• Matthew 16:5-12
  • To “imply” is to send a message.
  • To “infer” is to receive a message.
  • Dad may never actually say he wants the son to “use the lawnmower,” but the boy understands that through what has been said (“fill the mower with gas,” etc.).
  • Unavoidable conclusion?
    • Acts 16:15- infants were baptized?
      • This cannot be unferred because we can’t know that there were infants in the house. Based on other scriptures which state that people must believe before being baptized, we could argue that infants could not possibly be included in the meaning here.
  • The Bible teaches that unavoidable conclusions authorize.
    • Acts 10:10-16+ 19-20 + 22 => 28b
      • Vision of animals no longer unclean
      • Spirit: “Go with them.”
      • “Angel told Cornelius to hear your message.”
      • Thus: “God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.”
    • Psalms 110:1
      • The Christ would descend from David.
      • David called Him “Lord.”
      • Thus, Christ is superior.
    • Genesis 14:18-20
      • Melchizedek blessed Abraham, Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek.
      • Lesser is blessed by the greater.
      • Levites descended from Abraham.
      • Jesus is a priest after the order of Melchizedek.
      • Thus, Jesus is a superior priest.
    • Exodus 3:6
      • Genesis: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob die.
      • Exodus: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
      • Thus, “But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the burning bush …”