February 24, 2025 • 46 mins
Teresa Moen and Staci Thompson lead this breakout session at DNow 2025: Changed called "Bible Breakdown."
This bonus podcast episode delves into the overarching theme of God’s love story woven throughout the Bible, illustrating how every scripture points to our need for salvation through Jesus. It discusses important insights from the book of Leviticus and the Gospel of John while providing practical strategies for effective Bible study that can deepen personal faith.
• The Bible as God's love story, offering grace and reconciliation
• Insights from Leviticus and its relevance to understanding atonement
• Characteristics of God's nature revealed through scripture
• Importance of context in interpreting biblical texts
• Effective Bible study methods and personal reflections
• Encouragement to approach Bible reading as a living, dynamic relationship
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
What do you think, Graham?
It's the love story, the rescuestory of the.
Bible.
That's what it's about.
It's God knowing that we'regoing to sin, but from the very
beginning, knowing that he'sgoing to send his son to save us
.
So the key why Because he lovesus so much, he wants to be in a
relationship with us.
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That's how crazy it is.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm doing the Bible recap with my husband this year
and we are in Leviticus and it'sa little bit of a painful book
of the Bible to get through,because it's a lot about
cleansing and cleaning, andwe're on bodily fluids this
morning, so like what do you got?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
to do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And, but the reality is there are still, if I quit
going about reading some of thestuff repetitiously that seems
to not make sense to me.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The reality is, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It talks about how there has to be a cleansing for
the sin.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Like there has to be a, there has to be a sacrifice
for the sin, and it's pointingto.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Jesus all the way in the book of Leviticus before
he's even born.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So anyway, sorry, we're super geeky about the.
Bible and the other thing Ithink in kids' ministry we teach
kids Bible stories.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Like a two-year-old really isn't needing to
understand all the sufferingright here.
Right, they need to know thatGod is big, that God made them
and he loves them and he wantsto be with them forever that's
what they need to know, but asthey get older, we need to tell
them more, because there's moreto the story
Speaker 2 (01:27):
than that, and the Bible's full of God's character,
of who he is and how much heloves you, and that you know he
will never change and what hesays he will do, he will always
do.
I don't know anybody else onthis earth who does that, and I
have a wonderful husband, but hedoesn't always do what he says
he's going to do.
I'm a mom.
I don't always do what I sayI'm going to do.
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He always will, and you'll seethat story after story.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The other big thing is the upper story versus the
lower story.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I talk about that a lot for our kids, because in the
midst of a trial or tribulation, if you don't understand,
there's something going onthat's not good, you don't get
that.
God is saving you fromsomething that's way worse.
Right Anyway, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So, as we dive in and we break down the Gospel of
John.
I want you all to keep threethings in mind.
All right, what?
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does this passage teach me about God?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Because we already know it's not going to teach us
Well.
It will teach us about somethings of mind.
Alright, what does this passageteach me about God?
Because we already know it'snot going to teach us well.
It will teach us about somethings of ourselves, Right, but
we're looking for what itteaches us about God, because
that helps us rely on Him.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
What does it teach us about ourselves, human beings,
and what does it teach me aboutmeeting a Savior, Alright.
So we have lots of tools andhelps that we're going to show
y'all that have helped usthrough the years.
There is no wrong way to studythe Bible, but I have found
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these Bible study methods helpme the most.
The one I use is the five.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
W's.
I'm a history geek, so I wantto know who, what, when, where,
why and how the five W's.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm a history geek so I want to know who, what, when,
where, why and how.
But I also am now using theREAP method to help me study and
go.
You have a brown book that isnow yours.
I'm going to encourage even youguys to start journaling.
I can tell you, daniel, and.
Jason, do it, garrett does itWrite down questions you have.
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Write down things you don't understand and I like to
go back through mine and then,in a year from now, I go back
and go.
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I don't understand this now.
I was reading this morning andI was like I don't know what a
default.
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I don't know what a measurement is.
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They were talking about, you had to have a
defaultphod of great.
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And what do you say?
Is that like a and it'sequivalent to a bushel.
I saw you wrote it down while Iwas reading and it looks like
it's equivalent to a bushel.
So this story says 16th of abushel, so that, well, I never
knew, but I don't know the size.
There was another thing thattalked about size equivalent to
a dime.
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I'm like okay, because again in.
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Leviticus, you find that God created a way for
people that didn't have a lot ofmoney to be able to still make
atonement for their sin.
Right, he offered you could doa bird instead of a mammal, a
calf or a sheep.
You know what that's from?
That's for telling Jesusparents are not going to have
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enough money to make a sacrificeoffering.
Parents are not going to haveenough money to make a sacrifice
offering.
They're going to have to use aburden.
So it's already known.
God already knows it all theway back in the Old Testament
and as he's writing all thesecrazy laws, and he's already
planned for his own son'sparents to be able to make
atonement for sin.
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Alright, so the number one step is start in
prayer.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
The Holy Spirit will guide you in learning what you
need to learn.
I'm a firm believer in that,because sometimes I go.
I've done the Bible recap.
I am right now going to.
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Old.
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Testament.
I'm in school going through.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Old Testament and sometimes I have no idea why I'm
learning what.
I'm learning and then the HolySpirit shows it to me a little
bit later as to this was whatthis meant or this was what this
meant.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So always start with prayer and then go to your
questions.
Ask your who, what, when, wherewhy?
But what we're going to focuson today is learning all about
your Knowing the time that thebook was written, knowing who
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wrote it, why they wrote it andwhen it was written.
Who thinks the Bible waswritten chronologically that?
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when you open it up, it's in the order as things
happen.
Yes, no, it's not.
That's one of the reasons why.
Just so you know, if you thinkthat it's overwhelming and
intimidating to you, there arelike brilliant geniuses of the
world who don't even have faithor believe in God.
But it's on everybody, it's themost spied-after book to read
from the beginning to the end,is the Bible.
It's a fact.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They all want to read it and have off their bucket
list that they've read the Bible, but it's really confusing,
because it doesn't happen in theorder of which things happen.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's not how it's written, because the reality was
there wasn't paper right, andso they wrote books based on
they didn't write it at themoment that it happened either.
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So that we hear about Moses.
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They talked about things, sitting around the fire
and telling your family as theygo.
That's the only thing.
How would I go back then?
So as the stories were written,so it's not in any order.
So don't be intimidated.
And the other thing I'll tellyou is you might read something
now and you read it later andyou're like, oh, you never saw
that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I have read this story of Joseph to the kids for
10 years.
How?
Did I not see that Because theHoly Spirit will reveal
something to you when you needto see it Crazy as that sounds.
So in your folders you'll findtimelines that are helpful.
You'll find.
We put the books of the Bibleso'll timeline from Old
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Testament to New Testament.
We started to do a book calledthe Story, which is kind of a
novel form of the Bible frombeginning to end.
And I had a guy who grew up inchurch his whole life and I told
Stacey this story a hundredtimes and he said to me I had no
idea that Jesus wasn't bornduring Moses' time.
I just knew stories of Moses.
I knew stories of Jesus.
I didn't know that.
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So again until you understandhow it all is put together it
doesn't really make as muchsense, and it's still a little
bit overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I'm also going to encourage you to study the Bible
the way you learn best.
If you're an audio learner, doit by listening.
I do both.
I have to listen and read atthe same time and work for
something to stick in my brain,and then you only have to write
it.
