Steps:
1, summarizing the main idea of the text.
Say the main meaning of this passage in your own words.
2. Find out the key parts
What is the most crucial sentence in this article? Write it down.
Step 3 find out the key words
List the important words in the scripture and describe them with the content of this passage.
If you do this step carefully, you will find that the understanding of the scripture becomes clear immediately. You must use the content and language of this passage to explain the listed words, and don't take it for granted to explain them with previously known concepts.
4. Find out what God is like.
Let's start with this passage and don't write beyond the description of God's attributes in this passage. Then, in the face of the personnel obtained from the scripture, pray and praise God.
5. Understand God's expectations of himself.
God wants me to be what I am now, but he doesn't want me to list everything. Don't stretch too much. Be faithful to this passage and make it clear.
Similarly, pray and agree with the Lord according to the conclusion, and tell him that you understand what he expects of you and how you will obey.
6. My application
In the face of the above research results, write down the specific application today.
(1) What should I refuse?
(2) What should we guard against?
(3) What should I do actively?
Study Scripture: 1 John, Chapter 2, 7- 1 1.
Dear friends, what I am writing to you is not a new command, but an old command that you accepted at the beginning. This old order is the message you have heard. However, what I wrote to you is also a new order; The truth of this command is revealed in Christ and among you. Because the darkness is fading, the real light has begun to shine. If someone says that he lives in the light but hates his brother or sister, he is still in the dark. He who loves his brothers and sisters lives in the light, and he will not make others fall and commit crimes. But he who hates his brother is in darkness. He walked in the dark and didn't know where to go, because the darkness blinded his eyes.
1, summary
God tells us to love our brothers and sisters so that we can walk in the light.
2, key chapters (can be long or short, the key is to find the key)
The truth of this command is revealed in Christ and among you.
3. Keywords (the description here may not be a sentence, and don't be afraid to repeat it. Try to be faithful and list all the relevant descriptions from the scriptures)
(1) command: The command is both old and new. The old command was accepted from the beginning, and the new command appeared in Christ and all the people. This command is to love brothers and sisters, and those who accept this command to do it are truly living in the light. Because hatred can make people walk in the dark, make people blind, don't know where to go, and even make others stumble and commit crimes.
(2) Performance: The real performance in the light is to love brothers and sisters rather than hate them. Just as truth is in Christ. Learn the style of Christ.
(3) Darkness: Hatred can lead to darkness and make people blind.
(4) Truth: Truth is in Christ, and the true light begins to shine. People who love brothers and sisters have bright eyes in the light and know where to go to help others not commit crimes.
4. What is God like (including every case of the Trinity God). If the learned scripture talks about the holy spirit, it is also listed. "How" includes God's attributes, temperament and what he has done)
-Christ is love, light and truth.
Pray and praise God: Father, thank you for letting me know that my God is love and that you love me, because your essence is love, so the command is also love. Your love dispels darkness, brings light, and makes us all walk in light. People are prone to hatred, which makes me blind, makes me not know how to go, and makes the world dark. This reminds me of the dark situation I once lived in, and my heart is full of bitterness, not only hatred, but also jealousy, the pain I want but can't get. But you told me that I was loved by the greatest creator, and I existed because I was loved. Similarly, I can choose to learn from Christ, choose love and light, and pursue truth. Thank God, please let me know you better and live according to your words through the Holy Spirit.
Pray in the name of Jesus, amen!
5. What should I do?
I should love my brothers and sisters. Recognizing hatred will only blind you and darken your world.
Answer God's prayer:
Father, thank you for letting me know once again that I am loved, so I have the ability to love. