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  Father in heaven, God, as we begin this study, God, we pray for your guidance. Lord, without you at the wheel guiding and directing, we have no direction in this life or in this evening. So, Lord, as we begin into this intro into the Bible, your word, your revelation to us, God, I pray that you would guide our minds and our hearts to truth.
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  Lord, give me clarity of speech and God, may you be honored by what is spoken tonight. And you put these things in your name. Amen. All right. So objective of this first lesson is we want to give you guys some explanation of the origin of the Bible, about an understanding about what revelation is, inspiration, and how God used men to write his words down.
• 0:53
  That now make up this thing that we call the Bible. To give a brief overview of the Bible. We're going to go into all of the books of the Bible. I'm going to give you guys. We're going to go through and we're going to list together the books of the Bible. Hopefully in order. And we're going to. And then I'm going to go through. I'm going to give you guys some categories of those books of the Bible. And we're going to talk about each of them as a theme. What theme they have. So we can get kind of this.
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  broad overview of what these books and what the Bible is about, as well as looking at the major themes. Jesus Christ, God's glory, plan of salvation, Bible's claim. Bible claims to be God's word. It claims to be inspired. It claims to be the very breath of God. And then the impact of all of this, right? What is good about...
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  studying these kinds of things, there's not an impact on our lives, on our hearts. The impact is that because this is God-breathed, it is God-inspired, it is supernatural, means that it is dynamic, it has authority, it has veracity, it is complete. Oh man, they just got some nice feedback in there. It is complete. It is complete. There is nothing else.
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  that the Christian needs, that you and I need for this life here on earth other than what is recorded in these pages. So that's our objective. That's where we want to go. The plan is we're going to talk about natural and special revelation, talk about how the Bible kind of formed the canon of Scripture, its origin, some of the ways that we refer.
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  to the Bible, and then talk a little bit about translations. I've got a handout for you guys on that as well in the course of... I can feel that heat kicking on now. Yeah, yeah. Clarence is over there sweating. As I said, we're going to go do kind of a general, very broad survey of the Bible as a whole, both Old and New Testament, and talk about the inspiration of Scripture.
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  Some common questions that you guys might have yourself or that you may have heard. I certainly heard this one when I worked at DDRC. Where did the Bible come from? Or why do you believe in the Bible? What are some questions you guys have had in conversations with coworkers, with family members in relation to the Bible? Emma, how can you trust?
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  the Bible. Absolutely. That is going to, I believe, going to be covered tonight in how we can trust the trustworthiness of the Bible. Helping people to understand the translations. And I'm going to give you guys, like I said, when we get to that, I'll give you guys a handout that I think gives a nice spectrum, helps us to understand the purposes behind them. But yeah, how do we know if the Bible is trustworthy? Why would you believe that thing? It was written
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  you know, forever ago, and it's got all these contradictions. Have you heard that one? It's got all these contradictions in it, right? Anything else? Any other things you guys have heard, come in contact with? It's just fairy tales. It's just fairy tales, yeah, yeah. Danny kind of referenced that on Sunday, didn't he, when he was talking about, you know, when he talks to people, he's introduced as the Baptist pastor, or the pastor of a Baptist church. People kind of snicker a little bit and say, yeah, I used to believe in...
• 4:52
  fairy tales once, and I used to believe in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus. These are all things that we come in contact with. These are all things, honestly, that we can at times struggle with in our own personal walk, right? If we're really honest with ourselves, as we read through this, sometimes we can have doubts about whether this is true, whether this is trustworthy, whether this really is impactful and can impact my life and others' lives.
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  And so I believe as we go through this, as we look at the trustworthiness of the Bible, the fact that it is God's very word breathed out for us, that it's trustworthy, that it is something that we can actually base our faith on, our eternal destination on. I referenced natural and special revelation.
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  We're going to look into those things, the definitions and understanding. Can you guys, does anybody have an idea what I mean when I say special or natural revelation in terms of how we get God's word and the difference between these things?
