okay listen we're almost done the next
step is
application and and for me this gets
exciting
application we're going to be asking
this question next is how did it apply
what was the application to to the
original hearers or to the original
recipients of of the letter and i'm
gonna go for a difficult one right now
okay uh but bear with me because these
these uh
forensic
explorations that we're marching through
apply to all the books of the bible
so let's let's pick a hard one book of
judges
a book of judges well who's the author
we don't know
uh it's it's either anonymous or it's
spread out over the authorship of the
book of judges
is spread out
just under
a century of time we know that the book
of judges was written somewhere around
1050 bc to a thousand bc
uh book of judges is an account of
various
judges that god called to
preside over the nation of israel
at that time it's a very diverse book
it's it's actually extremely exciting
but it's a good one to ask this
what's the application
so the application to what was going on
in the book of judges
for the nation of israel
was that it is a
uh
a compass
the application is is that the book of
judges would be a great compass because
you can see
that as you're reading about a
particular era of time under a
particular judge
that
god is doing certain things with the
nation of israel or with the with the
people of god
and that particular judge look here's
one the wild man
samson samson was a judge we forget that
we think samson was you know this
knucklehead bozo uh he definitely had a
problem with women he was
a he loved women okay
samson
is a great example about a guy who knows
god but he's kind of a rebel he's always
getting in trouble he's very very
uh passionate about his conduct which
gets him into a lot of
issues but
god called samson from the womb it says
in the book of judges to be a judge of
israel it's god's call it's not yours
it's not mine it's god's call
and so you've got this man samson when
we ask the question
regarding the application
we would look as to what was going on
uh then out of the book
and this is why god did this with those
particular players those particular
characters in that particular time
uh gideon out of the book of judges
deborah we've all heard about deborah
where do we find her the book of judges
and she comes on the scene for example
she comes on the scene in the book of
judges because the application is this
god was looking for someone to stand in
the gap
and the nation had become so compromised
the times had become so
weak
and here's deborah this woman of god and
she's got a warrior spirit
and she is not only a judge but she is a
battle commander
and i i want listen uh we'll get into it
soon but
man that nation flourished under
the the leadership of deborah
and uh we need deborah's today i i
believe in any nation that's getting
messed up like america we need deborah's
today the application was that god
called this particular person
at a particular time to speak listen and
to do
application has a lot
to do with the works the doing of
righteousness
the execution of the right thing
and so uh application is all important
about what happened back then and of
course as i said this is a great great
rule that applies to all portions of
scripture and so uh
let's jump ahead now to new testament
application to them
then
the scandalous
rumor
that mary is engaged to joseph
there's a scandal going on up in
nazareth that region of the galilee this
young girl's pregnant
and joseph is freaking out because he
loves her
he's supposed to have her put to death
according to mosaic law but he's
conflicted and of course the christmas
story is given the announcement of the
angel to joseph don't don't divorce back
in those days
engagements had to be divorced if you're
going to break it off don't do this to
mary the advent of christ them having to
go on a pilgrimage they had to immigrate
down south
to bethlehem all of this
regarding the application all of this
for what to what
book of matthew over and over again says
and this
was fulfilled as it was written spoken
by the prophet saying behold a virgin
shall conceive and bear a son and shall
bring forth this child he shall be
where's that come from book of isaiah
being fulfilled in the book of matthew
and you would stop and ask how does this
apply
or how did it apply to them
and the mic drop
is
herod says what's going on
about this baby being born he turns to
the jewish leadership of jerusalem of
the nation and he says hey is there
anything mentioned in your guys bible
about the messiah being born
anything about that go search and see
they go look and see they find the
answer in micah chapter 5 verse 2 they
go back to him and they say yeah hey wow
the messiah the king of israel is going
to be no doubt they were thinking must
have just been born
in bethlehem because herod lights up he
goes bananas all right he's all
threatened and freaked out over this
thing
uh
the application to them then
was the fulfillment of bible prophecy
in fact jesus later on 33 years later
will hold them accountable
for
knowing or not knowing that they were to
know bible prophecy they didn't know it
this is a very important truth the
application to them then in their time
frame
is a great lesson for us why
look you're a very smart person if you
can learn from the mistakes of others
okay think of that
it's one thing to learn from your own
mistakes you better because they were
painful
if you're really shrewd and wise about
your own life you don't have to go
through grief if you look and learn from
the grief others have gone through
this is awesome application
i'm going back to the past
i'm getting into their culture finding
out when it was written by whom
you know to whom
what's going on in the dynamics and i
learn
that jesus held them accountable for
recognizing the day of his arrival
on palm sunday to the temple
they made a horrific mistake by
approaching the bible casually
i don't want to make that mistake
thus i learned from the
application to them then i hope that
makes some sense
i hope that that helps you
for what we're looking at in our closing
uh push on how to study the bible
personally
in our day-to-day life
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