I mean, I'm going to tell you,if you're not a writer's cookie.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I have to do all those steps, but that's what
happens, so know how you learn,all right.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But I also use things like the Bible Project before I
start reading the book.
Has anybody used the BibleProject before here?
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we've read it a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
It breaks down.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
The author tells you all of the things that might be
helpful to understanding thebook of the.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Bible.
So we're going to go ahead andwe're going to show y'all the
John version of it, becausethat's where we're going to go
is John 1.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
The Gospel according to John.
It's one of the earliestaccounts of Jesus' life and we
learn at the end of the bookthat it comes from one of Jesus'
closest followers, called thedisciple whom Jesus loved, and
he appears many times in thestory itself, and there's some
debate about whether it's Johnthe son of Zebedee, or John the.
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Twelve or a different John who lived in.
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Jerusalem and was known in the later church as
John the Elder, whichever.
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John, it was.
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The book embodies his eyewitness testimony, and it's
been brilliantly designed withthe clear purpose that he made
it.
John says the story is writtenso that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Messiah andthat by believing you may have
life in his name.
John believes that the Jesusyou read about in this book is
alive and real and that he canchange your life forever.
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The book's design is reallycool.
Its first half opens with anintroductory poem and a short
story that's followed by then abig block of stories about Jesus
performing miraculous signsthat generate increasing
controversy, and it allculminates in his greatest sign,
the raising of Lazarus, whichcreates the greatest controversy
as Israel's leaders decide tokill Jesus and that launches
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into the book's second half.
These chapters focus on Jesus'final night and last words to
his disciples, which arefollowed by his arrest, trial,
death and resurrection.
The book concludes with anepilogue.
In this video we're just goingto focus on the first half.
So the book opens with atwo-part introduction.
First, a poem that begins inthe beginning was the Word an
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obvious allusion to Genesis 1,when God created everything with
His Word.
Now a person's words, they'redistinct from that person, but
also the embodiment of thatperson's mind and will.
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And so John says that .
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God's Word was with God.
That is distinct.
And yet the Word was God.
That is divine, and as we partof this claim, we hear later in
the poem that this divine wordbecame human in Jesus.
Then John goes on to draw fromthe stories of Exodus, saying
that Jesus was God's tabernaclein our midst.
The glorious divine presencethat hovered over the Ark of the
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Covenant became a human inJesus, which leads to his last
claim that the one true God ofIsrael consists of God, the
Father, and the Son, who hasbecome human to reveal the
Father to us.
Now, as we consider thesemind-bending claims, we then
start to hear a story about howJohn the Baptist first met Jesus
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and then led other people tomeet him and become his
disciples, and one by one, aspeople encounter Jesus, they say
out loud who they think he is.
And in this one chapter, jesusis given seven titles.
Now these titles prepare us forJohn's love of sevens and
designing the book, butaltogether they also make a
claim that this fully humanJesus from Nazareth is the
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Messianic King, he's the teacherof Israel and he's the Son of
God who will die for the sins ofthe world.
Now, that's a big claim to makeabout someone, and John will
now go on to support it throughthe stories in chapters 2-12.
They all have the same basicpattern Jesus will perform a
sign or make a claim abouthimself, and that will result in
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misunderstanding or controversy, and so in the end of each
story, people are forced to makea choice about who they think
Jesus is.
The first section shows Jesusencountering four classic Jewish
institutions, and in each case,jesus shows that he is the
reality to which thatinstitution pointed.
So Jesus is at a wedding party.
The wine runs out and Jesusthen turns these huge jugs of
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water 120 gallons total into thebest wine ever, and the head
waiter says to the groom you'vesaved the best wine for last,
which is, of course, true.
But John also calls this miracleJesus' first sign.
In other words it's a symbolthat reveals something about
Jesus.
So, just as Isaiah said that,the Messianic kingdom would be
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like this huge party of lots ofgood wine.
So this first miraculous signreveals the generosity of Jesus'
kingdom.
Next, jesus goes to theJerusalem temple, the place
where heaven and earth weresupposed to come together and
God would meet with his people,and Jesus asserts his authority
over it, running out all themoney exchangers stopping the
sacrificial offerings.
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And when the temple leaders threaten him.
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He says destroy this temple and I will raise it again
in three days.
Jesus is claiming that hiscoming sacrificial death is
where heaven and earth willtruly meet together.
His body, that will be killedis the reality to which the
temple building points.
Then Jesus has this all-nightconversation with a rabbi named
Nicodemus, who thinks that Jesusis just like him, another rabbi
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and teacher for Israel.
But Jesus says that Israel needsmuch more than just another
teacher with new information.
Israel needs a new heart and anew life.
Or, in his words, no one canexperience God's kingdom without
being born again.
Jesus believes that humans arecaught in a web of selfishness
and sin that leads to death, buthe also knows that God loves
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this world.
And so he's here to offer peoplea new birth, a new chance at
life.
From here, jesus travels northand he ends up at a sacred well
in a conversation with aSamaritan that is a non-Jewish
woman.
And they.
Jesus travels north and he endsup at a sacred well in a
conversation with a Samaritanthat is a non-Jewish woman, and
they start talking about water,which Jesus turns into a
metaphor for himself.
He says that he's here to bringliving water that can become a
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source of eternal life.
Now, in John, this term refersto a new quality of life, one
that's infused with God'seternal love, and it's a life
that can begin now and last oninto the future.
After this, john has designedanother collection of stories
that took place during fourJewish sacred days or feasts.
And again Jesus uses the imagesrelated to the feasts to explain
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about himself.
So Jesus first heals aparalyzed man on the Sabbath
which starts a controversy withthe Jewish leaders about working
on the day of rest.
And Jesus says it's his fatherwho's working on the Sabbath,
and so is he.
And they catch his meaning thathe was calling God his father,
making himself equal with God,and so they want to kill him.
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The next story takes placeduring Passover, the feast that
we told the Exodus story, thesymbolic meal of the lamb and
bread and wine.
And Jesus miraculously providesfood for a crowd of thousands,
which results in people askinghim for more.
And then Jesus goes on to claimthat he is the true bread and if
they eat him they will discovereternal life, and this offends
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many people who stop followinghim After.
This is a block of stories setin Jerusalem during the Feast of
the Tabernacles, which retoldthe story of Israel's wilderness
wanderings as God guided themthrough the pillar of cloud and
fire and provided them water inthe desert.
And Jesus gets up in the templecourts and shouts If anyone is
thirsty, let them come to me anddrink.
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And then later he says I am thelight of the world.
He's claiming to be theilluminating presence of God and
the life-saving gift of God tohis people, and some people
believe and follow him.
But others are offended andstill others try to kill him for
these exalted claims.
The final feast story is duringHanukkah, which means
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rededication.
It's about how Judah Maccabeecleared the temple of idols and
set it apart as holy once more,and Jesus goes into the temple
area and says that he is the onewho God has set apart as a holy
one and that he is the truetemple where God's presence
prevails.
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And he also says I am the father of one.
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This makes the Jerusalem leader so angry.
They set a motion plan to killJesus, and so he retreats from
the city.
Now all these conflictsculminate in one last miraculous
sign.
Jesus hears that his dearfriend Lazarus is sick, but his
family lives near Jerusalem,which is now a death trap for
Jesus.
Now Jesus could stay away andhe would save his own life, but
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he loves Lazarus.
So once he hears that Lazarushas died, he goes to raise him
from the dead and he calls himto life out of this tomb,
knowing that it will cost himhis own life.
And the news of this amazingsign.