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  So for those of you who didn't hear, natural revelation is revealed in nature, right? It's what nature tells us about God's existence. Special revelation is, I would equate it in a really basic understanding. The difference is, it's like,
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  Natural law, the things that we expect to see happen in the world. And miracles, where God reaches in and disrupts what nature is regularly doing. Special revelation is God reaching into the hearts and minds of men and revealing things about himself that would not necessarily be known by nature. So special revelation, natural revelation. These are important distinctions.
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  Two verses. If you guys would look up, if someone would look up Romans chapter 1, verse 19 to 20, and somebody would look up 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 21, I want to talk about natural and special revelation. I want to talk about revelation and inspiration. Who has Romans chapter 1, verse 19 to 20?
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  Romans tells us in verse 20 of that, that since the creation of the world...
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  in things that have been made, that God has revealed Himself in the creation of the world and things that He has made so that men are without excuse. What that tells us is that nature reveals the existence of God. It reveals God. Look at 2 Peter 1, verse 21. Who has that one? 2 Peter 1, verse 21.
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  They were carried along. That word carried is important, but also we see at the beginning, for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along. So the Holy Spirit is intricate in the inspiration, God using men to write down as He inspires and reveals to them truths that He wants us to know.
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  So there is a difference between revelation, God revealing of himself, and there is a difference between that and inspiration. Let's look a little bit at natural revelation. We talked about that just a second ago, natural versus special. Let's look at what natural revelation is. Someone want to look up Romans 1.18? Actually, we'll go back to that one. Romans 1.18-20. Again, talk about...
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  God revealing himself through creation. That is one natural way that God reveals himself. The other is, if you look up just one chapter over, Romans chapter 2, verses 14 through 15. Romans chapter 2, verses 14 through 15. If you want to flip there, and someone want to read that out for us. Romans chapter 2, verses 14 through 15. Gentiles do not have the law by nature to do the things of the law.
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  All right. So, in these two verses, what do we see? We see the law in the Bible. The law is referring to Scripture.
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  When it speaks of itself, it speaks of the law. There's several different ways that the Bible refers to itself, but the law is one of those. It tells us that the Gentiles know the law as they do it by their conscience, right? So God, natural revelation, God reveals of himself through creation, and then there's this imprint on us.
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  This natural understanding of God and his moral standards, his ideal, who he is as creator, that as we act in accordance with our conscience that God has given us, reveals us naturally of God's existence. So how has God revealed himself to man? God has revealed himself to man through creation, right?
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  Romans 1, 18-20, and God has revealed himself through his written law that he wrote on our very hearts. What does creation show us about God? We see his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature, right? Romans tells us that. We also see, as we look at creation, one of the things...
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  If you go and see any debate about creation versus evolution, one of the things that you will hear a good debater about on the creationism side is the cause and effect. We live in a cause and effect world. We see something existing.
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  and everything that we observe in that world has a cause and then an effect. We see that natural cause and effect, and that can't come from nothing. Scientists actually struggle trying to explain that reality without having something that is preexistent, that could cause and put in motion that which we see. So God reveals himself through creation, and the fact that he is...
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  He is pre-existent. As we look at a world filled, if you guys have heard the watchmaker illustration, right? If you see a watch, you automatically assume what? There was a watchmaker, right? You don't assume that that watch came from nothing, right? Because of the intricacies of it and because of its design, you assume there was a designer.
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  So we look at the world that is in order, not in chaos, that is majestic, and we see the realities of observable natural laws, such as if I drop this bottle, it falls, right? There is a natural reaction. If I punch Danny, Danny will probably punch me back. There's this...
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  Natural cause and effect. And these are some of the ways that God reveals himself. The whole purpose of this and the reason why it's important is because they show that God desires us to know him. Right? God desires for us to know something about him. He gave us multiple ways for us to gain understanding about who he is. Natural revelation.
