Notes:

KEY #9: APPROACH THE BIBLE BELIEVING THERE ARE ______CONTRADICTIONS…ONLY ______________ CONTRADICTIONS.

KEY THOUGHTS:

• Always give the Bible the ________________ of the _________________.
• Always operate within the Word of God with the conviction that the Bible is _______________ until proven __________________.

KEY PRINCIPLES:

• Your ____________________ in the Word of God is directly commensurate with your __________________ toward the Word of God.
  • Luke 24:25
  • John 2:23–25
  • Luke 23:8–9
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:13
• Never make the Bible __________________ to what you _________________…Always ________________ what you ______________ to what the Bible ____________.
  • KEY QUOTE: “It’s what we ______________ we _____________ about the Bible that keeps us from _______________.”
• Always be prepared to __________________ whatever you’ve been _______________, or whatever you’ve always _______________ to be true about the Bible, when it goes _______________ to the Bible.
• Be aware that God always ______________ us what we _______________.

KEY VERSES:

• Ezekiel 14:1–11
• Isaiah 29:9–14
• 2 Thessalonians 2:8–12

KEY TRUTH:

• Whenever the Bible APPEARS to ___________________ itself, recognize that God is using it to get your ___________________, so He can _________________ to you a profound spiritual truth.

KEY EXAMPLE:

• Doing the math from 1 Kings 6:1
  • From the time of the Exodus to the time Solomon began to build the Temple was… ________ years.
• Doing the math from Acts 13:16–22
  • Verse 18 – Israel was in the wilderness after the Exodus for a period of ________ years.
  • Verses 19–20 – From the wilderness to Samuel (during the time of the Judges) was a period of ________ years.
  • Verse 21 – After Judges, Saul was king for a period of ________ years.
  • Verse 22 – After Saul, David (1 Kings 2:11) was king for a period of ________ years.
  • Note: 1 Kings 6:1 lets us know that after David, Solomon began to build the Temple at the beginning of the fourth year of his reign, so that was another ________ years.
• 573 years minus 480 years means there is a discrepancy of ________ years.
  • Obviously, the discrepancy is some time during the time of the _________________, because 450 of the 480 years are taken up there.
  • Interesting observations from the Book of Judges.
    • Note the years the Book reveals when Israel was ruled by someone else:
      • Judges 3:8 – _________ years.
      • Judges 3:14 – _________ years.
      • Judges 4:3 – _________ years.
      • Judges 6:1– _________ years.
      • Judges 13:1– _________ years.
      • ______ years.

Notes:

KEY #8: ALLOW GOD TO TEACH YOU BY ________________________.

KEY PRINCIPLES:

• Key Principle #1
  God uses His PHYSICAL _________________ to teach us SPIRITUAL ________________.
• Key Verse: _________________________
  “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.”
  • Key Teaching:
    • Romans 1:20 teaches us that God purposely created the things that we see in the physical world to ________________ us about Him.
    • In other words, the PATTERN God used to create the physical world was _______________!
    • In fact, God says that we can understand His eternal power and Godhead (the Trinity…the 3 in 1) by what we __________ in creation.
  • Key Observation:
    • Because God is a Trinity, it is interesting to note that everything physical in creation will always break down into a system of “_______”:
  • Key Examples:
    • Man: Body, Soul, ______________
    • Environment: ___________, Sea, Air
    • Kingdoms: Animal, _______________, Mineral
    • Dimensions: Height, Width, ______________
    • Colors: ________, Yellow, Blue
    • Elements: ____________, Liquid, Gas
    • Atoms: Protons, Neutrons, _________________
    • Time: Past, _____________, Future
  • More Key Verses:
    • Psalm 19:1 – “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
    • Psalm 19:2 – “Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.”
    • Psalm 19:3 – “There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.”
    • Psalm 19:4 – “Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world…”
    • Job 12:7 – “But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:”
    • Job 12:8 – “Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.”
    • Job 12:9 – “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?”
  • More Key Examples:
    • Sun
    • Moon
    • Animals (Beasts)
    • Birds (Fowls)
    • Fish
    • Trees
    • Rain
• Key Principle #2
  The two most important words in the Bible are “___________” and “_______.”
• Key Verse: __________________
  “I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.”
  • Key Teaching:
    • God takes the things He knows we might have difficulty understanding and/or applying, and associates them to what He knows we do understand, by the ____________________ usage of the words “___________” and “_________.”
  • Key Examples:
    • A Husband’s Love…
    • A Wife’s Submission…
    • A Believer’s Walk…

Notes:

KEY #7: INTERPRET SCRIPTURE IN LIGHT OF GOD’S ____________________.

