What should I always determine when I read a portion of Scripture?
When reading any portion of Scripture, always determine to whom it was addressed. This does not mean discarding it if it wasn't addressed to you, but identifying the original audience impacts what is being said and how it is said.
Les teaches that whatever portion of Scripture you read, always determine to whom it was addressed. He explains that this does not mean throwing it aside if it was not addressed to you, but the intended audience impacts what is being said and how it is being said. For example, Paul is not writing to the nation of Israel as Isaiah, Daniel, or the other Old Testament writers did, nor as the Twelve did when ministering to Israel. Instead, Paul addresses this epistle to the assembly—the called-out assembly, which he prefers over the term church because that is what the Greek word ekklesia really means.
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: