THE BIBLE MADE SIMPLE
Volume 1
William T. Barrett
© 2007
THE BIBLE MADE SIMPLE Vol.1
Table of Contents
Bible Study Principles
Lesson 1 The House Upon the Rock
Lesson 2 Cast your Bread Upon the Water and The Despised Lamp
Lesson 3 Colors and the Plan of Salvation
Lesson 4 The Old and New Garments
Lesson 5 The Old and New Wine Bottles
Lesson 6 Thy Teeth are as a Flock of Sheep
Lesson 7 The Tongue of the Sucking Child
Lesson 8 Butter and Honey Shall He Eat
Lesson 9 The Two Edged Sword and The Strange Woman
Lesson 10 The 23rd Psalm 83
Lesson 11 The Plan of Salvation Shown by:
The Order and Names of Adam and his 9 “sons”
The Order and Names of the books of the Bible
Jesus Heals the Man with Palsy
Lesson 12 Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus
The Plan
The Hidden Treasure of the Bible
About 30 years ago I began to see parts of the Bible that I could not understand. As an example, “casting bread on water and finding it many days later” (Eccl.11:1), did not make sense to me. “Always wearing white clothes and keeping oil on my head” (Eccl.9:8) did not make any sense either. I began a diligent search to try to find someone to help me understand the Bible. To make a long story very short, I received the most help from the Bible itself.
I began to read statements in the Bible about the “hidden treasure” of the Bible. By studying the parables I saw how Jesus revealed truth by using real objects and giving them each a Spiritual meaning. I began to realize that many parts of the Bible are not meant to make literal or physical sense, but are meant to be understood Spiritually. The Bible became its own interpreter for me and I saw that one verse of the Bible was the key to understanding another verse of the Bible. I began compiling a list of the Spiritual meanings of the objects used in the Bible and found to my great joy, that I was able to understand parts of the Bible that previously had not made sense to me.
Soon, I was sharing what I had learned with anyone who would listen. I found that friends who would not listen to “straight doctrine” were intrigued by how the Bible explained itself and would listen to the parables and their explanation. I started to write books to make the Bible simple, so that my friends could understand it. These were not books about the Bible, but books that let you understand the Bible yourself!
Most people are “surface readers” and have no idea of what they are missing by not understanding the “hidden wisdom” in the Bible. On the following pages you will discover like never before the beauty and depth of the Bible as you discover its meaning that is hidden from the “surface seeker”. Best of all you will fall in love with Jesus as you really begin to understand the Bible.
William T. Barrett
Bible Made Simple Ministry
How To Understand Our Father’s Words
Bible Text:
Ecc.9:8 “Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
We don’t understand our Father’s Words because it doesn’t make sense for us to: “always wear white clothes and keep ointment on our heads”.
If we will let our Father speak to us by “Comparing His Words” then we will be able to understand. We must follow Jesus’ example and find the REAL THINGS in the Scripture and then discover what the Spiritual Meaning is for each REAL THING or Key Word.
Real Thing
Or Spiritual Meaning Bible Reference
Key Word
Garment Character Gen.35:2 , Zech.3:4
White Purity Dan.12:10, Rev.19:8
Head The Mind Dan.2:28,29
Ointment The Holy Spirit 1Sam.16:13, Ex.30:25
Relate the real things to the spiritual by substituting the spiritual meaning for each real thing back into the Bible Text.
Bible Text: Ecc.9:8
“Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
Paraphrase:
Let your character be always pure and let your mind lack not the Holy Spirit.
Principles For Bible Study
Study Principle 1
Pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you as you study
the Bible and search for truth.
James 1:5 If any lack wisdom let him ask of God
John 16:13 When He the Spirit of truth is come
He will guide you into all truth.
Study Principle 2
Let the Bible explain itself.
One text will prove to be a key
that will unlock other texts,
and in this way you will discover
the hidden meaning of God’s Word.
1 Cor. 2:13 ”…not in the words which man’s
wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth ;
comparing spiritual things
with spiritual”.
Study the illustration on the next page
and you will see how this is done.
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COMPARE
SCRIPTURE
WITH
SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 25 :4
“Take away the
dross from the
silver, and there
shall come forth a
vessel for the finer”.
( )
Take away the dross from the
( )
silver, and there shall come
( ) ( )
forth a vessel for the finer.
FINER = THE LORD
(REFINER)
Zech.13:9 “… I will… refine them as silver is refined… they will say, The Lord is my God”.
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Isa. 1 : 22 “Thy silver is become dross. Thy wine mixed with water”.
2. Locate KEY WORDS in the verse : 3. Discover their SPIRITUAL MEANING :
(usually nouns or “real things”) (by using the BIBLE WORD PICTURES)
| SILVER | God’s People | |
| DROSS | Wicked People | |
| WINE | Doctrine | |
| WATER | People |
BIBLE WORD PICTURES
4. REWRITE THE VERSE : (Substitute the Spiritual Meaning of the Real objects back into the Bible verse and REWRITE it to discover what God is saying to us Spiritually !)
Paraphrase :
Thy people (silver) have become wicked (dross),
Thy doctrine (wine) mixed with words of men (water).
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Isaiah 1:22
(people) (wicked)
Thy silver is become dross.
(doctrine) (people)
Thy wine mixed with water.
The silver is no longer pure but contains impurities.
Similarly, the People of God (silver)
have become impure or wicked (dross).
The wine is no longer pure but has been diluted by water.
Similarly, the Doctrines of God (wine)
have been diluted with changes by people (water)
and are no longer the Pure Doctrines that God gave us.
What are your “options” then, and what are the “Spiritual implications” of this Bible verse?
