Comments on: Breathing New Life Into Your Scripture Study http://ponderpaths.com/2007/03/18/breathing-new-life-into-your-scripture-study/ Collectively Considering with Scripture as our Rubric Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nanette http://ponderpaths.com/2007/03/18/breathing-new-life-into-your-scripture-study/#comment-206 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:07:11 +0000 http://ponderpaths.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/breathing-new-life-into-your-scripture-study/#comment-206 Thanks for this outline, Bari. You probably noted the difference in the Lord’s Prayer leaving off that last line. See the notes on GD Lesson #9 about this. Also, it’s interesting that the BofM account includes this as well as all the other aspects w/o the JST found in Matt. Why? This is worth collectively considering.

]]> By: Bari http://ponderpaths.com/2007/03/18/breathing-new-life-into-your-scripture-study/#comment-189 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:58:42 +0000 http://ponderpaths.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/breathing-new-life-into-your-scripture-study/#comment-189 I have a parallel bible which has the KJV plus 3 others side by side. It’s real useful to me to give me words to discuss things at a different level
and my 12 year old grandson uses even a different version to help him. Once he has learned the story he is more able to go back to the KJV and understand it. Other versions miss the poetry of the KJV to my taste though.

Lately I have been reading the Sermon on the Mount for its form as a sermon. I figure if it was an important enough sermon to be given at least 3 times – on the mount, on the plain, and in the new world – and was given by a master teacher, the form might be important. Basically I am seeing it this way:
Instant Involvement – The beatitudes – blessings
promised to us personally as we reach for and
develop certain spiritual character traits.
Specific Instruction
Be an example
Teach others
Live the higher law
BE like Heavely Father – perfect
Interlude – How to pray – gives us confidence that
we can get help with the difficult tasks Jesus
asks.
Additional instruction on matters of attitude
forgive to be forgiven
put on a happy face
your treasures
Some warnings against judging
against expecting others to value
what you have
against false prophets
against talking the talk but not
walking the walk
Another interlude to calm our fears – Father/God
analogy
Conclusion – House on a Rock analogy – motivates
by telling us in another way what we will get if
we follow Him.

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