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STUDYING
THE
bIbLE
Copyright 1985,1993,2001,2007
Crossroads Full Gospel
International Ministries
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1611 Elizabethan
English is updated in some cases to reflect present terminology, without changing the true
meaning of the word.
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Copyright © 2005
Published by, and the sole property of, Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, Baton Rouge, LA, and
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Copyright 1973,1978,1984
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Wuest.
Copyright © 1961 by Wm.
B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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CONTENTS
STUDYING THE BIBLE..........................................................1
DISCERNING TRUTH........................................................1
THE BIBLE...........................................................................8
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BIBLE..........................12
STUDYING GOD’S WORD..............................................14
HOW TO STUDY EFFECTIVELY....................................17
EXPANDING THE STUDIES............................................17
STUDYING THE bIbLE
DISCERNING TRUTH
Background Reading: Luke 6:43-44
If a person is open to the Spirit of Truth (the Holy Spirit - our
Teacher), the greatest sign to show that a teaching is of God will be
God’s convicting power on the Word of truth when it is spoken in
wisdom and faith.
As the Spirit bears witness with our spirit
(Romans 8:16) that the words being spoken are from God, if truly
open to this truth, we will experience an inner conviction.
It is this
inner witness (the knowing within) that will tell us whether a
teaching is of God or not (again, that is if we are open to the Spirit of
God).
However, many may be unable to correctly perceive this
leading.
For this reason they need to be protected from the enemy
and themselves through submitting to God-given leadership - their
shepherds (pastors and teachers) within the Body.
God’s purpose in shepherding His people doctrinally is revealed
in His exhortation to Timothy:
2 TIMOTHY 4:2 Herald and preach the Word!
Keep
your sense of urgency (stand by, be at hand and ready,
whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or
unfavorable, whether it is convenient or inconvenient,
whether it be welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher
of the Word are to show people in what way their lives
are wrong) and convince them, rebuking and
correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them,
being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and
teaching.
(Amp.)
Another version reads:
2 TIMOTHY 4:2 Preach the Word (refers to the whole
body of revealed Truth, which means the entirety of the
Word of God); be instant in season, out of season
(presents the idea of the Preacher holding himself in
constant readiness to proclaim the Word); reprove (the
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Preacher is to deal with sin, both in the lives of his
unsaved hearers and in those of the Saints to whom he
Ministers, and he is to do so in no uncertain tones and
terms), rebuke (a suggestion in some cases of impending
penalty), exhort with all longsuffering and Doctrine.
(This tells us that the “reproving” and the “rebuking”
must be done with gentleness . . . ) (E.S.B.)
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