and a lot especially if you read the older
commentators those guys had Bible memorized and they will link connect ideas that I would just
never have done it because they're so familiar it's like getting a cheat sheet for biblical context
because they have biblical context in their mind they could tell you all the facts of the Bible
and so they'll put link ideas together that I want to link together but they're accurate links
and so I that is a super helpful thing that commentators do in fact this is just kind of a side note
but I've had the idea I don't think I'll ever do it but I've had the idea guys like
low Williams Paul Hawthorne Jerry McDonald like these guys that were just Richard Rack
he's that guy was just brilliant they hand wrote all their notes so they're not digital format
I would like to make a commentary where you basically just categorize and scan all
their handwritten notes into a like a PDF kind of format and if you categorize it right
you could look up a verse or a topic and it'll just pull up their notes where they preached or taught on that
and then you can go through and see what did they connect what did they have to say about it
that sort of a thing I think that would be an awesome commentary like super helpful
because those like some of those guys were just brilliant in the way they thought about the scripture
their illustrations and things like the way they described it anyway but that would be a good commentary
because it would give you very useful things and also it would be along the lines of what we think
so that's what they're good for we're definitions cross references
if you draw a conclusion you need to verify that someone else has in the world has seen that same thing
and not loonies like you can find anything online right like so you don't want that to be your confirmation
what you want is okay well this guy who has a bit of credibility in the Bible study realm has also seen what I seen
because if we're proud we can be like I'm the only person in 2000 years who saw this in the Bible
that is not a true statement right so if you are the only person in 2000 years that saw that in the Bible
it's because you're wrong yeah so you just got to make sure okay and just because someone confirms what you saw
doesn't make you right but it does help you in the process do I need to reconsider things or is there someone else who's seen this
yeah so confirming yourself and then all oh application there's another one because and this is an interesting thing
this is like kind of when you read a commentary or you talk to a person from another denomination
if you talk doctrine you're going to want to pull your hair out okay because like I was talking to a guy recently
and he was talking about baptism who we disagreed on it and the guy is a brilliant guy
like I've he's written some papers like you know like even in response to something I was doing he wrote about it
because it was interesting to him and he gave it to me and he did one of the better papers I've read on it
so really a sharp guy but then we were talking about baptism and I thought what he thought he said was it true
but even the way he was talking about it it's like I don't know like that doesn't quite match up or I knew a guy who said
oh no you don't have to the book of Acts has no authority in it it's just a description it's a historical description
of what the early church did it's not telling you what you should do it's like well wait a minute is that really
like how did you get there is it like I always think oh here's some interesting things you might want to know
here I'm going to inspire someone to write it like I don't think that's how the Bible works like this isn't divine
suggestions and interest you know it's for a reason but you know people who you you start getting into doctrine
and that's the direction it goes like pull your hair out frustrating and they won't see it your way
and you won't see it their way but if we're talking about how do I live right does many denominations
even like you know Calvinism or Baptist or Catholic or whatever it is like you have very wise and insightful people
commenting on how do I live right so a lot of Bible books and even probably ones that people in our church
or even Bible studies we've had a lot of those books are probably written by people you would disagree with
doctrineally and yet they say okay here's how you pray here are some things good a good example I like Tim Keller
because his applications of scripture are really good I disagree with him doctrineally but he does a pretty good job of saying
here's how you live right he does a good job you know on certain aspects and so you know you look at that guy I can't endorse
everything he does I think he in a lot of ways he's a socialist and I think socialism is a harmful thing
or was I guess but when he talks about here's how you live right here's how you talk to a skeptic about Jesus
and apologetics he's very brilliant because he's done a lot of that he has a lot of wisdom and so when he talks about the
Psalms you know just you know like I said we disagreed optionally but the man has read the Psalms every month for 20 years
that was his reading discipline that's just every month for 20 years you've read the whole Psalms
do you think that guy is qualified to talk about the Psalms even if I disagree with him doctrineally he is an ant
who's qualified to talk about the Psalms he's going to have wisdom in that and scripture says you know in multitude of counselors there's success
and so you take someone who's good at that so you're going to find application especially you study your texts maybe you want to teach it
or maybe you say well what do I do it that's like how do I live like what this says you read a commentary they might give you a really good idea
on how to do it like something really practical not always common I say commentary maybe it's commentary early church fathers Bible class handouts notes you took on a sermon
