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Study To Show Yourself Approved. 1 of 11

Steven Findley
03/09/25 - Sunday AM Bible Study

Series: An Eleven Part Series Aimed At Developing And Increasing Bible "Study" Skills.

so we're going to be beginning a new class today and really it's study to show
yourself approved that scripture comes I believe from 2nd Timothy 5th to 15 and
Paul is telling you know this whole chapter really is you know he's giving
some instruction to a I wouldn't say a young preacher but a younger preacher and
he begins by saying you're gonna be facing a lot of opposition there's gonna
be a lot of people who get derailed and want to get hung up on things that are
not pertinent to your work as a preacher but in 2nd Timothy 2 15 he's getting
now he maybe I'll start in verse 14 this is Paul reminding Timothy says
remind them of these things and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not
to wrangle about words which is useless and leads to ruin of the hearers but be
diligent to present yourself approved of God as a workman who does not need to
be ashamed accurately handling the word of truth so here you just see this
little instruction that Timothy needs to show himself approved and a workman
who doesn't need to be ashamed by handling accurately the word of truth so
that means studying your Bible but you know when there are ways and and people
there are there are many ways that people say okay well I read my Bible what
does it mean to read your Bible like what's the benefit of that and where does
that stop having benefit
the benefit of here is to keep the word of God fresh in your mind and each time the
downside to it I suppose because you could read over a lot of it and you could study
study so much that you just kind of assume that you know the meaning of what
yes so but you said a word I didn't say you said study I said read yeah and so
we're we're making a distinction there it's easy to read your Bible and there's
all sorts of methods what did I hear Matt Pearson use a term it was open and
hoping where you just open your Bible pointed a verse and read it and hope it's
the verse you need to hear so is that a way of reading your Bible yeah it
certainly is you have a lot of you know I don't know if I would call them
denominations but you know groups like the Jehovah witnesses or the Mormons
or whatever and others like even you know certain doctrinal things like
Calvinism what they like to do is choose one verse that says what they need
it to say and know all the verses that says what they needed to say and
string them together to make a point is that reading the Bible yeah you got to
read verses right and but are you understanding what the Bible means and so
there's a short coming with that and so I think it's good to ask what's well
maybe we'll back up what's the purpose of reading our Bible and what's the
purpose then because this class is about study to show yourself approved not
read to show yourself approved I think that's that's important distinction here
Paul didn't say read to show yourself approved so you say okay what's the
short coming of reading the Bible and people are like how dare he say something
like that right but the reality is is reading without study you're not guaranteed
to understand what's actually being said right so there's bad methods of
reading but let's just say okay front of back cover to cover I'm gonna read the
problem is is you're going to initially you're gonna have a hard time following
the story right so you you come across a word and you really don't know what the
word means how do you progress and understand what's being said without actually
understanding the words that are being said so that's a problem that's one of
the challenges of reading just reading well partly though but how are you
gonna trust me without being able to know if what I'm telling you is correct
right so we have to have a skill set to some extent Mike
you know are they cutting basically a lot of areas but what you say and the one
come in is words you don't understand or comment that's where the
you know yeah lexicans or whatever yeah
lexicans or whatever yeah right and and so but when you talk about reading
because even in if you go through like I think it's it's Ezra Nehemiah but
there's this scene in the book where they're in the rain and the scriptures
being read to them and there's these priests going around and telling them the
meaning so it's being read but then they're explaining the meaning because these
people the Bible's being read in Hebrew and the people are Arabic speaking
people and so they have to have a interpretation made and also they need a
context because they didn't come from the culture that produced the writing so
Moses kind of you know slaves coming out of Israel and what they understood and
what they were doing there's a context to it and when Moses wrote he intended
us to understand something in a certain way and and simply reading is good I'm
not telling you not to but we'll put it in its proper place but it's not
enough however before you say well then I guess I don't need to read that's
not the point we'll go through and talk about that here in a moment but let's
ask another question what is the purpose of studying the Bible like so now
we're adding the word in study which which is really you know study to show
yourself to prove so what's the purpose of studying the Bible Molly yeah so from
a goal perspective to know the will of God and and be able to do it okay so
so what else is the purpose of studying the Bible Jason yeah so there's
another goal element of it is if I know what the Bible says then I can tell
someone else what the Bible says and and that is an important part of who we are
is disciples yeah Becky yeah so there's another to know God the study to
know God is called theology so and and that is a specific aspect of studying
the Bible but let's let's say okay when I study what is what is the purpose and
so we get down to you know that to the purpose of studying the Bible is to
