The last 10 years, I have been fragile. Eight years ago, they only gave me two months to live at the most from the poisoning of arsenic and mercury. In 2002, my students were just all wanting me to copy everything I ever did because I got cancer. And I had pretty advanced stage cancer. That's 17 years ago. And eight years ago in the poisoning and I'm still here. But there's one thing that I realized that I wanted to do some things before I died and leave something behind that I didn't have and that I always felt like I was lacking and that went in the seminary and I went to seminary 12 years. That's a long time, you know, if you had to be really slow to go to seminary 12 years. But I loved it. And it was very hard to quit and walk off and not go back. Of course, I was teaching and and doing everything all at the same time. One of the classes that I really enjoyed with system was hermeneutics, biblical hermeneutics. And I had a really a good teacher, john mcclellan. And I have studied this class a lot since then. I wrote down a lot of things. I used to write poetry. I don't have very much of it left. It all went to the wayside when I moved one time. And I used to write little sayings down every now and then something would come to me and I'd just write it down. And I had a lot of these little inspirations when I was studying systematic theology. And one of the things I said, and I told this to Marilyn, I read this to her, I am not a polished porcelain cup, china cup, but I am but a tarnished, dented tin cup looking to give a drink of cool water to some thirsty stranger who does not care from what he is about to drink. And that's about the way it is. You know, a shepherd knows his sheep by their defects. A shepherd know his sheep by their defects. I am sure God knows us by our defects. But he loves us just the same. Now, I hope that people will enjoy this series of classes. I know, Brother Roger, that you really love the deep study of God's word. And these will be out on the website. This is class number one of biblical hermeneutics. Hermeneutics. Plato was the first person to use this word, hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is a science of interpretation and termination of the subject. The word is derived from the Greek god Hermes, who was a messenger and herald of the gods and the interpreter of Jupiter. Biblically, hermeneutics is a science of interpreting the Bible. A science of interpreting the Bible. My aim is to make known the different principles of the Bible and study in a way that we must to come to a logical, biblical, scriptural, according to syntax and hermeneutics. So many people pick up the Bible and it's like a Ouija board. zip That's what I need today right there. It is God gave it to me. Have you ever heard of that? That's using the Bible like a Ouija board Verse number 15 and the second chapter of 2nd Timothy it says study to show thyself approved on the God and a workman that needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of God. In the New American Standard, it says, be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth, cutting straight the word of truth. How do you do that? How do you cut straight the word of truth? How does God reveal himself and how has God revealed himself to man? That's what we call systematic theology, but also it's biblical hermeneutics. These classes are very close together. I'm just about finished with systematic theology and I just fell on this the other day. I was wanting to do something that would make a difference in people's lives. I have a lot of students all over the world And they study these classes. We feature some on Sermon Audio, and they'll see us, and then they start following. A lot of times, I don't even know they're out there. And all of a sudden, then somebody will send an email to me, or they will make a sermon comment. Sometimes it's not a good comment. Sometimes they call me that I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know anything about hermeneutics and things like that. But then there are those that are very touched by the Bible classes. They mean a lot to them. People, Canada, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Texas. I had students that studied the work 40 hours a week. They listened to me 40 hours a week. People in the Netherlands. People that can download off of an iPod and listen as they're working, go about their janitorial work or whatever they're doing, maybe engineering as some of them are. They want to be able to understand the Bible because the Bible is quite a book. It's a mystery to many people because it's not their mail. If you don't know the Lord, the Bible isn't your mail. It's not to you. It is to try to bring you to him. You must know him before you can open the letter. And so many preachers, so many pastors and speakers are not speaking from a hermeneutic standpoint. They will take a scripture in the Bible and liable to do anything with it. They use it as a bouncing board. They will say they're going to