How to Study the Bible

1. How to Study the Bible Selected Scriptures

2. "It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is 'bibline' and the very essence of the Bible flows from you" (Charles Spurgeon).

3. Two Liabilities to Understanding God’s Word • Academic Liability

4. Two Liabilities to Understanding God’s Word • Academic Liability • Language • Culture • History • Philosophy

5. I hopped off the plane at L.A.X. (what’s a plane? LAX?)With a dream and my cardigan (how do you carry a dream? cardigan?)Welcome to the land of fame excess, (who’s welcoming?)Am I gonna fit in? (Is the land of fame excess small?)

6. Jumped in the cab, (What’s a cab? How far up do I jump?)Here I am for the first time (Finally I understand something)Look to my right and I see the Hollywood sign (Is this your destination or something?)This is all so crazy (Tell me about it)Everybody seems so famous (How can you tell by just looking at them?)

7. My tummy's turnin' and I'm feelin' kinda home sick (How do stomach’s rotate? I understand being sick of home. )Too much pressure and I'm nervous, (Are these famous people pushing on you?)That's when the taxi man turned on the radio (What’s a taxi man? Radio?)And a Jay-Z song was on (?)

8. So I put my hands up (Why?)They're playing my song, (Did you write it?)And the butterflies fly away (What does this have to do with anything?)

9. I'm noddin' my head like yeah (How is your head nodding similar to yeah?)I'm movin' my hips like yeah (Same question)I got my hands up, They're playin' my songI know I'm gonna be OK (Are you in danger?)Yeah, it's a party in the USA (What does USA stand for? Apparently USA is partying, correct?)

11. Two Liabilities to Understanding God’s Word • Academic Liability • Spiritual Liability

12. Romans 1:18-21 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

13. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

14. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

15. 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

16. 9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him" - 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.

17. Ephesians 4:17-19 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.