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Wes Peppers

How to Study The Bible Part 2

Father in Heaven, we thank You so much for the blessing that we have to love You and serve You.

We just pray now that You would be with us, close to our hearts, and that You would draw near to us.

All right, the next thing that you want to do in your reading is you want to read how?

Well you want to read thoughtfully, we covered that.

And I'm not even going to spend a lot of time on it.

Now let's take an example from John chapter 4.

We're not going to read it, but I'm just going to give you the punchline.

You can mark it down and go back and read it tonight.

Who's the main character in John chapter 4?

And so Jesus meets her and He talks with her, and He shares with her who He is, and she accepts Him, and then she goes into the city and she tells everybody, and everybody comes out, and they what?

You guys are familiar with the story, all right?

So let's suppose that I read that story through.

I read it as a third person through the first time, yeah?

Alright, so I just read it to see what the story's about.

The second time I read it, I go through and I read it from the viewpoint of Jesus.

As Jesus is standing there, let's just pretend that I'm just, I mean don't take that the wrong way, okay?

Pretend that I'm Jesus and I'm standing there at the well and it's noon and it's hot, and here comes this woman down to the well, right?

Now what was wrong with that picture right off the bat?

People didn't go at the hot part of the day to draw.

They went in the morning, they went in the evening.

So immediately I recognize something's wrong, yeah?

So I'm reading the passage and I'm thinking to myself, what is Jesus thinking here?

So I read that through and you can find, You could spend 2 hours doing that.

Then I go back and I read the chapter again.

And I know why I'm going out to the well at noon.

And I'm going to the well, and there's a man.

And he comes up to me and he says, And imagine if you were that woman and Jesus were saying those things to you, how would you feel, right?

As Jesus goes through, he reveals to her that he is the water of what?

And she says, she says, Sir, give me this water that I may drink always.

He says, you've rightly said you have no husband because you've had 5 men that were not your husband and the man that's with you now is not your husband.

He was revealing her sin, her history, right?

And immediately she recognizes him as a prophet.

Now, put yourself in that picture, imaginatively.

Jesus is speaking to you and He says, I have the water of life, but before I can give it to you, I need to do something.

I need to point out your sin, I need to reveal your sin, right?

And so, do you understand how you do this?

And so, we can get an experience from the woman and apply it to our own life, reading imaginatively.

Now a very neat side note is that he said, You've had 5 husbands and the 1 you're with now is not your husband, how many is that?

Jesus was the seventh man that had an impact on her life.

And he's the 1 that completed her, changed her, and made her what she was always trying to be and always wanted to be by being with those other men.

Then you go back and you read the chapter again.

And who do you read it from this viewpoint of?

The disciples come back and Jesus is there, and they're like, my goodness, who's he talking to?

He's not only talking to a woman, but she's a Samaritan.

And they approach and they're listening to the conversation and imagine what were they thinking as he was speaking to her, right?

And imagine that you're the someone inside the city, and here comes this woman inside the city, and she's going crazy, and she's saying, come hear a man who's told me all things that I've ever done.

And if you heard her say that, what would happen in your heart?

You put yourself in the passage, and you read it over and over again from different perspectives of different people.

John chapter 5, you have the man by the pool of Bethesda.

You read the story as Jesus, you read the story as the man, you read the story as the bystanders, you read the story as the disciples, looking at all these crippled people, you see how that works?

And what you'll find as you do this is that the words that Jesus speaks to those people, you'll find Him also speaking to your own heart.

Just like He revealed to the woman at the well her sin before he could save her, Jesus is gonna start speaking to you about your sin that he needs to take away from you before you can have a full connection with him.

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