He Restores My Soul with Jani Ortlund
He Restores My Soul with Jani Ortlund
Live by the Book
Have you ever read through the whole Bible as a book? Jani shares some ways to approach this for the coming year.
Welcome to He Restores My Soul with Jani Hello, everyone. I'm so glad you've tuned into He Restores My hearing from many of you that this is helpful and I'm also you? What's not working for you? What questions you have. I want handouts ready for you and make the podcast, put it out in such how you're using it for all of us in this series. Now, I want to start off this session with teaching. Last time want to discuss, well, if it's valuable, what should we do with First of all, we need to read it. We need to take God's Word We need to read it every day just as we take in food, or we God's Word every day. We want to let his Word sink down so deeply our families of our thoughts. Think of what the Bible says in Deuteronomy 6:6-7,"These words [which is the Bible] shall be on your heart. down and when you rise." As you read your Bible, day to day, month, after month, on from this old lady who's podcasting with you: I don't missed taking time to be with Jesus. Don't miss a day. Take it My mother-in-law, mom Ortlund, used to teach us about reading because it's we don't read it like a book." Now why is that? are good and some parts are boring." So we read a little New judging this book, rather than letting this book judge us. We Well, turn in your Bibles to Romans 15:4 with me. It says"For whatever was written in former days was written for our we might have hope." Did you notice what Paul said?"Whatever." All of the Old our instruction that we might have hope. It's meant to bring So, what should we do with this book? Well, we need to believe For example, look with me at Genesis 5:1-2. Listen as I read"This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God them and named them Man when they were created." Now, did you notice that phrase"named them Man"? Dear woman, correctness? Or is it okay with you? If God decides to call the Let the word of God touch your heart. Let's open our "inner
Do you remember Psalm 1:2-3 that we read in a previous podcast?"Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the You see, he finds God's word delightful. Oh, ask God for the
Or what about Colossians 3:16?"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly." Dwell in you, live in you, spread out throughout your whole word of Christ dwell in you richly. Now, this coming year, I'm going to encourage all of you read through the whole Bible as a book? Well, it might help you Bible. So today, I want to give us a little bit of an overview There are two testaments. Each has three sections. The three prophecy. Now from Genesis to Revelation, it's all about
Turn to Luke 24:27 in your Bibles. Luke 24:27. Luke records"And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted Did you get that? All the prophets and all the scriptures, verses down, just let your eye travel down to verse 32, when"Our hearts burned within us while he opened to us the
Or look at Luke 24:44. Jesus is mentioned in all three sections,
John 15:39, Jesus is talking and he says "the scriptures" which New Testament yetso the Old Testament,"The scriptures bear witness about me." Our very Lord taught us that the Old Testament teaches about him. As you read through the Bible, ask yourself, Now what does does this passage teach me about the God who provides redemption pages a day or three to five chapters a day, you can set your I'll introduce some ways that I read through the Bible in a you copied off hopefully from our website. If not take time The first one is called The Hours In A Week handout. have it right in front of them so they understand the figures As you can see, in a seven day week, with 24 hours in each day, that means seven nights a week, you get eight hours of sleep. imagine with me, your ideal week of 56 hours sleeping, that still Now, I don't know how many of you work. Some of you might work be five days of 10 hours of work or six days of eight hours of for everything other than sleeping and working. Now, what if you took off 30 minutes, six days a week. I'm off one day a week but you don't have your quiet time. That would each week. That means almost 8.5 hours each day for eating, study, good deeds, volunteering, oh, a little fun with your gardening or even napping. You name it. What I want you to see is for you to read your Bible, one half each week. We all have time for Jesus. You can do this! I know Now there are many different ways you can read through the through Walk Through the Bible. And I've left a web address on their Daily Walk. I get a little monthly magazine and it tells me there are three or four weeks throughout the year where I read group. On that website, you can find a free plan: How To Read about it, decide as a group, where you're going to start on Now, I want you to remember something, this is an overview. digging deep as in a Bible study. So don't worry about a ladies Bible study where you're digging more deeply into as an overview. And with that in mind, I'd like you to turn to the table of through a little bit of an overview of how the Old and New We said that there are two testaments: the Old Testament
divided into three sections:history, experience, and Now your leader hopefully has two more handouts for you. The as you look at your table of contents. In the Old Testament, paper, you can see that the history books are divided into Moses), and then you have the 12 history books. The first nine means, simply basically it's when Jerusalem was captured and Testament overview later in future podcasts. But for today, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Those are all And then we have 12 history books. Why don't we read through and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. Then we have the five Experience books, you see most quoted and I would say some of our favorite books, if we're together. Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Let me explain something here about Psalms. This is the hymn song, you would say Psalms one and two. But if you're just say, Psalm 23. So I just want to explain that because Then we have the prophecy books and you see how balanced this books. Now, major does not mean they're more important. They're out loud the five major prophecy books, are you ready? Read them And then the Old Testament ends with the 12 Minor Prophets.
these nine together:Hosea, Joel, Amos Obadiah, Jonah, always get mixed up on. I don't know about you. But don't you balanced literature. Now let's look at the New Testament, which you're also You'll spend most of your time reading through the Old In the New Testament, there are five history books, four us of Jesus as our King, as a servant, as the Son of Man, and life of the church. Then we have 22 experience books, these are all letters. and then there are nine letters primarily to Jewish believers. The final section of New Testament is prophecy, from Now I'm going to ask you, as a group to turn off the podcast, sections are. Maybe mark them with your fingers as you read. Well, I hope this helps you a little bit with an overview of can figure out, Oh, this is a prophecy or this is a personal reading. I want you to spend now the rest of your time together sharing if scared to do this? Are you eager to do this? Are you willing to each other. And of course, we'll spend the first few months doing Leaders, I'm going to ask you to go to the daily walk website and plan of your choice. But by next week, have it ready, please. Now why don't you sing your song together and then I'll give you your song together and come back on for the assignment. Your assignment for next week is this: have five quiet times and me to do? Remember those questions from Acts 22:8-10. directs, if you're exchanging names, you're praying for However, your leader directs you, you decide. Make sure you the Old Testament through Esther so you can say those next week Now, take some time to share your prayer requests and pray
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