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How to Read the Bible
-I hope everyone had a good thanksgiving
-So today is going to be a weird day
-Obviously I was gone last week, for drill
-and I’m back today
-I have drill every month of the year except for July, for some reason
-And it’s never the same week every month
-It’s not like they schedule us like the 2nd weekend or anything like that
-And this month is particularly weird because for the Month of November I had Drill at the end of the month
-And for December it’s the first week of the month
-And so that means I’m left with this really weird week right here in the middle
-And when I plan my messages I like to have a degree of continuity from week to week
-And that’s really difficult on weeks like these where I’m gone the week before and the week after
-So in two weeks we’re starting our Exodus Series
-And obviously we’re going to take a week in there to celebrate Christmas
-And so for today I thought we’d take at least one week to kind of re-group
-Because we’ve gone through a lot of bible over the past few weeks
-and from now until Easter we’re going to really ramp it up and go through a LOT of bible.
-Easter is in 18 weeks
-And because of my army schedule and the weeks where I’ll be gone
-We’re going to cover all 40 Chapters of Exodus in 14 Weeks
-What that means is that there are going to be weeks where I’m not going to be able to read all of the scripture for that week.
-There’s just too much bible
-And so that means I’m going to have to count on you all to read along during the week as we go
How to Read the Bible
-And so in preparation for that, I thought today would be a good day to step back for a minute and just have a conversation about how to read the bible.
-We believe that this book is the word of God
-And that it’s self sufficient
-And by self sufficient, I mean that God has givene us everything we need to know to follow him and be in a relationship with him in this book
-We don’t need a tradition, we don’t need a denominational structure, we don’t need any of that stuff
-Our core source is God’s word
-And because of that, that makes this book really important to understand
Right because this isn’t a normal book.
-So this is going to be one of those rare instances in which I don’t have a passage of scripture for you
-But I think it’s important that we talk about how we go about reading the bible
-Because if we believe that this is the word of God, then I think it would help to have a clear vision of what it says
-And to have a really good idea of what a book says, you don’t just read it, you study it.
You know it like the back of your hand
-I want to talk about what I like to call the pyramid method of reading the bible
Pyramids
-I was inspired to think about it like pyramids from the fact that we’re going to be reading Exodus where the isrealites came out of egypt
-And what I think of more than anything else when I think of Egypt are the pyramids
-So in fact that’s what i’m going to be calling our exodus series
-is pyramids
-And the idea of a pyramid is that you have to start at a base level
-you can’t build a pyramid from the top down
-you start with a foundation, and each layer builds upon the last one, it depends on the layer underneath
-So I want to lay out some tips, guidelines, some resources that we can use to build up the way we read the bible.
Rule #1 Read your Bible.
-And that might seem self explanatory, but what I mean by that is that you all to have a really solid understanding of the big picture of the bible.
-This is the most basic of basic levels of the pyramid
-When you open up to a passage of scripture, you should have a general idea at least of where that part of scripture fits within the big picture narrative
-And there’s a couple of things that makes that very very difficult
-And the first is the fact that the bible is not always linear
-If you just started in Genesis and read all the way through
-there would be a LOT of places where the timeline gets a little bit wonky
-There’s places in scripture where things get told
-and then several chapters or even several books later it goes back and tells the exact same story again
-So for example 1 and 2 samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings tell this broad story about rise and fall of the kingdom of israel
-And then 1 and 2 Chronicles Tells that exact same story again
Because Samuel and Kings Were composed during the kingdom of isreal, as a running history.
-Almost like a dear diary account composed by the palace historians
-so you would have a king come to the throne, he would do some stuff, and they’d fight some battles
-and then he would die and the next king would come to the throne
-and all the while the assistants and the prophets and the priests and all the people who were involved in the day to day operations of the kingdom were writing down the stuff that was happening
-they were making a running history of the events of the day
-But Chronicles
-was written after the israelites returned from exile
-after they were sent back to re-build the temple
-because they had been away in captivity for so long that they had forgotten their own history
-They had forgotten why it was so important to be obedient
-And so the religious leaders got together and re-wrote the accounts from Samuel and Kings
-And they wrote the history of isreal
-to give to the people to inspire them to build the temple
-So you have these two different accounts of the history of isreal
-Much like we get four different accounts of Jesus in the Gospel
-But to make things a little more difficult
-in the middle of all of those events in samuel and kings and Chronicles
-you have the psalm, proverbs, ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, all the rest of the prophets
-and that was all written between the lines of samuel and kings, all interspersed throughout
-And if you’re not aware of that fact, if you’re reading the thing all the way through you’re going to have a hard time keeping things straight
-And so there’s a couple of resources I want to share with you all that can help with that
-The first one is the Chronological bible
-This is something you can buy, or it’s also available in the Bible App as a reading plan
-and you can find all sorts of variations on this all over the place
-but this is the one I like
-And this takes the bible and re-arranges it and puts all of that stuff in order as it happened
-So if you’ve never sat down and read the entire bible cover to cover, I highly recommend you start here.
-Another book that I find very helpful is this one, it’s called “The Story”
-This is not a bible
-this is a book that contains parts of the bible
-But what this does is very similar, it takes the grand narrative of the bible
-and it puts it in book format
-Again, it’s not the whole bible, and I wouldn’t even call this a bible
-There’s not chapters and verses
-It doesn’t contain the entire bible
-But this a good resource if you really want to get a broad overview of whole story
-But maybe reading the entire bible is a little bit intimidating
-So if you’re in that Camp, I’d recommend starting with the story
-And then once you have that under your belt, then I’d recommend going all in and trying to read the whole bible
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