PICK YOUR BIBLE TO

PIECES!

Simple steps for applying the Word

What makes the difference between

churches?• Biblical or liberal?• Mature or immature?• Spiritual or carnal?

A. A Bible-reading membership!

Romans 15:4 “patience” = ___________

“comfort” = ____________

Promises to Claim--some

promises made were NOT for you!

• Only ___ groups addressed in the Bible (and all are mentioned in I Corinthians 10:32)--

32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

To whom were these promises made?

Deut. 30:4-5 4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God

will gather you, and from there he will take you. 5 And the LORD your

God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and

numerous than your fathers.

Matt. 25:34-36 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that

are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might

receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Sorry: not “every promise in the book is mine”! (or yours!)

Important things to Knowseparate these from some things more incidental.

What makes it important?

Examples to Follow (I Cor 10:11)Abraham’s ______(Gal. 3:9)Job’s ______ (James 5:11)Elijah’s ________ (James 5:16-18)Daniel in Babylon rather than _________ and his vowO.T. has much narrative (storytelling, history), sometimes requires ______________________.

Commands to ObeyFocus especially on __ commands

Q.—how many of the 10 commandments are repeated in the N.T.?

Rule:

Errors to Avoid Spotlight: Numbers, Judges, Kings & Chronicles Numbers: see John 3:14; I Cor. 10:5-11; 2 Pet. 2:15-16; Jude 11Judges: 17:6; 21:25).Kings & Chronicles: provided an authoritative _____________ (from a prophetic & priestly perspective) for God’s judgment of Israel

Recurring error:

1Kings 16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight

of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to

sin.

1Ki 16:26; 1Ki 22:52; 2Ki 3:3; 2Ki 10:29;

2Ki 10:31; 2Ki 13:2; 2Ki 13:6; 2Ki 13:11; 2Ki 14:24; 2Ki 15:9; 2Ki

15:18, 24, 28; 2Ki 23:15

Sins to Forsake

Prayers of confession: Ps. 51

Neh. 1 Dan. 9

Luke 15 I John 1:9