KEY THOUGHTS:

• God ______________ what God ______________…and,
• God ______________ what God ______________…because
• God ______________ who He ________________! (John 1:1)

KEY PRINCIPLE:

• God is _________________________.That means He never _________________.
• God’s NATURE, God’s ATTRIBUTES, and God’s COUNSELS have ______________ ___________ and will ______________ _________ the SAME!

KEY QUOTE:

“All change must be for the better or for the worse. If God is perfect, He could not change for the better. You cannot improve on perfection. And, if He is perfect, He cannot change for the worse for the same reason. If God ever changed, or could ever change, we could never be sure of anything. …God cannot change because His very nature is unchanging. Therefore, He can never be wiser, more holy, more just, more merciful, more truthful; nor less. Nor do His plans and purposes change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

—Max Anders

KEY VERSES:

• Malachi 3:6a
  “For I am the Lord, I change not;…”
• Numbers 23:19
  “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
• Hebrews 13:8
  “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
• James 1:17
  “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
• Hebrews 6:17
  “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:”
• Note: Do you realize that if God was not IMMUTABLE, we could never be ___________ of anything! He might _________ one thing, and yet, _________ another. Even if He loved us ______________, there would be no guarantee He would love us _________________!

KEY HISTORY:

The supernatural quality of the Bible’s unity and consistency is amazing when you see how it was actually achieved.

• The incredible ______________________________ in its writing.
  • The Bible was written over a period of almost __________ years!
  • Over _______ generations.
• The many _________________.
  • There were over _______ different writers.
• The many _________________________.
  • Moses was an Egyptian prince.
  • Joshua was a soldier.
  • Samuel was a priest.
  • David was a king.
  • Job was a rich farmer.
  • Amos was a poor farmer.
  • Ezra was a scribe.
  • Nehemiah was a cupbearer.
  • Isaiah was a prophet.
  • Daniel was a prime minister.
  • Matthew was a tax collector.
  • Mark was an evangelist.
  • Luke was a physician.
  • John was a wealthy fisherman.
  • Peter was a poor fisherman.
  • Paul was a tentmaker.
• The many ____________ from which they wrote.
  • They wrote on ____________ different ______________________.
  • They wrote from all kinds of different ________________.
    • In the desert (Exodus 17)
    • On Mount Sinai (Exodus 20)
    • In Palestine (Most)
    • In Egypt (Jeremiah)
    • On the Isle of Patmos (Revelation) • In Babylon (Daniel)
    • In Persia (Esther)
    • In Corinth (1 and 2 Thessalonians) • In Ephesus (Galatians)
    • In Rome (Colossians, 2 Timothy)
• The _____________________ in which they wrote.
  • The Bible was written in ____________ different languages: ________________, ______________, and __________________.
• The _____________ in which they wrote.
  • Some wrote in times of _____________ and others in times of __________.
• The different ________________ from which they wrote.
  • Some wrote in the heights of ________ and some wrote in the depths of _________________.
• The different ________________ on which they wrote.
  • They wrote on _____________________ of __________________ subjects.
• SO WHAT’S THE POINT?
  • Though the Bible was written over a period of almost 1600 years, with over 40 different writers who came from all kinds of different backgrounds, who wrote from three different continents and in three different languages, and all kinds of different times, places, and moods, and wrote on hundreds of controversial subjects, from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is __________________ and reads as if it were written by _________ ________________. Of course, it was…____________!

