Outlining the Entire Bible (Plus! 25 Years of Bible Reading)
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I don't think it's bragging. This is in fact really inspirational. Thanks for sharing!
My knee surgery was postponed until 1/30. Wanted to go through your book on joy during my recovery. But just started your book today along with a Phiippians devotional and study in depth the book of Philippians. Please join me in prayer through this process leading up to my surgery. I can sense deep emotional and financial worry approaching as I will be out for 12 weeks recovering. Thank you Pastor Matthew!
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@@kellydunn7113 thank you. It is much appreciated!
I don't think you're bragging. That's an inspiration! Thank you, Matthew!
BTW, love your content. If a Presbyterian could be a non-reformed, credobaptist you'd have encouraged me to sign up!
Keep up the good work for the sake of Christ! Merry Christmas!
Hi Pastor Matthew! I absolutely love this idea. I do something similar that I learned through inductive Bible studies with Precept ministries. They published a Bible (one in ESV, other in NASB). At the beginning of every chapter there’s a blank line for the reader to entitle it. We choose our titles by using key words/themes from that chapter. At the end of each book is an “At-a-Glance chart” on which you note the chapter titles, segments of the book according to the major themes (ex from Romans: 1. Doctrine, 2. Service) we try to use words that are in the text to help remember the text. I’ve been doing these studies, book by book, since 1994 until about a couple of years ago. They really helped me in my methods and my exposition classes at DTS when I was there. Just wanted to share! Thank you for your encouragement! Love your teaching.
I love this idea, I just ordered the same notebook that you use and I will be doing this with my Bible reading plan throughout 2024.
If you have an inductive study Bible, there is space at the end of each book to write chapter titles/notes, as well as making lists of themes, characters, etc. it really makes you think about how you would choose what’s most important in each chapter.
I don’t take your news as bragging. You accomplished a noble and God honoring goal. Your actions demonstrate your devotion. You are an inspiration.
I started a goal about 7 years ago to “color code” my Bible using an approach I developed. It helps me understand the purpose, flow and interconnectedness of each verse that I have found helpful the next time I read it.
Thank you for this. It is encouraging. I have been reading in 1 Chronicles, which is lists and lists and lists of unpronounceable names. I'll be the first to admit it is not easy. But last night I realized that even when I don't think I am getting much out of it or even understanding much, there's something about God's Word that is healing and peace giving and life giving. I can't even explain it. I don't mean it in a "magical" sort of way. But, as I am sure you know, this is not just a regular book! I adore reading. There are tons of books I love and re-read and that even inspire me or comfort me. Nothing is the same as reading God's Word. Even when it's just a bunch of names and battles that are hard to keep track of, there's still something there. It's like a reset for my mind. The more insane the culture gets, the more I realize I desperately need it. As I get older, my fear is that my eyesight and/or hearing will get so bad that I can no longer read or even listen to it. That's why I need to get as much of it into my mind as possible, for as long as I can. The thought of losing God's Word really does send me into near panic. I just... NEED it. It's the only thing that's real. I can't explain it any better than that. There are so few people who understand!
I was loving your comment. I totally agree that even when you read difficult books to understand or pronounce I tell myself and am assured this is the word of God. How can I think anything in it isn’t important or it’s boring? Blessings to you and I pray your Bible reading this coming year will bless you in unexpected and beautiful ways.🙏😊
Whether it is writing an outline or making notes the important aspect is the writing part. I appreciate premade outlines and commentaries, but it becomes rather passive when you read it. Writing (not typing) stuff down has been proven time and again to reinforce the memory into our brain. I've been stressing to people for a number of years now to write, write, write stuff in their Bibles or create a personal notebook. I use digital for a collecting point, but I reference my physical Bibles and notebooks. As for your outlining one thing that something like that does is it helps you to see aspects of the chapters/subjects that a premade outline didn't. Keep up the videos.
Use that empty space at the end to come up with an overall theme for that book. Something that captures the whole book in just a few words.
I appreciate you and your teaching
You have helped me a lot
I love this Bible spread that I’m beginning this week and for 2024
Many blessings
Well done! I’m completing my 7th year of cover to cover reading & notes. Started journaling the psalms a few months ago. Plan to go deeper with them once I complete writing them out. 2024 is a deeper year for me.
