How To Correctly Handle the Word of Truth! // BYOB [Part 4 of 7]

2 Timothy 2:14-19; 3:16-17

INTRODUCTION: How do we approach the Word?

• Our of the Word
• Prepare Our to Read or Study the Word
• Prepare Our for the Spirit to the Word

How do we study the Word, or “Correctly Handle the Word of Truth”?

Three Key Concepts:

I. :  WHAT DOES THE PASSAGE SAY? 

Key Principles:

1. Exegesis
2. Context: &

KEY 1:

“Never take a Scripture out of its context to make it say something that is contrary to the text.”
(Kay Arthur, How to Study the Bible, 61).

1. Read with a .

Use the 5 W’s & H

; ; ; ; ;

ll. : WHAT DOES THE PASSAGE MEAN?

Principle 1: Exegesis & Rules

KEY QUESTION: What was the author’s original  and to the audience he was addressing?

KEY 2:

“A text cannot mean what it never meant!”
(Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, 30).

Key 3:

Do not start with the “here and now” to interpret
(Fee & Stuart, 29)

Principle 2: ALWAYS SEEK THE FULL OF THE WORD OF GOD.

Key 4: SCRIPTURE INTERPRETS SCRIPTURE!

Principle 3: INTERPRET SCRIPTURE IN THE SENSE

Principle 4: INTERPRET THE TESTAMENT IN LIGHT OF THE TESTAMENT

KEY 5: DON’T BUILD DOCTRINE ON AN OBSCURE PASSAGE
(Arthur, 62)

lll. :  HOW DOES THIS PASSAGE APPLY TO ME OR THE CHURCH?

“No matter how much you know about God’s Word, if you don’t apply what you learn, Scripture will never benefit your life.”
(Arthur, 112).

What Now?