Episode 3.05: Study from History
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Join Angela as she explores how to learn from the history in the Bible.
When you have questions about something you read in one place you can go find where it was discussed elsewhere in scripture to start mining for answers. God offers His own commentary to show you how to live His will out in your life in the day to day type of living. Explore examples from the book of Hebrews, Genesis, and 1 Peter to start learning how you can come to understand more by spending a little time learning from the history in the Bible.
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S3 Ep 5 Study from History
[00:00:00] Angela: Hello! Welcome back to the diligent woman podcast. We are in season three, learning to be confident that we may understand God’s will for us because he has told us to understand it.
[00:00:18] And as we go through this season, we are looking at ways that we can improve our skills to understand God’s word. So that we’re not finding ourselves stressed or uncertain because we feel like we have to rely on other people to make things clear. Sometimes you might have questions that you need to go discuss with someone else who is a believer, who you trust. Who can help to guide you? But God has said that you can understand what his will is and he has given it to you in writing
[00:00:53] so that that can be done and it is how the message is learned. [00:01:00] You can have somebody come and teach you. But as we learned about those in Berea, you have to be able to check it. Well, you need to be able to know how to check it. So this week
[00:01:12] we’re going to look at the idea of approaching the scriptures and. Studying from history, for lack of a better term. The apostles in the new Testament when they wanted to teach a concept to their audience they would often quote scripture from the old Testament. Those books that are in that, in that section, that would then make the point for them. Then they added some commentary and then gave a new understanding of those things in light of being on the other side of the cross.
[00:01:47] Well, they would always go back and learn from history.
[00:01:51] And one context that is important for this is the book
[00:01:56] The whole point of the book of [00:02:00] Hebrews is to encourage those who believe in Christ to not give up on believing in Christ and not go back to judaizing ways, not to go back to the old law only, but to remember that Jesus is better. And that’s the whole theme of the book of Hebrews, of how Jesus is better.
[00:02:23] And the author makes the point about Jesus in lots of ways, as a priest, as a king, and about God as our father, all of these, all of these relative concepts of God and Jesus.
[00:02:41] Our author proves those by going back and showing how actually in the old law. It pointed to Jesus now. And he went back and he used history, the history of Israel, what got them into trouble. Why Jesus needed to die in the first [00:03:00] place. Because of Israel’s continued rebellion and that there was a remnant that was saved. But so that all the world could be saved and be God’s people.
[00:03:11] But it’s those who come to understand and accepted Jesus. As he was promised and that this is how you have access to God. And it’s better than the old law that was this dictate of checks and balances and sacrifices, and so many things that it was there it was not something that people kept perfectly.
[00:03:32] So that’s a method of study. It’s given to you in that book as this treatise, proving that Jesus is better. We can do the same thing.
[00:03:45] If we know something to be true. Like, you know, we need to live in a certain way. If you want to go to a context. Where it teaches you that you need to do something. Let’s take first Peter three
[00:03:58] as an example. [00:04:00] Here you have a woman who has given us an example of submission. Just like the slave is shown as an example of submission. Jesus was shown as an example of submission. In a way that we are supposed to deal with one another. In the whole context is how we are supposed to deal with everyone. It’s not just about how you deal with your spouse.
[00:04:28] This is an example of how submitting and being harmonious, what it looks like in all these different relationships. So in first, Peter three. This woman is given with the description.
[00:04:44] In verse four that. Her beauty is not just to be heard adornment. But it’s the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit. Which is precious in the sight of God. [00:05:00] So there’s something that you’re supposed to do. Have a gentle and quiet spirit or meek and quiet spirit in some of the different translations. So, how do you do that?
[00:05:11] Okay,
[00:05:11] I know I’m supposed to do that. What’s that look like? Well, he gives you an example.
[00:05:17] In verse five, Peter says for in this way, in former times, the holy women also who hoped in God, these are women who looked forward. Used to adorn themselves. How did they adorn themselves? Being submissive to their own husbands. Just as Sarah obeyed Abraham. Calling him Lord. And you have become her children
[00:05:38] if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.
[00:05:43] So this gives you a place to start. I want to know what it means to have a gentle and quiet spirit. To be a meek and quiet spirit,
[00:05:55] and he’s given you Sarah, as an example. So you can [00:06:00] go back to the book of Genesis. And read all of the stories that Sarah is a part of.
[00:06:08] Through those stories we see that she had disagreements with her husband.
