KNOWING YOUR BIBLE
October 9, 2022: Dear Friends, In this week’s blog, our series on important people in the Bible will be continued. Last week, the series began a discussion of important people in the New Testament. Review the blog written last week to bring forth that which was written to help in understanding this series of blog discussions.
In our discussion in this series of important people in the New Testament, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the most important person in the entire Bible, is being focused on. As previously mentioned, the life and death of Jesus Christ are written about in the first 4 books of the New Testament, the “Gospel” books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Choose one of these books and begin reading a chapter or two a day, as time allows, to correlate what is being written in the blogs with what has been written in the gospel book being read.
Last week, verses on Jesus’ birth, on his life of teaching and healing, and verses consisting of “The Sermon on the Mount” were listed to search for and read to learn about Jesus Christ. This week verses will be listed that will emphasize Jesus as a human being, experiencing all aspects of humanity, just as each of us are human and experience human characteristics. Many think Jesus was a spirit but he was actually a person, a human being that lived among us on earth as God’s only son, teaching us, healing us, and leading and guiding us to follow in his footsteps. By folllowing and obeying Jesus’ ways and commandments, our lives are saved from sin as written in Matthew, chapter 1, verse 21 that says, “She shall bear a son and you shall name him Jesus for he will save his people from their sins.” And in John, chapter 3, verse 16, it is written, ”For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life, and in Acts, chapter 16, verses 30-31, is written “Then he brought them outside and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ They answered, “Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
As reading and understanding of the Bible progresses, consider attending church classes or visiting with a minister or a teacher of a church to discuss questions that may arise when reading the Bible. “To be saved” is a topic that needs to be shared with someone that can explain in more detail the process of “salvation”
MAY GOD BLESS YOUR BIBLE STUDY THIS WEEK!.
BIBLE VERSES: Tiredness, REST: Mark, chapter 6, 31B; Matthew, chapter 8, verses 23-27; John, chapter 4,,verses 4-6; SADNESS: John, chapter 11, verses 1-6, and verses 28-37. Luke, chapter 11, verses 11-17. COMPASSION: Matthew, chapter 9, verse 36b; Matthew, chapter 14, verses 14-21; Matthew, chapter 15: 32; Mark, chapter 1, verses 40- 41; Mark, chapter 6, verses 34-42; Luke, chapter 7, verse 13. FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHERS: Luke, chapter 10, verses 38-42; Luke, chapter 11, verse 37; John, chapter 2, verses 1-12; Mark, chapter 6, verses 30-32; A TIME TO BE ALONE BY HIMSELF: Mark chapter 1, verse 35; Luke, chapter 6, verses 45-47; WORK: John, chapter 4, verse 9;Luke, chapter 22, verses 38-42. There are other verses in the Gospel books that describe Jesus’ humanity, but because of time and space, no further listing of verses will be done in this blog.
Go to the website, keeganbooks.com to find blogs that help in learning the Bible. A series of blogs written between April 24 and June 27, 2022, will provide information on learning and “Knowing Your Bible”. Spend some time on each blog to help in gaining knowledge in using and studying the Bible.
This author has written a book, AS CHRIST IS MY EXAMPLE, that provides scriptural examples that Jesus left for us to follow as written in John, chapter 13, verse 16,,that says, “For I have set you an example, that you should do as I have done for you.” This book provides much knowledge about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Consider going to the website, keeganbooks.com to read a review on this book.