bringing the bible to life · 2018. 7. 2. · kent kloter associate pastor of biblical counseling...
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Bringing the Bible to Life Biblical Counseling Workshops
Bethany Biblical Counseling Ministries
Is the Bible Relevant for Today’s Counseling Problems?
Track I.1
Kent Kloter
Associate Pastor of Biblical Counseling and Discipleship
Adam Needed counsel before sin
28 …And God said to
them, “Be fruitful and
multiply & ill the earth
& subdue it & have
dominion …” 29 And
God said, “Behold, I have
given you every plant…,
& every tree... You shall
have them for food.
Not Autonomous! Intelligent, but incomplete; never intended
to understand himself or his world apart
from God’s Special Revelation
Didn’t know his…
Identity
Purpose
Needs
God created Adam to be RELIANT
Reflector (mirror-image of God)
Relational (w/God, self, Eve, Creation)
Receiver (needed God’s Word)
Reasoning Logical, rational, considering
Responder (worshiper, worker/servant)
Righteous (pure)
Reliant (NOT AUTONOMOUS)
Ruler (Dominion-haver)
CREATED PHYSCIAL/SPIRITUAL
Needed God’s Word to know his
Identity
Needed God’s Word to know his
Purposes
Mirror God’s image (individually) 1:26
Be fruitful & multiply 1:28
Manage – “subdue the Earth” 1:28
Work – the Garden 2:15
Guard [keep] the garden 2:15
Mirror God’s Image (as a couple) 2:23
Needed God’s Word
to know his Needs
Obey God’s Word (15 commandments)
Live in fellowship with God 2:15
“Live here” 2:15
Eat, eat this, eat all this, 2:16
in abundance, except… 2:17
Helper-suitable 2:18
Adam Needed to Obey
12 “DO” Commandments in the Garden
1. Live here
2. Work here
3. Guard here
4. Eat freely and widely here
5. Take dominion
6. Love your wife
Adam Needed to Obey
12 “DO” Commandments in the Garden
7. Leave and cleave
8. Multiply
9. Enjoy pleasure
10. Know me
11. Worship me
12. Obey me
Adam Needed to Obey
1. 3 “DON”T” Commands of the Garden
2. Don’t eat of this one tree
3. Don’t live alone
4. Don’t disobey
Adam’s State @ Creation
(Perfect)
Vertical Purity – no sin, intimacy w/God
Internal
Peace-of heart/mind/soul,
conscience
Pleasure-comfort-no pain/grief
Plans-always met-no
disappointment
Horizontal Personal relationships-no conflict
External Provision-all needs met-no wants
Protection-perfect safety, justice
Adam’s state at Creation
God gave Adam EVERYTHING he needed
Physically in the GARDEN
Man shall live…
by every word from
God’s mouth…Matt.4:4
God gave Adam EVERYTHING he needed
Spiritually thru His WORD
Another “Counselor”
Did God actually say?
God’s Word must not be enough to help me…
I must need more than what God has already
revealed …
Did He tell
us enough?
Did He withhold
something we
need to know?
Adam’s State after the Fall
Adam & Eve enjoyed perfect… Rebellion’s Disruption
Purity – no sin, intimacy w/God Guilt, shame, fear, condemnation
Peace-of heart/mind/soul,
conscience
Fear, confusion, regret
Pleasure-comfort-no pain/grief Pain, suffering
Plans-always met-no
disappointment
Failure, disappointment
Personal relationships-no conflict Isolation, rejection
Provision-all needs met-no wants Loss, hardship, pain,
Protection-perfect safety, justice Harm, injury, shame
Exchange for Listening
to “another counselor”
Reflector Disfigured
Relational Dissenter
Receiver Disconnected
Reasoning Deceived (noetic)
Responder Defector
Righteous Depraved
Reliant Destitute
Ruler Dominated
From Dependence to Depravity Needed God Needed God’s Word Needed a helper
Rescue from sin Restoration & Forgiveness Righteousness
Rescue from corrupted reasoning
(noetic effect)
5 “Cursed is the man who trusts
in man and makes flesh his strength, whose
heart turns away from the Lord. 6 He is like a
shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good
come. He shall dwell in the parched places of
the wilderness, in an
uninhabited salt land. …
ESV Jer.17:5-6
Results of Listening
to “another counselor”
Human Wisdom is Unreliable
"The heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately sick;
Who can understand it? …
"I, the LORD,
search the heart, I test the mind,
ESV Jer. 17:9-10a
Human Wisdom is
Foolishness 19For the wisdom of this world is folly with
God. For it is written, “He catches the
wise in their craftiness,” 20 and again,
“The Lord knows the thoughts of the
wise, that they are futile.” ESV 1 Cor 3:19-20
THE ESSENCE OF REBELLION IS TO THINK THAT WE
CAN KNOW SOMETHING FROM GENERAL REVELATION
THAT WILL ENHANCE GOD’S WORD (Special Revelation).
Is God’s Word is Reliable?
Forever, O Lord, your word
is firmly fixed in the heavens. Psalm
119:89
Is God’s Word Relevant?
For us to discern our Identity?
Purpose?
Needs?
To help us in our troubles?
Is God’s Word Relevant?
continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
ESV 2 Tim.3:14-17
Is God’s Word Relevant?
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, and for training in
righteousness, 17 that the man of
God may be competent, equipped for
every good work. ESV 2 Tim.3:14-17
God’s Word is Relevant
3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him who called
us to his own glory and excellence, ESV 2 Peter 1:3-4
God’s Word is Relevant
4by which he has granted to us his precious and
very great promises, so that through them you
may become partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped from the corruption that is in the
world because of sinful desire. ESV 2 Peter 1:4
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HOMEWORK
•Summarize your main take-aways from this
session, especially noting any areas that were either
unclear to you or that you might disagree.
• Fundamentals of the Faith Workbook
lesson #1, make sure to listen to the audio message
first at www.gty.org/fof
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GOING DEEPER
•Psalm 19; Psalm 119
•Five audio messages entitled “The
Sufficiency of Scripture” @
www.gty.org/radio/archive
•Pamphlet: Why Biblical Counseling,
Craig Rowe
•Paperback: What to Do on Thursday,
Jay E. Adams
•Paperback: Unleashing God’s Word in
Your Life, John MacArthur
•Book: Think Biblically, John MacArthur
Additional materials, recommended for further study, not required
Bringing the Bible to Life Biblical Counseling Workshops
Bethany Biblical Counseling Ministries
Kent Kloter
(309) 508-1755