IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES AUTHORITY IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES The communicator implies and the receiver infers.

IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES AUTHORITY IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES To imply is to indicate something without explicitly stating it.

IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES AUTHORITY IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES To infer is to get what is being implied; to draw conclusions from implications.

Implications: Powerful & Binding “All reasoning contains inferences or interpretations by which we draw conclusions and give meaning to data.” ACTS 10 SHOW / TELL / IMPLY

Implications: Powerful & Binding Every 21st century Christian believes in the binding power of things implied. When we follow particular commands in Scripture, we do so because we have inferred that those commands are viable for those beyond the original audience.

Implications: Powerful & Binding Matthew 22:36-40 (Mark 12:28-34) The Greatest commandment? Galatians 5:19-21 “and the like” ; “things like these” Hebrews 5:12-14 “trained to discern good and evil”

Implications: Powerful & Binding Matthew 22:23-32 “I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Implications: Powerful & Binding Mark 7:9-13 For Moses said, “Honor your father and your mother.” Wrong Inference: Mark 7:1-8 Washing hand before every meal.

Implications: Powerful & Binding Matthew 19:3-6 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

Implications: Powerful & Binding Jesus is the Messiah John 5:39 ~ You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.

Implications: Powerful & Binding Jesus is the Messiah Luke 24:44 ~ "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES AUTHORITY IMPLICATIONS & INFERENCES There is no living “by principle” if the inferences from them have no binding power.