Lesson 2 - The R.E.A.P. Study Method

July 29th 2018 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC The Bible – The R.E.A.P. Study Method How to R.E.A.P. The Bible by Chris Reighley Outline “This book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.” EXPLANATION AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. A. The R.E.A.P. Study Method 1. Read Open your Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to teach, correct, and train you (2 Timothy 3:16). As you’re reading, ask these questions: • What is happening in this passage? What things are emphasized, repeated, related? • What do you see about God? What is God doing in this passage? • What do you see about man? 2. Examine Spend some time reflecting. Ask yourself these questions, and write down your thoughts: • How do you think the author wants his audience to respond? • What do you learn about God’s character? • What wrong beliefs about God and myself did I have? 3. Apply After examining the passage, apply the text to your own life. Ask yourself these questions: • How do I need to repent? What truths do I need to believe? What false beliefs must I turn from? • What can I do – empowered by the Holy Spirit – today to apply this passage? 4. Pray Pray through the passage and your application, asking God to change your heart and to change your life, based on the time you’ve spent in God’s Word. After you finish, share what God taught you with at least one person. Don't keep what God taught you to yourself. B. Why People Don’t Study the Bible 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Bible is not relevant to real-life issues Don’t have the skills or techniques to study the Bible The Bible is only for professionals not lay-people Bible study does not have a priority in life The Bible is not reliable, or I cannot determine its meaning Bible study is dreadfully boring Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 1 of 7 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC C. July 29th 2018 Why we Must Study the Bible 1. Bible Study is Essential to Growth The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity by to help you conform to Christ’s image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblical facts by to transform your life. 1 Peter 2:2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, a) b) c) 2. Attitude Appetite Aim Bible Study is Essential to Spiritual Maturity The mark of spiritual maturity is not how much you understand, but how much you use. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge but obedience. The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way. Hebrews 5:11-14 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. 3. Bible Study is Essential to Spiritual Effectiveness The overall purpose for Bible study is that you may be adequately equipped by God’s Word for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. a) b) c) d) e) Profitable for teaching Profitable for reproof Profitable for correction Profitable for training in righteousness Overall Purpose = equipped for every good work. Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 2 of 7 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC D. July 29th 2018 Tools for Study 1. Bible a) b) c) d) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Commentary Concordance Dictionary Map Other Tools a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) 7. Print (1) Large Print (2) Wide Margin (3) Journaling (4) Binding (5) Paper Quality (6) Cross-References Electronic Audio Study Bible Interlinear Bible Parallel Bible Topical Index Chronological Bible Cultural Background Sermons Books Podcasts Journal (Notepad) Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 3 of 7 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC July 29th 2018 AN EXAMPLE OF R.E.A.P. TITLE: SCRIPTURE: THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT MARK 12:28-31 One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” READ Jesus tells the scribes that the most important commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. He continues, saying that the second most important commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. EXAMINE God made us with different faculties: a heart to have emotion, a mind to think, strength to do, and a soul that is eternal, and I am commanded to love God with the fullness of all of my faculties. This is the first and greatest commandment; every other area of obedience flows out of this. Jesus says the command to love our neighbors is like the first commandment. Loving others as myself is somehow connected to loving God with all of my being. APPLY Do I think of loving God with all that I am as the greatest and first call on my life? No. I have reduced obedience to praying or being kind to my family and friends, or fighting the desire to lie. Do I love God with my mind: Do I seek to study His Word daily, think about Him and learn about Him? Do I love God with my heart and soul: Do I have affection toward something that is stronger than my affection toward Him? Do I love God with my strength: Do I actually live out his Word rather than just knowing his Word? I can think of several people that I am far from loving well. How is that lack of love for others connected to my lack of love for God? PRAY Father, I confess that I can’t muster up the love that you want from me. Give me a new mind, a new heart, a new soul, and new strength, and give me the ability to love you fully with all of my faculties. I pray for my mind specifically – that I would honor you today with my thoughts and love you well. I pray for my relationship with my father and my brother. Help me to love them because I love you and you made them! Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 4 of 7 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ July 29th 2018 Page 5 of 7 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC July 29th 2018 Chris’s Favorites: Bible Translations • • • Word-for-Word o NASB o ESV o KJV Thought-for-Thought o CSB o NKJV Paraphrase o NLT Study Bibles • • • • • • • MacArthur Study Bible Old Scofield Study Bible ESV Study Bible Archaeological Study Bible Maxwell Leadership Study Bible Ryrie Study Bible The Founders Study Bible Commentaries • • Thru the Bible by J. Vernon McGee New Testament by John MacArthur Other Recommendations • • • • • • • Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary Unger’s Bible Dictionary Thompson Chain Reference Naves Topical Bible Index Zondervan Atlas of the Bible Harper Collins Atlas of Bible History Bible Apps • • • • • • Olive Tree Bible App YouVision Bible App John MacArthur’s Grace to You “The Study Bible” Scripture Typer Bible Videos Bible Maps Podcasts • • • • • • • Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah Grace to You with Dr. John MacArthur Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee RZI Ministries – Just Thinking with Ravi Zacharia Wall Builders with David Barton Inside for Living with Dr. Chuck Swindoll Daily Hope with Dr. Rick Warren Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 6 of 7 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC July 29th 2018 Great Books on Bible Study: Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible Howard G. Hendricks How to Study the Bible John MacArthur Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word Rick Warren How to Read the Bible Like a Seminary Professor: A Practical and Entertaining Exploration of the World's Most Famous Book Mark Yarbrough "Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB), Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation Used by permission. www.Lockman.org” Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 7 of 7