Grasp the Bible

Maybe you made a New Year's resolution to engage in consistent Bible reading.  This 7-week series is designed to help you be a better student of the Bible so you can continue to uncover the hidden treasures in God’s Word.

Today, we conclude a discussion on Bible dictionaries.

Maybe you made a New Year's resolution to engage in consistent Bible reading.  This 7-week series is designed to help you be a better student of the Bible so you can continue to uncover the hidden treasures in God’s Word.

Today, we begin a discussion on Bible dictionaries.

Maybe you made a New Year's resolution to engage in consistent Bible reading.  This 7-week series is designed to help you be a better student of the Bible so you can continue to uncover the hidden treasures in God’s Word.

Today, we will wrap up our discussion from last week on supplemental materials to help you better study, understand, and apply the Bible.

Maybe you made a New Year's resolution to engage in consistent Bible reading.  This 7-week series is designed to help you be a better student of the Bible so you can continue to uncover the hidden treasures in God’s Word.

Today, we will discuss part one of supplemental materials to help you better study, understand, and apply the Bible.

As we close out 2023 and look forward to 2024, maybe you are already making New Year resolutions.  Perhaps one of your resolutions is to engage in consistent Bible reading.  This 7-week series is designed to help you be a better student of the Bible so you can continue to uncover the hidden treasures in God’s Word.

Today, we will build on our last episode and discuss the importance of observing, interpreting, and applying Scripture.

As we close out 2023 and look forward to 2024, maybe you are already making new year resolutions.  Perhaps one of your resolutions is to engage in consistent Bible reading.  This 7-week series is designed to help you be a better student of the Bible so you can continue to uncover the hidden treasures in God’s Word.

Today, we will briefly touch on hermeneutics, the science and art of interpreting the Bible.

As we close out 2023 and look forward to 2024, maybe you are already making new year resolutions.  Perhaps one of your resolutions is to engage in consistent Bible reading.  This 7-week series is designed to help you be a better student of the Bible so you can continue to uncover the hidden treasures in God’s Word.

Although the Bible is a collection of 66 books written by approximately 40 different authors from different backgrounds spanning more than 1500 years, they all tell one story.  Sometimes, however, it can be difficult to see how the grand narrative of Scripture unfolds.  Today, Pastor Darrell will discuss 28 important Bible events (14 from the OT and 14 from the NT) and why they matter in the storyline of the Bible.

Welcome to episode 136 of Grasp the Bible.  In this episode, we conclude our study in the Book of 1 John, covering chapter 5:13-21. The series is called “Unshakable.”  Today, we will cover: 

• The thing that every Christians knows (v. 13) 
• Knowing God (vv. 14-21) 

Key takeaways: 

• Did you know that you can know that you have eternal life? You can know that you are saved. You don’t have to doubt it, guess about it, or wonder about it.  God does not want His children to worry, doubt, or lack assurance about whether they are Christians or not.  This is why John wrote this letter. 
• Not only can a believer have assurance of salvation, but he also can have assurance that God will hear his prayers and answer them. 
• John affirms that we know God hears when we request, not that we have unerring discernment as to what we should be requesting. 
• The sin that leads to death, therefore, is the sin of rejecting Christ’s atonement, the sin of calling God’s testimony a lie.  Those whose sins do not lead to death commit sins unwittingly and which do not involve rejection of God and his way of salvation.   
• John does not forbid praying for those who have left the church and are still in need of God’s transforming grace in Christ; that is just not the situation he is addressing here.  It is clear that he is in doubt about the efficacy of such a prayer. 
• While the powers of evil may tempt, entice, and otherwise influence the believer, even to the point of lapses into sin, the evil one cannot take hold of a child of God to remove them from the light and life and drag them back into darkness and death. 
• One cannot know the Father without belief in His Son, who is the revealer of the truth. 

Quotable: 

• There are only two possible positions. Everyone is either “of God” or “under the control of the evil one.” Neutrality is not possible. 

