Transcript File - Path Lighters

Understanding
Scripture
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for
teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in
righteousness, so that the man of God may be
thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Tim 3:16-17
Purpose of Bible Study
The purpose of Bible study is to help us
deepen our relationship with the Father
and one another both in the church
family and the lost world.
Desired Outcome of Bible Study
. . . so that the man of God may be
thoroughly equipped for every good
work.
2 Timothy 3:17
. . . until we all reach unity in the faith
and in the knowledge of the Son of
God and become mature, attaining to
the whole measure of the fullness of
Christ.
Ephesians 4:13
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 1
When studying a book or passage, read
the book or passage several times.
• Read the whole book if it is short.
• Read the immediate chapters before
and after the passage being studied in
books that are lengthy.
• Read from as many versions as possible.
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 2
Use other resources to determine the
biblical background of the book.
1. Who was the author, his history?
2. To whom was the book written?
3. What was the relationship between the
author and the recipient(s)?
4. What was the purpose for writing the
document?
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 2
Using other resources determine the
biblical background of the book.
5. When was the book written?
6. Are there any geographical or political
factors that need to be considered?
7. What were the current circumstances?
Timothy – Step 2
1. Who was the author, his history? Paul
2. To whom was the book written? Timothy
3. What was the relationship between the
author and the recipient? Spiritual father
and son & co-laborers
4. What was the purpose for writing the
document?
To equip and encourage the “beloved son” to
care for and shepherd Christ’s followers in
Corinth
1 Timothy – Step 2
5. When was the book written? 63-65 AD
6. Are there any geographical or political
factors that need to be considered?
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Corinthian population - approximately 400,000
Pagan worship and temple prostitutes
Jews are completely Hellenized
Timothy out of a cross-cultural marriage
Timothy, his mother and grandmother were
converts under Paul’s teaching
– Timothy understood both worlds
1 Timothy – Step 2
5. When was the book written?
6. Are there any geographical or political
factors that need to be considered?
7. What were the current circumstances?
– Some believers were fearful of pagan
influences
– Some were proponents of gnostic theology
– Some were trying to blend Christian and
pagan culture
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 3
Look for the big picture of the book,
chapter, and/or verses.
• Write a summary in one sentence or use
a descriptive verse or two from the text.
• Write a summary of any sub-themes
found in the book or passage.
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 3
Look for the big picture of the book,
chapter, and/or verses.
• Write a summary in one sentence or use
a descriptive verse or two from the text.
Stay there in Ephesus so that you may
command certain men not to teach false
doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies.
1 Tim 1:3-4
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 3
Look for the big picture of the book, chapter,
and/or verses.
• Write a summary.
• Write a summary of any sub-themes found
in the book or passage.
– Interpersonal Relation Principles
– Dealing with needs within the church
– Identifying spiritually mature leaders to meet
those needs
– Living a godly lifestyle
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 4
Outline the book or at least the relevant
passage(s) and the immediate chapters
around it.
IMPORTANT:
Do not forget that chapter, verse,
paragraph breaks and headers are not
part of the inspired writings and can be
misleading.
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 5
Utilize Bible study helps and
commentaries.
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 6
Write down your thoughts about passage
being studied.
• Determine the dominant theme/thesis
of the book or passage.
• What are the key words or phrases?
• What do you think are the spiritual
principles the author is presenting?
• What questions come to mind?
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 6
Write down your thoughts about passage
being studied.
• Determine the dominant theme/thesis
of the book or passage.
–Encouragement
–Equipping
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 6
Write down your thoughts about passage
being studied.
• What are the key words or phrases?
– Controversies/Conduct
– Prayers
– Relationships
– Leadership: Overseer & Servant
– Setting an example
– Contentment
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 6
Write down your thoughts about passage
being studied.
• What do you think are the spiritual
principles the author is presenting?
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Relationship Principle
Discipleship Principle
Leadership Principle
Discipline Principle
Commitment Principle
Contentment Principle
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 6
Write down your thoughts about passage
being studied.
• What do you think are the spiritual
principles the author is presenting?
• What questions come to mind?
– If you discipline are you not judging?
– Are the overseer and servant today’s pastor
and deacon?
– What does one wife or one husband mean?
If you discipline are you not judging?
Judging & Judgment
– Matthew 7:1 – we are not to judge or we will be
judged accordingly
– 1 Corinthians 6:2-5 – We are to judge
– 1 John 4:1 – Judge the spirit of man
The Discipline Principle: Discipline is for the
purpose of holding up, supporting others before
God for strengthening and healing. (1 Corinthians 13: 7)
Self-righteous judgment for condemnation, revenge or
punishment is the opposite – we actually condemn
ourselves.
Are the overseer and servant today’s
pastor and deacon?
1 Tim 3:1 – the Greek word: episkope
– If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer
(NIV)
– If a man desire the office of a bishop (KJV)
Meaning: inspect or see, to watch over, guard over
The word or concept of “office” or ecclesiological
term “Bishop” is not found in the text.
Are the overseer and servant today’s
pastor and deacon?
1 Tim 3:1 – the Greek word: episkope
– If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer
(NIV)
– If a man desire the office of a bishop (KJV)
Meaning: inspect or see, to watch over, guard over
Why did KJV translate episkope as Bishop?
Why did KJV translate episkope as
Bishop?
