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Study To Show Yourself Approved. 3 of 11

Steven Findley
03/23/25 - Sunday AM Bible Study

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

So, Mason, I'm going to have you hand out. We have a handout this morning going to try
for most classes to have it. And there's a couple additional, each page is like rotated
so everybody gets a stack. Next week we're going to start working on observing the text.
So I have a, so in addition to this week's study sheet, I have next week's homework so you
can get a head start if you want to on observing the text process. And there is a sheet that
has 17 questions to ask yourself. This is before you get out a book or a lexicon or a dictionary
or anything else. This is just reading the text and understanding it. There are 17 questions.
I added a zero on the top of the page. That's my addition because what type of literature you're
reading is like the first thing you got to figure out. And then you can, and so that's going to help
us. But anyway, this will be your homework for next week. And then the second page is going
to be the text I want you to study. It's from James and it's going to be talking about being
partial but it's a really good text as far as just working through it and looking for the dynamics
of the text. It's a pretty, it's simple but it has a lot of meat in there if you know what to look
for. So that's what we'll be talking about next week. This week we're actually, our study is going
to be about rules for understanding scripture. Last week we talked about getting to know your Bible
but we didn't, what we didn't cover last week was Bible translations. So that's an important thing
just that I want to take begin this class that's talking about choosing a Bible translation.
For real quick, let's say review. Let me, instead of necessarily me giving out, we'll start out
this way. You give us a review from what you heard last week. What did you learn new or what stood
out to you from our class last week?
Foricopy? Yeah, that was a new one for me when I read it too. I was reading it wrong for a long time
and so and then what's the pericopy?
Yeah, the man made headings that go throughout the Bible and so those are
you know and so we just recognize okay that's put in there that will shape your thinking,
can shape your thinking and so we just want to be alert to that but they're helpful tools as well
and so you know every one of these things has a plus and a minus and so pericopies play that role.
What else?
Becky?
I've been sitting in the middle of the slide for three days and all of them and the
states were there to listen and then providing them the chapters and the verses that go last
and just and their things that change our thinking, our thinking,
correct our thinking, we know.
Yeah, no you're exactly right and that was our whole class back with last week is there's
yeah yeah there's a there's a lot of elements to your Bible that are included to make it easier
their tools there you know so and you start with okay punctuation was not in the original text
and so where a comma occurs could change the way you're reading something and so pay attention
to that there are a lot of times just features of the translation so open up to the front of your
Bible and read the page that talks about well how did we translate things and what decisions
did we make what do we include within the text as Q so what what when you see like in in my Bible
anyway when you see the word Lord in all capital capitalized letters even though some of the
letters are smaller what that means is they're translating the what's called the tetragramaton
which is YHWH Yahweh they're just putting it as Lord and so that's how they tell you or in the
New Testament you'll see block lettering like that and that's them telling you oh this was quoted
from the Old Testament and so it gives you a cue to look at look it up in the Old Testament so
there are tools in your translation but I would recommend read that front section of your Bible
it will tell you all about it because we all have different Bibles I think because I noticed
the other day that Becky uses the CSB Bible which I like I like that I've been liking that translation
more but there's a little circle in front of some words and I'd read that that circle in front
of words is the first time that word occurs in a chapter and it's in the concordance in the back
of the Bible so if you want to know is this word in a concordance well there it is it'll tell you
right away so you could look it up really easy and you don't have to find out if it's in the
concordance in the back of the Bible so anyway so Bible translations are important and knowing how
the modern translations work is important and we're gonna I'll make that point here in a second so
here's what I just pulled this online if you want to get a better look at it because it might be
hard to read from the back of the room or whatever but it's the Bible translation continuum so
there's a spectrum of ways the Bible is translated and you have on the left side of the scale
what's called what's called word for word and on the left side of the scale thought for thought
so and if you'll notice there is these words underneath dynamic or functional equivalent or
