How to Read the Bible for All It

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How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

• Session Eight The Word at Work
• From Interpretation to Application

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Interpretation/Application
Seeing the Implications of a Passage
. . . How from childhood you have been
acquainted with the sacred writings, which are
able to make you wise for salvation through faith
in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out
by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof,
for correction, and for training in
righteousness, that the man of God may be
competent, equipped for every good work. 2 Tim.
315-17
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Bible Study Method in Outline
I. Survey A Quick Look Round

• II. Analysis Dissecting the Text for Insight
• A. Historical Long ago and far away
• B. Literary Words . . . Flow . . . Beauty
• C. Theological Its All About God
• III. Synthesis Building the Text for
  Comprehension
• Interpretation/Application
• A. Biblical Thought
• B. Biblical Behavior Patterns

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Interpretation/Application
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Synthesis

• A. Outline
• Biblical Coherence
• 1. Basic Message
• 2. Promotion of Books Purpose
• 3. Place in Salvation History and Biblical
  Thought

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Synthesis

• A. Outline Steps
• Identify Thought Units
• Name Thought Units
• Arrange Thought Units in Outline Form

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Synthesis
A. Outline Levels of Thought Units
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Synthesis
A. Outline
25-11 B. Christs Example of Humble
Service 26-8 1. The Humbling 26
a. Christs Humble
Attitude 1)
Concession Though
in form of God 27
b. Christs Making Self Nothing
the Incarnation
1) Manner
Form of servant
2) Manner Born human 28
c. Christs Self-Humbling the
Crucifixion
1) Situation
Appearing
as a human
2) Means Obedience to

cross-death 29-11 2. The
Exaltation 29 a. Its
Nature
1) Divinely Given Position
2) Divinely Given Supreme

Name 210-11 b. Its Result
1) Cosmic
Worship 2)
Universal Confession
a) Gods Glorification

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours
in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form
of God, did not count equality with God a thing
to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking
the form of a servant, being born in the likeness
of men. 8 And being found in human form, he
humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point
of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God
has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the
name that is above every name, 10 so that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven
and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every
tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.
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Synthesis
Synthetic Reading Seeing a Bible book whole
Read it   Prayerfully At one
sitting Independently Observantly Repe
atedly
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Synthesis
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Synthesis

• Biblical Coherence
• 1. Basic Message
• State the basic message of the
• passage in one sentence.
• 2. Promotion of Books Purpose
• Explain how your passage contributes
• to the authors overall purpose in writing.

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Synthesis

• Biblical Coherence
• 1. Basic Message
• Passages Basic Message (Luke 517-26) Jesus
  provides divine proof that he has not only the
  power to heal but also the authority to forgive
  sins. (ESV Study Bible note 517-26 Jesus
  Heals a Paralytic)

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Synthesis

• Biblical Coherence
• 2. Promotion of Books Purpose
• Promotion of Books Purpose If Lukes
  purpose (Luke 11-4) is to assure his readers of
  the certainty of what they have been taught (ESV
  Study Bible, Introduction to Luke). And if
  what they have been taught is the gospel,
  summarized in the commission of Luke 2446-47.
  And if part of that gospels salvation applied
  component is a salvation blessings element,
  namely forgiveness of sins. Then, Luke 517-26
  promotes this purpose of assuring certainty of
  the good news by showing that Jesus himself
  claims to have the divine prerogative to forgive
  sins (524).

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Synthesis

• Biblical Coherence
• 3. Place in Salvation History and Biblical
  Thought
• What is the passages place in Gods unfolding
  plan of salvation?

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Synthesis
Progress of Redemption
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Synthesis

• Biblical Coherence
• 3. Place in Salvation History and Biblical
  Thought
• Is your passage foundational or developmental or
  both in the progress of revelation?

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Synthesis
Progress of Revelation
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Synthesis
Biblical Coherence Place in Salvation History
and Biblical Thought
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