Know Your Bible

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Know Your Bible

• Welcome to Week 1
• Introduction

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Why Know Your Bible?

• To address your questions
• Getting a sense of structure and themes
• Having confidence in the Bible
• Knowing God better

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Impossible task?

• Time factor 1500 years in the making!
• Three different languages, translation
• Different writing styles
• Forty different authors

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Jewish Book

• Strategy but no favourites
• Matthew 1 genealogy
• Mark 8 feeding of the four thousand
• Oral and written tradition

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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.

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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)

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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?

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Main message of the BibleChrist

• 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

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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

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The Big Picture

• For the big picture,
• read Hebrews 11.

We are part of this chapter, and also of Acts
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