Bible Study Back to Basics

[for_his_glory]

There are times when we receive so much meat from the word of God that we try and feed this meat to those who are barely on milk and all this does is leave those who we are trying to teach become lost and confused as to what we are talking about. Frustration and confusion may cause one to give up and never seek the truth of the word of God because they do not understand and need to be taught simple basics of Salvation.

Salvation means to be whole mind, body and soul as we surrender our will to God and allow his will to work in our lives by applying Gods word to every aspect of our lives. This allows us to know the mind of Christ and all the promises of God for our own well being so we can face anything that tries to come against us while here on this earth so we can triumph and be victorious through the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. Grace pardons us and mercy loves us unconditionally.

Jesus was teaching Nicodemus in John 3:1-7 that it was a Spiritual rebirth or renewal of our spirit that through Gods spoken word we can reconcile our past sins through repentance to be made sinless again before God. We are all born with a sin nature because of sin being introduced into the world through Satan’s deceit when he told Eve it was alright to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil even though God forbid them to eat of it.


Our flesh will always sin because that is our nature and God can not see our flesh because of our sins nor can he hear the prayers of a sinner, John 9:31, and this is why we need to renew our Spiritual inner man because sin separates us from God as God is spirit, not flesh and blood, and can only recognize his own children by what spirit is living in their hearts. We have to renew, rebirth – born again, Gods Spirit within us in order to be called a child of God and see the kingdom of heaven. We now put off the old man (flesh) and put on the new man (Spirit). We are renewed by the word of God and through the Holy Spirit teaching us of all things, Romans 8:6, 8.


The basics we need to learn are written in Colossians 3:1-17 and if we follow these guidelines then we will remain in the will of God. The best place to start for learning and understanding Gods Salvation is reading the book of John to learn who Jesus was and is in our own lives and to know anyone can come unto Gods Salvation no matter who you are or what you have done God loves us all unconditionally.


We now have an intercessor (Jesus) who sits at the right hand of the Father and hears our confession that we are sinners and need his salvation as we believe in our heart that he was truly sent from God as the living word that we can indeed become righteous again not of our own righteousness, but that righteousness that is God whom through his Spirit is promised to dwell in us. All we have to do is believe and confess that we are sinners and allow Gods righteousness to cleanse us and renew our spirit man. Jesus wants us to come as we are and allow him to make the changes that need made in our hearts. People want to clean the fish before they catch them, but Jesus says come as you are I will clean you from the inside out.

 

[TOG]

There are times when we receive so much meat from the word of God that we try and feed this meat to those who are barely on milk and all this does is leave those who we are trying to teach become lost and confused as to what we are talking about.

If you try to teach advanced calculus to a 1st grader, it will just leave him lost and confused and wanting to give up on ever learning arithmetic. That doesn't stop us from teaching calculus, but we don't try to teach it to 1st graders. It's the same with "spiritual school". Some of the advanced things in the Bible will leave many new Christians confused, but that shouldn't stop us from teaching those things. Unfortunately, it often does. Most churches don't teach much more than the basics. As a result, people who get all their spiritual education from their church stop learning anything after 2 or at most 3 years. After that, you can attend the same church for decades without learning anything new.

The TOG​

 

[for_his_glory]

Even within the meat of the word we can make it simple enough for a child to understand what we are saying. Some people love to add big sophisticated wording to what they teach that one would have to be a walking dictionary to try and even understand what they are speaking. I'm just saying that when we teach keep it understandable so all will gain the knowledge they need through the Holy Spirit showing them all truth as they study. Each of us are on different levels of learning by what we hear and how we study. All I'm saying is keep it simple just as Christ did that even a child could understand what we are speaking.

 

[TOG]

There are people here on the forum from many different countries. The education systems in those countries varies, but there is one thing they all have in common - they are divided according to different education levels. In the US, children start in elementary school, then go on to junior high school and high school. After that, they can choose from a number of different options, such as technical or vocational schools, junior college or university. There's a reason the school system is divided up like that. You simply can't teach the same subject to people at all those levels. You can't teach biochemistry or geophysics to 1st graders and expect them to understand it. If you do manage to make it simple enough for them to understand, you will have stripped away all the advanced things, and it will be useless to those who have reached a university level of education.

