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January 2nd 2022
Series: Basics of the Faith
Sermon Title: Bible Basics
Topic: A message on what the Bible is and how to best engage it in our lives.
Also on the importance of the Bible in our life and how to study it.
Key Passages: Psalms 119:11, Hebrews 4:12, Proverbs 7:1-3, Psalms 42:1-2, Matthew 23:27, I John 2:3-6
Sermon Blurb: The Bible is so THICK and while we might want to read it…it can honestly be hard to understand sometimes.
In this message we will unpack how God brought us the Bible and how we can dive deep into the Word of God.
Sermon:
Family Moment
Happy new year’s Family Church!!!
How many of you have made so New Year’s resolutions that you are hoping to keep for once???
Respond
Give an example of one you or your family made here.
PAUSE
If you are new, or newer, to Family Church you probably do not know what we do EVERY January around here….so let me explain.
Every January we spend the month talking about the things HEALTHY followers of Jesus do.
Because it is our goal for everyone at Family Church to be a healthy follower of Jesus.
So maybe, just maybe, you will walk away from church every week this month with some additional ideas of things you can put into practice in 2022 to become a healthier follower of Jesus.
PAUSE
This month we will be talking about Basics of the Faith.
Let me give you the trajectory for the month.
This week we are going to talk about Bible Basics.
What is the Bible?
How did God give us the Bible?
How do we study the Bible?
And so forth.
Next week we are going to talk about Prayer Basics.
What is prayer?
How did God teach us to pray?
How do we pray?
And so forth.
In week 3 we are going to talk about everyone’s FAVORITE thing!!! Anyone want to guess?
Yes!!! MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!
In week 3 we are going to talk about Giving Basics.
What is giving?
What is Tithing?
How did God teach us to give?
And so forth.
In Week 4 we are going to talk about Serving Basics.
What is biblical serving?
How did God teach us to serve?
And so forth.
Then we will wrap this month up talking about Fasting Basics.
What is Biblical fasting.
How did God teach us to fast?
And so forth.
PAUSE
I really hope you will make it a point to be here every week and start the year off right!
Think about this….
You’re here today and that means as of RIGHT NOW……you have PERFECT church attendance!
Let’s keep that trend rolling!!!!
I really do believe it is important you are here as much as you physically can be….because it is important for you, your faith and your kids and their faith.
And yes….it is ok to stay home when you’re sick!
Yes, it is ok to miss church when you’re on vacation…
But I want to encourage you to try and make 2022 the year you REALLY try your best to be in church when you are home.
Let’s not let another year go by without growing closer to Jesus.
Let’s not let another year go by without becoming a more committed disciple of Jesus.
PAUSE
Today, we are going to begin with two common questions I get asked, “How do I study my Bible?
How do I understand my Bible?”
PAUSE
My hope is that by the end of this message we will all treat our Bibles with more reverence and that we will ALL leave hungry to study God’s Word.
I think the best way to start that is to begin with some background on the Bible.
I know there are people here who have never opened a Bible; and if that is you today I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE!
I also realize that many of us in the room have been in our church our whole lives but really do NOT know the history of the Bible.
Now you will notice I put a big blank spot in your sermon notes that says Bible Stuff:
The reason for that is because today we are going to being with an overview of the history of the Bible to help us all get on the same page.
So that space is for you to be able to write down what you didn’t know or to write down something you find interesting to study further later.
PAUSE
Let’s talk about how God brought the Bible to us.
It started thousands of years ago, somewhere between fourteen hundred and fifteen hundred B.C.
BC means BEFORE Jesus Christ lived….
AKA 2022 + another 1500 years ago would be approximately when all this started!
God started the whole thing when He wrote the Ten Commandments on stone and ascribed these very first words of God in an ancient form of a language called Hebrew.
There is a picture of what this would have looked like on the screens.
Over the next thousand years or so scripture was recorded on animal skins scrolls.
A scribe might use the animal skin of a deer, or a cow, or a sheep.
Here is a Picture
The very first scriptures which we still have in that form were known as the Pentateuch.
The Pentateuch is just a hard way to say, “the first five books of the Bible.”
What’s interesting is, when the entire Pentateuch is found on a scroll, it’s called a Torah.
If you saw a complete Torah scroll it would be over 150 feet long!
The scroll was so long that it would often take an entire herd of sheep just to make one Torah scroll.
For just 5 books!
PAUSE
Contrast that to my Ipad which has literally a hundred translations of the Bible and countless books in this thin thing!!
PAUSE
By approximately 500 B.C., or about 2,500 years ago, the 39 books that we know today as the Old Testament were completed and continued to be preserved in Hebrew on scrolls.
PAUSE
By the end of the First Century A.D., the New Testament was completed, and it was preserved in the Greek language on papyrus, a thin paper-like material made from crushed and flattened stalks of a reed-like plant.
Here is a Picture of what that looked like
In the year 367 A.D., the Bishop of Alexandria, a guy by the name of Athenasius, wrote his Easter letter and in it, he listed all of the books that you read today in the New Testament.
Then in the year 393 A.D., a group of church leaders gathered, who were called, the African senate of Hippo, and at the time they approved all of the books that you find listed as your New Testament today.
So, you’re talking over 1,500 years ago…
By the year 500 A.D., the Bible was being widely translated into other languages.
PAUSE
People were thankful, because they could read God’s word in their own language.
But then, something very unusual happened.
Within the next 100 years, by 600 A.D. the Bible was only allowed in one language.
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