Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Notes

Current Bible Study

The Book of Nahum

Author: Nahum the prophet who refers to himself as the Elkoshite. It is unknow where Elkoshite is located.

Date Written: 663-612 B.C. but likely 645 B.C.

The recipients: this book is Nahum’s prophecies concerning the great city of Nineveh and to the people of Judah.

Purpose: the purpose of Nahum is to (1) comfort Judah (2) to warn Nineveh.  It is about God’s great love for His people.  The book of Nahum points toward Christ as the vindicator of God’s people.

OUTLINE

1. Justice and goodness of God, Chapter 1:1-8 

1. Justice and goodness of God demonstrated in decision to 

destroy Nineveh and to give the gospel, Chapter 1:9-15 

1. Justice and goodness of God exhibited in execution of His 

decision to destroy Nineveh, Chapters 2, 3
A. Annihilation of Assyria, Chapter 2
B. Avenging action of God justified, Chapter 3 

Nahum Quiz

1. The book of Nahum is a prophesy against what city?

• How does Nahum describes God in chapter 1?

• Describe the picture of God in chapter 1:5-8.

• How is the invading army described in 2:3? 

• Nineveh is called what kind of city and is pictured as what in chapter 3?

Past Bible Study Lesson

Dress With Power

Luke 24:49

What you wear can influence your thinking and negotiating skills, and even hormone levels and heart rate, this according to some research groups.   The research group had individuals wear certain items and discovered that the difference in attitude when wearing certain clothing items.  In her short book  Mind What You Wears: The Psychology of Fashion Professor Karen J. Pine,  says “When we put on a piece of clothing we cannot help but adopt some of thecharacteristics associated with it, even if we are unaware of it.”

The predominant theme in the book of Luke is the perfect humanity of Jesus Christ. The Savior entered human history as the perfect man. He himself offered the perfect sacrifice for sin, therefore, providing the perfect Savior for humankind.

Behold

• is a command from Jesus to the disciples to make sure He had their full attention regarding the important teaching He was about to give them. And He desires His disciples’ (our) full attention to the truth of this passage which was fulfilled at Pentecost but is still truth that is vital to understand so that we might be empowered to live a supernatural life in front of a watching, skeptical, lost world. 

The believer’s duty

The “you” here is plural, indicating it was addressed to a group of Christ’s listeners as the object. 

Promise

• Promise  means to “tell at or upon” and originally referred to an announcement or declaration (especially of a favorable message) (see Acts 23:21).

• Greek was primarily a legal term denoting summons, a promise to do or give something, but in the NT speaks primarily of the promises of God, the first four NT uses referring to the promise of the Holy Spirit (Lk 24:49+, Acts 1:4+, Acts 2:33-39).

Promise In Classical Greek 

• The first sense is “to indicate,” “declare,” “declaration,” “report.”
• When the state declares something, it becomes an “order.”
• In law we find the senses “accusation” and “delivery of a judgment.”
• We then find the senses “to declare an achievement,” “to show one’s mastery,” “to profess a subject.”
•  Another sense is “to offer,” “to promise,” “to vow.” As regards promises, tension between word and deed is felt, so that promises are often seen as worthless.
•  A special type of promise is the “promise of money,” and in this sense the idea of a “subscription” or “donation” arises (state liturgies, gifts to rulers at their accession, priests promising gifts in support of their candidature).
•  

Stay

• To sit down and then to remain in a place, in this case Jerusalem (cp similar use Acts 18:11). 
• Jesus gives this as a command in the aorist imperative. Do this now! Don’t delay! (Delayed obedience is disobedience).

Clothed 

• literally to clothe or dress someone and to put on as a garment, to cause to get into a garment
• All God’s workmen must be ENDUED with power (dunamis) from on high
• Paul uses enduo are all figurative describing the putting on of “ethical, moral or spiritual” garments. And what a “wardrobe” he lays out for believers in his epistles…
• The believer’s duty
• The “you” here is plural, indicating it was addressed to a group of Christ’s listeners as the object. 
• The spiritual garment, which means to “go into”, “put on [clothes]”, “enter”, “press into”, “sink in”, “enter upon it”, “undertake it,” and “insinuate oneself into.” —

Power

• Power especially achieving power or Inherent power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature. Dunamis describes power in the sense of that which overcomes resistance. In Matthew dunamis refers to the miracles or miraculous powers of Jesus. 
• The Gospel is the dynamis of God for salvation. If we grasp this basic truth, it takes the pressure off of us in evangelizing. In other words our job is to accurately present the Gospel, not to try to convince them of its veracity for the Gospel has it’s own intrinsic power or dynamis. In a word the Gospel is “dynamic.” 

