[0:00] If you have your Bibles, I'll take you to, how about just go find Proverbs 13 as a place to kind of get settled into for the time being.
[0:11] And I'll just catch you up to speed with what we've been doing in the last couple Sundays. It's really just been introducing the necessity for what Paul commands Timothy to do in studying the Bible is to rightly divide the word of truth.
[0:26] And Paul's giving instruction to a preacher, a man that's a young man that's a pastor of a local church in Ephesus. And it behooved him and the people that sits under his teaching is that he does study the word of God and that he rightly divides it.
[0:44] And so we took a few looks at just some examples, I guess. One had to do with food and showed you that there's different teachings in the word of God in regards to what you can eat.
[0:55] We looked last Sunday at some different teachings on salvation and whether you receive it by works, by keeping the commandments, by forsaking all and following Jesus, or by grace through faith.
[1:09] We looked at whether you can or can't lose your salvation, whether somebody in one context cannot be renewed to repentance if they fall away. Whereas somebody else, according to the Apostle Paul, is saved by the grace of God through faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
[1:26] And upon that, an interaction takes place where that believer is sealed until a future day. And it has nothing to do with their performance going forward. It has to do with the work of God and the Holy Ghost.
[1:40] And by the way, I'm sure we read the verse last week or we've mentioned it, but it's called that Holy Spirit of Promise. So God makes a promise in giving you his Holy Spirit that he's going to make you like Jesus Christ in the future and that you will receive the adoption of sons when you get your body redeemed.
[2:00] And a lot more goes on there. So somebody can lose their, quote unquote, eternal life or their salvation. Or maybe the best way to say it is their standing or status with God as being righteous.
[2:14] We're made righteous by Jesus Christ. Others are made righteous by their efforts and by their obedience to other commands. And you have to rightly divide the scriptures to get this and understand this, or you're going to have yourself very frustrated and confused in trying to live out all these Bible commands.
[2:31] Another thing we looked at had to do with promises to prayer. Another thing we glanced at was baptism. And seeing whether you have to be baptized to get your sins forgiven or to get the Holy Ghost.
[2:44] And so understanding the need to study the Bible out and to place certain commands to a group of people or to a time frame that they apply.
[2:56] I hope you're starting to see, if you haven't already, that this is mandatory and it's commanded in the Bible. So before we go any further with this, what we've discussed so far is kind of a basic idea that doctrine, there's different doctrine and teaching in the Bible, and it's very strongly disagreed upon today among church individuals or pastors or denominations or theologians or whatever name you want to put on it.
[3:26] So people today do not agree about the word of God. Now, I want you to think about going to a local church. Like, you would assume or you kind of have it almost connected in your heart that when I go to church, I'm going to be hearing from God.
[3:44] Or what I'm going to, it's like a safe place in your mind, right? Just kind of strip away what you know and don't know about the Bible or about denominations. And you just are just nobody in the world.
[3:55] And you say, I'm going to go to church this morning. And you expect, there's some kind of expectation that what you're going to be inundated with or surrounded by is right, is truth, is God and Jesus and the Bible.
[4:10] But you kind of have an expectation for whatever you hear is true, right? I mean, when I say safe place, it's not like you're going to City Hall because you could expect to hear something based upon somebody's angle of what they're trying to get.
[4:25] You could expect if you go to a jail and start talking to some people that you're going to hear lies. But when you come to church, you're going to expect or hope to hear truth. And whatever's taught and preached is going to be right and you can follow it.
[4:38] So you can go to a church this morning and you're going to hear that you must be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus to find forgiveness or remission of sins.
[4:48] And it's in Acts chapter 2. They're preaching the Bible. And you can also find that there's people that are speaking with other tongues. And so there's an entire movement based upon the Bible.
[5:00] They all take the Bible and teach it and preach it and put it upon their congregations. Others, we mentioned baptism, speaking in tongues. There's people that claim they have power and gifts to heal.
[5:12] And where do they get it? They get it from the Word of God. They come to this book and they find these teachings and these moments. And then they say, that's how it is today. And that's what I'm here to do.
[5:23] And men claim themselves to be apostles. Apostles, they take the name and the title and put it upon themselves and print up their business cards and put it on their church website. They're an apostle. Where do they get it from?
[5:34] Well, they got it from the Bible. They borrowed it from the Bible. You go to another church, you're going to see some men dressed up with robes. And they call themselves priests. And there's a multitude of denominations that have a priesthood.
