Lesson 5 - Apply

September 12th 2018 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC Apply How to R.E.A.P. The Bible by Chris Reighley Outline • • • In Observation (Read) we ask the question “What do I see?” In Interpretation (Examine) we ask the question “What does it mean?” In Apply we ask the question “How does it work? EXPLANATION AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Luke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” A. Transform “A man’s heart is right when he wills what God wills.” Thomas Aquinas 1. What Changes Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 2. God’s Workmanship Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. 3. Be Who You Are 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 1 of 5 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ September 12th 2018 Page 2 of 5 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC B. September 12th 2018 Four Steps of Application 1. Step 1: Know a. Know the Text b. Know Yourself 1 Timothy 4:16 Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you. Romans 12:3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. 2. Step 2: Relate a. The Working Word 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. 3. Step 3: Meditate Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Psalms 1:1-2 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. 4. Step 4: Practice Ask: “Is there some area on my life for which this truth is needed?” Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 3 of 5 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC C. September 12th 2018 Nine Questions to Ask 1. Is there an example for me to follow? Example: Genesis 18 2. Is there a sin to avoid? Example: Ephesians 5 3. Is there a promise to claim? Example: Nehemiah 1 4. Is there a prayer to repeat? Example: David’s prayer of confession in Psalm 51 Hannah’s prayer of thanksgiving after the birth of 1 Samuel 2:1–10 Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the fish Jonah 2 Mary’s prayer in Luke 1:46–55 Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians in Ephesians 3:14–21 Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane Matthew 26:36–46; Mark 14:32–42; Luke 22:39–46 The Lord’s Prayer, which is really the Disciples’ Prayer, and in fact, our prayer Matthew 6:5–15 As you study those passages, ask yourself, “What is there in these prayers that I need to be praying?” 5. Is there a command to obey? Example: 54 Clear-Cut commands in James Romans 12-15 Galatians 5-6 Colossians 3-4 A wise, old scholar was once asked how to determine the will of God. His response was simple: “95 percent of the will of God is revealed in the commands of Scripture. If you spend your time attending to those, you won’t have much trouble working out the other 5 percent.” 6. Is there a condition to meet? John 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 7. Is there a verse to memorize? 8. Is there an error to mark? 9. Is there a challenge to face? Prepared by Chris Reighley Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RHCCBibleStudy/ Page 4 of 5 Sunday Night Bible Study @ RHCC September 12th 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! Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible Howard G. Hendricks 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 5 of 5