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Abraham Kuruvilla on Hermeneutics & the Gift of Singleness | Pastor Well - EP 36

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Southern Seminary

Southern Seminary

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@MrKC23
@MrKC23 3 жыл бұрын
1. By choice (not forced by circumstances) 2. For life 3. Unto Christ 4. In community
@abelshajiadoor4501
@abelshajiadoor4501 3 жыл бұрын
Great! Blessings from Kerala!!!
@louisadu-amoah1504
@louisadu-amoah1504 4 жыл бұрын
I love Abe Kuruvilla. He wows me with his depth and sincerity and humility
@mchristr
@mchristr Жыл бұрын
If we step back and look at the intention of God in the creation of humanity, it's clear that marriage is the default position for Christians. I'm thrilled for those who are specifically called to singleness for the sake of kingdom work, but the number of people in that category is extremely small.
@vijaykumaruba
@vijaykumaruba 3 жыл бұрын
Am blessed to hear Abraham Kuruvilla
@TerrellMethvin
@TerrellMethvin 4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this. Just 1/4 through the talk but I had to comment.
@xjasonxbx1
@xjasonxbx1 Жыл бұрын
Singleness is not a gift. It is just like any other circumstance that the Lord has allowed for us to be in. We should use it for his glory and part of that is handling anything that comes up in us. If someone chooses to remain single and he desires to please the Lord with this, then teach him how to do so and support him in this. If he is single and decides that he does not want to remain single for the remainder of his life and wants to please the Lord through a loving and God pleasing marriage, then teach him how and support him in this. In both of these areas it is important to remind him that The Lord will guide his steps and that he is not to pursue anything (singleness at all costs or marriage at all costs) to take the place of pleasing God as the foundational desire of his life. What I have noticed is that many Christians including some leaders will try to decide for the individual what God's sovereign will is for the individual's life. In my experience, it is usually singleness they try so hard to convince a person to commit to, even to the point of conflating their "council" as God's will. My advice is to seek many councilors from a variety of backgrounds who have proven wisdom in these areas and avoid replacing the seeking of God's will with the seeking of the councilor's will or your own will.
@exploringtheologychannel1697
@exploringtheologychannel1697 4 жыл бұрын
Paul tell us it is a blessing to be single since we can devote more time serving the Lord.
@ivanalexander7
@ivanalexander7 4 жыл бұрын
How is this so? Is the work of a father and mother subject to the work of a person who chooses celibacy or virginity in service to the church? The reason for these questions is because I am of the assurance that Paul is absolutely wrong.
@ivanalexander7
@ivanalexander7 4 жыл бұрын
​@@johannespeterfrischknecht4912, here, given the subject of this video, is hermeneutics that serves the ends of homiletics. That is, how to approach the teachings of the Bible in a manner that opens the way to constructing a sermon. Within the context of hermeneutics, we are to be aware that we are under a different revelation that disturbs not only the house that is this church but the very foundation upon which we find this church established. Within the discipline of hermeneutics, there is what's termed as the "object" of the hermeneutic. This "object" is the means by which we reckon ourselves with the written text. Laden in our "object" is our "pre-understanding" which is the basis upon which we reckon ourselves with the text. Wherein, as it pertains to our "pre-understanding" we are to note that our "object' has its grounding as a philosophical concept. Given we find western civilization founded on the principles and beliefs of Greek philosophy. What then emerges as our "object" is that "object" which is central to understanding and reckoning ourselves with Greek philosophy, which is the state. Therefore, given Christianity, as is the likes of Judaism and Christianity are "revealed" religions, and therefore they must import their philosophical precepts with which to understand the teachings and beliefs of an antecedent belief or religion. In this case, our antecedent religion is that which is of Adam unto Noah. We have the basis upon which to reckon why all that we receive from Paul, as it pertains to those things we are to consider as being of the Lord (1Corithians 7:32-34), is not as our Lord in Paul declares. To understand all that we find established in the Scriptures, we must necessarily see all things through the prism of the "state." What exemplifies how we're trained to see all things is how Socrates, in the 5th book of Plato's Republic, puts before Glaucon, Plato's brother, the question as for how the state is to esteem marriage in such a manner that it makes certain that the "sacred marriages" are those most beneficial to the state (Plato, Republic V.458e). Socrates does so by proposing: "Do you breed them all alike, or do you try to breed from the best as much as possible? " To which, Glaucon answers, "I try to breed from the best" (Plato, Republic V.458e). Wherein, Socrates reveals what is the sublime obligation of every leader and ruler, arguing: "Thus...the relevant groups will avoid sexual relations with each other. But the law will allow brothers and sisters to have sex with one another if the lottery works out that way and the Pythia approves" (Plato, Republic V.461d-e). Wherein, as it pertains to the "Pythia" we are to be aware that this is an allusion to "The priestess of Apollo at Delphi" (Plato, Republic pg. 1089ff). From what we gather from the dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon, Plato reveals to us how the primal obligation of every western ruler and lawmaker is racial and ethnic segregation. And that it is for them to fulfill this obligation even to the hurt of the family. Since to facilitate this primal duty to its nauseous end, the state solicits its state-religion to push the citizen into those areas in which he'd ordinarily find