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  Special revelation. These are, and we're going to go through a few of these fairly quickly because otherwise we're never going to get through tonight. So special revelation. What are these things? They are ways, like I said, like when you think about God reaching into a situation and there's miraculous events. We see those in the Gospels often. We see those in the Old Testament with things like God.
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  parting the Red Sea, special revelation is where God reaches into the normal and reveals himself supernaturally. These are things like theophanies. Does anybody know what a theophany is? Apart from the other teacher. Theophanies are visible manifestations of God. We see this in Genesis chapter 17. See this in Genesis 26.
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  Genesis 32 and Exodus 3, God reveals himself to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses in special ways. To Moses in the burning bush, Abraham, he comes and talks with Abraham, and so on. These are theophany, visible manifestations of God. Dreams and visions, Jacob's ladder, Daniel, where God reveals.
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  truth to Daniel and reveals in a vision to Jacob. We see this in Genesis chapter 28 and Daniel 2 where dreams and visions are used. There are many other examples. These are a few. Miraculous signs. Miracles, like I said. The flood. God reveals his power in the flood. The burning bush. The plagues. Parting of the Red Sea.
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  These are a few of where God has reached into the natural and done something supernatural and it reveals things about himself. So, natural versus special, that's those. We're going to jump into Old Testament, New Testament survey. Does anybody know why we call them the Old and New Testament? Old and New Testament. The word testament is derived from Latin and ultimately from a Greek word.
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  which means will or agreement, a covenant. The Old Covenant, New Covenant. These are the Old and New Testaments. God has an Old Covenant and a New Covenant with the people. The Old Testament was based on the Old Covenant. Exodus chapter 19 talks about this. Deuteronomy talks about this. A covenant of obedience.
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  And blessing. God promises blessing if the people will follow through. Often you see this back and forth with him in Israel, right? Where God says, blessings if you guys follow. They follow in things in the books of like Joshua. And they're blessed, right? They receive the promised land. Then you see other promises where God brings them out of Egypt. And then they start grumbling and complaining. Then God says, blessings are removed for a time.
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  you guys are going to wander for 40 years. Old Testament, Old Covenant, New Testament, New Covenant. The New Covenant is through Jesus, through Christ's blood, His sacrifice. The New Covenant is not of the law, but of the Spirit, right? Christ came through His sacrifice, fulfills the Old Covenant, and makes a new one with us. It's what we remember, right? The New Covenant I give to you, we remember that when we take
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  Communion. God's new covenant with us and his sacrifice for us. So that's why we call them the Old and New Testament. Alright, Bible translations. As we get started into some of this. I'm going to pass you guys around some of these. If you could just pass them back. This gives you some idea of the spectrum of Bible translations. When I say things like the message or like we use the ESV. You'll hear all of these.
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  Usually three-letter acronyms. Some of them like the NKJV. It's very bold and they use four letters. But that gives you some basis for understanding some of the different translations out there. We'll get into that a little bit more. But really quickly, talking about why we here at Highland have chosen to use the ESV.
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  very well ties in with what Danny said on Sunday about some of what we do as far as going through Scripture. Do you guys remember the different types, different words that he used on Sunday? There's three descriptors that he talked about that we believe in here at this church in terms of the way we teach and preach God's Word. Do you guys remember? There was two E's and then an S that he used on Sunday to talk about kind of the way we go through Scripture. We do...
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  expository, exegetical or exegesis, and sequential. Those are three main ways that we approach Scripture and actually heavily relate to why we've chosen to use the ESV as the Bible translation here at this church. If you look on that paradigm, that spectrum, you'll see the ESV is listed as one that's closer to word for word.
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  as opposed to like thought for thought or a paraphrase. Why is that important? As we approach God's word and we go through and do exegetical and exegesis, we want to preach expository. You guys remember what that means? It means to expose what is written in God's word. And so as we do expository teaching and we do exegesis, it's easier for us to study from something that is...
