Bible Study February 14, 2025
“Rightly Dividing the Word”
Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 16 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. 19 But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”
Yesterday I was helping Cindy go through some things at her mom’s house, she passed away last May. Her dad will be moving into a care facility so the dreaded job of going through stuff has begun, it fact it has been going on.
We made our way to one of the bedrooms where they had a hutch. Her mom loved to send cards to people and I bet we easily found seventy-five cards of various messages in these drawers. In fact she asked her dad if her mom was on some kind of “pack of cards a month club?”
What fascinated me most was her Bible that was on the shelf since she always kept one on the hutch in the dining room. She also has one in a bookshelf in the living room. I could tell from looking at it that it had been read the pages were crumpled, some had wrinkles, but nothing was underlined or highlighted. She was most likely from the generation that thought you desecrated the scriptures if you wrote in your Bible or made any marks in it.
I’m a believer that God is pleased when He shows us something from His Word and we make note of it. In fact. there are now journaling Bibles available that encourage you to write in them. I also found this “Basic Bible References” card in her Bible. It came form the church she attended when she was able to go.
I did her graveside service (she wanted no formal viewing or anything like that) and I said during her service we may have agreed doctrinally we did serve the same Jesus. That is the key. We had some interesting discussions about beliefs and mine come from what I believe the scriptures are saying to us today.
God Bless as you “rightly divide the Word.”
Asbury Chapel 