This was really inspiring. I will seriously look into doing something like this in the year to come. Thank you.
Highly encouraged by your story! Makes me want to make sure I’m spending every day in the Word.
This outlining plan is an incredible idea. I’ve been thinking about outlining the whole Bible next year and this is a good way to do it concisely! Thank you for sharing!
What a great idea, Matt! I love outlining when I study a book of my Bible, but this is a wonderful idea to get an overview of the WHOLE Bible. I started my Bible outline book this year along with you. The notebook is large enough that I added 2 pages to the end of each book so I could add notes like key verses, diagrams, other references, etc. This is giving me fresh view of themes from the whole Bible as I study and outline chapter by chapter, but it also builds a useful tool for later study and teaching. Thank you so much for sharing, brother!
IT IS NOT BRAGGING BROTHER , IT IS WHEN SOMEONE LOVES LORD AND GOD CHRIST JESUS .. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMELY BROTHER
I like this idea. It reminds me of when I was in Bible College, one of my professors would have us do chapter summaries (3-5 sentences per chapter) and I always felt that it would be a good thing to do for the entire Bible. Might go ahead and do that this year.
I started reading the Bible everyday in 2020 and for the most part I’ve kept it up regularly until 2023, when I did it every day without fail and finished reading a Bible in a year plan a little early. I committed to doing it again starting on January 1st following the chronological Bible Recap plan, but I couldn’t wait so I started it already. I also do some scripture writing and studying books as well. This is an excellent idea and I’m going to seriously consider doing as part of my 2024 Bible study. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Props to you brother! That is very inspiring to stay in the word like that.
Thank you Brother, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you for your videos! Your humility is also inspiring 🙏👍
This is wonderful. I've been making my own Bible Reading Plans that I follow in the mornings. Yet, I use your "Every Chapter in the Bible" Check Sheet to keep track of my Bible Reading Plan. Currently, I read 5 chapters per day - 3 OT chapters, 1 NT chapter and 1 Psalm/Proverb. When I complete this cycle, I will make a different Bible Reading Plan. I, too, change it up, which helps keep it interesting. Thank you for the "'Every Chapter in the Bible' Check Sheet © Matthew Everhard 2016."
I appreciate this idea. Great plan! You are not bragging! This is inspiring!
I love this idea. Have been thinking about what and how I’d like to study this upcoming year. I’m going to add this. Thanks for the share!
Ooh great idea! Will get that notebook on order, thanks 👍
Love it, Bro. Matt. I think this is a great idea! I think it’s just as important to understand the big picture of each book as it is to delve into the minutiae.
Great video! I've done this in the past and it was a HUGE help in absorbing more of the Bible than I would have by reading alone.
A great idea. I appreciate the importance you put on reading God's Word.
This video has excited me. I am going to start this in January! Thank you Matthew! God Bless!
Great Idea! Thank you! And thanks for the encouragement! 🎄
Pastor Matt, this is an extremely helpful video, especially for those such as myself preparing for licensure and ordination in the PCA. I really appreciate the help and thoughtfulness of your videos!
I like that idea with making an outline chapter book of each individual books of the bible. Thank you for sharing.
This sir, is brilliant! Such a great encouragement. God bless you.
I thank God for leading me to this Channel. It has been of great help to me.
What you did was awesome and inspiring!!!! Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for the idea and insight on PCA testing! I am often amazed at folks who can recall scripture (and in context) specifically by author, book, and chapter. This (practice) will definitely help! #SoliDeoGloria!
Great ideas. I’m going to do this on my iPad in my favorite notes app (Good Notes) where I can draw pictures, use color, and more.
This is great. Good work brother. I’ve often considered doing something like a cliff notes of the prophets myself. May our lord bless you.
Hi Matthew!! I watched your video last night and have to say I´m impressed and you really gave me some inspiration. So, I have been struggling reading the Bible daily. I started theology studies in the Open University of Helsinki a couple of weeks ago so haven´t really had the time to read. Or so I say to myself. But that is an excuse and I really have to correct this.
And about the timeline. I most definitely am going to make that one too!! I am going to start from the New Testament and I will make first a summary of every chapter and after I have finished a book, I will make the same kind of a two page outline as you showed.
