Series Goals: Our collective engagement with the Bible will increase. We become more equipped and therefore more confident to read the Bible personally Our Study of the Bible Will Allow us to see the ‘Subject’ of the Bible More Fully God’s Word is trustworthy even when it’s hard to understand “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense - Proverbs 19:11 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 “15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. - Matthew 18:15 Remember that the Bible is inerrant in its original manuscripts Context and Genre Impact Interpretation and Meaning. “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense - Proverbs 19:11 2 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; 4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— 5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, 6 to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:1-7 Proverbs gives us probabilities, not promises. “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” - Proverbs 22:6 “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.” - Proverbs 19:11 “15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. - Matthew 18:15-17 Many situations are Proverbs 19 situations. Some situations are Matthew 18 situations. “4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. - 1 Cor. 13:4-5 “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 1 Cor. 13:1-4 logizomai “book, scroll, document (related to the idea of accounting or recording) As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. - Psalm 103:12, “12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” - Hebrews 8:12,