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  close to a representation of the original words so that we can get the closest in understanding to what those are. And that's why we've chosen something like the ESV because they do a word-for-word translation as opposed to something like the message, which is a paraphrase and tries to kind of get an idea out to you. And so it's much harder for us to go through the Bible and teach that way. I used to teach from an NASB Bible
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  all the way to word for word. They don't even care about the sentence structure. It doesn't even have to make sense. It's just word for word. ESV is like, well, maybe we'll move the the from here to here so you can read it easier. But it gives you kind of a basic idea of Bible translations and what they represent. Going into Bible survey.
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  We're going to be starting to enter your notes. There is a map that I gave you guys that's in the back that I think is really helpful. It gives you guys an idea of where each of the books of the Bible were written. Where on the maps they were written. I just found that to be an interesting thing. I thought it might be interesting for you guys. So as you read through something like the...
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  The Gospels, you can know what the setting was. When you read through John, you can understand that some of it was written in one location and then the other was Patmos as he was in prison. So just an informational piece that I found interesting for you guys. Old Testament. How many books are in the Old Testament? Who can tell me? Who can tell me how many books are in the entire Bible?
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  66. All right, 66. So somewhere there's a division, right? 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. 39 books. They are divided into three major sections. Historical, poetry, wisdom, and prophetic books. 17 historical books, 5 poetical books, and 17 prophetical books.
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  Do you guys know what the first five books of the Bible are and what they're called? All right, give me the first one. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus. How many is that? Five. These are called the Pentateuch. The Pentateuch, Penta five. These are the first books and those are your first blanks on your notes.
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  these first five books are collected together because Moses wrote these five books. So the first kind of breakdown of those 39 is those first five, the Pentateuch. Can you guys give me some examples of historical books? What would be an example of a book?
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  Of history. Joshua. So the Pentateuch is those first five. Of those next sections. We have. So yes. The Pentateuch are history. But they are. Their own category of five. So we have twelve more books. Of history. Joshua is one. First and second kings. If you start naming off the first and second. I'm going to call you.
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  They don't count as two. Psalms is poetry. Psalms is a poetical or book of wisdom. Ruth is a history book. Judges. All right, so we named Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. Those three fit into a category, a subcategory in the historical section called the theocratic books, the theocratic systems book. What that means is in these books,
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  Who was in charge? Or who did Israel look to? They looked to God. Right? God was their king. Joshua judges Ruth. I heard 1st and 2nd Kings. Anybody want to tackle the 1st and 2nds of the others? We're in Old Testament. It starts with a C, yeah. 1st and 2nd Chronicles. 1st and 2nd Kings. 1st and 2nd Samuel. Right? These...
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  are the monarchial books of history. What does that mean? They say monarchial. What is that? Who was in charge? Who was seen as the leader underneath God? Kings, right? This is when Israel said, we don't want you anymore, God, as our sole leader. We want a king. Who was their first king? Saul. Didn't work out so great for them. So that is our next section.
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  The first and seconds are the monarchical portions of history. Next, what comes after 2 Chronicles? It starts with an E and ends with an Ezra. Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. These are the restoration books of history. Before I get too far along into these lists, I want to go back and I want to give you guys the themes.
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  Of these books we've covered so far. Genesis. You'll see in this. Some of these give you some descriptives. Of what their themes are. Genesis is the book of the beginnings. The beginnings of everything. Except God. The book of beginnings. Except God. God has no beginning. Exodus. Redemption. And deliverance. Leviticus. Reveals God's holiness. Numbers.
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  Tells us there is consequence. Numbers tells us there is consequence. And Deuteronomy can be summed up in these four words. Beware lest you forget. Beware lest you forget. Joshua. Enjoyment of obedience to God. Judges. Sin leads to suffering. Repentance leads.
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  To deliverance. Judges is sin leads to suffering. Repentance leads to deliverance. Ruth's theme is straightforward. It's redemption. 1 Samuel reveals and the theme is God's sovereignty. God's sovereignty to add and remove whoever he wants from leadership.