preach from John 3 16 and maybe they never read it. Our second Timothy the second chapter and they never go there. But they there's something there that gave them a bouncing board a diving board into what they want to talk about whether it was on that subject or not. There is a dual prophecies in the Bible that it's stands for two different things There are commands You know, there's an old saying The Bible says that Judas hung himself Go thou and do thou likewise, you know, I mean, I've seen that's the way people ring the what the Bible They've really wrangled the Bible like that To many people, the Bible is a holy book. It's like a good luck charm. They carry one, or they have one in the house. But if they opened up the Bible in any place in the Bible, they wouldn't know what in the world they're reading. But they think it's right there to them right now. This is for me right now. Well, maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. The English word Bible comes from the Greek words biblos, or biblion. which means a scroll scroll. We have to realize that when Jesus was here on this earth that he wasn't reading from a book like this codex. He was reading from a scroll where they unscrolled it. The book of Revelation talked about a scroll with seven seals. It was a scroll that you pulled out so far and it was written on the front and the back and then it had a seal. You couldn't go any further. There are 66 books in this biblical library. Some of them are long and some of them are short. The Bible is just as important in the little book of Jude or Philemon as it is in Genesis with 50 chapters. Because what Jude and what Paul said to Philemon are very important. There's some very important truths there. The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings. All of the Bible, there's a preeminence of one thing, in all reality, and that's Jesus Christ. Jesus is a subject of every book. And they say, well, the name of God is not written in this book, or so and so and so and so. But look what it means. What's the book about? There are apparent so-called discrepancies in the Bible, where it says one thing and then says something else. But we have to realize who's speaking, who's he speaking to, and what's the subject. Who, what, where, when, and why. When you look at that, then you realize there are no discrepancies in the Bible. It's just the way it is. The word of God is true. Many mistakes. People think there are in the Bible were literally problems because men translated incorrectly Acts 238 says baptized for the remission of sins does it not? And the King James Version really Really has a lot of sway on what? Every other translation does because they don't want to go too far away from that Not because it was true because people wouldn't accept it. How many Bibles do you think you'd sell to people that believed in sprinkling if they put down immersion for baptism? John the Dipper, John the Immerser. You'd lose a whole audience there because they're not gonna buy that book. The people that believed in the universal church and that the church Catholic And then, of course, later, the Anglican Church. They were two big churches back then, two universal churches. And both of them used the word church. They translated the word ecclesia to the word church because that's what they believed. The word ecclesia does not mean church, does it? What does it mean? It means assembly. One's called out. But they have a predetermined idea of what they are wanting to hear or wanting to do. There is one book, and the Bible talks about one preeminent person, and that's Jesus Christ. The word of God. The Hebrews, the writer to the book of Hebrews says, The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword now two-edged sword It means that a sword that has a sharp blade on both sides It's double-edged Double-edged knife a double-edged sword you cut that way or you cut that way You see those type of knives are fighting knives many times but the Word of God is sharper than any any double edged knife or razor. A long time ago, they had straight razors and it really bothers me. See, I straight, I was very poor and when I started shaving very early because they had given me some treatments that caused me, uh, to mature very quickly. By the time I was in the sixth grade, I was six foot tall and I was a man. And I started shaving very early, probably in the fourth grade. And I shaved with a pocket knife that was absolutely sharp as any straight razor. I got a straight razor, my grandfather straight razor, and I shaved with it. And I see people in the movies, in these cowboy movies, and they're going like this, shaving up with a straight razor. Hogwash. You don't do that. You don't do that. You straight drown with a straight razor. You shave up and you got problems. More than hair is going to go. I know people can take a safety razor and do that, what they call a safety razor. And they were only single-edge safety razors to begin with. And that was a razor. It had a single