back to indexOld Testament Survey - Session 1 (2019-01-12)
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if you guys haven't already figured that out. 00:00:12.560 |
A couple of my small group guys this past Wednesday 00:00:24.000 |
Another guy was saying, my Bible reading plan, 00:00:26.280 |
because if you guys were here for Colossians, 00:00:29.040 |
one of the questions was about the Word of God. 00:00:31.640 |
And one of our brothers in my small group was saying, 00:00:34.520 |
you know, like, I would love to read and do the Bible plan, 00:00:55.900 |
So if you don't like to touch the three quarters 00:01:00.400 |
of the book that are a little bit unfamiliar, 00:01:07.620 |
And so what my goal for our class and our time together 00:01:25.660 |
Some of you guys are like, dude, give me the information. 00:01:28.300 |
No, the goal of this class is long-term retention 00:01:32.900 |
you can look at the Old Testament and just enjoy. 00:01:40.300 |
you're stuck in the Old Testament for a long time, right? 00:01:46.060 |
and I didn't get to Matthew until October 5th. 00:02:01.480 |
You guys might've been wondering, like, dude, 00:02:18.900 |
you're filling in the muscles, the meat, the bones, 00:02:24.780 |
I'm gonna give you a framework by which to work, 00:02:47.380 |
when you start a puzzle, what do you start with? 00:02:52.980 |
what do you find, what do you go look for first? 00:03:02.980 |
The edges actually go fast in a puzzle, all right? 00:03:06.800 |
But as long as you have a framework by which to work, 00:03:10.220 |
everything else, you can take your time in learning. 00:03:41.940 |
let me know, and I'll give you your $10 back, all right? 00:03:48.500 |
what is the hardest thing about the Old Testament, 00:03:58.500 |
It is, if you don't know what you're looking at. 00:04:08.100 |
Jeremiah has the most words of all the books of the Bible. 00:04:11.140 |
It's like every chapter is kind of painful, right? 00:04:14.660 |
It's long, and the content's not exactly uplifting. 00:04:18.540 |
What else is a challenge about the Old Testament? 00:04:32.860 |
So I'm gonna start out with a little bit of an introduction, 00:04:35.320 |
because I knew people are gonna come a little bit later 00:05:00.140 |
Take a wild guess who the next picture is gonna be. 00:05:24.900 |
Now, there were no words except George, okay? 00:05:29.900 |
But there's a familiarity with these Georges, right? 00:05:35.300 |
And let's do a little bit of a trivia game, all right? 00:05:41.160 |
If we're doing like code names, British Commonwealth. 00:05:53.580 |
the basketball player was from Palmdale, California, 00:05:56.220 |
by a process of elimination, you can land there, okay? 00:06:45.580 |
Paul George, okay, that's a Oklahoma City Thunder teammate, 00:07:15.140 |
But you can limit out most of the rest of them, right? 00:07:19.300 |
The very first Curious George was written in Paris, okay? 00:07:36.300 |
So you guys learned something new already, all right? 00:07:39.700 |
So, if the Bible was like this, it'd be no problem. 00:07:47.180 |
It's a foreign context, so it's very difficult. 00:07:56.900 |
Samaria is the capital of the Northern Kingdom. 00:08:01.460 |
Samaria could be an area where a bunch of half-breeds live 00:08:07.100 |
In the Old Testament, it wasn't a mixed race there. 00:08:15.700 |
The word Israel through most of the Old Testament is good, 00:08:20.020 |
but when you get to the Kings and Chronicles, 00:08:27.580 |
If we talk about Israel in the New Testament, 00:08:30.500 |
it sometimes is spiritual, it sometimes is physical, 00:08:48.300 |
Depending on what you are thinking of as temple, 00:08:53.500 |
There's Solomon's Temple, there's Zerubbabel's Temple, 00:08:56.300 |
there's Herod's Temple, there could be Me Temple, 00:09:10.860 |
There are two Jeroboams that are both extremely important. 00:09:16.940 |
So that's not something that's necessarily familiar, right? 00:09:38.180 |
So these are the things that you're gonna get familiar with 00:09:43.620 |
So hopefully, with our one and a half hours each week, 00:09:48.500 |
it'll be enough for you to put the bones together 00:09:52.340 |
and then the rest of your life at your own time 00:09:54.900 |
and at the pace that you feel comfortable with, 00:10:00.020 |
