How to Read the Bible and Grow in Understanding

In Romans 2:28, the Apostle Paul said: Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. What does this mean?

Does it mean that the law is now of no use to us? Does it mean that believing in the Messiah alone without obedience  still makes us righteous? Or are we free to live in sin because "Jesus is our righteousness?"

This episode looks at what it means to be justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 

Do we have free will, or do we have a fate that we just change? In this episode, we look at the question of free will from a scriptural perspective. 

Before you go, we must know that he created the wicked for the day of evil:

Pro_16:4  YAHUAH hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

These are the vessels of wrath:

Rom 9:22  What if YAHUAH, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 

And so an important thing to note about him is that he hardens whom he will, so as to achieve his will.

Rom 9:18  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

So there are exceptions whose free will are taken away from them and their hearts will be hardened. This is YAHUAH'S prerogative as the master potter:

Rom 9:19-21  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against YAHUAH? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

So for the rest of us who have access to his mercy, do we have free will?

We use precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little to unravel the mystery. 

Who are the descendants of Esau today? Where is Edom today? These are commonly asked questions and often forms the basis for heated debates.

However, the answer is really simple as the scriptures make it plain that he will be bare (plain), even though he is not. Sounds complicated? Well, listen this podcast as we reveal who the descendants of Esau are today. 

Does God Love Sinners?

Does the Most High love the sinners and hate the sin as Christians claim? This episode looks into the claim by Christians that their God loves the sinners. He only hates the sins that they commit, so as long as you are a sinner, "God" loves you.

This podcast looks at this claim as it pertains to the Aluahym of the Bible and see what scriptures have to say about it. 

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Is the Book of Enoch Authentic?

The religion of Christianity has dominated the world and dominated what most believers accept as truth. When one comes into the understanding of its many, many shortcomings, one starts to question the validity of much of their claims.

We here at Just a Word have dug into many of their teachings and found almost all to be wanting. We have included those in a category on our website called Christian Errors. By the way, this can be accessed through http://justaword.org/christian-error/.

So since we found so many things wrong, one of them is that we should only use 66 books. This forms the basis of what we have in this podcast as we look at the authenticity of the book of Enoch.

We will use a simple means of proving whether or not the book of Enoch is authentic. This we will do by looking at the 10 divisions of the times of the earth found in Enoch chapter 93.

The earnest of our inheritance. We take a look at Ephesians 1:13-14, a verse that most people brush over as they read. We look at a word that makes a big, big difference to our understanding, which has great impact onus understanding our salvation and redemprion. 

How to Read the Bible and Grow in Understanding?

This is a response to a question by one of our group members who sent this message:

"Quick question.  I struggle with  what to passage to read  in the mornings.  I'm reading  the book of John right now. I started in Genesis and jumped over  to John as I was looking  for Scriptures that would minister to me in this  beginning journey.  I guess we were trained to feel something when we reading  so now I feel so empty.   I'm all  over the place.  Are there specific scriptures you can recommend? Thank you."

She has recently come out of Christianity, understanding that the Bible is not about a religion, but about a nation and she is a member of that nation. 

This podcast looks to not only respond to her question, but also to give anyone else out there an understanding of how to read the Bible and grow daily in understanding. This is not my opinion, but actually what the scriptures say we should do. 

How do I read the Bible?

Of course, there is no replacement for fearing YAHUAH and keeping his commandments and walking in obedience to the Messiah. Combine all, and you will grow quickly in wisdom, knowledge and understanding.

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Precept upon precept: How to understand the Bible.
In today's episode we look at how to properly interpret scripture.  When we speak of scriptural truth or biblical truth, we are often met with the question, how do you know you have the truth?  

Indeed, everyone claims to have the truth, don't we? iThis includes the over 40,000 Christian denominations. What if I tell you that there is only one way to arrive at truth in the scriptures?

Isa 28:9  Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.  

Isa 28:10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 

If we realize how the scriptures are written, then we will get the understanding. The scriptures are written so as to be revealed spiritually to those who seek. That means one cannot just pick up the scriptures and study to get the understanding.

Neither can one get the understanding unless the Most High allows us to.

 Then we must know that it is not written serially (in order) like a story book. It is written like a puzzle, and parts have to be fitted together. When we fit the pieces together,  then we get to Bible truth. 

Otherwise what we will be doing is taking a verse and then giving our own private interpretation, and of course we:

2Pe_1:20  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

So the importance of precepts: matching scriptures here, to scriptures there, is what we look at in this episode.  When we do so, we will be surprised at what we learn!