How to Study Your Bible - Part 2 — Kay Arthur

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Studying Scripture Book by Book

Okay, let's go. 2 Kings 22. Because I want to get you to Jonah, I think, Lord, how am I going to do this? Alright, so 2 Kings 22, and I have to do it from my Bible. Now, I want to show you something that is very important.

When you read the Bible, you need to study it book by book. Okay? You need to study it inductively. There's a verse, and you might just want to write the address down at the top of your page, and it describes what our ministry is all about.

It's Psalm 119, verse 102. And Psalm 119, verse 102 says this, I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you yourself have taught me. Precept Ministries is all about the inductive method, which brings you face-to-face with the Word of God and removes the middleman.

God has ordained teachers. God has ordained pastors. God has ordained apostles and prophets and that. But God wants you, as a child of God, to know truth for yourself. So we're all about discovering truth for yourself.

His Word is truth. This method that I'm teaching you takes you directly to God, so God Himself becomes your teacher. And you have to understand, He wants everybody. Everybody. Your education does not matter.

He wants you to study His Word for Himself. A gal trapped me. Not trapped me. She followed me. I do. She didn't trap me, but I do bathroom evangelization and ministry. And I was at a convention, and Beth Moore was looking for me, and my son said she's in the bathroom.

And we got in there, and we started chatting, and he said they'll never come out. She has a bathroom ministry. So anyway, this gal came in, and she said, I want you to know they told me I was absolutely hopeless, and I could never learn to read and comprehend.

She said precept has changed my life. The inductive method has changed my life. God wants you to know His Word. So He Himself will teach you. This is the method. He has spoken. You are observing what He has said.

You are listening to what He has said. So you begin to study the Bible book by book. I have a radio program, a television program, where I take you through the Bible book by book. It's on DirecTV, but if you can't get DirecTV, you can go to oneplace .com.

And you can, oneplace, just all together, .com, and you can find, you can listen to that program. Or you can go to LightSource, I think it's .com. You can find it on our website, which is precept .org.

And you can study with us book by book, and there's a free study guide that goes with it that you can download so that you can learn how to observe the text for yourself. What we're going to do is next to 2 Kings, chapter 22, and verse 3, verse 2, we're going to mark down another reference that is going to tell us what happened between when Josiah was 8 and when he was 18.

Connecting Parallel Historical Accounts

And it's going to fill in the blanks for us a little bit on Josiah's life. So write down next to 2 Kings 22, 2 Chronicles 34, verses 3 through 7. 2 Chronicles 34, verses 3 through 7. And I want you to turn in your Bible, because I want you to see the beauty of this.

And I want you to go to 2 Chronicles. All right, now Kings and Chronicles are, well, they cover the history of Israel. If I start telling you all this stuff, we'll never get done. All right, so just look at 2 Chronicles 34.

But if you're going to understand the Kings, you've got to read Chronicles as well, because you don't find out, for instance, that Manasseh repented. You just think he just died a dog in 2 Kings until you read 2 Chronicles.

All right, so 2 Chronicles, what did I say? 34, and what verses? 3 through 7. All right, now watch. Verses 1 and 2 is the same as we just read in Kings. In verse 3, it says this. For in the eighth year of his reign, how old would he be?

16. Okay, you young people, take note. When he was 16, in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father, David. And in the twelfth year, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, of the Asherim, the carved images, and the molten images.

So what does he do in his eighth year when he's 16? He begins to seek God. What does he do in the twelfth year? Purges. So in the twelfth year, how old is he? He's 20, all right? So he begins purging the land.

Now, I'm not going to take the time, but if you read verse 4 and 5, and read on down to verse 7, you find out what's going on in the land. You find out that they're in idolatry. You find out that there are altars all over.

The land. And so you find him tearing those down. Now, I want to show you the beauty of this. This excites a stew out of me. All right, so I am, and I had stew for dinner tonight at Black Eyed Peas or whatever it's called.

