Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Peter Krol
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January 8 - January 11, 2020
Christians should apply the Bible because we know God.
Christians should apply the Bible because we are known by God.
Christians should apply the Bible because we are free from sin’s dominion.
Christians should apply the Bible because…we are Christians!
According to 1 John, we’ll know we have eternal life by three pieces of evidence: confessing Christ, loving others, and keeping God’s commandments.
“Jesus died for me, so I have nothing left to prove.”
Inertia keeps us in the same place, but the Lord wants to move us.
Thus the angry person learns to love. The argumentative person learns to listen. The manipulative person learns to let go.
Thus, while a passage of Scripture won’t have infinite interpretations, it can have an essentially infinite number of applications.
he who works his good pleasure in you expects you to work out your own salvation
To begin with, I recommend building application upon the passage’s main point.
How do I need to change? and How has God called me to influence his world?
How can you illuminate the darkness? (for example, by replacing lies with truth) How can you shape the formlessness? (for example, organizing your life in a way that protects your time with the Lord and serves others better)? How can you fill the emptiness? (for example, being more productive overall) Where have you failed to image God in these ways? How can you trust Jesus more fully in these areas? How can you become more like Jesus in these areas?
How can they shape the formlessness? How can they fill the emptiness? Where have they failed to image God in these ways? How can you encourage them to trust Jesus more fully in those areas? How can you be a better influencer for Jesus?
The head represents everything we think and believe.
The heart represents who we are.
The hands represent everything we do.
God wants to produce change in all three spheres—head, heart, and hands—but
1) Put off your old self. 2) Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. 3) Put on your new self.
Identify what you think. Identify what God wants you to think instead (especially about his attributes, his character, and his world). Begin thinking God’s thoughts.
Our hearts must change before our lives can change. And once our hearts change, we’re ready to apply the Bible to our hands.
Christians should be the hardest workers, the most delightful neighbors, and the most trustworthy companions.
Hearers of the Word apply the Bible to the head—doers of the Word also apply the Bible to the heart and hands. In other words, those who trust in Christ persevere in faith, awaiting the final day when Jesus resurrects head, heart, and hands to immortality and glory.
the most dangerous tendency for Christians is to forget Jesus.
when it comes to living the Christian life, we begin to rely more on our discipline than on Jesus.
since God wants to change specific people in specific ways, we should be specific in our application.
Know your next steps.
Make progress measurable.
Put off and put on.
Don’t be lame.
In short, correlation is the process of constructing a coherent theology from the Scripture.
Don’t let correlation distract you from careful interpretation of a text on its own terms. But once you’ve interpreted, go ahead and correlate.
