Word Study
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Five Steps for a Word Study:
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1 – Choose a word to study- start with a limited word, ie. surrender, obey, not
something like Messiah or Lord
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2 – Define the word with a modern definition from a dictionary.
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3 – Discover Bible usages of the word (use
a concordance to write out Scripture references, use a Bible dictionary to
discover deeper meanings to the word, find alternate words used (synonyms) in
other translations for the word, take notes of the context of each scripture
where the word is used – book, writer, concepts, etc.) Choose 3 of the
references for your word and any comments or notes you have associated with
those references.
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4 – Summarize what you have learned about the word from your study.
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5 – Apply the word study – to your relationship with God, to your life, your
relationships and the church.
Weed:
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1: Weed
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2: noun - a
wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated
plants. "keep
the seedlings clear of weeds" verb
- remove unwanted plants from (an area of
ground). "I
was weeding a flower bed"
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3:
§ Scripture
verses (Blue Letter Bible) – “weed” appears once in the NIV! [Mat 13:41 NIV] 41 The Son of Man will send
out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes
sin and all who do evil.
“weeds” appears 11 times in 11
verses (attached)
§ (Vine’s
Expository Dictionary) – Verb – Strong’s Number G4816 – Greek: sullego –
Gather, Gathering: “to collect, gather up or out” (sun, “with” lego, “to pick
out”), is said of “gathering” grapes and figs, Matt 7:16; Lk 6:44 (cp No. 5);
tares, Mt 13:28, 29, 30, 40; good fish, Mt 13:48; “all things that cause
stumbling, and them that do iniquity,” Mt 13:41.
§ weed
- “συλλέγω”
in Greek (Blue Letter Bible) – to gather up; to collect in order to carry off.
§ (Holman
Bible Dictionary) – no entry
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4: The noun “weed” in Scripture is one who causes sin or stumbling, does evil –
the wicked. In the verb sense, “weeding”
is an action done at the end of the age by the angels under the authority of
Jesus Christ, the just Judge. They will
gather all things that cause sin and all who do evil, the wicked, and they will
throw them into the blazing furnace.
Scripture explains that weeds are allowed to grow with wheat so as not
to uproot the wheat prematurely. In
other words, weeds are allowed to grow to protect the wheat.
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5: The kingdom of heaven is not my garden to weed. Weeds are permitted in the garden for a time
– to protect the wheat from being uprooted too soon. When the time comes, the wheat and weeds will
be harvested and gathered – the wheat into the kingdom and the weeds to be
burned in the blazing furnace. Plainly,
the wheat goes to heaven and the weeds go to hell. Jesus will send His angels, according to Mt
13:41, to weed out of His kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do
evil. I don’t want to cause sin! I don’t want to cause my brothers or sisters
to stumble. I want to abide in Christ,
connected to the Vine, producing fruit in keeping with repentance, letting Him
prune the unproductive parts of me. I
want to serve Him in this garden (BSF, Home, Choir, Sunday School, work, etc.)
with joy!
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