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  2 Samuel reveals that God is no respecter of persons. 1 Kings reveals just how, this is the long version, reveals just how messed up we are and we are bad at leading ourselves. Man cannot rule himself. 1 Kings, man cannot rule himself. 2 Kings, follow and obey, be blessed. 1 Chronicles gives us,
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  A spiritual perspective. On the events. Of 1st and 2nd Samuel. And 1st and 2nd Kings. And really emphasizes. The role of the law. 2nd Chronicles. Tells us of the spiritual characteristics. Of the Davidic. Dynasty. Spiritual characteristics of the Davidic dynasty. Basically tells us. And reveals. The impact. The spiritual impact of.
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  David's rule. Ezra, spiritual and moral and social restoration. The people are spiritually and morally and socially restored. Remember these Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther are the books of restoration. Nehemiah is the political and geographic restoration. And Esther, the theme is redemption and restoration.
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  redemption, and restoration. Do you guys get all those? You need me to go over them? Again, those are the themes of those first 17 books of history, the Pentateuch and those next sections, the Theocratic, the Monarchal, and the Restoration books of history. All right. Do you guys get those themes? No? Okay. Which I'm happy to give you guys...
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  Alright, 17 books of history, 5 in the Pentateuch, 12 others. Poetry, there are 5 books of poetry. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. Job is one of those that I consider kind of a havesy.
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  A history and a poetry book. Because it's a recording of historical events, but they burst into poetry often. Job. Job. Yeah. So, themes of these five books. Why do righteous suffer? That's Job. Psalms really, I believe, can be summed up. There's multiple sections and everything to Psalms, but I really think it can be summed up in one word, and that is worship.
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  Proverbs is all about wisdom and instruction. Ecclesiastes, I really like his synopsis of that in your notes. The emptiness of an earthly life without God. Life is empty apart from God. That is the theme of Ecclesiastes. Song of Solomon, a proper perspective on human love. Proper perspective on human love.
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  Those are the books of poetry. Then we go into major prophets and minor prophets. Can you guys tell me what the difference between a major and minor prophet is? This is kind of a trick question, but what's the difference between a major and minor prophet? Minors have that little light on their forehead. That's right, exactly, yeah. That's right. They have the little light. Major and minor prophet, what is the difference? Size. Literally size. Isaiah is a major prophet because he's...
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  you know, five times as long as, well, Obadiah is what? How many verses? I'm trying to think. I'm trying to remember the number of verses. But anyway, the difference between, the distinction between major and minor prophets is just size of the book. Our five major prophet books of prophecy are Isaiah, Jeremiah,
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  Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel. Isaiah tells us that salvation is of the Lord. Jeremiah shows us a holy and patient God. A holy and patient God. Lamentations, the reality of human emotion and the faithfulness of God. Reality of human emotion and the faithfulness of God.
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  condemnation, and consolation. God speaks of the condemnation to come and then he consoles in the last section of Ezekiel. Daniel trusts God because he is trustworthy. Trust God because he is trustworthy. That is Daniel. Those are our five major books of prophecy. These are written between 750 and 550 B.C.
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  Minor prophets, there are 12 of these guys. I'm going to go through these. Holy smokes. Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. You can fill those in from your contents in the front of your Bible. I want to go through Hosea. God is faithful.
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  He is a faithful, just king and forgiving. Very important in Hosea to see the and forgiving. Joel is a warning. Amos, holiness of God and the sinfulness of his people. Obadiah, doom because of arrogance. Doom because of arrogance. Jonah,
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  Side note, there's a really, really good book. I had it on the resource table. I would really recommend you guys if you're at all interested in the book of Jonah. Surprised by Grace. Surprised by Grace. It's a fantastic perspective on the book of Jonah. But Jonah's theme is God's relentless grace. God's relentless grace. A guy's name that I cannot pronounce. It's this long, Lance.
