1."The path to intellectual excellence is curiosity . . . and experimentation, but the path to moral excellence is obedience"

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Application
Introduction
1. "The path to intellectual excellence is
curiosity . . . and experimentation, but the path
to moral excellence is obedience"
2. Obedience is the epitome of loving God (Lk.
646 Jn. 1421 1 Jn. 52-3).
3. Axiom 8 Hermeneutics aims at the street, not
the study or the pulpit. Put another way, Bible
interpretation goes from head to feet.
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Application
Chart
Goal of Application
How to make Application
(1) Time Feeding (2) See chart on the next slide
Isa 558-9 Rom 121-2
Heb 511-14
Head (Mind)
1 Cor 120-216 Psa 11-2

• (1) Meditation
• (2) Gift of Gods Spirit

2 Cor 33
Heart (Spirit)
Lk 646 Jn 1421 1 Jn 52-3
Hands (Behavior)
(1) Just do it! (2) Time Practice Wisdom
James 122-25
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Application
Diagram
Timeless
GeneralPrinciples
Dissimilar Situations
Exegesis
Application
Specific Commands
Similar Situations
1st Cen
21st Cen
Time bound
Timely
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Application
Project 8
Make a chart for application. Label the columns
me, my church, and the church universal
label the rows head, hand, heart. Below the
chart, make a numbered list of (very) specific
applications. Then write each number in one of
the nine boxes of the chart where it belongs
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Application
Mind
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts
than your thoughts. (Isa 559)
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. (Rom 122)
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Application
Spirit
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the
result of our ministry, written not with ink but
with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets
of stone but on tablets of human hearts. (2
Corinthians 33)
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Application
Behavior
Why do you call me, Lord, Lord,' and do not do
what I say? (Luke 646)
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the
one who loves me. (Jn 1421)
This is how we know that we love the children of
God by loving God and carrying out his commands.
This is love for God to obey his commands. (1
Jn 52-3)
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Application
Mind
By this time you ought to be teachers, you need
someone to teach you the elementary truths of
God's word all over again. You need milk, not
solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still
an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching
about righteousness. But solid food is for the
mature, who by constant use have trained
themselves to distinguish good from evil. (Heb
512-14)
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Application
Spirit
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of
sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his
delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his
law he meditates day and night. (Psa 11-2)
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Application
Behavior
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive
yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens
to the word but does not do what it says is like
a man who looks at his face in a mirror and,
after looking at himself, goes away and
immediately forgets what he looks like. But the
man who looks intently into the perfect law not
forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he
will be blessed in what he does. (James 122-25)
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Application
Meditation
Definition Musing, mumbling.
Texts Psa 11-2 Dan. 91-3, 20-23
Methods

• Quiet Contemplation

• Memorization

• Prayer, Fasting, Confession

• Time months or even years

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Application
Meditation
Psa 11-2, But his delight is in the law of the
LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Dan 91-3, I, Daniel, understood from the
Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD
So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him
in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in
sackcloth and ashes.
Dan 920-23, While I was speaking and praying,
confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel
and making my request to the LORD my God for his
holy hill.