Outline of Judges December 22, 2008
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Book of Judges Outline
I. The Crisis and Conquest after Joshua’s Death (1:1-36)
a. Who shall go up to fight for us? (1:1-2)
b. Judah and Simeon go up & defeat the Canaanites (1:3-7)
c. Judah fights and takes the city of Jerusalem (1:8-10)
d. Continued conquest (1:11-20)
e. Benjamin fails to drive out the Jebusites (1:21)
f. Joseph takes Bethel (1:22-26)
g. Manasseh) fails to drive out Canaanites (1:27-28)
h. Ephraim fails to drive out Canaanites (1:29)
i. Zebulun fails to drive out Canaanites (1:30)
j. Asher fails to drive out Canaanites (1:31-32)
k. Naphtali fails to drive out Canaanites (1:33)
l. Dan pushed back by the Amorites (1:34)
m. Joseph halts Amorite advance (1:35-36)
II. First cycle of Sin
a. The Angel of the Lord pronounces judgment for not breaking down pagan altars (2:1-5)
b. The people return to their homes under Joshua’s leadership and lived in peace all of the days of Joshua’s life and of the lives of those who knew him (2:6-10)
c. The people did “The Evil” (2:11-13)
d. God gives them up to their enemies (2:14-15)
e. The Summary of the Book (2:16-3:6)
III. Second Cycle of Sin
a. The people did “The Evil” (3:7)
b. The people served the Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia for 8 years (3:8)
c. God raised up Othniel as a deliverer (3:9-10)
d. The land had “rest” 40 years (3:11)
IV. Third cycle of Sin
a. The people did “The Evil” (3:12)
b. The people served the Eglon, king of Moab for 18 years (3:12-14)
i. Possible setting for the book of Ruth?
c. God raised up Ehud as a deliverer (3:15-29)
d. The land had “rest” for 80 years (3:30)
e. God raised up Shamgar as deliverer against the Philistines (3:31)
V. Fourth cycle of Sin
a. The people did “The Evil” (4:1)
b. Jabin, King of Canaan & Sisera conquered for 20 years (4:2-3)
c. God raised up Deborah as deliverer (4:4-24)
d. The Song of Deborah (5:1-31)
e. The land had rest for 40 years (5:31)
VI. Fifth cycle of Sin
a. The people did “The Evil” (6:1)
b. Midian conquered for 7 years (6:2-6)
c. God sends a prophet to speak warning to the people (6:7-10)
d. God raises up Gideon as deliverer (6:11-8:21)
e. The people seek to make Gideon king (8:22-27)
f. The land had rest for 40 years (8:28)
VII. Interlude: Abimelech’s reign
a. The people enter into idolatry (8:29-35)
b. The rise of Abimelech to power (9:1-6)
c. The Parable of the Trees (9:7-15)
d. The Judgment of Jotham (9:16-21)
e. Abimelech reigns for 3 years (9:22)
f. The fall of Abimelech (9:23-57)
g. God raised up Tola as judge for 23 years (10:1-2)
h. God raised up Jair as judge for 22 years (10:3-5)
VIII. Sixth Cycle of Sin
a. The people did “The Evil” (10:6)
b. The Philistines conquered for 18 years (10:7-9)
c. The people repent and the Lord rebukes them (10:10-16)
d. Who will go up for us? (10:17-18)
e. God raises up Jephthah as deliverer (11:1-33)
f. The result of Jephthah’s hasty vow (11:34-40)
g. Jephthah leads the people of Gilead against the people of Ephraim (12:1-6)
h. Jepthah judged Israel for 6 years (12:7)
i. God raised up Ibzan as judge for 7 years (12:8-10)
j. God raised up Elon as judge for 10 years (12:11-12)
k. God raised up Abdon as judge for 8 years (12:13-15)
IX. Seventh Cycle of Sin
a. The people did “The Evil” (13:1)
