The other night, something incredible happened. For the first time, my three boys cleaned up their toys, put on their pajamas, brushed their teeth, and got into bed all by themselves. Well, my youngest son Teddy had a little help, and they were bribed with an Octonauts video—but still, all by themselves. Now, did this happen out of the blue? We have been doing the same nighttime routine over and over again for hundreds of nights in a row.
And just now—just now, after the 1,th time—they were able to do it on their own. God repeats with us because as children it takes us a long time to catch on. His Word is habit-forming. God repeats his words to us so that we will begin to develop patterns of behavior. And he is patterning our behavior after his Son, Jesus. Read all four Gospels and you will find two basic characteristics of a disciple. First, a disciple is hardheaded.
Next to experience being the best teacher, I believe repetition is. The way we learn the alphabet is by singing it in a song. Taken together, they make an immutable witness from God Himself in the Word and in Christ John , Since this is repeated many times it must be an essential doctrine and indeed it is!
I have sermon notes that are mostly Scripture so at least part of the sermon will be good, but I highlight certain points with a yellow marker so that I remember to emphasize it. Scripture has its own way of highlighting passages, so to speak. He emphasized this to the highest degree possible in the Jewish culture; He repeated it or mentioned it twice.
The teaching in John was that He was about to die but bear much fruit or souls , but if it remained alone, on the earth, it would not bear as much. The wheat that fell to the earth could be thought of as Jesus remaining with them on the earth. Jesus said it was superior for that seed Him to die and bear much fruit through His redemptive atonement for our sake. Some places will be more complicated than others and you might even have to read it more than a few times. Usually when some instruction or detail is important and has to be emphasized and remembered, it is repeatedly said or given.
Teachers who teach in school repeat important parts of the lesson to make sure students completely understand and capture the lesson; less important details are not repeated as much as the more important ones. The four Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, for example, serve to emphasize the truth of Christ's existence, life, ministry, death and resurrection. The four accounts coming from four different people — supported by other people such as Paul, David, Isaiah, and even Moses — confirm His identity.
Man has limited memory and is thus forgetful at times. God knows that man is made from dust and is thus limited in his capabilities, and so He keeps reminding us of His promises by repeating them. We might forget His promises, but He won't. While the different gospel stories resulted from different sources being put into the Bible together, the different Ten Commandments are more likely an example of inner-biblical interpretation—another reason Bible stories often sound similar.
Inner-biblical interpretation refers to the long tradition of scripture referencing, revising, and further interpreting older parts of the Bible. In other words, faithful people began interpreting and reinterpreting scripture long before the Bible was finished, and some of those writings were included in the final product. Jesus routinely quotes from and reinterprets the Hebrew scriptures, and the same thing happens within the Old Testament itself.
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