The Word of God Sermon Notes Week 4

Notes

The ESV Study Bible The Requirements for Interpretation

As people read Scripture, Scripture reads them, questions them, reveals their thoughts (Heb. 4:12)—and it leads to a Person, not just truths.

Reading the Bible with prayer is a conversation with God

Resources:

The ESV Study Bible

The Bible Project

How to Study the Bible?

Pray for Help to understand. (humility)

The Holy Spirit inspired it and the H.S. will illuminate it

Context — what genre are you reading? What is its purpose?

Observations - Read the text, make observations

Meaning — Interpret what the text means

Using some of context work

What is the author’s original intent in writing?

What principle or truth is he trying to communicate?

Contextualization

How does this truth translate into our time and place?

Application - how does this apply to you?

Pray for help in living out the truth.

Argument

How you study your life?

You are actually doing this in all of your life.

Context

Your life has a context

That event has a context

Observations

What happened to me?

What are you reading in your life?

Meaning

What does this mean for me?

Application

What should I do in light of this meaning?

Proposition:

You are already competent for Bible Study. You do it in the rest of your life.

In your life

Watching a show/movie

listening to a friend.

Study culture

Call: Do you what you do to the Bible!

Why should we study the Bible?

Week 1 - It tells us about ultimate truth which shapes everything we do.

Week 2 - It’s alive and it gives life

Week 3 - It is trustworthy

Proverbs 3:5–6 ESV

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 ESV

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Psalm 1:1–3 ESV

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Joshua 1:8 ESV

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 good success.

More:

Context

Observation

Interpretation

What was the author’s original intent?

Application

Supplmental Videos

Why so many translations?

Bible’s composition - what languages