How to study the Bible session9

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Tonights class was designed to bring our how to study toa practical level.

The culture is saturated and captivated with self esteem,self worth and self glorification.

Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle are teaming up toproduce a 10 week online course to tap into your hidden

potential which they have labeled The New Earth.How would you answer these claims from Oprahs course?

You can find the goodness that lies within you

You are the lightThe source of all energy is within you

The answers we give dont need to be based on what wethink but rather what God says in His word.


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GOD

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ROOT FRUIT

Matt. 5:14-16

1 Peter 4:10-11

Romans 4:20


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Chicago, IL Monday night's webcast was one of the largest single online events in the history of the

Internet.More than 500,000 people simultaneously loggedon to watch Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle live,resulting in 242 Gbps of information movingthrough the Internet.

Unfortunately, some of our users experienceddelays in viewing the webcast.

We are working to identify the specific causes for the problems experienced and will work diligently torectify them.


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I have taken the statements from Oprahs video that isshowing on our blog site and listed each of them in thispresentation.

In some cases I have my response that I have listed inRED.

Also during this teaching segment, I have focused on the

doctrine of sin, that needs to be understood by Christiansas we learn how to study the Bible.

This Bible teaching stands in direct contradiction toOprahs course about how to tap into your hiddenpotential.

As the apostle Paul says in 2Tim. 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who doesnot need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.


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This is about YOU


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This is about CHRIST

Berts response


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Let go of fear and desire


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Discover the depth within YOURSELF


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Discover the depth withinCHRIST

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A sense of awe, of wonder, willarise within YOU


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A sense of awe, of wonder,will arise within you asCHRIST is revealed to you

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It can only awaken those whoare ready


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Are YOU ready?


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Are you asking , seeking and knocking ?

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THERE IS NONE

RIGHTEOUS, NOTEVEN ONE

Berts Response


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What is sin?

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act,attitude or nature.

We all know that sin is harmful to our lives and that it brings painand destructive consequences to others and us.

However, it much more serious than what it does to others

because it is a direct contradiction, violation and rebellion to thevery holiness of God.


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Scriptural support for the definition of sin

1 John 3:4 - Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness;and sin is lawlessness.

James 4:17 - Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and

does not do it, to him it is sin

Romans 14:23 - and whatever is not from faith is sin.

Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God


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Biblical evidence for the doctrine of sin

Genesis 6:5: "The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was

great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heartwas only evil continually.

Jeremiah 13:23 (NIV): "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or theleopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to

doing evil.Romans 8:7-9: "For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile toGod, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Thosewho are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in theflesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you.Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong tohim."

Ephesians 2:3b: "[We] were by nature children of wrath, like therest of mankind."


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1 Corinthians 2:14: "The natural person does not accept thethings of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is notable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."

Genesis 8:21 - The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and theLORD said to Himself, I will never again curse the ground onaccount of man, for the intent of mans heart is evil from his youth;and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done

1 Kings 8:46 - When they sin against You (for there is no manwho does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them toan enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of theenemy, far off or near

Psalms 51:5 - Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sinmy mother conceived me.

Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is more deceitful than all else And is

desperately sick; Who can understand it?


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Romans 5:12-21

The Scriptures teach that sin causes a two-fold problem in our lives.By the way these two sin problems are what all people inherit from

Adam.

1. We have inherited condemnation our original guilt and

condemnation is not rooted in our first individual sinning but in our connection with Adam and his sin. Since we are regarded as havingsinned in Adam then we are subject to the same punishment asAdam. This imputed sin is the ruin of our standing before God inwhich we are reckoned as guilty in the courtroom of God.Romans 5:12 - Therefore, just as through one man sin entered intothe world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men,

because all sinned


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The Scriptures teach that sin causes a two-fold problem in our lives. By the way these two sin problems are what all peopleinherit from Adam.

2. We have inherited corruption Because of Adams sin then weall enter the world with a sinful or fallen nature. This sin nature,which we have inherited from Adam, manifests itself in our

thought, ways of speaking and behaving such that we violate themoral commands of God. At birth inherent to every person

because of Adams sin there are sinful thoughts and feelings. Weare not sinners because we sin rather we sin because we aresinners!


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The point of this Scripture is HUGE because in that my corruptedcondition and my sinful behavior I have a much deeper problem.That problem is rooted in my union with Adam, my father inwhom I sinned, was condemned and died. We need to see wherein this paragraph Paul is writing to show us that it is our connection to and with Adam that is our main problem.

Romans 5:15 by the transgression of the one many diedThe one here is AdamRomans 5:16 for on the one hand the judgment arose fromone transgression resulting in condemnationRomans 5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, deathreigned through the oneRomans 5:18 through one transgression there resultedcondemnation to all menRomans 5:19 For as through the one mans disobedience the

many were made sinners


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Now that we understand the two-fold problem what is the solution?

The problem of our condemnation in Adam God remediesthrough justification in Christ.

His reckoning to us the righteousness Christ solves the problem of our legal guilt and condemnation before God.

In other words if we are to stand before God and be declared not

guilty then we must have the righteousness of Someone else.That someone else is Christ and His righteousness is imputed to us

by grace alone, through faith alone.

This event is outside of me and is judicial - (declared righteous)This event happens in an instant


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Now that we understand the two-fold problem what is the solution?

The problem of our corruption God remedies through sanctification

by the Spirit.And the problem of our moral defilement and habitual sinning issolved by His purifying us by the work of Spirit. This process iswhat we call sanctification.

This event is inside of me and moralThis event happens progressively over time


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If the shutters are closed


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Jesus said I am the lightof the world

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The past has no power to stop YOU from being present now


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I am aware


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I am aware of mydesperate need for theLord Jesus

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To love is to recognize YOURSELF in another


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We know love by this,that He laid down Hislife for us; and we oughtto lay down our lives for the brethren

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Do not store up for yourselves treasures onearth

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But store up for yourselvestreasures in heaven

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for where your treasureis, there your heart willbe also

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Life is the dancer


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YOU will come to life


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A new year


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A new YOU


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A new earth


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Only the truth of who YOU arerealized will set YOU free


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If you continue in My word,

then you are truly disciplesof Mine;

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and you will know thetruth, and the truth willmake you free

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