It spreads quickly, of course,and just as Jesus knew it would
happen, the Jerusalem leadershear about it and begin to
conspire to murder him.
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And so he rides into Jerusalemas Israel's king who's rejected
by its leaders.
So the first half of John drawsto a close with this story about
Jesus laying down his life asan act of love for his friend,
and this, of course, is also asign pointing forward to the
cross, which we'll explore morein the next video, but for now,
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that's the first half of theGospel of John.
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Alright, so as we.
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The Gospel according to John.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Oh sorry.
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In the first video we saw that John wrote this book
to make the Alright, so as wejump in I want you to remember
that Now.
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Who knew all the information about John Wow?
A lot of people get John the.
Baptist.
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And John mixed up.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, so when learning to study the Bible.
I'm going to give you all somesteps to go through.
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And we're going to start those steps right now.
Gather your supplies, do you?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
have your supplies.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Some of you don't have your Bible.
That's okay.
You're going to need it whenyou're doing your studies on
your own.
All right, so we're going topick a time that is consistent,
all right, how many of you get?
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up at the same time every day For school.
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We'll even throw it for school Around the same time.
All right, how many of you liketo eat breakfast, lunch, dinner
?
That's something you doconsistently right, well?
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in order to understand the Bible.
This is something you have todo consistently.
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All right, now, we picked a book for you, but when
you start studying the Bible onyour own, pick a book and start
at the beginning, if you haven'tstudied before start in the
Gospels you can start at Genesis.
It's fabulous, but then yournext book's going to be a little
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bit harder.
So, I always tell, I alwayssuggest you start in the.
Gospels Matthew, mark, luke andJohn.
They help you understand theoverarching story of the Bible.
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And I really tell a lot of the same stories because
they're different authors, fromdifferent perspectives and
different details and they all.
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Who thinks all of those people, all four of those
guys, were with Jesus?
Only two of them weren't Okay.
So two of them, one of them,got the eyewitness account from
his mother, jesus' mother, andyou will see that his book, is
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written more about it has a lotof details about women of the
Bible.
The other one got it from Pauland you will see details about
that.
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So they're each written different.
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Now the next step is do your detective work.
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All right, break it down.
Pull up the Bible project.
Look on your timeline.
Pull up something about theauthor.
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Learn about what the person wrote and then, you have
a study Bible.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Some of you guys get a bunch of.
Some of you have tabs, Like Ihave my study Bible.
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I have two of them.
It has actually right before Istart the work of John.
It has this whole big sectionhere.
It tells by the way, it givesme a little cheater timeline, so
I'm wearing a hat it tells me alittle bit about who, what,
where I'm at.
I just read it, so yeah.
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Don't get get overwhelmed.
Start with 10 to 15 minutes.
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That may be all your brain can process.
That's all my brain can processon Sundays, especially after
I've watched or done myinformation on the author.
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I can't do more than that.
I'm tapped out.
It's not going to do any goodfor you to read 30 minutes and
not remember what you read.
So start with 10 to 15 minutes,don't get overwhelmed with it,
but you have to start with 10 to15 minutes.
Don't get overwhelmed with it.
But you have to start.
You have to start reading, youhave to start learning if you
want to grow.
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Are any of you trying to read through the Bible?
Do you do regular Bible plansor Bible readings?
That's why you're here.
I also do use the Bible app,which is another thing you can
do, and I do the Bible app storeat a ton of kids in my old
church.
Every day they send me adifferent one and we do it and
you can read it.
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You can read the Bible.
That way, you have alldifferent options.
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So again, it's nice because guess what Most of you
don't have to have your phones alot.
So if you have your phone, itsends me on my phone don't read
your Bible today, so anotheroption for you.
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Again, I'm not an audible learner.
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I have to see, I'm a visual learner.
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So I have to read it with my eyes.
I can't listen to it.
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I would fall asleep, or I'll be right back in my
grocery and say, no, oh wait.
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We were talking.
I wonder what they said.
So if you're still reading thelessons dream.
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I know today, yeah, this will be the lesson's dream
in the world today, yeah, so,and then like I said before you
open it and start pray, sobefore we jump into John we're
going to go ahead and open inprayer and I will tell you my
simple prayer.
I do before I start, because ifI jump into all of the things
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that I need from God, I forgetto ask what I really need from
God.
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So I'm going to go ahead and pray my simple prayer
and hopefully you guys can takeit with you and pray the simple
prayer.
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Alright, and I pray it every Sunday for our kids at
church.
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So alright, Heavenly Father, thank you for this day,
Lord.
I pray that you would open myheart and my ears to learn what
I need to learn and to grow mecloser to you.
In your name, I pray Amen.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
That's it.
Two seconds, all right, sowe're going to jump into John.
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If you have a Bible, go ahead and open it to John.
If you don't, we do have a fewextras that you guys can share.
Or if somebody by you has oneyou can share, then go ahead.
Don't use that one.
You all can go up here by theway if you don't have a Bible
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please get with us.
We have tons and we will get youa good one All right on your
desk.
Most of you, I got them aroundthe room.
Some of them we ran out.
You have what we call theultimate Bible dictionary.
There are going to be words inthe Bible?
You don't know or phrases youdon't know Like what does it
mean?
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At the beginning it says he umyes incarnate.
Yes, that's in there a lot.
So, or in the beginning was theword.
What does that mean?
If you look in your Bibledictionaries, it's in there.
By the way, if you want one,please take them.
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We bought them for this class.
And if you didn't get one, letme know and we will get you one.
Write your name down.
So we're going to go, we'regoing to do a verse by verse
breakdown and kind of tell youwhat we see, because we studied
this before, so that we can tellyou what we learned before.
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Alright, and so every person in this room is in a
different season of their life,right?
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I don't think any of you have two foster kids at home
and dealing with all of that,or three adopted kids, no, no,
okay.
So we're all in differentseasons.
So in different seasons Godteaches us different things or
he brings out different things.
So anybody want to read verseone for me?
Don't be scared, don't bescared.
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Don't be scared If we give up the world.
The world already existed.
The world is with God.
The world was God.
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Okay, anybody want to guess what that?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
means it did talk about him a bit, though how?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
does the?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Bible start out.
What are the first three wordsin Genesis?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
The beginning.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
So the word?
Do we know what the word isgoing to?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Jesus yes.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
The whole thing is about him.
The whole thing is about him,so we all think about God being
in the beginning, but what we?
Forget is that Jesus is alwaysthere with God and God is always
there with Jesus, as well asthe Holy.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Spirit, as well as the Holy Spirit.
So, he says let us be man inour image.
That's what God says in.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Genesis, so he's already there For the breakdown
of the first verse.
It's just telling you that whatall the Old Testament said was
true, that in the beginning Godwas there, jesus was with him
and the word was God.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
They're all together.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So, that's basically.
It's pointing you to the truththat the Old Testament is the
truth.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That you can trust the Bible.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Alright, let's go on to verse 2.
Anybody want to read that one?
For me it's a short one.
It goes along with verse one.
It is hot in here.
I need a fan.
So what did we just talk about?
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He existed, he was there.
He's always been there.
All right.
Verse three there.
He's always been there, alrightverse 3.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So if I were to talk about character of God right
there, I see that he always hasbeen, always was and always will
be.
What's that word?
Alright, verse 3.
There's a big word.
I know Anybody's a big word.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Anybody?
Oh Ian.
Okay, alright, I'll read verse3.
Through him, all things weremade.
Without him, nothing was made.
