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Jude – Chiasm

| August 13, 2015

A – Jude serves our Savior, Jesus Christ (1a) B – Beloved in God and kept for Jesus Christ (1b) C – Mercy, love, and salvation (2-3a) D – Contend for the faith (3b) E – Prophecies from the OT (4-7) F – False Teachers Described (8) G – Michael the Archangel (9) (Apocryphal Source) […]

Habakkuk – Chiasm

| August 6, 2015

A – Habakkuk’s First Complaint About God’s Justice (1:2-4) – Waiting In Doubt B – Yahweh’s First Response (1:5-11) – Babylon’s Army C – Habakkuk’s Second Complaint About God’s Justice (1:12-2:1) – Babylon’s Wickedness D – Yahweh’s Second Response (2:2-5) – The Righteous Live by Faith C’ – Five Woes (2:6-20) – Babylon’s Wickedness B’ […]

2 Peter 3:7-13 – Eschatology and Ethics

| July 3, 2015

Outline A – Promise of the Lord – Present Heavens and Earth (3:7-9) B – The Day of the Lord – Heavens and Elements Dissolved (3:10) C – How We Should Live in Present Heavens and Earth (3:11) B’ – The Day of the God – Heavens and Elements Dissolved (3:12) A’ – Promise of […]

2 Peter – Chiasm

| July 3, 2015

If the theme of 2 Peter is “make every effort to confirm your calling and election (1:10),” which is our part; then that fits in with the chiastic middle which is God is able to rescue the godly (2:4-10a), which is God’s part. A – Peter Teaching Knowledge (1:1-2) B – Make Every Effort to […]

1 Peter 3:1-16 – Chiasm

| March 5, 2015

1 Peter 3:1-16 (HCSB) A –  (1) In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live (2) when they observe your pure, reverent lives. B – (3) Your beauty should […]

1 Corinthians 11:17-22 – On Suppers and Divisions

| January 25, 2015

When something is wrong, you fix it. Negatively, you remove what is bad or corrupting. Positively, to correct what is wrong, you restore what is right. Think about that, no one would disagree; and yet when it comes to the Bible somehow the rules change. So the point of this lesson is simple: To correct […]

Matthew 10:5-42 – Jesus’ Chiastic Commission

| November 15, 2014

A – Support for Work (10:5-15) Judgment Day – More Tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah (5.15) B –Persecutions and Family Because of Relationship to Christ (10:16-25) C – Don’t Fear Men; Fear God: Persecution vs. Eternity (10:26-31) B’ – Relationship to Christ Because of Persecutions and Family – (10:32-39) A’ – Support for Work (10:40-42) […]

Acts 2:40-47 – A Chiastic Interpretation

| November 14, 2014

Acts 2:40-47 (HCSB)  (40) And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt generation!” (41) So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them. (42) And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the […]

Acts 2:38 – Chiasm on Salvation

| May 6, 2014

To be saved hear, believe, repent, confess and be baptized; then keep confessing, keep repenting, keep believing, and keep hearing to stay saved.

2 Samuel 11-12 – David and Bathsheba Narrative Chiasm

| October 31, 2013

A – 11.1 – David not at war B – 11.2-5 – Bathsheba washing and purifying herself, pregnant. C – 11.6-27 – Uriah dies D – 12.1-4 – Parable D’ – 12.5-15a – Parable Explained C’ – 12.15b-19 – Baby dies B’ – 12.20-25 – David washing and anointing himself, Bathsheba pregnant A’ 12.26-31 – […]