KEY EXAMPLES:

• The Book of GENESIS and the Book of REVELATION
  • In GENESIS we read: “In the beginning God created the ___________ and the __________.” (1:1)
    • In REVELATION we read: “I saw a _______ heaven and a _________ earth.” (21:1)
  • In GENESIS we find the ___________ Adam with his wife Eve in the Garden of Eden, reigning over all the earth. (1:26–28)
    • In REVELATION we find the __________ Adam (I Corinthians 15:45), Christ, with His wife, the Church, in the City of God, reigning over the entire universe. (21:9–23)
  • In GENESIS we are told: “And the gathering of the waters called he _________.” (1:10)
    • In REVELATION we are told: “And there was no more _________.” (21:1)
  • In GENESIS God created the sun, the moon, and the day and the night. (1:5,16)
    • In REVELATION “there shall be _____ night there.” (22:5) “And the city had no need of the sun, neither the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” (21:23)
  • In GENESIS the Tree of Life is ______________ to sinful man. (3:22)
    • In REVELATION the Tree of Life “yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” (22:2)
  • In GENESIS man hears God say: “______________ is the ground for thy sake.” (3:17)
    • In REVELATION man will hear God say: “And there shall be no more ______________.” (22:3)
  • In GENESIS Satan appears to ______________ man. (3:1)
    • In REVELATION Satan “shall be ________________ forever and ever.” (20:10)
  • In GENESIS man’s _____________ home was beside a river. (2:10)
    • In REVELATION man’s ________________ home will be beside a river – “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.” (22:1)
  • GENESIS ends with a believer in Egypt, lying in a _____________. (50:1–3)
    • REVELATION ends with all believers reigning forever in eternity where there shall be no more _________________.” (21:4)^{1
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• The Book of ISAIAH
• The Book of PROVERBS
  • ________ Books BEFORE it
    • Genesis
    • Exodus
    • Leviticus
    • Numbers
    • Deuteronomy
    • Joshua
    • Judges
    • Ruth
    • 1 Samuel
    • 2 Samuel
    • 1 Kings
    • 2 Kings
    • 1 Chronicles
    • 2 Chronicles
    • Ezra
    • Nehemiah
    • Esther
    • Job
    • Psalm
  • ________ Books AFTER it
  • Ecclesiastes
  • Song of Solomon
  • Isaiah
  • Jeremiah
  • Lamentations
  • Ezekiel
  • Daniel
  • Hosea
  • Joel
  • Amos
  • Obadiah
  • Jonah
  • Micah
  • Nahum
  • Habakkuk
  • Zephaniah
  • Haggai
  • Zechariah
  • Malachi

THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE & THE UNFOLDING OF HISTORY…THROUGH THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

• Genesis
• Exodus
• Leviticus
• Numbers
• Deuteronomy
• Joshua
• Judges
• Ruth
• 1 & 2 Samuel
• 1 & 2 Kings + 1 & 2 Chronicles
• Ezra
• Nehemiah
• Esther
• Job
• Psalms
• Proverbs

Notes:

KEY #6: REALIZE THAT THE KEY TO THE ___________ OF GOD IS THE _____________ OF GOD.

KEY THOUGHT:

• The Bible doesn’t simply claim to communicate God’s thoughts, ideas, concepts, principles or precepts…But His very ______________!

KEY VERSES:

• Psalm 119:140
   “Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.”
• Proverbs 30:5–6
  “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”
• Psalm 12:6–7
  “The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”>
• Matthew 5:17–18
  “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

KEY QUOTE:

“I’m a firm believer in the fact that every WORD of God is PURE (Proverbs 30:5). I believe the real POWER of the WORD of God is actually in the WORDS of God, and that my job as an expositor is just to keep my grubby little hands off ’em! My job is not to CORRECT what God said, CHANGE what He said, ALTER it, ADD TO it, TAKE AWAY FROM it, or try to IMPROVE upon it! My job is simply to expose WHAT He said, HOW He said it, WHEN He said it, WHERE He said it, WHY He said it, and to WHOM He said it. My job is to bring the FOOD of the Word of God out of God’s KITCHEN to the TABLE of God’s people exactly as He prepared it, in a timely manner, and with a gracious spirit. I am simply the WAITER… I am not the CHEF. My job isn’t to seek to be LIKED…APPRECIATED…ESTEEMED…LAUDED… APPLAUDED… or ADMIRED. My job is to make certain the Word of God is PREACHED (2 Timothy 4:2–4) and MAGNIFIED (Psalm 138:2)… so that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is EXALTED…HALLOWED…HONORED…GLORIFIED…and PRAISED. My job is not to BUILD the church, my job is to PROCLAIM the Truth, and allow the LORD to build HIS church (Matthew 16:18). And all of these realities make me cry out with Paul: ‘Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach…the unsearchable riches of Christ’ (Ephesians 3:8).”

