Scripture
by
Stephen J. Scott
Scripture is Inspired.
Inspiration:
2Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”
Inspiration- The “breath” of God (The Holy Spirit) that gives us the word of God.
Scripture is Revealed.
Revelation:
Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
Revelation- The Word of God; the Bible understood by the children of God.
Scripture is Preserved.
Preservation:
Psalm 12:6-7 “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. You shall keep them, O LORD; you shall preserve them from this generation for ever.”
Preservation- The protection of The Word of God by God.
Scripture is Illuminated.
Illumination:
1Corinthians 2:12 “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”
Illumination- The things of God known by the person of God given by the Spirit of God.
Scriptural Interpretation
2Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Proverbs=Precepts=Principals “You want to make these “princis” your “pals” “Precepts Along Life’s Sojourn” Princes=Rulers “Rules (Pals) to guide you along life’s journey”
Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4. To give subtlety (prudence: wisdom applied to practice) to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8. My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
9. For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
10. My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
11. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:
12. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14. Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15. My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.
20. Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
21. She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
22. How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24. Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25. But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33. But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Scriptural Interpretation: “Interpretation must be preceded by Inspiration, Revelation, Preservation and Illumination to be properly understood”
Stephen J. Scott
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