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Complete Word Study NTNo. 06

Complete Word Study New Testament

Vern PetermanMar 13, 201653 min
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Okay, so we have this handout on 1st Corinthians 1.10, just one verse. Before we do that, today is the last day that we're in here, right? And so, how many people need a copy of this? Right now? Yeah, this is the last day, so the best thing is if I get these distributed to people who are going to take them.

You wanted the dictionary. Stan wants the dictionary. Oh, you mean to take home? So I want both of them. And Steve, did you have the dictionary or not? I don't have it. You don't have the dictionary. Okay. What I'll do is I'll give you the dictionary and we'll get you one. I have just kind of a loaner for now. That's fine. This will be great. I can get used to this. Yeah, and you can get started on that.

And then the other thing that I recommend, especially with this one, is using the tabs. You can get like at an office supply store or something like that. Using the tabs to find the different... you want to use it efficiently if you can use it very much and so having it marked off so you can instantly get there. I don't use this method because I've got other software and what not that gets me there but for someone using this to be able to get to things quickly you know and find where you are that really helps if you can use it very much. Let's see so You've got a copy, you've got a copy, which we need to get you the dictionary. And you said you didn't care to go for it long term. OK. And. All right. So let's let's go to the handout.

So we have here I in this case copied the I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree, and that there be no divisions among you, and that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Corinthians 1 10 of the New King James 1 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and the same judgment. Alright, and then the King James, which is the basis for the complete words in the New Testament, Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you, and that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. Alright, now, of those three translations, what do you observe about those?

What's different? And I guess we can ask the question, why is it different? They exhort, plead, and besiege. Ah, okay. So you see, each of them goes a different route with that. Any thoughts or comments on the difference between those? To me, exhort seems more intense. Okay. And exhortation is more intense. Okay. Is it more of a corrective? Yeah, in other words, it's more intensively trying to draw somebody towards a particular mode and action, right?

Yeah, and you had a further comment? Well, just that pleading Pleading to me has more... Begging? Yeah, begging. And some emotion. There's a little more emotion. Exhort is intense. Pleading is a different emotion that comes out. And beseech a different emotion yet. More like plead than exhort.

And does beseech, does that connect with us in this modern era? Not so much. Yeah, it's an antiquated word, which is why, say with the new King James, they switched to an alternate from beseech, because it's just like, what? You know, it's a word that's fallen out of use. Yeah, we know it still, but it's not common. Yeah, and so part of the problem with a word that has fallen out of use or has changed in use is that you don't get the sense of what the verse is saying.

So that's where it's important to have a good understanding of what it's saying. There are 400 words in the King James that have either fallen out of use or changed in use. For example, conversation. What do we think of when we think of conversation? We think of talking to people, right? So that's what comes across to us, but conversation meant more like lifestyle. in King James language. So, where a word has changed use, or fallen out of use, it's difficult for us.

So, this is where, using the Complete Word, studying New Testament, you can go and get a definition behind things. And that word that's translated, exhort, plead, and beseech, what's the Strong's number on that? 3870, right? And so that's what we give below. And it's parakaleo is the word. And then that, by the way, is the only one we give out of the dictionary here for this morning.

But it's, you know, it is alongside to call, however, to call alongside What does that tell you? If you break it down, it says call alongside, but that really doesn't convey enough, does it? And the reality is, it means to aid, to help, to comfort, to encourage. It is translated to comfort, exhort, desire, call for, beseech. All those words, but none of those are a call alongside.

So how do you know which word is the right definition? How can you tell? Context? Yes, by context. If I spell out the word B-O-W, what is that? Bow, bow, or... Yeah, is it something that shoots an arrow? Or is it something you put on a Christmas present? Or is it a noise that a dog makes?

Right? And so typically what will happen is if we have that word by itself, we don't know which one it is. And they're quite different. Right? In English. And so what do we do? We have even a little bit of context. Doesn't take much. A little bit of context and all of a sudden you know what it is. So B-O-W and the word arrow. is all the context you need to know that's a bow and arrow. If I say B-O-W and present, all of a sudden you know that this is a bow that goes on a present. So it doesn't take much context to get the idea of which one is it, even though the word gets used in lots of very different ways. So context is the right answer.

