Distorting Scripture

Hello everyone,

How are you doing today? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” 2 Peter 3v15-16 (NIV)

One of the comments on verse 16 from the Dakes concordance goes “This should not be taken as a proof that the Bible is hard to understand, or that the common man cannot understand it, for the unlearned and unstable not only stumble at the so-called things which are hard to comprehend by some, they also wrest at the so-called simple scriptures to their own destruction. They just do not want to understand and this leads to their own destruction (v 16; Mt. 13v15-17; 1 Cor. 2:14). Even as believers when we do not understand certain scripture, we can pray that God gives us understanding of His Word. Remember the Holy Spirit is here to teach us all things, to bring to remembrance the Lord Jesus has said, and He also guides us into all the truth (John 14v26 & 16v13). Jeremiah 33v3 (AMP) saying “Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand.” May we all grow in grace and in the knowledge of God (2 Peter 3v18). May we never be those who distort the Word of God, and don’t even try to understand.

Supplementary Text

“For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.” Matthew 13v15-17 (KJV)

Prayer

Father, we bless You, we thank You for Your Word. Help us o God to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of God, please grant us the grace to study to be approved of You, workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing, correctly handling, the word of truth, in Jesus name, amen.