That has been made Just showingJesus' power in the beginning,
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through God, the whole time.
All right, he's powerful, he'spowerful.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
He's powerful.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
All right, anybody want to go on to four?
For me, I can call people Iknow.
Oh, I like that.
Thank you part of it, and thelife was alive in them All right
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.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
so are we seeing a pattern that John's pointing us
to?
The man was life?
Who are they?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
talking about Jesus.
Yes, the man was life, and thisis probably my favorite that I
read in this.
It's verse 5.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Anybody want to do verse 5?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
The light shines through darkness and the
darkness has not overcome it,which, by the way, is almost a
quote from Narnia.
It's also in the New Testament,because Aslan says something
about you cannot get rid of thedarkness outside to get rid of
the darkness inside.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah, you'll find that the Bible is actually
quoted in a lot of movies andauthors use it a lot.
It's in one of the IngridDickens ones, I don't remember
which one.
How many people and this is ait can be.
What character of God do youthink this shows?
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Strength?
That's a good one.
Power, all right.
So how many of us need light inthe darkness?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Everybody.
It reminds me of that song.
Just a little light of mine.
I'm going to let it shine thereyou go.
It's the light of Jesus not mylight.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So we all need light in the darkness.
So, and he is the only personthat can overcome the darkness.
So, and he is the only personthat can overcome the darkness,
doesn't matter what you do.
It actually doesn't matter whatSatan does.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's showing you right there that Jesus overcomes
any darkness If you believeit's all powerful.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
All powerful, alright .
Now we're going on to verses 6through 8.
All powerful, all right.
Now we're going on to verses 6through 8.
Does anybody know?
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who John the Baptist is.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Or do you want to look?
It up in your little books thatwe have in front of you.
That's a good thing.
Well, let me look it up.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, there was a picture of him on the screen
over at the top.
He was actually here two weeksago.
I'm going to look at the title.
Yes, definitely, I'm sorry,he's a sister.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You got it All right tell me who's the Apostle
Baptist prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, amen.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
So he's the cousin of Jesus, he's the man who
baptized Jesus.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
He was the one who called that was in a video where
they talked about people givingdifferent names.
And John the Baptist calledJesus the son of God, jesus the
son of God.
But he was known for being kindof like each razzle with A
camel and a hoe.
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He never did middle needs.
He was a pastor, let's just say, none of you girls would have
been lining up to date him.
Will they focus on how to dothat?
Will they talk about the linethat they made?
But I can question his cousin.
He got the pure master baptizedin Jesus.
It's like when he came to me,he said you should be baptized
in me, I should be baptized inyou.
What are you talking about?
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He's the Messiah.
So his job is to tell the worldthat Jesus is God.
I'm just going to say that forrepentance.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Alright, so can anybody kind of overview what we
?
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learned in just those few verses.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
We're just going to write one word down Jesus is my
son.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yeah, awesome, that's good.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Anything else.
Does it surprise any of youthat he was in the beginning?
Did you all know that already?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, all of you knew that.
When you read Genesis, do youread it that way or you just
read it as oh, I've createdeverything.
Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I say that about myself because, as I'm studying
the Old Testament now, I have toremember
Speaker 4 (32:10):
that he was there and he's not just a New Testament
character.
He didn't just show up out ofnowhere All right, anything else
that?
Y'all learned out of those fewverses?
Besides, jesus is the light.
He was there in the beginning.
What?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
can you tell about God from those verses of?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Jesus.
What characters of God couldyou?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
tell us.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
What did you learn about God's character?
Powerful, almighty, almighty.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
All right, so Do we have to do a verse with the
partner?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, we're going to jump in.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I want you all to do the next three verses with the
person sitting next to you, allright, and I want you, as a team
, to come up with one thing youlearned and one characteristic
of that it can be a question too.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It can be.
Yeah, or a question, it can bewhat you learned about humankind
what?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
you learned about one of the characters right.
You learned to apply in yourlife anything like that so?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
you all have about five minutes.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
We're going to let y'all do that.
Yes, yes.
So y'all are going to do nine.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Y'all are going to do 9 through 13.
Oh yeah, thank you.
I am now a John Wood, johnCusky, the world's most
accomplished artist, the world'snumber one singer champion and
most talented artist.
And I am a Jack LaFontaine, theworld's most talented artist
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and the world's number onesinger champion and most
talented artist.
I am now a John Wood, johnCusky.
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Ma'am, we're talking aboutthree things.
Are you going to step down onemore time?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
No, Just tell me what characters you've got in these
and, if you have any questionsabout it, what you learned about
one person at this work, I'llchoose, and then All right, when
somebody's ready to go, let meknow, and remember, you're not
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all going to learn the samethings.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh, ok, yeah, why don't you go ahead with your
mess?
All right, everybody ready,y'all ready, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Who wants to be first ?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Y'all want to be first.
All right, so y'all are a group.
Yeah, oh yeah, you started like9 and 10.
It says the only one who's gotthe true life, life's at every
level and he's coming back tothe world.
And then he's coming to theworld that he created.
So he's talking about Jesus,that's right.
He's coming back.
And then when he does come back, it talks about he came to his
own people but he got rejectedby them.
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But then if you have people whoget bigger and better and you
make them like your children,god will be back there.
That's right.
Good job.
Alright, you want to go?
We're all born in this world,but if we receive God, we're not
born yet, not in this world,but of God.
Very good, that's awesome.
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That's a huge one for them.
Alright, anybody else?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
john was sent down by god to bear witness of the true
life, and it's every man thatcame to the world.
Jesus was right there in theworld.
That's right.
You're going to be surprised ifpeople not in heaven, all right
, anybody else?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
want to share.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
You want to be fine.
You found that he is loving andcaring and kind of good for
people, so he has to judgepeople on how they worship him.
Very good, so you looked at hischaracters, which are good.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
That's what we need to do All right, anybody else.
All right, I'm sure you're fine, I think I'll show you your
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stuff.
You're showing wrong music.
Did you know that Jesus' ownbrothers did not believe until
after he was crucified?
His own siblings didn't believehe was who he said he was until
the Son of God, until after hewas crucified, they didn't marry
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him you know they didn't marrythem.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
You know, People married them.
They didn't marry them.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
We're going to tell you about the story of Joseph in
the.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Bible.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Joseph was kind of the favorite right and he would
tell his brothers things abouthim and they knew that it was
true but they thought he wasjust going to brag and fool
themselves.
I have a nice memory of that.
I guess the Jays told him thathe was the son of God, yeah
carry, all right.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
So to wrap this up, and in order to win the $25
Amazon Prime gift card, there isa page in the back of your book
, the very last sheet.
The person who can bring me thecorrect answer first wins the
$25 gift card.
The fill in the blank, the fillin the blank?
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Yep, right on, it's yours andyou don't have to write the
words.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Just write the letters and circle the answers.
Thank you, I know there's otherthings, something like that Yep
perfect Sweet.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Now do those Yep Sweet.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Yeah, there's other parts.
While you are working, ifanybody needs a study Bible or
one of these, please stop by andwrite your name down and we
will get you one for sure.
Okay, please Keep going.
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Yeah, keep going.
Two sides, two sides, no, nodouble.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Oh okay, keep going, keep going.
Two sides, two sides.
No, no problem, all right, allright.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Check your answers Back in my teeth and stuff.
Great Two.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
And then we have a winner winner chicken dinner.
All right, Yep, the folders areyours.
If you want the Bibledictionary, it is helpful.
