Welcome to “Learning and Living the God-centered life”

Carmel Baptist Church

www.learningandlivingtheword.com
July 11, 2010
Teaching format for Learning and Living Community
I. Summertime
 Pray
 Plan
 Prepare
Review of the basics from our first two years of teaching
II. Fall
 August 22 is our launch
 Uptown Auditorium
 19 weeks to cover the “Doctrine of God”
 Bible Reading Plan begins September 19
 This year we will use M'CHEYNE, reading plan
Teaching format for Learning and Living Community
II. Fall
 Men’s Bible Study
 Subject “How to study the Bible”
 Time - 7 PM on Tuesday night
 12 weeks that consists of two six week teaching
segments with a break in between
III. Winter
 Launch into the New Year 2011
 The doctrine of man
 2 month time frame
 February 25-27 - Dr. Bruce Ware on Christology
Teaching format for Learning and Living Community
III. Winter
 Digging Deeper - “A discussion of Bible doctrine”
 5 weeks with times and locations to be determined
IV. Spring
 March 20th begins our “march to the cross”
 5 weeks in the doctrine of salvation
 Concludes April 24 which is Easter Sunday
 Continue with application or finish up on the doctrine of
Christ as we head into June
 Digging Deeper - “A discussion of Bible doctrine”
 5 weeks with times and locations to be determined
Teaching format for Learning and Living Community
VI. Website
 A new look and a new start
 All audio this summer will be posted on sermon.net
 Reasons
 Crashed website several months ago that impacted
people getting on the site
 Easier loading with various browsers and able to retrieve
information with mobile devices or iPad
 Publishing to server
2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as
one approved, a worker who has no need to
be ashamed, rightly handling the word of
truth.
Church Statistics
 57% of those attending DO NOT believe in the
authority of the Bible.

 56% of those attending DO NOT believe Jesus

is the only way to eternal life.

 47% of those attending DO NOT believe in

salvation by grace.
Why people don’t read and study the Bible

1. The Bible doesn't seem relevant to my life

2. The Bible is confusing and hard to understand

3. I end up always feeling guilty when I read the Bible

4. I rely on my pastors and leadership to teach me what the

Bible says

5. The Bible is boring to me

Why people don’t read and study the Bible

6. My life is hectic and I simply don't have time to read the

Bible

7. The Bible is full of contradictions and therefore lacks

credibility

8. I don't read period, not just the Bible but I don't read
anything
Quote from Buck Hatch

What is more important to man than God? He is

everything. To know God is the primary, pre‑eminent
pursuit of any human.

And how is he, man, to study, to know God? God has shut
Himself up, as it were, or limited Himself in His revelation
to mankind through the channel of the written Word of
God ‑ The Bible.

This is the only authentic, true text to which we may turn.

Anything God has of Himself or His blessings comes from
Himself immediately, directly, and only to a human being
through this book, God's Word.
Consequently, to know God is to know the Bible; to know
the Bible is to know God. If God is all important, then His
Word is all important. In other words, The Word of God is
as important as God Himself. As far as mankind is
concerned, this is true.

A hunger for God will mean, must mean, a hunger for the
Word of God. Therefore, one must immediately realize if
God's Word is as important as God Himself (for by it we
can know and understand God), then how we interpret
God's Word is just as important as God's Word. We must
know exactly what it says so that we may know exactly
what God says!

This is where Biblical Hermeneutics plays its important role.

Unity of Scripture

Author’s Background
Theme
Plan
Context
Words
Grammar

Unity of Scripture
Unity of Scripture
1. Border of the jigsaw puzzle = Bible Doctrine
 Doctrine of the word
 Doctrine of God
 Doctrine of man
 Doctrine of Christ
 Doctrine of the Spirit
 Doctrine of salvation
Bible Doctrine is what the whole Bible has to say about
any particular topic or subject
Unity of Scripture
2. The boxtop of the jigsaw puzzle = Bible Plan
The Bible Plan is the unfolding and progressive
redemption of mankind by God.
During the next few weeks prior to our August 22 launch we
are going to be studying the unfolding and redemption of
mankind by God. The goals of this introduction are to:

1. Survey the key events in redemptive history,

memorize the nine dates in Israel's history

For example:
Creation and the covenant with Adam
The call of Abraham - Genesis 12
Mosaic covenant - Exodus
The king that God established under Samuel
Homework assignment

Memorize the following key dates in Israel's redemptive

history:

1. The call of Abraham in 2091 BC

2. The Exodus 1446 BC
3. When David begins to reign 1010 BC
4. Solomon begins his reign 970 BC
5. The kingdom divides 931 BC
6. The Assyrians invade Samaria 722 BC
7. The Babylonians invade Southern Kingdom 605 BC initial
invasion
8. The fall of Jerusalem 586 BC
9. Captivity of Israel 605-538 BC
10. King Cyrus fulfilled prophecy from Isaiah (8th century) -
538 BC
2. Show how the OT points to its fulfillment in Christ
Luke 24:27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the
prophets, He explained to them the things concerning
Himself in all the Scriptures.
John 5:39
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them
you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about
me,

3. Give us a hermeneutical grid for reading the Bible

Apart from the hermeneutical grid we can't understand the
meaning of the text
 The redemptive plan of the Bible

I. The kingdom offered (Genesis 1-2)

II. The kingdom promised (Genesis 3-50)

III. The kingdom pre-figured (Exodus - Malachi)

IV. The kingdom inaugurated (Matthew - Jude)

V. The kingdom consummated (Revelation)