Episode 009 - Hope in the midst of suffering

As I said in an earlier podcast series on the Letter to the
Hebrews, one of the biggest mistake that any Christian can make,
when studying the Scriptures, is to jump around from verse to
verse in the Bible, trying to gain an understanding from a single
verse or passage.





I likened that to trying to understand the whole picture of a
jigsaw puzzle by studying just one piece of it. A single jigsaw
puzzle piece cannot help you understand the entire picture. All
the surrounding pieces must give context to the piece in the
middle.





The only way to really understand the Scriptures, especially
passages like 1 Peter 3:18-22 , is to read this entire letter
from beginning to end, and to read Second Peter as well as the
little letter of Jude, so you can see the whole context – the
surrounding puzzle pieces and that way see the larger picture.