I keep one.
I like it because it's smalland it's easy to pack with us.
Please take it.
You are at least up a fewminutes.
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You're more than welcome If youwant to come up and sign or
pass it around If you need astudy Bible which I highly
suggest you all have it givesyou notes and things.
What do you think, Graham?
It's the love story, the rescuestory of the.
Bible.
That's what it's about.
It's God knowing that we'regoing to sin, but from the very
beginning, knowing that he'sgoing to send his son to save us
.
So the key why Because he lovesus so much, he wants to be in a
relationship with us.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That's how crazy it is.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm doing the Bible recap with my husband this year
and we are in Leviticus and it'sa little bit of a painful book
of the Bible to get through,because it's a lot about
cleansing and cleaning, andwe're on bodily fluids this
morning, so like what do you got?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
to do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And, but the reality is there are still, if I quit
going about reading some of thestuff repetitiously that seems
to not make sense to me.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The reality is, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It talks about how there has to be a cleansing for
the sin.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Like there has to be a, there has to be a sacrifice
for the sin, and it's pointingto.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Jesus all the way in the book of Leviticus before
he's even born.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So anyway, sorry, we're super geeky about the.
Bible and the other thing Ithink in kids' ministry we teach
kids Bible stories.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Like a two-year-old really isn't needing to
understand all the sufferingright here.
Right, they need to know thatGod is big, that God made them
and he loves them and he wantsto be with them forever that's
what they need to know, but asthey get older, we need to tell
them more, because there's moreto the story
Speaker 2 (01:27):
than that, and the Bible's full of God's character,
of who he is and how much heloves you, and that you know he
will never change and what hesays he will do, he will always
do.
I don't know anybody else onthis earth who does that, and I
have a wonderful husband, but hedoesn't always do what he says
he's going to do.
I'm a mom.
I don't always do what I sayI'm going to do.
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He always will, and you'll seethat story after story.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
The other big thing is the upper story versus the
lower story.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I talk about that a lot for our kids, because in the
midst of a trial or tribulation, if you don't understand,
there's something going onthat's not good, you don't get
that.
God is saving you fromsomething that's way worse.
Right Anyway, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So, as we dive in and we break down the Gospel of
John.
I want you all to keep threethings in mind.
All right, what?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
does this passage teach me about God?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Because we already know it's not going to teach us
Well.
It will teach us about somethings of mind.
Alright, what does this passageteach me about God?
Because we already know it'snot going to teach us well.
It will teach us about somethings of ourselves, Right, but
we're looking for what itteaches us about God, because
that helps us rely on Him.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
What does it teach us about ourselves, human beings,
and what does it teach me aboutmeeting a Savior, Alright.
So we have lots of tools andhelps that we're going to show
y'all that have helped usthrough the years.
There is no wrong way to studythe Bible, but I have found
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these Bible study methods helpme the most.
The one I use is the five.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
W's.
I'm a history geek, so I wantto know who, what, when, where,
why and how the five W's.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm a history geek so I want to know who, what, when,
where, why and how.
But I also am now using theREAP method to help me study and
go.
You have a brown book that isnow yours.
I'm going to encourage even youguys to start journaling.
I can tell you, daniel, and.
Jason, do it, garrett does itWrite down questions you have.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Write down things you don't understand and I like to
go back through mine and then,in a year from now, I go back
and go.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I don't understand this now.
I was reading this morning andI was like I don't know what a
default.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I don't know what a measurement is.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
They were talking about, you had to have a
defaultphod of great.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And what do you say?
Is that like a and it'sequivalent to a bushel.
I saw you wrote it down while Iwas reading and it looks like
it's equivalent to a bushel.
So this story says 16th of abushel, so that, well, I never
knew, but I don't know the size.
There was another thing thattalked about size equivalent to
a dime.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I'm like okay, because again in.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Leviticus, you find that God created a way for
people that didn't have a lot ofmoney to be able to still make
atonement for their sin.
Right, he offered you could doa bird instead of a mammal, a
calf or a sheep.
You know what that's from?
That's for telling Jesusparents are not going to have
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enough money to make a sacrificeoffering.
Parents are not going to haveenough money to make a sacrifice
offering.
They're going to have to use aburden.
So it's already known.
God already knows it all theway back in the Old Testament
and as he's writing all thesecrazy laws, and he's already
planned for his own son'sparents to be able to make
atonement for sin.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Alright, so the number one step is start in
prayer.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
The Holy Spirit will guide you in learning what you
need to learn.
I'm a firm believer in that,because sometimes I go.
I've done the Bible recap.
I am right now going to.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Old.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Testament.
I'm in school going through.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Old Testament and sometimes I have no idea why I'm
learning what.
I'm learning and then the HolySpirit shows it to me a little
bit later as to this was whatthis meant or this was what this
meant.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
So always start with prayer and then go to your
questions.
Ask your who, what, when, wherewhy?
But what we're going to focuson today is learning all about
your Knowing the time that thebook was written, knowing who
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wrote it, why they wrote it andwhen it was written.
Who thinks the Bible waswritten chronologically that?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
when you open it up, it's in the order as things
happen.
Yes, no, it's not.
That's one of the reasons why.
Just so you know, if you thinkthat it's overwhelming and
intimidating to you, there arelike brilliant geniuses of the
world who don't even have faithor believe in God.
But it's on everybody, it's themost spied-after book to read
from the beginning to the end,is the Bible.
It's a fact.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
They all want to read it and have off their bucket
list that they've read the Bible, but it's really confusing,
because it doesn't happen in theorder of which things happen.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's not how it's written, because the reality was
there wasn't paper right, andso they wrote books based on
they didn't write it at themoment that it happened either.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
So that we hear about Moses.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
They talked about things, sitting around the fire
and telling your family as theygo.
That's the only thing.
How would I go back then?
So as the stories were written,so it's not in any order.
So don't be intimidated.
And the other thing I'll tellyou is you might read something
now and you read it later andyou're like, oh, you never saw
that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I have read this story of Joseph to the kids for
10 years.
How?
Did I not see that Because theHoly Spirit will reveal
something to you when you needto see it Crazy as that sounds.
So in your folders you'll findtimelines that are helpful.
You'll find.
We put the books of the Bibleso'll timeline from Old
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Testament to New Testament.
We started to do a book calledthe Story, which is kind of a
novel form of the Bible frombeginning to end.
And I had a guy who grew up inchurch his whole life and I told
Stacey this story a hundredtimes and he said to me I had no
idea that Jesus wasn't bornduring Moses' time.
I just knew stories of Moses.
I knew stories of Jesus.
I didn't know that.
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So again until you understandhow it all is put together it
doesn't really make as muchsense, and it's still a little
bit overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I'm also going to encourage you to study the Bible
the way you learn best.
If you're an audio learner, doit by listening.
I do both.
I have to listen and read atthe same time and work for
something to stick in my brain,and then you only have to write
it.
I mean, I'm going to tell you,if you're not a writer's cookie.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I have to do all those steps, but that's what
happens, so know how you learn,all right.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But I also use things like the Bible Project before I
start reading the book.
Has anybody used the BibleProject before here?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
we've read it a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
It breaks down.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
The author tells you all of the things that might be
helpful to understanding thebook of the.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Bible.
So we're going to go ahead andwe're going to show y'all the
John version of it, becausethat's where we're going to go
is John 1.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
The Gospel according to John.