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  and it doesn't have a lot of vowels in it. It's got a vowel or two and a lot of consonants. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, it's rough. I can get it to you, though. Micah, peace and justice comes in the Messiah. Nahum, patience and power and holiness. Habakkuk, faith despite circumstances. If you guys remember, as Danny went through Habakkuk,
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  and they preached through Habakkuk, that was certainly true as we studied that book. Faith despite circumstances. Habakkuk is, he's distraught, he's discouraged, yet he comes back and he has faith in God. Zephaniah, no one escapes his authority and dominion. No one escapes his authority and dominion. Haggai is restoration.
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  Zechariah is preparation, preparation for the Messiah. And Malachi is an appeal to the backsliders who've fallen away. All right, 27 books in the New Testament. Let's see here. Trying to decide what you guys can fill in on your own and what I want to cover with you guys tonight. The books of the New Testament.
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  I think you guys can fill through there. There are five history books. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts. Those are our five history books. There are 21 epistles or letters. And there's one book of prophecy or revelation. Anyone name that book? Book of Revelation. So that makes up our 27. There are 21 epistles.
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  five books of history, one book of Revelation. What I will do for you guys is I will have the themes of those New Testament books for you guys next week because I won't be able to give you guys all of those and get through the remainder of this. Can you guys tell me what is the central theme? Okay, we have 66 books, right? We have an Old Covenant and a New Covenant.
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  We have books of history, books of poetry, books of prophecy, letters to both people and churches and places. What is a central theme? What is our central theme as we look at these 66 books?
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  I like to think about it like this. Old Testament, they're excited about the future, right? They're excited about the coming Messiah. They're looking forward to Christ. The Gospels, the history books, Acts, they're excited because he came. He's here. Then the epistles are like, what do we do now? Practical living, how do we apply the fact that the Savior, the Messiah has come?
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  And then the revelation, the prophecy, he's going to come back again. And what does that mean? Christ is the central thread throughout all 66 of these books. Books of the law from the Old Testament, the promise of Christ, the anticipation of Christ. That is those other 34 books of the Old Testament, anticipation of Christ.
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  Then we have the Gospels, the manifestation of Christ. Then we have Acts and those 21 letters, the church of Christ. And then what will be the capstone, Christ's coronation. So, 66 books, 40 different authors, 41 depending on who you think wrote Hebrews. Why?
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  Why is the Bible important? Why are we kind of setting the stage when we talk about the fundamentals of the faith? Why are we setting the stage with this overarching look of and discussion on the theme of the Bible? Why do we even come here and study the Bible? Why is it important? Tells us how to live? How can it tell us how to live though?
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  Turn to 2 Timothy. We're going to get to our memory verse, 2 Timothy 3.16. But first, I want to look at 2 Timothy. Actually, let's go to 2 Timothy 3.16 first, and then we're going to jump back to 2 Timothy 2.15. 2 Timothy 3.16 says this, All Scripture, that's this, right? All Scripture is this, is God breathed.
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  For it is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. Then you go to verse 17 and it says that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. Why is the Bible important according to 2 Timothy 3.16 and 17? Does it tell us about these words?
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  and why they're important to us. Why is God's Word important? What does it do? It teaches us, corrects us. For every good work. For every good work. And what does it do to us? We may be complete. We may be complete. Equipped. That's right. God reveals, if God is who He says He is, if He's revealed Himself and what He wants from us in His Word, as we read it,
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  As 2 Timothy says, it is breathed out by God, so it is from God, and it is profitable. It is going to equip us for this life. It's going to give us... Now, the other reason, the other purpose, I believe, the other benefit of studying God's Word, if you go to 2 Timothy 2.15, it says, Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need...
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  to be ashamed, and then that last part, rightly handling the word of truth. The word is the Bible. As we study God's word, as we see that it will reveal about him, that it is profitable, beneficial for us, it will make us complete, equip us, it is also something that we are called to do. We are called to rightly handle the word of truth.
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  Why is the Bible important? Because it is the very breath of God. It is the very word of God. And it will fill us. It will fill us with truth. All right. Man, this is going to be a lot every week, guys. We're going to get through this in 13 weeks. All right. If you guys flip to... All right. Believe in your notes.
