THE BIBLE MADE SIMPLE 
Volume 2

William T. Barrett

© 2007

The Bible Made Simple Volume 2

13 Bible Study Lessons

Lesson 3

1. Jesus uses Nature to teach us Spiritual lessons:

The Palm Tree and The Cedar Tree

2. Bible Text Discovery Job 29:5,6 washed in butter

Lesson 3

1. Opening Prayer

2. Jesus uses Nature to teach us Spiritual lessons:

The Palm Tree

3. Bible Text Discovery Sheet (401)

Job 29:5,6 Washed my steps with butter

4. Closing Prayer

Jesus Uses Nature

to Teach Us Spiritual Lessons

The Palm Tree

Psalms 92:12 “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon”

1. Palm Trees can withstand Physical Abuse that other trees cannot.

LIFE ONLY LIFE ON THE

ON THE OUTSIDE INSIDE

(Ordinary Tree) (Palm Tree)

2 Cor.4:16 “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day”.

Eze.36:26 “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh”.

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2. Palm Trees can Endure Storms that other trees cannot.

Ordinary Tree Palm Tree

Heart stiff and dead Heart soft and flexible

Inflexible and easily Will spring back when

broken by the Wind the wind ceases

Zec.7:12 “Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent…“

Isa.2:11 “The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day”

Eph.4:14 “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;“

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3. Palm Trees can survive drought and cannot easily be uprooted.

Shallow Roots Deep Roots

Tapering and branching Each root same size at stem

as at base, thick and strong

Easily pulled up Very difficult to pull up

Isa.58:11 “And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not”.

Eph.3:17 “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,...”.

Isa.37:31 “And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:..”.

Pro.2:22 “But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it”.

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4. The fruit of a palm tree grows sweeter as the tree grows older.

ORDINARY TREE PALM TREE

Ordinary Fruit Tree As Palm Trees grow older

Fruit becomes smaller the tree produces more

and less sweet with age, fruit and the fruit is sweeter

and will often not bear Palms live to be 200 years old

fruit at all

John.15:5 “I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing”.

Psa.92:13 “Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God”.

Psa.92:14 “They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;“.

Luke 3:9 “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire”.

Now we see why the Bible says that

Christians (“the righteous”) are to be like

the Palm Tree.

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Bible Text Discovery Sheet (401)

Bible Verse: Job 29:5,6

“When the Almighty was yet with me; When I washed my steps with butter and the rock poured me out rivers of oil”.

What is the Main Physical thought of this text?

My (Physical) feet need (Physical) washing with (Physical) butter, and (Physical) oil comes from the (Physical) rock.

What is the Main Spiritual thought of this text?

My (Spiritual) feet need (Spiritual) washing with (Spiritual) butter, and (Spiritual) oil comes from the (Spiritual) rock.

Substitute the Spiritual meaning for the Real Objects.

Paraphrase:

When the Almighty was yet with me; When I put away sin washed from my life steps by comparing the Scriptures butter and Christ rock gave me the Holy Spirit oil abundantly.

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William T. Barrett

Bible Made Simple Ministry

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