GRASPING GODS WORD

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• GRASPING GODS WORD
• A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and
  Appling the Bible
• (Winter-Spring 2004)
• Powerpoint Presentation Prepared by
• Rev. Joseph C. Parker, Jr., Esq., D. Min.
• Senior Pastor

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How To Read The Bible Sentences

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• PRAY FOR DISCERNMENT!
• DIG INTO THE REAL MEAT!
• DONT ONLY EAT THE SOFT MUSH
• BABY FOOD!
• AVOID GOING DIRECTLY FROM
• READING TO APPLYING!
• AVOID SUPERFICIAL READING!
• GO TO SERIOUS READING!

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How To Read The Bible Sentences

• WHAT DO YOU SEE?
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• But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
  comes on you and you will be my witnesses in
  Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to
  the ends of the earth. (Acts 18)

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How To Read The Bible Sentences

•   WHAT DO YOU SEE?
• This is the message that we have heard from him
  and declare to you God is light in him there is
  no darkness at all. If we claim to have
  fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we
  lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk
  in the light, as he is in the light, we have
  fellowship with one another, and the blood of
  Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John
  15-7)

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How To Read The Bible Sentences

• WHAT DO YOU SEE?
• Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus
  with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor
  of him. 21 "What is it you want?" he asked. She
  said, "Grant that one of these two sons of mine
  may sit at your right and the other at your left
  in your kingdom." 22 "You don't know what you
  are asking," Jesus said to them. "Can you drink
  the cup I am going to drink? "We can," they
  answered. 23 Jesus said to them, "You will
  indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right
  or left is not for me to grant. These places
  belong to those for whom they have been prepared
  by my Father." (Matt. 2020-23)

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SERIOUS READING AND GODS LOVE LETTERS

• PONDER Over the Exact Shade of meaning of every
  word!
• OBSERVE the details of every word!
• REFRAIN from interpreting or applying the text!
• READ the text repeatedly!
• WHAT does the text SAY?
• SEE the words, phrases, sentence!
• SEE the paragraphs, chapters, stories!

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THINGS TO LOOK FOR IN SENTENCES

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• Repetition of words sentence larger passage
• 1 John 215-17
• 2 Cor. 13-7
• John 151-10
• Matthew 61-18
• 1 Cor. 1550-54
• Differences seen in items, ideas or individuals
• Proverbs 1431
• Proverbs 151
• Romans 623
• Ephesians 58
• 1 John 15-7

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THINGS TO LOOK FOR IN SENTENCES

• What similarities do you see?
• Proverbs 2526
• James 33-6
• Isaiah 4031
• What lists, i.e., two or more items, do you see?
• 1 John 216
• Galatians 522-23
• Galatians 519-21

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THINGS TO LOOK FOR IN SENTENCES

• Do you see a cause the effect of that cause?
• Proverbs 151
• Romans 623
• Romans 122
• John 316
• Psalm 136
• Do you see an image used in a sense other than
  the normal, literal sense?
• Psalm 119105
• Matthew 2327
• Psalm 182

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THINGS TO LOOK FOR IN SENTENCES

• Do you see a conjunction a connecting or bridge
  word that holds something together?
• Do you see an action word?
• Is the verb related to the past?
• Is the verb related to the present?
• Is the verb related to the future?
• Is the verb related to continuing action?
• Is the verb a command or imperative?
• Is the subject of the verb doing the action?
• Is the subject of the verb being acted upon?
• Do you see a pronoun?
• To whom or to what does the pronoun refer?