Michigan Camp Meeting 2019: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Keys to Successful Devotion

Joong Ho Shin

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 1: Why & How to Meditate on the Scriptures

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 2: How to Pray 1

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 3: How to Pray 2

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 4: Personal Worship 1

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 5: Personal Worship 2

Father in heaven, we are thankful that we can study your word.

Your word is a lamp unto our feet and light unto our paths.

So illuminate our mind and bless us with thy wisdom so we can truly understand your character through the world and we thank you Jesus name we pray amen So we touched on never should the Bible open without the prayer.

And then Ellen White's words, Desire of Ages, page 83.

It would be well for us to spend our thoughtful hour each day in contemplation of the life of Christ.

We should take it point by point and let the imagination grasp each sin, especially the closing 1.

So what we are going to do is we are going to take a portion of the gospel and then go through it.

And I will make key points how what we need to do.

We are not going to the closing scene today, maybe tomorrow.

So open your Bible, book of Mark chapter 4.

Mark chapter 4, the last section, 35 to 41.

Mark chapter 5, chapter 4, 35 through 41.

So devotional Bible study is a little bit different from regular Bible study.

My definition of devotional Bible study is you do it in the morning, try to catch or try to see the character of Christ from the passage, or trying to see the character of the people in that passage and trying to see the application of that.

At the end of that devotional Bible study, write a little note in your notebook or in your smartphone, and just a little note.

I came, I'm coming away with this thought today.

And so throughout the day, you can take it out and read it.

The very first day we talked about meditate.

I went to a seminar 3 years ago at Camp Meeting, and they talked about doing that, taking 1 sentence.

1 sentence, and I put it, I started, I just had a little notebook, and I wrote it down.

I can read, I can take those notebooks and just read through them, and it's like, just condensed treasures.

Normal Bible study, especially inductive Bible study, it has what?

Interpretation, and the third 1 is application.

So in the interpretation, you have to study culture, context, before and after, the geographical location of that place, and all kinds of things that you can correctly interpret that passage.

Interpretation is what the author is trying to say to the people at that time.

So to correctly interpret that, we have to know the background.

And we don't have time for that in devotional Bible study in the morning.

So you do that in the later days, later time.

But you need to spend some time in observation.

Observation, we have to give you the handout when you leave.

Observation includes, we touched on a little bit on the meditation, why, how, Who, where, when, those questions.

The main thing is observe, observe is what the passage says.

There is nothing of your thought into it.

Flat, white, or there is a little picture in there.

It's got a frame, aluminum frame, just observe.

So there's nothing about I think that becomes handy when you go to the application.

So the more you ask, you can ask, why is this passage here?

So let's go to the Mark chapter 4, verse 35, and, and, so he finished the story of up to that point, it says and, the same day, the same day as he expounded on all those parables.

The same day as he finished preaching the parable.

And we don't know what the other side, when we are reading this.

No, just remember that it's Jesus who said that.

And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship, and there were also with him other little ships.

So here's a ship, has Jesus in it, and then there are other ships, little ships following.

Mark is the shortest gospel, and he uses his word, vocabulary, very effectively.

And verse 37, and there arose, what kind of storm?

Remember that, There's a great storm of the ship, of the wind.

So Just think, the storm was not there at the beginning of their journey.

If there was, they wouldn't go in there, right?

And the waves beat into the ship so that it was now full.

So just imagine, the wave was coming in, disciples was trying to get the little bucket out, then try to dump it out.

The rate of water coming in is greater than, just like, I don't go there.

Now, until that time, they didn't call Jesus, right?

Now, and he was in the Hindu part of the, thank you, of the ship.

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