Only when we can identify the humanness that unites us with the struggles of those whom Paul had to warn about the Judaizers do we really know why he wrote and what we are to preach. Preaching does not point primarily at what happened to others—it points to us. Preachers identify principles of spiritual truth evident in the biblical situation that are also present in ours.4 This forces us to look deep into our hearts and into the hearts of those around us to discover what Scripture is addressing