literal or formal equivalent so those are going to be the terms about Bible translations so
word for word you can get a Bible called young's literal translation and it is like just change
the Greek word to English and it comes in weird order and sometimes you know different it so
you could do that and that's not in here on this on this scale but young's literal translation
might fall somewhere right here right so it's because it's so literal but word for word is when
you're translation basically their theory is we're going to translate the words and we'll have
to reorganize them to make them make sense in English grammar but we're going to translate word for
word now what do you think the strength of that is and what do you think the weakness of that is
yeah and what maybe the way you say it is you lose the art of literary the literary art to it
because it's clunky that's the way I think of it like the new American standard and you guys hear
me even when I'm reading my Bible that I know really well that I'm very familiar with I can hardly
read it out loud because it's so clunky I trip over my words and I get words out of order because
in my mind I kind of put it usually I'll say a word in a different way and it puts it word for word
and so I'm tripping over words a lot times when I'm reading the text out loud it's just because
a new American standard is super clunky and so there's problems with word for word and so and
also I think philosophically there's problems word for word because do we read to understand if we
want to understand what someone wrote down is a word the section of the do words carry the ideas
or does something else carry the ideas yeah a sentence is the night is a complete thought right
isn't that what the definition of a sentence it's a complete thought and so if you're going word for
word you might miss the complete thought a little bit and so when you start getting to the other side
which is called dynamic equivalent I don't think of that as thought for thought I would say dynamic
equivalent takes up this space let me see like probably like right in the middle of this thing
this is where I would put dynamic equivalent because and this is where like like you see the CSV
in there the NRSV the NIV I would actually probably put the ESV in that probably closer to that
side of things but because the philosophy for translation is we're going to do
sentence for sentence which is kind of thought for thought but sentence for sentence translation
which means we're going to take into consideration what the sentence and Greek means and then
we're going to say that now you can use word for word a lot of the time when you're doing that
because a lot of times Greek is not so far different than English but sometimes you say something
else so here's an example and first Corinthians 13 I don't know the verse but in the middle
of the chapter there in the New American standard it says love does not take into account a wrong
suffered now that's a clunky way of saying love is not resentful right what does it mean to take
into account a wrong suffered yeah to hold something against somebody right and so
to me when I if I read love is not resentful that's a lot clearer way of saying that statement
but in the Greek the word for word is does not take into account a wrong suffer like that's the word
for word and so you can see how if you're studying your Bible you kind of get a definition of what
is the Greek say and that how sometimes that helps you and then you can translate that into English
or what the ESV would do is they would just give you the English word that means the same as the
Greek statement because they're doing more of a dynamic equivalent they're going what does this
stop mean oh it means resentful and so now they paired it down to a word that accurately communicates
the concept and so that's what you those are the differences you're going to get and
so it and also a lot of times a dynamic equivalent will get away from some of the like you know
king James version style although probably the king James version is the most literally
literally competent translation of the scripture the man who you know ten dell is largely
responsible for that and that guy was like a literate not a literary but a linguistic genius
so anyway well that's another thing so when I'm saying when we're choosing a Bible
if you want a Bible just you're going to study from it then probably I would recommend the new
the NASB the ESV is pretty good the amplified Bible gives you every like it's a little bit of a
weird Bible it's not a reading Bible it's a studying Bible but that might be a good thing
I actually like the new king James as well and I would maybe pull the csb over a little further
this way because it seems to me it's a pretty precise and there's a newer translation which
is very similar to the new american standard it's called the um what is it called the legacy standard
lsb and that's a that is a new translation where they kind of fixed a lot of the problems that
the NASB has so that that with that's when I've been kind of paralleling and reading and and
one of the things I like that it does in the Old Testament instead of Lord for the tetragramaton
it actually puts in Yahweh and so you know the word that's being used in the in the Old Testament so
