Category: Bible Study

Bible Study Notes – January 10, 2018

The Way Back to Health

Lesson: 1 Timothy 2

Date: 1/10/18

Group Discussion:

Why do you believe Jesus Christ is the one true way?

  • one Lord, one faith & one baptism

  • Jesus died for our sins & rose on the 3rd day with all power

  • God’s word never changes

  • He keeps his promises

Personal Reflection

When do you find prayer difficult?

  • when you have no words due to difficulties in life.

I.  How do the themes of Chapter 2 seem to fit what you saw in Chapter 1?

  • The people were unhealthy due to false teachers

  • Timothy was to get them back to health through God’s word

  • Paul saw people taking on wrong ideas & falling back to Satan

  • We need discernment to know false teachers and teachings

  • Timothy was sent to erase old habits of false teachings.

  • Timothy wanted people to change from falsehood to truth

  • Read 1Tim. 1:3-7

II.  What does Paul command in 2: 1-4

  • He encourages us to pray and Thanksgiving be made for all men

  • We must focus on living in Godliness & holiness

  • Prayer is how we communicate with God

Types of prayer

  • personal

  • corporate

  • intercessory

  • Thanksgiving

  • Praise

  • Supplication

Read:

  • Colossians 4:2-6

  • Matthew 6:5-8

  • Philippians 4:4-7

Bible Study Notes – November 29, 2017

Spiritual Deception

Date: 11/29/17

Question #8

Note the places where the word conscience comes up (vs 5 & 19).  When we speculate and theorize instead of dealing with our own issues of sin, what happens to conscience?

*Definition of conscience: an inner sense of what is right and wrong.

Romans 1:16-22

We have a conscience to be aware.   Cor.  1:12

Faith & conscience must go together  1Tim.  4: 1 & 2

Seared: doesn’t fulfill it’s original purpose for God

Question #9

Why do faith and a good conscience go together (v.19, see also 3:9 & 4:2)?

1 Tim 3:9, 4:2, 1:19, Heb. 13:18, 1 Peter 3:13 – 22

  • A clear conscience is transparent
  • A seared conscience is clouded Roman 1:28

The relationship between you & Christ allows us to work in faith and in a clear conscience.

Bible Study Notes – Wednesday November 8, 2017

Spiritual Deception

Lesson from 1 Timothy 1

Question #7

Compare verse 14 with verse —- How would this help Timothy keep a clear perspective for his own mission?

Recap on Timothy:

Paul, the aged and experienced apostle, writes to the young pastor Timothy who is facing a heavy burden of responsibility in the church at Ephesus.  The task is challenging: false doctrine must be erased, public worship safeguarded, and mature leadership developed.  In addiction to the conduct of the church, Paul talks pointedly about the conduct of the minister.  Timothy must be on his guard lest his youthfulness become a liability, rather than an asset, to the gospel.  He must be careful to avoid false teachers and greedy motives, pursuing instead righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and the gentleness that befits a man of God.

Dissecting verse 14

Grace: God’s unmerited favor toward us

Exceedingly: beyond comparing

Abundant: plentiful

God is love i.e. agape and philo

Regarding love read John 3:16

Also read:

Romans 5:8

1Cor. 13:4-6

1John 4:7, 8 & 10

Ecc. 3:1

Gal. 5:21 & 22

Dissecting verse 5

Reading verse 5 is showing complete opposition to verse 14

The key words are from

Keynote: one must have a clean/clear conscience.  Very important to the mind, heart and soul of christianity.

The Lord says if you don’t have love (read) 1Cor. 13:1.  Conclude with 1 Cor. 13:13

Bible Study Notes – Wednesday October 25, 2017

Week #4         Spiritual Deception 

Date: October 25, 2017 

Question #6 

In what way was Paul himself like the false teachers before his conversion? 

Read 1 Timothy 1: 12-17  

Response:  

Being much like the false teachers, Paul prior to his conversion misused the law.  He lacked grace, faith & love.  God had mercy on him and he became a new man.  Paul is showing in this context that God redeems false teachers.  In the process, He describes what a relationship with God is really based on i.e. mercy, grace, faith and love that are instilled in Christ Jesus.   