It's one of the earliestaccounts of Jesus' life and we
learn at the end of the bookthat it comes from one of Jesus'
closest followers, called thedisciple whom Jesus loved, and
he appears many times in thestory itself, and there's some
debate about whether it's Johnthe son of Zebedee, or John the.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Twelve or a different John who lived in.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Jerusalem and was known in the later church as
John the Elder, whichever.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
John, it was.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The book embodies his eyewitness testimony, and it's
been brilliantly designed withthe clear purpose that he made
it.
John says the story is writtenso that you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Messiah andthat by believing you may have
life in his name.
John believes that the Jesusyou read about in this book is
alive and real and that he canchange your life forever.
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The book's design is reallycool.
Its first half opens with anintroductory poem and a short
story that's followed by then abig block of stories about Jesus
performing miraculous signsthat generate increasing
controversy, and it allculminates in his greatest sign,
the raising of Lazarus, whichcreates the greatest controversy
as Israel's leaders decide tokill Jesus and that launches
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into the book's second half.
These chapters focus on Jesus'final night and last words to
his disciples, which arefollowed by his arrest, trial,
death and resurrection.
The book concludes with anepilogue.
In this video we're just goingto focus on the first half.
So the book opens with atwo-part introduction.
First, a poem that begins inthe beginning was the Word an
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obvious allusion to Genesis 1,when God created everything with
His Word.
Now a person's words, they'redistinct from that person, but
also the embodiment of thatperson's mind and will.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
And so John says that .
Speaker 3 (10:15):
God's Word was with God.
That is distinct.
And yet the Word was God.
That is divine, and as we partof this claim, we hear later in
the poem that this divine wordbecame human in Jesus.
Then John goes on to draw fromthe stories of Exodus, saying
that Jesus was God's tabernaclein our midst.
The glorious divine presencethat hovered over the Ark of the
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Covenant became a human inJesus, which leads to his last
claim that the one true God ofIsrael consists of God, the
Father, and the Son, who hasbecome human to reveal the
Father to us.
Now, as we consider thesemind-bending claims, we then
start to hear a story about howJohn the Baptist first met Jesus
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and then led other people tomeet him and become his
disciples, and one by one, aspeople encounter Jesus, they say
out loud who they think he is.
And in this one chapter, jesusis given seven titles.
Now these titles prepare us forJohn's love of sevens and
designing the book, butaltogether they also make a
claim that this fully humanJesus from Nazareth is the
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Messianic King, he's the teacherof Israel and he's the Son of
God who will die for the sins ofthe world.
Now, that's a big claim to makeabout someone, and John will
now go on to support it throughthe stories in chapters 2-12.
They all have the same basicpattern Jesus will perform a
sign or make a claim abouthimself, and that will result in
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misunderstanding or controversy, and so in the end of each
story, people are forced to makea choice about who they think
Jesus is.
The first section shows Jesusencountering four classic Jewish
institutions, and in each case,jesus shows that he is the
reality to which thatinstitution pointed.
So Jesus is at a wedding party.
The wine runs out and Jesusthen turns these huge jugs of
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water 120 gallons total into thebest wine ever, and the head
waiter says to the groom you'vesaved the best wine for last,
which is, of course, true.
But John also calls this miracleJesus' first sign.
In other words it's a symbolthat reveals something about
Jesus.
So, just as Isaiah said that,the Messianic kingdom would be
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like this huge party of lots ofgood wine.
So this first miraculous signreveals the generosity of Jesus'
kingdom.
Next, jesus goes to theJerusalem temple, the place
where heaven and earth weresupposed to come together and
God would meet with his people,and Jesus asserts his authority
over it, running out all themoney exchangers stopping the
sacrificial offerings.
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And when the temple leaders threaten him.
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He says destroy this temple and I will raise it again
in three days.
Jesus is claiming that hiscoming sacrificial death is
where heaven and earth willtruly meet together.
His body, that will be killedis the reality to which the
temple building points.
Then Jesus has this all-nightconversation with a rabbi named
Nicodemus, who thinks that Jesusis just like him, another rabbi
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and teacher for Israel.
But Jesus says that Israel needsmuch more than just another
teacher with new information.
Israel needs a new heart and anew life.
Or, in his words, no one canexperience God's kingdom without
being born again.
Jesus believes that humans arecaught in a web of selfishness
and sin that leads to death, buthe also knows that God loves
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this world.
And so he's here to offer peoplea new birth, a new chance at
life.
From here, jesus travels northand he ends up at a sacred well
in a conversation with aSamaritan that is a non-Jewish
woman.
And they.
Jesus travels north and he endsup at a sacred well in a
conversation with a Samaritanthat is a non-Jewish woman, and
they start talking about water,which Jesus turns into a
metaphor for himself.
He says that he's here to bringliving water that can become a
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source of eternal life.
Now, in John, this term refersto a new quality of life, one
that's infused with God'seternal love, and it's a life
that can begin now and last oninto the future.
After this, john has designedanother collection of stories
that took place during fourJewish sacred days or feasts.
And again Jesus uses the imagesrelated to the feasts to explain
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about himself.
So Jesus first heals aparalyzed man on the Sabbath
which starts a controversy withthe Jewish leaders about working
on the day of rest.
And Jesus says it's his fatherwho's working on the Sabbath,
and so is he.
And they catch his meaning thathe was calling God his father,
making himself equal with God,and so they want to kill him.
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The next story takes placeduring Passover, the feast that
we told the Exodus story, thesymbolic meal of the lamb and
bread and wine.
And Jesus miraculously providesfood for a crowd of thousands,
which results in people askinghim for more.
And then Jesus goes on to claimthat he is the true bread and if
they eat him they will discovereternal life, and this offends
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many people who stop followinghim After.
This is a block of stories setin Jerusalem during the Feast of
the Tabernacles, which retoldthe story of Israel's wilderness
wanderings as God guided themthrough the pillar of cloud and
fire and provided them water inthe desert.
And Jesus gets up in the templecourts and shouts If anyone is
thirsty, let them come to me anddrink.
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And then later he says I am thelight of the world.
He's claiming to be theilluminating presence of God and
the life-saving gift of God tohis people, and some people
believe and follow him.
But others are offended andstill others try to kill him for
these exalted claims.
The final feast story is duringHanukkah, which means
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rededication.
It's about how Judah Maccabeecleared the temple of idols and
set it apart as holy once more,and Jesus goes into the temple
area and says that he is the onewho God has set apart as a holy
one and that he is the truetemple where God's presence
prevails.
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And he also says I am the father of one.
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This makes the Jerusalem leader so angry.
They set a motion plan to killJesus, and so he retreats from
the city.
Now all these conflictsculminate in one last miraculous
sign.
Jesus hears that his dearfriend Lazarus is sick, but his
family lives near Jerusalem,which is now a death trap for
Jesus.
Now Jesus could stay away andhe would save his own life, but
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he loves Lazarus.
So once he hears that Lazarushas died, he goes to raise him
from the dead and he calls himto life out of this tomb,
knowing that it will cost himhis own life.
And the news of this amazingsign.
It spreads quickly, of course,and just as Jesus knew it would
happen, the Jerusalem leadershear about it and begin to
conspire to murder him.
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And so he rides into Jerusalemas Israel's king who's rejected
by its leaders.
So the first half of John drawsto a close with this story about
Jesus laying down his life asan act of love for his friend,
and this, of course, is also asign pointing forward to the
cross, which we'll explore morein the next video, but for now,
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that's the first half of theGospel of John.
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Alright, so as we.
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The Gospel according to John.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Oh sorry.
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In the first video we saw that John wrote this book
to make the Alright, so as wejump in I want you to remember
that Now.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Who knew all the information about John Wow?
A lot of people get John the.
Baptist.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And John mixed up.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yes, so when learning to study the Bible.
I'm going to give you all somesteps to go through.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
And we're going to start those steps right now.
Gather your supplies, do you?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
have your supplies.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Some of you don't have your Bible.
That's okay.
You're going to need it whenyou're doing your studies on
your own.
All right, so we're going topick a time that is consistent,
all right, how many of you get?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
up at the same time every day For school.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
We'll even throw it for school Around the same time.
All right, how many of you liketo eat breakfast, lunch, dinner
?
That's something you doconsistently right, well?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
in order to understand the Bible.
This is something you have todo consistently.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
All right, now, we picked a book for you, but when
you start studying the Bible onyour own, pick a book and start
at the beginning, if you haven'tstudied before start in the
Gospels you can start at Genesis.
It's fabulous, but then yournext book's going to be a little
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bit harder.
So, I always tell, I alwayssuggest you start in the.
Gospels Matthew, mark, luke andJohn.
They help you understand theoverarching story of the Bible.
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And I really tell a lot of the same stories because
they're different authors, fromdifferent perspectives and
different details and they all.
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Who thinks all of those people, all four of those
guys, were with Jesus?
Only two of them weren't Okay.
So two of them, one of them,got the eyewitness account from
his mother, jesus' mother, andyou will see that his book, is
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written more about it has a lotof details about women of the
Bible.
The other one got it from Pauland you will see details about
that.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
So they're each written different.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Now the next step is do your detective work.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
All right, break it down.
Pull up the Bible project.
Look on your timeline.
Pull up something about theauthor.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Learn about what the person wrote and then, you have
a study Bible.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Some of you guys get a bunch of.
Some of you have tabs, Like Ihave my study Bible.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I have two of them.
It has actually right before Istart the work of John.
It has this whole big sectionhere.
It tells by the way, it givesme a little cheater timeline, so
I'm wearing a hat it tells me alittle bit about who, what,
where I'm at.
I just read it, so yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Don't get get overwhelmed.
Start with 10 to 15 minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That may be all your brain can process.
That's all my brain can processon Sundays, especially after
I've watched or done myinformation on the author.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I can't do more than that.
I'm tapped out.
It's not going to do any goodfor you to read 30 minutes and
not remember what you read.
So start with 10 to 15 minutes,don't get overwhelmed with it,
but you have to start with 10 to15 minutes.
Don't get overwhelmed with it.
But you have to start.
You have to start reading, youhave to start learning if you
want to grow.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Are any of you trying to read through the Bible?
Do you do regular Bible plansor Bible readings?
That's why you're here.
I also do use the Bible app,which is another thing you can
do, and I do the Bible app storeat a ton of kids in my old
church.
Every day they send me adifferent one and we do it and
you can read it.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You can read the Bible.
That way, you have alldifferent options.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So again, it's nice because guess what Most of you
don't have to have your phones alot.
So if you have your phone, itsends me on my phone don't read
your Bible today, so anotheroption for you.
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Again, I'm not an audible learner.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I have to see, I'm a visual learner.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
So I have to read it with my eyes.
I can't listen to it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I would fall asleep, or I'll be right back in my
grocery and say, no, oh wait.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
We were talking.
I wonder what they said.
So if you're still reading thelessons dream.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I know today, yeah, this will be the lesson's dream
in the world today, yeah, so,and then like I said before you
open it and start pray, sobefore we jump into John we're
going to go ahead and open inprayer and I will tell you my
simple prayer.
I do before I start, because ifI jump into all of the things
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that I need from God, I forgetto ask what I really need from
God.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So I'm going to go ahead and pray my simple prayer
and hopefully you guys can takeit with you and pray the simple
prayer.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Alright, and I pray it every Sunday for our kids at
church.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
So alright, Heavenly Father, thank you for this day,
Lord.
I pray that you would open myheart and my ears to learn what
I need to learn and to grow mecloser to you.
In your name, I pray Amen.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
That's it.
Two seconds, all right, sowe're going to jump into John.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
If you have a Bible, go ahead and open it to John.
If you don't, we do have a fewextras that you guys can share.
Or if somebody by you has oneyou can share, then go ahead.
Don't use that one.
You all can go up here by theway if you don't have a Bible
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please get with us.
We have tons and we will get youa good one All right on your
desk.
Most of you, I got them aroundthe room.
Some of them we ran out.
You have what we call theultimate Bible dictionary.
There are going to be words inthe Bible?
You don't know or phrases youdon't know Like what does it
mean?
(23:18):
At the beginning it says he umyes incarnate.
Yes, that's in there a lot.
So, or in the beginning was theword.
What does that mean?
If you look in your Bibledictionaries, it's in there.
By the way, if you want one,please take them.
(23:39):
We bought them for this class.
And if you didn't get one, letme know and we will get you one.
Write your name down.
So we're going to go, we'regoing to do a verse by verse
breakdown and kind of tell youwhat we see, because we studied
this before, so that we can tellyou what we learned before.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Alright, and so every person in this room is in a
different season of their life,right?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I don't think any of you have two foster kids at home
and dealing with all of that,or three adopted kids, no, no,
okay.
So we're all in differentseasons.
So in different seasons Godteaches us different things or
he brings out different things.
So anybody want to read verseone for me?
Don't be scared, don't bescared.
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Don't be scared If we give up the world.
The world already existed.
The world is with God.
The world was God.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Okay, anybody want to guess what that?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
means it did talk about him a bit, though how?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
does the?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Bible start out.
What are the first three wordsin Genesis?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
The beginning.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
So the word?
Do we know what the word isgoing to?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Jesus yes.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
The whole thing is about him.
The whole thing is about him,so we all think about God being
in the beginning, but what we?
Forget is that Jesus is alwaysthere with God and God is always
there with Jesus, as well asthe Holy.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Spirit, as well as the Holy Spirit.
So, he says let us be man inour image.
That's what God says in.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Genesis, so he's already there For the breakdown
of the first verse.
It's just telling you that whatall the Old Testament said was
true, that in the beginning Godwas there, jesus was with him
and the word was God.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
They're all together.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So, that's basically.
It's pointing you to the truththat the Old Testament is the
truth.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That you can trust the Bible.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Alright, let's go on to verse 2.
Anybody want to read that one?
For me it's a short one.
It goes along with verse one.
It is hot in here.
I need a fan.
So what did we just talk about?
(26:21):
He existed, he was there.
He's always been there.
All right.
Verse three there.
He's always been there, alrightverse 3.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So if I were to talk about character of God right
there, I see that he always hasbeen, always was and always will
be.
What's that word?
Alright, verse 3.
There's a big word.
I know Anybody's a big word.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Anybody?
Oh Ian.
Okay, alright, I'll read verse3.
Through him, all things weremade.
Without him, nothing was made.
That has been made Just showingJesus' power in the beginning,
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through God, the whole time.
All right, he's powerful, he'spowerful.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
He's powerful.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
All right, anybody want to go on to four?
For me, I can call people Iknow.
Oh, I like that.
Thank you part of it, and thelife was alive in them All right
(27:44):
.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
so are we seeing a pattern that John's pointing us
to?
The man was life?
Who are they?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
talking about Jesus.
Yes, the man was life, and thisis probably my favorite that I
read in this.