Application: 

• Sometimes our desires are not God’s desires for us. Sometimes what we want is not what our heavenly Father wills. Faith will accept that God’s will is best, and it will trust His plan and purpose, even if it does not understand at the time. 
• Since in any given situation we may not know whether what we’re asking is in God’s will, whenever it seems God has not answered, we must receive that in the confidence of knowing we were heard. We do have what we ask according to His will even if His will is “No” or “Not yet.” 
• The sin that does not lead to death is the sin of the believer … the sin that does lead to death is most likely that of the unbeliever. 
• Any understanding of God incompatible with John’s teaching in this letter would be considered idolatry, defined as false teaching based on a nonexistent spiritual reality. 

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Welcome to episode 135 of Grasp the Bible.  In this episode, we continue our study in the Book of 1 John, covering chapter 5:1-12. The series is called “Unshakable.”  Today, we will cover: 

• Obey God and Enjoy the Victory of Faith (vv. 1-5) 
• Believe in the Son and Enjoy Eternal Life (vv. 6-12) 

Key takeaways: 

• Love, obedience, and faith are the three spiritual birthmarks that identify people who are in the family of God. 
• Love for God means a love that expresses itself in obedience to His commandments. 
• Daily victory comes from recognizing that faith teaches me how to overcome the world. 
• What is of the world cannot give us victory over the world. 
• Jesus came into his power by the water of his baptism and even more so by the blood of his cross. 
• Since we believe the testimony of man, how much more should we believe the testimony of God.  What is God’s testimony?  Jesus is His son and that he is the only means by which one can have eternal life. 

Quotable: 

• You cannot claim to love God and be indifferent to His commands.  Obedience is the proof of your love. 

Application: 

• If you love the father, it is a foregone conclusion that you are not only going to love the father who gave birth to you, but you are going to love everybody else in the family as well. 
• We must do more than just know the commandments. God is interested to see if we carry them out. 
• Love for others is not a sentimental emotion or merely getting along; it is living in right relationships with others and by meeting the need of others for life’s sustaining provisions. 
• Some questions to ask yourself: 
• Is your Christian life more of a duty you have to force yourself to fulfill?  
• Do you feel that if you don’t keep God’s commandments you are afraid of what He might do if you don’t?  
• Or do you genuinely desire to obey God’s commandments? 
• If I am to overcome the world, I need a force and power beyond my own strength. I am given the weapon of faith. 
• When someone rejects God’s love offered in Christ in favor of some other system of belief (or nonbelief), they implicitly declare that they know better than God, thus “making” Him a liar. 

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Welcome to episode 134 of Grasp the Bible.  In this episode, we continue our study in the Book of 1 John, covering chapter 4:13-21. The series is called “Unshakable.”  Today, we will cover: 

• Love and Sound Doctrine (vv. 13-16) 
• Love’s Perfection (vv. 17-21) 

Key takeaways: 

• If God is at work in a Christian’s life, the evidence for it will be seen in a combination of love and sound doctrine. In other words, we may know that we have the Spirit because we have come to confess Christ and dwell in love. 
• As both creator and judge, God gets to define love and to stipulate how it is to be practiced. But His definition is so unlike the world’s that those who prefer their own, more self-serving definition often reject it. 
• Those who are indwelt by God have a relationship with their Judge that is characterized by love. It is this love that allows the believer to have confidence when looking toward that day of judgment. 

Quotable: 

• Anyone who says that eternal life can come by any way other than Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross is pushing a false gospel. 

Application: 

• It is not sufficient to believe in the historical Jesus; one must also believe that the man Jesus was the Son of God whom the Father sent to atone for sin.  Jesus cannot simply be a prophet, a good teacher, or a moral man. 
• The visible manifestation of an individual’s love for God, however, will eventually show up in his dealings with his brothers and sisters in Christ, who indeed are very visible. 
• A failure to love others means that a person has failed to see the God who is revealed in Jesus Christ and therefore is unable to love God at all. 

Connect with us: 

Web site:  https://springbaptist.org 

Facebook:   

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Need us to pray for you?  Submit your prayer request to https://springbaptist.org/prayer/ 

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