—Pastor Mark’s Facebook Post (September 4, 2013)

KEY PRINCIPLES:

• The first recorded words of Satan in the Bible come in the form of a __________________—and the question had to do with God’s _____________ (i.e. What God “____________!”). (Genesis 3:1–6)
• God chooses His words very ____________________…and for a specific ___________________! 

  Namely, to give us what we need to lead us to the ____________ ___________________ the Holy Spirit will use to ____________ His Truth to us.

KEY OBSERVATION:

• The ____________ time key ___________, concepts, or principles appear in the Word of God we can expect them to _____________________ the key truth that will unfold and be revealed throughout the rest of the Bible.
• This is often referred to as “the ___________ of _____________ mention.”

KEY EXAMPLES:

• “LOVE” (Genesis 22:1–13…First Mention&mdsah;verse 2.) –
  

 

• “WORSHIP” (Genesis 22:1-19…First Mention—verse 5.) –
  
• “LIFE” (Genesis 1:19-20…First Mention—verse 20.) –

KEY WORDS:

• JESUS CHRIST
  • Innocent blood
  • Jesus Christ – (earthly to heavenly)
  • Christ Jesus – (heavenly to earthly)
  • Without a cause
  • Son of Man (earthly)
  • Son of God (spiritual)
  • Light (Word of God)
  • Bread (Word of God)
  • Gold (deity)
  • Silver (redemption)
  • Bridegroom
  • Right hand (counterfeited)
  • Right arm (counterfeited)
  • Lion (counterfeited)
  • Image (of God)
  • Passover
• HOLY SPIRIT
  • Dove
  • Oil
  • Holy Spirit – Third person of Trinity
  • Holy Ghost – indwelling work
• WORD OF GOD
  • Sword
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Hammer
  • Rain (blessings)
• ISRAEL
  • Virgin daughter
  • Thy people
  • Precious stones (OT)
  • Wife (relation to God)
  • Remnant (in tribulation)
  • Women in travail (in tribulation)
  • Barren (women)
  • Olive leaf/tree
  • Sign
  • Father(s)
  • Fig leaf/tree
• CHURCH, CHRISTIAN, CHURCH AGE
  • Night – church age
  • Virgin – church
  • Pearl – church
  • Precious stones – church (NT)
  • Bride – church (relation to Christ)
  • Last days – church age and millennium
  • Son of God – Christian
  • Body – body of Christ
• MAN
  • Clay (flesh)
  • Grass (flesh)
  • Flower of grass (glory of man)
  • Vessel (human body)
  • Chaff (unsaved man)
  • Waters (masses of people)
  • Ass (unsaved man)
  • Flesh
  • Body
  • Flesh and Blood
• SATAN AND HIS IMPS
  • Iron (giants)
  • Principalities and powers
  • Beast (Antichrist)
  • Adversary
  • Enemy
  • Leviathan
  • Dragon
  • Serpent
  • Leopard
  • Bear
  • Lion
  • Young Lions
  • Man of Sin
  • Son of perdition
  • Songs of God (fallen angel)
  • Gods
  • Confusion
  • Mark
  • False witnesses
  • Spot
• JUDGMENT OF GOD
  • Brimstone
  • Fire
  • Hell
  • Vengeance
  • Deep
  • Rain
  • Wrath
  • Small and great (white home)
  • Threshing (method)
  • Threshingfloor (place)
  • Winepress (Second Coming)
  • Punish
• RAPTURE
  • Wings of the morning
  • Come up hither
  • Sickle
  • Harvest
  • Day of Christ (church)
  • Thunder (God’s voice)
  • Firstfruits
  • Gleanings
• TRIBULATION
  • Trouble (time of)
  • Those days
  • Wilderness
  • Shadow of death
  • Former rain or early rain (mid-tribulation)
  • Man child
  • Remnant (Israel)
  • Virgins (144,000)
  • Endure
• END OF TRIBULATION INTO SECOND ADVENT
  • Turn the captivity
  • Darkness, thick darkness
  • Women in travail (Israel)
  • Latter rain
  • Gloominess
  • Wasteness
  • Distress
  • Desolation, desolate
  • Destruction
  • The End
• SECOND ADVENT OF JESUS CHRIST
  • The day of the Lord
  • That day
  • The day
  • Brightness
  • Cloud
  • Whirlwind
  • Morning
  • Winepress (Battle of Armageddon)
  • Day of Wrath
  • Fire (God’s judgment)
• MILLENNIUM
  • Selah
  • Rest
  • Day of the Lord (Second Advent)
  • Last Days (includes church age)
  • Seventh day
  • Reign
  • Sabbath
  • Eighth day (end of millennium)
  • Throne
  • Kingdom of heaven
• DEATH
  • Sleep
  • Billows and waves
  • Deep
  • The floods
• MISCELLANEOUS
  • Last days – end of a dispensation or the last 3,000 years of human history
  • Field – the world
  • Sea – top of universe
  • Council – against Jesus Christ except Matthew 5:22
  • Third day – power of resurrection
  • Strangers – Gentiles
  • Ears – Spiritual hearing and understanding
  • Eyes – Spiritual seeing and understanding
  • Waters – the sea or deep at top of universe
  • Stars – angels