b. The Philistines conquered for 40 years (13:1)
c. God raises up Samson as deliverer (13:2-15:19)
d. Samson judges Israel for 20 years (15:20)
e. Samson and Delilah (16:1-22)
f. Samson’s Faithful Death (16:23-31)
X. Interlude: Micah, two Levites, the Tribe of Dan, and the Concubine
a. Micah and the Levite (17:1-13)
b. Micah’s Idol and Levite taken by the Tribe of Dan (18:1-31)
c. The Levite and his Concubine (19:1-30)
d. The people of Israel avenge the Levite against Benjamin (20:1-48)
e. Wives for the men of the tribe of Benjamin (21:1-24)
XI. Close of the Book
a. “There was no king in Israel and everyone did what is right in their own eyes”
Outline of 1 Peter April 19, 2008
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I. Greeting (1:1-2)
II. God in his Grace is raising you out of your sin to salvation (1:3-12)
1. God has given us new birth to a greater inheritance (1:3-5)
2. God will keep that inheritance while you are being sanctified through
persecutions (1:6-7)
3. The joy of that salvation in your hearts and in the hearts of those who have
pointed to Christ from old (1:8-12)
III. Therefore, be holy for God is holy (1:13-25)
1. Live your life obediently and in anticipation of what is coming (1:13-16)
2. God has redeemed you by the blood of Jesus Christ (1:17-21)
3. God has purified you through his imperishable word (1:22-25)
IV. Therefore, live your lives to reflect God’s good work in you (2:1-3:22)
1. Rid yourself of sinful ways and nourish yourself on spiritual things (2: 1-3)
2. God has made you a holy nation, built on the Living foundation stone of Jesus
Christ (2:4-12)
3. Live in submission to authorities outside of the home (2:13-25)
4. Live in submission to authorities inside of the home (3:1-7)
5. Living submissively in spite of persecution brings you blessing and the
persecutor shame (3:8-17)
6. Look to your baptism as a reminder of Christ’s past work and its eventual
completion (3:18-22)
V. Therefore, since Christ was persecuted, expect to be persecuted yourselves (4:1-19)
1. Misery loves company and will seek to drag you down into their sin (4:1-6)
2. Yet, judgment is coming, so be prepared (4:7-11)
3. Do not be surprised by your sufferings, but take joy in them (4:12-19)
VI. Closing remarks to church leaders (5:1-11)
1. Be good shepherds, modeling your service on Christ, the Chief Shepherd
(5:1-4)
2. Live humble lives (5:5-7)
3. Resist the enemy in faith and persevere until the end (5:8-11)
VII. Personal remarks and closing blessing (5:12-14)
Outline of 2 Peter April 19, 2008
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I. Greeting (1:1-2)
II. God’s Call on the life of a Christian and the Christian’s response (1:3-11)
1. God’s calling His people to glory (1:3-4)
2. The Christian’s response to God’s call (1:5-11)
a. progression of faith to love (1:5-7)
b. work to grow in grace (1:8-11)
III. Purpose (1:12-15)
IV. Defense of Apostolic and Scriptural authority (1:16-21)
1. Defense of Apostolic authority (1:16-18)
2. Defense of Scriptural authority (1:19-21)
VI. Warnings against false teachers (2:1-22)
1. Warning of their imminent arrival (2:1-3)
2. Warnings from history and God’s Faithfulness through history (2:4-10)
a. the fall of the angels (2:4)
b. the fall of the ancient world and salvation of Noah’s family (2:5)