[5:45] Where do they get that from? You might say, well, a lot of their doctrine and things is traditional. True, but it comes out of the priesthood, out of the Bible. And you're going to find that they believe things from the Scripture.
[5:58] And they teach things from the Scripture. Now, we can pretty much, you know, certain things, certain religions, we can really pick apart and show from the Scripture why they're wrong. But that's not the point this morning.
[6:09] If you go to any random church, just pick one. People do this. They pick a church. They go to it. And then what they're expecting to hear is truth. And what they hear may or may not be the truth.
[6:20] Why? Why do we have to get this thing down? Because churches disagree on doctrine. Men teach and preach things that are not true or are not for this age. And they're doing it from the Word of God.
[6:32] And we must rightly divide. You must have a handle and an understanding, at least a very basic understanding, on what it means to rightly divide the Word of Truth. And it's going to keep you from being deceived.
[6:45] So churches disagree on doctrine. It's a big reason why we need to do this. Another reason is because I mentioned this last Sunday as closing, because you can make the Bible say whatever you want it to say.
[6:59] If you have a belief in your heart, you can find a verse or find a place and a way to teach it. And if you don't study and you don't rightly divide the Word of Truth, you might swallow something that is not your medicine.
[7:10] And so look at, this is just a simple example of this, but look at Proverbs chapter 13. And notice verse number 7.
[7:23] This is a proverb. There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing. There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
[7:36] So if we took this teaching and principle and said, well then, I guess the right thing to do for me is to make myself as poor as I possibly can.
[7:49] Then I'll have great riches. You know what I could do? I could go to Matthew chapter 6 and say, treasures in heaven. And now I can use the Bible to start teaching that you should give every cent that you have to the church, to me, to Toby Wolski Ministries Incorporated.
[8:09] And if you can make yourself as poor as you possibly can, you're going to have such great riches in heaven. God is going to bless you. And I could go on. I could go back to Deuteronomy. We could start running some scriptures.
[8:20] And it's very simple to take the Bible and teach a doctrine and get people to follow and believe. Do you want to be poor, as dirt poor as you possibly can, so that you can have great riches in heaven?
[8:34] Look at James chapter 1. Let's just continue this thought just for a little bit. Look at James chapter 1. And just in this, this is just a sample, but in this sample, there is a lot of scripture that I could run on this.
[9:01] And if I started running, we could spend the entire morning running scriptures about poor and rich and showing a contrast and showing God toward the poor and his ear to their cry.
[9:12] And just start building a case that when you see all of the verses put together, I'll convince you that this is how you should live. Now, I'm not going to take anywhere that far, but here's another one to add to it.
[9:24] Verse number 9 and 10. James 1, verse 9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted, but the rich in that he is made low.
[9:35] Because as the flower of the grass, he shall pass away. So you better give your money now. Give it while you can. Look at chapter 5. You don't want God to make you low because you're holding on to all your money.
[9:51] James chapter 5. And obviously, I'm speaking tongue-in-cheek here about this issue. Look at verse number 1. Go to now, ye rich men. Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
[10:03] Your riches are corrupted. Your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered. And the rest of them shall be a witness against you. And I'm not going to keep going, but you get the idea. We could go to the book of Acts and show them selling their things and laying it at the apostles' feet.
[10:17] I could start building this case that if you have money in your bank account, you're not trusting the Lord. And you should be giving that to God today. And on and blah, blah. You know, I don't want to keep going. But you at least see the concept here that I can make the Bible say that by taking some scriptures here and there and there that don't necessarily affirm this idea.
[10:38] And they don't say that you should give it to me or to this church. But the idea is I could make it say that if I wanted to. Let me give you one more example and we'll get off of this.
[10:49] Look at Job chapter 12. Job 12. This is a separate one, but it almost connects to this as well.
[11:02] It connects to the thought of rich and poor. So you're in Job chapter 12. And look at this statement given in verse number 6.
[11:20] Job 12 verse 6 says, So take verse 6 and just pull it right out of Job 12 and make that your life verse, as I think John is already looking at.
[11:45] He's writing it down. Don't we all want to have money? Well, then just go rob somebody. And so connecting it to what I said earlier about the rich and the poor.
[11:56] Preachers are robbers. They're deceiving people to take their money. They're using feigned words to make merchandise of individuals that are innocent and ignorant.
[12:08] And now the Bible says that God brings that into their hand. What a blessing. What a God. The robbers, God's just giving them their prosperity.