Notes:

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE FIRST 5 KEYS OF BIBLE STUDY

1. ESTABLISH THE ______________ OF THE ______________.
2. MAKE THE _____________ ________________.
3. KEEP VERSES IN THEIR _________________.
4. UTILIZE GOD’S PRINCIPLE OF COMPARING ________________ WITH ________________.
5. RECOGNIZE THE ___________ LAYERS OF __________________.

• Not only are these keys invaluable in _______________ to make a proper INTERPRETATION of a particular Book, passage, or verse in the Word of God…they are invaluable in _______________ to someone EXPOUND the Word of God!
• These keys give us a practiced way to apply 1 John 4:1!
  • 1 John 4:1
    Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because _______ false prophets are gone out into the world.
  • 1 John 2:18
    Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there ________ antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
  • 2 John 7
    For ________ deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
  • 2 Corinthians 2:17
    For we are not as _______, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
  • Philippians 3:18
    For ________ walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
  • 2 Timothy 3:13
    But evil men and seducers shall wax ________ and ________, deceiving, and being deceived.

Applying the keys to particular verses and passages…

• 1 Thessalonians 5:22
  “Abstain from all appearance of evil.”
• Psalm 51:11
  “Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.”
• Matthew 24:13
  “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
• Matthew 24:14
  “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
• Matthew 24:29–31
  “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
• Matthew 18:20
  “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
• Revelation 1:4
  “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;”

Notes:

KEY #5: RECOGNIZE THE ___________ LAYERS OF __________________.

KEY VERSES:

• ________________________
  “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”
• ________________________
  “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.”
• ________________________
  “Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• ________________________
  “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”

KEY THOUGHT:

• The Old Testament is actually the _______________ _____________ of New Testament truth.

KEY EXPLANATION:

• God takes New Testament concepts, precepts, and principles that are sometimes difficult for us to understand, and graphically ________________ them through His record of the events of ______________ in the Old Testament, so they can be clearly seen and understood.

KEY QUOTE:

You will never really understand the __________ Testament without understanding the _________ Testament, and you will never really understand the __________ Testament without understanding the ___________ Testament.

KEY PRINCIPLE: The Three Layers of Application in the Bible

• The _____________________ Application…
  • What is happening at this time in ___________________?
• The _____________________ or ____________________ Application…
  • What is this teaching actually ____________________ to?
• The _____________________ or ____________________ Application…
  • What can I ________________ to my life?