All right, so anyway, I'm reading this. So I find out, okay, at 16, what does he begin to do? Seek God. At 20, in his twelfth year, he begins to purge. All right, not purge what he ate, purge what's in the city.

Okay, now, I'm studying the book of Zephaniah because we've written, if you want to really study your Bible, we have precept upon precept inductive study courses. And, I mean, this is like driving a Rolls Royce because you will study a book of the Bible.

And we have had graduates of top seminaries say, I learned more doing a precept course than I learned about the Bible than I did in seminary because they study so many books instead of studying the Bible.

But anyway, I was reading Zephaniah. I want you to go to Zephaniah, to the book of Zephaniah. And I was reading Zephaniah, and I thought, oh, my goodness, Lord, my goodness. I find out that what he is doing, I've got to find Zephaniah, where did he go?

I'm in the wrong part. He's next to Haggai. Okay, in the sovereignty of God, I just opened it to Zephaniah. Okay, all right, did you find him? Okay, this is the beauty. What I'm showing you is scripture interprets scripture.

All right, Zephaniah 1, verse 1, The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah, son of Cushi, son of Gadolites, son of Amoriah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of what? Oh, Josiah, the son of Ammon, king of what?

Judah. So this tells me that sometime during the reign, the 31-year reign of Josiah, Zedekiah got a word from the Lord. So now I begin to connect scripture interpreting scripture. And then it says, and the message comes, but I want you to go over to chapter 2 because of time.

All right, chapter 2, and this is the message. Verse 1, I mean, the message is in chapter 1, but also, Gather yourselves together, yes, gather, O nation without shame, before the decree takes effect, and the day passes like the chaff, before the burning anger of the Lord comes upon you, before the day of the Lord's anger comes upon you.

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth. What do I find that Josiah did in the eighth year of his reign? He began to what? Seek the Lord. Well, I find out that Zephaniah is a prophet, and he comes in the days of Josiah, and he says what?

Seek the Lord. It says, seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who have carried out his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger. Now I want to know, oh, when did Josiah, I mean, when did Zephaniah prophesy?

And so I want to find out the historical context. Well, just go back to 2 Chronicles in your Bible, 2 Chronicles, and it is chapter what? 34, okay, and every time you repeat something out loud, it helps you remember it.

Okay, and you just put this down next to verse 2 in your Bible. Zephaniah prophesied from 636 to 623 B .C., 626 to 623 B .C. All right, now, Josiah was between the age of 12 and what? 25 during that time.

So you think, okay, why did he begin to seek the Lord? Could it be that he heard the message of Zephaniah, and he listened to God's word, and he began to purge, he began to seek the Lord, and that led him then to purge Israel, to carry out God's ordinances.

Hearing and Obeying the Word of God

What am I saying to you? Hosea chapter 4 says, listen to the word of the Lord. Listen to me very carefully. I believe this with all my being. I believe if I'm going to speak, I need to speak the word of God.

I need to teach you the word of God. I don't need to entertain you. I don't need to tell you cute, wonderful stories. I need to teach you the word of God. We've got to hear the word of God because it's alive and it's powerful.

So as you study the word of God, you're hearing the word of God. So when he was 16, he began to seek the Lord, and Zephaniah began his prophecy when Josiah was 12 years old. This is the way you begin to connect Scripture.

Repeated Words and Observation in 2 Kings

Go back to 2 Kings chapter 22, and we're going to hit this quickly, and then you can study it even more when you get home. All right, now, in 2 Kings chapter 22, verse 3, that's where I left you, okay?

It says in the 18th year of King Josiah, it is now 622 B .C. Remember the clock's going down, the calendar, the years are going down. And he says in verse 4, Now, one of the things you're going to see, and I'm going to preempt myself, but as you read the text, the key to observing the Scripture is to read and read and read and read.

Read the text over and over. Read it out loud. You will remember it better. When you read, you're going to find key repeated words. A key repeated word is a word that unlocks the meaning of the text. The Bible was an oral book.

This is why it says in Revelation, Blessed is he who reads and those who hear and heed the words of this book because there were no printing presses until the 1400s, so A .D. So there was no printing press up until that time.

