Is the whole bible applicable for us today?
A simple guideline to remember is the following, "The whole bible is written for us, but not all of it is written to us." Put another way, "All the bible is for our learning, but not all of it is for our application." Let's consider our first example. We cannot just take what Jesus says to Nicodemus (in John 3:3-8) and think it applies to us directly. Jesus was a minister of the circumcision (Romans 15:8) and everything He taught was for the Jews only and applicable in the Kingdom program . We are NOT in the Kingdom program today! So, if you take what Jesus spoke to Nicodemus and apply it to yourself, it will be as if you raid someone else's postbox and read their mail, and then apply all the advice in that mail to you. What happens if their mail was about the need to take heart medication for their weak heart? Would you then receive that advice as your own and go and take the heart medication? Absolutely not! You ...