edge, like you have a single-edge razor now. You've got these you put in cutting machines and stuff, you know, these cutters, box cutters and stuff. There's a single-edge razor in there, razor blade. They came out with them. Then they came out with double-edged razors. You could shave with one side one time and shave with the next side. They usually got dull pretty quick. The steel was not as good back then. They didn't have coating on them like they do now. A double-edged razor is what it's talking about. That knife. The word of God is quick, sharp, and powerful. sharper than any two-edged sword Piercing and even dividing asunder of the soul and spirit now the soul and the spirit of man are separate But they're very closely related First of all, you got a body You know what a body is It's physical and I can tell brother Roger sitting there because I know what his body looks like. I I know what your form looks like. If you walk across the yard, I could tell you and pick you out. How many times, Marilyn, would I say, that's walking like so-and-so? I see that off. I went to the doctor today, the eye doctor. And of course, I lost my eyesight eight years ago, almost nine. And I had a lot of people come up and read for me. Brother Roger, you remember that? Because I could not read. I didn't say I can't read. You come up here. I just said, come here and read for me. Finally, I quit doing that. because I could see again. It's a very much miracle of God in all reality that I could ever gain my sight back because I was night blind and my pupils did not open up at all. I could see very well up close. I never preached with glasses on before that. Never did. After I was poisoned, then I had to preach with glasses on because I couldn't see. The only thing I could see is my own writing in Hebrew and in Greek. Large letters, but when we went to the Bible, come here and help me. Come over and read this for me. Couldn't see it. Now I still, now I need two and a half magnification power to see up close. But I see like an eagle out there. The doctor, she had never examined my eyes before. I mean, she had looked at my eyes, she'd done it, did a little of this and that, but she never did an eye test on me until today. And I shocked her. What? How I see so far away is like you're looking at a magnifying glass. She started telling me, read this and I just read all the way down and I read all the little fine print that nobody else can read. Far away. She looked at me so funny. She said, you can see that? I said, yes, I can see that. She said, I think you're the first person I ever saw that had 2015 vision. She said, this is, and then she forgot what she was supposed to do next. I said, God has got, he's a discerner. He can separate the soul from the spirit of man. We have a body, we have a soul and a spirit. Now, when a person dies, the soul and the spirit does not die. The soul is the consciousness of man, and the spirit is the life of man. When the spirit leaves a person, those eyes go dead. There are no life in them anymore. The body is there, the eyes are there, but they're dead. Nobody's home anymore. The tent has been separated, so to speak. There's a dissolution of your body. A dissolution of it. Your triune spirit, or triuneness of man, body, soul, and spirit is no longer in one piece. And it won't be until the resurrection. So your spirit and soul go back to God. Or your spirit and soul go to Hades. The soul and the spirit, it can divide that, and the joints and the marrow, and it is a discerner, it is able, it is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart. In 2 Corinthians 2.17 and Mark 7.13 and Romans 10.17 and 1 Thessalonians 2.13, of all the names given to the Bible, This is the title, perhaps the most significant and impressive. It signifies divine authority. The Bible is of divine authority, isn't it? How did God reveal himself to man? First of all, he revealed himself by the creation. His creation, we ought to see the creator through the creation. And then inside of the man's heart, inside of your soul, There is an essence there that draws you to God. There's a drawing there to every man. And then what else? The word of God. Well, God had prophets speak his word. And then of those prophets that God wanted that word written down, we have that. We have the written word. By specific revelation, we have universal revelation through the creation. We have universal revelation through the soul of man, every soul of every man. You've got to tell yourself there's no God. He's there. But you have to train yourself there's no God. The Bible says the fool said in his heart, no God, no God, no God, no God, no God, in the imperfect tense. You have to tell yourself there's no God. Divine authority is used frequently in the Old Testament in it. How many times that thus says Jehovah? Thus says El Shaddai Thus says Jehovah shaman ah And about 40 times in the New Testament The writers of them to testament says this is the Word of God This is the Word of God The scriptures. The