So the word of God was read. Because the word of God was read, what God does is he repeats himself. And he says it over and over and over again because repetition is the way that you learn. So what I want you to do is I want you to circle every reference to the house of the Lord.

And every time I mention it, I want you to say house and circle it, okay? Verse 4, I color every reference to the house of the Lord in my Bible in a dark blue, okay? Which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.

Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have oversight of the house of the Lord. And let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages of the house. All right, now let me just stop and say this.

When you mark a key repeated word, when you finish marking it, you go back to that word and you observe what you learned from marking it, all right? So what I do now, I don't do it as much now because I'm trained.

But what I would do is I would make a list of what I learned. For instance, I'd make a list of what I learned from marking knowledge in the book of Hosea. Here, I would look at every occurrence of house of the Lord and I would see what do I learn about the house of the Lord.

Well, what do I learn just from verse 5? What do I learn about the house of the Lord? You look at it and you tell me, what do you learn there? What? It's damaged, right? They've got to go repair the house of the Lord and therefore, what are they going to do?

Tell me about the money. Yes, the money has been brought into the house of the Lord. Why? To repair the house of the Lord, okay? Because the house of the Lord is damaged. Now listen, the house of the Lord, when you go through and you begin to mark it, God says, I put my name where the house of the Lord is.

I put my name in Jerusalem. I put my name in the house of the Lord. When Solomon built this temple, he said, if you're in another country, if you will look towards the house of the Lord, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and turn, etc., and if you will turn towards the house of the Lord and you will call upon God, God will hear you.

So what do you learn? In the days of Josiah, from this passage, you learn that there's trouble in the house of the Lord because it's damaged. You learn that Josiah wants to repair the house of the Lord.

You learn that they're taking money to go into the house of the Lord. Now, if you're studying in context, you find out that Manasseh did terrible things to the house of the Lord, okay? So anyway, let's go on.

So it says, give it to the carpenters and the builders, verse 6, and the masons and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the what? The house. Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I've found, read it, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.

And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan who read it. Watch, he's there in the house of the Lord repairing the house of the Lord. He goes into the house of the Lord, and this is what he says between these two black lines.

I found the book of the law. Where? In the house of the Lord. All right, now we're going to mark the book of the Lord. So put a square around it. I mark it like a book, but right now just put a square around it.

All right, where did he find the book of the law? In the house of the Lord. What is the book of the law? It's the first five books of the Bible. Oh, good, it is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

It is the foundation, the constitution for Israel. He says, now watch what happens. And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and he brought back word to the king. Do you mark word there? Is that the word of the Lord?

No, so don't mark it, good. And said, your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have oversight of the house of the Lord.

Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah, the priest, has given me a book. Mark book. And Shaphan read it. It what? It book. Where? In the presence of the king. Now watch. When the king heard the words of the book of the law, mark book, he tore his clothes.

He tore his clothes. Do you realize that this king had never heard the word of God? He had never heard the word of God. He had never heard Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers or Deuteronomy. This is the first time in his life.

What year of his reign is it? Look at verse 3. The 18th year. How old is he? 26. For the first time in his life at 26, he is hearing the word of God. Because where has the word of God been? In the house of God.

And it's been what? Lost. The word of God was lost in the house of God. And listen, this is exactly what's happening today. The word of God has gotten lost in the house of God. And we are living, the church, on this moral decline.

You would see the percentage of people that are living in immorality. And you would see it's about 5 points difference. 5 difference between the world and us. Because the word of God has gotten lost in the house of God.

But Josiah, you say, was seeking God. Why? He heard the message of Zephaniah. But now he has come face to face with the word of God. When he hears it, what does he do? He tears his clothes. So you would begin when you mark the word of God.

You find out in verse 8 that he found it in the word in the house of the Lord. Which means it was lost. When you come down to verse 10, you see that this book was given to Hilkiah. I mean, Shaphan the scribe was given it by Hilkiah.