So if you just pay attention and do some review, 00:10:03.740 |
you will know the skeleton of the Old Testament 00:10:05.620 |
and you will never be scared of it ever again. 00:10:08.740 |
And what do you get back if it doesn't happen? 00:10:24.100 |
someone might have taught you kind of an easy way 00:10:26.420 |
to remember, but I'm gonna review it for you here, okay? 00:10:31.500 |
That's an easy way to remember the books of the Bible. 00:10:34.420 |
There are 39 Old Testament books, 27 New Testament books. 00:10:42.500 |
Okay, 39 Old Testament books, 27 New Testament books. 00:10:48.660 |
Now, the first key that we're gonna look at on this page 00:10:55.660 |
is a division of the Old Testament books, okay? 00:10:59.420 |
So, I want you guys to repeat with me all right? 00:11:06.160 |
otherwise I feel like a fool about myself, all right? 00:11:10.480 |
Just listen a couple times and then follow along. 00:11:20.120 |
Good, you're well on your way to Old Testament. 00:11:27.940 |
Shoot, this is recorded, so I'm just gonna be looking like a fool. 00:11:34.020 |
If you guys want to get fancy, you guys like the drums, 00:11:36.320 |
5, 12, 5, 5, 12, you can do that too. Let's try that one, all right? Here we go. 00:11:40.500 |
*responses 5, 12, 5, 5, 12, 5, 12, 5, 5, 12, 5, 12, 5, 1* 00:11:46.640 |
*responses 5, 12, 5, 5, 12, 5, 12, 5, 5, 12,* 00:11:57.820 |
*responses 5, 12, 5, 5, 12, 5, 12, 5, 12, 5, 5, 12,* 00:12:01.540 |
*responses 5, 12, 5, 5, 12, 5, 12, 5, 5, 12,* 00:12:25.840 |
So some people refer to these as the Books of Moses, some as the Torah. 00:12:35.160 |
Okay? So as it is written in Moses and the prophets. 00:12:46.240 |
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1st, 2nd Samuel, 1st, 2nd Kings, 1st, 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. 00:13:06.740 |
So you're going from Esther to Job, you're just, you're rewinding 1,200 years. 00:13:11.620 |
And that's what's tricky about the Bible, organizationally. 00:13:18.340 |
Okay? So if you actually just try to read from Genesis to Malachi, 00:13:27.700 |
Okay? So just remember, the organization of the books of the Old Testament are genre more 00:13:45.460 |
Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Song of Solomon. 00:13:51.780 |
And there are varying times for all 5 of those books. 00:14:01.560 |
And it's not in terms of importance, it's in terms of the length. 00:14:08.640 |
Okay? The major prophets minus Lamentations, but Lamentations is connected to Jeremiah. 00:14:13.900 |
But there are 4 major prophets in Lamentations, so we're just going to call it 5. 00:14:18.480 |
Okay? 5 major long prophets, and then 12 minor prophets. 00:14:27.140 |
So when you go from Daniel, the last major prophet, that was written in the 530s, 00:14:34.200 |
but then when you go to Hosea, you're rewinding back to 780 BC. 00:14:42.180 |
So if you read Daniel, which in and of itself spans 70 years, those 12 chapters, 00:14:49.220 |
You go from Daniel and then you go back to Hosea, 00:14:54.280 |
So history is important for the study of the Old Testament 00:14:57.280 |
and I will go over that over the next six weeks. 00:15:43.380 |
So this is how we're gonna do every major point 00:15:46.020 |
in the Old Testament so you guys can kinda remember. 00:15:48.080 |
So, even if you feel kinda cheesy and fruity, 00:15:56.580 |
Do you guys know what the whole Old Testament points to? 00:16:03.220 |
Who, what person does the Old Testament point to? 00:16:20.300 |
So the Old Testament is broken up in an easy way 00:16:41.900 |
so that we have some Bible content in our time together. 00:16:47.940 |
"Those who are well have no need of a physician, 00:16:49.860 |
"but those who are sick, I came not to call the righteous, 00:17:21.500 |
and then we're getting to Jesus at zero, okay? 00:17:24.340 |
These are not exact dates, but those are mental landmarks 00:17:38.940 |
500, you have the returns, and some people are like, 00:17:46.620 |
But returns, plural, okay, 'cause there are three. 00:18:03.380 |
My wife says my nose is probably the best feature. 00:18:49.060 |
Long-term retention, so just try to store that 00:19:01.980 |
How many of you guys feel like you could ace this test 00:19:10.860 |
What, how do you remember the five divisions? 00:19:19.180 |
