Bible Study Manual: An Easy Step by Step Guide to Bible Study - Book One

By Michael Youngblood

This book is a step by step guide of how to study the Bible.
You begin with a look at how the sequence of events and the background context determines the main lesson God intends for the passage.
Next you learn how to find additional passages about any Bible subject and how to find the root meaning of them.
The last part of this seminar shows you how all physical, mental, spiritual things can be understood and determined by three simple principles, and ends on how to apply the Bible to your daily life.
Anyone can study and learn from the Bible even if they have had very little education.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 4, 2010
• ISBN: 9781496943088

Michael Youngblood

Michael Youngblood is a graduate of the Louisiana missionary Baptist Institute and seminary. He obtained a master of English Bible diploma there. He surrendered to preach when he was twenty years old and has been preaching for 17 years since then. His opportunities to teach various ages from kindergarten to senior adults allowed him to refine his studying techniques. He volunteer teaches at the Shreveport Rescue Mission and has a desire to see people truly come to know God in their life.

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Bible Study Manual

An Easy Step-by-Step Guide to Bible Study — Book One

Michael Youngblood

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/05/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4520-3837-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-4308-8 (e)

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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611.

Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

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Contents

Introduction

How This Study Works

Why Should We Learn about God?

Who Can Know the Bible?

Excuses Why People Don’t Study the Bible

How Pure Is Your Life?

The Purpose of the Bible

Our Command to Study the Bible

What We Are to Learn from the Bible

The Steps of the Study

Chapter One: Overview

Sequencing

Context

Scripture References

Chapter Two: Word Studies

Language Searches

Command Searches

Chapter Three: Layers

Principles

Thought flow

Example

Application

Answers for Homework Activities

For Teachers

List of Credits

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photo by Dr. Peter Schmidt Haltern

Just remember the three main points: Overview, Word study, and Layers (OWL for short).

Introduction

Have you ever tried to study the bible and felt totally lost? You didn’t know how to research a subject or even where to start. Maybe you flipped to a few familiar passages, read a chapter or two then wrote a few notes but you knew you were still coming up short. Finally you might have resolved yourself to simply reading some daily devotional booklet instead. This book can change your whole perspective on studying. The Bible doesn’t have to be difficult or frustrating. Now you can search the scriptures with ease, and find just what you’re looking for. The Holy Spirit is waiting in the verses to meet you there. Come and take the journey, as you learn to use the bible for what it was meant to be, a spiritual compass and ruler. In the bible you can explore ancient civilizations or peek into future events. Simply put the Bible is the answer for any need in life.

Hi! I’m the author implanted here in this book, waiting to help you out. I did not make this like a lecture or thesis, but like a conversation. I hope this style will help you greatly. As you read, imagine a person asking you these questions, and take a journey with me. For the entire study, I use the King James version of the Bible.

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How This Study Works

This book is the first in a three-part series: Bible Study, Spiritual Growth, and Godly Living.

The series is based on a trinity because God is a trinity and he made man with a trinity nature also.

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For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one

(1 John 5:7).

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth

(Gen. 1:26).

The universe is also based on many trinities. Atoms are trinities; they are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. The basic necessities of life are also a trinity. Every animal has to eat, have water to live, and needs to breathe. Even earth itself is made of a trinity in its nature because it contains water, land, and atmosphere.

There are many other examples of this in nature. Can you think of any?

Study Preparation

Before you get into deeper parts of Bible study, it helps to start