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Let’s give glory to God

Let’s give glory to God. We Are Orwell Bible Church. The Unity of Scripture. How do most people characterize the Bible? Is it like a novel or story ? Is it like a biography or textbook? How does it all fit together?

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Let’s give glory to God

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  1. Let’s give glory to God

  2. We Are Orwell Bible Church

  3. The Unity of Scripture • How do most people characterize the Bible? • Is it like a novel or story? • Isit like a biography or textbook? • How does it all fit together? • "Many people hesitate before the Bible in much the same way they hesitate at the edge of a dense forest.“S. Deitrich

  4. The Unity of Scripture • How can two books be one Book? • How can 66 books be 1 book?! • How can we make sense of it all?

  5. Ourdilemma • Isaiah 55:8. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. • We think differently, we have different perspectives. • Yet - He does not want us locked into this dilemma. • Hebrews 1.1-2 He’s there and He has spoken

  6. Ourdilemma • The Bibleis very diverse • We are faced with history, law, poetry, proverb, prophecy, parable, oration, epistle,and sermon • and then we’re expected to readily accept the idea that one continuous story is woven throughout all these varied writings.

  7. The Big Picture • Have you really seen how all these diverse books fit together? • The Bible is not a "book" in the usual sense. • There’s not a logical “plot” like a novel, nor are the connections always clear like a textbook.

  8. Unity? • Would you say the book of Psalms is an extension of or harmonizes with Joshua? • How do you put these two books together? • Can they be joined? • If so - What would be the key? • When you see how it all fits together, how it presents a unified message, it will help you to understand and use it effectively.

  9. 2kinds of unity: • Organic • Functional • a piece of chalk and a ball-point pen • Which is organic and which is functional in its "oneness"?

  10. The Bible • It has 66 distinct parts, • yet all function together to form one body of revelation. • Not sameness but unity. • It's not just that the individual books complement one another; • they need one another.

  11. I Corinthians 12: 12ff • human body-church body analogy • If Esther shall say, “Because I am not Isaiah, I am not of the Bible;”is it therefore not of the Bible? And if Daniel shall say, “Because I am not Ephesians, I am not of the Bible;”is it therefore not of the Bible?

  12. If the whole Bible be prophecy, where would be the great convicting Law? • And if the whole Bible were worshipping hymns, where would be the great historical narratives? • But now hath God set the books of the Bible--each one of them--in the Bible, even as it pleased Him.

  13. Think Bible • think Unity • think God • think Progress

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