And so in this one, you'll have different meanings, actually fairly different, that all come out of context. Now, here is a caution that just, this is a compound word, para kaleo, para and kaleo, and if you break it down it means call alongside, but you notice none of the definitions given mean call alongside. And so it's a caution that sometimes you'll have people say well that word breaks down to this and that's not what it means. Do we have words in English or expressions in English that don't literally mean what we're saying? Sure. If you do that, you're going to be dead meat. Yeah, you're going to be dead meat. And what? For someone to take that literally, it's like woo!

An example we've used in the past is in English, if we're joking with someone, we'll say, I'm pulling your leg. In the Spanish-speaking cultures, it's I'm pulling your hair. And Heidi and Helmut pointed out that in the German culture, it's you're carrying me on your arm.

So very different figures of speech. And it's the context, in this case the cultural context, that gets the point across. So, Laura, you're correct. It's context that gives us the understanding. So, we have here, probably, I exhort you or I plead with you, either of those would get the point across. Other possible meanings, depending on context, could get a very different idea. Is he desiring to comfort them? No, that's not the right context, right? By the way, this is verse 10. The first nine verses are Paul's introduction. Hi, I'm Paul. And he tells them that they're sanctified. It's in the perfect tense.

And then he starts right in with the big problem that they've got lots of division between them. Okay, so he says, so I exhort you or I plead with you, and then what does he say after that? That you all agree. Okay, but there's one word that's in all three translations right after I exhort you or I plead with you. Brethren. Brethren, okay.

Why does he say that? Because he's speaking specifically to believers. Okay, he's speaking specifically to believers, he's told them earlier that they're sanctified in the perfect tense. That is, you're completely and totally in your position sanctified. So is that word specifically to show that he's speaking to believers, but does it also, I guess I can look it up in the dictionary to see what it says, but does it also have a connection like Yeah, let's think about this.

He is an apostle, right? Could he give them an imperative? Could he do that? Could he say, I order you as an apostle, appointed by Christ? He could do that, couldn't he? What he comes across with is one, I urge you Okay? Which is softer than an order. Okay? He could just say, I'm an apostle and you guys listen up. You gotta get this. You know? And so he could order it as an apostle and just, this is a command. You guys gotta do this.

Why doesn't he? Why does he say brethren instead of look, I'm an apostle and as an apostle I'm telling you to do this. Because I have the authority to do so. I think he's putting himself on the same level as my friend and my compadre. He doesn't come across as, I'm the apostle and I'm ordering you. He doesn't even come across as, look, I'm the teacher and you guys are the students.

He urges them, he pleads with them, he exhorts them, and the word brethren means he comes alongside them at the same level. It's very interesting. So he doesn't use the authority that he has but instead comes alongside them urging and calling them brother. And is he correct in calling them brother? Yeah, it's correct.

And it's the most humble way of coming across alongside them and then urging them. Even though he has the authority of an apostle and could just simply order them. I'm an apostle and you guys gotta do that. Am I remembering correctly that Jesus also called the disciples brethren at some times? Yes. And the amazing law and Hebrews says that we are brother. Yes. Right? Yes.

So that's very interesting. Here's the first thing he has for them to do after saying, Hi, I'm Paul, you know, in his nine verse introduction. Here's the first thing and where he could have ordered them and said, look, as an apostolic order, you're doing this. Then the red flags go up. Yeah.

Instead he comes alongside and calls them brethren, sets aside his apostolic authority, in this case, and urges them as one who comes alongside them. And the contrast to that is when he introduces some of his epistles. Paul, an apostle, is establishing his authority at the beginning when he's speaking. And notice that he doesn't just assert his apostleship. He will put that in by the will of God. It's God who did this. It's not I'm just jumping in and saying, hey, I'm an apostle. So, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, what does he mean by that? What does he mean by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ? I urge you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What does he mean by that? Is that his authority or is that his credentials? Well, let's think of it. What is, in biblical terms, what is by the name of? What does that mean? through him or in his... We think of a name a lot of times we just think well that's a sound or a set of letters that we connect with people. Representing? Yeah, it's the biblical use of by the name. Is it by his authority? Well, it's interesting, by the name, by the person of.