[00:06:13] We see that she went with him when it was time to move. No comment is given about that, what she thought about moving as far as they did and continuing to be. More mobile rather than, you know, stable in one spot. But when it came to having children. After many, many, many years of stress she got tired of waiting.
[00:06:42] She came up with an idea to try to solve the problem instead of continuing to wait and then it caused problems in their family, with Hagar and Ishmael. And we watch how she dealt with those. Some of those things were good. Some of those things were bad.
[00:06:56] But then she continued to wait. And after 25 [00:07:00] years, she finally gets the promise that God had said for Abraham that he would have a son.
[00:07:07] Took 25 years for that promise to come true for her. But she got exactly what God said that she would, and it created this lineage that came to be exactly what God said. It would be something that blessed all nations because of this lineage that started with Abraham.
[00:07:24] But as we watch Sarah, there’s only one place in scripture where we’re actually see her calling Abraham Lord.
[00:07:32] I don’t see it in, you know, this is a reference that is made. About her. As something to imitate. But she actually uses it
[00:07:44] in a very, its, it’s an offhand. This is a natural thing that she calls him. In Genesis chapter 18.
[00:07:53] This is when the. Strangers have come. And Abraham. [00:08:00] Meets them. And is willing to feed them. He and Sarah together are preparing the food for them. I love that whole idea. I don’t have any idea where. Our world got the idea that it was the women who did all the cooking and the men didn’t, there are so many men in scripture who cook. Both Jacob and Esau Esau supposed to be the manly man.
[00:08:24] And you know, Jacob is not seen in the same way because he stayed at home and tended sheep. It’s not like being a shepherd was an easy job. But both of those men were able to cook.
[00:08:34] They all could do it, so anyway. Here in Genesis 18 we have these men who come in, they come to visit. And Abraham asks if they will come and then he wants to wash their feet and let them rest. And he’ll bring them some bread so they can be refreshed and then they can go on about whatever they’re going to do. And in verse six, he comes to Sarah.
[00:08:58] He hurries into [00:09:00] the tent to Sarah and says quickly prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes. He knows what it takes to make the bread. He tells her to make the bread. And then he also ran to the herd and took a tender and choice calf. And gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it now. He took curds and milk and the calf, which he had prepared and placed it before them. So he cooks the calf. He takes all of that. He takes curds and milk. But Abraham goes and he provides all of this sustenance for these people. And while he is sitting there with them and they’re eating under the tree. They ask, where is Sarah?
[00:09:40] And he says, she’s in the tent.
[00:09:43] And he says. I’m going to come back in a year and behold, Sarah, your wife will have a son.
[00:09:50] A year from now, this man says I’m going to come back and your wife is going to have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent door. And there again, we know [00:10:00] they’re old, she’s past the years of childbearing. And she laughs to herself.
[00:10:06] And she says that in verse 12, “after I have become old. Shall I have pleasure. My Lord being old also.”
[00:10:14] This isn’t a public ceremonial moment where she calls him Lord in the eyes of somebody else. It’s just a generic statement where she is referring to her husband. And she calls him Lord.
[00:10:28] And Peter indicates
[00:10:32] this is how she shows that she was submissive to him, because she had this attitude about him. What can I learn from that? That it’s easy to call him lord. She’s not talking to anybody. She’s thinking in her own mind.
[00:10:50] She is actually thinking comical, but sweet thoughts about she and her husband.
[00:10:57] And she calls him Lord. She [00:11:00] recognizes his authority just in her
[00:11:05] honoring of him and her speech and her thoughts.
[00:11:08] There’s nothing demeaning about it for her this is just, this is who he is.
[00:11:15] So, what can I learn from that?
[00:11:18] The Lord talks to Abraham and says, why did she laugh?
And. Why did she laugh, saying, Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old? He points out is anything too difficult? And at the appointed time I will return. And Sarah will have a son. Sarah comes out and she denies. This is I did not laugh because she was afraid. And he said, no, you did laugh. And that’s the end of it. It’s this little scene that makes a huge impact in their life because a year from now, they’re going to have a son.
[00:11:49] But it’s given to us as an example in the new Testament to go back and look at Sarah to learn how a holy woman behaves in the day to day.
[00:11:58] What’s her attitude [00:12:00] about her husband?
[00:12:02] She lives in submission, acknowledging that he has authority and she’s not fighting it. Which is really the idea of the meek and gentle spirit, the meek and quiet spirit. Meekness is power under control. Jesus was meek.
[00:12:19] I think it’s been described in the past that meekness is like a horse under harness.
[00:12:23] It’s under control, but the power is still there.
[00:12:28] Well, meekness is our self-control or we have control of ourselves. We have power
[00:12:35] but we wield it rightly.
[00:12:38] So a meek and quiet spirit is a woman who has power
[00:12:43] and she has it under control. And she’s a quiet spirit. And it’s not literally quiet. Of the mouth, like to not speaking. It’s quiet of the mind. Because it’s their spirit. It’s your inner person who is quiet. She’s not at war. [00:13:00] She’s not at war with the world. She’s not trying to prove her authority. And even in her, interactions with Abraham.
[00:13:07] If you go back and read,
[00:13:10] even when she makes the suggestion about Hagar. There is nothing in her behavior. That indicates a lack of respect for Abraham. Even when she expresses her frustration when Hagar and Ishmael, when Ishmael’s making fun of. Isaac, when they’re younger and it’s causing Sarah distress.
[00:13:31] And she wants them gone. She comes and she brings the issue to Abraham. But there’s nothing about it. That’s disrespectful. She’s just airing her grievances. Well, what does that tell me as a wife? I, that should be something that is possible. If I am married to a good man. I can be a meek and quiet spirit and disagree.
[00:13:52] I can be a meek and quiet spirit. And have complaints. Because anytime you have an issue about anything, you can come [00:14:00] you can voice a complaint without being a complainer who just has nothing but complaining to do. Because we do have legitimate complaints, things go wrong. Things are not as they should be. She acknowledges that. She has an issue that needs to be dealt with.
[00:14:17] And Abraham’s not sure what to do about it, and God tells him what to do about it.
[00:14:22] But I can see all these things in Sarah. God doesn’t give me a blow by blow account of every moment of Sarah’s life. He gives me these little glimpses. He gives me the glimpses of this woman who goes along, who is beautiful, no matter what our age. In her sixties, if I’m remembering correctly in her sixties a king. I thought she was beautiful and wanted to marry her when he fall asleep, did not understand that she was already married. And then again, in her nineties. She is beautiful and the king wants to marry her.
[00:14:54] Causes trouble because of Abraham’s decisions. But we get these glimpses of [00:15:00] Sarah. So, what can I learn from Sarah? What can you learn from Sarah by going and studying what God has taken the time to show you?
[00:15:09] There’s lots of negative history as well. The adornment is a good example, In first Peter three, it’s talking about this adornment that women are to where it’s not for bidding. You wearing jewelry or pretty close? It’s telling you that your beauty should not be wrapped up in those things. Well, you can go back and read in the prophets. Where Israel got that mixed up. Ezekiel is one. That’s what I’m, I’m currently studying right now.
[00:15:42] Ezekiel has References to how israel had taken all of the gifts that God had given her.
[00:15:51] And then treated it like it was something they had done themselves. They took it as an honor of their own that they had created all of this beauty. And this wealth [00:16:00] themselves, and then they used it to play the harlot with other nations.
[00:16:06] They dressed up and put on all of these beautiful things that God had given them.
[00:16:10] And God says he gave them to them. I gave you these beautiful things.
[00:16:17] But he condemns them for the attitude they have about it because they weren’t beautiful because God blessed us with these beautiful things to add to what he’s already given us in our creation. They took them, like they’ve heard their own glory.
[00:16:33] I can apply that. To how I understand first Peter three or first Timothy two.
[00:16:39] I can go back and study history.
[00:16:42] There are other things in scripture, understanding how God is as a father.
[00:16:49] Hebrews 12 makes references and God assumes that you understand how earthly fathers function. The assumption is that it is a [00:17:00] given. That the loving fathers are going to discipline their children.
[00:17:03] God assumes that mankind understands that as a given. Parents are going to discipline their children because they love them.
[00:17:12] And He says “I’m like that.”
[00:17:14] The only difference is everything God does is for your good, sometimes men are not going to do it right.
[00:17:21] But God says, but. I’m going to do this and it is for your benefit.
[00:17:26] How can I see that? I need to believe that about God. How can I see that play out as God as a loving disciplinarian?
[00:17:34] Well, The entire old Testament is full of that. It takes time for you to go through it.
[00:17:41] Go back and read. And write it out. The story that you come across. Go watch how God dealt with people.