I am Dr. Jesus, Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, 00:19:34.580 |
All right, 2000 to 1500, you have Genesis, Exodus, 00:19:43.180 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 00:19:45.180 |
no problems there because usually when you start 00:19:47.660 |
reading your Bible, these get read up until you get 00:19:51.020 |
to Numbers and Deuteronomy and then they get skimmed. 00:19:55.260 |
then they get forgotten a lot of times, right? 00:19:58.540 |
I've probably read the book of Genesis more than any 00:20:07.140 |
Exodus is halfway fun and then it starts getting confusing. 00:20:12.140 |
All right, but those five books, we're not gonna spend 00:20:14.660 |
too much time, but with each of the 39 books of the Bible 00:20:17.900 |
during the next six weeks, I'm gonna give you a key 00:20:25.100 |
So that when you actually go to study it on your own, 00:20:36.340 |
So the key to remember Genesis is big N-ings, okay? 00:20:56.940 |
The people in the wilderness, because who wrote this book? 00:21:01.460 |
Moses, he gave it to the people in the wilderness. 00:21:03.580 |
After the wilderness, he was gone, all right? 00:21:16.380 |
and we're all our elderly people, except you three, okay? 00:21:28.940 |
how did we get here, into this wilderness, right? 00:21:31.860 |
And then you go back and farther and farther, 00:21:44.220 |
the more it is important, so kinda keep that in mind. 00:21:52.420 |
or purpose for the book of Genesis, not creation. 00:21:56.500 |
Even though you can get creation-related things 00:21:59.220 |
from the book of Genesis, but it's about beginnings. 00:22:06.700 |
So the first verse says, "In the beginning, God created." 00:22:10.780 |
So Genesis is no problem because you guys all know, okay? 00:22:13.920 |
But as we track through Malachi, Zephaniah, Zechariah, 00:22:18.920 |
these pictures are gonna start to help, okay? 00:22:51.040 |
The next book, what's this guy got on his hands? 00:22:56.040 |
On one hand, he has money, not chicken, he has food, 00:23:12.720 |
The big question for Leviticus is how does a sinful man 00:23:23.200 |
So the guy's getting his left foot kissed, all right? 00:23:26.680 |
So that's how you remember Leviticus, left foot kiss. 00:23:33.720 |
Sounds a little bit profane, left foot kiss, all right? 00:23:37.080 |
And then you'll remember feasts and offerings, 00:23:51.500 |
They are wandering, are they wandering in a mall? 00:24:06.200 |
The book of Numbers is about wanderings, okay? 00:24:21.300 |
And then there's a duet here, running on a me. 00:24:35.900 |
Okay, that's how you remember duet run on me. 00:24:42.900 |
There are no two laws, but it's a second generation 00:24:49.860 |
So the key you wanna write down is duet run on me 00:24:56.860 |
Everybody that left Exodus, or everyone that left Egypt 00:25:04.820 |
with the exception of three people are currently dead. 00:25:08.780 |
Joshua is alive, Caleb is alive, Moses is alive. 00:25:22.180 |
There is some overlap between numbers and duet run on me. 00:25:26.740 |
If you read it, it kinda seems like it should be one book. 00:25:31.220 |
The book of Numbers, to remember it simply is this. 00:25:39.660 |
wandering in the wilderness, and why are they wandering? 00:25:44.860 |
they are wandering because of their sin, okay? 00:25:49.500 |
Duet run on me is written right before they enter 00:25:54.780 |
Now, all of your people died, so I am Yahweh. 00:26:04.700 |
So it's written like a contract, the book of duet run on me. 00:26:09.540 |
a king should have, if there should even be a king. 00:26:17.500 |
Duet run on me has a contract between man and God, okay? 00:26:23.460 |
But in the book of duet run on me, what's interesting is 00:26:26.540 |
the reason for the Israelites wandering is not their sin. 00:26:42.480 |
'cause he just threw them into the wilderness like that. 00:27:17.980 |
Poetry, five, major prophets, 12, minor prophets. 00:28:05.180 |
Now, find a partner and go over these questions. 00:28:12.060 |
Find a partner, and you're gonna switch partners. 00:28:15.520 |
So if you're like, dude, this person on my left is nice. 00:28:19.360 |
You're gonna have to hit up both eventually, all right? 00:30:17.160 |
call 'em out on it and let me know who they are 00:30:41.900 |