scriptures, the term is grafae. Grafo, grafae, grafae, grafomen, grafete, grafufi, grafeme. That's how you decline it in first present indicative active. Writings. You can write. I write, you write, they write. We write, ye write, they write. And then to write. the writings You know the Jews pretty much lost survival they did not In the Hebrew they pretty much walked off and left the Hebrew Bible now if they will never say that will they Never will they say that? when Jesus walked the face of this earth and They were quoting, he quoted the Septuagint, and occasionally he would quote the Hebrew Bible, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, or Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, which he did. Most of the time, he quoted the Septuagint. The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew. And by the way, it could be better. I could do a better job. You think I can do a better job, Brother Roger? Yeah. They translated that according to their beliefs and their traditions. That's what we're talking about now, biblical hermeneutics. How do we do it right? How do we look at the Bible rightly? Well, they began to put together a Hebrew Bible, didn't they? Down there by Tiberius. That started about, was around 300, 400 A.D. They began to try to put together the Hebrew Bible again. It would have been a real good idea if they'd gone down to Dead Sea Scrolls and just get it from there. But they didn't remember that, did they? Those people down there at the Dead Sea, history tells us that some of those were the displaced priests, the real priests of Israel. And they copied the Word of God. They copied the Book of Enoch. They talked about eschatology, they talked about the return of the Messiah, the coming of the Messiah, and the return of the Messiah. The book of Enoch is a book of eschatology, isn't it? Talked about last things all the time. The scriptures, the writings. Well, you know, we have a lot of people that say the Bible was not even written until after 300 A.D. It wasn't even canonized until 25 A.D. with a council in Isiah. Is that true? But the Bible, is that when the Bible began? No. The oldest piece of the New Testament that we have, as far as I know, is the Gospel of Mark. And that Gospel of Mark, the piece of that Gospel of Mark that we have, came from the Dead Sea, the Dead Sea Scroll area. And that one goes back before AD 70. That's a little before. We have a Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation that go back in probably the around 90 to 120 or 30 AD copies of it. We don't have any of the original autograph. But we have what we might call families of the Bible. We have family of this text here and family of that text and we'll see them. The Bible was all copied by hand, wasn't it? Copied by hand. And when you copy something by hand, Brother Roger, you copied quite a bit of the Hebrew Bible, haven't you? I don't know how many books you've done, but you've done quite a bit of copying. A lot of mistakes, aren't there? Yeah, there's a lot of mistakes. When you copy it by hand, It's just you and the book, isn't it? Now, I could go behind you, and I could pick up a mistake and stuff. You can go there and look at it, and you might make the same mistake 10 times looking over it. When I'm translating from the Hebrew Bible or the Greek, I look, and I look at another copy of it. As I'm going through every word, every sentence, I look at that and say, oh, something's missing here. I missed this one, or whatever. You can go back and count, because you've got a copy, another copy. Now, there's a lot of different copies of the Bible. And I want to say this also, that the Catholic Church tried to suppress the copying of the scriptures. They forbid anyone to read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew. That was forbidden after about 400, 500 AD. If you had a copy of it, they'd burn it. And if somebody found a copy of it, they would erase it if paper was very valuable, skins were valuable as they wrote the Bible on. They would erase it and write something else over it. This is palmasets, something written underneath. Some of the oldest Bibles that we have, scriptures that we have, are what we call underwritings that somebody copied over the top of it, something they wanted to say, maybe a bill of sale or a deed or whatever. They're scriptures. Well then, 570 A.D., we have Muhammad coming on the scene, according to Islam sources. By 623 A.D., he died, but one of the whole, what we call, ambition of the Islamic world was to completely destroy the Bible. It wasn't any good. The Quran was the only important text in the world and pretty much they burned every scripture they could burn and the Catholic Church burned every scripture they could burn. And sure, we could have had the original autographs. I could have gone in there and brought Moreland's history of the churches of the valleys of Piedmont. It is said that the churches of the valleys of the Piedmont, now those people went from Asia