It's verse 5.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Anybody want to do verse 5?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
The light shines through darkness and the
darkness has not overcome it,which, by the way, is almost a
quote from Narnia.
It's also in the New Testament,because Aslan says something
about you cannot get rid of thedarkness outside to get rid of
the darkness inside.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah, you'll find that the Bible is actually
quoted in a lot of movies andauthors use it a lot.
It's in one of the IngridDickens ones, I don't remember
which one.
How many people and this is ait can be.
What character of God do youthink this shows?
(28:42):
Strength?
That's a good one.
Power, all right.
So how many of us need light inthe darkness?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Everybody.
It reminds me of that song.
Just a little light of mine.
I'm going to let it shine thereyou go.
It's the light of Jesus not mylight.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So we all need light in the darkness.
So, and he is the only personthat can overcome the darkness.
So, and he is the only personthat can overcome the darkness,
doesn't matter what you do.
It actually doesn't matter whatSatan does.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's showing you right there that Jesus overcomes
any darkness If you believeit's all powerful.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
All powerful, alright .
Now we're going on to verses 6through 8.
All powerful, all right.
Now we're going on to verses 6through 8.
Does anybody know?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
who John the Baptist is.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Or do you want to look?
It up in your little books thatwe have in front of you.
That's a good thing.
Well, let me look it up.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, there was a picture of him on the screen
over at the top.
He was actually here two weeksago.
I'm going to look at the title.
Yes, definitely, I'm sorry,he's a sister.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You got it All right tell me who's the Apostle
Baptist prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, prophet, prophet,prophet, prophet, prophet,
prophet, amen.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
So he's the cousin of Jesus, he's the man who
baptized Jesus.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
He was the one who called that was in a video where
they talked about people givingdifferent names.
And John the Baptist calledJesus the son of God, jesus the
son of God.
But he was known for being kindof like each razzle with A
camel and a hoe.
(30:53):
He never did middle needs.
He was a pastor, let's just say, none of you girls would have
been lining up to date him.
Will they focus on how to dothat?
Will they talk about the linethat they made?
But I can question his cousin.
He got the pure master baptizedin Jesus.
It's like when he came to me,he said you should be baptized
in me, I should be baptized inyou.
What are you talking about?
(31:13):
He's the Messiah.
So his job is to tell the worldthat Jesus is God.
I'm just going to say that forrepentance.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Alright, so can anybody kind of overview what we
?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
learned in just those few verses.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
We're just going to write one word down Jesus is my
son.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yeah, awesome, that's good.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Anything else.
Does it surprise any of youthat he was in the beginning?
Did you all know that already?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, all of you knew that.
When you read Genesis, do youread it that way or you just
read it as oh, I've createdeverything.
Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I say that about myself because, as I'm studying
the Old Testament now, I have toremember
Speaker 4 (32:10):
that he was there and he's not just a New Testament
character.
He didn't just show up out ofnowhere All right, anything else
that?
Y'all learned out of those fewverses?
Besides, jesus is the light.
He was there in the beginning.
What?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
can you tell about God from those verses of?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Jesus.
What characters of God couldyou?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
tell us.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
What did you learn about God's character?
Powerful, almighty, almighty.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
All right, so Do we have to do a verse with the
partner?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, we're going to jump in.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I want you all to do the next three verses with the
person sitting next to you, allright, and I want you, as a team
, to come up with one thing youlearned and one characteristic
of that it can be a question too.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It can be.
Yeah, or a question, it can bewhat you learned about humankind
what?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
you learned about one of the characters right.
You learned to apply in yourlife anything like that so?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
you all have about five minutes.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
We're going to let y'all do that.
Yes, yes.
So y'all are going to do nine.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Y'all are going to do 9 through 13.
Oh yeah, thank you.
I am now a John Wood, johnCusky, the world's most
accomplished artist, the world'snumber one singer champion and
most talented artist.
And I am a Jack LaFontaine, theworld's most talented artist
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and the world's number onesinger champion and most
talented artist.
I am now a John Wood, johnCusky.
(35:12):
Ma'am, we're talking aboutthree things.
Are you going to step down onemore time?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
No, Just tell me what characters you've got in these
and, if you have any questionsabout it, what you learned about
one person at this work, I'llchoose, and then All right, when
somebody's ready to go, let meknow, and remember, you're not
(36:56):
all going to learn the samethings.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh, ok, yeah, why don't you go ahead with your
mess?
All right, everybody ready,y'all ready, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Who wants to be first ?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Y'all want to be first.
All right, so y'all are a group.
Yeah, oh yeah, you started like9 and 10.
It says the only one who's gotthe true life, life's at every
level and he's coming back tothe world.
And then he's coming to theworld that he created.
So he's talking about Jesus,that's right.
He's coming back.
And then when he does come back, it talks about he came to his
own people but he got rejectedby them.
(39:12):
But then if you have people whoget bigger and better and you
make them like your children,god will be back there.
That's right.
Good job.
Alright, you want to go?
We're all born in this world,but if we receive God, we're not
born yet, not in this world,but of God.
Very good, that's awesome.
(39:32):
That's a huge one for them.
Alright, anybody else?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
john was sent down by god to bear witness of the true
life, and it's every man thatcame to the world.
Jesus was right there in theworld.
That's right.
You're going to be surprised ifpeople not in heaven, all right
, anybody else?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
want to share.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
You want to be fine.
You found that he is loving andcaring and kind of good for
people, so he has to judgepeople on how they worship him.
Very good, so you looked at hischaracters, which are good.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
That's what we need to do All right, anybody else.
All right, I'm sure you're fine, I think I'll show you your
(40:50):
stuff.
You're showing wrong music.
Did you know that Jesus' ownbrothers did not believe until
after he was crucified?
His own siblings didn't believehe was who he said he was until
the Son of God, until after hewas crucified, they didn't marry
(41:12):
him you know they didn't marrythem.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
You know, People married them.
They didn't marry them.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
We're going to tell you about the story of Joseph in
the.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Bible.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Joseph was kind of the favorite right and he would
tell his brothers things abouthim and they knew that it was
true but they thought he wasjust going to brag and fool
themselves.
I have a nice memory of that.
I guess the Jays told him thathe was the son of God, yeah
carry, all right.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
So to wrap this up, and in order to win the $25
Amazon Prime gift card, there isa page in the back of your book
, the very last sheet.
The person who can bring me thecorrect answer first wins the
$25 gift card.
The fill in the blank, the fillin the blank?
(42:04):
Yep, right on, it's yours andyou don't have to write the
words.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Just write the letters and circle the answers.
Thank you, I know there's otherthings, something like that Yep
perfect Sweet.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
Now do those Yep Sweet.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Yeah, there's other parts.
While you are working, ifanybody needs a study Bible or
one of these, please stop by andwrite your name down and we
will get you one for sure.
Okay, please Keep going.
(43:34):
Yeah, keep going.
Two sides, two sides, no, nodouble.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Oh okay, keep going, keep going.
Two sides, two sides.
No, no problem, all right, allright.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Check your answers Back in my teeth and stuff.
Great Two.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
And then we have a winner winner chicken dinner.
All right, Yep, the folders areyours.
If you want the Bibledictionary, it is helpful.
I keep one.
I like it because it's smalland it's easy to pack with us.
Please take it.
You are at least up a fewminutes.
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You're more than welcome If youwant to come up and sign or
pass it around If you need astudy Bible which I highly
suggest you all have it givesyou notes and things.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.