because it's just mostly the five books of Moses, okay? 00:30:55.200 |
that you necessarily need to remember, all right? 00:30:58.760 |
Now, there's a little bit of an offensive thing there. 00:31:14.260 |
So the next key that I want you guys to remember is 00:31:44.840 |
M stands for Moses 'cause we're starting at 1,500. 00:31:56.960 |
The division of the tribes, life in the tribes, 00:32:00.280 |
tribal conflict, tribal warfare, tribes, okay? 00:32:09.000 |
And these judges are the ones leading the tribes, 00:32:11.920 |
but that's the next thing you need to remember. 00:32:21.520 |
So you've got Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 00:32:25.440 |
Deuteronomy, and then you have Moses is your marker, 00:32:34.200 |
and there's tribes in there until you get to the kings. 00:32:38.000 |
And from the kings on, it's 50% of your Bible. 00:32:49.880 |
So what's the way to remember 1,500 to 1,000? 00:32:52.740 |
Your mama is so dumb that she tried to climb up Mountain 00:33:08.960 |
just to help you remember this to the glory of God, all right? 00:33:22.680 |
Judges until you get to the last judge/first king, Saul. 00:33:41.120 |
but they wanted a nice judge, and he was tall, he's handsome 00:33:46.000 |
but God's first choice for a real spiritual king was David, 00:34:05.680 |
from Abraham to David, you can kind of be like, 00:34:10.680 |
okay, these are the things that are going on. 00:34:36.800 |
That's Jericho, actually, okay, all the walls. 00:34:40.520 |
Joshua bought the battle of Jericho, Jericho, right? 00:34:47.720 |
So Joshua is general, and after they conquer, 00:34:52.720 |
they break up into tribes, and then they get land. 00:34:56.640 |
You guys, that's easy to follow enough, right? 00:34:59.040 |
Okay, so you just wanna remember General Joshua 00:35:20.080 |
Joshua is 10 years only, but it's 24 chapters. 00:35:45.040 |
So you're going from extremely specific in Joshua 00:36:10.880 |
So just remember it as a negative word, cycles, okay? 00:36:24.920 |
So that's 40 times the number of years that have passed, 00:36:33.420 |
So Judges, you just wanna remember Judges on a cycle, cycles. 00:37:04.300 |
but there are five R words that you need to remember. 00:37:25.100 |
in a bad situation, and then you fall into sin again. 00:37:54.820 |
And then God raises up a judge to restoration, number five. 00:38:21.340 |
they're doing fine, and then they fall into idolatry, 00:38:23.620 |
and then they get ruined, and then they are conquered 00:38:26.740 |
and oppressed by the Midianites, by the Philistines, 00:38:30.380 |
and then they repent, and then God raises up a judge. 00:38:34.820 |
And the judges are from all kinds of tribes, okay? 00:38:44.660 |
there's judges from Ephraim, there are judges from Reuben. 00:38:53.220 |
So when they're at rest, they forget God, and what happens? 00:39:04.460 |
then they repent, and they go, "Lord, we have forgotten you," 00:39:07.660 |
and then God raises up a judge, and they're restored. 00:39:10.260 |
And you'll see this phrase in the book of Judges 00:40:01.060 |
second generation, the law of God of the second generation, 00:40:28.380 |
again and again and again and again and again. 00:40:36.660 |
that's based mostly on a woman who's a foreigner. 00:40:50.820 |
It's a love story that happens in this time of Judges. 00:41:03.140 |
Here we go, how many books in the Old Testament? 00:41:50.420 |
Feast and offerings, numbers, wilderness wanderings, 00:41:54.180 |
Good, you've got 2000 to 1500 to set, no problem. 00:42:10.300 |
Joshua is about conquest and the tribes, okay? 00:42:38.460 |
to restore his people through a family of his choosing. 00:42:58.580 |
1500 to 1000 you have, tribes, Judges, kings, 00:43:15.340 |
a little bit more comfortable with the Old Testament. 00:43:23.380 |
And the rest of your life you fill in the blanks, okay? 00:43:26.380 |
So in your groups, again, now find a different partner. 00:43:45.340 |
But go ahead and practice with a different neighbor. 00:43:48.540 |
If you haven't met him, just introduce yourself 00:43:53.540 |
And once you finish, we're gonna take a break 'til 1125. 00:50:11.340 |
All right, 20 seconds, if you're standing up, 00:50:14.340 |
find your way back to your seats, and we're almost done. 00:50:21.340 |
