ARME 2: Canby, OR - May 2010

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ARME Bible Camp

Ivor Myers

The Big Picture of Bible Study

I am, would like to, well, we should open up with a word of prayer and then we're just going to talk because you guys are here to learn how to study the Bible right and you know what if I told you that you could have a totally different you know attitude a different a new way of Bible study in 90 days.

How many of you would be excited about that?

Heavenly Father, we come before you at this time just thanking you for your word, thanking you for your truth.

And Lord we just ask that you would just tabernacle with us Lord as we look into the deep issues of the Word of God.

Lord, guide us, give us understanding, and prepare our hearts, Lord, to be transformed.

I have 2 presentations that I'm going to be doing specifically on how to study the Bible.

The second 1 will be my session tomorrow at, I don't remember what time it is.

I may not be using this microphone much longer.

And what I'm going to do in this presentation today is I'm going to share with you what I believe is the most, the most important method of Bible study that you can possibly use.

What I believe is the most important method of Bible study, I will let you know that I'm going to try this again.

I will let you know that I came into the church in 1995 or 96.

In 1995 or 96, and for the first 5 or 6 years or so, I'd remember that I'd go and speak and As I would go and speak places, people would come up to me afterwards and say, you know, pastor, how long have you been in the church?

And I'd tell them, you know, 5 or 6 years.

How do you come up with the things that you've come up with?

How do you break open a scripture like that and I would always point to you know techniques and this is how you do this, this is how you do that and I had an experience that that changed the way that I studied the Bible and I can tell you that the method of Bible study that God eventually taught me, I would learn more in 1 session of this particular type of method than I had maybe in all my experience prior.

In this method of Bible study, I would learn more in 1 session than many sessions that I would be involved in previous to this.

So as I was contemplating and realizing I had wanted to share some different things with you and some things happened, I said, you know what, I need to get at least 2 studies in with you that deal specifically with this is how you study the Bible.

I thought I'd need to condense this, and I want to give it to you so that you could be a new you in 90 days.

Okay, there are more chairs coming in so for those of you who are standing in the back just be patient and we'll get those chairs coming in.

I have entitled this seminar, The Big Picture of Bible Study.

People have asked me, Pastor, how is it that you that you find these gems in the Bible and You know, what is the secret?

How do you come, how do you find these gems and how can I do the same thing?

And I would say that, you know, there is a serious problem A lot of people face a problem of how to study the scriptures.

Let me ask you, do you have that problem?

Anybody in here is like, yeah, you know what?

I really want to know how to study the scriptures.

And I feel like my mind just, you know, it's just, I don't see those things.

And then when I hear someone say it, then I go, ah, how come I didn't see that?

So, In order for us to find the remedy for this problem, we must identify the cause of the problem.

And so the question then is, what is the cause of the problem?

And I would suggest that the cause is a lack of sensitivity, a lack of sensitivity.

The mind is unable to grasp, to see, to sense.

Have you ever had the experience, maybe once or twice or you're reading the Bible and you look at a verse and you know that normally you would have read over the verse but something said stay right there.

And in your mind you're like I sense something here but I'm not sure what it is.

Have you ever gone through that experience in your Bible study?

Where it felt like you were on the verge of discovering something, a gem?

Well, I believe that the problem that many of us have is that we are weak minded.

What I mean by weak minded is that the mind needs to be strengthened in order to be able to grasp spiritual truths.

The mind must be strengthened in order to grasp spiritual truths.

Many of us have what I call a lazy mind or a lazy eye.

You know, we read over things in the scripture and unless it is some truth that jumps right out at us, we're not going to look, We're not going to even think something's there, right?

And so we read the scriptures, and we wait for something big to jump out, and we say, oh, I see that.

But very often, we're not willing to persevere and do what?

Train the mind to focus on a particular verse or thought and actually grasp or try to dig for that gem.

And what I have here is I have some quotes from the spirit of prophecy.

Actually, that's all I'm going to be reading today, quotes from the spirit of prophecy that are going to lead us into that precious exercise of Bible study, Something that at first you may be like, oh, you built me up and then this is all you told me?

But I guarantee you that if you do this, your Bible study habits, your method of reading the scriptures in 90 days will be totally revolutionized.

I don't have them in there, it's because I just pulled these quotes together like an hour and a half ago.

There are times where, I mean, I'm pretty much always studying the Bible.

There are times where it will be Friday night.

And I'm like, Lord, you know that tomorrow I have to preach a sermon, right?

And there have been times where it was 6 o'clock Sabbath morning, and I'm like, Lord, you know that I do have to preach in just a few hours.

And I'll get up there and preach and people are like, Pastor, how long do you work?

And I don't know why the Lord has done that with me, but he's done it with me for the last, I don't know, since I've been preaching.

Like, I've just gotten used to, I mean, you know, trust me, it's a mind-boggling thing because, you know, sometimes I have nightmares of getting up in front of people and having nothing to say.

But the Lord keeps me dependent upon him.

So anyway, I can get these notes to you some other way at a later time if you so choose.

Let not intellectual slothfulness close up your path to greater knowledge.

Learn to reflect as well as to study, listen to this, listen to this now, that your minds may expand, strengthen, and develop.

The Big Picture of Bible Study

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