KEYS of Bible Study [Session 8]

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