[12:19] According to that verse. Now, I'm not going to go any further, but you get the idea. There's so much more extreme areas or topics that we could discuss from the Bible, like way out there, that we could make the Bible say.
[12:33] This is enough just to make the case that we've got to be careful with how we study and how we interpret the word of God. Now, more specifically, with right division, we need to know who's speaking, who are they speaking, or whom are they speaking to, and does the doctrine apply to me or not?
[12:52] You've got to do this. So, what we're going to do here is I'm going to present this morning a scriptural system, maybe is the best word for it, of proper Bible interpretation.
[13:04] And what this will do, if you get it down, and even just the simplest version of this, the elementary version of this, will help you reconcile scriptures that seem like they contradict one another.
[13:18] It seems like that says this, this says that. So, do I have—if you don't rightly divide, and there's some that do not at all, every time a contradiction appears, they start to twist the scripture a little bit to say, well, this one really says this, this one says it more like this, and this is referring to this, and this is referring to that.
[13:38] And when you come up, so they say, see, it's all fine. And they won't allow the Bible to be literal. That's a problem. And they are always the one that has to work around to get the Bible to say something it doesn't.
[13:51] So, we want to establish sound doctrine. We want to determine what is absolutely true from the Word of God. Now, before we get into this screen and some pictures or some graphs, like, if you went—if you go into—I tell you what, I went to a store up in Newhall, Amazon Returns Store.
[14:16] And this—it sounded like, wow, there's going to be all kinds of returns. It's going to be dirt cheap, all this, and everybody's ordering stuff off Amazon and sending it back for no reason. And so, I thought, yeah, I'll go check this thing out.
[14:27] And I went in there and found that there are bins that are, like, an entire aisle long, like a grocery store. And it's just a built-up wooden bin that is filled with stuff, just filled with junk.
[14:40] There's no—it's just chaotic. It's stuff everywhere. And so, I was interested and kind of intrigued to go in and started sorting through and looking through. And, okay, this is nothing I care about.
[14:51] It's all just junk. And so, I kept moving on, and there's just more junk. And as I went to the next aisle, I saw—well, that stuff I saw already, it's kind of the same stuff, just over and over again.
[15:05] And so much of it was—it got annoying, how chaotic it was and how much it was useless junk. Just piles and piles and piles of it, all on top of each other, like somebody took their yard sale and just dumped it into a dump truck.
[15:23] And then the dump truck dumped it onto the ground, and just there's a pile. So, it was aisles of this. That is kind of how the Bible can appear, can look.
[15:36] If you don't know how to study it and interpret it and put it into its right place. If you go into Cole's Department Store, if you go into Target, what you can do is walk in the door and look up around, and you'll see signs hanging that directs you to where you're going to find what you need.
[15:55] You'll find one that says home, or you'll find one that says ladies or men's. You'll find something to do with groceries or whatever else Target has, I don't even know.
[16:07] Electronics. You'll see these signs, and you'll know where to go. If somebody is trying to put something away, a return in that store, they're not just going to throw it into the bin with the rest of the stuff, but they're going to take it back to the exact location it goes because that's where it fits in the store.
[16:24] There's categories. You're going to find that this Bible is a Bible from the beginning that covers all the way to the end, and God is not dealing with the human race the same way through the whole thing.
[16:38] Case in point, Calvary. You have to acknowledge that one. Because God changes how he operates with man, we need to start to study and say, so then what category or what place, or sometimes they call it age, others call it dispensations, does this scripture or does this command fit into?
[17:00] Whom is God speaking to? Now, what I want to do is show you on here something I think is pretty simple, and I hope you can see it from the back. It's not going to be very involved.
[17:13] But I have five major Bible events. When I say major Bible events, this is not everything in the book, but there are certain things that are not...
[17:24] What they are are things that happen in a point of time, in a moment. And so, for instance... There we go.
[17:36] The first one starts at Genesis 1 with creation. Now, it's not that I need to put this on there, teach you about creation, but that's a good starting point, and so we just need to kind of put the bookends on this a little bit.
[17:50] So creation's a major Bible event, right? If that wasn't there, we wouldn't be here. Another one. We just got to this in Exodus, where Moses goes up on the mount.
[18:00] And from Exodus 20 on, God gives him commands, and the Jewish nation have to follow those commands. Before Exodus chapter 20, when Joseph was in Egypt, was he following, were this people following anything that was in Exodus 20 or 21 or 22 or 23?
