Excellent sermon, Scott. Thank you for this, brother. And thank you for making note of the slippery slope positions held by Grudem, Storms, and Blackaby.
Peter’s point was the Word of God was “more fully confirmed” to them (apostles) by seeing Jesus’s glory in the Transfiguration (2 Pet. 1:17-18). His main focus is not the Scriptures themselves but the confirmation of the truth of them in seeing the transfigured Christ. Verse 16 also gives us the thrust of the context in Peter saying that “we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” Peace be with you and God bless.
Charlie K The Greek word order says "And we have more sure the prophetic Word." This supports the interpretation that Peter is ranking Scripture over experience. The prophetic Word (Scripture) is more complete, more permanent, and more authoritative than the experience of anyone.
If I read Mark's inspired, but still second/third-hand account of Peter's experience, and Peter were to appear to convey the account DIRECTLY as he experiemced ... well, I'll trust Mark, but I'll trust Peter, too.
I first watched Mr Aniol on Doreen Virtues channel on avoiding “christian” movies and tv shows that they violate the second Commandment. Really interesting speaker. I found the book by pastor Jim Osman God Doesn’t Whisper to be very helpful regarding the sufficiency of scripture and the hearing the voice of god nonsense.
Yes, Jim Osmans book is wonderful...... all that binding and loosing etc we used to do in AOG. And we hv never felt so free and blessed without all the nonsense teaching.
I’m three sermons into this conference and enjoying much of the truth that’s being plainly stated. But I’ve found the arguments to have been lacklustre at best and perhaps overt straw men at worse. They sound like they’re preaching to the choir, they know they’re preaching to the choir, and so they give a one line response by quoting someone else, like this Scott does here, with the “if it’s right there’s no need, and if it’s wrong it’s no good” (not exact quote) line and then moves on without actually engaging with the nuanced differences in the views. I’m keen to keep listening the the sermons and am sure I’ll enjoy them, but really hope to find some more thoughtful dialogue as to how to have these conversations with people who differ in thought and some practical applications. E.g. they’ve all mentioned “pop psychology” so far, but no one is talking about a Christian response to it, just stating “trust the word.” I agree that we ought to trust the word, but the preachers job is to “teach” the word, “teach how to use it, how to implement that trust, not just restate “trust it” over and over again. It’s like a math teacher walking into class and saying, of course you can’t do maths with a science book! You have to use the maths book, now, do maths! - without actually showing them how to use the maths book and see how it apply to their situation. They stop (at a good point, but I don’t think enough) at saying, “it surely does apply.”
Yes, you have some good points there. He's gone a little off the right side of the road, trying to avoid the left. I agree he has some great points, but he needs a little moderation. I suspect he is reacting to some problem he sees in the church at large, at the expense of remaining balanced.
Well researched and presented! Still, the pattern of New Testament life, fulfilling the promise of Christ in John 14, seems to lean in the other direction from these conclusions. "The Bible never promises that God will speak to us through impressions," appears to be contradicted by the above reference. Ultimately, God guides the Believer, directly, by the Holy Spirit, AND the Scriptures are the reliable test of those perceived impressions. Apply Truth. Listen for the Spirit. And move forward in life, cautiously verifying ANY impressions by the true standard of Scripture.
Amen and Amen!
G3 was the event of a lifetime for my husband and I. Looking forward to Atlanta 2023🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I plan to attend in 2023 as well. it will be my very first time because I have never heard of this conference until this month. I thank God I have.
Thank you for your faithful efforts on sola scriptura.
We are saved by the grace of God , faith in Jesus and the Word of God our Saviour.
Thank you for your ministry....Great site!!!
Excellent sermon, Scott. Thank you for this, brother. And thank you for making note of the slippery slope positions held by Grudem, Storms, and Blackaby.
Oh I'm so glad to be able to hear the whole thing! Was watching livestream the day he spoke. Thank you, for fixing the sound problem.
Great sermon brother. Somebody needs to hear this!
