There are many other pamphlets and courses for new Christians that are much better than this, but perhaps this might help, encourage, stimulate, and ground someone in the faith. That is my only intent. This copy is Copyright © 2019 by Len Gane All rights reserved but the pdf download version 10 April 19 only is
Preface
There are many other pamphlets and courses for new Christians that are much better than this, but perhaps this might help, encourage, stimulate, and ground someone in the faith. That is my only intent. This copy is Copyright © 2019 by Len Gane All rights reserved but the pdf download version 10 April 19 only is
The New Christian’s Handbook Part 5
This version doesn't have the charts, so you can go to Swartzentrover Bible Study to view them. The 10 Apr 19 pdf does.
Pray at the start
Read the material
Answer the questions
Pray again
Basic Bible Overview
Bible Summary Charts
Courtesy of Swartzentrover Bible Study Web Rather than reading the whole book, read the questions and review the chart.
Old Testament
The Law
Genesis
B1 What are some of the main questions Genesis answers?
B2 Name some of the importants points of life and faith from Genesis 1:1 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Exodus
B1 What does Exodus teach you about Israel, Moses, and sin?
B2 How can we apply the focus of slavery, salvation, and sanctification to the Christian faith?
B3 What do we learn from this verse: Exodus 34:6-7 NKJV And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
Leviticus
B1 Many find Leviticus to be very boring. What might some be things we can learn?
B2 How do we worship God?
B3 What is holiness and is it important? Leviticus 20:26 GNB You shall be holy and belong only to me, because I am the LORD and I am holy. I have set you apart from the other nations so that you would belong to me alone.
Numbers
B1 Why did Israel have to wander 40 years?
B2 What does this teach us about belief vs unbelief and obedience vs disobedience?
B3 Why is it important that God does not lie? Numbers 23:19 NKJV "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Deuteronomy
B1 Why did Moses have to repeat the Law to Israel?
B2 Explain how this verse is a blessing to you? Deuteronomy 31:6 NKJV Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you."
History
Joshua
B1 Why is reading the Bible and thinking about it important? Joshua 1:7-8 NKJV Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
B2 Why did Israel have to war?
Judges
B1 How does God raise up deliverers today? Judges 3:9 NKJV When the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the children of Israel, who delivered them: Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
B2 Discuss the relationship between religious laxity and moral anarchy?
Ruth
B1 What can we learn from this verse? Ruth 1:17-18 NKJV Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me." 18 When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.
B2 Does Ruth give a good example of love? Explain.
1 Samuel
B1 How can we look at the heart instead of outwardly, when deciding someone’s character? 1 Samuel 16:7 NKJV But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.
B2 Israel asked for a king. How did this show their rejection of God? How do we apply that to us?
2 Samuel
B1 How is God great? 2 Samuel 7:22 NKJV Therefore You are great, O Lord GOD. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
B2 Why did David rape Bathsheba?
1 Kings
B1 Why did Solomon fall away? 1 Kings 8:22-24 NKJV Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven; 23 and he said: "LORD God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. 24 You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
B2 What is the danger of marrying a non-Christian? 1 Kings 11:4 NKJV For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
2 Kings
B1 What is humility, and why is it important to the Christian? 2 Kings 22:19 NKJV because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD.
B2 How does sin ruin nations?
1 Chronicles
B1 Why is David’s genealogy given?
B2 Do we have to obey any rules today? Explain. 1 Chronicles 22:13 NKJV Then you will prosper, if you take care to fulfill the statutes and judgments with which the LORD charged Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and of good courage; do not fear nor be dismayed.
2 Chronicles
B1 When people quote this verse, what is usually left out? 2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
B2 Ezra, not Moses, is the traditional author.
B3 How does Manasseh’s life show Biblical repentance? (2 Chronicles 33).
Ezra
B1 Ezra is a teacher. Why do Christians need teachers today?
B2 What are some things important to be a teacher?
Nehemiah
B1 How is God’s joy our strength? Nehemiah 8:10 NKJV Then he said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
B2 Is repentance important? What should be seen if someone has repented?
Esther
B1 How can we be brave in the face of possible death? Esther 4:14 NKJV For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
B2 Name some ways God has delivered you from something.
Poetry
Job
B1 Why did Job suffer?
B2 Do we have the same confidence Job had? Elaborate. Job 19:25-27 NKJV For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; 26 And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God, 27 Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
Psalms
B1 Discuss some things we can learn from the shortest Psalm. Psalms 117:1-2 NKJV Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! 2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!
B2 Name some ways we can use the Psalms today.
Proverbs
B1 Does the book of Proverbs still have benefit today? Explain.
B2 How can we apply this verse to our lives? Proverbs 22:3 NKJV A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.
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