understand the intended meaning of the inspired author so we want it we don't
want to understand what I think it means there are Bible studies what does this
mean to you and I think that question is good in its place right because
understanding the intended meaning of the inspired author means I want to know
what he meant to tell me right that's the question is or you might say let me see
if I wrote I thought I wrote down the question let me see real quick I didn't
write it down but what did the author intend for me to understand and what was in
his mind what was in put into his mind to teach us that's what we need to
understand an opinion about what it means doesn't help us and inaccurate
interpretation no matter how much support you can gin up for it doesn't help us
my understanding doesn't help us the only thing that is the only thing that's
meaningful is to actually understand what the inspired author intended us to know
and so that's it that is what when you say study to show yourself approved it's
when you're able to study scripture and understand what the author intended
for us to know based on his inspiration
what is what does it mean to me is is simply a kind of a casual phrase for how I'm
going to apply what I'm reading and study to my life in order to be
insensible to God and that's always been the the sense that I've seen that
that rage use and so in terms of application what might work with one person in
their life to be that after the goal or successful with God would need
something else yeah yeah so that's that's you that's a great answer so when you
say okay what does it mean to me what we're actually doing is we're going fast
forwarding to the teach part right we're trying to to apply or teach or to reveal
that so this is this is an important aspect so reading the Bible is all about the
value of reading really comes down to familiarity the value of study comes down to what would
be the right word I don't think understanding is quite the right word maybe in interpretation
or maybe understanding is the right word we'll just go with it yeah comprehension I think
that's good so to comprehend but the idea is I need to know what it is the author is communicating
and so you need to comprehend that you need to understand that this is I need to understand
so that's important so when you're studying something out at least for me a lot of times
I'll retain information but I don't have words to convey them right I don't have a way
to talk about it I just know it and so a lot of times that's what study does is you kind
of get into the place where okay I know it I understand it and I'm familiar with what's
going on here and then the last part of this is teaching which is then communicating it and so
each one has its own challenges that come with it the challenge of communicating is trying to
convey the intent of the inspired author and and so studying is comprehend the intent of this
inspired author so this is really important so now let's go ahead and put some of these ideas
together oh I want to look at one passage here so in Peter this is the second Peter one
twenty and twenty one it says but notice first of all that no prophecy a scripture is a matter
of one zone interpretation so the first thing is I think what he's saying is just because
you think something came from God doesn't necessarily mean it's from God right there are qualities
of prophecy and so I think probably primarily someone says I'm a prophet why because I have a
strong feeling I should tell you this I read a article recently about a guy I don't know when
it happened but this church hired this prophet to come in and do a meeting and so he's in
the in prophesying and and apparently what the way that works is they will come and prophesy over
you and so he sees this girl holding a baby and he comes up to her and he's like I have a word of
the Lord for you and it starts prophesying to her and prophesying about her baby your baby is going
to be useful to the Lord and he's the Lord's going to use him to reach millions of people and he
starts going on like elaborating like about this baby well the preachers like coming up and he's
like shutting everything down and like stopping the guy because apparently the young lady that he
was prophesying over was mentally disabled and the baby was a toy so prophecy is not a matter of
one's own interpretation he interpreted it to be a real baby and and maybe and it wasn't so you
and so they shut it down because he's a false prophet so yeah so that's but you get that sometimes
but also if I say here's what the scripture means and it is not the intended
understanding of the inspired author I'm also a false prophet and they've not in the same
malicious way right it could be totally mistaken and that I mean I'm not saying right or wrong
but just because I understand it to mean that way if it's in conflict with the intended
purpose of the author then I'm not it's my own interpretation that's not prophecy that's not
what the Lord says and you say well I'm convinced and I start telling everyone well you're just
saying something that's not real so when we study the Bible we need to know the intended
purpose of the author verse 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will but men
moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God and so this is a really important concept is
and this is we were you know if some of our answers like the goal of understanding scripture is
I want to know what God thinks I want to know what God's will is and men moved by the Holy
Spirit spoke from God and there are qualities of teachings of God that we can go through and
they're going to be you know they will never contradict right it got if it's coming from one
mind and the one guy contradicts himself then what's that mean about him
yeah it's not true or something changed I guess but both of those you can or if it's not true
if it contradicts itself then you got a problem with a God who never changes and who can't lie
right and so if God says do this and you'll be saved and then He says don't do this and you'll be