KJV
• Textus Receptus – 1512
• Greek text by Theodore de Beze of Geneva 1598
• Codex Sinaiticus - 360
• Codex Vaticanus – 1209
• Masoretic Hebrew text – 10th and 11th century
NIV
• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Masoretic Hebrew Text
• The Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Samaritan Pentateuch
• The Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion
• The Latin Vulgate
• The Syriac Peshitta
• The Aramaic Targum
• The Juxta Hebraica of Jerome
• Koine Greek language editions of the United Bible Societies
The KJV was limited to text that had been collected and translated
through the developing Catholic system of church governance.
Why did KJV translate episkope as Bishop?
Fifteen general rules were advanced for the guidance of the translators:
1. The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly called the Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the Truth of the original will permit.
2. The names of the Prophets, and the Holy Writers, with the other Names of the Text, to be retained, as nigh as may be, accordingly as they were vulgarly used.
3. The Old Ecclesiastical Words to be kept, viz. the Word Church not to be translated Congregation &c.
4. When a Word hath divers Significations, that to be kept which hath been most commonly used by the most of the Ancient Fathers, being agreeable to the Propriety of the Place, and the Analogy of
the Faith.
5. The Division of the Chapters to be altered, either not at all, or as little as may be, if Necessity so require.
6. No Marginal Notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek Words, which cannot without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the Text.
7. Such Quotations of Places to be marginally set down as shall serve for the fit Reference of one Scripture to another.
8. Every particular Man of each Company, to take the same Chapter or Chapters, and having translated or amended them severally by himself, where he thinketh good, all to meet together, confer what
they have done, and agree for their Parts what shall stand.
9. As any one Company hath dispatched any one Book in this Manner they shall send it to the rest, to be considered of seriously and judiciously, for His Majesty is very careful in this Point.
10. If any Company, upon the Review of the Book so sent, doubt or differ upon any Place, to send them Word thereof; note the Place, and withal send the Reasons, to which if they consent not, the
Difference to be compounded at the general Meeting, which is to be of the chief Persons of each Company, at the end of the Work.
11. When any Place of special Obscurity is doubted of, Letters to be directed by Authority, to send to any Learned Man in the Land, for his Judgement of such a Place.
12. Letters to be sent from every Bishop to the rest of his Clergy, admonishing them of this Translation in hand; and to move and charge as many skilful in the Tongues; and having taken pains in that
kind, to send his particular Observations to the Company, either at Westminster, Cambridge, or Oxford.
13. The Directors in each Company, to be the Deans of Westminster, and Chester for that Place; and the King's Professors in the Hebrew or Greek in either University.
14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the Text than the Bishops Bible: Tyndale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.
15. Besides the said Directors before mentioned, three or four of the most Ancient and Grave Divines, in either of the Universities, not employed in Translating, to be assigned by the vice-Chancellor,
upon Conference with the rest of the Heads, to be Overseers of the Translations as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the 4th Rule above specified.
Why did KJV translate episkope as
Bishop?
Fifteen general rules were advanced for the guidance of the translators:
1. The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly
called the Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little
altered as the Truth of the original will permit.
2. . . . .
3. The Old Ecclesiastical Words to be kept, viz. the Word
Church not to be translated Congregation.
4. When a Word hath divers Significations, that to be kept
which hath been most commonly used by the most of
the Ancient Fathers, being agreeable to the Propriety
of the Place, and the Analogy of the Faith.
5. . . . .
Are the overseer and servant today’s
pastor and deacon?
1 Tim 3:1 – the Greek word: episkope
– If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer (NIV)
– If a man desire the office of a bishop (KJV)
Meaning: inspect or see, to watch over, guard over
The word or concept of “office” or church ecclesiology
“Bishop” are not found in the extent text.
Desires – to stretch oneself toward
1 Timothy and the Leadership Principle?
• Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband
of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable,
hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not
violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of
money. He must manage his own family well and see
that his children obey him with proper respect. (If
anyone does not know how to manage his own family,
how can he take care of God's church?) He must not be a
recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall
under the same judgment as the devil. He must also have
a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall
into disgrace and into the devil's trap.
NIV 1 Tim 3:2-7
• Verse 4 & 5 NIV – Manage KJV – Ruleth
• Verse 5 NIV – Take care of KJV – Take care of
The Leadership Principle
Paul tells Timothy to look for men who are the most spiritual mature as
shown by their:
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Being above blame or discredit
Being passionately committed
Being in control of outside and internal desires
Being actively engaged with people
Being able to equip others for growth and service
Not being reliant on outside things for happiness
Loving others more than self
Not demanding his way in everything
Viewing material things as means not ends
Loving and diligently watching over his family
Being spiritually mature in his understanding and life activity
Having a good reputation within the world.
The Leadership Principle
Your attitude should be the same as that of
Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something
to be grasped, but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant, being
made in human likeness. And being found in
appearance as a man, he humbled himself
and became obedient to death - even death
on a cross!
Phil 2:5-8
The Leadership Principle
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 7
Do your conclusions agree with other
biblical teachings?
• Do these principles, as you understand
them, contradict other biblical
teachings?
• Do your conclusions agree with biblical
teachings based on the whole Bible?
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 8
Determine key points of application for
you. This is the most important aspect of
your study!
• How do the principles taught in the
passage apply in the church’s life?
Eight Steps of Bible Study – Step 8
Determine key points of application for
you. This is the most important aspect of
your study!
• How do they apply in your personal life?
• What changes do you need to make or
activities do you need to accomplish to
implement these principles in your life?
• How will you know when progress and
growth have been made?
Path Lighter Connect Group sees a day
when every believer is continually
progressing in their spiritual journey of
becoming a fully devoted follower of Christ
and becoming a team, working together to
fulfill the Great Commission in Alpharetta,
Georgia, the United States, and throughout
the world.