Week One | The Biblical God | Abiding with the Triune God

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1. BIBLE CLASS week 1 the biblical god
2. OVERVIEW • Biblical God • Biblical Story • Biblical Study • Biblical Community & Mission
3. life by the mile is a trial. life by the yard is hard. life by the inch is a cinch!
4. THE BIBLICAL GOD • What does the Trinity have to do with anything? • How has God made himself known? • What is the role of scripture in our lives?
5. THREE MINUTES You have three minutes to write down everything you know about God... GO!
6. JOHN 13-17 I. Teaching of the Trinity’s Life (John 13-14) A. In Object Lesson through Foot-Washing (13.1-38) B. In Teaching (John 14.1-31) 1. The Son(14.1-7) 2. The Father (14.8-14) 3. The Spirit(14.15-17) 4. The Indwelling God (14.18-31) II. The Trinity’s Life patterns the Life of the Disciples A. Life through the Vine (15.1-11) B. Life within the Church (15.12-17) C. Life within the World (15.18-16.4) III. The Persons of the Trinity and the Disciples A. The Spirit & the Redeemed: Assurance of Coming (16.5-15) B. The Son and & the Redeemed: Atonement & Resurrection (16.16-33) C. The Father & the Redeemed: Glorified Relationship through Christ (17.1-27)
7. THE TRIUNE GOD FATHER SON SPIRIT ABIDE/DWELL LOVE GLORY
8. KNOWING GOD How do we know God? Better yet, “How has God made himself known?”
9. KNOWING GOD Psalm 19 TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID. 1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. 2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. 4 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. 6 Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
10. KNOWING GOD 7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 8 the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9 the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. 11 Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
11. KNOWING GOD 12 Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults. 13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
12. KNOWING GOD • What are the two sources of the psalmist’s understanding of God? • How does the psalmist conclude his meditation upon revelation? • What pattern may the psalmist be giving us for our own knowledge and worship of God?
13. REVELATION WORSHIP TRANSFORMATION
14. REVELATION General Revelation Revelation of God made available to all people through the medium of the natural order in creation “However long the night, the dawn will break” “Even a friend cannot rescue one from old age” What are other expressions of general revelation? Are these enough to know God? For salvation?
15. REVELATION Specific Revelation Revelation of God made through the prophetic and gospel words and the Incarnate Word - Jesus Christ.
16. REVELATION “It is not many books or much reading that makes men learned; but it is good things, however little of them, read often, that make men learned in the Scriptures and makes them godly too. Indeed the writings of all the Holy Fathers should be read only for a time, in order that through them we may be led to the Holy Scriptures.” Martin Luther, Letters to the Christian Nobility
17. REVELATION Revelation: God-Given Word Scripture is Inspired Not man’s thinking about God, but God’s message to man
18. REVELATION “ All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17
19. REVELATION Revelation: God-Given Word Scripture is Authoritative Scripture is not a human record of suggested morality or history, but God’s self-disclosure about who he is and how we are to live in light of him.
20. REVELATION “ All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17
21. TRANSFORMATION Transformation: God-Illumined Word The Role of the Spirit “[Illumination is] the idea that the Spirit has a special work of enlightening the believer so that he or she understands the inspired Scriptures” Graham Cole, He Who Gives Life
22. TRANSFORMATION The Purpose of Scripture Not for new knowledge alone (puffing up) Ultimately for transformation and worship Minds hostile to God (Eph 2.1-3) Something Needs to Change! New Birth and New Life (cf. Eph 2.4-10) e
23. WORSHIP Worship: God-Life Word • God’s Word is About Life • God’s Word is Sustains Life • God’s Word is Has Life • God’s Word is Directs Life
24. READING SCRIPTURE HOW NOT TO READ THE BIBLE! Osmosis Approach One thinks they will benefit from God’s word simply from being in proximity to it. “As long as I read my bible, I will be changed.”
25. READING SCRIPTURE HOW NOT TO READ THE BIBLE! Quiz Show Approach Approaching the Bible for the mastery of Bible knowledge
26. READING SCRIPTURE HOW NOT TO READ THE BIBLE! Hallmark Card Approach Approaching scripture for an inspiration or helpful comment to get you through your day
27. READING SCRIPTURE HOW NOT TO READ THE BIBLE! Quick Remedy Approach Approaching scripture only in times of crisis
28. READING SCRIPTURE HOW NOT TO READ THE BIBLE! Pat on the Back Approach Approaching scripture in order to feel better about ourselves
29. READING SCRIPTURE HOW NOT TO READ THE BIBLE! Microwave Approach Approaching scripture with the questions: What’s in it for me? How can I get it?
30. READING SCRIPTURE HOW NOT TO READ THE BIBLE! Vacuum Approach “Sucking” a bunch of different texts and mix them together without acknowledging the context in order to fit an argument or a certain theology
31. READING SCRIPTURE HOW TO READ THE BIBLE! Informative Reading What we will be learning to do in this course
32. TEXT PRESENT CONTEXT CONTEXT redemptive literary historical cultural
33. READING SCRIPTURE Why this way of reading Scripture? 1. It is a practice of submission to the Spirit 2. God has revealed himself in space and time through a specific process. 3. God is not just a God of ends but also means
34. READING SCRIPTURE HOW TO READ THE BIBLE! Formative Reading •What we must do throughout this class •Romans 12.1-2 •Revelation à Transformation à Worship
35. READING SCRIPTURE Will we always get it right the first time? We face interpretive problems: •2,000 year gap in language and culture •We bring baggage to the table •Spirit is in the detailes
36. READING SCRIPTURE AM I GETTING IT? Has your love for God and others grown because of this text?
37. READING SCRIPTURE “How can we recognize the Spirit of understanding?…We recognize the Spirit in those who confess that Jesus -- the Logos -- came in the flesh…we recognize the Spirit of understanding in those who “follow,” that is those who hear and do the Word. Those who would live under the authority of the Spirit must bow before the Word as the Spirit’s textbook…Those who would live under the authority of Scripture must seek the Spirit as its interpreter.” Kevin Vanhoozer, First Theology, 234
38. BIBLE CLASS week 1 the biblical god