[00:17:52] How long suffering he was with them before they decided they needed him and came with repentance and forgiveness on their [00:18:00] hearts. How long suffering he was in waiting for them. Still giving them everything they needed to come to him. Correcting them when they needed a correction sending. prophets. And others to come tell them what they needed to hear. He gave him the law he gave, he laid it out for them.
[00:18:18] This is what I said would happen. If you did this, this and this, well, they did this, this and this. And then he tells them you could see it in the, in the books of Kings and Chronicles and in the prophets. You can see it where he says, I told you, this is what was going to happen. And you did it anyway.
[00:18:37] But then he always gives him hope.
[00:18:38] This is a thing that has stood out to me in the book of Ezekiel. These last few weeks working through that book. Is God lays out some pretty ugly behavior from the people of Israel. Very ugly things that they did. Especially in regards to worshiping him.
[00:18:55] And he describes it.
[00:18:58] And it is, it is just, it’s [00:19:00] embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for them when I’m reading it. When I’m reading these, these instances where he describes what they did in secret.
[00:19:08] And then what they did in public. It wasn’t just that they did it in secret. They did these things out in front of everyone, turned their back on the altar of God. To worship something else. And that incorporated lots of behavior that was not as it should be the elders of the land, not teaching and abiding by the law and not giving an example and not taking care of. Of the people and making sure that they were right.
[00:19:35] That’s what their job was. And he goes through and he describes all those things, but it’s always comes with. I gave you all of these things. This is how you acted, but then he says, but there’s still going to be a remnant.
[00:19:50] Not everyone is going to survive this, but there will be some, a small group is going to be saved because I will make sure and save them. [00:20:00] Punishment is right. Punishment is righteous in this case. But God loved them enough to want to save some.
[00:20:06] He didn’t want to completely destroy them, which is what they deserved.
[00:20:12] And it shows us how a father. Comes in disciplines does what is necessary. But again, there’s this meekness, there’s this self control because all God has to do. Right. He can wipe us off the map if he wants to, but he doesn’t. He shows self-control he disciplines without breaking.
[00:20:31] He disciplines without destroying everything. And there’s an element of, they saw their discipline. He told you you’re going to lose a lot of stuff. You’re going to lose your towns. You’re going to lose your nation the way that you had it before. Things are going to be destroyed physically.
[00:20:46] But he was a loving father to those people. And you can see that as you walk through scripture. Takes time though. I can tell you this all day long. But as I said earlier in the podcast, [00:21:00] Me telling you is not even the truth for you. Because you need to be like the noble Bereans and go and check what I said. I can get it wrong, but God never does.
[00:21:13] So go and check history. Go back in history, go back into the history of what you’re given that tells you about God.
[00:21:23] He’s given you, these words use them. Open them. Read the Psalms.
[00:21:29] If you want to understand the power of God’s word, go read Psalm 119. Write it out slowly. It’s broken up in lovely little eight verse sections. Perfect. Right. One section per day and see what you learn. About God, about his law and about how it works for you. Well, he wants it to be for you. Look at how he talks about his law in every type of communication that there is. To reach a [00:22:00] person.
[00:22:00] He doesn’t just leave it at commandment. He doesn’t just leave it at law.
[00:22:05] Those words are there, but there’s other words that are attached to his will that he gives to you for you to learn. He’s done all of them to reach you. And David does a glorious job of expressing how powerful that word is in his life when he listens to it.
[00:22:24] If you want to understand how this word is supposed to work so that you don’t feel always at. Odds with trying to obey and knowing the right thing to do. Go build your faith and trust in God’s word.
[00:22:38] Men are going to tell you a lot of stuff about God’s word that may lead you down the wrong path. That includes me.
[00:22:46] It’s not what I want to do, but I can, because I’m fallible.
[00:22:51] The God’s word is always going to be true.
[00:22:54] Trust it. And go back. He’s taken the time to give you that history. [00:23:00] He shows you how he dealt with these people. And through that when you read the new Testament, he says, because I did this for Israel. It’s what’s that’s the whole, again, the book of Hebrews. Is because I did this for Israel. You know, I will do this for you.
[00:23:15] That history teaches you today.
[00:23:19] What it can look like for you with God. What heaven is going to be, because God is all of this.
[00:23:27] Jesus prayed for you when he prayed for all of the disciples, he didn’t just pray for the one standing in front of him. He prayed for those who would come. By the giving of the word through the generations. That’s us.
[00:23:41] He came and he’s on the cross and he removed the divide between the Jews and the Gentiles, and he blessed all nations for most of us.