Minor, they were some of the seven churches of Asia. They were pushed out by the Islamic Empire and by the Catholic Church, and they went up there and they hid in the Alps, churches of the valleys of the Piedmont, and they just tried to live a normal life as they could, and they preached and they wrote and they lived the word of God. They applied it to their lives, Brother Roger. The Catholic Church came in there, they found out about these people, they were hid back in there. They were like Mennonites or Amish people. They just were separate from the rest. They went in there, and they burned all the scriptures. And this was right about 1600. They burned every Bible they had, and it is said that they had some of the original autographs. And they killed them all. They killed them all. The scriptures. The Bible is called Scriptures in Mark 12, 10 and Mark 15, 28 and Luke 4, 21 and John 2, 22 and John 7, 28 and 10, 35 and Romans 4 and 3 and Galatians 4 and 30 and 2 Peter 1, 20 and 21. It is called the Scriptures. Now let's go to 2 Peter quickly. We could go to every one of these. 2nd Peter. Peter is writing here, and you know, the Catholics say that's their first pope, but he wasn't. Peter would extremely object to that, wouldn't he? For we do not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to him by the majestic glory, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And we ourselves heard this utterance. Is that scripture? It sure is. made from heaven. And we were with him on the holy mountain. What was holy about that mountain? Jesus made it holy because of his presence. And so we have the prophetic word made more sure to which you do well to pay attention as a lamp shining in a dark place. Remember the Psalms? The Bible is a lamp unto my feet. It's like a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, a private interpretation. You don't take the Bible and try to make it say what you want to say. You let that Bible say what it says. And if that's what you want to say, OK, but don't try to make the Bible say something that it does not say. And so many preachers do that. They use it as a bouncing board. For no prophecy was ever made by an act of human, by human will. But men were moved by the Holy Spirit and spoke from God. Now, My stepdad, Dale Remling, taught me a lot of things in life. I don't know. He was an outlaw. I mean, really, he was. You go look him up, googling Dale Otto Remling, and first of all, you'll see a smiling face. And he escaped from Michigan prison with a helicopter. And then it tells you all the things that he did in his life, all of those bad things. But he did a lot of good things. He was a confidence man. go into town and just do so much for everybody that they just believe in him. And he could, I tell you, if he just did one thing and just did it and stayed at it, he would have been the best at whatever it was. He could do anything. But he taught me how to build, how to dig ditches, how to build horse corrals and how to build a house. how to do plumbing. I just plumbed and plumbed and plumbed, haven't I, mate? Every time I come here, I plumb, whether I want to or not. I'm glad that I know how. And he taught me how to train horses. Now, this is a fact. You see these wild movies about mustangers, and you see the movie that Marilyn Monroe did with Clark Gable, The Misfit, and you see them out there catching these wild horses. Well, I did it. We caught those wild horses, and we trained those wild horses. And my dad was good at it. Now, I'd gentle them down and make them like me. And he could make them talk. They could do anything. You would take these horse tricks. He'd have them doing tricks. I got a wild little pinto one time that was very abused. He was just horribly abused. I gave $25 for him, a saddle and a bridle. Nobody could walk in the pen with him. He was mean because he had been mistreated. They got out there, these big people, and they'd get on him with spurs and, you know, he wasn't big enough to hurt anybody hardly. He'd kick your teeth out, bite you. They'd get on him, blind him, and then let him buck, and they'd laugh. That little horse was very abused. I bought him for $25 for him, the saddle and bridle. I sold him for $600. That horse had talked to you. When I went in that pen the first time with that horse, I had to go in there with a whip. That horse tried to eat me alive because he thought I was going to beat him up. He tried to fire at me and everything. I roped him. I put a halter on him and I began to love him and to get his confidence. I had a stump I cut a tree off of out there and I'd get up there and he'd walk around in circles one way and walk around in circles the other way. He'd rear up on his hind feet. He'd count. He'd just do all kinds of things. We had those Mustangs doing that. A very, very famous man by the name of Eric Logan Cord that built the Duesenberg and the Cord and the Auburn cars, he saw some of the work that we had done. He talked to my dad and he says, Those are wild horses that