Vintage21 Church

Pastor Tyler · Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 93 Location: Downtown Raleigh

Please read the post under Ownership about 2 corrections before you listen to this talk. Let me know if you have any questions. The talk will be posted in the next couple of days.

Study Scripture –Owners Night
Summary of the heart:

Habakkuk 3:17-18 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Brother Lawrence “I have at times had such delicious thoughts on the Lord I am ashamed to mention them.”

Why don’t LONG for God like the men and women in Scripture?

How to Study Scripture?

2 AREAS of study

Themes & Specifics

1) Spend 15 minutes a day to read through beginning with Genesis 1 to see the themes of Scripture

2) Spend 1 hour per week studying in-depth a specific passage

Where does Scripture study begin?

Who is God?

How do you like to think of God?

What believe about Scripture?

Inspired by God
Inerrant
Totally Authoritative

We must put ourselves under Scripture…

What is the Nature of Scripture?

Translations

Literal Vs. Free Vs. Dynamic Equivalence

1) Literal: a word for word translation

NASB, KJV & ESV (please see the post regarding 2 corrections)

2) Free: The attempt to paraphrase words/ideas/teachings from one language to another, with less concern about using the exact words of the original.

Message, NLV, Living

3) Dynamic Equivalence –The attempt to translate words, idioms and grammatical construction of the original language into precise equivalents in the receptor language.

NIV

I Corinthians 7:36

Literal... KJV → But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Free... Message → If a man has a woman friend to whom he is loyal but never intended to marry, having decided to serve God as a "single," and then changes his mind, deciding he should marry her, he should go ahead and marry. It's no sin; it's not even a "step down" from celibacy, as some say. On the other hand, if a man is comfortable in his decision for a single life in service to God and it's entirely his own conviction and not imposed on him by others, he ought to stick with it. Marriage is spiritually and morally right and not inferior to singleness in any way, although as I indicated earlier, because of the times we live in, I do have pastoral reasons for encouraging singleness.

Dynamic Equivalence: ESV (please see previous post regarding 2 corrections) → If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.

HINTS
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John 2:1-12 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

Exegesis & Hermeneutics

Raging Debate:

Exegesis: ... is the careful, systematic study of the Scripture to discover the original intended meaning. It is the attempt to hear the Word as the original recipients were to have heard it…

1) The Historical Content

Time Frame:
Genre:
Purpose:
Culture:

2 Corinthians 4:6… For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Romans
Hebrews
Greeks

Need tools
• Bible-dictionaries
• Commentary
→ NICNT, Bible Speaks Today, William Barclay
→ Buy 1 commentary at a time, buy used copies from Amazon

Online tools
www.studylight.org
www.zhubert.com
www.blueletterbible.org

2) Theological Content

-What does the passage say about God
-Nature
-Character
-How He works
-What He loves
-What He hates
-How give Him Glory
-How Love Him Back

3) Literary Content: Meanings of words, grammatical relationships in sentences

Examples:
-Praus: Meek
-Splagchnizomal: Compassion

www.studylight.org

4) Context -What most people mean when the say this is, read it in Context

Context answers: What’s the point of the passage/book?

Sum up Exegesis → CONTEXT & CONTENT
• Original intent
• Original audience
Let’s do exegesis for John 2

Historical Content

Author → Debate:
• Most Facts
• Fewest Difficulties
Apostle John

Genre -Story or Narrative

Audience
-Ephesus, 1000 miles from Jerusalem
-Why Greeks need a Hebrew Messiah

Purpose
-Teach Theology
-Missional

Theological Content
-Teaches us about Jesus
-Miraculous
-Cares
-Disciples believe

Literary Content

Wedding –What like 1st century
-3 days or longer
-Wedding Party responsible for whole party
-Cana
-SUE

Wine
-What’s Big deal with wine
-Joy

6 stone water jars
-Ceremonial cleaning
-Not able to participate

Do whatever He tells you ⇒ They filled it to the BRIM

Hermeneutics…: seeking contemporary relevance of ancient texts

Hermeneutics is CRUX

Proper Hermeneutics & the original intent
• Mormon’s baptizing dead –I Cor 15
• Jehovah’s Witnesses’ rejection deity of Christ
• Snake Handlers - Mark 16:18
• Prosperity Evangelist –3 John
The Text cannot mean what it never meant

QUESTION of Hermeneutics: How do these non-21st century texts speak to 21st century people?

Answers
1) Do your exegesis w/ particular care so you hear what God’s Word really was
2) Apply God’s Word to genuinely comparable situations

Historical Context

Author → Apostle John—Eye-witness account

Genre → Our culture is image & story based, going to love book of John

Audience → Young Greeks in Ephesus

Theological & Literary Content

Wedding –What like 1st Century
-3 days
-Responsible for EVERHTNING…
-Cana
-SUE

Tight place –Jesus has concern for people

Wine
-What’s the Big deal
-Joy

Jesus turns water into wine
• Mundane/Everyday into the miraculous
• Shameful into Glorious

How might Jesus change, in your life
Mundane ⇒ Miraculous
Shameful ⇒ Glorious

Six stone water Jars
-Ceremonial Cleaning
-Can’t Participate

Dip Hands…

• Christianity not a RELIGION
• Allows give the GOSPEL

Do WHATEVER He Tells you …

Simple list of 10 Questions to help you study…

1. Who wrote/spoke the passage and to whom was it addressed?
2. What does the passage say?
3. Are there any words or phrases in the passage that need to be examined?
4. What is the immediate context?
5. What is the broader context in the chapter and book?
6. What are the related verses to the passage’s subject and how do they affect the understanding of this passage?
7. What is the historical and cultural background?
8. What do I conclude about the passage?
9. Do my conclusions agree or disagree with related areas of Scripture and others who have studied the passage?
10. What have I learned and what must I apply to my life?
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Pastor Tyler

Sharon Butler · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 28

i need to read & digest some of this before i can comment with much intelligence, but i wanted to say a big THANKS for bringing this to us. i'm looking forward to applying it.
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well-behaved women rarely make history.

Eric Butler · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 56

www.biblegateway.com allows you to search a ton of versions of the Bible quite easily. There's even a Firefox extension here that adds a toolbar to your browser that lets you search biblegateway.

Amy Crouch · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 20

Tyler, Matt and Nate,

Thank you so very much for the talk and challenge given at our last owners' night! I have been searching since high school for people that would encourage me not only to dig deeper, but to take on studies that seem to always be associated with seminary, ministry or leadership. It has been such an encouragement to my heart and soul to be told that not only am I capable (through the Lord's grace) of in-depth, hard study into scripture, I am called to and responsible for doing so! Up until last Tuesday I was convinced that I was going to need to get to a seminary in order to really get the depth that I long to be taught, but I feel confident that with the help of my church and those around me I can be kept accountable to study and be disciplined on my own as well. Seminary will just be an added bonus into the greek, hebrew, etc.

But thank you for not feeling that I am too young, too ignorant, too female, too quiet, too normal or too uninterested to learn and grow into scriptures deepest meanings and applications.

Grace and Peace to you all!

Amy

DerrickPhillips · Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Durham, NC

I just finished listening to this talk on my way home from work tonight and have to say it was very helpful. Posting the notes on the forum is incredible too. Thanks for being so open with the things you labor over, sharing them unselfishly so that all in the body of Christ may benefit.
I truly hope that many owners take seriously this call to study scripture...and I hope we all keep a bible in the bathroom!