How To Study the Bible for Beginners | Tips, Tricks and Demo!
so today I'm going to talk about how I study the Bible I get this question a
lot on this channel and so basically every single video I do it's not planned
I have tried to plan videos before and whenever I try to film a video a Bible
study that I've already planned out it just doesn't come out right and so all
but maybe one or two videos on this channel so far have just been me sitting
down to study my Bible so if you've watched any of those videos and that's
basically you know what I do to study my Bible but just in case you want a little
bit more clarity I'll just walk you through the steps on how I do it so
first I just want to let you know that there is no right or wrong way to study
your Bible as long as you're going into God's Word and you you want to learn
with an open heart and you want to know more about you know what the word says
for your life and God will reveal that to you and the more you read the word
the more that you will memorize it in no way so today I'll just show you how I'll
be studying the this scripture right here is first Timothy chapter 1 verses
15 through 16 so what I start off doing is I write the date and then I will
write a header and I guess I will title this humility so if I wanted to study on
a topic so being humble I would probably go on the internet and I would just
search on Google Scriptures on humility or scriptures about being humble or
something to that extent and then a bunch of scriptures will come up and
I'll just pick a couple or how many ever I want and I would just study that so
today I actually did it the opposite way I read this scripture and I thought hmmm
I kind of want to study that a little bit more so I just quickly wrote it down
it was just first Timothy chapter 1 verses 15 through 16 it says here is a
trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners of whom I am the worst so that's what I'll start off
doing I'll just read the scripture for what it is and then what I do is I pick
it apart so here I literally will go word for word and I'll try to pick it
apart in my brain here is a trustworthy and I had one person
comment and they asked if I look up words that I don't know and I do so if
there's ever word that I don't understand or if there's a word that I
don't know the definition of I will look up the meaning so even the word
trustworthy I know what trustworthy means but it's always good to just get
other words to see what this word also means so I'm just going to Google that
real quick so some words that came up in my google search are reliable dependable
honest true but I will just write that down and I'll go back and try to insert
it so God is trying to emphasize that this saying this scripture is true it's
reliable it's foolproof it's always correct it says that this saying
deserves full acceptance whenever I see words that are measurable
amounts in the Bible I try to take that into account so for example full or most
least and so the word full here is something that I take note of as well so
here is a trustworthy saying and then I can look back at these words that
deserves full acceptance so we have to take this scripture into consideration
at all times it's always correct and we need to
accept the whole thing into our heart so whatever saying that you know God is
about to tell us we need to consider it highly and just accept it Christ came
into the world to save sinners of whom I am the worst so the scripture is saying
that Jesus came to save us I am the worst of them all and so if this is a
saying that is always true and it deserves full acceptance into our hearts
that we are the you know each one of us we should consider ourselves the worst
of the sinners what this is I try to think about what it's trying to tell me
what the scripture is trying to tell me what I feel like the scripture is saying
is we shouldn't be looking around at what anyone else is doing and how they
are living their lives for Christ we need to focus on our sin and how we can
improve that in our lives instead of judging others or looking at what
everyone is doing and you know thinking that
they're not doing enough which we all know that you know Jesus we can whatever
we do is never enough and that's why Jesus died but we should all rely on
this statement that and have it in our hearts that Jesus came to save me to
save the sinners of whom I am the worst so the scripture is not saying that you
know we are all bad people it's just saying I think to make sure that we keep
our eyes fixed on our own walk with Christ and growing and changing in order
to become more like him instead of looking around and maybe pointing out
and judging what other people's faults are and then another thing I like to do
as well is sometimes you can pick out a scripture and study it and think it
means one thing but then when you read the scriptures that become either before
or after or one or the other or both then it kind of gives you a little bit
more context and it helps you to realize what the first can really mean so first
sixteen it says but actually I'm gonna write first sixteen out first sixteen
says but for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me the worst of
sinners Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those
who would believe in him and receive eternal life so I know that I said
before that whenever I see a measurable word in the scripture I take heart to
that because that's usually something that's really important another word
that I like to take note of as well are pivotal words so pivotal words are also
important in Scripture and some pivotal words can include the word but therefore
or even the word still so those words usually mean that there's something in
the scripture that is gonna change the context a little bit and it's something
that I usually like to pay attention to so but for that very reason the reason
that we are all sinners for whom I am the worst I was shown mercy so that in
me the worst of sinners Jesus might display his immense patience as an
example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life so the fact
that we are all sinners and I am the worst center of all people who
don't know Christ can see that and they can see that Jesus is still patient with
us and it's an example for those to come to him and to also receive him and to
give their life to Christ so the scripture gives me hope because it's
saying even though I'm a sinner we use the sin in our lives to show others how
patient God is with us and so that they can come to him one important point that
I want to make is that when I'm reading the scripture I read very slowly when
you're watching these videos of me studying the Bible a lot is cut out and
that's because sometimes I'll read the scripture over and over and I'll just
sit and I'll just think about it and you know of course I'm not gonna put that in
the video but I do that I don't just read it and then keep going really
quickly so it's okay to take your time and it's okay to go slow even if that
means reading it over and over until it kind of clicks in my brain the more you
study the Bible the more you will know the Bible's if you feel like you don't
know much to begin with that's okay you'll learn it as time goes on Google
is a really good resource so if I want to top study a topic on love or humility
I can google scriptures on love scriptures on humility and those
scriptures will come up but also find out part of a scripture so for example
if I only know seek first the kingdom of God and I'm like what Scripture is that
I can just type in on Google that small phrase of the scripture and the whole
scripture will probably come up seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all these things will be added on to you
Matthew 6:33 so even if you know a few words of the scripture google on google
it and google will help you find that scripture you're trying to think of
another thing is I have the Bible app on my phone and it has a verse of the day
so a lot of the times I'll just study the verse of the day because they're
usually pretty interesting and I want to know more about it sometimes I just go
through the Bible so I'll start at the book of Genesis and I'll just take notes
just so like I know the content of the Bible I'll look at the different stories
and the different people in the Bible and their walk with God it helps to see
other people's journey with God in the Bible and sometimes it gives us examples
for how we should lead our as well maybe I'll do that again maybe
I'll do a series where I'll just go through the Bible and we'll just study
it together just to know the content and the stories of the Bible I think they'll
be pretty interesting thank you as always for watching and I hope this was
helpful and was clear if you have any questions please let me know in a
comment and I'll talk to you next time bye