May your heart burn
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May your heart burn
...as your eyes are opened.
I was listening to Alistair Begg on the radio speak of the encounter on the road to Emmaus. [1]
The disciples on the road needed their eyes opened to understand that the scriptures had hidden meaning which prophesied of Christ.[3] |
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The mystery of Christ was hidden from the beginning of time. [1]
until after the cross, but the Spirit of God opens our eyes to them. [2] |
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Jesus had opened the eyes of his disciples, after his resurrection, on the Road to Emmaus. [1] They exclaimed, "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?" [2] | |
Many preachers wish that they had the sermon from that encounter on the road, not realizing that the sermon is right in front of them in the Gospels. [1] | |
Like many, I had been given the impression through the church, that the New Testament was filled with new teachings. Though this is partially true in one sense, the new teachings are a new commentary on the mystery hidden in the old; they are the old teaching which was taught from the beginning, but not understood until the cross. [1] [2] | |
Even Paul's doctrines were checked against the Old Testament by the Bereans. [1] [2] When he had taught, they checked his doctrine against the Old Testament to see if his doctrines were true. For this he called them 'more noble'. |
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No one in that day would have accepted a teaching that began "I have a special revelation and new doctrine from God." [1] Nor should we accept that today. We should pray that our eyes be opened to the new teaching in the old teaching. | |
I have wrestled with how to share the sermon from the road. I have attempted tedious proofs, and explanations. But Alistair convinced me that all my proofs, though valid and appropriate for some audiences, are for naught in the conversion of the soul. [1] | |
There is so much animosity against the mystery teaching of Christ, and some of it rightly so because of gross abuses [1], that a small defense for this work is necessary in sharing the boundaries of this 'eye opening' hermeneutic. Without explaining how free-for-all allegory is eliminated, many will claim that these teachings are nothing but more free-for-all allegory. Many will likely claim this also because of their laziness in applying the rules. |
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Chapter 1 will share the rules which prevent free-for-all allegory. Some will read it and say that the rules are impossible to meet. Exactly so. No man-made system could impose meaning on the scripture and adhere to the rules. Because of the rules, the meaning is self-correcting, verifiable and reproducible. The rules change Bible debate into Bible collaboration. After that, the Bible will be opened for those who can see. |