saved unless something changed or unless there's a harmonization that can be made you've got a problem
it's what we need to make sure that we can address that stuff and understand it in that way
but I might teach something that would that would lead people to take an action
that conflicted with God and I say here's what the Bible says to do let's go do it and then you say
okay I'm gonna go do that but then you realize what the other like would what Satan did with Jesus
right catch yourself off the temple didn't God say he's going to have his angels bury you up so
you don't hit your foot against the stone and Jesus says yeah but the Bible also says don't put
the Lord your God to the test see there are two scriptures that talk about that kind of action
and Jesus said you know this one says don't do it and that's an important thing too because when
you have studies there are two kinds of studies you have what are called um expositional study which
is understanding the Bible in context and then you have topical study and that is understanding a
topic in the context of what scripture says and the challenge with a topical study you could have
50 verses that say one thing but if you have two or three verses that say something else that you
missed then you're not teaching what the Bible teaches and and I heard a old preacher say you
know there's when someone asks you a question about a topic you there's two answers you can give
them the first one is here's what it means and just tell them what it means but if they have too
many questions then you got to show them every verse in the Bible that talks about that subject
and then you go through what is called an inductive study and at the end of the inductive study
you draw out the conclusions and facts of what everything the Bible says on it then you can know
what God teaches so that's a lot more comprehensive but some topics are like that if we're going to
teach about you know any topic like what do I need to do to be saved and we always have like the
five finger salvation you know here believe repent can fast be baptized there's a one scripture that
says that and so that's a topical study you might say well what does the Bible say about how we
conduct ourselves as a church or you know Bible authority that was our last study it was topical we
are all over the place because we had to discuss you know something that isn't you can't just read it
in one place but it but a topical study and this is really important when you're going to do a
topical study what it is it's a series of expositional studies every verse you read you need to take
the context understand how it fits in what did the inspire author intend to say here and go through
the whole practice of an expositional study it on each verse you bring into a topical study
and so a lot of times people say well do a do a sermon I'm gonna do a topical just you know
verse by verse by verse by verse and the problem is you you end up saying things the Bible doesn't say
that's where you get into some problems so for instance there's a scripture I think it's drawn
929 and it says we all know that God doesn't hear the prayers of an unrighteous man
right so I've heard people teach that in this in a sermon God doesn't hear the prayers of the
unrighteous look right here in this verse well what if you do an exposition of that what you find
out is it was a blind man who was healed who was not inspired and that was an accurate
recording of what he said but what he said was not authoritative and so it's just like Job's
friends or you know what Herod said you know is the voice of a man and not a God well that that's
true that's what they said that doesn't mean that Herod was the voice of a man and not a God so
there's you know you got to take the Bible in context so when you're gonna do a topical study
it's it's like 50 times more work then just go ahead and do an exposition I mean
yeah and so if yeah and so the two ways of doing a study is you okay what does this scripture mean
and that doesn't mean everything the Bible says on it but it is accurately what that says
or you can say okay here's all the scriptures now I need to make sure they're all actually saying
what I'm saying they're saying and so but yeah so but you sometimes have to do that so it's not a
matter of one's own interpretation so look at your paper here now I want to notice in Matthew 12
1 through 7 I don't have the whole passage open but Jesus was healing on the Sabbath and the
Pharisees were saying how are you healing on the Sabbath don't you realize that you shouldn't be
doing that and Jesus gives them three answers and I think these answers are important in Matthew 12
3 which is in the left side column on the handout I gave you it says but he said to them
how do you not read what David did when he became hungry he and his companions what is the
important word in that what is the important question that Jesus asked have you not read looking
12 verse 5 I threw this one in as a bonus because it's right next to the other one in the same
context or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priest in the temple break the
Sabbath and are innocent so here again Jesus says have you not read in the law what is Jesus'
expectation of people who claim to be servants of God and to know his will
have you not read that's Jesus' expectation and so if you if you are the kind of person who does
not read are you meeting Jesus' expectation of people who claim to know and to follow the will of
God that's an important question you know have you not read was Jesus' expectation if someone claims
here's what God wants you to do what Jesus is answering have you not read and what he brings up
like this is a side note but I would recommend you read it and try and figure out why he's saying it
because he's not bringing up like simple things it's difficult it's like wait a minute let's
think about that why could David eat the bread that God said never eat now why could the priests