KEY EXAMPLES:

• The Book of PROVERBS/SOLOMON
• The HISTORICAL Application…
  • The Writer: ________________________
    “The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.” (Proverbs 1:1)
  • The Recipients: His _________________ (Proverbs 1:8, 10; 2:1; 3:1; 3:11, 21; 4:20; 5:1; 6:1, 20; 7:1)
  • The Content: The _______________ that should ____________ our lives.
• The DEVOTIONAL (INSPIRATIONAL) Application…
• The DOCTRINAL (PROPHETIC) Application…
  • The Writer
    “The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.” (Prov. 1:1)
• WHO ACTUALLY IS “SOLOMON?”
  • His Incredible NAMES
    • The name given to him by his father, David: ______________________
      • From the Hebrew root “shalom,” meaning “______________________”
      • “Solomon” = __________________________
      • As the son of King David we would say that:
      • SOLOMON IS THE _______________ OF _________________.
    • The name given to him by the prophet, Nathan: _____________________ (2 Samuel 12:25)
      • The Hebrew word “Jedidiah” tells us that:
        SOLOMON IS THE ___________________ OF ____________________. (God the Father)
  • His Powerful TITLES
    • Proverbs 1:1
      SOLOMON IS THE ________________ OF __________________.
    • 1 Chronicles 28:6
      SOLOMON IS THE ________________ OF __________________.
    • 1 Chronicles 22:9
      SOLOMON IS THE ________________ OF __________________.
  • His Monumental KINGDOM
    • 1 Chronicles 28:5
      SOLOMON SAT ON THE _______________ OF THE KINGDOM OF THE _______________.
    • 1 Chronicles 22:10
      SOLOMON SAT ON THE THRONE OF AN ___________________ KINGDOM.
    • 1 Chronicles 22:9
      SOLOMON’S KINGDOM WAS A KINGDOM OF ________________ AND ______________.
    • 1 Kings 5:4
      SOLOMON’S KINGDOM WAS A KINGDOM WITH NO ___________________ PRESENT.
    • 2 Chronicles 9:23
      SOLOMON’S PRESENCE WAS SOUGHT BY ALL THE ______________ OF THE _____________.
    • In a DOCTRINAL (or PROPHETIC) sense, take special note of WHO ACTUALLY WROTE THE PROVERBS!
      • Prince of Peace
        • Isaiah ___________
      • Beloved of Jehovah (the Father)
        • Matthew ________
      • Son of David
        • Matthew ________
      • Son of Jehovah (the Highest)
        • Luke ____________
      • Man of Rest
        • Hebrews ________
      • Throne of the Lord
        • Revelation _______
      • Eternal Kingdom
        • Isaiah ___________
      • Kingdom of Peace and Rest
        • Isaiah ___________
      • Kingdom with no Adversary
        • Revelation _______
      • Kings of the earth seeking audience
        • Revelation _______
    • In a DOCTRINAL (or PROPHETIC) sense, take special note of WHO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS IS ACTUALLY WRITTEN TO!
      • The moment we received Christ, we received one of the most significant titles in all of Scripture: “the ___________ of _________.”
        • John 1:11–12
        • Romans 8:19, 23
        • Philippians 2:14–15
        • 1 John 3:1
    • In a DOCTRINAL (or PROPHETIC) sense, take special note of THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF THE BOOK!
      • The Book of Proverbs reveals the ________________ by which our Lord Jesus Christ will _____________ in His Millennial Kingdom.
• The STRANGE WOMAN of the Book of Proverbs
  • The HISTORICAL Application of Proverbs 7…
  • The DEVOTIONAL (INSPIRATIONAL) Application of Proverbs 7…
  • The DOCTRINAL (PROPHETIC) Application of Proverbs 7…

Notes:

KEY #4: UTILIZE GOD’S PRINCIPLE OF COMPARING ________________ WITH ________________.

