LETS GIVE GLORY TO GOD WE ARE ORWELL

LET’S GIVE GLORY TO GOD

WE ARE ORWELL BIBLE CHURCH

The Unity of Scripture � How do most people characterize the Bible? � Is it like a novel or story? � Is it like a biography or textbook? � How does it all fit together? � "Many people hesitate before the Bible in much the same way they hesitate at the edge of a dense forest. “ S. Deitrich

The Unity of Scripture � How can two books be one Book? � How can 66 books be 1 book? ! � How can we make sense of it all?

Our dilemma � Isaiah 55: 8. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. � We think differently, we have different perspectives. � Yet - He does not want us locked into this dilemma. � Hebrews 1. 1 -2 He’s there and He has spoken

Our dilemma � The Bible is very diverse � We are faced with history, law, poetry, proverb, prophecy, parable, oration, epistle, and sermon � and then we’re expected to readily accept the idea that one continuous story is woven throughout all these varied writings.

The Big Picture � Have you really seen how all these diverse books fit together? � The Bible is not a "book" in the usual sense. � There’s not a logical “plot” like a novel, nor are the connections always clear like a textbook.

Unity? Would you say the book of Psalms is an extension of or harmonizes with Joshua? � How do you put these two books together? � Can they be joined? � If so - What would be the key? � When you see how it all fits together, how it presents a unified message, it will help you to understand use it effectively. �

2 kinds of unity: � Organic � Functional �a piece of chalk and a ball-point pen � Which is organic and which is functional in its "oneness"?

The Bible � It has 66 distinct parts, � yet all function together to form one body of revelation. � Not sameness but unity. � It's not just that the individual books complement one another; � they need one another.

I Corinthians 12: 12 ff � human body-church body analogy � If Esther shall say, “Because I am not Isaiah, I am not of the Bible; ” is it therefore not of the Bible? And if Daniel shall say, “Because I am not Ephesians, I am not of the Bible; ” is it therefore not of the Bible?

� If the whole Bible be prophecy, where would be the great convicting Law? � And if the whole Bible were worshipping hymns, where would be the great historical narratives? � But now hath God set the books of the Bible--each one of them--in the Bible, even as it pleased Him.

Think Bible Unity � think God � think Progress � think