A name wasn't just a sound byte that goes along with a person, but a name represents the very character and person. By the character and person of the Lord Jesus Christ. So it's not just an artificially attached, here's the sound byte that goes along with the Lord Jesus Christ, but it's rather by the person and character of the Lord Jesus Christ. So is that like, to identify a person like Joseph the Carpenter, or Mary, because some names are so similar, to identify a person you added that.

Right. One question is, by our Lord Jesus Christ, do you have any question about who that is? You do not at all. As a matter of fact, if you think about it, let's think about what each of those things means. Lord, what's that mean? Master? One who has authority over you? Yeah, he's one who has authority, okay? And then Jesus, what does that mean? What does that word mean? That's his manhood, right? That's his name. That is his personal name. And what does that mean? If we trace it back. It comes from the Hebrew, Yeshua. And what does that mean?

Savior. Savior. And so you could look up each one of those words. Lord is one that's in the back of the main book here, and also in the larger dictionary. And then Jesus is not in the larger book, but that's from Yeshua, and that means Savior. And one other thing, does this have a definite article in front of it in the Greek or not? Yes, you look over Lord and it has A-R-T, that tells you it was a death in Argo. So it's by the name, because there's A-R-T over the, by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of us, is kind of the way it comes across in the Greek there.

But it's very specifically Him, right? So you have no doubt that Paul intends that they understand specifically this one by his person and by his character. So in other words, Paul is not speaking out of his own character? That's right. He's referring to specifically the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who has the authority, the one who is your savior, and then what does Christ mean? He's Messiah the Anointed One. And so you have all this personal definition and personal identity of Him. It's by Him. Not I, but Christ. Yeah, that's right.

He's saying it's not I. I'm not coming alongside you as an apostle and demanding that you do this. He's saying you must do this. I'm coming alongside, calling you brethren. I urge you, and why do I urge you? It's because of Jesus. It's because of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why. It's about Him, it's not about me.

Right? And so, that, yes. looking at the Greek here and it's I beseech you now brethren by the name the Lord or it has the twice yes the name and very specific as to him and Lord and Jesus and Christ and the the second the have similar parsing columns. Yep. So he's very specific. This one. It's about him, it's not about me. Right? It's about him, it's not about me.

Now, here's a very important question that this verse helps us understand, and one of the reasons why I didn't just settle on the American Standard Translation. Are Christians supposed to just set aside all of their differences, differences of doctrine and all that, and just be united? Or does God have something else in mind?

I don't know what you're asking. They say the same thing. There better be an agreement. Yeah. And one of the reasons why I set aside, or did something other than just the New American Standard, is that you all agree might imply that you just set aside differences in doctrine. Agree to disagree.

Yes, you agree to disagree, and this person over here, you know, he doesn't think the Lord's coming back. And this person over here says, I've got the best gift there is, and that puts me above you. And this person over here says, you know, I believe in God. I'm not sure Jesus is.

And we just set that all aside and agree to disagree and stay united. Is that what he wants? No, and so that's where this is a key point in the translation. You could possibly come to the conclusion that you all agree means that. That you just set all the differences aside and be united just the same.

This is actually an issue a lot of unbelievers Or even Christians who choose not to go to church. Because it seems like every denomination says something different and we've got thousands of denominations. And that brings up another question. You brought up the denominations. Is there any biblical basis for denominations? Unity. I've taken the word united to mean united to Christ. The fellowship of his sufferings and so forth. And there is a point in that. But let's take a look here.

In the New King James I think they carry across the right idea. That you all speak the same thing is a better translation than that you all agree because all agreeing may be understood as that you all agree to disagree. But he says that you all speak the same thing. In other words, what you're thinking and what you're expressing needs to be singular. Paul wrote to the church at Rome and he says that with one voice, so singularity of what they say, with one voice that you glorify the Lord, so that you all speak the same thing, that there be a unity of teaching and doctrine. And he's actually going to reinforce that with the subsequent words. How many divisions should there be among you? None. Does the church have divisions?

In order to get there though, it's because we all have one spirit, so we all have to be and if we're all listening to one spirit, then we will automatically come with one voice, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so that you all speak the same thing, which both the American Standard and the King James has, and that there be no divisions among you, So that's interesting. You can say, okay, how many different denominations are there? At least two. Yeah, at least two. That's a good way to summarize it.