[00:23:50] That’s us. We’re the Gentiles. Where are the ones you got blessed by that?
[00:23:55] And it’s a very real thing. But only if you truly know it, [00:24:00] To the point that you understand it. And you take it into your heart.
[00:24:05] You can believe what some of these told you about what God has done. But it is so much more to believe it because you believe what God has told you. Everyone else in what they say can go away.
[00:24:18] But you can go look at God’s word and go study in the history.
[00:24:23] How can I open up my book and read the creation account? And see what God can teach me. Not only about creation. What does it teach me about God? That’s one. Work through work through the creation account, Genesis chapters, one through four.
[00:24:39] Read those. First, read them with a mind to God and creating all things. Because that’s the point in the beginning. God.
[00:24:48] Created the heavens in the earth.
[00:24:51] So go read it from that viewpoint. Write it out. Now, come back and read it again.
[00:24:57] What do I learn as a woman? [00:25:00]
[00:25:00] By reading that creation account. What benefit was there for me? What purpose was given to me? What happened with women in those chapters? What can I learn?
[00:25:11] If you’re married, come back to it again.
[00:25:15] What do I learn about being a wife?
[00:25:18] You’re a man, what do I learn about being a husband? From reading that account.
[00:25:23] What does God show me in this interaction with these people? Because it is rare if God only ever gives a singular message. That is not layered. And we’ll get into that in another episode.
[00:25:35] But you can go back in the history. Like we talked last week from where you are today. Last week, we talked about study from where you are.
[00:25:42] What do you need to know today?
[00:25:44] I’m really having a hard time working on the fruit of the spirit and I’m trying to be more loving. And I am having a hard time in this particular case with this person that is hard. How do I learn to be a loving person who has [00:26:00] this fruit of the spirit God’s spirit working through me. In his, because his word teaches me to love other people.
[00:26:09] How do I thrive in that?
[00:26:10] How does that become. Part of the fruit that is born out in me. Well, go back and see what love looked like throughout the ages. It starts with creation.
[00:26:22] God loved you enough to create you. The book of Hebrews does a good job of this. There’s several. Psalms that do the same thing that go through and basically. W go through and tell the story of creation again and sums that up in what a glorious God we serve, who did all of that for us. Because there’s a plan. Book of Ephesians, Paul wraps all those things into a lovely boat. Both for edification. And our understanding and the authority of Christ. And building one another up in that. And then he gives you these chapters chapters four, five, and six, about how you walk in what God has [00:27:00] created. How you walk in. The faith that is found through obedience to. To Christ. How you do that? And then it’s all part of what God started with creation.
[00:27:12] But you’ll learn those lessons.
[00:27:13] If you’ll go back and study with an eye to look for them through history.
[00:27:19] You go through the book of Proverbs and you read each one of those, there’s lots of Proverbs that are specific to parents and children. But the first few chapters are just about wisdom. If you’re not sure what you need to teach your child. What can you learn from those first few chapters about wisdom?
[00:27:38] What is wisdom teach you? And if you learn it and you need to know it, then your child needs to know it. So, how am I, what am I going to teach my child? You’re going to teach them what you need to know. And when you have learned it, you share it.
[00:27:54] And you’re going to work through that. What’s it going to teach me about how I interact with my child in that [00:28:00] relationship?
[00:28:00] Or you’re in any kind of other relationship in this, in this world where you’re, you know, you have a boss. You have a boyfriend. You have elders. You had a government that you’re trying just to figure out how you’re supposed to be respectful and honoring to a government that God has put in place. But they’re frustrating you, how do you live under a government that doesn’t live in a godly way? Oh, I don’t know.
[00:28:26] How did Joseph do it?
[00:28:28] His brothers sent him into slavery, into Egypt and he’s taken into Egypt and he has to live amongst these people who do not think or worship the way that he does.
[00:28:38] What does his story teach you about thriving for the Lord under a government that isn’t trying to help you do that? What does David teach you about that? He’s supposedly in his own country, who is the Lord’s people.
[00:28:57] But
[00:28:58] after the instance with [00:29:00] Goliath.
[00:29:02] He spends years being chased, his life sought after by Saul because of Saul’s jealousy over who David is. And all David’s doing is being the man that God wants him to be. But it creates a problem for Saul. But what does David show you?
[00:29:20] How do you get through the day when today my government is fighting against me doing what’s right?
[00:29:26] I’m going to find some encouragement there. No matter what the government is.