So hopefully now, with half of the Old Testament 00:50:37.340 |
now in your head, hopefully you're not as scared, okay? 00:50:42.340 |
You don't need to remember every single person, 00:50:48.340 |
who Rahum is, who Shimshai, who like, you know, 00:50:53.340 |
Nebulad, all these people, you don't need to know 00:50:58.340 |
They will come in time, but as long as you're not scared 00:51:06.340 |
some places to read quickly, and then some places 00:51:13.340 |
Now we're gonna go over a cheer that I taught 00:51:15.340 |
the college students in the summer, that I taught 00:51:25.340 |
And you're gonna hear this every week, 'til you die, 00:51:35.340 |
This will help you remember half of your Bible. 00:51:47.340 |
of all of the Bible, in terms of landmarks, okay? 00:52:06.340 |
But the first things you need to remember are 00:52:24.340 |
- Good, what's between the King and the split? 00:52:41.340 |
that's the split, there's a civil war that happens, okay? 00:52:58.340 |
This used to be just ABC until when I taught it in 2007, 00:53:03.340 |
Dr. Pang was like, "You should include a D there." 00:53:09.340 |
So King, King, split, and what's the next four? 00:53:18.340 |
- Yeah, if it was hard, you'd have some problems, okay? 00:53:28.340 |
Medo-Persians, repeat, Medo-Persians, all right? 00:53:33.340 |
So I've given you all these easy things to remember 00:53:39.340 |
So Persians is easy to remember, but what is Medo? 00:53:52.340 |
and you'll be familiar with this one, return. 00:53:59.340 |
So I'm gonna go slowly and then I'm gonna go louder, 00:54:03.340 |
I mean, I'm gonna go slowly and then faster and louder. 00:54:15.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:54:27.340 |
I was listening to sports radio and I was trying to figure out 00:54:30.340 |
King, King, split, ABC, oh, and it was like a, like, ah, moment. 00:54:37.340 |
I've taught this in China, I've taught this in Korea. 00:54:40.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:54:52.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:54:59.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:55:04.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:55:08.340 |
Okay, with your eyes closed so that you can hear my voice 00:55:14.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:55:18.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:55:22.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:55:59.340 |
King, King, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:56:37.340 |
Three, but for the cheer, we just say return. 00:56:43.340 |
What is happening between 1500 to a thousand? 00:56:57.340 |
But for our king, king, split, it doesn't start with Saul, 00:57:10.340 |
So, what is the cheer to remember half your Bible, 00:57:15.340 |
King, king, split, ABCD, Medo-Persians, return, and Greeks. 00:57:29.340 |
And what's easy about the three first kings of Israel, 00:57:32.340 |
about the United Kingdom, there were three kings only, 00:57:45.340 |
just think of Saul 40, David 40, Solomon 40 split, okay? 00:58:30.340 |
and we'll look at the Civil War more next week, okay? 00:58:39.340 |
How many of you think you guys can remember these dates? 00:58:59.340 |
60, 80, it'll mess you up a little bit, all right? 00:59:27.340 |
and I'm gonna give this to you more in depth next week, 00:59:30.340 |
but the kings and the chronicles, the books of the Bible, 00:59:42.340 |
and then you see the same stories repeat themselves, okay? 01:00:00.340 |
So King-King split, and here we go, Professor Mobley, 01:00:17.340 |
When you have a chance, try to memorize them, 01:00:55.340 |
So David, Solomon, Civil War, Assyria, Babylon, 01:01:04.340 |
If I give you a little time, you might remember that, right? 01:01:59.340 |
Second king, Solomon, what year did he reign? 01:02:04.340 |
40 years later, the Civil War happens at 930. 01:02:09.340 |
Couple hundred years later, who comes into power? 01:02:13.340 |
Who knocks out Assyria and conquers even the south? 01:02:18.340 |
What do they start doing with the people of Judah? 01:02:28.340 |
Okay, and we will go more in depth of these things 01:03:14.340 |
Moses, tribes, judges, and then you end up with the kings. 01:03:17.340 |
Who is the first king of Israel that was not God's choice? 01:03:39.340 |
