1. PICK YOUR BIBLE TO PIECES PICK YOUR BIBLE TO PIECES! Simple steps for applying the Word

2. What makes the difference between churches? Biblical or liberal?Biblical or liberal? Mature or immature?Mature or immature? Spiritual or carnal?Spiritual or carnal? A. A Bible-reading membership!

3. Romans 15:4 “patience” = ___________ “comfort” = ____________

4. P romises to Claim--some promises made were NOT for you! Only ___ groups addressed in the Bible (and all are mentioned in I Corinthians 10:32)-- 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

5. To whom were these promises made? Deut. 30:4-5 4 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the L ORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. 5 And the L ORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.

6. Matt. 25:34-36 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

7. Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Sorry: not “every promise in the book is mine”! (or yours!)

8. I mportant things to Know I mportant things to Know separate these from some things more incidental. What makes it important?

9. E xamples to Follow E xamples to Follow (I Cor 10:11) Abraham’s ______(Gal. 3:9) Job’s ______ (James 5:11) Elijah’s ________ (James 5:16-18) Daniel in Babylon rather than _________ and his vow O.T. has much narrative (storytelling, history), sometimes requires _______ _______________.

10. C ommands to Obey C ommands to Obey Focus especially on __ commands Q.—how many of the 10 commandments are repeated in the N.T.? Rule:

11. E rrors to Avoid E rrors to Avoid Spotlight: Numbers, Judges, Kings & Chronicles Numbers: see John 3:14; I Cor. 10:5-11; 2 Pet. 2:15-16; Jude 11 Judges: 17:6; 21:25). Kings & Chronicles: provided an authoritative _____________ (from a prophetic & priestly perspective) for God’s judgment of Israel

12. Recurring error Recurring error: 1Kings 16:19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin. 1Ki 16:26; 1Ki 22:52; 2Ki 3:3; 2Ki 10:29; 2Ki 10:31; 2Ki 13:2; 2Ki 13:6; 2Ki 13:11; 2Ki 14:24; 2Ki 15:9; 2Ki 15:18, 24, 28; 2Ki 23:15

13. S S ins to Forsake Prayers of confession: Ps. 51 Neh. 1 Dan. 9 Luke 15 I John 1:9