Last count, about 30,000 different Christian denominations. And some of those are just from one local church. But about 30,000 Christian denominations. What's your definition of Christian denominations? Well, they're denominations that call themselves Christian. So that includes even those that don't teach a saving gospel. Yeah, the Mormons would call themselves a Christian denomination. They don't teach a saving gospel. The Jehovah's Witnesses would call themselves Christian. They don't teach a saving gospel.

You have others where there's a saving gospel somewhere in there, but they've got so much other stuff clouded around it that it's tough to tell. Let's take, for instance, within the Methodist family of denominations. That Methodist family includes the United Methodist Church where I'm quite certain a lot of them are not even saved. I know of an instance where a church refused a pastor because the pastor wasn't saved. I know of an instance where the pastor came to the pastor of the church and he got saved. And so you have different ones like that. And I remember the Methodist Church in Carson City, Nevada was worshipping the goddess Isis. Or Sophia, pardon me. Sophia. Not Isis. The goddess of wisdom.

And the Methodists have all kinds of breakdowns in their denominations. So you've got some where I doubt any of them are saved. You've got some where maybe a few of them are saved in spite of the denomination. You've got some where it's a significant question about a lot of them. And you've got others where they'll teach a saving gospel, but a lot of their other doctrine is not straight on.

What this is looking for is no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind, in the same judgment. Okay, so that's where we perfectly join together, that's where we look at page two in the pictures. To get an idea, this word, psalms number 2675, katartizo, Which when you look at it, perfectly joined together is all one Greek word.

To give you an idea how the word was used, it shows up in Matthew 4.21 as the disciples were mending their nets.

The nets got torn. At the north end of the Sea of Galilee, the natural rock is all basalt. It's big chunks of basalt from essentially a lava flow. And that basalt, when it got broken up, would mean just huge, sharp chunks of rock under the water. And so if you put your net down, you're going to get it caught on those huge, sharp chunks of basalt.

And when you pull it in, especially if it's got fish in it, you're going to tear it. And what's bad about a torn net? Fish get out. Fish get out. That's not good, right? And so in order to make your fishing a worthwhile thing to do, you've got to mend all the nets.

So repairing the tears in the nets was one of the activities that got described with this word Caratizo. Repair the tears. So how would that apply to the church body? Repair the tears. Resolve those differences. Yeah, in other words, if you think about it, boy, you guys have problems that are as bad as torn nets. Right? So that would give you an understanding of the use of the word. You guys need to repair your torn nets among you. So that's one.

And another use Dr. Luke would understand, after the New Testament era, in the second half of the second century, there was a guy named Galen who pulled together all the Greek and Roman documentation of medicine. And he used the word that is for setting or casting a broken bone. To set it in place so that it heals properly.

Years ago I knew a fellow that had two elbows. He had one elbow that moved and in his forearm he had another elbow that was just stuck. And it's because it wasn't properly set and casted. So really, it wasn't technically an elbow, it wasn't a joint, it was a break that healed... But it was a visible break in his forearm that had healed improperly. Right? And so that wasn't... It wasn't properly set. Okay?

And so you think, okay, set it and cast it so that it's going to heal properly. So that's the same thing with the church body. They set things so that they heal properly. And so that's why you got this picture of this broken bone here. The x-ray of the broken bone.

So what is Paul exhorting them towards? We know that a torn net is not good. We know that a broken bone that's not set properly is not good. So what's he exhorting in their church congregation, among the people of their court? He's telling them that they have the equivalent of torn necks and broken bones in the church body. And you guys need to repair these and set things straight so that things get healed up. You know, when you don't say the same thing doctrinally, then you get into relationship breaks as well. And so this goes to something else. Can we know the truth? Yes. Ah, and see there are even Christians I've come across that don't think we can know the truth.

But in all these things he's saying In order to be able to repair the tears in the nets, you've got to say, well, this is what the net should look like. In order to be able to set the bones right and cast them correctly, then you have to be able to say, this is what the bones should look like. And so that means doctrinally that I can know what that looks like. And that we are able to arrive at what that looks like. So what's very interesting is, here at Holly Hills, you have three elders that come from very different backgrounds. Each one of us comes from a different background.