revolting. The implication being that it is the state that promulgates and establishes the salient moral by which every man is to live. While its religion serves as the most powerful of state auxiliaries to ensure the ends of the state. How this pertains to the concerns for our day and generation is that we are now under a new revelation. It is a Revelation of Jesus borne in how the Negro ensured the freedom of his children in America. Given not until 10 August 1965 was the Negro free from the entanglements of the badges of slavery that plagued him since the 1662 Law of Virginia. The 1662 law being the law that established the Negro as a beast within the earliest renderings of American Jurisprudence. We are better to appreciate how America served as the paragon of Greek thought and belief given its antipathy for the Negro. An antipathy we find exacerbated in the wake of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment (6 December 1865). It is only by the enactment of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (10 August 1965) that we reckon our freedom as descendants of the Negro. Whereby, it is two years later, in 1967, with the decision in Loving v. Virginia, when, by its declaring anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. We reckon the dissolution of what America once reckoned as the "sacred marriage." Hence, we find that America has become unmoored from its centuries-old moral and spiritual mooring, a grounding that held it steady since America's founding as a British colony. However, what this reveals is how, as a result of how the Negro suffered to ensure a freedom born of "Truth" (John 8:31-33). And our freedom is "of Truth," since my ancestral fathers laid down their lives for us. No man, people, or artifice of war are ever able to declare that it is because of them that we are free. Steadied and preserved by their maxim, "God don't like ugly," my ancestral fathers held their peace and thereby gave all over to the LORD that He took up their fight (Exodus 14:14). Thus, by their suffering and sacrifice, we have a new Revelation of Jesus in the earth. It is a Revelation by which we reckon that the "eye" (Matthew 6:22-23), trained up in the ways of the state borne by the philosophical beliefs of the Greeks, is one shaped in iniquity that we find our bodies full of darkness. Since by the struggles and sufferings of the Negro slave, we bear witness to a Revelation that has obliterated the state as the source of our strength that we enter to see and take up those things of the LORD. Thus, where Paul argues in the 7th chapter of 1Corinthians: "But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband" (1Co 7:32-34). Girded in this Revelation, we are to be aware that what Paul presents to the church at Corinth, and therefore the entire body of Jesus is an abomination. Neither brick and mortar nor rite and ritual have any ability to bear witness to a man or people. Our ancestral fathers stand as a testament to how it lies within the hands of man to corrupt those things of the LORD. Wherein they leave nothing but sacrifice and suffering to reprove what men have declared and forced into the LORD's mouth. Such is the legacy of my ancestral fathers, as such is the legacy of the Negro slave. Born of such a work of man who distorted the things of the LORD. We now find such works reviled, not because men have repented, but because of the sufferings that bore witness to a freedom born in and of Truth. Thus we have the assurance that Paul is wrong, and absolutely so. There is no greater work ever to befall a man or woman than when they take up the mantle as parents. It is in their suffering and sacrifice that in their children shall we bear witness if their work was unto the LORD or mammon. Thus, when it comes to the most-worthy of testaments, there is none comparable to a father and mother. Since by their labors as parents are we to reckon a man's faith in the LORD.
@MrKC23
@MrKC23 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@HichurchMinistry
@HichurchMinistry 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@BeBiblical
@BeBiblical 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the Video...
@danielford4260
@danielford4260 2 жыл бұрын
Thankyou both of you for doing this......I too have a desire to pursue celibacy, but I have few doubts, don't know where to seek the answers
@augsburgbiblechannel9246
@augsburgbiblechannel9246 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent interview. I'm going to look at his commentaries. **Dr York, which, if any, preaching book would you recommend for one who has been preaching for years?
@tommy11sixorozco9
@tommy11sixorozco9 Жыл бұрын
Pastor Well! Where do you go to church in Louisville? I have a brother in Christ there that needs to plug into a solid church.
@johnz4328
@johnz4328 2 жыл бұрын
Let’s be extremely careful not to take this man’s singleness and make it apply to any single who happens along. It’s so easy for ministries to take this man’s singleness and look at it as something that can be force-fed all single people. Why not, he’s single and happy this can be all single peoples story right? Just look at the way Hershael York is just ecstatic about this singleness story! The church simply does not know what to do with masses of single people not getting married so of course let’s pressure the happy content celibate life on singles all your life! I would not try to change this man’s mind about singleness it’s obviously good for him but his message will only apply to a relative few.
@reformedtubers1028
@reformedtubers1028 4 жыл бұрын
with all respect Mr Hershael York, would you please allow your guest to speak freely and allow them to finish a sentence without you cutting in all the time. Blessings and Thank you for this video.
@reformedshelter7770
@reformedshelter7770 2 жыл бұрын
There are very close in their research academically ! Ezra and Nehemiah didn't have to do so, because they had Scriptures and God himself for a proper Exegesis ! Reading many commentaries is not a proper way ! When more scriptures throw light on the same text then is a person sees unless the Holy Spirit applies.
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