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Linking Words
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“Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’”
I just read what is commonly known as the Great Commission.
What is being commanded?
A: Go, make disciples, baptizing… and teaching them
Does Jesus give us a reason why we should obey this command?
A: All authority…
How do you know which part of the passage is the command and which part is the reason?
A: The linking word signals a connection between the command and reason
What is the linking word?
A: Therefore
What are linking words?
The “therefore” in is one of example of the tool that we’re going to look at today—which we’ll call the linking words tool.
The last few weeks we’ve gone through interpretive tools in our personal bible study toolbox.
Identifying linking words and how they work helps us understand the relationship between various.
What is a preposition?
When I say preposition, I merely mean a statement about something that includes:
· a subject, and
· a predicate (part of the sentence containing a verb and stating something about the subject)
For example, the sentence “Dogs bark” is a complete preposition.
What is the subject?
Dog
What is the predicate?
Barks
What if we expanded the sentence to, “Dogs bark outside my house”?
What is the subject?
Dogs
What is the predicate?
A: All that follows the verb is the predicate.
These are simple enough.
Many times in Scripture we find whole paragraphs composed of multiple prepositions.
Our job is to understand how the prepositions relate to one another.
How do we do that?
Linking words.
We look at the linking words between prepositions, which in turn tells us how the prepositions relate to each other.
This is not a new concept, right?
Remember when you were young, and your mom said to you,
Don’t touch the stove because it will burn you.
Thankfully, in that situation your mom made it clear.
Don’t touch the stove, and It will burn you are not separate statements, or prepositions.
They’re connected by the word because.
Don’t touch the stove because it will burn you.
Because links the two prepositions together and tells us that being burned is the reason or grounds for why you should not touch the stove.
Linking words can be used a number of ways:
· Give examples… for instance
· Add information… Furthermore
· Summarize… In short
· Sequence/show a progression of ideas… Firstly, secondly,… finally
· Give a reason… Because
· Give a result or purpose… So that
· Contrast ideas… However
· Distinguish… And
Today, we’ll highlight 4 linking words, starting with:
1. For: Let’s start with “for,” looking at the examples in your handout.
Example 1: —“Give thanks to the Lord, FOR his love endures forever.”
The linking word for tells us the reason/grounds for why the command is given.
Give thanks to the Lord…
For what reason?
FOR his love endures forever.
“For” has the same linking function as words like
“because” and “since.”
Example 2: —“If they do not have self-control, let them marry, FOR it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”
Questions:
· For those who do not have self control, what should they do?
Marry
· And what is the reason they should marry?
FOR it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Example 3: —“Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, FOR I know that through you prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.”
Questions:
· What does Paul say that he will do?
Continue to rejoice
· And what’s the reason Paul says he’ll continue to rejoice, despite being in chains?
He will ultimately be delivered—the FOR helps us see the link.
Example 4: —“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, FOR he who is promised is faithful.”
Questions:
· What are we to do? Hold unswervingly to our hope
· Why (on what grounds) are we to do it?
He who promised is faithful
2. Therefore: Like the word FOR, the word THEREFORE also provides much insight into the flow of thought between two different prepositions.
But if FOR points from right to left
THEREFORE points from left to right.
Both are linking words, but THEREFORE indicates a particular consequence of a preceding statement.
The example that we had just looked at in could be flipped around.
“He who is promised is faithful, THEREFORE let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess.”
Words and phrases like “Consequently” and “For this reason” function similarly.
Example 1: READ
So… what is the therefore (v.9) there for?
Questions:
· What did God the Father do?
Exalt Jesus to the highest place.
· Why did he do it?
Because he obeyed the Father, becoming a man, and dying on the cross for a sinful people to repent and believe.
Example 2 (FOR and THEREFORE):
—“Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.”
3. If: IF statements can be understood one of two ways:
i. Conditional Statements
Example 1: READ ,
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