Your “options” are:
1 Be satisfied with impure doctrines of men.
2 Search for the pure doctrines of God.
The “Spiritual implications” for you are :
1 Be lost (impure silver)
2 Be saved (pure silver)
By identifying a real object in a Bible text and then looking it up in the BIBLE WORD PICTURES you can discover the Spiritual Meaning of the real object.
BIBLE This is a sample of a separate
WORD Reference booklet containing
PICTURES 240 BIBLE WORD PICTURES.
It is of great value to be able to use a Concordance
to help you study, so a brief description of
“How to use a Concordance” will now be given.
You use a concordance much like a dictionary. The words in a concordance are placed in alphabetical order and the concordance contains every word in the Bible and gives the location or Bible text where each word is found. When you want to explore a topic or subject you simply look up the word that describes your subject, such as “Angels” in your concordance and then proceed to read the Bible texts the concordance has listed for you.
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Location of Bible texts using the “word”
Your Subject or “word”
Angels belong to God
God has thousands of angels
There are also evil angels
Something is
prepared for the
devil and his angels
God has given His angels
to have charge over us
A
NGELS
there came two a to Sodom at even Gen 19:1 4397
then the a hastened Lot, saying Gen 19:15 4397
b ehold the a of God ascending and Gen 28:18 4397
his way, and the a of God met him Gen 32:1 4397
h
is a he charged with folly Job 4:18 4397
him a little lower than the a Ps 8:5 430
thousand, even thousands of a Ps 68:17 8136
b
y sending evil a among them Ps 78:49 4397
shall give his a charge over thee Ps 91:11 4397
Bless the LORD, ye his a, that Ps 103:20 4397
Who maketh his a spirits Ps 104:4 4397
Praise ye him, all his a Ps 148:2 4397
He shall give his a charge Mt 4:6 32
a came and ministered unto him Mt 4:11 32
and the reapers are the a Mt 13:39 32
Son of man shall send forth his a Mt 13:41 32
the a shall come forth, and sever Mt 13:49 32
glory of his Father with his a Mt 16:27 32
That in heaven their a do always Mt 18:10 32
but are as the a of God in heaven Mt 22:30 32
he shall send his a with a great Mt 24:31 32
not the a of heaven, but my Mt 24:36 32
glory, and all the holy a with him Mt 25:31 32
p
repared for the devil and his a Mt 25:41 32
me more than twelve legions of a Mt 26:53 32
the a ministered unto him Mk 1:13 32
of his Father with the holy a Mk 8:38 32
but are as the a which are in Mk 12:25 32
And then shall he send his a Mk 13:27 32
not the a which are in heaven Mk 13:32 32
a
s the a were gone away from them Lk 2:15 32
shall give his a charge over thee Lk 4:10 32
in his Father’s, and of the holy a Lk 9:26 32
Notice how much you can learn by reading the texts.
BIBLE STUDY PRINCIPLES
A concordance such as “Strong’s” contains a complete Hebrew and Greek dictionary that will be a great help to you in trying to learn the meaning of words used in the Bible that are not used today or are hard to understand.
Note: Always use the King James Bible to study from.
- Grace (hard to understand word)
2. Bible text is Ephesians 2:
(where hard word is located)
BIBLE TEXT Ephesians 2:8
grace
“For by are ye
saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”
MAIN CONCORDANCE
3. Look up hard word “grace” in the Concordance
4. Find the exact text
in the Bible where
hard word is used
5. Find the “number”
of the hard word
in the Greek dictionary
since the word is used
in the New Testament.
If the word is in the Old
Testament, then you use
the Hebrew Dictionary to
look up the number.
6. The meaning of the
hard word “grace”
Grace
G be to you and peace from God the Gal 1:3 5485
him that called you into the g of Gal 1:6 5485
womb, and called me by hi g Gal 1:15 5485
perceived the g that was given Gal 2:9 5485
I do not frustrate the g of God Gal 2:21 5485
ye are fallen from g Gal 5:4 5485
the g of our Lord Jesus Christ be Gal 6:18 5485
G be to you, and peace, from God Eph 1:2 5485
the praise of the glory of his g Eph 1:6 5485
according to the riches of his g Eph 1:7 5485
with Christ, by g ye are saved Eph 2:7 5485
his g in his kindness toward us Eph2:7 5485
For by g are ye saved through Eph 2:8 5485
of the dispensation of the g of Eph 3:2 5485
the g of God given unto me by the Eph3:7 5485
of all saints, is this g given Eph 3:8 5485
unto every one of us is given g Eph 4:7 5485
may minister g unto the hearers Eph 4:28 5485
G be with all them that love our Eph 6:24 5485
G be unto you, and peace, from God Phil 1:2 5485
ye all are partakers of my g Phil 1:7 5485
The g of our Lord Jesus Christ be Phil 4:23 5485
GREEK DICTIONARY OF THE
NEW TESTAMENT
5
485 Xápis charis khar’-ece: from 5463 graciousness (as gratifying) of manner or act (abstr. or concr.; lit, fig. or spiritual; espec. the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; incl. gratitude: acceptable, benefit, favour. gift, grace(-ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, thank (-s, worthy)
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The Bible Made Simple
© 1991 William T. Barrett
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Greeneville, TN 37743
This concludes our study of
“The Bible Made Simple” Vol.1
I hope that you have enjoyed it.
If you have been a diligent student,
many of the “hidden treasures” of
the Bible are now yours!
If you are interested in continuing
to discover the “Hidden Treasure”
of the Bible, you may do so by
beginning the study of
“The Bible Made Simple” Vol.2.
Please see the last page for
ordering information.
May God greatly bless you as you
continue to study His Word and
as you share with others what
you have learned.
William T. Barrett
Bible Made Simple Ministry
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