I have been studying and reading the Bible for 6 years now and I live for it!! My dream is to become a youth pastor in my later years, I have been retired for 10 years now, I´m 46 years old and have really been doing nothing. Now my life has a purpose, a new beginning.
Love your videos, blessings, Kirsi
Amazing! I love your diligence in the Word! I love how organize your note taking is.
For the books of Psalms; I would’ve broke it down per book within the psalms, so 5 total. But I like that how you kept it very practical and simple.
I don’t know about a humble brag, but it’s an inspiration and surely a powerful witness too! I like this idea, and just might give it a shot! Merry Christmas to you, your family, and your church!
I’m a candidate for internship - and this is something I’d find super helpful! I’d love to see this in the coming year! Thanks so much for your content, brother! Blessings to you!
Well I too have to chime in here and say that is this is bragging then brag away. This is one of the best ideas I have ever seen and I plan to try and implement this into my reading plan this year. When I first saw the title, I thought you were nuts, and then I saw the two page spread and thought you were a genius. What an inspiration!
Thank you for your dedication to God's Word. Thank you, also, for having a shepherd's heart, even toward nameless/faceless strangers on the internet.
Thank you for this encouraging video! I’m going to attempt something similar! Awesome idea.
I love this. Will personally take this as fuel for 2024! 🔥🔥🔥
Love your idea! I definitely want to try this out myself, and I think a layout like this would also be very beneficial for the major and minor prophets. It’ll be interesting to see what you do with larger books like Isaiah and Jeremiah, and how they compare to some of the shorter minor prophets like Habakkuk, Micah, or Malachi. I think it is very helpful for those who want to teach verse by verse through the Bible. One day I hope to lead a Bible study over the messages of the minor prophets, and something like this will be very helpful ❤
Thanks, Pastor Matt! I have my notebook set up and I will outline the Bible as I read through again this year!
Thank you for your content and encouragement to delight God’s Word (Psalm 1:1-2) throughout this pilgrim life. Look forward to your content in 2024!
Excellent idea. Thanks for sharing. I might do this too!
You are leading. You are a pastor- we all need to do this- reminds me of Sinclair Ferguson. Good for you- AND your congregation! Keep it up!🔥
This is most helpful and encouraging. It provides structure and summary outlines are useful. I have started to work with chapter headings of books but this helps me go further. Teaching of this kind is of much value to Christians seeking the pure milk of God's Word. Thank you Matthew!
Thank you! This is helpful to me, trying to get much deeper into the word, especially as we enter a new year.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven". (Matthew 5:16 NKJV)
Fantastic idea. I wondered how you would deal with Psalms. I'm working on another project now, but plan on preparing to take advantage of this suggestion ASAP.
Engaging in this approach serves as a remarkably inventive method to sustain one's discipline in Bible reading. It fosters a heightened sense of intentionality and purpose, particularly valuable for individuals with a longstanding practice of engaging with the Scriptures over the years.
I’ve been wanting to do this, so thank you! I recently started a series of Bible notes in 66 composition books. Maybe this will serve as Book 0. More planning to do in 3 days before January 1. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you Pastor Matthew! I’ve read the Bible through every year for many years now and can finish verses when someone quotes them BUT I can’t remember where it is located most of the time. I think reading can cause your mind to make things run together if you don’t write it down. This sounds helpful for that problem.
I did what MacArthur recommended and read for 30 days straight the first 8 chapters of John and it helped a lot to remember the theme of each chapter. It’s empowering to know where to go when you need to reference something. Blessed New Year to all here on this channel and thread🙏✝️
I started outlining the Bible. I start then stop. This is inspiring.
I think it's a beautiful. I'm envious in a good way - kicking myself for wasting time, but realizing this isn't my source of righteousness. I honor you for setting a great example. May the love of the Lord and His Word overpower me!
I love this! I’m in.
You could use that little space left in the corner to record the key verses of each book.
Oh man, I am from Ohio, about 20 minutes away from Camp CARL and can envision nearly completely what had happened the last time you did not read your bible. Encouraging video!
Great idea, thank you Matthew. I've taken a few ideas from your various videos to strengthen my way of structuring Bible study and, more importantly, to strengthen my soul by way of these disciplines. I have struggled with outlines in the past whether trying to use the Inductive Bible Study by Precept Ministry as others who have posted below. It has been uncomfortable for me to 'compare' my outlines with what the translators of whatever Bible I'm using might outline. At any rate, I'm going to pick up the XXL Moleskine you recommended because I, too, like the concept of viewing the entire Bible book at one glance. An excellent idea.