[18:22] Not by the letter, they were not. You could argue, well, murder is wrong all the way. Okay, that's fine. But not by the letter of the law, so to speak. So there's an event in the Bible, a day in history, where God introduced something new, and in this case, it was to Moses.
[18:43] All right, this is a big one, and we all get this one. The crucifixion of Christ, a major Bible event. It happened in a day in time. That's important. I think these events, as we study this, are dividing events.
[18:57] And so when we rightly divide the word of truth, we don't divide by a page in the Bible. We don't go to Psalm 22 and start changing things from there. And we're not even going to do it at Exodus 20 exactly.
[19:11] But these are days in history that something changed. And I think that's the most obvious of all of them. Okay, then the rapture of the church.
[19:22] Now, turn to this spot in your Bible, would you please? 1 Thessalonians 4. This gets argued, and individuals try to take this away from the church.
[19:34] Shame on them. This is something that Paul said is going to happen in a day. We call this, connecting it back to what we read last Sunday with Ephesians chapter 4, the day of redemption, when your body is redeemed.
[19:56] Connecting this to 1 Corinthians 15, Paul says that we shall be changed in the moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and it references our new bodies that we are changed into to be immortal and incorruptible.
[20:09] They're eternal bodies. And so when that takes place, this is what Paul talks about with a resurrection of those that are dead. They're going to be raised.
[20:20] They're not going to be raised corruptible. According to 1 Corinthians 15, they're raised incorruptible. So let's start in verse 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren.
[20:32] Concerning them which are asleep. Speaking of death, believers in Jesus that are in the grave. That ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
[20:49] For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God.
[21:04] And the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
[21:16] And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now there's a teaching that some are going to be raised and others connecting it to 1 Corinthians 15 are going to be changed to have a body immortal and incorruptible and eternal like them, a spiritual body.
[21:33] And when that takes place, we go up, we meet the Lord in the air, and we're with him. So we call that the rapture or the catching up or catching away of the church, the body of Christ.
[21:44] It's a Bible doctrine, but it comes at an event, a day. And then finally, why is this so weak? There we go. The second coming of Jesus Christ, the return of Jesus Christ.
[21:56] There's a hundred verses we could put in this spot, but Revelation 19 will suffice. It's toward the end of the book, kind of helping you see a little bit of a chronological look here at the way this goes.
[22:07] So I think that one's pretty obvious too. I don't know that I need to take you through the scriptures on Christ's return. The one thing to understand, and this will really help you, is when you start reading prophecy in the Old Testament that talks about Christ's return, you just put it back there with that.
[22:25] You put it in the system where it belongs. So there's the events. Now let me throw some symbols on this, and you'll see why in a moment. So for creation, we'll just put a picture of the earth, the law, as given at Mount Sinai.
[22:45] And then there's Calvary. This is going to represent the rapture. The bottom arrow coming up is the believers that are raised or changed. And then the top arrow coming down is Jesus Christ descending from heaven with a shout.
[23:01] And so we meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord? So that's going to symbolize for us a catching away of the church, a rapture. But then the next symbol will just be a bolder, stronger, Jesus Christ returning, coming down to earth, the second coming of Christ.
[23:19] These are not the same event. No matter what people teach, you can't put the second coming in the first Thessalonians 4. That resurrection doesn't match the other resurrections in the Bible.
[23:31] Now, symbolically, those five symbols I want to use to show you something very clear. First of all, Bible timeline. Linearly, from the left to the right, this is covering time.
[23:42] And one of the easiest and clearest divisions in your Bible is that of the Old and New Testament. Find Hebrews chapter 9.
[23:59] As we've been studying going through the book of Exodus, there is no New Testament. There is no Old Testament. There's just a covenant that God made with Israel.
[24:11] It's a testament. That's all there was. Just one. But when the Lord Jesus Christ died, he brought in a New Testament, as he said in Matthew 26, that this is my blood of the New Testament.
[24:25] And so, makes that one old automatically, and now there's a new. Hebrews chapter 9. And let's just kind of pick it up in the middle of something here, but we'll start in verse 15.
[24:37] For this cause, he, that is Christ, is the mediator of the New Testament. That by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
[24:50] For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead. That's a big, big, big thing to know and underline and understand in your Bible.
[25:04] If Jesus Christ doesn't die, he cannot bring in a New Testament. And so, when you start to read your Bible and you're reading things that are to the left of Calvary time-wise, you might not be reading some New Testament material that you think.