conduct work in the temple when nobody else in Israel could conduct work without being slain
but now looking verse 12 verse 7 if you had known what this means a desire compassion and not a
sacrifice you would not have condemned the innocent what does he say there
right but what he says is in the short version if you had known what this means what does he
mean when he says that what are they supposed to understand Mike
right well you're giving a too complicated of an answer though so you're it's a good answer
but it's too complicated Jason yeah yeah so yeah but what he said is if you had known what this
means how would they know what it means and and what does it mean when Jesus says means
there was an intention the author had when he wrote this down and God had an intention to giving
this to us and if you had been able to wrap your mind around what God wanted you to know
so that's an important thing is Jesus said not just read he said you should have studied you should
have discerned the meaning you should have then embraced the teaching and then you want it be
condemning innocent men is that a pretty big deal what Jesus said here you're condemning someone
who's innocent you're telling them they're in sin when they're not in sin you're telling them
they have repentant work to do when they do not have repentant work to do that's the very description
of leading someone astray right and or you might have it the other way too you're telling them
they're innocent when they're not innocent you know Jesus he what they're saying is Jesus you
should not have healed so what if Jesus saw these people and understood their pain and their
suffering and said enough luck guys it's the Sabbath would Jesus be in sin if you're innocent
for acting so this is called a sin of omission right Jesus you know the thing that is interesting
about Jesus's grace is we always think oh well Jesus never sent well that means he never
did any wrong things but that also means he did every right thing he never omitted something
that he should have included and so this is a really important thing and so Jesus is the standard
for action and what we see here is Jesus is like I'm I did what I should have done when I healed
these people but what do you really what our point is is studying the Bible allows you to understand
the authors intended meaning and the underlying principles Jesus said you need to study and so
that's not just like I mean obviously I need to study because I'm a teacher and you know
in James 3 it says teachers are held to a higher standard so so it's important for me to be
diligent but we all need to be doing it I want to read one more scripture and this is under the
heading my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge just as Josea 46 my people are destroyed
for lack knowledge because you have rejected knowledge I will also reject you from being my
priest since you have forgotten the law of God I will also forget your children so I have a
statement here and it's a difficult statement it's so it'll be hard to answer a little bit hard to
answer it says a lack of knowledge is not an accident or an oversight it is a reflection of the
heart priorities and choices that result in rejection of God by refusal to accept his
instruction is that true or false
so here's your right I agree with that here's the challenge what if you're a brand new Christian
or a relatively new Christian and you won't have any knowledge is that a result of purposefully
rejecting God
so there's a growth process and I think that's important because for a new Christian who basically
only knows the things he needed to know to be saved it doesn't really know anything else
wasn't raised around it was it was raised you know non-believing or atheistic or whatever they
just don't have a lot of it's not that I mean it was somebody didn't teach them but really it
wasn't their choice they just didn't know to do it right and so once you know to do it then you
start having to do it you have to make that choice and it'll be a while before you know very much
like yeah and so there's a context thing yeah they knew better yeah and so I believe the
scripture is true my statement though is what I wrote and and I think that has maybe a little bit
of gray area there but for anyone who's been a Christian for any amount of time there comes a
point where you begin to say I don't need this right and you begin rejecting God and so to say
well I don't read my Bible I don't put much time into it I I just kind of you know in passing
I haven't really learned how to study and that's a problem right is I never took the time to learn
how to study reading everybody knows how to read but I never took the time to learn how to study
or to study well and then all of a sudden an issue comes up and I have to deal with it but I
am ill-equipped but I but I still have an opinion on what it means like you're find yourself
in a problem right is your ill-equipped and I have an opinion on what the scripture means
but I don't know how to study out to prove my opinion and your opinion may be right but the
reality is is if you find yourself in a position you've made decisions this is not just like
your car doesn't throw a piston because it's been running without oil for a thousand miles
accidentally right my daughter's car might because she may not realize to put oil in there
but I would teach her right and that's the thing is a new Christian there are more experienced
people who teach them and if you read Matthew 28 19 220 notice two things go make disciples
your job is not to bad pies or convert or to fill the church it is make disciples
second the people who know the teaching teach them to observe all I commanded you
so a new new Christian that knows nothing they're not converted to
fellowship with the church they're converted to Jesus Christ and to be disciples of Jesus Christ
which implies they are an active learner and the second thing is there are people who have already
actively learned that are responsible to be active teachers and active teacher has to know
