← A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace
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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ in All of Scripture. Each week, we will dive deeply into two passages of scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
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Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.
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Hi, everyone. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the new season of Year in the Bible. My name is Beth, and I'm thrilled to be hosting this season of Year in the Bible along with my coworker and friend, Alexa.
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Hey, everyone. I'm so excited to be joining you this season.
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This season, we're going to be walking through our study Christ and All of Scripture, a 52 week journey of discovering Jesus on every page of the Bible. This study will walk you through one of the most important elements of Bible study, looking for Jesus in every single passage. We will talk about why this is important more deeply next week, but for now, it's enough to say that we look for Jesus on every page because in Luke 24, he tells us that all of the scriptures are about him. So that is what we're going to be talking about for the next 52 weeks, how Jesus is present in all of Scripture. To begin, we're going to spend the next three days on week one of the study, which is actually a prep week.
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Yeah. So prep week will get you all prepared for the weeks to come by teaching you what exactly to look for when you're finding Jesus in the Bible and how to go about the annotation days in every week's study, learning how to identify God's attributes in the process.
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Yeah. Before we dive into prep week, we wanted to give you an idea of what to expect each week of the study and on the podcast.
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Yeah. So day one and three are annotation days in the study where we get to mark up the text and make observations. So on Mondays and Wednesdays of the podcast, we'll chat about what we learned on those annotation days, making note of what stood out to us and what those verses showed us about Jesus.
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Yeah, exactly. And then on day two, we're going to go deeper into the Old Testament passage that we're studying each week. So that day is going to look a lot at the context of the Old Testament passage, where it falls in the biblical story and just anything that you need to know. And the whole while we're going to be asking questions throughout the commentary that help you to think through the stuff that we are talking about on your own.
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Day four in study is probably my favorite day. As this day, we get to see how the Old and New Testament passages that we studied that week, how they connect, and how Jesus plays a part in that connection. So on Thursdays, we'll explore that connection some more and go a little deeper into what's going on in those texts and how they point us to Jesus.
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Yeah. And then on day five is the last day, which is Friday, and we're going to be talking about application on that day. So in the study, you'll be looking at how to take what you've learned about Christ and apply it to your everyday life. And then in the podcast, we're going to be discussing how we have seen those truths be applied in our own lives every single Friday. Alexa, will you share with our listeners what annotation is? I'm sure a lot of people aren't even familiar with that concept, so if we could talk a little bit about what annotation is and also, why don't you tell us what about it you find the most difficult and maybe some tips and tools that you have learned that help you with annotation as we go through these study days.
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Yeah, so if you've ever done an inductive study before, you might be familiar with the observation part of that method where you have like a printout of whatever text you're studying, your own copy of your Bible, and you get to bargain it up with highlighters or colored pencils. So annotation is essentially the same thing. It allows us to study what we're reading more intently. By doing things like circling words in the text, underlining repetitive words or major themes, you're essentially making note of what's important in that passage before diving in later into what that passage means. So my personal struggle with annotation is that I immediately want to go into the interpretation of that passage or how that passage applies to me. So my tip, based on my own experience, is to really just give yourself that time to sit with the text and look at it. Don't think about it too hard just yet, but just meditate on it by reading it several times and making note of the things that you see or whatever jumps out at you. Look for repetitive words, circle words that you don't understand, underline truths about who God is. Honestly, just have a lot of fun marking up the text and so with each annotation day in your study, you'll follow a series of prompts that help you annotate the text so you're not all on your own with that. And one of those prompts will ask you to identify how the passages you are reading point to Christ. So, Beth, will you tell us some ways that we might see Jesus in these passages?
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Yeah, exactly. So when you're annotating, you're gonna be asked to identify Christ in these passages, as Alexa just said. And we actually provided a chart for you in the study in prep week that outlines the different ways that Christ might be present in a passage. Those. I'll give you just a brief description of each of those here as well. The first one is that you might see a role that Jesus is going to take on whenever he comes to earth. So something like a prophet or a priest or a king. You also might see problems that are only solved by Jesus. Then you'll see some symbols that point us to Christ in the work that he did. You'll see themes that culminate in the work of Jesus. You might see promises that are fulfilled by Christ people that point to Jesus. And finally, you might see predictions which are prophecies that are made about Christ explicitly.
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Yeah, so lots of ways that we can see Jesus in a text for sure. We hope today's episode helps you feel a little bit more prepared for what's to come in our journey through Christ in all Scripture. So be sure to join us tomorrow as we'll dive into how we can go about identifying God's attributes in a scripture passage. Bye, friends. Thank you for listening to today's episode of A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Be sure to check out our show notes for some helpful links and resources related to today's episode. And make sure you're following a daily Grace podcast and hedaily Grace Co on Instagram for more Bible study resources and encouragement. We're looking forward to studying God's Word with you again tomorrow. Bye, friends.