1. How to Study
the Bible

2. Finding and Following the Story Line

3. What is “structure?”
“Structure” is the “glue” that binds words together into a literary unit.
= Grammatical relationships

4. Structural elements, “Clues”
Progression- how the thought “builds/develops” = the organizing principle or idea that unites a composition

5. Structural Progressions
5 Kinds of progression
Biographical
Historical
Chronological
Geographical
Logical/ideological

6. Structural Progressions
Kinds of progression
Biographical
Historical
Chronological
Geographical
Logical/ideological

8. 2 SAMUEL: Israel’s Monarchy Consolidated under David
Key Verse: 7:16, “Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me,”
Key Words: David, House, Kingdom, Throne, Jerusalem Ark
David’s Sin
David’s Triumphs
David’s Troubles
David’s reign over : Judah in Hebron Israel in Jerusalem
David’s troubles with: self family nation
1011 to 971 B.C.
Key Chapters:
David’s Accomplishments:
*Coronation over Judah
*Coronation over Israel
*Conquest of Jerusalem
*Ark returned to Jerusalem
*Davidic Covenant
*Adoption of Mephibosheth 9
* Defeat of Israel’s enemies 8,10
*Adultery and murder
*Repentance and restoration 12
*Rape/revenge in family
*Absalom’s revolt
*Sheba’s revolt
*Settling old scores
*Prideful census
David’s Praise
David’s Crises:

9. Structural Progressions
Kinds of progression
Biographical
Historical
Chronological
Geographical
Logical/ideological

11. 1 KINGS: A Kingdom Divided Against Itself
Key verse: 12:19, “So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day”
Key Words: Solomon 130x Temple 80x Prophet (s) 57x Elijah 49x Throne 31x Built 37x
DISRUPTION
SOLOMON:
DIVISION:
Wealth
Judah
Israel
Wisdom
Apostasy
Elijah the Prophet
B.C.
United = Tranquility
Divided = Turmoil
971 BC years King < Solomon > 1 Nation
931 BC years in Judah < 12 Kings > 8 in Israel
Temple prominent (74x in 1 Kings vs. 6x in 2 Kings) Justice and righteousness prevail = Whole world attracted to Israel
Golden calves and Baal Did evil in the sight of the LORD Violence and corruption prevail = Nations attacking < > civil strife

12. Divided and Declining Kingdoms
2 KINGS: Israel’s Divided Kingdoms Taken Captive
Key verses: 17:21-23; 24:2-4 The LORD removed them from his presence because of persistent sins”
Key Words: Did evil in the eyes of the LORD 21x Elisha 84x Prophet 36x Baal 23x
Surviving Kingdom
Divided and Declining Kingdoms
Israel to Assyria
Judah to Babylon
Elisha the Prophet
853 BC
B.C.
Israel: Only evil kings
persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam
Judah: Many good kings
but sins of Manasseh
Focus on Elisha
God’s final warning- Miracles proclaim God’s power to Israel
Focus on Israel
Steady decline through Jehu’s slaughter and Jeroboam’s success
Focus on Judah
Revivals and relapses Joash 12, Hezekiah Josiah 22-23
Manasseh led Judah into sin

13. Structural Progressions
Kinds of progression
Biographical
Historical
Chronological
Geographical
Logical/ideological

15. Structural Progressions
Kinds of progression
Biographical
Historical
Chronological
Geographical
Logical/ideological

16. Establishment as a theocratic nation
EXODUS: the Redemption of Israel out of Egypt
Key verses: 6:6-8: “I am the LORD, I will free you, I will redeem you, I will take you as my own people”
Key Phrases: I am the LORD Glory of the LORD Know, Covenant, Land, Serve, I shall dwell among them.
Journey in the desert
Glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle
Redemption out of Egypt
Worship and instruction at Sinai
God heard, remembered , took note
Purpose of God revealed 19
Decalogue revealed
Civil law revealed
Tabernacle revealed
Sin of the golden calf
Tabernacle erected
Moses BC
Plagues on Egypt
Passover/redemption
Preparation of Moses 1-6
Red Sea Crossing
Provision in the desert Manna/water/quail
Redemption’s Song
Israel in Egypt
Israel in the desert
Israel at Sinai
Birth of the nation
Emancipation
Establishment as a theocratic nation

17. Structural Progressions
Kinds of progression
Biographical
Historical
Chronological
Geographical
Logical/ideological

18. The Emancipation Proclamation of Christianity
GALATIANS: Standing Firm For Justification by Faith
Key verse: 5:1 Christ has set us free. Stand firm,…do not…be burdened again by a yoke of slavery
Key Words: Christ, Cross, Gospel, Faith, Circumcision, Law/Grace, Flesh/Spirit, Liberty, Free
Personal:
His Gospel
Doctrinal:
Justification by Faith
Practical:
Freedom in Christ
Introduction
Paul’s Defense of:
1: : : : :18
Source of Paul’s Gospel Content of Paul’s Gospel Effect of Paul’s Gospel
By Paul in 49 A.D. from Antioch
By revelation from Jesus Christ Justification is by faith not by law Faith brings freedom from the flesh Affirmed by the apostles Affirmed by Abraham Affirmed by the Holy Spirit
Christ:
Lives in me! Died for me! Lives through me! I am crucified with Christ I am redeemed from a curse by Christ I now fulfill the law of Christ
Anathema to any other gospel!
The Law
Cannot make a man righteous Came later to lead us to Christ Brings us back under slavery If righteousness could be gained Now that faith has come, we are no If you are led by the Spirit , by the law- Christ died for nothing! longer under supervision of the law you are not under the law!
The Emancipation Proclamation of Christianity

19. Let’s practice on Mark 3
1. What kind(s) of progression do you find in this chapter?
2. Draw a line separating the paragraphs where the progression/change occurs.
3. Complete the chart with the
who? where? and what?

20. Mark 3:1-6
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. 2 And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3 And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” 4 And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6 The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

21. Mark 3:7-12
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 9 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, 10 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. 11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” 12 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.

22. Mark 3:13-19
13 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach 15 and have authority to cast out demons. 16 He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); 17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

23. Mark 3:20-25
20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” 23 And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

24. Mark 3:26-30
26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. 27 But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house. 28  “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— 30 for they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

25. Mark 3:31-35
31 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. 32 And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” 33 And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34 And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.” (ESV)

26. Next week:
Signs that point
the way to
the truth