c. the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah and salvation of Lot’s family (2:6-8)
d. reminder of God’s competence in saving his people from trial (2:9-10)
3. Description of the false teachers (2:11-17)
4. Warning about the road these teachers travel along (2:18-22)
V. The second coming of Christ, the imminent judgment of ungodly, and the new
heavens and the new earth (3:1-13)
1. Have confidence in Christ’s promise to return (3:1-9)
2. Have confidence that Judgment is coming (3:10-12)
3. Have confidence in the remaking of heaven and earth (3:13)
VI. Closing exhortation (3:14-18)
Outline of Leviticus March 26, 2008
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I. Outline of Leviticus
a. Manual for Sacrifice (1:1-7:38)
i. Manual for Sacrifice for All Israel (1:1-6:7)
1. Burnt Offerings (1:1-17)
2. Grain Offerings (2:1-16)
3. Peace Offerings (3:1-17)
4. Sin Offerings (4:1-5:13)
5. Guilt Offerings (5:14-6:7)
ii. Manual for Sacrifice for the Priests (6:8-7:38)
1. Burnt Offerings (6:8-13)
2. Grain Offerings (6:14-23)
3. Sin Offerings (6:24-30)
4. Guilt Offerings (7:1-10)
5. Peace Offerings (7:11-27)
6. Food Offerings (7:28-37)
7. Summary statement (7:37-38)
b. Narrative One (8:1-10:20)
i. The Ordination of Aaron and his sons (8:1-9:24)
1. Cleansing and Anointing to service (8:1-13)
2. Sacrifice (8:14-32)
3. Seven day Ordination (8:33-36)
4. Offering of Aaron on the eighth day (9:1-14)
5. Offering for the people by Aaron and Sons (9:15-21)
6. Aaron’s blessing on the people (9:22-24)
ii. The execution of two of Aaron’s sons (10:1-20)
1. Nadab and Abihu’s indescretion (10:1)
2. Nadab and Abihu’s execution (10:2-5)
3. Moses’ Command to Aaron (10:6-15)
4. Moses’ anger with Aaron (10:16-20)
c. Manual of the Cleanliness Code (11:1-15:33)
i. Clean and Unclean Animals (11:1-47)
ii. Purification after Childbirth (12:1-8)
iii. Laws about Leprosy (13:1-59)
iv. Laws for cleansing Lepers (14:1-56)
v. Laws about bodily discharges (15:1-33)
d. Manual for the Day of Atonement (16:1-34)
e. Manual of the Holiness Code, part I (17:1-23:44)
i. Sacrifices must be brought to the Lord (17:1-9)
ii. Do not eat food with blood still in it (17:10-16)
iii. Laws against immoral sexual behavior (18:1-30)
iv. Command to respect parents (19:1-8)
v. Laws against abusing the poor and travelers (19:9-16)
vi. Laws against vengeance (19:17-18)
vii. Justice laws (19:19-37)
viii. Judgment against Child Sacrifice (20:1-5)
ix. Judgment against using mediums (20:6-9)
x. Judgment against adulterers (20:10-21)
xi. The People’s call to be Holy before the Lord (20:22-27)
xii. The Priests’ call to be Holy before the Lord (21:1-22:16)
xiii. Sacrifices to be Holy before the Lord (22:17-33)
xiv. Feasts as Holy before the Lord (23:1-24:9)
1. Sabbath (23:1-3)
2. Passover (23:4-8)
3. Firstfruits (23:9-14)
4. Weeks or Pentecost (23:15-22)
5. Trumpets (23:23-25)
6. Atonement (23:26-32)
7. Booths or Tabernacles (23:33-44)
xv. The Tabernacle as Holy before the Lord (24:1-9)
1. The Lamp (24:1-4)
2. The Shewbread (24:5-9)
f. Narrative Two (24:10-23)
i. The blasphemy of Shelomith’s son
g. Manual for the Practice of Redemption (25:1-26:46)
i. Sabbath Year (25:1-7)
ii. Year of Jubilee (25:8-22)
iii. Kinsman Redeemer (25:23-34)
iv. Redemption for poor brothers (25:35-46)
v. Redemption for poverty-stricken (25:47-55)