KEY VERSE:

_____________________________
⁹But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. ¹⁰But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. ¹¹For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. ¹²Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ¹³Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

KEY THOUGHT:

• In the 1000 year period known historically as the Dark Ages (c.500–1500 A.D.), the Bible was ____________ taken out of the hands of the “common man” through ________________.
• In the last 100 years or so, we have entered a new type of “Dark Ages.” Now the Bible has been _____________ taken out of the hands of the “common man” through _________________ (Mark 12:37)

KEY PRINCIPLES:

• The Bible is both a ________________ and ____________________ Book. It is, therefore, closed to the intellect and heart of a _____________ man (i.e. someone who is spiritually ___________).
• God’s wisdom (1 Corinthians 2…The Bible) cannot be discerned or understood using man’s wisdom. It must be ______________ by God’s own ___________.
• Anyone who is “spiritual” can understand, not only the __________ truths of God’s Word, but even “the __________ things of God,” without a seminary education.
• The Spirit of God unveils the Word of God to the mind and heart of the child of God as we trust Him to ___________ His truth to us, utilizing the principle through which God has chosen to reveal it: “Comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” (i.e. Comparing _____________ with ____________.)

KEY QUOTE:

“The best ___________________ on the Bible is the _____________.”

KEY WARNINGS:

• Because God has chosen to reveal His Truth by comparing Scripture with Scripture…
  • Never base a ________________ on a _____________ verse or passage.
    (In other words, a verse or passage that has no ___________ ___________________.)
  • Never base a ________________ on a _________________.
  • Never violate a _____________ passage when trying to interpret one that is ________________.
  • Don’t concern yourself with what you ___________ understand, or ___________ seem to understand. God will ______________ it to you in His __________, if it’s something He intends for you to know.

KEY EXAMPLES:

• The “VIRTUOUS WOMAN” (Proverbs 31:10–31)
  • Proverbs 31:10
  • Proverbs 31:11
  • Proverbs 31:12
  • Proverbs 31:16
  • Proverbs 31:20
  • Proverbs 31:21
  • Proverbs 31:23
  • Proverbs 31:25
  • Proverbs 31:28
  • Proverbs 31:31
• “BEHEMOTH” (Job 40:15–24)
  • Job 40:15–16
  • Revelation 13:1–2
  • Genesis 10:9–10
  • Job 40:15
  • Job 40:16–18
  • Job 40:19
  • Job 40:20–22
  • Job 40:23
• “LEVIATHAN” (Job 41:1–34)
  • Job 41:1
  • Psalm 74:14
  • Isaiah 27:1
  • Revelation 12:3
  • Revelation 12:7–9
  • Job 41:12
  • Job 41:13a, 14
  • Job 41:15
  • Job 41:34
  • Job 41:33
  • Job 41:10

Notes:

KEY #3: KEEP VERSES IN THEIR _________________.

KEY VERSE:

_________________________
“And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”

KEY THOUGHT:

Every cult in the world that uses the Bible, along with every false teaching in the world, is rooted in biblical _____________ that has been taken out of ____________. In other words, it is biblical truth that has been ________________, or _________________.

KEY QUOTE:

A ___________ without a _____________ is a ________________.
(Pretext = giving a reason or motive which cloaks the real reason; pretense)

KEY PRINCIPLES:

• Principle #1: _______________________
  Identifying the audience is crucial to keeping verses in their context. The Bible is written to three groups of people: ________, ___________, and the ___________. (1 Corinthians 10:32)
• Principle #2: ___________________
  Biblical context is determined by keeping the specific verse being examined and interpreted within the ______________ that has been revealed within the CONTENT of the whole Book of the Bible in which it is located.

KEY EXAMPLES:

• ACTS 2:38
  “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

  • BIBLE –

     Why is this Book in the Bible?

