What’s the Context? — Part 3 – National Prayer Chapel

Synopsis:

Hermeneutics 1: Jim Kerwin takes us through other examples of textual, cultural, linguistic, and historical context by:

elaborating further on “Wives, submit” and “Husbands, love” (Ephesians 5:22-24). We see how Paul’s context for these exhortations to mutual submission (v. 21) is based on continuous infilling with the Holy Spirit (vv. 18-20) — that’s the only way it works in love! And the context of mutual submission doesn’t end at 5:33; these examples carry clear through Ephesians 6:9.
discovering that Paul didn’t write the “seventh chapter” of Romans (or any of the other “chapters” either!).
setting the record straight on Matthew 16:18 by “rightly dividing” Hades from Hell, and discovering what it means for a gate to prevail against us. (Sorry, no “spiritual warfare” promises here — but something far greater, more liberating, and gloriously eternal!)
beginning to challenge the interpretation that Roman soldiers arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and guarded His tomb, based on Matthew’s clear testimony in Matthew 26:47 and his report from Matthew 28. (This point is to be continued.)

Lord willing, we’ll pick up where we left off today…

looking at the Garden-arrest story and and Garden-watch accounts in Matthew through two helpful, clarifying points: the existence of the Jewish Temple Guard and the (seemingly!) unrelated world of Roman military jurisprudence in the Book of Acts. Both of these will cast a bright light on the events at the Tomb on Resurrection morning (esp. Matthew 27:62-66 and Matthew 28:2-4, Matthew 28:11-15).
taking a quick survey of basic available Bible-study tools
unfolding the depth of meaning usually missed in the Throne Room vision of Isaiah 6. How many context-clues are normally missed when we read this passage!

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