vi. Promises connected with the Redemption laws
1. Blessing for Obedience (26:1-13)
2. Cursing for Disobedience (26:14-33)
3. Promise of God’s redemption for humble repentance (26:34-46)
h. Manual for Devoting things to the Lord (27:1-34)
Jude March 19, 2008
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Outline of Jude:
I. Greeting and Purpose (1-4)
1. Greeting (1-2)
2. Purpose & Problem (3-4)
a. purpose (3)
b. problem (4)
II. Warnings (5-16)
1. Warnings from Israel’s past (5-7)
a. Egypt (Idolatry) (5)
b. Angels (Pride) (6)
c. Sodom and Gomorrah (Sexual Immorality) (7)
2. Warning about the church’s present (8-13)
a. Sin leading to blasphemy (8-10)
i. They are dreamers
ii. They speak in arrogance
iii. They speak without knowledge
b. The three woes (11)
i. Cain
ii. Balaam
iii. Korah
c. The nature of these men (12-13)
i. Eating without fear
ii. Shepherding themselves
iii. Waterless clouds
iv. Unfruitful trees
v. Wild Waves
vi. Wandering Stars
3. Warning of coming judgment (14-16)
III. Exhortation (17-23)
1. Remember (17-19)
2. Stand Firm (20-21)
3. Evangelize (22-23)
IV. Doxology (24-25)
Sermon on the Mount March 17, 2008
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The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)
I. The Setting (Matthew 5: 1-2)
II. Opening (Matthew 5: 3-16)
a. The Beatitudes (Matthew 5: 3-12)
i. Blessings for those broken coming to salvation (Matthew 5: 3-5)
ii. Blessings for those who respond, hungering for the Gospel (Matthew 5: 6)
iii. Blessings for those receiving attributes of God in faith
(Matthew 5: 7-9)
iv. Blessings for those as the world responds to their faith
(Matthew 5: 10-12)
b. Commission to serve in Faith (Matthew 5: 13-16)
III. Jesus’ Exposition of the Law (Matthew 5:17 – 6: 34)
a. Relationship of the Son to the Law (Matthew 5: 17-20)
b. The Law in Man’s Obligation regarding Man (Matthew 5: 21-48)
i. Exposition of 6th Commandment (Matthew 5: 21-26)
ii. Exposition of the 10th Commandment (Matthew 5: 27-30)
iii. Exposition of the 7th Commandment (Matthew 5: 31-32)
iv. Exposition of the 3rd and 9th Commandments (Matthew 5: 33-37)
v. Exposition of the 8th Commandment (Matthew 5: 38-42)
vi. Summation of the Law regarding Man’s obligation to Man (Matthew 5: 43-48)
c. Exposition of the 4th Commandment (Matthew 6: 1-18)
i. The Heart behind serving the poor (Matthew 6: 1-4)
ii. The Heart behind prayer (Matthew 6: 5-15)
1. Praying with humility (Matthew 6: 5-8)
2. Praying the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6: 9-13)
3. Praying for Forgiveness (Matthew 6: 14-15)
iii. The Heart behind Fasting (Matthew 6: 16-18)
d. Exposition of the 2nd Commandment (Matthew 6: 19-24)
e. Exposition of the 1st Commandment (Matthew 6: 25-34)
IV. Application of the Law to the life of the Faithful (Matthew 7: 1-14)
a. Judging Others (Matthew 7: 1-6)
b. Asking God in Faith (Matthew 7: 7-11)
c. The Golden Rule (Matthew 7: 12)
V. Warnings against the Snares of the Devil (Matthew 7: 13-27)
a. Straight Gate and Narrow Way (Matthew 7: 13-14)
b. False Prophets (7: 15-27)
i. Recognized by their fruit (Matthew 7: 15-20)
ii. Recognized by Christ’s rejection of them (Matthew 7: 21-23)
iii. Recognized by their shifting foundation (Matthew 7: 24-27)
VI. The Response of the People to Jesus’ Teaching (Matthew 7: 28-29)