Bible 101

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Bible 101
Dean Biebert, Pastor Shepherd of the Hills Church
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His-story From Jesus until Judgment Day
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Last Times Homework
1. People who depend on Jesus are not losers.
They never have to take responsibility for their
sins because
a. ___ God has too much love to condemn anyone to
hell, no matter what.
b. ___ the victory of Christ over sin has been
credited to them as a free gift.
c. ___ they do enough good works to make up for
their sins.
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Last Times Homework
1. People who depend on Jesus are not losers.
They never have to take responsibility for their
sins because
a. ___ God has too much love to condemn anyone to
hell, no matter what.
b. ___ the victory of Christ over sin has been
credited to them as a free gift.
c. ___ they do enough good works to make up for
their sins.
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Last Times Homework
2. The work of Jesus Christ as our Substitute and
Sin-bearer
a. ___ gives us the chance to win eternal life by
following His example.
b. ___ is signed, sealed and delivered to us. We
get it as we as we personally depend on Him.
c. ___ will be finished only when He returns to
earth on the Last Day.
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Last Times Homework
2. The work of Jesus Christ as our Substitute and
Sin-bearer
a. ___ gives us the chance to win eternal life by
following His example.
b. ___ is signed, sealed and delivered to us. We
get it as we as we personally depend on Him.
c. ___ will be finished only when He returns to
earth on the Last Day.
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Last Times Homework
3. Even though we are part of Gods family of
believers, we still sin because
a. ___ our first urge and instinct (our old
self) is to defy God.
b. ___ we know God forgives us. That must mean He
no longer hates sin as He did before.
c. ___ Gods high standards no longer apply to
us. Theres no reason to try to do the right
thing.
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Last Times Homework
3. Even though we are part of Gods family of
believers, we still sin because
a. ___ our first urge and instinct (our old
self) is to defy God.
b. ___ we know God forgives us. That must mean He
no longer hates sin as He did before.
c. ___ Gods high standards no longer apply to
us. Theres no reason to try to do the right
thing.
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Last Times Homework
4. Depending on Jesus as my personal Liberator
from sin is
a. ___ something we have to do at some time in
our lives, and then we can forget about it.
b. ___ important if we want Gods forgiveness,
but not as important as obeying God.
c. ___ something thats always on our agenda. We
dont want to lose our grip on what Jesus did for
us.
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Lesson Twelve His-Story from Jesus until
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Last Times Homework
4. Depending on Jesus as my personal Liberator
from sin is
a. ___ something we have to do at some time in
our lives, and then we can forget about it.
b. ___ important if we want Gods forgiveness,
but not as important as obeying God.
c. ___ something thats always on our agenda. We
dont want to lose our grip on what Jesus did for
us.
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Last Times Homework
5. When we talk about Christian living, we mean
a. ___ God has made them holy, and they never sin
any more.
b. ___ they do better than most people, so they
qualify for heaven.
c. ___ God has given us a special reason for
living, to pay tribute to Him for rescuing us.
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Last Times Homework
5. When we talk about Christian living, we mean
a. ___ God has made them holy, and they never sin
any more.
b. ___ they do better than most people, so they
qualify for heaven.
c. ___ God has given us a special reason for
living, to pay tribute to Him for rescuing us.
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Last Times Homework
6. When we call Jesus our Lord, we mean that He
a. ___ controls and rules our hearts and lives
through His Word, the Bible.
b. ___ is more powerful than we are so we have
reason to be afraid of Him.
c. ___ gives us clear commands that we must obey
to have eternal life.
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Last Times Homework
6. When we call Jesus our Lord, we mean that He
a. ___ controls and rules our hearts and lives
through His Word, the Bible.
b. ___ is more powerful than we are so we have
reason to be afraid of Him.
c. ___ gives us clear commands that we must obey
to have eternal life.
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Last Times Homework
7. Our strength to say no to sin comes from
a. ___ our commitment to do the best we can to do
what God says.
b. ___ Jesus. The Spirit uses His supernatural
strength from the Bible to help us battle our
inner demons.
c. ___ strong will-power and positive thinking
that help us rise above every temptation.
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Last Times Homework
7. Our strength to say no to sin comes from
a. ___ our commitment to do the best we can to do
what God says.
b. ___ Jesus. The Spirit uses His supernatural
strength from the Bible to help us battle our
inner demons.
c. ___ strong will-power and positive thinking
that help us rise above every temptation.
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Last Times Homework
8. Christian living is important because it
a. ___ gives us the right to heaven as good
people.
b. ___ pays tribute to God, includes side
benefits for us, and brings blessings to other
people.
c. ___ shows that people should respect and honor
us for being good and doing good.
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Last Times Homework
8. Christian living is important because it
a. ___ gives us the right to heaven as good
people.
b. ___ pays tribute to God, includes side
benefits for us, and brings blessings to other
people.
c. ___ shows that people should respect and honor
us for being good and doing good.
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His-Story From Jesus until
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When Jesus had finished earning us a clean
record, He made His twelve trainees world-class
missionaries. Their mission was to get the Word
out. Then He disappeared into heaven to control
life on this world and everywhere and support
every one of His people on earth until judgment
day.
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What is Gods view of history?
History His story
Eternal life and death
The Years After Jesus
Judgment Day(?)
The Spread of the Gospel(4BC-Judgment Day)
The Savior Arrives(4BC)
Promises of a Savior (The Fall to 4 BC)
The Fall(?4000-8000 BC)
The Creation(?4000-8000 BC)
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What did Jesus say about the future?