And I do not agree with all of the doctrine of the church where I came out of. I'm one of the three elders that grew up in a Christian home and became a believer at a young age. Both Mike and Roger became believers after they were already adults. And so I was brought up in a particular church, and I can tell you, you know, this and this point of doctrine, I do not agree with.

Or authorate you in agreement on everything? I would say yes, and what we do is if we find that we have an area of disagreement, we continue to work on it and talk it through until we are. They sometimes take months to years to work through an issue. And if I have something about which I have questions, I'm not sure, I'll study it for up to years before I even bring it before Mike and Roger.

And one of those was, what is the meaning of the new covenant with respect to the church? And that's what I studied for nine years before I brought it to Mike and Roger. Obviously, that wasn't nine years full time. But nonetheless, nine years just continuing to study and study and study that before I brought it before them. And it was a different teaching than was previously here. And it was a different teaching than was at the church where I grew up.

Was it also something that they had been contemplating for that period of time too? Or had it not come up for them? I don't know that it had come up. Yeah, I don't know that it had come up. So I said, I think that scripture is saying this and here's why. Because I had confusion about that for a long time. So I was wondering if that's something that everybody is aware that it's not clear and they're looking into it.

There are four primary different teachings about the relationship between the New Covenant and the Church. And what's interesting is Schaeffer and Wolvert and Ryrie, who just in the last month went home to be with the Lord, had different viewpoints on it. Wolverd and Ryrie both changed their minds about what that meant around 1980. Both of them are home with the Lord now, but I got to talk to each one of them about it before they went home. So I ended up settling on the position that Darby held. And that is that the New Covenant is for Israel and Israel only. Miles talks about all that. And he quotes those guys and talks about their differences. So it did take me nine years. I had Miles.

So at any rate, So when we come to these things, there will be no divisions among you, we all speak the same thing, that there will be doctrinal singularity and unity, which assumes that that is possible to arrive at, and assumes that we can be united under singular doctrine. not just we're united because we're Christians and we all disagree.

That there be no divisions among you, so no biblical basis for denominations, even though we've got 30,000 of them. And it's one reason why among ourselves we just visit the Bible church and we have elders over the local church and that's all scripture really authorizes. And that you be perfectly joined together, that you be healed up of the tears and breaks. in the same mind, in the same judgment, so that you speak the same thing, you'd be healed up, no divisions, and where does that singularity and unity come from? Being of the same mind and the same judgment, so it's not an artificial external unity, where we just keep our mouths shut, right?

Look, we have a disagreement here, let's just not talk about it. You speak the same thing, singularity in what you communicate between one another and to others, singularity in what you communicate to others, and with no divisions among you, that you're perfectly joined together, completely healed up of all the tears and breaks, out of the same mind, same mindset, and the same judgment. Pat, in a bone breaking, when a bone heals, is that spot stronger then because of the healing process from the scar tissue? Is it a stronger place? Not necessarily. Not necessarily. And I won't make that conclusion. No, not necessarily. There's a strengthening of the body. Well, there is, but not necessarily. Yeah, what you see is that unity of what you speak, that unity of no divisions, comes from inside. Of the same mind and the same judgment. Yeah, and so how could that possibly be?

We've got, here is a book, it's got about 40 authors, written over about 1,500 years of time, and with the exception of probably Job in the Old Testament, and Luke and Acts in the New Testament, written by Jewish guys, And the origins of Genesis, written significantly by non-Jewish guys. With Moses, the Jew, putting it together. Interesting.

And by the way, Abraham, was he a Jew or a Gentile? He's not a Jew. He was a selected Gentile, right? A selective Gentile that then was carried through the line of Isaac and through the line of Jacob and through his sons. So did the Jews consider Abraham Jewish? Yeah, what's interesting is they would talk about Father Abraham, right? And truly he is their forefather. And he is a God-selected Gentile from whom the Jews are descended. Now, how about Ishmael? Does he descend from Abraham? So what's the problem with Ishmael? By the way, Ishmael had 12 sons. Wrong son. Okay, wrong son. Wrong son and wrong mother.

