Bible 805

When God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, they met God at Mt. Sinai and there God not only gave them the 10 Commandments and His other laws for how to live, but He offered them a covenant, an agreement with Him that if they would obey and follow His commands, they would be His people, His treasured possession who He would bless. He also told them that if they did not follow His laws and wor...

Just before Hosea appears, God sent the prophet Amos to condemn the sins of Israel. Amos preached forceful, harsh messages for about 3 years. With Hosea God gives his people a similar message that they have violated his covenant and judgment is coming, but in a very different way. In Hosea, his overall message is of God’s incredible love for His people, no matter how badly they treated him. The bo...

Reading the prophets can be confusing and to help, and Bible805 did a preliminary lesson to help you understand them, CLICK HERE to go to it. As I was preparing this section on the prophets, especially as you start to read Isaiah, I realized that an explanation of two more things are very important to keep in mind as we study the prophets as we go through the Bible. They are: The prophet’s expansi...

The prophet Amos and his message has captivated preachers, reformers, and Christian leaders from the earliest days it was preached until today, particularly with its emphasis on justice. Martin Luther King used it in his I Have a Dream speech where he quoted the verse “Let justice roll down…” from Amos 5:24. And in June 2023 Pope Francis chose “Let justice and peace flow” (citing the book of Amos)...

We all know about the fish swallowing Jonah, but there is more in the book including the answers to these questions: What about people who haven’t heard the gospel if Jesus is the only way to God What do we do about bad people, or when people treat us badly? What does God expect from us as His followers? How should we respond to continuing trials? Answers to these questions and other elated applic...

When people think of the Old Testament prophets, most often two areas come to mind: First, most people think of the prophecies of Jesus’ coming, and though that is important and a significant validation of the truth of the Christian faith, only 2% of prophecies are about the coming of Jesus. Second, many think of the Old Testament prophets as a group of angry old guys railing against evil and the...

After studying the life of David, we couldn’t have a greater contrast between his life as a man “after God’s own heart,” than what we find in his son Solomon. This lesson will show you the solid foundation of Biblical instruction he had, how he started well, but progressively deteriorated into self-indulgent sins that destroyed not only his life but split his nation and condemned it to continual w...

The Bible calls David, a man “after God’s own heart.” Thisphrase is part of a sermon of Paul’s in the NT Acts 13:22—where he is talking about the history of Israel, and Paul says, “After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’” It’s a goal I think we’d like to describ...

Have you recently had someone say to you, “You aren’t listening to me?” Most of us have. Maybe we weren’t paying attention, or maybe we didn’t want to hear what we knew someone was going to say. Whatever the reason, not listening can get us into a lot of trouble. The trouble is especially serious if we aren’t listening to God. If we aren’t hearing what He has to say to us. First, in this lesson, w...

There is a popular song that boasts “I did it my way!” Though it sounds appealing, is this really the best way to live? We’re going to look at around 400 years of history when an entire nation decided to do it their way in this podcast. From our earliest days, we want to do things our way; we don’t want anyone else to tell us what to do. Though we may appear to go along with rules as we get older,...

What is the purpose of the stories in the Bible? If someone does something that seems a bit odd, like Gideon setting out a fleece to determine God’s will or the Children of Israel walking around the walls of Jericho to conquer it— Does that mean I should do similar things to please God? We’ll answer these questions and more in this lesson on How to Correctly Understand & Apply Bible Stories &a...

If you are having a hard time in your Christian life, this lesson will teach you 9 lessons on how to fight and win, and the first step to winning the battles of life is to realize you are in a battle! Many Christians today are surprised when bad things happen because they thought it was going to be easy and an unending series of blessings when they became a Christian. But the reality is very diffe...

In the book of Deuteronomy, the last of the five books of Moses that make up the Pentateuch, Moses preaches a final series of sermons to the people about to enter the Promised Land. There is a lot to talk about, but in this lesson, we’ll discuss three areas: 1. How we should love 2.How we should give 3.How we should define ourselves and how it influences all we do A few thoughts from the lesson in...

We’re in the book of Numbers as we read through the Bible and it is a pivotal book we can learn from, not only in what happened to the Children of Israel in this book but also what we can learn from it on how to deal with challenging situations. Ray Steadman said about Numbers: “If you read the Old Testament as nothing but a history of ancient events concerning people who have long since disappear...

Every sport, hobby, or special interest has insider terms and history and the more you know the back story of them the more you’ll understand and enjoy the activity. The Bible is no different—the more you understand the foundational items in the first 5 books of the Bible, what we call the Pentateuch, the more the rest of the Bible will make sense. This is especially true in what you’ll see about...

When most people get into the books of Old Testament Law, especially in Leviticus and Numbers, with all the odd and obscure laws and regulations, they bail out. And why shouldn’t they? What do these laws and regulations have to do with us today? We will answer all these questions and more in this lesson as we consider the importance of the messages in them and deal honestly with the reality that a...

Have you ever felt stuck, trapped, not where you want to be or expected you’d be at this time in your life? The last few years for many have been times of lockdowns, isolation, disruptions of all sorts. Current challenges aside, at any time of life we can become trapped, emotionally, physically, or spiritually. The book of Exodus and the life of Moses can encourage, inspire, and give us freedom an...

With this week’s lesson we move from studying one person’s life, Abraham, to how God transforms his people into the nation of Israel, who God will use as His representatives on earth, the ones who will write His Word, demonstrate His worship, and eventually be the family that bears the Savior of the world, Jesus. The Patriarchs of this family, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, along with Joseph had a hug...

In Genesis, with the life of Abraham, we have a big shift, where God moves from working with all of humanity to a focus on ONE man, who will become the founder of the Jewish nation. Ultimately three major religions in our world today claim him as their founder: the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions. As such, he is held in great veneration by all and in Christianity referred to as one of the...

One of the great answers we discovered the first video of this series is the assurance that Life after death is a great promise to those who believe in Jesus. Yet that assurance brings up another question that we will answer in this lesson which is: “What about those who have never heard of Jesus?” We have two more questions in this series,  “Why do innocent people suffer?” And along with tha...

With this lesson we start the adventure of reading through the Bible in Chronological Order. It begins by reading Genesis and three days into it, we jump to the book of Job. We will talk about why we read these two books together and you’ll see how Genesis and Job lay the foundation for much of what we will read in the rest of the Bible by starting out with answers to the Big Questions of life— •...

I truly believe that getting to know your Bible well by reading it in Chronological Order is THE MOST important thing you can do in the coming year and every year, not only for yourself, but for those you care for in your small groups, classes, or other ministry groups. However, even though I feel deeply about this and have created many resources for it, I realized I hadn’t been very clear on exac...

We need a GPS, a global positioning system to help us live a life that pleases God. A GPS in our car or phone can give us directions because it is linked to a system of satellites orbiting the earth that can pinpoint where we are within 1 centimeter of accuracy. We might be lost or not know how to get from place to place where we are on earth. But a GPS system, far above us, can see the big pictur...

We may not think of Psalms as a book of the Bible about discipleship, but in reality, it is one of the most instructive books in the Bible to help us follow Jesus in all areas of life, which is the essence of being a disciple. Dallas Willard described discipleship in this way, We need to be clear in our heads about what discipleship is. My definition: A disciple is a person who has decided that th...

On the Bible805 Bible Reading Schedule we are going through the Bible in Chronological order. You’ll notice that along with the longer passage each day is a Psalm or a chapter in Proverbs. In this short lesson, I’d like to take a few minutes to explain why we’re doing this. I’ll first explain how we are organizing the books of history and the prophets, and then why these books are different than t...