    • Remember its name…“The ____________ of the ________________.”
    • It is not a ____________________ STATEMENT of _______________ THEOLOGY!
    • It is an _______________________ ACCOUNT of the “______________ of the ________________.”
  • BOOK – What is the real TEACHING or PURPOSE of this Book?
    • To help make KEY ____________________ in the unfolding of God’s plan.
    • Seven Key TRANSITIONS in the Book of Acts:
      1. From the Four GOSPELS to _______________.
      2. From an OLD TESTAMENT Structure to a _______ _______________ Structure.
      3. From God working primarily with the JEWS to primarily working with the _____________.
      4. From God’s base of operations being in JERUSALEM to His base in _______________.
      5. From God working through the NATION OF ISRAEL to working through the ____________.
      6. From the ministry of PETER (chapters 1–12) to the ministry of ______________ (chapters 13–28).
      7. From a KINGDOM of HEAVEN message to a KINGDOM of _________ message.
  • CHAPTER – What is the CONTEXT of the CHAPTER?
    • It is the ___________ of ________________.
    • ______________ is preaching.
    • Notice his audience:
      • Acts 2:5
      • Acts 2:14
      • Acts 2:22
      • Acts 2:36
  • PASSAGE – What is the QUESTION being asked in verse 37?
    • It is not the same question being asked in ________________!
    • The question is, “What do _______ (the ______________ of _______________) do, now that we have __________________ our ________________?”
  • VERSE – What does the verse (Acts 2:38) actually teach in it CONTEXT?
• GALATIANS 5:4
  “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.”
  • BIBLE – Why is this BOOK in the Bible?
    • To teach the fact that _______________ are FREE from the ____________. (Judaism)
      • Acts 15:1
      • Galatians 2:21
  • BOOK – What is the real TEACHING or PURPOSE of this BOOK?
    • It is NOT a Book to teach us HOW to be ___________________.
    • It IS a Book to teach SAVED people HOW to be ____________________.
  • CHAPTER – What is the CONTEXT of the CHAPTER?
    • It is to teach us to “______________!” (5:16, 25)
    • Paul understood that there is a PRIORITY that must be set into action before you can “WALK,” and that is, you must first learn to “________________!”
    • The PROBLEM the Galatians had was that they could do NEITHER (walk or stand), because they had “__________________.”
  • PASSAGE – What is Paul’s SOLUTION to their “FALLEN” state?
    • The SOLUTION was not for them to “Get ______________,”
      But to “GET _________!” (“______________!”)
  • VERSE – What does the VERSE (Galatians 5:4) actually teach in its CONTEXT?
    • NOT…that through the ______________________ of your life, you FALL out of God’s __________…
    • BUT…that through your attempts to do _________________ by the _________, you have FALLEN from the very thing you trusted to make you RIGHTEOUS…________________!
• HEBREWS 6:4–6
  “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”
  • BIBLE – Why is this BOOK in the Bible?
    • To OPEN the EYES of the _________________ (Jews) to their ________________!
  • BOOK – What is the real TEACHING or PURPOSE of this BOOK?
    • That __________________ is SUPERIOR to ________________.
  • CHAPTER – What is the CONTEXT of the CHAPTER?
    • He is NOT writing to HEBREWS or JEWS who had already come to __________ in ___________!
    • He is writing to JEWS who had _________ come to faith!
    • This CHAPTER is an __________________ for them to ____________ to Christ!
  • PASSAGE – What is the writer’s FEAR or CONCERN?
    • That for these HEBREWS to have had their EYES OPENED to the REALITY of ____________…and INTELLECTUALLY be convinced that ___________________ is true—and NOT make a DECISION concerning Him, is to ____________ a DECISION.
    • The writer wants to let them know they are running the risk of coming to a point of _______ _____________ in terms of their opportunity to RECEIVE CHRIST.
      • Hebrews 5:11
      • Hebrews 5:12
      • Hebrews 5:13
      • Hebrews 5:14
      • Hebrews 6:1–3
  • VERSES – What do these VERSES (Hebrews 6:4–6) actually teach in their CONTEXT?
    • Hebrews 6:4–6
    • With all that God has done to bring you to Christ, if you “____________ ___________” from that “line of faith” now, you’ll never ___________ over it!
    • …“for those who were once ENLIGHTENED”
    • …“and have TASTED of the HEAVENLY GIFT”
    • …“and were made PARTAKERS of the Holy Ghost”
    • …“And have TASTED the good word of God”
    • …“and the POWERS of the WORLD TO COME”
    • “If they shall FALL AWAY, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”
• OTHER EXAMPLES
  • Matthew 24:13
  • Matthew 18:20