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  On page 20. You guys have that. How the Bible came to be ours. Is it 14? Okay sorry. Page 14. How the Bible came to be ours. Original manuscripts. We see that around 1500 BC. Through 100 AD. The Bible was written. 66 distinct works. And then we have. The.
• 47:53
  re-recording of those originals. One thing that is important, if somebody comes to you and says, we don't have any originals, we don't have any of those original autographed versions, we actually do not. However, in 1946 through 56, there was a huge discovery that happened called the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and were predated to some of
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  the Old Testament books of prophecy, mainly Daniel, which Daniel had come under fire because there was so much specific prophecy in Daniel about the coming judgments. People said there's no way Daniel could be written when it had been originally dated. And so for years, this was debated. And then 1946 to 56, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, which contained portions of Daniel and were predated.
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  those things happening, right? They were written, I think, within years of those happening and the idea of how long it takes for these scrolls and manuscripts to be written, it was years and so there was no way that those things could have been dated the years that they did for the book of Daniel. It verified that Daniel was a book of prophecy and was written prior to its
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  the things that it prophesied coming, which was a huge, huge deal. Okay, so how did the Bible become ours? 385 A.D. to 404, the Latin Vulgate. Translation is Jerome's Latin.
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  Translation happened 700 to 1000 AD. Various Anglo-Saxon partial translations happened. 1382 complete translations. John Wycliffe. You'll see today there are missionaries with Wycliffe Bible translators. That's still going on today. John Wycliffe and his followers were intricate in this process. William Tyndale. Some of you guys will have Tyndale Bibles. And there's Tyndale Publishing. Was part of this.
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  You see, as it continues on, we get into the 1600s where the King James Version happened. 1800s, late 1800s, the ERV is done. 1901, American Standard. You'll see 1947, Dead Sea Scrolls, which again was a huge discovery. And we get into all the way to 2001, which the ESV comes about. That gives you a really...
• 50:34
  condensed understanding of or snapshot of how we go from the original manuscripts to the translations that we have today. These translations that we have utilize as much of those manuscripts and stuff that we still do have, and they do translations from those things, and they have very distinct sets of rules that they follow. As I said, a lot of those rules you can see on that paradigm.
• 51:09
  Sorry, we went over four minutes. That's right. Memorize. Listen to the sermon. I will have a handout for you guys for those New Testament books and the Old Testament books listed out with their themes.
• 51:48
  for both of them because we didn't get to those New Testament ones. And then you guys can fill those in. And yes, if you guys can go over and listen to the sermons, I would encourage you to listen to the one for this week. I would encourage you guys to look for the one for next week as well. And we will have those books for you guys. I'm going to try and have them for you guys on Sunday. So I'll have them in my office. Grab me and we'll get you guys those so you can start. Any questions?
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  The sermons? John MacArthur doesn't preach short. They're about an hour. Yeah, they're about an hour. We'll get them to you. You and I are going to order them for everybody tomorrow. It's two-day shipping, so we should have them here for you guys Sunday if you guys want to start in on it.
• 52:49
  When we get it to you on Sunday, feel free. Chapter 2. Yep. Yep. Chapter 2, like I said, Lance is going to be teaching on that. He is going to be going into how to know the Bible. How to know the Bible, basically how to study the Bible and all that. One other thing. This is an incredible resource. I will talk more about this next week. I would really, really encourage you if you guys want something that is a fantastic resource.
• 53:20
  about the entire Bible, does an incredible survey, talks about Christ, themes of every book. This is fantastic. I'll have this again here for you guys next week. Let's pray and we'll be done. Father in heaven, God, we thank you for this brief time. Lord, we did not even scratch the surface with this, really. God, I pray that we would have more discussion, that we'd have more opportunity, that your word would really resonate in our hearts and our minds, Lord, and that this would just scratch and itch for us.
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  to dive deeper into your revelation to us that you have given us, Lord, the tremendous love letter to us. Father, we are grateful. Thank you for this time together in your name. Amen.