you're training like that. How well could you do with a good blooded horse? He said a lot faster. And he trained his horses and I mean to tell you that man would give him a shirt off of his back. He could got anything he wanted to from that man because he was making his horses world famous. We did that. The Lipizzans. There aren't very many people in the world that train the Lipizzans. But my dad did. He worked at the Lipizzan College in Michigan, training those Lipizzans. Now a horse, when you train him in hydrosage, we train Mustangs in hydrosage. Could you imagine that? When you train him in hydrosage, what you do is you move with the horse. The people don't see you making the horse do that. It's like two people, or two people, or two lives become one. And you make that horse, you'll see those lipozons, they will lead this way, and the next lead is this way. They'll be double leading, cross leading, so to speak, but their whole body, every step, and they dance. And my dad could make them dance, I made them dance. But to do that, you have to get inside the horse's head to do that. You have to teach that horse to take the cue. When you move a certain way, that's when the horse says, I'm supposed to move this way. You don't have to spur them. You don't have to lead them with a bridle. I traded a quarter horse one time for a brand new Oldsmobile. I put a horse in the paper, and I said, he's broke. You can shoot off this horse. You can swim and cross the river. You can do whatever you want to even rope off him. He show horse whatever you want. There he is kind of like Johnny Tibbio was out here. And that's one that Monty Roberts stole from Harry Rose. I had to do had something to do with the training of Johnny Tibbio on Lucky Book. You get on those horse of Johnny Tibbio was just a machine that would be an extension of you. Harry Rose could win anything with him. When Monty Roberts got him, that's the one they made the movie Horse Whisperer out about. It was Monty Roberts. Harry Rose trained that horse. It wasn't Monty Roberts. You become one with them. And that horse knows what you want. I went out here down below the bluffs out there where that big church is out there. And there was a horse stable out there, and it was a big deal. I trained horses out there. I taught people how to ride horses, and I taught the people. I trained the horses, and I trained the people to ride the horses. And it was something. They were just amazed. I got a Texas boy. I thought he was a cowboy. He came out there that had this brand new Oldsmobile. He had inherited this from his mother-in-law. She died. And he wanted a horse for his daughter. And his name was Handy. The horse was this bay quarter horse that I had. And I took him out there and I said, you know how to ride a horse? He said, I've been riding a horse since I was a little kid. Do you know how to ride a broke horse? Do you know dressage? Well, I can ride a horse. I said, OK. I got out there, and I spun the horse one way. I spun him the other way. I'd had serpentine lead changes and roll back. I'd lope him in a circle and roll him back and go the other way. I'd go against the fence and just roll him against the fence like that, except I wasn't reining him. I'm just sitting in the middle of the saddle. That horse is getting the cues from me, but it doesn't look like I'm doing anything. When you go out in a herd of cattle, when you're cutting cattle, they don't want you to tell the horse anything. These cowboys know how to tell that horse something without you knowing he's telling that horse something. I got off that horse. I said, it's your turn. Now, I said, sit in the middle of that saddle. I said, if you lean one way, the other horse is going to turn that way. I said, if you lean back, he's going to sit down on you and he's going to slide. He looked at me kind of funny, and I said, now, Be careful with him. I said, he's got a spade bit in his mouth, but you don't have to use it. He went out there, and he loped that horse out, and he was going back and forth on the horse, doing lead changes, and then rolled back on him, and he fell off on the ground. He got up, and he said, man, that horse has power steering. I'll trade you. Teach me how to ride him. Now, to the subject. Look what it says in Peter there. It says in Peter, that men of old, no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved, trained in resage, you know, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke from God. Moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God Scripture The Bible is called Scripture writings because it is writings, but it is the first Bible that man ever had from God Was when God wrote it with his own hand wasn't it there on Mount Sinai? the commandments God chiseled out the first slate Tablets and he wrote on it with a finger of God it says and then something happened to it. What happened to that? Moses went down off that mountain. He got mad He's the first man to break the law He broke it Then he went back up on