Reading – Luke 4

Highlight Verses:

“Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect and guard you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭4‬:‭9‬-‭11‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Did you know that the devil knows the Bible?

He knows it very well; well enough to twist it to his own purposes.

Frankly, he knows it better than I do.

If that’s true, how do we protect ourselves from his twisted lies?

One thing you may have noticed at the beginning of the chapter was that Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit.

If you trust Jesus for your life, you have the Holy Spirit. I believe that it is important to continue to invite the Holy Spirit to work in you and through you including through the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

With the gift of discernment, you will be able to tell when Scripture is being applied correctly and when it is being twisted.

Still, there are times when even the Spirit filled, well studied believer can be fooled into believing an inappropriate twist of Scripture.

To guard against that, especially when I study for these posts, I turn to other seasoned believers.

The most convenient sources I’ve found for that are in online commentaries. My favorite is Enduring Word dot com, but there are several others and it is good to check multiple sources. There are many printed Bible commentaries available as well.

There have been multiple times when those commentaries have helped make the meanings of some passages more clear to me. A time or two, they have corrected my inaccurate understandings.

How do you check your understanding of Scripture?
What twists of Scripture have you believed in the past and since had to correct that belief?