Necessity of The Power!

• They had to wait in Jerusalem until power from on high came upon them.
• Ever feeling that you are wasting time waiting on God? 4.17.2.1. But action w/o preparation must often fail!
• There is time to wait on God & time to work for God!
• The quiet times in which we wait on God are never wasted; for it is in these times when we lay aside life’s tasks, that we are strengthened for the very tasks we lay aside.(William Barclay)

Dress With Power

Luke 24:49

What you wear can influence your thinking and negotiating skills, and even hormone levels and heart rate, this according to some research groups.   The research group had individuals wear certain items and discovered that the difference in attitude when wearing certain clothing items.  In her short book  Mind What You Wears: The Psychology of Fashion Professor Karen J. Pine,  says “When we put on a piece of clothing we cannot help but adopt some of thecharacteristics associated with it, even if we are unaware of it.”

The predominant theme in the book of Luke is the perfect humanity of Jesus Christ. The Savior entered human history as the perfect man. He himself offered the perfect sacrifice for sin, therefore, providing the perfect Savior for humankind.

Behold

• is a command from Jesus to the disciples to make sure He had their full attention regarding the important teaching He was about to give them. And He desires His disciples’ (our) full attention to the truth of this passage which was fulfilled at Pentecost but is still truth that is vital to understand so that we might be empowered to live a supernatural life in front of a watching, skeptical, lost world. 

The believer’s duty

The “you” here is plural, indicating it was addressed to a group of Christ’s listeners as the object. 

Promise

• Promise  means to “tell at or upon” and originally referred to an announcement or declaration (especially of a favorable message) (see Acts 23:21).

• Greek was primarily a legal term denoting summons, a promise to do or give something, but in the NT speaks primarily of the promises of God, the first four NT uses referring to the promise of the Holy Spirit (Lk 24:49+, Acts 1:4+, Acts 2:33-39).

Promise In Classical Greek 

• The first sense is “to indicate,” “declare,” “declaration,” “report.”
• When the state declares something, it becomes an “order.”
• In law we find the senses “accusation” and “delivery of a judgment.”
• We then find the senses “to declare an achievement,” “to show one’s mastery,” “to profess a subject.”
•  Another sense is “to offer,” “to promise,” “to vow.” As regards promises, tension between word and deed is felt, so that promises are often seen as worthless.
•  A special type of promise is the “promise of money,” and in this sense the idea of a “subscription” or “donation” arises (state liturgies, gifts to rulers at their accession, priests promising gifts in support of their candidature).
•  

Stay

• To sit down and then to remain in a place, in this case Jerusalem (cp similar use Acts 18:11). 
• Jesus gives this as a command in the aorist imperative. Do this now! Don’t delay! (Delayed obedience is disobedience).

Clothed 

• literally to clothe or dress someone and to put on as a garment, to cause to get into a garment
• All God’s workmen must be ENDUED with power (dunamis) from on high
• Paul uses enduo are all figurative describing the putting on of “ethical, moral or spiritual” garments. And what a “wardrobe” he lays out for believers in his epistles…
• The believer’s duty
• The “you” here is plural, indicating it was addressed to a group of Christ’s listeners as the object. 
• The spiritual garment, which means to “go into”, “put on [clothes]”, “enter”, “press into”, “sink in”, “enter upon it”, “undertake it,” and “insinuate oneself into.” —

Power

• Power especially achieving power or Inherent power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature. Dunamis describes power in the sense of that which overcomes resistance. In Matthew dunamis refers to the miracles or miraculous powers of Jesus. 
• The Gospel is the dynamis of God for salvation. If we grasp this basic truth, it takes the pressure off of us in evangelizing. In other words our job is to accurately present the Gospel, not to try to convince them of its veracity for the Gospel has it’s own intrinsic power or dynamis. In a word the Gospel is “dynamic.” 

Necessity of The Power!

• They had to wait in Jerusalem until power from on high came upon them.
• Ever feeling that you are wasting time waiting on God? 4.17.2.1. But action w/o preparation must often fail!
• There is time to wait on God & time to work for God!
• The quiet times in which we wait on God are never wasted; for it is in these times when we lay aside life’s tasks, that we are strengthened for the very tasks we lay aside.(William Barclay)