Top 5 Verses Christians Take Out of Context

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The Top 5 Verses Christians Take out of Context

Have you ever heard someone quote a scripture and you wonder, “is that what that scripture really means?” Today we are going to talk about the importance of CONTEXT!

Hey what’s up everyone my name is Allen Parr and here on the BEAT we release a new video every Tuesday and so today we are talking about scriptures that Christians commonly take out of context and I want to give you my top 5.

1. “Judge not, or you will be judged”
a. This verse is often used to suggest that people don’t have the right to judge other people. You may hear someone say, “you can’t judge me, the Bible says you can’t judge…”
b. BUT, if you look at the context more carefully Jesus is NOT prohibiting all judgment but rather He is saying that before you judge someone else take some time to look at yourself first so that you will be able to see clearly enough to administer a proper judgment on something.
2. “Consider it all joy when you experience various trials”
a. This verse is often used to somehow suggest that when we experience hard times the Christian response is to ignore our human emotions and rejoice and thank God for your trial.
b. But when we look at the context it’s not saying that we should rejoice when negative things happen to us but rather we rejoice in what the trial produces in our lives which is the ability to persevere and to make us a complete well-balanced Christian.
3. “Where two or three are gathered together in your name there I will be in the midst”
a. This verse is usually quoted when no one shows up for prayer meeting to encourage the saints to pray anyway OR if we are going through a difficult time and we have 2 or 3 people praying for us…
i. First problem is that if you’re a Christian Jesus is with you all the time whether you’re by yourself or in groups of two or three
ii. Second problem is that the context is talking about how to resolve conflict in the church between two people and if there are at least two to three credible witnesses in agreement then Jesus says I will be in the midst of that conflict resolution.
4. “Speak those things that are not as though they are” – this verse has been misused by so many people to suggest that if we have enough faith we have the ability to create our own destiny simply by speaking things into existence.
a. The problem with this one is if you read the passage carefully it clearly says that that God is the only one that is able to call something into existence that is not.
b. You and I cannot twist God’s hand and force Him to do something outside of His will simply by speaking it because that puts us in the position of God and God in the position of a servant.
5. By His stripes we are healed – Now people have used this verse when they are praying over someone who I sick suggesting that through Jesus’ death on the cross (i.e. His “stripes”) we are healed of any sickness and disease. The problem with this is…
a. If you trace the Hebrew word for heal throughout the entire book of Isaiah you’ll see that every time it is used to refer to God spiritually healing a nation of people who have backslidden and He is healing them of their spiritual sickness.
b. We know it’s not talking about sickness because in the NT Peter quoted this same verse and the context clearly proves that the idea of being healed is spiritual and not physical.
c. Peter used this same verse in the NT and helps us understand the meaning of the original text to refer to a spiritual healing and not a physical one.

My hope and goal with this video is that we would all be much more careful when speaking for God and make sure that we are quoting scriptures in the right context and not just saying things that we’ve heard other people say or even your pastor say or the common Christian cliché. Remember that when you take the text out of CONtext, you get CONNED every time!

Видео Top 5 Verses Christians Take Out of Context канала THE BEAT by Allen Parr