Thank you for posting! You are giving inspiration for being consistently in the Word. I noticed the comment on Reformed Theology. I struggle with the fact that with so many intelligent, well educated Pastors and Teachers of the Word that there are many schools of thought about Theology from the same Book. I do trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior but I have yet to label myself as Reformed or otherwise. I say that not to attempt to criticized anyone's beliefs. Just stating my own lack of conviction to one Theological worldview.
Definitely not bragging. A wonderful idea for 2024
No need to worry about bragging. Bragging is only bad when doing so to people who know you. We are strangers so you are just telling us what you did or do for edification. Bragging is about making yourself look better than those around you. Friends, family, & neighbors can be negatively affected by bragging or have a negative view of you for doing so. Strangers are outside of you circle of influence so would never be affected by bragging.
BTW I have just recently started doing the same thing so this video is good timing for me. Makes me feel like I am on the right track and you are giving me more ideas that I can use with my outlining.
I have lost track of just how many times I have read through the Bible but I'd say it is more than 10. If I were to add to what you say here, it would be for people to first read the Bible through several times. It took me until after the 3rd time reading it in its entirety before I started getting a good feel of the layout of Scripture. Where things are located and how connect and timelines and other things become more clear the more you read. I think that would help in outlining as you would have a better understanding of how to build your outline. For example, I am doing a theme based outline based on God's Salvation Plan only. So I may not include all the details outside of that scope. You may like to do one with the scope of Historical theme or a Prophetic theme.
That is amazing. I wish I had the discipline.
The out of print HCSB Lightspeed Bible has a similar idea behind it. It was a Bible that was made for speed reading. It had several levels of bolding in the text. By scanning through it at “light speed” you get the helicopter view. Mine is falling apart, but I think it’s a worthy concept
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Very inspiring. Summarizing information is a challenge to me because I follow rules in terms of my job. There is a pattern for troubleshooting equipment and there is no ‘rule’ for summarizing. A summary can be different for each person reading because we notice different things. This challenges me to try it again. And just be free with how i summarize passages.
Very helpful
Use the small space at the bottom of each book to write the verse that summarizes each book the best!
"You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."
I respect you a lot and enjoyed this video. You might like to check out the New Inductive Study Bible. We used to do this in Precept studies and it was interesting to see our outlines at the end of the book. Precepts is a program from Kay Arthur. I thought it was difficult to come up with a short sentence synopsis for the chapters…especially the lengthy ones. Thanks for sharing this. Very cool! 🙂
I agree about the value of outlining, of seeing scripture in its big picture context. Seeing and appreciating the context is so helpful for better understanding. But I disagree about using a manual notebook. Better, IMO, is doing it on a computer document so you can easily revise, update, insert, copy, add to. I use a Google Doc with a Chromebook at my side because it quickly starts up. But you could also use Word doc. I also agree about ESV headings - they are very good, and consistent across ESV editions.
This I awesome!
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I think this a great idea. But I will also say that the Westerminister PCA Presbytery is not as strict as you mention here. They actually ordain a man to preach who had admitted he has not read the complete bible.
Love this idea. Thanks for sharing.
Definitely taking this and using it for my Bible Reading Plan to read through the Bible in 100 days.
Now to get a journal
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Thank you for your content. For someone who is just beginning serious study of the Word, is it better to go quickly and this get thru the Bible in a year or go in depth and this way slower? Or are there different ways for different purposes?
When I was saved I gorged on the Word, but many things got by me (doctrine of grace). Being in a non denominational church compounded that.
I want to try to do things wisely now 😊
I would spend a focused time on the pentateuch (That's my plan for this year.-I'm a layperson who's taken seminary classes off and on for years.(RTS - some for credit/some audit). I still feel that if I could really get a good foundation through the Torah, the rest will come together organically. Don't forget to get a study bible that includes cultural backgrounds- eg Cultural Background Study Bible or Archeology Study Bible- some of the contributors may be not be believers but you are trying to read the bible (Torah) in ITS cultural context and that's vital to understand how the original hearers would have understood it) Always keep in the New Testament as well but I'm sure you have spent much time in these already. Bless you brother- I've also prayed that the Lord would send someone to really disciple you.