there He's up there for 40 days and 40 nights by the way without eating and then he goes back up there for another 40 days and 40 nights, which is a miracle now a hundred and You know, I mean, 40 and 40 makes 80. Plus a little time in between. Man didn't eat. Brother Roger, you and I have trouble not eating for eight hours, because we get low blood sugar. I could go without eating for a long time, can't I, Marilyn? Yeah. But if I have low blood sugar, I better eat something. A while ago, I had a little taste of that. I had to do something about it. The scriptures. They're the writings. Moses went back up on that mountain and he cut out the tablets and God wrote again on those tablets. And those tablets are in the Ark of the Covenant, wherever that is. The designation of the scriptures is found once in the Old Testament in Daniel 10.21. It was used more frequently in the early churches than it is at the present time. People just don't read their Bibles, do they? They want to go to church. It's what we call an entertainment center. And they want to be entertained with music, and they want to be entertained like they're at some rock concert. And then they want to be told something that'll make them feel better. Is that scripture? Do they use scripture as a bouncing board, like a trampoline, and then they go off on their little stories? Some 52 times the title scriptures is found in the New Testament. It comes from the Latin word, writing. Grafe, in Greek, and scriptures, writing. We're on page seven, by the way, in Principles of Biblical Hermeneutics by Hartel. This is one of the textbooks. I have five books on this, and I'm combining all of that into here, because I'm taking what's all in those and putting it down here, and I wrote in between the columns, see? It's all over, everywhere. In here, I even have my test that I took going in Maryland. The Bible is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. And Jesus said they were what? The Psalms and the Prophets. Psalms and the Prophets. And the Bible says the what? The Law and the Prophets were unto John, and that is a preaching of the Word of God. The Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Covenant And the New Covenant. Covenant is a cutting. In the Old Testament, nothing was ratified without blood, was it? There had to be blood. And the New Testament was not ratified except by blood. But in the Old Testament, it was the blood of bulls and goats. And doves and whatever. In the New Testament, it's divine blood. The New Testament is ratified and put in place by divine blood, the blood that Jesus Christ shed on the cross of Calvary. Do you have any questions? Any questions? Marilyn, you got a question? Well, I didn't catch when you were talking about the body and the soul and the spirit. What did you define soul? The soul is Brother Roger. where you live. The soul is your mind, your personality, okay? And the spirit is your life, and your body is just a tent. But it's very important right now, isn't it? Trying to keep it alive, aren't we, Roger? The soul does not die. Never. Once the soul has been created, there is no death to the soul. It will exist forever in one or two places, either with God in heaven or in Hades and final hell. Do you suppose the mind still has memories of the past? We know that, don't we? We have in the New Testament, in the 16th chapter of Luke, we have a very, we have a historical act, a historical writing of what happened when A man by the name Lazarus died, and one a man by the name of Diaves died. And we have that. Did Diaves remember? Yeah. Was he? Did he feel? Did he see? Did he hear? Did he taste? Did he smell? He had all of that. Did he feel? All of our senses Diaves had in Hades. But it was not his body that was there. It was his soul and spirit that was there. And his soul and spirit were going to stay there until The Lord resurrected his corrupted body and put his soul and spirit back in it for judgment. All right, Rochard, did this help you in any way? Marilyn, do you like this? I'm going to do this series of classes. It's a good lesson, Jim. It's kind of like systematic theology, but what we've got is biblical hermeneutics. How do you interpret that? the interpretation of the Bible. All right, let's have a word of prayer and I'm going to send you out to go out and do something eternal. Our father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for this study that we started tonight, that you'll touch people's lives with it, that you will enrich them and enable them to live the kind of lives that you wish for them to live and do the things that you wish for them to do in their lives. I pray, Father, that you touch people that are lost with this, that they'll want to come to know you and to see the secrets of your word. In Jesus' name, I pray for all of my students out there all over the world, that you touch their lives with your word, that you heal their lives, that you heal their spirits and souls. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.