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GENESIS 1 How the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters (Genesis 1:2). The creation myths of the pagan nations encircling Israel held that the world emerged as a result of the struggle between the “gods” of the eternal … Continue reading “CREATION OR CHAOS?”

MARK 15:16–39 It was the third hour when they crucified him (Mark 15:25). Radical liberal theologians like Rudolph Bultmann maintain that God is revealed only in events. They claim Scripture is not revelation, there is no revelation in words, and there is no revelation of God in nature. God, they say, is only revealed to … Continue reading “WORD AND DEED REVELATION”

HEBREWS 1:1–4 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways (Hebrews 1:1). God revealed Himself to the Old Testament prophets in a myriad of ways. Today we want to survey some of the ways God revealed Himself as preparation for this year’s study of the … Continue reading “VARIETIES OF REVELATION”

ACTS 7:2–53 “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran” (Acts 7:2). We are living in a time in which there is an explosion of technical studies and new information about the Old Testament. Sadly, however, we … Continue reading “AN OLD HERESY REVISITED”

LUKE 4:16–30 And he began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:21). Today we want to consider a much more self-conscious form of Neo-Marcionism found in some British and American scholarly circles, it also dominates German New Testament scholarship. German scholar Rudolph Bultmann and his followers maintain that … Continue reading “LIBERAL MARCIONISM”

ACTS 17:16–31 What you worship as something unknown, I am going to proclaim to you (Acts 17:23b). The most important reason for studying the Old Testament is that it is absolutely necessary to come to a full understanding of the person of Jesus Christ. The American church culture breeds many spurious “Christian” conversions because of its … Continue reading “JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT”

2 TIMOTHY 3:10–17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16). When Paul wrote to Timothy about the Scriptures, he was obviously referring to the Old Testament. Possibly, he also had in mind those New Testament books that had been written, but the “Bible” for … Continue reading “VALUE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT”

EXODUS 20:1–21 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery” (Exodus 20:2). The Bible for the early church was the Old Testament because the New Testament had not yet been written. All of the teaching and study that took place was based on the Old … Continue reading “THE COVENANT PATTERN”

DEUTERONOMY 28:1–14 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth (Deuteronomy 28:1). In the Mosaic covenant Preamble, the master was Yahweh and Israel was the vassal. In the new covenant, Jesus … Continue reading “LAWS AND PROMISES”

The Old Testament. It stands as a giant, mysterious body of literature into which many Christians rarely venture. We are caught in a vicious circle: as believers we don’t read the Old Testament because we don’t understand it; but we don’t understand it because we don’t read it. However, the Old Testament is the foundation … Continue reading “JANUARY BIBLE STUDIES”