* Paul went from a Non-christian to being a Christian 

  • Paul was very educated but ignorant to the word of God 
  • Conversion takes us through the change and transformation 

What is transformation?   ans: it’s a change or metamorphosis 

Conversion: transfiguration, metamorphosis or transforming 

  • We are empowered by God thru the Holy Spirit 
  • We are empowered to do all things thru Christ 
  • We have all the tools that we need to be a powerful Christian.  We must learn to use it. 
  • We must learn how to walk in the narrow path 
  • Disciples: one who are learners 
  • Apostles: one who teaches 

We must be patient with those coming to Christ and learning 

Read:  

Acts 5: 12-16 

Acts 16: 22-30 

Our faith makes us whole.

The Holy Spirit transforms us because we are renewing ourselves daily.  The renewing is daily from everlasting to everlasting.  We change on a daily basis.  

Reference Scriptures 

Mathew 7: 1-13 

Acts 9: 1-18 

1 Corinthians: 15: 9-11 

1 Timothy 1: 12-17 

Acts: 5: 12-16 

Acts: 16: 22-30  

Question of the Week 

How do you use your power tool which is the Holy Spirit? 

Bible Study Update – Wednesday October 11, 2017

Lesson #2: Spiritual Deception

1 Timothy 1

Info on Timothy: (honored by God) Paul’s friend and chief associate, who is mentioned as joint sender in six of Paul’s epistles. Timothy first appears in the second missionary journey when Paul revisited Lystra. Timothy was the son of a Gentile father and a Jewish-Christian mother named Eunice. He was, also, the grandson of Lois. Timothy may have been converted under Paul’s ministry, because the apostle refers to him as his “beloved and faithful son in the Lord”and his “true son in the faith. Timothy was held in high regard in Lystra and Iconic and Paul desired to take him along as a traveling companion.

Question #3A

Finding hidden meanings in the Old Testament was a popular method in first-century religion. False teachers here tried to mix these “secret teachings” with the gospel. What results were the false teachers getting for their efforts? Ver. 4-6

Other names of false teachers:

*naysayser

*hearsayer Matt15:7-9 liar & false teachers

*seducer Ezek 13: 1-7 false thing with words

*false prophets

*deceivers IICor 11: 13-15 false mask of righteousness

They were getting controversy, myths, and endless genealogies prompting doubt. They were mixing things up and it was in the wrong context. We must study to show ourself approved. We have to be sure what the Word of God says.

Please understand Satan is the Prince of Darkness and the Author of Confusion.

*Father of lies and liars.

*He comes many forms and ways to kill, steal and destroy.

*Results of false teaching is godless myths. I Tim 4: 7 & 8

*We have to be spiritually healthy to recognize false teachings.

* Our body is the temple of God

* Our body is to be spiritually and physically nourished for Christ sake to be used.

Question #3B

How were they different from the results Paul was after?

Paul wanted them to come from a place of love, faith and a pure heart. Not from the law

I Cor 13: 1-8

Gal 5:13

Question #4

What materials were the false teachers using?

*they used the law

*the law cannot save us

*the Old Testament will not get us into heaven

Gal 2:21

John 20:3-9

II Cor 3: 12-18

When we receive him we can see clearly

This weeks question: what is God’s will for you?

Reference Scriptures

Matt 15:7-9

Eze 13:1-7

II Cor 11:13-15

I Tim 4:7-8

I Cor 13:1-8

Gal 5:13

Gal 2:21

John 20: 3-9

II Cor 3:12-18

Reminders

10/29/17 Zone Meeting/service @ Franklin—-Rev. Rowe speaking

11/5/17 Pastor Gray’s Anniversary—Rev. Rowe speaking—choir to sing and congregation to attend

The church van will be available for transporting.

New Bible Study Information – October 5, 2017

Second Baptist Bible Study is starting a new & exciting study.  In this month, we will be studying 1 & 2nd Timothy & Titus.  Please come and join in our study.

Bible Study: each Wednesday

Time: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. approximately

Place: Church Fellowship Hall

Motivation: Come and learn about God’s word through prayer, discussion of the scriptures & how God’s word applies to your life.  This study is designed to help you discover for yourself what scripture is saying.  The study includes three types of questions:

  1. Observation & Questions– that ask about the basic facts: who, what, when, where and how.
  2. Interpretation—questions that delve into the meaning of the passage.
  3. Application—questions to help you discover the implications of the text for growing in Christ.

Reference scriptures pertaining to the two questions from last week’s lesson:

Isaiah 32:6-10

Psalm: 5:  9 & 10

John:  21: 15-19

Jeremiah 3:15

Jeremiah 23: 1-4

Psalm 24:4

Matthew 5:8

1 Peter 1:22

I Timothy 5:22

Question of the Week: How can you build a kingdom on earth as it is in heaven?

Information regarding the study book.