how to discern the intent of the writer right so we have that and so this to me is important
throughout because it really gives us kind of the what is the purpose of Bible study
we need to read it we need to study it and maybe at some point we'll get to the point where we're
teaching but regardless being able to discern is really an important thing
let's go ahead and go to the second page of our document here building on the foundation so on
the site column I have first Corinthians chapter three 10 through 15 I'll go and read that to
you real quick first Corinthians three 10 through 15
according to the grace of God which was given to me like a wise master builder I laid the foundation
and another is building on it but each man must be careful how he builds on it
for no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid in which is Jesus Christ
now if any man builds on the foundation with gold silver precious stones wood heirs straw
each man's work will become evident for the day will show for the day will show it because it is
to be revealed with fire and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work if any man's
work which he is built on it remains he will receive a reward if any man's work is burned up he
will suffer loss but he himself will be saved yet so as through fire so here's an interesting
scripture and Paul says I laid a foundation the foundation is Jesus Christ so those are some
core things you need to understand in order to be saved so I won't go into that right now but
now let's say someone's gonna build on that foundation so this is a you know we say okay if any man
builds on this foundation so I am going to seek to
put in labor in order to benefit the church of God so the foundation is the church Jesus Christ
but I'm going to put in labor what is the difference when he says all right well some people
are going to build with you have gold and silver and precious stones wood hay and straw so here's
our six building materials what's the difference
yeah and all not just that but so you have teaching and what I would maybe a better word
doctrine means a dydascolo and dydactic means teaching and so it is what is taught I think doctrine
is a good term to use here if I'm the kind of guy who does the open and open right I open the
Bible I pointed a verse I read it and I say okay here's what God wants you to do what does that
mean well I think it means this and so I taught somebody will that style of teaching over time
with Stan scrutiny what's gonna happen something I'm gonna I'm gonna have contradictions I'm gonna
be teaching people to do things that are that they should not be doing I am going to maybe be instructing
people and bad attitudes if you maybe you might say a look at a scripture I feel like this has
been done I think it's um second John 9 and 10 do not give a welcome to someone who doesn't
bring the teaching of Christ so there's somebody and he gets like one piece wrong and I'm like
get out of my house get out of my church you said something I disagree with that's not the
teaching of Christ and so we all together we're like kick them out get rid of the false teacher
well why is he the false I heard of a I know a preacher and he was doing a gospel meeting in the
south and his gospel meeting was from the book of Isaiah and he was teaching how Isaiah parallels
a New Testament so it was about the prophecies fulfilled in the New Testament and the church
cut his meeting short and told him we're not going to finish this meeting because we're a New
Testament church and you're teaching that we don't want to hear the Old Testament someone taught
them you're a New Testament church and you know what those are the words of some really smart man
Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone and Thomas Campbell like the guys who started the restoration
move that's what they said where he got to be a New Testament church they didn't mean only read the
New Testament right but someone talked that what do you suppose is going to happen when hardship comes
certain kinds of hardship are they it's going to burn that teaching will not withhold and fire
is the the meaning of fire is hardship tribulation challenges right and so that if you are
using straw is low quality easily obtained easily destroyed
yeah so here is the key to this whole thing the fire itself will test the quality
of each man's work it's a lot more work to produce a doctrine let's just say that lives up to the
gold standard then a doctrine that lives up to the hay standard they're a lot easier to produce
gold standard will harmonize with all scripture right this is Psalm 119 160 the some of the
word is true there's plenty of scriptures that say it but that's the one I remember quickly
there's a gold standard there it's going to harmonize with all the scriptures it's going to be
attested to by multiple witnesses it's going to have an understanding that goes deeper than
the surface okay what is the meaning of all this and so you have to put in a lot of work
but if you put in the work it will be a doctrine that is in line with God and God's will and God's
mind that's what it that and so the fire itself will test it and we're not you can have people
who are sincerely wrong and that's what the other part of this says right you have someone
and they don't take the time to learn so they're teaching opinion and they don't read the Bible a
lot and so the only verses they know are the verses they read in preparing for the topic
this is one of the things that I say okay if you're preaching there are two ways you can preach
and one in the beginning basically and you can tell this if you listen
the guy is preaching and all he knows is what he's saying that's all he knows about the topic
it's what he's saying and then there's the guy who's preaching where he knows the topic and he's
talking about a part of it but if you ask him a question he's like oh yeah what about this over there
what about this over there what about and so those are that's two different things one of them