[25:20] When you come to the end of Malachi chapter 4 and flip the page and your Bible says the New Testament, and then you flip the page and it says Matthew chapter 1, are you really reading the New Testament at that point?
[25:33] The answer is no. You're reading information, you're reading a genealogy, and then you're going to read some teaching, but is that under the New Testament? So, let's be careful with that.
[25:44] All right, the crucifixion of Christ. That is a dividing event. It is an event in time that changed things forever. If you were alive before Calvary, some people teach you looked forward to Calvary.
[25:58] You were looking for Jesus to come and save you from your sins. So, where's the verses in the Bible that reveal that? Just because a verse says that Abraham rejoiced to see my day, well, that teaches you that everybody in the Old Testament was looking forward to the cross?
[26:14] Then how come the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he told them that he was going to be crucified, he was going to be spitefully entreated and scourged and mocked and put to death and the third day rise again, and they understood none of these things?
[26:28] It's proof that their faith was not in that event. So, something's going on before the cross, and it is not them believing in this man to save their souls.
[26:41] There was no Jesus Christ for them to believe in. They didn't even understand the prophecies. They didn't get it. Okay, so, the New Testament, though, on the right, this is very simple, very obvious stuff.
[26:55] All right, so then, let's move on to a little bit more. Leaving that there, let's add in these two. So, we have creation, we understand that, and then, somewhere in the middle of creation and Calvary, God institutes the law to Moses.
[27:12] And now that Moses and the children of Israel have a law, have rules they must follow, do you remember the thing about the food? Do you remember where the thing says that certain beasts are unclean to you?
[27:26] Was Adam supposed to worry about that? That wasn't even on, that wasn't even in his mind. So, that wouldn't, that wouldn't apply back there. Will this thing work by any chance? No, you're not going to be able to see it on, that's not a screen.
[27:38] So, that wouldn't work back there. But then something changed, and so, if we wanted to add commands and put scriptures onto this timeline, we would put certain commands to the left of the law, and then certain clean and unclean things to the right of the law.
[27:55] And that's where they would fit. Let's continue with some more of these symbols. There's the rapture of the church. Come on with this. All right, so there's predominantly what I've showed you by way of dividing events that have a symbol to go with it.
[28:17] If you can kind of take a snapshot of this, the reason we're using the screen and going through all this, is because this puts the whole Bible into one visual. The whole thing.
[28:27] Everything in the Bible fits pretty much, I should say 99% fits right there in that picture. There's a few glimpses of before creation, but they're very few.
[28:40] There's a lot of stuff that describes the second coming and beyond. And so we'll add some labels in between. So we have the crucifixion of Jesus Christ kind of dead center, not to say that this is a perfect representation or scale of time.
[28:59] Can you see those orange words? I don't know how clear that is for you, but that says the OT, the Old Testament. Now, most people think and teach Genesis to Malachi or Genesis to Calvary is the Old Testament.
[29:13] And we're not going to get too picky right now, but technically, the law is the Testament. That's where the covenant comes in. Before that, when people talk about the, when Paul talks about the Old Testament, when Christ uses the term the First Testament, he's not talking about Adam or Noah or Abraham.
[29:33] He's talking about those tables of stone in that moment on Sinai when that got instituted and was that covenant, they enjoined to God through that covenant of blood.
[29:44] So when I say the Old Testament, technically, we're talking about a Jewish thing with covenant with God. So what I'll do is call before Exodus chapter 20 and Mount Sinai, we'll just call that pre, before the Old Testament or before the law was given is maybe the best way to call it pre-law.
[30:04] There's other things that went on back there. We already saw a change with diet from the Garden of Eden to after the flood with Noah. We saw there was a change. There are things to add and to talk about back there, some divisions to be made between creation and the law, but for the time being, we're not going to get that detailed.
[30:21] So before the law, God dealt with man in a certain manner. When the law came, he's dealing with Israel after a different manner. When Calvary takes place, he's dealing with the world in a different manner.
[30:35] And so this one we commonly call the church age, the age of the church. Others call it the age of grace. There's a few terms that get plugged into this time. Between the events, generally speaking, between the events.
[30:49] I didn't put every event on this. I don't show John the Baptist showing up in his ministry. I don't show the Holy Ghost descending in Acts chapter 2 or the conversion of Saul. We can't put all that on this line in one screen.
