1. Do You
Understand
What you are
Reading?

2. Acts 8:26-31
Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desert. So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning.
And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet.
So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading…

3. "Do you understand what you are reading?"
Eunuch had a legitimate problem
2 Corinthians 3:14
Acts 8:35 Phillip remedied problem
Do we have a legitimate problem?
It is commanded!
Ephesians 3:4, Ephesians 5:17, Matt 15:10
Paul prayed for it
Col 1:9
No legitimate problem
John 8:43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.

4. "How can I, unless someone guides me?"
The Apostles initially had the same problem as the Eunuch
John 12:16
John 13:17
The New Testament was never “veiled”
Luke 24:44-45
Acts 17:11
Warnings about “someone to guide”
Luke 6:39
2 Peter 3:14-17

5. Key elements to Understanding
Rightly Dividing 2 Tim 2:15
What is to be divided?
Matt 26:17-20, Jn. 14:26, Jn. 16:13
Jude 3 (65-80 AD) James 1:25 (45-60 AD)
2 Peter 1:3 (64-67 AD)
Paul’s Body illustration 1Cor 12
What is not to be Divided
Written After – NOT Authoritative
1 John 4:1 Test It

6. Key elements to Understanding
Belief in Inspiration -Greek Texts
Verbal
Sentence
Paragraph
Chapter/Book
New Testament
Substitute definition for word
Pay attention to tense of verbs

7. Conclusion Luke 10:25-27 …What shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Hear
Believe
Repent
Confess
Baptism
On Way rejoicing