The Weight Of Evidence

Psalm 11; 2 Corinthians 11:13-14; John 10; Luke 6:45

We are walking in today:  The Weight Of Evidence

Fiveamprayer let us open up the Bible--all of the evidence is before you!  Those of us who earnestly attempt to consider the evidence with an unbiased eye, find the lack of respect given to the entirety of the holy scriptures of the Bible, shocking.  The Holy Spirit will never contradict the scriptures!  Consider the only admissible evidence, holy scripture.  Not any other thing--not mystical mysteries, feelings or misinterpretation of scriptures.  We have got to go straight to the word!  Often Christians have a passive attitude, not truly seeking the truth.  The evidence, that you find before you in the Bible was not to have a word changed, not a jot or tittle.  There have been countless sermons on doctrine written and preached from the pulpit, the focus on creeds determined by church councils.  This determination is in believing the right thing and separating the believers from those who don't believe.  The focus should be rather how did you arrive at good sound doctrine?
False balance and false weights are an abomination unto the Yahweh.  Why is this important for us to understand this?  Well, lets look at the time and culture this was in practice.  A farmer for example would come in with a basket of figs, looking for someone to trade for coins in the town.  The scale would be taken out and the farmer places the figs on one side and the one who is trading with coins would place a weight on the scale. They would keep adding until they were balanced, reaching a just weight.  The problem became that the weights would not be accurate and brings about a deception in the transaction.  These deceptive transactions come from a under or over stating of one side of the balance over the other.  This can be seen in the Western church who through the early church fathers seemingly divorced all traces of their Hebraic roots of their faith.  All that was taught by the Jewish prophets and disciples from the Bible--almost thoroughly removed.  This should no longer be a separation, let us go back Fiveamprayer to find what was taken out or over looked!  To hear this again click here.

How to study scripture with a Hebraic mindset, four levels:
-peshat the literal meaning of the scriptures
-remez an alluding to the meaning of scripture; referring back to another scripture
-drash what does the scripture mean to me; discussion of scripture
-sod the deeper meaning found in scripture