just takes time right you have to have an investment a lower time investment to be able to do that
but if we've been Christians for 10 years you can be there right another way of knowing is people
who have memorized scripture if you don't memorize scripture scripture memorization happens
automatically I don't I don't really try and do it on purpose it just happens because I'm familiar
with it and but you know you have to work like that's something that happens over time and practice
and so as you are more and more familiar with the scripture you know what it says and then
eventually you'll remember exactly what it says and that just takes time but that's what you know
when you're putting in gold or silver or precious stone level effort or wood even you know what is
part of a structure but some things will withstand fire better than others so this is a really
important scripture as it relates to that because it's not about salvation you know it's about
what you'll have when the smoke settles and and so that's an important thing is is what are
you going to have what's going to be left and a lot of times the harm you're not the one who
pays the price right so you're raising kids and you give them hey or straw level teaching you
don't really invest much in in their Bible education and then they fall away now they made the
choice right but who suffers to watch their kids go through addictions and divorces and you know
and bankruptcy and you just go down the list of being lost just depression and all the things that
come with falling away from God are trying to gain satisfaction from this world it's not that the
parent is lost it's that now their work didn't withstand fire right and a church is the same way
with friendships it's the same way and so you when you say okay well what do I want my work to
amount to and so this is a justification for studying the scripture right we need to be studying
the scripture we need to be reading to gain familiarity and then we need to be examining it to gain
the intent of the author and so that's what this class is going to be really about I'm not going to
talk about teaching but just getting to the point where I understand what the author I can I know
how to get to the point where I understand what the author intended me to get out of it so we're
going to stop there we'll talk about we'll get into the context but our homework this week if you
look at the last part of your handout it has understanding the context homework James two one
through three so here's I put everything I want you to do on there it says familiar with the
text comes from reading and rereading the scripture the more familiar you are with the scripture
the easier it is to interpret the intended meeting of the inspired author what did the author write
why in this way so those are the questions I was looking for that couldn't find earlier what are
the author right and why in this way so I gave you three practices and I don't want you using
dictionaries or commentaries or anything like that you don't need it this is something you can do
without any of that stuff it's just a Bible study practice and then I gave you a sheet of paper
you can write on that has the Bible verse on it but it also doesn't have verses so it's going to
that will kind of trick your mind into putting it all together into one piece instead of verses
which breaks it up so this will help us so first is fact finding who what where when why and how
so find out who is being talked about what is being talked about when where they are when it is like
all the all the nouns all the facts of the the sentence and then we'll pay attention to the flow
of the text and you can identify sentences conduct conjunctions notice in James chapter verse two he
says four if a man he's like they'll be partial for if a man we we could say okay well four is a
conjunction you go down and you see end of beginning of verse three here all four is a conjunction
and this is what I want you to do on your paper right find a way to market maybe circle it and
is a conjunction so you're linking two thoughts together and then so you can go through when you do
that my brethren so here is a who who's being talked about my brethren do not hold your faith so
you know what we did here your is talking about the brethren right and so what what do we learn
just from this one little connection my brethren so somehow they're in a family fellowship type
situation and they says your faith in Jesus we're talking to Christians right that's what you
learn from that so that's a fact this is not written to non-believers this is written to a bunch
of faithful Christians all right and so you can go through you know you see in this other one
your assembly so here's another link your assembly which means there was a practice of assembling
that everybody would have understood so I think that's interesting and so your faith your assembly
and so you can go through this and you can find out all sorts of things about what John intended
if a man so if is also a word and so we're okay this is an illustration right if this happens
how would you react illustration so he's and so I want you to go through and just identify what's
happening in the text mark up your paper so sentences conjunctions questions repeating words
statements actions taken warnings commands etc none of this requires study aids and then also
I have a self-reflection at the bottom this is for you to think about what am I doing how many days
a week do you read your Bible circle one how many minutes per day do you read your Bible circle one
how many Bible verses have you memorized purposefully circle one how many days a week do you consume
entertainment I have a definition of entertainment over on the side think about that how many minutes
a day and so the question is is it about time or is it about choice so that's something for that's
that's our homework for next week and we'll spend a little bit of time on James any question thoughts
anything like that all right well welcome to a new class and we'll go ahead and wrap up with
the word of prayer