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  • Approaches to Bible study, continued:
    • Textual study
    • Workbook study
    • Word study
    • Topical study
    • Chronological study
  • Nothing besides the Bible is absolutely necessary to study the Bible.
    • Some tools that can be useful:
      • Concordance
      • Lexicon
      • Dictionaries
      • Other translations
      • History and geography books
    • All of these tools can be dangerous, especially commentaries. We must always check against the scriptures!
  • We must make time to study God’s Word while we can and redeem out time. Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
  • Reading, meditating, and studying God’s Word is important so that we can:
    • Know what it says.
    • Understand what it means.
    • Apply it to our lives.
  • Our thoughts, habits, and dispositions
    • Our thoughts make us:
      • Proverbs 23:7
      • Matthew 15:18-20
      • Galatians 6:7
      • II Corinthians 10:3-5

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  • I Peter 4:1-5
    • Arm yourselves also with the same purpose (I Peter 4:1-2
      • I Peter 2:21-24 - Christ served us; we must also serve Him.
    • The desire of the Gentiles (I Peter 4:3
      • Sensuality (lewdness, lasciviousness)
      • Lusts (passions) - Romans 6:12
      • Drunkness (excess of wine)
      • Carousing (orgies, revelries, revellings)
      • Drinking parties (banqueting)
      • Abominable (lawless) idolatries
    • You do not run with them (I Peter 4:4
      • Ephesians 4:17-21
    • They will give account (I Peter 4:5
      • I Peter 1:6-7

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  • The mission of the Holy Spirit, continued:
    • The promises in John 14-16 were specifically for the apostles. We cannot expect miraculous revelation today.
  • The promise and gift of the Holy Spirit
    • Galatians 3:14.
    • Acts 2:39 - salvation to whoever calls on the name of the Lord.
    • Acts 2:38 - Grammatically speaking, the “gift of the Holy Spirit” could mean either the Holy Spirit is the gift or that He gives the gift. From the context, we can see that the gift is salvation, which the Holy Spirit had helped make possible.
    • Acts 2:33.

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