1. Acts 14-11

That our mission in life is to tell as many
people as we can about Him and the way He rescued
us.
2) Matt. 244-14
That there will be a lot of counterfeit
messengers and explanations that will mislead a
lot of people.
3) Matt. 244-14
That people will use mistreat those who depend
on Jesus and make life miserable for them.
4) Matt. 2531-33
That He would return to decide the future of
everyone whos lived. People who depend on Jesus
will be safe. People who reject Jesus will face
eternity in hell.
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What did Jesus say about the future?
5) Mark 1332-37
That Christians should live each day as if it
were their last.
A. Luke 2445-47
Change thinking and behavior
B. Mark 1333-37
Get busy with the Lords Work
C. Luke 1235-38
Be ready for the Boss return
D. Hebrews 1024-25
Be part of the support group
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Acts 14-11The News about Jesus Spread
Verse 8 The Holy Spirit will come to you and
give you power. Then you will tell everyone about
Me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and
everywhere in the world.
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• NOTE Next you can see how Jesus predictions
  came true all through history until now

But first, a few things to rememberabout the
end of the world
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Things to rememberabout the end of the world

1. Get a good understanding of the Bibles main
   sections on this subject before you tackle the
   more difficult sections.
2. The easier Bible sections about the end of the
   world are in the Gospels and the Letters.
3. The harder Bible sections about the end of the
   world are in the Old Testament prophecy books and
   Revelation.

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Things to rememberabout the end of the world
4. Matthew 25 teaches that Jesus physical return
will usher in judgment day. 5. 1 Thessalonians 4
teaches that the rapture or escape of Christians
will be at the end of the world and judgment
day. 6. Revelation is full of picture language.
What it teaches fits into the timetable the
Gospels give and Peters and Pauls New Testament
letters use.
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Things to rememberabout the end of the world
7. Numbers in Revelation are not usually literal.
They picture truths in other places in the
Bible. 8. The number 666 in Revelation 1311-18
pictures coming close to leading people to God
without emphasizing what Jesus did in our place
as humanitys surrogate.
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Things to rememberabout the end of the world
9. The number 1000 in Revelation 201-6 pictures
the period from Jesus time on earth until His
physical return on Judgment Day.
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Things to rememberabout the end of the world
10. Revelation outlines a series of visions about
the ongoing war between Satans team and Gods
team. There are seven groups of visions. They
show each battle and its outcome. This is the
same kind of picture language the Old Testament
prophecy books use (for example, Ezekiel,
Zechariah and Isaiah).
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His-story From Right After Jesus
The Holy Spirit not only brings people to Jesus
and a new relationship with God. He also helps
them live for Jesus. He does even more. He also
brings Christians together into a family . . .
Acts 247
Every day the Lord saved people. He added them
to the group of believers.
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His-story From Right After Jesus

