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Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning Gaining a better grasp of meaning –Immediate context - verses –Wider context - Bible Understanding “Justification” –Moses writes in Genesis –Paul writes in Romans –Why can both be studied to understand? –UNITY OF SCRIPTURE AIM: Let Scripture interpret Scripture by using the wider context of the Bible.

Keep my decrees. Do not mate different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material. (Leviticus 19:19) What does God forbid? Am I breaking God’s laws? Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. (Exodus 20:8-10) What day is the “Sabbath day”? What did God forbid on this day? Am I breaking God’s law? Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning

Use wider context –NT passages to understand OT Colossians 2:13-17 –V. 14 “canceled the written code” –Canceled OT code of law –Apply this to the Sabbath day –V. 17 “a shadow” “reality in Christ” Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning

Sabbath – Rest –Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) –Physical rest  yearn for spiritual rest Do any OT laws still apply? –Romans 13:8-10 –Moral, Ceremonial, Civil Law POINT 1: Use the wider context to see if an OT law is till to be kept by us. Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning

TYPE –Predicting or forecasting picture of something else –Passover, OT Sacrifices –Hebrews 10:1 –Hosea 11:1 Who was the son? Matthew 2:13-15 Israel is a TYPE of Christ POINT 2: Use wider context to find types of Christ in the Old Testament. Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning

Finding the source of a quote –Matthew 2:15 Letter at the end of quotation Footnote in your Bible –John 12:14,15 What is source of prophecy? Zechariah 9:9 How does this verse add to meaning? POINT 3: Use the wider context by studying sources of quotes. Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning

Understanding dark or difficult passages –I Corinthians 15:29 –“baptized for the dead”? –Galatians 3:26,27 –“Sons... through faith” POINT 4: Use the wider context by interpreting unclear passages with clean ones. Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning

POINT 1: Use the wider context to see if an OT law is till to be kept by us. POINT 2: Use wider context to find types of Christ in the Old Testament. POINT 3: Use the wider context by studying sources of quotes. POINT 4: Use the wider context by interpreting unclear passages with clean ones. Bible Study Skills: More Context for Meaning