Requirements For Bible Studying And Preaching

Requirements For Bible Studying And Preaching

These are various cross references that I have added to two main passages in my Bible study app - passages that deal with studying the Word of God, and with preaching the Word of God.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

The King James Bible is the only Bible version that commands us to “study” it. What spiritual requirements are needed for someone to rightly divide and understand God’s Word? Please look up all the verses listed below.

To get the most out of our Bible studying, we need to:

study and rightly divide the Word - 2 Timothy 2:15

be saved - 1 Corinthians 2:14

be ready scribes - Ezra 7:6

prepare our hearts - Ezra 7:10

be attentive to God’s Word - Nehemiah 8:2

read it clearly, distinctly - Nehemiah 8:8

humble ourselves - 1 Peter 5:5

deal with all known sin in our lives - Matthew 5:23-24; 1 John 1:8-10; Psalm 66:18

take into account all related passages - Isaiah 28:9-13

search the Scriptures daily to see whether what we are being taught lines up with it - Acts 17:11

We need God’s wisdom - James 1:5

We need to continue in God’s Word - John 8:31-32

We need to be determined to do God’s will when we learn what it is from the Bible - John 7:17

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

To preach the Word, we need to:

Know it - 1 Peter 3:15

Rightly divide it - 2 Timothy 2:15

Take into account all related passages - Isaiah 28:9-13

Clearly teach and explain it - Nehemiah 8:8

Remember that Jesus is the central figure and theme of the whole Bible - Revelation 19:10; Luke 24:25-27, 32, 44-48; Acts 10:43

All Of God's Word Is True

All Of God's Word Is True

Proverbs 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Praise the Lord that I KNOW 100% that ALL of God's Word is certain, is truth, is entirely dependable. I don't have to be like the world or those in modern Christendom that question it, correct it, think there are parts that are not accurate or not in the "originals."

What I hold in my hand TODAY in my King James Bible and in the preserved underlying Hebrew and Greek texts is certain. Of that I have no doubt. I wouldn't want it any other way. In fact, I pity and pray for those true believers who do not have that certainty.

John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

All of it.

Jerry Bouey

Reading The Scriptures

Reading The Scriptures

There are two main words for know (and its forms) in the New Testament.

1) Strong’s #1492, eido. This word basically has the idea of head knowledge, knowing about something.

2) Strong’s #1097, ginosko (from the root word, gnosis, knowledge). This word has the idea of knowing about something personally, personally experiencing what you know about.

Looking up every time the word know (or a form thereof) occurs in the NT (with these basic definitions) is a worthwhile study - to see what true believers then and now know personally, and what other things the NT talks about that were known (via head knowledge as compared to personal knowledge).

All that said, I am now pointing out a related word: anaginosko (#314) - the main word used for reading in the New Testament.

Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Ana basically means again - like the first part of the Greek word for resurrection (anastasis, to stand up again).

So anaginosko means to (personally) know again. It is used in 30 verses in the NT, most of the references are about reading the Scriptures.

1 Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Reading here is #320, a slightly different form of the same word.

You know how we are to read, study and meditate on God’s Word daily, right? It is like Jesus and the Apostles are saying , Read, reread, become personally familiar with the Scriptures again - and like Revelation 1:3 states when we read and heed the Bible, the Lord blesses us.

February 2, 2023
Jerry Bouey