And what's the next one without looking at your paper? 01:03:45.340 |
They release the people and then starts the returns home. 01:03:50.340 |
And you read about it in Isaiah, you read about it in Jeremiah, 01:03:55.340 |
The funny thing is, Ezra 1.1, Cyrus is the king of Persia, 01:03:59.340 |
but it says in Ezra 5.14, Cyrus the king of Babylon. 01:04:04.340 |
If you don't know these things, you're going to read it and you're 01:04:09.340 |
No, but Medo-Persians, who did they knock out? 01:04:18.340 |
So now Cyrus is king, not just of Persia, but he's also king of Babylon. 01:05:04.340 |
They're not really mentioned in the Old Testament. 01:05:13.340 |
And that's why I included them in there because on our sixth week that we 01:05:16.340 |
studied together, we're going to study what happens in the 400 years between 01:05:21.340 |
So that you'll know why is there no synagogue in the Old Testament but 01:05:25.340 |
synagogues are all over the place in the New? 01:05:27.340 |
Where did the Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots, and the Essenes come from? 01:05:41.340 |
The barbarians and the Greeks, why are they mentioned? 01:05:47.340 |
So we're going to cover that on our sixth week. 01:06:12.340 |
722 is when Assyria conquers Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom. 01:06:29.340 |
So then in 600s, Babylon starts to mess with Judah. 01:06:40.340 |
And Nebuchadnezzar, out of rage, destroys Solomon's temple and takes away all of 01:06:49.340 |
If you guys can this week just commit to memory these dates, that'll help you in 01:06:56.340 |
Because everything else, I packaged it so you guys can remember without too much 01:07:02.340 |
538 is when Medo-Persia, it's a united force. 01:07:07.340 |
It's actually brought up in the book of Daniel, okay, where you have Daniel 01:07:11.340 |
seeing a vision of a bear that's crooked, okay? 01:07:14.340 |
It's a crooked bear because the Persians are a lot stronger than the Medo's, 01:07:23.340 |
So when you see Darius, that's a Median king. 01:07:30.340 |
But 538, the Medo-Persians knock out Babylon. 01:07:34.340 |
And then R1, R2, R3, we're going to cover in week five. 01:07:43.340 |
How many of you guys think you can remember when the Greeks came into power 01:07:53.340 |
So certain things in the Bible are easier to remember than others, okay? 01:07:59.340 |
Now, the last thing we're going to cover before I teach you a song, 01:08:17.340 |
The Book of Micah was written during the time of Joth and Ahaz and Hezekiah. 01:08:26.340 |
So you have all of these kings, and it would be beneficial for you to remember. 01:08:30.340 |
So we're going to take five at a time every week, 01:08:33.340 |
and I'll make up a little catchy little cheer to help you remember the kings. 01:08:37.340 |
But we're going to start with 1, 6, 11, and 16. 01:08:46.340 |
The only king that really is of significance is Zimri, 01:08:59.340 |
Did you guys know Elijah and Elisha are never mentioned really, 01:09:02.340 |
except maybe once or twice in the Chronicles? 01:09:06.340 |
Remember I shared the kings and the Chronicles, there's overlap. 01:09:13.340 |
That's why Elijah and Elisha are not really mentioned in the bottom. 01:09:17.340 |
So those are things I will continue to emphasize as we go. 01:09:21.340 |
But 1, 6, 11, and 16, if we're taking them five at a time, 01:09:28.340 |
are the first of the Judean kings you need to remember from each list. 01:09:37.340 |
Now, this is a chin, but I just needed a picture. 01:09:47.340 |
And we're going to remember 1, 6, 11, and 16. 01:09:53.340 |
Anybody know what Zeus, the god in Greek mythology, he had a mom. 01:10:00.340 |
Anybody know what her mom's name was, his mom's name? 01:10:09.340 |
Rhea is the mother to the god of gods in Greek mythology. 01:10:16.340 |
So I'm going to introduce you to King Rhea Jojo. 01:10:32.340 |
So I took the first two letters of each king in 1, 6, 11, and 16 01:10:41.340 |
to help you organize it, because every week you're going to pick up five new ones. 01:10:51.340 |
Jehoahaz was only in 609, and he died in 609. 01:11:02.340 |
So Rhehoboam, R-E, Ahaziah, A-H, Jotham, 11, Josiah, 12. 01:11:30.340 |
So that you remember every week the first of those five. 01:11:34.340 |