once you get over to this this side of the scale over here easy to read but it really it's
thought for thought so if they if I read a scripture I said okay it basically means this that's where
you these uh thought for thought get into it's like they basically just telling you what it means
instead of actually just reading it to you uh so what you end up with is like in the new living
translation it talks about someone getting a torch and they translated it as flashlight
I went and got my flashlight and it's like that is not what it says I mean basically like if you
don't know anything you know a lantern is like a flashlight I mean they use it the same way but
that's not what the word means and so you know you'll get some goofy stuff in there um in the new
living translation and then it goes downhill from there the message uh and you know there's another
one that uh I've heard of all different sorts but um I don't recommend them because what ends
up half it's the same reason I like things like watching the Bible on TV watching their reproduction
of it the problem is you're gonna get a thought in your mind and you're gonna think it was real
and you're gonna find out no they just made that up but maybe you'll make a decision based on
that thing and so I steer clear of that stuff sometimes I use the new living translation just to see
a simpler way of saying it but I always am comparing it to a to a translation I know is high quality
because you can get all sorts of um bad things so uh so anyway best is word for word as far as study
goes dynamic equivalent is best for reading and general study in depth study Greek study that sort
of thing Hebrew study and then um and then thought for thought that's where you're gonna get the
bias of the translator brought in and and you have like the um things like the new world Bible that's
the that's a Jehovah Witness Bible they change words in order to match their uh their understanding
and then you get things like um new living translation they change words to make it reformed
Calvinistic and so they're gonna you're gonna find Calvinistic turns of phrases in that Bible
because that's what those people believe and so you're gonna end up getting but a lot of bias
in a thought for thought because if you're saying here's what it means then whatever I think the
Bible means is what I'm gonna put in there and so you're not really getting the word of God so
I'm not saying it's completely bad but I am saying it is let the what you're gonna hear is less
quality um so that's something and and one other thing on translations one of the note on
translations so real quick let me see if I can find my notes where did I
tell the head and I wanted to talk about um how people how they make translations as far as um
um as far as what they include in there but I don't know if I have a note on it so I think um
let's do this I'm gonna go from memory real quick so look in Matthew chapter I think 23
and verse 13 so notice this is a little bit small so I will see if I you're we're gonna just
deal with it a little bit small um it says woe to you scribes for these actually I want to
in verse 13 so Mike you have a ESV Bible right read verse 14 to forming yeah
hold on Mike uses an ESV and it goes from Matthew 23 13 to Matthew 23 15
what about don't add to don't take away yeah so yeah so I asked Mike because he uses an ESV and I
know the ESV their philosophy is if a text is likely a variant which means it doesn't occur in
earlier higher quality manuscripts they will take that text out and place it at the in a footnote
and so you'll look and you'll find a footnote somewhere at the end of 13 or at the beginning of
15 and say there's a missing verse here and you can actually look and see what the verse is
in my Bible it says woe scribes for these hypocrites because you devour with us houses for a
pretense and you make long prayers therefore you will receive a greater condemnation I look
on my Bible I touched out little one look what it says this verse not found in early manuscripts
so the new American standard says we're gonna put it in but we're gonna let you know this is
not a reliable and not as reliable a text now um likely you can find this in another gospel
and so it's not it's not like a divergent from God's teaching and it's in harmony and this
is actually important for what we're going into next because when you the whether you add it in
or leave it out depends on does it change doctrine if it's inert if it doesn't change any doctrine
then it doesn't matter if it's in there or not it's just a philosophy but some people will get
really upset that they notice their Bible skips a verse and they're like yeah that's because
they don't want you to know that like people get onto that and I heard a guy he was a king James
guy but he was really dogging on the niv people uh because of the way they translated things
and but you know the real really there's just a philosophy that's used and so this is just good
to be aware of so if you notice that you'll know how to go about it so learn um my Bible has
it bracketed in but yeah just give this a visual cue to let you know oh um take a look
yeah yours has it bracketed yours a new American standard yeah so different um different versions