As you said, "Each of us are on different levels of learning". Those who are at a 1st grade level in their spiritual education need to learn the basics. Those who have reached a high school level need something more. They already know the basics, and going over them again for the umpteenth time won't do them any good. But the 1st graders aren't yet able to understand the high school level things.

Paul likens various levels of maturity to drinking milk and eating meat. You don't mix ground beef with milk and give it to a baby. Neither do you liquify a steak and mix it with milk and give it to adults. Babies start by drinking only milk and later learn to eat solid food. It should be the same with our spiritual education. We start with the basics, but if we're still going over the same things every week 40 years later, then something is wrong. We need to offer both milk and meat and do it in such a way that everyone can get what fits for his level of maturity.

The TOG​

 

[for_his_glory]

There are times of milk and times of meat and we need to discern those who need one or the other and maybe even at times both. Sometimes I like a nice glass of milk to help refresh me in the simpler things of Gods word as sometimes one, even though they are advanced in Spiritual knowledge, just needs some time of refreshing.

 

[farouk]

In the busy Western world, the art of meditating on Scripture - to 'mark, read and inwardly digest' the Word, is being to some extent lost.

So often, professing Christians will be quite content to give assent to sound bites, and feel they are then 'good to go'.

 

[Chopper]

There are times when we receive so much meat from the word of God that we try and feed this meat to those who are barely on milk and all this does is leave those who we are trying to teach become lost and confused as to what we are talking about. Frustration and confusion may cause one to give up and never seek the truth of the word of God because they do not understand and need to be taught simple basics of Salvation.

Salvation means to be whole mind, body and soul as we surrender our will to God and allow his will to work in our lives by applying Gods word to every aspect of our lives. This allows us to know the mind of Christ and all the promises of God for our own well being so we can face anything that tries to come against us while here on this earth so we can triumph and be victorious through the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. Grace pardons us and mercy loves us unconditionally.

Jesus was teaching Nicodemus in John 3:1-7 that it was a Spiritual rebirth or renewal of our spirit that through Gods spoken word we can reconcile our past sins through repentance to be made sinless again before God. We are all born with a sin nature because of sin being introduced into the world through Satan’s deceit when he told Eve it was alright to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil even though God forbid them to eat of it.

Our flesh will always sin because that is our nature and God can not see our flesh because of our sins nor can he hear the prayers of a sinner, John 9:31, and this is why we need to renew our Spiritual inner man because sin separates us from God as God is spirit, not flesh and blood, and can only recognize his own children by what spirit is living in their hearts. We have to renew, rebirth – born again, Gods Spirit within us in order to be called a child of God and see the kingdom of heaven. We now put off the old man (flesh) and put on the new man (Spirit). We are renewed by the word of God and through the Holy Spirit teaching us of all things, Romans 8:6, 8.

The basics we need to learn are written in Colossians 3:1-17 and if we follow these guidelines then we will remain in the will of God. The best place to start for learning and understanding Gods Salvation is reading the book of John to learn who Jesus was and is in our own lives and to know anyone can come unto Gods Salvation no matter who you are or what you have done God loves us all unconditionally.

We now have an intercessor (Jesus) who sits at the right hand of the Father and hears our confession that we are sinners and need his salvation as we believe in our heart that he was truly sent from God as the living word that we can indeed become righteous again not of our own righteousness, but that righteousness that is God whom through his Spirit is promised to dwell in us. All we have to do is believe and confess that we are sinners and allow Gods righteousness to cleanse us and renew our spirit man. Jesus wants us to come as we are and allow him to make the changes that need made in our hearts. People want to clean the fish before they catch them, but Jesus says come as you are I will clean you from the inside out.

Very nice SISTER! Lots of Truth, I like that! God bless!

 

[sourberry]

The basics we need to learn are written in Colossians 3:1-17

Paul is phenomenal. Good preaching. Thanks.