Books Of The Bible In Historical Order
Books Of The Bible In Historical Order
Preaching Through The Bible More Effectively Using A Bible History Timeline
In a Bible study some years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for many years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians will really pick up the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses lived 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then put together a Bible timeline banner and explained visually the time period of men and women and events.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the death, burial, resurrection and life of Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been a minister for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he mentioned 1Ti 1:4'Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.' I humbly asked him if I was saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he answered"No". I continued on to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not referring to exploring the Bible but to the false teachings and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he would not have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he study and teach the Bible clearly without being aware of something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to figure out these things and be able to understand their Bible well, if they are not informed?
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the aspects of the Bible and His plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to model our lives by.
It is not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can make use of a Bible Timeline too.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and view the Bible study tool.
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