of the new American standard probably have a different approach to it so anyway but I had
another one that was also kind of the same sort of thing but you get the point um just pay attention
and if you read the section in the front of your Bible again it will tell you what they did
uh when they had to make these kind of decisions and so it just helps you to understand what am I
using because the bottom line is a good craftsman knows his tools and a Bible is a tool that you
can read God's word but it's also a tool in that it has a lot of um features that you need to be
aware of and so I would just recommend you know at some point you know I would say soon if you
haven't done it already read that introduction part of your Bible find out how your Bible works
don't go into don't go into battle with an untested weapon and so know your equipment um
and so that that would be my recommendation there so let's go ahead and move forward now
um so look on your sheet that your handout sheet let me actually don't didn't give myself one so
give me a sec so look on your handout sheet uh on the right or left side column here are common
terms now we're what we're going to pick up on is when you're studying your Bible when you're
when you're involved in Bible studies what you're gonna there are some words that are pretty common
mixed in with the language of Bible studies so someone might say well what's the context of that
verse um what does it mean what's the context what does that mean
possibly subject
um on the right left side your left side column says reading the Bible in its context means
looking at every verse or passage in relation to the verses chapters and broader narrative so
let's just say you're going to read uh Matthew uh 2313 you need to know what's in Matthew 2312
and at the beginning of that conversation so 231 is probably a decent chapter break
all the way down to the end of chapter 23 you say okay where does this fall well not whole thing he's
he is rebuking the Pharisees and so you kind of see okay this is in the context of rebuking
the Pharisees so what you have you know on look on our chart that's called the immediate context
so the next set of context now this is where Bible reading comes in if you've read Matthew before
you say okay what's the broader context and that would be um what's in Matthew 22 what's in
Matthew 24 like what is the broader context of what i'm reading and i would say in Matthew
since it kind of comes in chunks that Matthew 23 would also fit largely the broader context of what's
being said but you know in the book of Ephesians the broader context might be a few paragraphs you
might have to look where he starts with now and then you might have to look where he starts with
now again and then you got a whole chunk this is the whole conversation on that and that might
span chapter so uh you'll see some of those sorts of things i was listening to a podcast recently
that i thought was interesting and the guy is writing a book about how he thinks the first i can't
remember how many chapters but basically Romans is like divided and the first part is to Jews alone
and the second part is primarily to Gentiles and so you have this change of phrases and he was
going through all the reasons why he thought i just thought it was interesting i hold onto that
stuff so when i study it i can test it myself but um but that would give you a broad context concept
right is this is in the Jewish part of of Romans if that's correct or this is in the Gentile section
of Romans if that's correct but that gives that's a broad context idea so then you have the book
context Matthew of gospel of Matthew it's it guesses in the title um what is Matthew's purpose
do you present the Jesus yeah to present Jesus to something maybe as the promised king i think
Matthew would present Jesus as the promised king the messianic king and in a more of a glorified way
in a fulfillment of prophecy so there's a broad context in the book of Matthew and so you say
um what's the book context now here's another one is what's the testamental context
if it's in the Old Testament or New Testament makes a big difference some prophecies in the Old
Testament apply to the New Testament but they came from long ago and some of the things in the New
Testament you know there's you say okay well this is new covenant stuff and and one of the ways
that's going to be valid is in New Testament you don't have to apply a principle filter to it so
in the New Testament you know if it says to do it you do it it's two Christians the Old Testament
a lot of times it's in the old covenant so you have to say well what's the principle of what's
being said here and that underlying principle is the thing that applies to me not the actual thing so
for instance it says um if a lizard crawls through your clay pot you have to break the clay pot
we don't have to do that but what's the principle of that um pots are expensive you happen to
observe a lizard going through your bowl and you're the only one in the room what do you do
now you have a choice you can either be faithful to God's law and break the bowl and buy a new one
or you can flip the lizard out of the bowl don't tell anybody and save yourself some money but