So kings 1 through 5, we're going to cover next week. 01:11:42.340 |
And then 16 to 20, the final week after that, so that you can kind of -- 01:11:46.340 |
because if you try to memorize all 20 at once, it's hard. 01:11:49.340 |
But if you could take them at five at a time, it's easier to remember. 01:11:52.340 |
But then in order for you to keep those five organized, we're going to do 1, 6, 11, 16. 01:12:01.340 |
It behooves you to memorize the 20 kings in order. 01:12:05.340 |
But there is a way to do that without screaming. 01:12:15.340 |
So Rheh-ha-jo-jo is what you need to remember. 01:12:18.340 |
Like Rheh-bo-am, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehosh -- Jehoash. 01:12:22.340 |
You'll remember all of these in order if you just stick with the program. 01:12:30.340 |
So what's the mythical king of kings that we need to remember? 01:12:43.340 |
Rheh-bo-am, Ahaziah, Jo-tham, Jotham, and Josiah. 01:12:53.340 |
So next week we're going to start with Rheh-bo-am and his son Abijah who reigned two years. 01:12:59.340 |
And then in 9/11 came Asa and then Jehoshaphat was from 870 down. 01:13:08.340 |
So that's how we're going to remember these things. 01:13:11.340 |
And the way to keep it organized is king Rheh-ha-jo-jo. 01:13:26.340 |
And then we're going to wrap up with a song and a prayer. 01:13:33.340 |
If you're too comfortable in your seat, then just go to the same friend. 01:13:38.340 |
And then in two minutes I'll give you a final song. 01:16:53.340 |
I trust that you guys are getting these things. 01:16:58.340 |
Timeline-wise now, you have basically the head, the neck, the spine, the hips, and the legs. 01:17:09.340 |
And we're going to fill in the different sections of the body as we go. 01:17:13.340 |
So by the end of the sixth week, the intertestamental period between Malachi and Matthew, we're 01:17:19.340 |
going to start to put a little bit of muscles on the skeleton. 01:17:24.340 |
But you guys have just the head to the bottom. 01:17:32.340 |
Do you guys think this is going to take like 15 hours to review? 01:17:38.340 |
Some logistical things and then I'm going to teach you a song, part of a song, and then 01:17:46.340 |
Every week we're going to open the doors at 10. 01:17:54.340 |
So we're going to need help coordinating the sacks. 01:17:57.340 |
So if Lindsey contacts you, I mean, it would help her self-esteem and she would be very 01:18:11.340 |
Let me serve the body of Christ," because that is the appropriate response to the grace 01:18:16.340 |
And let me -- so if she does happen to ask you or if you want to volunteer, talk to Lindsey. 01:18:21.340 |
I'm going to introduce Lindsey and Lawrence in a little bit. 01:18:24.340 |
But there will be snacks starting at 10 a.m. every week. 01:18:30.340 |
So come early just to sit, review, get to know some people. 01:18:35.340 |
Because the more you review before we actually start, the easier things will be -- your brain 01:18:40.340 |
is probably now a little bit more adhesive than it was an hour ago, two hours ago. 01:18:45.340 |
So that now if you read through the Bible, things are going to be a little bit more sticky. 01:18:50.340 |
My goal by the end of six weeks is to make it super adhesive. 01:19:11.340 |
If you ever disciple somebody, your job is not to instruct them of the Bible. 01:19:27.340 |
My goal is to have about -- there's 100 of you signed up. 01:19:30.340 |
100 Old Testament faithful students who can make other faithful students. 01:19:36.340 |
Because we're going to keep having people come to the church. 01:19:42.340 |
So learn as much as you can so that you can cause other people to want to learn as much as they can. 01:19:48.340 |
Fear is probably the biggest deterrent of the Old Testament. 01:19:55.340 |
So don't be intimidated by the Old Testament. 01:20:01.340 |
Just come and review a little bit if you can. 01:20:04.340 |
We're going to have Lawrence and Lindsay, can you come up real quick? 01:20:24.340 |
Lindsay, you're making Lawrence look like a weirdo. 01:20:28.340 |
So the reason they're here is because they've gone through the Old Testament study like this with me before. 01:20:35.340 |
And so what we're going to have them do is if you miss a Saturday, okay, or if you feel like, oh, there's this part I didn't get. 01:20:47.340 |
