In this video I show how to do a Bible study with the simple 3 column method. If you are wanting to know how to read the bible easily, this is a great tool to add to your tool belt as you prayerfully read the Bible!
Hello. Today we're going to be looking at how to read the Bible. And the passage we're going to be looking at is Luke 18. So, first thing you want to do is divide your page into three sections. In the first section here, we're going to write our passage. And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, "In a certain city, there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, "Give me justice against my adversary." For a while he refused. But afterward he said to himself, "Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming." And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
And will not God give justice to his elect who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the son of man comes, will he find faith on earth? So, after we have our passage written in our translation, which this was ESV, we then paraphrase the scripture. That just means put it in your own words.
And so, we see in verse 18, Jesus is telling his disciples how to pray without giving up. If we were doing verse by verse through this, we would know that Jesus is close to the cross about to be crucified. So in context of Luke, Jesus is giving them lastm minute important teachings. He even says in the end of this, "Nevertheless, when the son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Meaning he's teaching them how to pray until he comes back. So that lets us know what this parable is supposed to teach us. But there's a lot going on in this parable. So I need to divide it and figure out what Jesus is saying. So in this parable, we have two subjects. We have a judge and we have a widow. And in this judge, the parable tells us he's unrighteous and he doesn't care about God or people.
And we have a widow who needs justice and is persistent. And ultimately the judge gives in to the widow's cries because he's getting beaten down by her persistence. So now we write out over here the spec method. So as a reminder the S means is there a sin to be confessed which in today's reading not applicable. The P was is there a pray praise or promise? We as Christians are supposed to pray knowing God is so much greater than the unrighteous judge that is mentioned in this parable.
If an unrighteous judge gives justice, how much more will our heavenly father give justice because he cares about us. So, we have a promise here that God cares about what happens to us and will speedily grant justice. Is there a praise? Well, the praise and promise go together just because of God's character. The E stands for is there an example? Yeah, we're supposed to be like the widow.
The widow is giving us an example because it means she has no men to go on her behalf. Our only way of getting justice is to go to this judge, which is how we're supposed to come to God. God is our plan A or plan B and our plan C. God is not a backup plan in case our plans don't work out. Is there a command? Sort of.
We're supposed to cry out to God until the day of his return. So never give up praying because God does care. Is there knowledge? Absolutely. Knowledge of how to pray and knowledge that it may look like God is slow in answering, but that's our perspective. He does answer quickly.
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