[00:29:31] Go through history. Go see what God has shown you about what he’s done. Because who he is, he’s constant. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Again, back in the book of Hebrews.
[00:29:47] He is the same.
[00:29:49] Even though God has altered his communication methods with us.
[00:29:54] God’s nature hasn’t changed. His attitude hasn’t changed. [00:30:00] So, what do we learn about him
[00:30:01] through history? What do we learn about him through Jesus? His time here on earth? What do we learn about God? What do we learn about Jesus? And how does that impact me today?
[00:30:12] You can do that. We could do so many studies here in the. An episode, I could spend hours. All of us going through and finding one of these things, pick something Hebrews 11, pick one of those people. God says, they show you what faith looks like. How does any tells you Abel was by faith, Abel, all of these people by faith. Well, don’t just take that verse.
[00:30:36] They’re pointing back to history. Go find everything you can about Abel throughout the history that God has provided for you. What was that faith? Put the context to it. Hebrews is a commentary on that. That event.
[00:30:53] It’s God commentary. On the events of Cain and Abel.
[00:30:58] So go look at the [00:31:00] story of Cain and Abel through the eyes of the commentary that God has provided.
[00:31:05] And what can you learn from that same thing with Abraham, with Sarah, anybody listed in that chapter?
[00:31:11] How do they show you people who persevere? How do they show you people who, who endured? It’s at the end of chapter 10, that’s the point of chapter 11 is to show you this cloud of witnesses. Who endured? Who kept on keeping on when things got hard. Those are those people in that chapter,
[00:31:31] their faith
[00:31:31] was born out through their, keeping on in the, in the face of trouble.
[00:31:36] And the writer is encouraging the Hebrews to have that endurance, not to give up. But to keep on moving forward, they’re going back to the old law was a way of giving up.
[00:31:46] Well, you need to keep moving forward. You need to have endurance. So how do you build that up? Pick one of those. And go find every scripture. That talks about that person. And see what God has [00:32:00] told you about them. And their circumstances. And see what you can learn from that.
[00:32:06] I hope that you find this encouraging and that you will find many things to study.
[00:32:12] Because you can understand it just takes time. And it takes a heart that is willing to dive in.
[00:32:21] It takes a heart that is willing to pray about it and ask for wisdom. And ask for guidance. And it’s also a heart that is willing to be patient because sometimes the message won’t always be extremely clear. Sometimes you’re still gonna look at that and go, I do not understand. Well guess what? Pray about it.
[00:32:40] Put it away.
[00:32:43] Move on to the next thing. If this thing is too complicated. And then come back to it another day, asking for clarity. Being open to clarity. And see if it comes. Because it may be that you’ll get it when you need it. You thought you needed it over [00:33:00] there? But maybe God says you need it today.
[00:33:03] But we have to be willing to trust God with all of that. And again, that’s born out in the history.
[00:33:10] Again, this could be, I could beat a drum, stand on a soap box and beat a drum. Go back to what he’s given you.
[00:33:18] See what God took the time to tell you about himself. And about those who followed him?
[00:33:26] Ones who did it well. The ones who did it not so well.
[00:33:30] What can you learn from the ones who did it badly? All of it is lessons for you. So go study from history. And as the Hebrew writer points out, Learn the lessons from history. So you don’t repeat them.
[00:33:45] Paul makes the same argument in the book of Romans.
[00:33:50] It’s implied in every speech that is given with Peter and Stephen in the book of acts. You should have learned from history so that you would not be in the [00:34:00] moment where you are, where you’re fighting against God. Learn from your history.
[00:34:04] So I hope that you’ll dive in and that you’ll explore that. And there’s lots of ways, again scripture writing. We talked about that in an earlier episode,. Is a way for you to work through that. There are some scripture writing plans over in my shop. And I will link to that down in the bottom. If you want a place to start. You don’t need my stuff. But you’re welcome to use it because there are tools to get you started and to show you how you can build these things.
[00:34:31] So if you want somewhere to start on a given topic or something, You can go check out the diligent woman shop. And see what you can find that will help you to walk through the theme, or a whole book.
[00:34:45] But get started today. Don’t close your Bible and think it’s too hard. Open it and say, thank you Lord, for helping me to understand.
[00:34:54] And then the two of you work together. Open your mind and open your heart. To what [00:35:00] God’s will is.
[00:35:01] Lord willing, we will see you in the next episode. Enjoy.