1. Jewish Christians

Right after Jesus, most Christians were Jews
living around Jerusalem. Then the authorities
really came down hard on the Christians.
Believers had to relocate. Rather than hurting
Christianity, it actually helped spread its
message to new places.
Acts 84
Wherever the believers were scattered, they told
people the Good News.
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His-story From Right After Jesus
One of Christianitys earliest enemies was Saul
from Tarsus. He was an extreme Pharisee. He saw
Christianity as a threat to the true religion
of the Jews. Jesus personally appears to Saul.
Saul has a total change of heart. Read
Acts 91-9
Saul starts calling himself Paul, which means
Tiny. He becomes one of Christianitys leading
spokesmen. God had chosen him to bring the
Message to non-Jewish people.
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2. Non-Jewish Christians
During Pauls missionary travels, he runs into
stiff opposition from Jews in whats modern-day
Turkey. Paul changes his focus to non-Jewish
people. They were enthusiastic to get the news
about Jesus. Heres an example of the transition.
It happens in Antioch, a city in whats todays
central Turkey.
Acts 1344-46
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His-story From Right After Jesus
Jesus outline of His mission strategy was
happening just as He said it would
Acts 18
The Holy Spirit will come to you and give you
power. Then you will tell everyone about Me in
Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and
everywhere in the world.
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His-story From Jesus Until Today . . .
BLOOD
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BLOOD
No less than 10 bloody persecutions in the next
250 years. But
The courage, and even joy, these Christians show
as they suffer and die for Jesus makes a deep
impression on other people. A lot of new people
begin depending on Jesus. This is why people used
to say
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BLOOD
Lesson Twelve The History of Christianity
The blood of the martyrs becomes the seed of the
Church.
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Satan had been unsuccessful in destroying Gods
work with persecutions from outside Gods family.
Next he uses misleading teachers from inside the
church.
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The Nicea convention rejects this heresy and
agrees to the Nicean Creed.
Arius denies that Jesus is 100 God
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Salvation only happens because God gives us the
opposite of what we deserve.
People are totally incapable of good.
People can convert and save themselves!
Pelagius attacks the Bibles teaching that people
are born full of sin
Athanasius defends the truth.
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His-story From Jesus Until Today . . .
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God had outsmarted Satan again. The devil tries
still another approach.
Some ministers in influential cities wanted more
power. People called them bishops.
Then bishops fought for dominance.
Two bishops emerged as the most powerful, the
bishop at Rome and the bishop at Constantinople
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When both bishops wanted top honors, the church
split. Now there were two church bodies (in 1054
A.D.)
The Roman Catholic Church
The bishop of Rome calls himself pope. He said
he is Peters successor and Jesus representative
on earth. He claimed to be the visible head of
all believers.
The Greek Orthodox Church
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His-story From Jesus Until Today . . .
Darkness
Darkness
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Lesson Twelve The History of Christianity
Darkness
Darkness
Church leaders told people to depend for their
salvation not only on Gods grace in Jesus, but
also on their own religious performance.
In short, it seems as if the devil has succeeded
in ruining Jesus family of believers
As the power of popes grew, so did counterfeit
teachings. They began to dim the light of what
Jesus had done. A deep darkness was beginning to
settle over organized Christianity
Church leaders pictured Jesus to people, not as a
loving Savior, but as a stern Judge.
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Light
Light
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Light
Light
But Jesus is in charge. He promised us
All the powers of hell will not conquer My
Church!
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Light
Light
October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses
to the castle church of Wittenberg
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His-story From Jesus Until Today . . .
Luther
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Luther
Martin Luther kept trying to find peace of mind
in the teachings of the Roman Catholic church.
Nothing worked. He got desperate enough to join a
monastery. He was determined to earn a place in
Gods heart and home. He still couldnt find what
he was looking for.
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Luther
He researched the Bible book of Romans. He found
the truth which made him free, and millions
through him
Later, as a priest with a doctorate at the
University of Wittenberg, he made an intense
study of the Bible.
God accepts people as holy by depending on
Jesus, without looking at what theyve done to
obey Gods rules for living. (Romans 328)
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Luther
Then the whole Bible opened up to me and also
heaven itself. Immediately, I felt as if I had
been born all over again, as if I had found the
open gate of paradise.
Martin Luther
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Reformation
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Reformation
Luther was disturbed about the way people acted
after they bought indulgences from a traveling
monk named Tetzel. They believed they had
purchased forgiveness of sins and didnt need to
change their minds or their way of living.
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Reformation
This led Martin Luther to nail his 95 statements
against the sale of indulgences to the castle
church of Wittenberg on October 31, 1517.
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Reformation
Luther stood in front of the emperor, national
leaders and church leaders. They didnt give him
an opportunity to defend his teachings. They
simply told him to retract all he had said and
written. His response
Unless you use what the Bible says to convince
me, I cannot and will not recant. Here I stand. I
cannot do anything else. God help me! Amen.
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Next, the authorities declared Luther a wanted
man. Powerful friends hid him in a castle called
the Wartburg.
Here he began his monumental translation of the
Bible into the German language
In the beginning the Word already existed. The
Word was
with God, and the Word was God.
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Luther published his Small Catechism to help
parents teach their children. This booklet, that
summarizes the Bibles teachings, has been called
the gem of the Reformation.
The Small Catechism
by Martin Luther
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Luther also composed a lot of hymns, among them
the great, inspirational, Reformation hymn, A
Mighty Fortress is Our God.
The Lutheran church becomes known as the Singing
Church.
It still is today.
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Position Papers
Meanwhile, the emperor was doing his best to
suppress the spread of what Jesus has done
At a German congressional meeting in 1529 the
Lutherans (a nickname their enemies gave them)
protested their treatment. Thats where the name
Protestants came from.
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Position Papers
In 1530 at another congressional meeting in
Augsburg, Lutherans present their position paper.
Its Evangelical (true to the Gospel). They
call it the Augsburg Confession.