[31:02] But for general purposes, from the cross of Christ till the rapture is the day when God is dealing with Gentile believers or Jew and Gentile in one body.
[31:13] But after that, there's a time called the time of Jacob's trouble. And we call this the tribulation based on Matthew chapter 24, a statement where there shall be great tribulation.
[31:26] And so now there's a tribulation coming after the church is gone. There's a time where God picks up his dealings with Israel and commences and the Bible continues, the prophecies, the teachings, it all comes back into play and continues forward because God still has some unfinished business and that would be this last thing we'll call the kingdom.
[31:49] The kingdom that's been promised to them forever ago has not yet been fulfilled even though their king came, the king of the Jews, even though the kingdom of heaven was at hand, they crucified him and they murdered their king.
[32:04] And there's a lot of unfinished business in the Bible that will take place. So most of what you read in your Bible is going to show up or find a place on this timeline.
[32:15] The reason this is so beneficial is because now you can visualize the entirety of the book and as you read your Bible and you read a command and you read something you say, I don't understand that or I don't quite understand how that, like, should I be doing that?
[32:30] You should think into yourself, who is God speaking to here? Does it fit into one of these other categories? So when you get into Isaiah and you read about God judging all of these Gentile nations and God establishing a king and the people that they'll see the king in his beauty, do you have any idea what you're reading is all the way to the right, the second coming of Christ and a kingdom that he establishes where the earth is transformed, where the curse seems to be rescinded from the planet and things are just blossoming and blooming in the desert and the wilderness and the Lord Jesus Christ is the lawgiver, the judge, the king and the judge, all of it.
[33:13] He is on the throne of David. When you're reading in Matthew and you're reading prophecies of the second coming or the son of man coming with power and great glory, you're looking at that bold arrow on the far right where he returns.
[33:27] So there's much to discern in this Bible and there's much to divide as well. The whole Bible, just like a department store, fits if you put it in its right place.
[33:40] If you all throw it into a bin like the Amazon store, you're going to have a hard time finding what is for you and obeying it and understanding it. It's not going to make sense.
[33:50] If you want to buy a pair of shoes and you go to a shoe store, it's very clear that there's men's, women's, children's and I go straight to the men's and I start looking for a number.
[34:03] I start looking for a nine and a half or a ten. Most of the time it's a ten and when I find that I just stay right there. I don't go to the 12's. I don't go to the women's. I don't go to the children's.
[34:15] I stay right where I belong and then see if I can get something for me. So what I'm telling you when we study and develop and determine sound doctrine for today we need to go to the place of our authority and I can show you this who it is and why it is but we do not just walk into the Bible and say okay give me a pair of shoes hope they fit because they won't.
[34:42] Most of the time they won't in this big book. You're going to have to go to the place that God has for you. So this is divisions. These are absolute these divisions on the board here.
[34:53] There's a whole lot more that we could add and then there's speculation and fighting over some of the smaller and finer points of this. The system is not a it's not an easy thing to do because the Bible is not an easy book and it's a spiritual book and a holy book and yes it's over our heads.
[35:09] It absolutely is but this will help bring it down to where you can reach it. So I'm not going to have time to really get into the next phase of this but for now I'm just introducing the need for right division and then what this Bible timeline looks like.
[35:26] This is not the Bible but it sure does help to understand it and to see it clearly and if there's an objection to something that's on the board there show me from the Bible where it's wrong and I'm like I'm easy on that that's that's I dead serious mean that show me where that's wrong prove to me from the Bible where it's wrong it's a lot easier for me to prove to me where it's right and to prove to you where you're wrong because I'm not trying to sound cocky I'm just saying once you get it it makes sense and it's easy to receive and to understand so let's understand our Bibles as we read them and study them and be very careful if somebody tries to put something on us.
[36:10] One more thing so we're on the way to church this morning and we want to go to a church and we want to receive truth and we walk up to the church and the doors are closed and the sign says we worship on Saturday oh okay I thought churches are on Sunday well you didn't get that from the Bible the Bible says the seventh day where do they get that from the Bible why do they still follow that what's the answer according to that screen what's the answer to somebody that believes you should be worshiping on Saturday I'm going to show you in the next hour exactly the answer you're going to see it clearly and plainly but I hope this helps you I hope you got this just as some groundwork to start to get to a place to where you know where your authority in this word of God is so let's be dismissed with that you got a few extra minutes this morning and enjoy your time fellowshipping and then we'll come back at the top of the hour thank you