• Approaching Bible study: Isarah 34:16
    • Search
      • Purposeful examination for truth, John 8:32
        • Know this will separate you from those who do not seek it. John 17:17
        • Understand some can have truth, but misappropriate it. Romans 1:18
      • Make no attempt to prop up preconceptions or merely “ammunition” for an argument.
      • Make use of various translations, dictionaries, concordances, maps, etc.
    • Read
      • Regularity - attend to it, strive for consistency - I Timothy 4:13
      • Purposefully - with the idea of learning and application - Acts 17:11
      • Reverentially - respecting God’s Word for what it is - His Word! - I Thessalonians 2:13
  • Approaching Bible study: Psalms 103:18
    • Remember
    • Obey it
  • Reason for Bible study #1: Comprehension
    • Eunuch was reading to learn. Acts 8:28
    • “How readest thou?” - is there discernment? Luke 10:26
  • Reason for Bible study #2: Wisdom
  • Reason for Bible study #3: Memory
    • Experience, through reading and application, develops good memory. James 1:23-25
  • Reason for Bible study #4: Conviction
  • Reason for Bible study #5: Knowledge
  • Reason for Bible study #6: Root out error/set forth truth
  • Reason for Bible study #7: Godly living
  • Conclusion
    • Christians are less than we could/should be when we do not study as we ought.
    • Preachers and elders preach/allow false teaching when they get away from solid study.
    • The world does not know God when it will not read - this is the big problem, we do not search and read!
    • Therefore God’s plan for saving men is oft discredited because men simply do not know it is there.
  • God’s plan for saving man: