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Know Your Bible. Welcome to Week 1 Introduction. Why “Know Your Bible”?. To address your questions Getting a sense of structure and themes Having confidence in the Bible Knowing God better. Impossible task?. Time factor – 1500 years in the making! Three different languages, translation
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Know Your Bible Welcome to Week 1 Introduction
Why “Know Your Bible”? • To address your questions • Getting a sense of structure and themes • Having confidence in the Bible • Knowing God better
Impossible task? • Time factor – 1500 years in the making! • Three different languages, translation • Different writing styles • Forty different authors
Jewish Book • Strategy – but no favourites • Matthew 1 – genealogy • Mark 8 – feeding of the four thousand • Oral and written tradition
How to read the Bible See 2 Timothy 3 v16,17 • Our authority for: • --- teaching • --- rebuking • --- correcting • --- training in righteousness • inspired (‘God-breathed’), giving wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Jesus.
God speaks – why? • --- so that we become like Jesus (2 Corinthians 3 v18) • --- to build us up and make us strong spiritually (Deuteronomy 8 v3) • --- joy and peace in the midst of the storm (Psalm 23 v5) • --- guidance (Psalm 119 v105) • --- health/healing (Proverbs 4 v20-22) • --- defence against spiritual attack (Matthew 4 v1-11) • --- power (Hebrews 4 v12) • --- cleansing (John 15 v3)
How to hear God speak: • A regular pattern • Ask God to speak • Read and ask…….. • What does it say? • What does it mean? • How does it apply to me?
Main message of the Bible:Christ …in the Old Testament • in the law– Deut 18 v15,18, see also Galatians 3 v23-24 • in prophecy– Isaiah 9 v6,7 • in poetry– Psalm 110 v1
Main message of the Bible: Christ …and in the New Testament • in the gospels • in the early history of the Church (Acts) • in the letters • in Revelation – the climax to history yet to come
The Big Picture For the big picture, read Hebrews 11. We are part of this chapter, and also of Acts ‘29’