what is that reveal it reveals the heart condition right what's more valuable keeping God's law
or my bowl and the thing is that's that is the principle and so we can say shit what do you do
to be faithful when no one else is watching see that would be the principle so what we're doing is
we're putting a filter on that passage in order to draw a new testament comment out of this isn't
my sermon this morning but it's in Romans chapter 12 or 15 verse I think five
oh four Romans 15 four whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction so
that through perseverance and encouragement of the scripture we might have hope so that that
tells us okay what if it's in in the old testament you know it's useful to us but we have we
have to translate it the right way we have to find the right thing so there's a testamental
context and there's a biblical context and this is actually really important so let's just say I
want to teach on a topic like baptism or marriage or sanctification or tonement or something that
you're going to find throughout the whole Bible and I want to say here's doctrine on this subject
until I've read every verse and considered everything God says about that until I understand
the biblical context or the sum of God's word I don't understand the topic you know and so you
have to go through and you have to a lot of times when you're doing a topical study you need to
have a biblical context now immediate context is easy broad context is easy they're both reading
the same book but if you really if you become a Bible student and you just say I'm going to read
my Bible regularly in time you're going to develop these other things and so what it's like
it's like broad and immediate in book context or even testamental context in a lot of
lot of cases it's like seeing a picture in black and white you basically know what's there
but if you can become familiar with the text of the Bible and and no
things from the Old Testament or how they meet up with the New Testament and where there's kind
of similar words used and when you can start building that kind of frame of reference in your
mind when you can know the scripture that well you're going to stop looking at black and white
and you're going to start seeing color now you're going to stop seeing two dimensional love of
God and you're going to start seeing three dimensional love of God and so the really the important
thing as part of Bible study is familiarity with the text is going to really mature you it's going
to help you see so much more than you could see before you're going to pick up on the meticulous
nuance of what God adds into the Bible and and you'll be left with questions and when you
answer them you're going to be like I finally figured it out like and so but ultimately you're
going to have this full color picture and and and what that also will do for you you say well I
think this means this yeah but it doesn't match up with this other with these other things I've
already learned and so you're going to have a really good anchor point to make sure that as you
study the Bible and as you understand it you're not going to get off course because you you're
missing some major Bible concepts and that happens a lot that that happens a lot and so we need
to be able to discern that and see that and and work on those things so that is context now let's
go through the rest of these you'll hear a lot times the word in books like and so if you're reading
books or if you're studying or you're reading resources about studying you'll hear the word
expository and essentially that means a preaching method that draws it's it's a teaching method that
or or study method that draws it's meaning from the text I am going to bring out the intent of the
Holy Spirit the inspired author so that's what expository teaching is rather than you're letting
passage choose the topic rather than you putting the tap passage in the topic you think you've
chosen so that's expository exegesis is the same thing it's just a Greek word which means to draw
or lead out from there's a word called hermeneutics sounds really like technical all it means is a
method of translation so how are you gaining the meaning from this and so you could have all
sorts of approaches a spiritualist or what they call it open and open like in it's not a very
good hermeneutic but people use it and so you know it just means a method of translation and just
to help this what helps me remember that is Zeus was the god Hermes was his translator so he'd
said Hermes to go down and talk to humans and then he would translate back to Zeus so that's
that's where the name came from is hermeneutics it comes from Hermes who was Zeus's translator so
the word lexicon what's the lexicon I want to call on Mason but just just because I feel like
the team's got to be put on the spot a little bit so you don't know what Trevor know the lexicon
is besides a cool name no no lexicon is a dictionary it's it's the Greek word for dictionary
so if you say okay well what is this word what is the Greek word used here you might you would
have to look in a lexicon to find it out so that's what a lexicon does it's a Greek dictionary
so it's that fancy people use fancy words to say normal things like and so it's good to just
