Holy Spirit...Study

A Simple Plan

Write out the verse or verses in a journal, notebook, or computer document. Assume whatever you read is God’s Word and will be significant.

Meditate on the verse, paragraph or passage. Most often, light reading through won’t be enough. It takes time for truth to penetrate.

2. Meditate on the verse, paragraph or passage. Most often, light reading through won’t be enough. It takes time for truth to penetrate.

3. Study the meaning of the Scripture under consideration. What is God revealing about Himself, His purposes, His ways?

Study the meaning of the Scripture under consideration. What is God revealing about Himself, His purposes, His ways?

4. Identify adjustments you need to make in your personal life, your family, your church, and your work so that God can work in you.

Identify adjustments you need to make in your personal life, your family, your church, and your work so that God can work in you.

5. Write a prayer response to God.

6. Make the necessary adjustments to God and obey what He has said.

7. Watch to see how God uses that truth about Himself in your life.

Sample Scripture

2 Timothy 3:16–17 ESV

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:1–4:5 ESV

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men. You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

2 Timothy 3:10-4:5

2 Timothy 3:1—4:5

2 Timothy 3:10–4:5 ESV

You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Interrogatory Questions

1. Who wrote it? Who said it? Who are the major characters? To whom is the author speaking? About whom is he speaking?

2. What are the main events? What are the major ideas? What are the major teachings? What are these people like? What does he talk about the most? What is his purpose in saying that?

3. When was it written? When did this event take place? When will it happen? When did he say it? When did he do it?

4. Where was this done? Where was this said? Where will it happen?

5. Why was there a need for this to be written? Why was this mentioned? Why was so much or so little space devoted to this particular event or teaching? Why was this reference mentioned? Why should they do or say such a thing?

6. How is it done? How did it happen? How is this truth illustrated?

Application: Four Factors

Personal: “I need to...”

Practical: “I need to lose some weight.”

Possible: “I need to lose 10 pounds.”

Provable: “I need to lose 10 pounds before the end of the month.”

Notes: