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    The Truth Shall Set You Free: How to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth
    The Truth Shall Set You Free: How to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth
    The Truth Shall Set You Free: How to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth
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    The Truth Shall Set You Free: How to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth

    By Mary Taylor

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    This inspiring book describes how to effectively interpret the Bible.
    It’s not meant to be controversial; however, it will be contrary to many religious teachings you have ever heard. Yet it is my responsibility to teach.
    It is not my intention to do a comprehensive study of the Bible. Religious ideas about Scriptures have held the body of Christ in bondage because the enemy has perverted their minds to the great truths in the word of God. The enemy steals what you do not understand. God designed His word to give you everything for life and godliness. His word works and knows no time or distance. This book will shed light on the real meaning of many misunderstood scriptures in the Bible by rightly dividing the word of God.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781483576954
    The Truth Shall Set You Free: How to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth
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    Mary Taylor

    Mary Taylor is a classically trained chef who studied at L'Ecole Des Trois Gourmandes and Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. She is the author of three cookbooks, including New Vegetarian Classics, and has practiced yoga and meditation for 25 years.

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      The Truth Shall Set You Free - Mary Taylor

      YOU

      It is not my intention to do a comprehensive study of the Bible. Religious ideas about Scriptures have held the body of Christ in bondage because the enemy has perverted their minds to the great truths in the word of God. The enemy steals what you do not understand. God designed His word to give you everything for life and godliness. His word works, and knows no time or distance. This book will shed light on the real meaning of many misunderstood Scriptures in the Bible by rightly dividing the word of God.

      This book is not meant to be controversial; however, it will be contrary to many religious teachings you have ever heard. Yet it is my responsibility to teach you. (See Eph. 4:11-12). You can do what you want with it. If you’re not quite ready for it, put it up; but don’t forget about it, because you may need it someday.

      The Lord spoke to me about studying His word and learning about His grace and mercy. I had attended Bible college about ten years prior to His suggestion. I learned Hermeneutics which is a study of how to interpret the Scriptures. But I did not learn about His grace and mercy, so there were some things I needed to learn and unlearn. So much of my religious experiences and thinking were contradictory to the word of God.

      Note this true and relevant statement: If you have been on the same road for twenty years and haven’t arrived at your destination, you should know you are on the wrong road.

      I traveled the road of religion for about twenty years and seldom saw results. I had a passion for God, but not a relationship with Him, nor knowledge of the Bible. I was on the wrong road. When I found the truth (the word of God), the knowledge of that truth set me free. My hope is that the knowledge of the truth will set you free!

      I believe Satan’s ultimate deception to Christians today is to distort our minds with religious thinking that causes the very opposite meaning of the word of God. Deception magnifies and covers the true meaning with intellectual reasoning. Rightly dividing the word of God will destroy Satan’s kingdom of darkness and release the ability of God in the earth. Second Timothy 2:1 tells us what we must do: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

      There’s confusion concerning the word of God in the church today because many Christians read their Bibles without rightly dividing the old and new covenants. They don’t realize that some of the words that Jesus spoke in the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are part of the old covenant. The new covenant begins only after the cross, when the Holy Spirit was given on the day of Pentecost.

      I know the Bible is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament, which begins with the four gospels. But it is important to remember that the cross made a difference. So when you read the words of Jesus in the gospels, it is necessary for you to rightly divide the word by asking yourself, who are Jesus and others in the Bible talking to?

      Let’s begin with the finished work of Jesus. By one perfect sacrifice, Jesus has cleansed you of all your past, present, and future sins, and now you are sealed with the promise of eternal life. This is good news that will establish your heart with grace and confidence. Most Christians have been taught that only the sins you committed before you are saved have been forgiven and that any future sins must be repented of in order to obtain forgiveness. My question to you is, how many of your sins were future when Jesus died on the cross? I know all of mine were future.

      To gain a deeper understanding of God’s powerful word, you have to do more than hear it. Hearing the word is not all that is required.

      Just because you heard a great message or read an encouraging word does not make that word become yours automatically, even though you may understand what you heard and agree with it enthusiastically.

      Spiritual truth does not become your possession at once. If you don’t take time to appropriate the word of God, the message you hear and the words you read will soon fade out of your mind and be forgotten.

      This may be one of the causes of stagnation in your life: the failure to meditate on God’s word. This means more than pondering and contemplating it, although, this too is needed.

      Meditate in such a way as to have a conversation in secret with God about His word so that you may know it and do it.

      It is not the word you hear and read that will free you.

      When you hear new truth, it comes to you through your ears or through your eyes and it goes into your mind. It doesn’t reach your soul immediately. In order for the truth you heard to have the power to set you free, it has to go through your intellect to your soul -your mind, thoughts, will, and emotions. Jesus said you would know the truth and the truth would set you free (John 8:32). Yet you and I would probably agree that the amount of truth we know far outweighs the amount of freedom we experience.

      Wouldn’t you agree? Why is that? Why is the amount of truth we know always expanding, yet our degree of freedom is not keeping pace?

      It is not the word you hear that will free you; it is the words that you don’t forget that will free you. This is so important. Hear this and don’t miss it!

      It is not a matter of how much information you store in your mind that determines your success or degree of freedom. It is a matter of remembering to walk in the truth you know in your everyday living experiences.

      The one who will be blessed is not the one who heard, but the one who doesn’t forget what he heard, and through private, earnest meditation takes full possession of it.

      But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the law of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets, but an active doer who obeys, he shall be blessed in his doing—in his life of obedience. (James 1:25 The Amplified Bible)

      Take time to meditate on the word so that you can appropriate it.

      The verb appropriate means:

      1. To set apart for a specific use.

      2. To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself. To take to or for oneself, make one’s own, take over, assume ownership, or possess.

      Those who believe want to be possessors of God’s word. Your goal is to make it your own. When you become true possessors of His word, then you’ll be a possessor of the promises.

      Your goal is to always allow the word of God to connect with your total being and not just your mind, although your mind is the place where it connects first. Desire to receive the word of God in your mind, spirit, thoughts, and emotions.

      This is vital; your mind is where your thoughts, actions, and emotions are conceived. It is the animating within you. Although it cannot be seen, it is the cause of what is seen. This is the very real place where you want the word of God to find it’s residence to renew it.

      Immediately when you hear the word of God, if you receive them with gladness, they enter into your mind. But it is only when you set yourself in silence before God and give Him time that He begins to take the words you heard and breathes them

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