be familiar with the words that they're using and realize this is all common sense like this is
nothing really smart just say dictionary Greek dictionary would be much better but lexicon
makes you sound like you really know what you're talking about so a concordance is helpful
base what's a concordance similar to a dictionary except for getting definitions like if you open
up the back of your Bible you have a concordance and you'll find the word like a tonement let's
say what I'll show you every time in your Bible that the word atonement is used and then there'll
be a number beside it and that number represents the Greek word and so you can use that number to
find the Greek word an lexicon so that's a concordance helps you find words in lexicon so that's
called the strong numbering system so that's an important term and a lot of here's another thing
we'll say a lot the sum of God's word is truth what does that mean Mike
yeah so yeah basically we hear it the sum of the word and that's a commonly used phrase and I
don't know if it's it's commonly explained but yeah what it really means it doesn't mean like the
sum like just use part of it it's like a recipe right the sum of the recipe produces cookies
right you got to put in all the ingredients and the right amount of ingredients so it's the same
thing is if you can understand everything God said on the topic that means you can understand what
God's position is on the topic and so but you have to take into account everything God says and
that is what that term means and so that's how it's used and so just so you know that that's a
commonly used thing but that's what it means is just take into account everything God said on the
matter so here's rules for harmony and I don't want to spend a lot of time on this but these are
I wrote them all down and I was thinking man this isn't it seems simple but it is really really
simple so these are tools like it's almost like reflexive because I study that I have you know
and preparing to teach classes and stuff I use these constantly like they just always have to be
in my mind and so you write them down and it's like okay and I even use the harder words so
so so so when you when you use them you can use the smart way of saying like okay criteria for
canonicity last sounds really smart and then you got inspiration app app apostolicity orthodoxy
antiquity usage and you're like oh man that sounds like tough stuff yeah you're especially if you
say does that fit orthodoxy what does it mean orthodoxy so that might be the technical term does
it agree with the apostles so if you draw a conclusion from the Bible the question you got to ask
is if I'm understanding the Bible correctly it's going to agree with the Bible now this is
interesting because the criteria for canonicity it's how did the church determine which which books
belonged in in the new testament particularly which books were canon like how what was the thinking
on that well it had to be inspired it had to claim authority from God that's what inspiration is
it had to be written during the era of the disciples so the apostles so if the apostles were dead
in a book showed up it was not considered to be part of the Bible because it it wasn't from the
Apostolic era basically and so it just means that the apostles and people around the apostles are
the ones who wrote and we don't accept anything that doesn't fall within their lifetime so it's just
a it's that that's what it means orthodoxy yeah this is new testament yeah the Old Testament really
wasn't canonized in the same way but it would have been a similar process regardless orthodoxy
does it match up with what the apostles said so there could be a book that that came so there
was a book it's called the um it's a strange name so I'm not recalling it I had it in the last
all right I'll tell you in a minute when I when I remember but there's a book and it's basically
the first harmony of the gospels that it was Syrian and it's in like within like the like 80s or 90s
or something it it was put together and within the lifetime of some of the apostles but it's
not inspired yeah first century yeah first century so but it's not inspired um because it doesn't
it doesn't claim inspiration it leaves some of the gospels out so it doesn't completely agree
with what the apostles wrote so they realize okay this is just a translation and a harmonization
but it's not an inspired book um so orthodoxy is really important does it match up with the
apostles said and even like if you're saying is this a textual variation should it be in or out
orthodoxies the test and you also say okay does it have ancient does it have is it historic is it
orthodox does it match the teaching of it does it match the teaching in the era of the apostles so
there's all those you ask the same questions for for that sort of thing but even if you're studying
and this usage did the church use it and commonly accept it so so all these are ways that you say
okay is this actually indeed from God but when you're studying the scripture you can use a lot
of this stuff because you might say I've drawn this conclusion well is there orthodox
does it match the teaching of the apostles well no um did the early church understand it is
there any sort of historical precedent for something like that what and and so let's throw out