And Shaphan reads it in the presence of the Lord. When you look at verse 11, you see when the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes. Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Anakim, all these guys.

And said, verse 13, Go, inquire the Lord for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this, what? Bookmark it. That has been, what? Found. So it shows you it was lost. When you find something, it's because it was lost.

That has been found for great is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us. Because, why? Because our fathers have not listened to the words of this, what? Book. Now listen, they have not listened to the words of this book, to what?

To do what? According to what? All. All. All. I would underline all. To do according to all that is written, what? Concerning us. So if you're marking this, what do you learn from this verse? What do you learn about the word of God?

What do you learn about the state of the people? What? Yeah, we're to obey. But what do you learn about the people? What? They weren't reading the book. They had not, what? Listen to the book. And therefore, what?

God's, what? Wrath was against them. Does God change? Do you suppose God's wrath is against America? Why? See, if I had time to go through all those statistics, you would see that the church has not listened to the word of God.

As a matter of fact, the church in America, how many of you are studying God's word? See, you don't need to raise your hands. I'm proud of you. But how many of you are studying it? Not just coming to conferences and hearing these great men speak, but how many of you know it?

See, I don't know all this scientific stuff. Now, I know a lot because I've studied, but I don't know it all. But I know what God says. And I know who created it. And I know who sustains it. And I know how long it took him to create it.

And I know how he created it. I know he spoke. And it came into existence. And I know that all the way through the scriptures, every time they get in trouble, God is saying, I'm the one that created the heavens and the earth.

And I know when they pray and they're in trouble, Jehoshaphat's in trouble. Hezekiah's in trouble. He's saying, you're the one that made the heavens and the earth. Now, I know that. And I'm no rocket scientist.

I have no degrees. But I know truth because I know this book. And I know what it says. And I believe it because it's God's word. And it isn't God's word because I believe it. It's God's word whether I believe it or not.

Okay? So now watch what he says. Go inquire of the Lord because of the wrath. Okay? Verse 14. So Hilkiah the priest and these guys went to Huldah the prophetess. Oh, goodness. There is a woman in the Bible who's a prophetess.

All right? The wife of Shalom, the son of Tikvah, the son of Haras, keeper of the wardrobe. Now, she lived where? In Jerusalem in the second quarter. Location, where? And they spoke to her. And she said to them, thus says the Lord God of Israel, tell the man who sent you to me.

Who is the man? Josiah. Thus says the Lord. Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its what? Inhabitants. Even, got this? All the words of the book. Mark book. Which the king of Judah has what? Read.

Next to that, I would just write Deuteronomy 28 verses 15 to 68. Because that talks about the curses that God's going to bring on the children of Israel. It's in the book. In the first five books of the Bible.

And it's the evil. It's all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read. Now, verse 17. Why? Because they have what? Forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods that they might provoke me to anger.

With all the works of their hands. Therefore, what? When you say therefore, find out what? What it's there for. Therefore, my wrath burns against this place. And it shall what? Not be quenched. This is God's message.

Through whom? Hold up. Who is a what? Prophetess. Who is sending the message to whom? Josiah. Who is the what? King. And what year of his reign is it? The 18th year. Look at what you know. Look at what you know.

Now, watch. But to the king of Judah. When you see a but, a but is a term of contrast. All right. It says, but to the king of Judah. Who sent you to inquire of the Lord? Thus you shall say to him. Thus says the Lord God of Israel.

Regarding the words which you have heard. What am I going to mark? The words. Because what words did he hear? The words of the book. So you mark all the synonyms. Which you have heard. Because your heart was tender.

Now, every time I find heart in the Bible, I mark it. Guess what I use to mark it? A heart. So clever. All right. Because your heart, in a color red, was tender. And by the way, let me just say this. When you color code your Bible, you are using a science.

There is a science to color coding. They use it in electronics. This is not kindergarten. They use it in electronics. They use it in medicine. They use it in teaching. Okay. So. To the king of Judah who sent you to inquire regarding the words you have heard.