Bible religious how to live your life kind of books like all sorts of things can be commentary but all those things you got to just know
okay what am I looking for how am I going to deal with it
on the second page on the back page I probably have covered some of this already but notice this bold statement
reading a commentary is like eating catfish you just have to pick out the bones all right
however the other person you got to separate the wheat from the chaff but I like pick out the bones better
but that's what a commentary is right is you don't just eat it you got to filter it a little bit
and that's what we're doing when we're doing that sort of thing and that includes your study Bible
all that stuff so I think on the back I probably wrote I probably went through all these conclusions that are written
down right on the back of this thing and I didn't talk about it so
oh you've never heard that term before I put it in there because I meant to talk about it
so I've heard people say you can only use brotherhood commentaries or books which means church of Christ
written by someone in the church of Christ that's what they could mean by brotherhood
and so that was a big thing for a while like people side eye me sometimes because you're what you who are you reading
oh where's the all that guy does this is like okay yeah but you know I know how to filter things
like but he has good insights on a living application like the guy wrote a commentary
it's about how to live what's in the Bible and so I disagree with a lot of what he says
but some of what he says is really helpful because the guy was a preacher for a very long time before he wrote this commentary
and you're being in a way it's a foolish thing right there are some things I wouldn't quote myself saying 10 years ago
and you're being in a way it's a foolish thing right there are some things I wouldn't quote myself saying 10 years ago
right and not because I was a false teacher but because I was immature and I needed to grow
right and so or what's Mike say Homer Haley would say if if you're going to quote me date me
so make sure that you let people know when I said that because you changed your mind I'm sitting there
so to me I think that's a that's kind of a
I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't know what I'm going to do
people know when I said that because you changed your mind I'm sitting there so to me I think that's a that's kind of a
it's a false
conclusion to say you're safe if you only quote people in the brotherhood of that sort of a thing
you just have to realize you got to take a warning anyone can be wrong
and a lot of times when you're doing the brotherhood thing what you're doing is you are echo chambering yourself
right you're looking for people who have already drawn the same conclusion I drew to confirm that what I believe is right instead of challenge
is what I believe biblical and so a lot of times I read people with a different perspective than me
in order to challenge what I believe and you also have to know okay well there's certain shortcomings
in the study methods that like among church of Christ at large not individuals but there's some shortcomings like
a lack of knowledge of history you know it's okay well we're not doing creeds we're not doing we're not
reformation we're not and so you find very little understanding of early church history and reformation history
and that stuff has a bearing on understand like a lot of problems we have have already been solved by earlier Christians
and if you look at their solutions aren't perfect but if you look at them you can learn something from them
and re-invent the will you don't have to be you know and so there's a paper I found
just as and it's can it's helpful in ways but it was somebody asking Martin Luther
if the plague is in your village should you flee
well he gives all sorts of answers like ten different solutions in there very well done
and very applicable to our covid situation like like the guy I wish I had to read it at the beginning instead of at the end
but it was a useful document he already solved a lot a lot of the problems we were facing were already solving that document
and so you know so you can it doesn't mean you just copy paste but it is helpful to get that kind of wisdom
and see people who've gone through it so there's shortcomings in everybody's traditions and so we just need to be aware of them
shortcomings in the new American standard Bible like you got to know that too so just how you do it
right I just fold up the Bible
yeah 43 commentators available in there
yeah not for every verse of scripture but 43 different ones and so it's the same thing you know
I don't I don't necessarily know which churches I could probably figure it out if I went to the effort
yeah you have to just read what they have to say and then you know implement those other tools that you've already suggested
before you go there have an idea yeah yeah and so there's just a process you go through and and I'm giving you kind of the beginner level
because I sometimes I will read the text real quick and then I'll read a commentary on it but because I'm you know I've handled the text before
so I'm more I have a familiarity with it and so I don't quite follow the same thing I'm telling you but if I was going to tell someone
who was kind of base level this is this is the discipline this is the discipline I use for many years
and so you just have to realize okay there's some fluctuation so it's not like hard fast rules but it is just okay
gain the discipline of being familiar with the scripture before you start going to find out what other people say about it
like
oh yeah
it's incredible how much they can milk out of some things like and but it's a lot of times in that process
you'll hear something you would have never considered that's very relevant in there and so real quick
I don't have a go to commentary I use for the New Testament I like the Bible knowledge commentary