Wonderful Word. Thank you for teaching us the truth of God's Word.
I kept having to pause the video because Scott was saying so many profound things.
Me too!! Wonderful teaching & needed to follow along with The Word!!!!
excellent
Amen!!
Peter’s point was the Word of God was “more fully confirmed” to them (apostles) by seeing Jesus’s glory in the Transfiguration (2 Pet. 1:17-18). His main focus is not the Scriptures themselves but the confirmation of the truth of them in seeing the transfigured Christ. Verse 16 also gives us the thrust of the context in Peter saying that “we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”
Peace be with you and God bless.
Charlie K The Greek word order says "And we have more sure the prophetic Word." This supports the interpretation that Peter is ranking Scripture over experience.
The prophetic Word (Scripture) is more complete, more permanent, and more authoritative than the experience of anyone.
If I read Mark's inspired, but still second/third-hand account of Peter's experience, and Peter were to appear to convey the account DIRECTLY as he experiemced ... well, I'll trust Mark, but I'll trust Peter, too.
I first watched Mr Aniol on Doreen Virtues channel on avoiding “christian” movies and tv shows that they violate the second Commandment. Really interesting speaker.
I found the book by pastor Jim Osman God Doesn’t Whisper to be very helpful regarding the sufficiency of scripture and the hearing the voice of god nonsense.
Yes, Jim Osmans book is wonderful...... all that binding and loosing etc we used to do in AOG. And we hv never felt so free and blessed without all the nonsense teaching.
I like how Scripture uses that "still, small voice" in the Old Testament. The whisper is God's pattern in dealing with His servants
Around minute 35:30, is the nudges not the internal work of the Holy Spirit renewing minds, wills, consciences?
Isn’t it possible for special revelation/prophecy to occur where the Bible is not readily available?
I’m three sermons into this conference and enjoying much of the truth that’s being plainly stated. But I’ve found the arguments to have been lacklustre at best and perhaps overt straw men at worse. They sound like they’re preaching to the choir, they know they’re preaching to the choir, and so they give a one line response by quoting someone else, like this Scott does here, with the “if it’s right there’s no need, and if it’s wrong it’s no good” (not exact quote) line and then moves on without actually engaging with the nuanced differences in the views.
I’m keen to keep listening the the sermons and am sure I’ll enjoy them, but really hope to find some more thoughtful dialogue as to how to have these conversations with people who differ in thought and some practical applications. E.g. they’ve all mentioned “pop psychology” so far, but no one is talking about a Christian response to it, just stating “trust the word.” I agree that we ought to trust the word, but the preachers job is to “teach” the word, “teach how to use it, how to implement that trust, not just restate “trust it” over and over again. It’s like a math teacher walking into class and saying, of course you can’t do maths with a science book! You have to use the maths book, now, do maths! - without actually showing them how to use the maths book and see how it apply to their situation. They stop (at a good point, but I don’t think enough) at saying, “it surely does apply.”
Yes, you have some good points there. He's gone a little off the right side of the road, trying to avoid the left.
I agree he has some great points, but he needs a little moderation. I suspect he is reacting to some problem he sees in the church at large, at the expense of remaining balanced.
Well researched and presented! Still, the pattern of New Testament life, fulfilling the promise of Christ in John 14, seems to lean in the other direction from these conclusions. "The Bible never promises that God will speak to us through impressions," appears to be contradicted by the above reference.
Ultimately, God guides the Believer, directly, by the Holy Spirit, AND the Scriptures are the reliable test of those perceived impressions. Apply Truth. Listen for the Spirit. And move forward in life, cautiously verifying ANY impressions by the true standard of Scripture.
Around minute 7:30, aren’t barnabas (Acts 14v14) and James the Lord’s brother (Galatians 1v19) also apostles?
You went into an extreme that neither the puritans nor the reformers went.
Scott, you are not a Christian you are a false teacher. Jesus said Follow Me. Not you.