For the saints who join for the Tuesday night lecture series I want to express my sincerest apologies, especially to those who regularly join with us, for not being able to overcome technical difficulties that sometimes plague on-line meetings. It was almost 8:00 pm before the issue was resolved.

I am going to save the Matthew 5:18 lecture until next Tuesday evening 3/7 at 7:30pm.

God bless and keep you all.

Peter, Sr.

Tomorrow night, 2/28 at 7:30pm EST we hold the sixth lecture of a 10-week series on the Biblical basis for the theology we call the Providential Preservation of Scripture. Lecture 6 considers the words of Jesus during the Sermon on the Mount and specifically Matthew 5:18. Jesus’ teaching methods were simple; his lessons straight forward and easy for the common man to grasp. This simplicity corresponds with his “ordinary” or “intuitive” approach to the Scripture, a hermeneutic that resonated with the Jewish believers. His words and the Old Testament complemented one and other in that their subject and object was Jesus. The Old Testament was not an obstacle to the Jews that required Pharisaical comment to understand but was simply the message of Jesus written hundreds of years before. Nowhere in the Scripture does the message of Jesus cause doubt or question the cohesive relationship between the Scripture and Himself. Rather, as part of His Messianic ministry Jesus speaks of the authority and preservation of the text as a witness to who He is. Did those on the mount believe Jesus was exaggerating for effect, didn’t really mean jot and tittle, and was utilizing a common literary device, oriental hyperbole — or was he promising the preservation of the smallest elements of the Scripture? Don’t miss this important study of the ramification and significance of the preserved word in Matthew 5:18 as a promise of Jesus tomorrow tonight, 2/28, 7:30 EST.

Tomorrow night, 2/21 at 7:30pm EST we hold the fifth lecture of a 10-week series on the Biblical basis for the theology we call the Providential Preservation of Scripture. Lecture 5 considers the pivotal role the promises of Isaiah 59:21 are to the unfolding of God’s comprehensive redemptive plan and as an intricate element of the historically telescopic nature of the Abrahamic Covenant of Genesis 12:1-3. Don’t miss this important study of the ramification and significance of the preserved word in Isaiah 59:21 as an essential element of God’s salvific plan tomorrow tonight, 2/21, 7:30 EST.

Tonight, 2/14 at 7:30pm EST we hold the fourth lecture of a 10-week series on the Biblical basis for the theology we call the Providential Preservation of Scripture. Lecture 4 considers the ramifications of Psalm 119:89 and God’s word being forever settled in heaven. Don’t miss the discussion of Psalm 1119:89 to the doctrine of providential preservation tonight, 2/14, 7:30 EST.

Tomorrow evening 2/7 at 7:30pm EST we hold the third lecture of a 10-week series on the Biblical basis for the theology we call the Providential Preservation of Scripture. Lecture 3 is part 2 of a study on that much maligned portion of Scripture found in Psalm 12:6-7, the passage we were informed of by Dr. Ward et al, does not teach Scripture’s providential preservation. Indeed, according to contemporary evangelical scholarship no one can find a single scholar who argues that this passage teaches Scripture’s providential preservation. Last week we examined syntactical issues of Hebrew gender and number discontinuity. Tomorrow evening, we will consider the testimony of English versions and how this passage was translated. Don’t miss the discussion of Psalm 12 to the doctrine of providential preservation tomorrow evening, 2/7, 7:30 EST.

Tomorrow evening 1/31 at 7:30pm EST we hold the second lecture of a 10-week series on the Biblical basis for the theology we call the Providential Preservation of Scripture. Lecture 2 deals with that much maligned portion of Scripture found in Psalm 12:6-7, the passage we were informed of by Dr. Ward does not teach Scripture’s providential preservation. Indeed, he can find no one who argues that this passage teaches Scripture’s providential preservation, but then his research missed Jerome, Luther, Ayguan, Medieval Hebrew Scholars, Poole and Wesley to name a few. We will also examine syntactical issues of Hebrew gender and number discontinuity within the passage. Don’t miss the discussion of this important passage from Psalm 12 to the doctrine of providential preservation tomorrow evening, 1/31, 7:30 EST.