Now, the angel of the Lord appeared to Ishmael and Hagar. So there was still something particularly special going on. He didn't send them away. He told them to go back. And he said, I see you and I have something for you too. Yes. So, kind of an amazing thing. The Lord selected this, you know, gentile. And said, okay, it's this particular lion I'm going to work with. And so then you look at that, and here's this collection of books.

They didn't have some kind of a conference and say, hey, let's get our act together. Right? So you've got 40 authors who are 1500 years. Many of whom did not know the other. There were some exceptions to that, but many of whom did not know the other. And in the New Testament you probably have more of an instance of commonality where they knew each other, they knew who the other was. But in the Old Testament, over the period of time that that was written, about a thousand years, you have a lot of just not knowing each other guy.

And very different cultural situations. Different cultural backgrounds, right? Sorry about that. So anyway, you've got this, how can there be unity when you've got all these guys who came out of different backgrounds and know each other in great part. How can there be unity and singularity in doctrine in that?

The Holy Spirit. Yeah, it's the Holy Spirit inspiring what they wrote. Peter saying that scriptures don't come from somebody thinking it up himself, but by men moved by the Holy Spirit. Yeah. Bernie said, perfectly joined together out of the same mind.

Is that a better translation than in the same mind? Well, let's look that up. When you were speaking, you said that, so I was wondering. Let's look that up. Because what you see is in the same mind... Oh yeah, it's got a number on it. ...is, you know, all three translations have that. So let's look up that word 1722. Let me look that up. One translated in and see what that word is.

Oh my gosh, there's columns here. How do I find the right one? It's again context. Yeah, but I have to find that. I can't scan that. The word is what? The word is N, right? Two letters in the Greek and it is translated a whole bunch of different ways depending on context.

But you have to find the verse and I couldn't scan it that quickly. Yeah, and so the translations, and this is the usual sense of the word, it can have other things by context, but generally in, is a good way to put it, that you'd be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

What I mean by out of is that mind and judgment is in here, right? And that that comes out and gets expressed in how you live as a church body, and it gets expressed in what you say. Which is singular. When you said out of, I thought that was a good... And so that's why I use out of, it's not because of the Greek, but because there is a singularity that comes from inside in the way people are thinking.

It's not like, you know, I don't agree but I'm just not going to talk about it because it always causes problems, right? It's not that. It's not, it's not. I have a completely different mindset and I'm just not going to talk about it because I don't want to cause difficulty.

Right? So it comes out of the same mind and the same judgment. Hello. So that's my reason for bringing that up. That there is a unity that's not just from me keeping my mouth shut when I disagree. But there is a unity that comes out of understanding. I don't know if I'm right, but I'm sure that that is. I'm sure that what God had written is right. And so I need to understand clearly what that is. Yes?

So like, some question about, there's no, Christ was crucified, that's not, but until recently, exactly when, was pretty skeptical. So that doesn't have to be, at that point, didn't have to be a point of unity, the date, It was on Friday, he was crucified, he died, it was three days in the grave. So the doctrinal part of that is the crucifixion. What day is superficial. Yeah, in other words, that's not essential to the Bible's message. And in fact, even our... I can say with a fair degree of certainty that Christ was crucified on April 3rd, 33 AD.

But that's recent, but that's also using what's called the Gregorian calendar, right? Which wasn't until Pope Gregory went and started speaking of it, and as a matter of fact, it wasn't until 99 years ago that Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar. Prior to that, they didn't embrace it because it went on to the Pope. So even that is a matter of accepting a certain calendaring system. And that wasn't widely accepted until a little over a century ago.

So that's not a biblical issue. in terms of what the Bible calls for. And it's assuming something in terms of the calendar. If you went up to the disciples and said, did Jesus die on April 3rd, 33 AD? They'd go, what? They'd have no idea what you're talking about. So, it's not an apostolic teaching kind of issue.

Okay, so we're done here. Now, next week we'll just go right into there. We won't lead in here. We have prior weeks handouts here if you want to grab those. Otherwise, we'll put those away. If you want a book, this one, we've got several of those, so... Is that the Old Testament? No, this is just the New Testament. But anyway, we have several of those and I will get dictionaries for those who want them. Okay. Okay? Alright, let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word. Thank you for what you spell out very clearly. Thank you for the tools that we have here and we just look forward to continuing this deeper study of your word and understanding more and more clearly what it is that you intended to convey to us.

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