pre-millennialism especially the uh dispensational pre-millennialism there is no historical precedent
from that that idea came into being around the uh like this late 1700s early 1800 time period
which in America is called the anti-intellectual period just if you're curious um but you know a lot
doctrines like um uh what did it the the sinners prayer except Jesus in your heart
Jehovah witnessed Mormonism I think seven they add then it no Christian science um
pre-millennial instrumental music like go down the list of all the all the false things that
were added in the church they all came in in that same period when people stopped caring about
what the Bible actually means uh so um so but you know it what it does it have antiquity uh
use in there so you can go through and you can use these tools to test okay is this what I'm
understanding is it accurate or is it right and that's really a helpful thing so this is just a
a tool um you don't have to memorize them but it is just helpful as far as you know from for me
I think these kind of things are super helpful so here's the next one clear scripture should
inform unclear scripture uh so I'll use an example so if you want to study what the Bible says
about divorce um mark and Luke they say um if anyone divorces and marries another they commit
adultery now that is a very limited thing right it is okay anyone divorces and
remarries they commit adultery now in Matthew uh Matthew 19 and Matthew 5 says except for
fornication so do we use mark and Luke to cancel out Matthews except or do we use Matthews
except in addition to what is said in mark and Luke see the less clear scripture
clarity uh informs the more clear or the more clear scripture informs the less clear scripture
you don't cancel out any scripture scripture doesn't cancel scripture scripture doesn't
contradict scripture but you use the more clear thing to inform the less clear thing and so that's
that's an important uh tool for doing that because there's all sorts of stuff like that
like for instance um you know there's a many scriptures on baptism and what baptism of the Holy
Spirit is and there's maybe one verse that says something like you know just in passing mentions
baptism of the Holy Spirit and people say oh see that verse right there that means and they'll
make it a charismatic argument you're like no no no how's that used commonly in clear ways
and then this one verse where it actually says baptism but you're interpreting it as baptism
of the Holy Spirit that will inform this other thing and so you just use clear scripture things
that are easily understood to inform the things that are not easily understood this is a super
important tool about it requires research um and so we need to clear scripture informs unclear
scripture the next section is accurately handling the text uh so to study scripture in such a way
that we can understand the intended meaning of the inspired author um i'm going to stop right here
actually we're out of time and i don't i've been trying to go over less um so you know we'll uh
take baby steps towards the goal uh but what i want you to do is look over this stuff just read it
carefully uh it's worthwhile if you just type in a google search on each one of them
like just do some research learn about it find out what it means and uh these tools are super helpful
and by these are like the ones that i use all the time that's why i've added them to this list um but
we'll go through a little bit of accurately handling the text but there's a couple of important
points back here and then next week we'll also start walking through the observation process so
use the paper i handed you out uh here's what it needs to look like your study is going to look like
question one read the entire text and and find the things in that question he gives you
suggest the paper i borrowed it from a friend of mine um but he puts in here's how to market
you can do that or not uh but find a way to market distinctly read through your text
number two read the question understand it read through the text find the things question three
figured out read through that just you're gonna read the text 17 times
and each time you're gonna add a little bit more and a little bit more and so this is the
bible study method because without opening a book without getting out a dictionary without doing
anything fancy just by reading purposefully you're gonna know that text forward and backward
after you know the text forward and backward and after you have identified the features of the text
then maybe open up a commentary but that's the purpose of this is just to help you
purposefully and intentionally read through the text and identify the features that are in it
some things you won't find some things you'll find most of i think in that particular text
i think you'll find most everything on that list but anyway that's your homework for the week just
read through the same text it's only 13 verses probably take you about you know less than a minute
to actually read that and so maybe longer if you're looking for things but but do that and
you'll find how fruitful is this is the most productive way you can read a bible and all it takes
is asking questions so anyway let's go ahead and close with the word of prayer