Study The Bible with David Pawson

Studying the Bible will make you WISE .....

Is the Bible the "Word of God"?
That's why we need to understand the origin meaning ...

I use the YLT (Young Literal Translation) to compare with other English translations.

A follower - Study the Bible - 1 Peter 3:15

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David Pawson - Unlocking the Bible - New Testament Part 1 - Matthew 1

FOUR GOSPELS
Mark - Son of Man
Matthew - King of Jews
Luke - Saviour of World
John - Son of God

THREE STAGES
1. What Jesus DID (MARK)
2. What Jesus SAID (Matthew, Luke)
3. What Jesus WAS (John)

TWO ANGLES
1. Writer. - Insight
What? How?
2. Reader. - Intention
Who? Why?

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What are the many different parables in the Bible? Got Questions?
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INTERPRETING SCRIPTURE
https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/personification-hyperbole-and-metaphor/

PERSONIFICATION
trees clapping their hands and mountains singing (Isa. 55:12). We are not meant to think that trees will actually clap their hands, for trees do not have hands, and it would be silly to think the mountains will sing notes, for mountains lack voices. Instead, Isaiah personifies the trees and the mountains in order to stress the great joy that will result when God’s people return to Him.

HYPERBOLE
we find hyperbole is in Jesus’ parable of the mustard seed (Matt. 13:31–32). Jesus does not mean that there is no seed smaller than the mustard seed; He is simply pointing to the smallest seed commonly found in ancient Palestine to make a point about the kingdom. The kingdom starts out so tiny as to be all but invisible, but from its small beginnings, it grows into a large realm.

METAPHOR
here is the literary form of metaphor wherein a speaker or author uses a word or phrase that normally designates one thing in order to designate another. For instance, Jesus says, “I am the door of the sheep” (John 10:7). Jesus does not mean that He has a doorknob on His body but that He is the only means of entry into God’s kingdom, just as a door is the means of entry into a room.

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MATURITY DECISIVENESS CONSISTENCY STRENGTH

Maturity: “Maturity doesn’t come with age; it begins with the acceptance of responsibility.”
Decisiveness: “Decisiveness is insight in action. It’s the ability to know what’s right and, just as important, it’s the willingness to do what’s right.”
Consistency: “Consistency is firmness of character. It’s the ability to make mature, quality decisions time and again, facing down the inevitable temptations that Satan scatters across your path.”
Strength: “Strength, the kind of strength that really matters, is the courage to live out your convictions in spite of what the crowd is doing.”

These four modules — origin, meaning, morality, and destiny — and their corresponding questions are the building blocks of Ravi Zacharias’s four-fold test for a coherent worldview.

Origin – Where do we come from?
Meaning – Why are we here?
Morality – What’s right and what’s wrong?
Destiny – Where are we going?

Everyone: pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist has to answer these questions:

Where did I come from?
What is life’s meaning?

How do I define right from wrong and
what happens to me when I die? Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
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Is there a PARALLEL between the 1st 3 days of Genesis 1, and the 2nd 3 days?

Updated on 2018 April 19, Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day), celebrating 70 Years!!