Verse 19. Because your heart was tender. And you humbled yourself before the Lord. When you heard what I spoke. What am I going to mark? When. Time phrase. Good. What else am I going to mark? What else am I going to mark?

What I spoke. Yeah. What did he speak? The words of the book of the law that was found in the house of God. When you heard the words that I spoke against this place. See, because he heard the word of the Lord.

And against its inhabitants. That they should become a desolation and a curse. And you have torn your clothes. And wept before me. I truly have heard you, declares the Lord. Isn't that awesome? How did you look at the way Josiah responded?

Now, see, when you observe the text, you're finding out who and what. And when and where and why and how. So you're finding out how Josiah responded. You're finding out what did he do when he heard the book.

And what difference does this make? Because she says, because your heart was tender. And you humbled yourself before the Lord. When you heard what I spoke. And you have torn your clothes. And wept before me.

I truly have heard you. What does it show? There's a godly sorrow. And there's a repentance here. The word repentance is not used. But there is a godly sorrow here. Verse 24. 20, I'm sorry. Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers.

And you will be gathered to your grave in peace. And your eyes will not see all the evil that I will bring on this place. What did he say? Is evil coming? Yes. But, now listen. Because when Josiah, when the word of God was found.

That had been lost in the house of God. And Josiah responded properly. When he humbled himself. Tore his clothes. Wept before the Lord. Hearing the words of God. God stays his hand of judgment. And says, evil is coming.

And it's coming. And he told Manasseh. It is coming. But, not in your time. Because of what you did. Chuck called us. Chuck called us to make a commitment to the Lord. I'm telling you. The greatest thing that you can do to prepare for the coming of the Lord.

Is to be in this book. And to get others in this book. We've got to hear it. And we've got to act on it. And you can read the rest later. Read chapter 23. And find out what happens. How he gathers all the people.

Small and great. And he reads in their hearing. All the words of the book of the covenant. Which was found in the house of the Lord. And when he does it. Thank you so much. And when he does it. Revival breaks out.

Revival breaks out. And you see what happens. And how they make a covenant. To follow the word of God. Quickly. Next page. Go to Jude. Alright. So now I'm in the New Testament. I've been in the historical book.

How to Study an Epistle Through Its Author and Recipients

I'm looking at the who. The what. The when. The where. The why. And the how. What I am doing. And what we have simply done. Is this. Look up here. What? Observation. That's all you've done. But think of what you know.

Now I didn't tell you. By the way. And you would want to write it down. And that goes with 2 Kings. Just write down Deuteronomy. Chapter 17. And let me get the verses. But in Deuteronomy 17. When a king came to power.

He was to write. He was to write his own copy of the book of the law. He was to write. Genesis. Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. And Deuteronomy. Himself. No one else could do it. So write this down. Deuteronomy 17.

14 to 20. But especially verses 18 to 20. Deuteronomy 17. 14 to 20. Alright. Now let's go to a New Testament epistle. We're going to Jew because it's short. Okay. And I hate clocks. And let me tell you what you're going to do.

Whenever you read an epistle. The first thing you want to do is discover who. An epistle is a letter. A letter was written by someone to someone. So I chose 2 colors. I chose blue to mark every reference to the author.

I chose orange to mark every reference to the recipient. And if you'll go home and take any of the epistles. And just do what I'm telling you to do. It'll just blow your mind what you're going to learn.

Okay. So you would go through Jude. And this is what I want you to do. I want you to circle the author. And I want you to underline the recipients. Since you can't use colors. Okay. And every time I come to author.

Or every time I come to recipient. Say author, recipient. Okay. Now let me read the first verse before we go any further. And don't say a word. Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James.

To those who are the called. Beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ. May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. Okay. You got it? Who's writing whom? Jude. So circle Jude. What do you learn about Jude when you circle him?

He's a bondservant of Jesus Christ. What else do you learn? He's a brother of James. Okay. You're going to find out when you study it that he's a brother of Jesus too. Okay. To whom is he writing? To those who are what?