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Have you encountered the Companion Bible by E.W. Bullinger? He uses outlines to aid the understanding of the scriptures. While his outlines aren't the same as what you've presented here, I'm sure you you would get some use from them. BTW, your handwriting is a lot better than mine.
Still waiting on a video on your favorite theologian postmillennialism view and the application's
Not to be mean,but u look like that guy from Arthur’s Christma,love the videos
Have you ever thought of sharing the insight on the scriptures that you’ve gained after studying it so diligently over the years? Perhaps a Bible commentary? No pressure, but I’d love to read that. God bless.
all my sermons! ha ha... lol. maybe one day but too many thin spots to do a whole bible commentary.
@@MatthewEverhard haha true, I maybe didn’t word that the best way. Thanks for another encouraging video, I think I might try to write an outline of the Bible as I read through it this coming year like you suggested.
Is there a particular Bible reading plan that you’ve found to be the most helpful?
@@MatthewEverhard you could easily do some commentaries converted from your sermons. Like the RC Sproul commentaries. I really love your preaching. When I say easily I don't mean it would necessarily be easy but that the foundation is layed by your sermons.
@@MatthewEverhardhi Matthew, there is a even more thorough way to get to know the bible and who God is and that is to imagine that where God's name Jehovah has been removed and replaced with lord or something similar, his holy name brings the bible to life!
If it's "bragging" to say you are so "hungry" and "desperate" for the Word of God that you can't live even a single day without fail (for the last 25 years) without feeding your soul on the Word of God, then I hope more and more people (myself included) will begin to "brag" in the same way you have been "bragging" too. 😊
Yeah that’s great. I read the Bible through most years and I usually pick a Ligonier I’ll Bible reading plan and usually I do it the kind of neurological that’s in order but this year I’m doing this one it breaks up the Bible and seven different parts and we’ll see how that goes question I go to Southern Baptist Church thinking about leaving that church to go to a PCA church across the street or so only reason why our pastor was solid is can be he got promoted to be like a pastor of pastors and I’m not sure who we’re gonna get and I’m just thinking it’s I’ve been thinking about this for a long time and, most of my heroes have always been Presbyterian and is stuff I should be reading ahead of time. You got any information any stuff for me, that would be
I am wanting to do a full chronological read through in 2024. Do you know of a good list of the order, like where psalms for example fit in with chapters in other books, for example.
Look into The Bible Recap.
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Off topic, but do you have an update on your Jonathan Edwards NKJV project?
I am planning an update in my last 2023 video... here it is: we are done with the notes and moving on to the essays and articles next.
Could you go more in to calvanism predestination? I'm really struggling with this as a new Christian. It kind if makes me feel like I have no say in my salvation through christ regardless of my actions. Is this true or am I misunderstanding? Or over analyzing this? It goes against what I understand the concept of christ dieing for my sin is and more like he just died for certain people. Thanks for any input. And I appreciate your work.
There is a lot in your comments here! I'll do my best to answer them all, starting with the last thing you noted: "It goes against what I understand the concept of Christ dying for my sin is and more like He just died for certain people." As I am sure you already know, John 3:16 teaches that salvation is open to "whosoever believes in Jesus Christ". And this is true. Anyone who chooses to believe in Jesus will be saved. However, when you read John 3:16 in the original koine Greek, it actually reads that Jesus Christ died for "those who are believing on Him." Not whosoever will. If Jesus died for each and every person then we are faced with a dilemma, because not everyone goes to heaven, which means not everyone is saved. So either Christ's death was insufficient to atone for the sins for everyone (which would mean His death us really useless, and He is not the Messiah), or, He simply did not die for every single person. According to Rev.21:27, the only ones who will enter heaven, the only ones who are saved, are those whose name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life; and Rev.13:8 & 17:8 indicate that our names were written there before the foundation of the world! In fact, Ephesians 1:3-6,11-12 specifically states, "He [God the Father] chose us [believers] in Him [Jesus] BEFORE the foundation of the world" (v4). The Apostles goes on to explain that this was done as part of God's "predestining us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will... and according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will." So in answer to what I think is your primary question, yes, God determined who would be saved, and He determined this before the world was even created. Now then, did you have any say in your salvation? Yes, and no. Since God is completely sovereign over