Truth Be Told Micah Gunn

God is vast and powerful and beyond human comprehension on so many levels, but He does desire to be known. In fact, He has gone through some incredible lengths to teach us about Himself and His work. One way we can learn so much about God is by considering His creation. What better way to learn about the Creator than to look at what He has made?
Scripture shows us we can learn about God as a shepherd, a father, a farmer, a king and, now, a fashionista. 
In this episode, we track a pattern outlined in the Bible of being alternately clothed and stripped of clothing culminating in a final clothing event where we are given more excellent garments by a benefactor.
We see this pattern in the stories of Adam and Eve, Joseph and his brothers, David and Saul, Jesus and His incarnation, and even in our own lives as it relates to the scriptures. 
Viewing God as someone who is intricately invested in clothing might seem like a bizarre lens to view Him through, but there are incredible, encouraging lessons in this study that we might not get in the same way other places.
 
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"YHWH Is Our Righteousness" is one of the compound names of God that describes Him as, not only righteous but, righteousness on our behalf. How are we supposed to understand that Someone can be righteousness for us when that doesn't seem to work in our human relationships? When many see the fulfillment of this in the person of Jesus Christ, they assume it means we have no obligation to behave righteously anymore since He did it for us.
 
Commandments? Laws? Good works? None of these are meant to SAVE a person (they couldn't even at their best), but if our King has shown us and offered us His righteousness, should we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not.
 
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Last week's episode outlined 4 practical steps to cultivate a natural curiosity of Scripture:
1. Generally know the stories, truths, and virtues of Scripture
2. Train yourself to find Biblical patterns
3. Find those patterns that reflect universal truths, themes, and types EVERYWHERE (including outside of the Bible)
4. Reverse the order (find the themes, truths, and types you love and connect with from other stories/examples and find them IN scripture).
 
This week, I wanted to go through these steps using one of my favorite examples: Gandalf the Grey from The Lord of the Rings. Hopefully, after walking through this example, the steps will become clearer to envision and you'll begin to see how you can borrow the emotion evoked by more modern stories/media/examples and apply them to Scripture because those examples are only borrowing from Scripture in the first place. 
 
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So many Christians struggle to maintain proper motivation for prayer and bible study. Sometimes, the thought of studying the Bible can even feel downright boring and this can lead to a tremendous amount of debilitating guilt. 
Wouldn't it be amazing if we were more genuinely curious about the Scriptures so that it didn't feel like a chore to look into them more frequently? Wouldn't it be great if we could confidently dive deep into the word of God without the fear of feeling guilty over how much we just don't know? What if feeling actually interested in the text didn't feel so forced?
In this episode, we walk through 4 practical tips for cultivating a natural curiosity of Scripture that should help to remove those roadblocks that hinder you from desiring deeper study.
 
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When we consider what a mediator does in a modern context, we might immediately have some modern conflicts come to mind. It's only natural for these modern conflicts to shape our view of the role itself.
When we consider Jesus as our Mediator before the Father, do we allow some of the horrible conflicts that modern Mediators deal in to shape our understanding of what He is doing for us? If so, we might be in danger of, not only, misunderstanding the role of Jesus Christ, but also misunderstanding the disposition of the Father towards us.
Jesus as Mediator acts as a conduit for us to run back to the Father, not as a shield against the hatred we believe the Father might have for us. It's true, our sin needed dealt with and there is a lot of anger/enemy language in those contexts that can't be ignored, but they shouldn't cause us to think that the Father is vengeful and hateful towards us when He is the One who SENT the Mediator as a way to repair the relationship between us that we broke in the first place.
 
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In Exodus 4, the staff of Moses is, in one way, transformed into something wholly unique and different from what it had ever been before. This change doesn't come with grandiose celebration or any sort of fanfare. In fact, most readers would probably gloss right over the change that takes place without paying it much attention.
However, when the staff of Moses becomes the staff of God, amazing symbolism takes place that correlates to Moses' own life which, in turn, should give us many things to think about in our own lives as well.
 
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