but it's more of a commentary that just observes facts from the text and gives you some real basic okay here's what's happened
it's a good it's good for certain things it's called the BKC I call it Bible knowledge commentary
I like that one for ones that are close to how I believe you have barns and Matthew Henry those two are pretty general
commentaries that are very similar to how we think I don't know if they were Church of Christ or not
but it seems like they're at least they're a little bit older but very similar thought process
you've got to filter it a little still I mean you always have to but those ones are helpful for the old testament
I think probably if I could just choose one tile and deliche now it's I don't know how to spell it exactly
but here hang on one second I want so I got to find a tool real quick
it's but Kyle and Deliche they are such good they are such good Hebrew scholars
and Hebrew is a difficult language but if you say okay you read a soul and you're like what does that even mean like a lot of times the poetry and stuff it's hard to follow
if you read Kyle and Deliche they will really just give you okay here's the language here's the visual that this Hebrew word
like they really do a good job except for their super boring like literally that will put you to sleep
and also they just throw in a little bit of Latin lingo just for fun
so you're just reading along and they say just like blah blah blah and it's like Latin and you're like well that was helpful guys
but you know it actually their Germans and that book is translated from German into English so I'm sure that's a part of it
but I mean as far as just technically high quality technical scholarship like you'd expect a German to do they did a great job
so that is my go to them and they are the other thing they do that I find somewhat helpful is they'll tell you everyone who disagrees with them and why they're wrong
and so but in that though you get some other perspective and some other options to kind of like so that is helpful
and they'll say well this guy draws this conclusion here's why we didn't draw that conclusion so it's not like cantankerous
but it is but that reasoning helps you to say okay yeah maybe I wouldn't have thought about that or maybe that would be helpful
so anyway so kind of a deletion I think you know if you're going to be studying the Old Testament
it's a weird language and once you kind of get a grasp on it it's better but it doesn't come off
it comes off different than it's sometimes intended to use so just be aware of that
something the Hebrew language does that is really uncomfortable for us
it just as it expects you to assume like do we like to assume when we're Bible study now we like to whatever the text says
but it'll sometimes throw something in there and it's like assuming you to think oh here's how families behave
so that's why that makes sense because you know that's this is just what families do
but if you don't make that assumption you're not going to follow the rest of what's that
and so it's a difficult language for there's for several reasons that's one of them
it describes everything in an image rather than in words so if you can't imagine what the Hebrew language is saying
you're going to miss it so and that's just different than our language works so anyway that is part of it
so I have a few other things on here Jesus warns about commentaries
that I thought that was just kind of through that image or is a little bonus
you've heard that it was said but I say to you you and heard that it was said
it's basically Jesus quoting the Pharisee saying here the oral traditions
that's commentary, and so Jesus corrects the commentary
so you can see okay here's the warning of commentaries not all bad but needs correction
Jesus uses cross references
you know and this is where he's talking about the Sabbath
have you not read David when he did this he's cross referencing David in comparing that principle to the Sabbath principle
he also says if you had understood what it means I desire
mercy not a sacrifice then you would understand and so you know
so you can see Jesus cross referencing and then you also I have a few
apostles quote the writings of men so some people say oh no don't use the
writings of men use your Bible and the dictionary that's all you need
like that's how I was raised by and large
Jude quotes the book of Enoch
that doesn't mean the book of Enoch is biblical or canon
all it means is that it's a book of wisdom
that can be useful for helping teach your lesson
it's like it's like using an illustration
Paul quotes Creighton prophets
a prophet said Creighton's are evil beasts and lazy guttons and that is true
right so that's the writing of man that Paul quotes
for Creighton's and so that doesn't
so you just say okay well that's useful James 13
here's interesting
Hebrew Proverbs called Syrac and in Syrac 1511 through 16
is almost verbatim to James
13 and in that little say I just put one 13 but that section
you know don't say that when you're tempted you're being tempted by God
no one's tempted by God you're tempted when you let your left run away with you
Syrac almost says the exact same thing
maybe James was even alluding to that language
and he wrote when he was writing this as an inspired language
it's inspired of the Holy Spirit he wasn't just quoting another book
but he was maybe borrowing some of the formatting
or whatever and so that might be allusion to
but anyway and also all the apostles quoted this up to Jim
which was a translation not the original language
so what you see here is okay this stuff is good and useful
you put it in its place like that's really with commentator
all right we're going to go ahead and wrap up this portion of our
Bible study using Bible study tools
feel free to ask me questions on this or or whatever but
I'd be happy to have more in depth
I'm trying to just be overarching on this so
let's go ahead and close with the word of prayer