Formatted & Outlined By Fred Young
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Welcome to The Parchment Project! 5 1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free Galatians! Introduction Problems: General Specific Exchange grace for law Circumcision 1 6-9 5 1-4 2 3 5 2 Personal experience Paul looks back at the gospel of grace His revelation from Jesus Christ His relationship with the Apostles Freedom from legalism Solution: Faith In Christ 2 20-21 Old Testament argument Paul looks back at Abraham s faith & the law Faith in the promise = righteousness 3 6 The law tutored people to Christ 3 24 PREFACE The Parchment Project serves as a dynamic tool for inductive Bible study. Its panoramic design enables you to move from the bird s-eye view of an entire Epistle to the worm s-eye view of a paragraph. In the blink of an eye, rather than the turning of pages, you can both synthesize and analyse with greater ease. The big-picture layout features 17 Epistles of the New Testament, each occupying 2 facing pages or less. The 10 longer books are formatted according to their literary sections of 2 pages or less. This retro idea calls us back to independent sheets of parchment and lengthy scrolls used before printing presses and bookbinding. Bound books impact distribution to the masses but the masses risk losing the impact of the context. Initially, the reader s eyes meshed the parts and the whole. For Paul s last projects with Luke and Mark, he earnestly desired his scrolls and especially the parchments (2 Timothy 4:11-13). The goal of The Parchment Project goes beyond learning proof texts and memory verses. The documents unique format and the website both aim to make the New Testament more accessible, comprehensible and applicable to people around the world. Reading an entire book of the Bible no longer seems so overwhelming. More people will discover more about the God of the Bible, His Son Jesus Christ and how to relate to Him by faith and obedience through the power of the Holy Spirit. Inductive Bible study is an essential step toward discovering relevant application. This demands knowing the literary structure of what is written, where it is located and how to retrieve it from memory. Having the context in full view enables you to enjoy an agile learning experience of a literary section or an entire book. Seeing entire epistles on 2 facing pages is launching a worldwide WOW! reaction. We plan to offer bound versions available online. They will include the added feature of summary charts that trace the structure of each book of the New Testament Scriptures. To indicate your interest in pre-ordering bound versions, please express your desire at parchmentproject.com As we seek to engage the Word of God more widely and deeply, I pray the Holy Spirit will produce fruitful experiences for the glory God. Fred Young Brussels, Belgium Tips & Tools During the discovery process let your eye gate capture recurring themes. Set apart noteworthy observations with techniques of underlining, circling and color-coding key words and phrases. Remember the locations of shifts in subject matter. Begin to identify the relationships between them. Soon, your grasp of the entire book becomes firm. Your comprehension of what the initial readers understood becomes clearer. Solution: Freedom In Christ 5 1-6 Practical application 2 20 I no longer live, 3 6 Consider Abraham: 5 22 but the fruit but Christ lives in me He believed and it was of the Spirit is love 1 1-9 1 10 2 21 3 1 credited to him as righteousness 4 31 5 1 6 10 6 11-18 Solution: Follow Paul looks ahead to the Holy Spirit s Righteous position Transformational life style His Spirit 5 16-25 3 1! 4 15! 6 11! Grace 1 1,6,17 2 9 21 3 18 5 4 6 18 Grace Gospel 1 6,7,7,8,9,11 2 2,5,7,14 3 8 4 13 Gospel Free 2 4 3 28 4 22,23,26,30,31 5 1,1, 13,13 Free Slavery 2 4 3 28 4 1,3,7,8,9 22,23,24,25,30,30,31 5 1 Slavery Law 2 15,16,16,18,19,19,21 3 2,4,1,0,10,11,12,13,17,18,19,19,21,21,21,23,24,25 4 5, 21,21 5 3,4 14, 18, 23 6 2 13 Law Conclusion Although Paul had difficulty with his eyesight (Acts 9 9-10 ), his insight was 20/20 Holy Spirit 3 2,3,4, 15 4 6a,6b 29 5 5 16,17,18 22, 26 6 8a, 8b Holy Spirit Faith, hope, love 1 F 23 2 F 16,16,16, F 20 L 20 3 F 8,9,9,11,11,12,14,22,23,23,24,25,26 5 H 5 F 6 L 6, 13,14, 22 Faith, hope, love Circumcision 2 3 12 5 2,3,5,5, 11, 6 12,13,13,15,15 Circumcision Parchmentproject.com has additional tips and tools for inductive Bible study such as: 1. How to make significant observations using the principles of literature. 2. How to assemble notes and create summary charts to reflect structure and purpose. 3. How to recognize and trace major themes that impacted life then and transform lives now. Fred Young, TPP 2014
2 Timothy 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. 6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. 9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11 And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. 13 What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. 15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. 17 On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. 18 May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus. 2 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. 3 Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. 5 Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor s crown except by competing according to the rules. 6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. 7 Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this. 8 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God s word is not chained. 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 11 Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us; 13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself. 14 Keep reminding God s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless, God s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: The Lord knows those who are his, and, Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness. 20 In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. 21 Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work. 22 Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 Don t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24 And the Lord s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25 Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will. 3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. 6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
Second Timothy 10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. 9 Do your best to come to me quickly, 10 for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. 12 I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments. 14 Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. 15 You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message. 16 At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. 17 But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion s mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 19 Greet Priscilla and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus. 21 Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers and sisters. 22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.
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