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Jonah, about so much more than a fish, plus the imperative of follow-up for new Christians

2023-05-28 by bible805

Lesson on Jonah and the importance of follow-up for new ChristiansWe all know about the fish swallowing Jonah, but there is more in the book including the answers to these questions:

  • What about people who haven’t heard the gospel if Jesus is the only way to God?
  • What do we do about bad people, or when people treat us badly? What does God expect from us as His followers?
  • How should we respond to continuing trials?

Answers to these questions and other related applications are what we will cover in our lesson on Jonah.

In addition, we’ll look at the importance of follow-up after someone becomes a Christian. This is inspired by Jonah because world history at that time could have been very different if Jonah hadn’t stomped off with a bad attitude and had stayed to teach the people of Nineveh after their great national repentance.

But we’ll never know because Jonah didn’t stay and do what he should have done. That is the last we hear of Jonah, but not the last of Nineveh. They return to their evil, aggressive ways and less than 40 years later conquer Israel, and the nation is destroyed.

New believers need follow-up—they need to learn about the God they have trusted for salvation. They need to know His Word and His ways.

The lesson then talks about the importance of follow-up and shares a chart of 5 Assurances of the Disciple of Jesus, a modification of a chart on follow-up that I learned from the Navigator ministry.

With this additional lesson, I’m introducing a series on Discipleship for Bible805, a series of blogs, videos, podcasts, and other materials in addition to going through the Bible in chronological order.

Please sign up for the Bible805 newsletter for notifications of new materials on this topic both for your personal spiritual growth and to use in helping others grow in their spiritual lives.

Following are copies of the chart that illustrates the 5 Assurances of a Disciple of Jesus, the handouts for the lesson, the podcast, and the video. ***ALSO, below is a stand-alone, downloadable PDF of the 5 Assurances for the Disciple of Jesus. A printable page with 2 copies per one-page PDF is part of the handouts PDF.

 

5 Assurances for a Disciple of Jesus

Are there people who are hopeless?

•         Are there people so cruel, so mean there isn’t anything that can be done for them?

•         Are there some people we shouldn’t pray for?

•         Can we sin so much God gives up on us?

•         We find answers to those questions and more in one of the oldest books of prophecy in our Bible in our lesson today……

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Filed Under: Prophets Tagged With: did Jonah and the whale really happen, Discipleship materials, Jonah, why follow up is os important

5 Assurances for the Disciple of Jesus—a foundational lesson for our new series on Discipleship

2023-05-28 by bible805

This is the start of a new series of lessons on Discipleship, of learning to live, love, and serve our world as Jesus did, which is what everyone who has trusted Jesus as Savior should be about doing.

This short lesson is a foundational one and is entitled 5 Assurances for the Disciple of Jesus

This lesson was inspired by and based on a resource from the Navigators, a Christian group I learned from in college. These 5 Assurances and the verses that go with them were what they felt were essential for a new Christian to know and have stood the test of time as a helpful foundation for a relationship with Jesus.

They had a chart that went with it with each verse on the fingers of a hand. Though the chart was useful, currently I thought it was looking a bit funky and old-fashioned so I redid a new one in Canva to fit on social media formats and as a graphic that can be used in teaching. Click on the image to the left for a PDF of it.

Following is a video of the Five Assurances as a group, then a text file transcript of the video.

On the Bible805 YouTube channel are short (less than a minute) videos of each one. CLICK HERE to go to them.

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Filed Under: Blog, Discipleship Tagged With: 5 foundational assurances for a Christian disciple, Christian discipleship, Discipleship foundation

The imperative of application whenever we read or listen to God’s Word

2023-05-18 by bible805

Always apply the Bible
We are to always ask how we can APPLY the Bible.

In many ways, the most important of the three goals of Bible805 (for you to know, trust, and apply the Bible) is for you to APPLY the Bible. Though application comes last in our progression of how first we need to KNOW what it says, then TRUST it is God’s Word, and finally to APPLY it, without application, knowledge and trust alone do little to change our lives and serve as a witness to our world.

More importantly, our Lord expects us to apply what He tells us in this Word as James 1:22, NLT commands,

But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: apply what you read, Bible application, how to read the Bible and make it part of your life

The Prophetic Books, little understood, incredibly important, an introduction

2023-05-11 by bible805

Prophetic books lessonWhen people think of the Old Testament prophets, most often two areas come to mind:

First, most people think of the prophecies of Jesus’ coming, and though that is important and a significant validation of the truth of the Christian faith, only 2% of prophecies are about the coming of Jesus.

Second, many think of the Old Testament prophets as a group of angry old guys railing against evil and the coming final judgment. Though they were frequently angry and did rail against evil, only about 1% of what the prophets talked about was end-time judgment.

As you’ll see in this lesson they are about so much more, not only in their messages to the audience of their day, but in the challenges that apply to us in our current lives and as representatives of Jesus.

If you are joining us in reading through the Bible in chronological order (for more info on that, go to www.Bible805.com) this is an essential lesson for understanding how we will place the prophets in their proper historical context.

COMPLETE HANDOUTS Intro to the Prophets

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Filed Under: 1 Kings, Bible 805 Podcast, Bible charts, Bible Teaching Tools, Bible805 Live Class, Prophets, Prophets and Kings Tagged With: Intro to Prophetic books, prophetic books, what is a prophettic books, what is prophecy

Solomon, a wasted life and how to make yours count

2023-05-05 by bible805

Lesson on Solomon, a wasted life After studying the life of David, we couldn’t have a greater contrast between his life as a man “after God’s own heart,” and what we find in his son Solomon.

This lesson will show you the solid foundation of Biblical instruction he had, how he started well, but progressively deteriorated into self-indulgent sins that destroyed not only his life but split his nation and condemned it to continual war and trouble throughout Old Testament history.

We’ll overview the books he wrote, Song of Solomon, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes along with the probable progress of his life as he wrote each one.

We will end with the challenge of what a true king should be like, the model of it in our Lord Jesus, and a challenge for how we should live to please Him.

Following is a PDF of the notes, links to the podcast and video, and below that a transcript of the lesson.

Complete handouts for the lesson, Solomon, a wasted life

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Filed Under: 1 Kings, Bible 805 Podcast, Bible805 Live Class, Through the Bible Tagged With: characteristics of a true king, Ecclesiastes, foolish use of power and wealth, power through service, Proverbs, Solomon, Solomon and how he wasted his life, Song of Solomon, starting well and ending badly

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