Called. What? Beloved in God the Father and what? Kept for Jesus Christ. So you find out three things about them. They are what? Called. They are what? Beloved. And they are what? Kept. Oh, that is so good.

All right. So this is what you would do. You go through your epistle. All the way through your epistle. Because no epistle is too long to do this to. And if you'll do this, then it will help you interpret it accurately.

And you make a list of everything you learn about the author. You make a list of everything you learn about the recipients. Just do it in a little notebook and then you'll have it. Or do it on your computer.

All right. Now I'm going to keep reading. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you. Are you going to tell me what you're marking? You is the recipients. And what did you say? Beloved. And what?

I. So beloved is underlined. Because who's beloved? The recipients. He says, beloved while I. I who? Author was making every effort to write what? You about what? Our common salvation. I. Author felt the necessity to write to you.

Appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith. Which was once for all handed down to the saints. When you read an epistle. You want to know who wrote it to whom it was written. You want to know why it was written.

Because the purpose of writing the book governs the interpretation of it. Okay. Now, what was his purpose in writing? What? To write about their common salvation. Did he? Watch what he says. While I was making every effort.

To write to you about our common salvation. I felt the necessity. To write to you. Appealing that what? You do what? Contend earnestly for what? For the faith. What do you learn about the faith there?

Which was once for all handed down to the saints. See now, as you make a list of the recipients. You find out that what are they to do? Verse 3. What are they to do? Contend earnestly for what? The faith.

And then you would begin to see what is the faith? It was handed down. What? Once for all to all the saints. What do you think it is? It's the word. It's the word. But if you don't understand that, you'll pick it up later.

Identifying False Teachers and Licentiousness

All right. Now, verse 4. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed. Those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation. Ungodly persons. Who turn the grace of our God into what? Licentiousness.

Licentiousness. You'd want to look it up. It means moral anarchy. It means no absolutes. It means you do what's right. It means there's no right. There's no wrong. Licentiousness is just no absolutes.

You just live the way you want to. They turn the grace of our God into licentiousness. And they deny our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now, let me tell you. The first thing you do is you read through and you mark the author.

You mark the recipients. But then, as you read, you're going to find other people that you want to mark. If we had time, you would go through and you would see, hey, this epistle is about these guys. These ungodly persons.

So you would mark this. All right. And you would not mark this until you got through marking the author and the recipients. Because you're going to pick them up later. You see the obvious. And then you see more.

And then you see more as you observe the text. But let's check it right here because I want to show you something. All right. So what am I going to check? For certain persons. This is another category that have a big deal in this church.

Put a check over certain persons. Have crept in unnoticed. Those who, who, who. Certain persons. Check it. Were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation. Ungodly persons. Check. Who turned the grace of God, grace of our God into what?

Licentiousness. And they what? Deny our only master and Lord Jesus Christ. All right. Now, what do you learn about these people? Yeah, they're bad. Where are they? They're in the church. They've crept in how?

Unnoticed. Mmm. What else do you learn about them? Long beforehand marked out for what? Condemnation. What else do you learn about them? They're ungodly. What else do you learn about them? That turn the grace of our God into what?

Licentiousness. And what else do you learn about them? They deny our only master and Lord Jesus Christ. Now, eventually, you'd want to find out. What does it mean to turn the grace of God into licentiousness?

Basically, it means this. That you can live any way you want because you're under grace. You can just sin all you want, honey. And you're going to heaven. That doesn't hold biblical water. Okay? All right.

So, you would mark these things and you would find out. You would look up the word licentiousness and you'd find out what it means. All right. Now, let's keep going. Verse 5. Because I want to get through this book just in this.

Old Testament Examples of Judgment

All right. Now, verse 5. Now I, I, author, desire to remind you, recipient, though you know all things once for all. He's reminding them of something that they what? Already know. That the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

Now, what is he saying? He's talking about ungodly persons and he's saying, I'm writing to you. I want to remind you of what the Lord did to those that came out of Egypt. Those that came out of Egypt who were destroyed because they did not what?