all His creation, and works ALL things according to the counsel of His will, it is God who determined that you would be saved. However, God has given you free will, and this is where it gets a little tricky. While you have free will, you do not have the freedom to act outside of your nature. For example, you cannot flap your arms and fly like a bird because even if you want to, unassisted self-flight is not part of your nature. Unfortunately, choosing salvation in Jesus Christ is also not part of your nature. Romans 3:10-18 tells us that no one, not one single person left to themselves will seek God. Why? Because there is not one single righteous person in all the Earth. It's just not in their nature to be righteous. Therefore, God must first regenerate us, which is say, change our nature, so that we will choose Him. And when He changes our nature our eyes are opened to the wonderful gift of His free grace, and it is as irresistible to us as a glass of water is to a man dying of thirst in the desert! We could turn down His grace just as we could turn down that glass of water. But, would we? Never! So you see, the answer to your question is both yes and no. It is God who determines who will be saved, and we have the responsibility to come to Him for salvation. Our coming to Him for salvation really contributes nothing to our salvation, because He doesn't owe us salvation. Salvation is a free gift from God that He offers to us, and enables us to accept that free gift. So ultimately, salvation is all of God, and God alone. That should draw us into a deeper understanding of the grace that God has shown to us, and we should respond with unhesitating love and gratitude for God. He chose us before the foundation of the world, when the only thing we deserved was His wrath. I hope this helps Cliff. God bless you brother!
I appreciate your response above; have been reformed for all but the beginning of my christian life. Have always thought things were very clear once the "lightbulb" went on. Lately I've been struggling because there are a couple of things I still can't get a handle on- I still don't understand how God ( for example when he's speaking with Cain-"Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it') or the Lord when he says to Israel- :"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!" to name a few examples- God is really is speaking as if they could repent. Not trying to be a contrarian- I just don't know how to answer these- maybe you have it clearer in your head? I'd truly appreciate a response-thanks@@JustaSlaveofChrist
@@masterprocrastinator7078 , I tend to look at passages such as these lessons on responsibility. Yes, they actually happened, and in just the way the Bible depicts them. But, they are lessons nonetheless for all who have come after. As you know, Yahweh God is, among other things, our Sovereign Creator and King, and not just for believers, but for everyone. We are all required to obey God. One of the things we are all to obey Him about is to not sin. When God spoke to Cain, He is reminding him of his responsibility to not sin. It’s as simple as that. It is also a lesson for us to not sin. As John Owen put it, “Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you!” Cain did not heed the Lord’s instruction, and look what happened to him. Cast out from the presence of the Lord. The same will happen to all those who embrace sin as Cain did.
With Jesus’ words in Matthew 23:37-38, again the Lord is reminding all of us to not sin. Could they have repented? The opportunity to repent was always there before them, but what does Jesus say? “you were unwilling.” This was a persistent sin among the nation of Israel from the time the Lord took them out of Egypt. They would do well and obey God for a time, then dive headlong into sin. They should have taken heed to what God said to Cain! But they didn’t, and it wasn’t until they realized their sin and turned back to God that He healed them. The Old Testament is replete with these events, and when they were about to crucify Jesus within a weeks time, as He was entering into Jerusalem He gave a one sentence summary of Israel’s history: “Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.” And just as happened every single time Israel did this and was unwilling to repent, Jesus tells them in verse 38, “Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!” Judgment! Again, yes this happened just as Scripture depicts it happening, but it is also a lesson to us to not sin, lest we enter into judgment just as Israel did, and just as Cain did.
This is my understanding of these two passages, and other similar passages, and this is how I have always viewed them. I hope this is helpful. God Bless!
I like challenges
May I get your outlines if possible.
The point is to make your own because that will cement things in your mind. It won't do that if it's someone else's.
Camp Carl in Ohio?
You should have broken the Psalms into its 5 books
Not bragging in the slightest pastor
HUMBLE BROTHER ON LORD AND GOD CHRIST JESUS ,,,
I have just discovered your channel and really enjoying your videos.
I love the idea of outlining.
I am working my way through Isaiah at the moment. For several years I have worked my way through books of the NT and rather neglected the OT.
I have been reading Isaiah with the help of summaries on You Tube, but it makes sense to do my own outline.
Please keep posting your videos.