On Biblical Exegesis

In his small pamphlet on Biblical Exegesis, John Piper - Pastor of preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church says:

"Thus, we need three things to be careful interpreters of the Word of God. First, we must admit we need help and that we will die without it. Left to ourselves, and our own unaided human reason, we are hopeless. We need revelation from above. Our eternal life hangs on this! Secondly, we need faith in the sovereign goodness of the Author. This faith not only frees us to go where the Bible leads us, but it impels us to go where the Bible leads us. It is, as Wesley said, "the Book of God!" Thirdly, we need to learn how toread with the kind of care that corresponds to the preciousness of the Book."

As Jeremiah says in Lamentations 3:40.  We cannot rely on our own faculties to search and examine ourselves but must rely on God' reliable, unchanging, timeless principles of His Word! So "Left to ourselves, and our unaided human reason, we are hopeless." That Word of God will provide that standard by which we will search out and examine our ways with.

Pst Onesmus Kibera

Mt. Kenya Baptist Church

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