How to Study the Bible and Enjoy It

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How to Study the Bible and Enjoy It!

• Lesson 3
• GETTING STARTED

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GETTING STARTED

• Youve got all your tools now Bible, notebook,
  concordance, and dictionary.
• Youre ready to begin. Now what?

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Time and Place

• where nothing can interrupt our study.
• There are no rules! Except
• make that time holy to the Lord.

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Preparing Our Hearts

• Attitude is everything. Lk. 81-15
• Are you hungry? Mt. 56
• Like a baby for milk! 1 Pet. 22-3
• As natural as eating and drinking! Mt. 44

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Shaking the Tree

• First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the
  ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and
  shake each limb, and then each branch and then
  each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
  Martin Luther

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Shaking the Tree
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom
and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His
judgments and His ways past finding out! (Rom.
1133)
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Reading and Retaining

• Depend on
• observation, interpretation, and application

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Observation open eyes

• a process of discovery
• look for interesting things
• write down our discoveries

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Interpretation open minds

• what does the text mean?
• review the facts.
• try to discover the sense
• and the meaning of the text

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Application open hearts

• What does this passage have to do with me?
• What changes do I need to make?

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Different Approaches

• Systematically
• Topically
• Devotionally

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Reading Systematically

• read all the way through.
• by manageable portions.
• use your notebook!

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Reading Topically

• select one idea or topic.
• study all thats said about it.
• use your concordance.
• careful of dangers.

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Reading Devotionally

• Devotional Bible study is the process of
  reflecting on a few verses or a passage of
  Scripture and making a personal application.
  Heitzig