Chapter 6: God makes it work
Chapter 6: God makes it work [∞]
You will get an understanding of scripture because God wants you to know him.
You have previously read the Bible and studied in order to understand what the human author said. Now you will learn to read the Bible to discern what God said.
We have some clues to get us started.
Jesus said the scriptures speak of him.
- ▸ ± Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- ▸ ± Lu 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
▸ ± Lu 24:44-47 And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.