My voice is in their head so much that you can kind of review or refresh or get things you missed. 01:20:55.340 |
So 930 to about 10 every Saturday morning before we start, they will be available to you, I assume, maybe either like somewhere here or should we just make it here? 01:21:11.340 |
If you want like tutoring of the broad stuff, they will help you. 01:21:17.340 |
Don't ask them like crazy stuff because the goal is just to have your brain more adhesive than it was before. 01:21:25.340 |
So they're going to be here every Saturday morning starting 930. 01:21:28.340 |
We're going to have snacks starting at 10 and then 1030 will start right away. 01:21:35.340 |
So if they ask you for help, please just, you know, oblige. 01:21:38.340 |
They're not going to ask you to like do their laundry and stuff. 01:21:41.340 |
They're just going to ask for like, oh, can you help with this real quick? 01:21:44.340 |
And the more people that are involved, the better. 01:21:47.340 |
And if you guys -- I mean, if we end up doing this class again, maybe you guys can serve in the same role and we can have more people who are familiar with these books. 01:22:00.340 |
And for today, if you haven't paid your $10, this is not going into my pocket at all. 01:22:13.340 |
And at the end, I think maybe if I feel like, you know, what would help if I could purchase something to give to all of you as a resource, something like that. 01:22:23.340 |
So whatever money is collected is only going to be used for this class. 01:22:27.340 |
So if you haven't already, we know who you are. 01:22:31.340 |
So avoid the embarrassment of me tracking you down because I already know who you are. 01:22:37.340 |
Go ahead and pay that via Venmo, check, PayPal, made out to Berean Community Church. 01:22:44.340 |
I think it would be good for us to have a recording. 01:22:48.340 |
There's a lot of little gaps, as you guys can tell, where I'm having you guys rehearse stuff. 01:22:57.340 |
Just use them for yourself to review if need be. 01:23:00.340 |
I haven't figured out how we're going to get it out to you. 01:23:03.340 |
But we did -- Lawrence, we did record today, right? 01:23:09.340 |
If you miss, that session will also be available to you so that you get the most out of the next six weeks. 01:23:24.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. 01:23:34.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and we're not going to go on. 01:23:47.340 |
So some of you guys may have learned this as a kid. 01:23:49.340 |
Some of you guys are like, I don't know what's where. 01:23:51.340 |
So that's why we're going to go over this song every week. 01:23:55.340 |
Some of the parents for our children complain that the kids have been singing the books of the Bible all week and have been driving them crazy in a very sanctified, holy way. 01:24:04.340 |
So you drive your neighbors crazy and your roommates crazy with God's word, at least the titles of the books of God's word. 01:24:12.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. 01:24:36.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. 01:24:43.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. 01:24:50.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. 01:24:56.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. 01:25:02.340 |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth. 01:25:15.340 |
Heavenly Father, we thank you for giving us an opportunity to study about your word today. 01:25:21.340 |
We thank you for giving us just a lot of resources online. 01:25:26.340 |
We thank you for giving us books that have already organized a lot of this. 01:25:29.340 |
And we thank you, Lord, for allowing us to participate in this together. 01:25:33.340 |
We pray for your help that we would be hungry, that we would be eager, not just to feed ourselves, 01:25:41.340 |
but to share the good news of Jesus Christ through your inerrant word. 01:25:46.340 |
All of it, all 66 books to our friends and family who need Christ. 01:25:56.340 |
And we pray that as we go through the next six weeks, 01:25:59.340 |
we will be equipped to be better stewards of your holy scriptures in Jesus' name we pray. 01:26:14.340 |
Okay, and then see you next Saturday at 10.30 sharp.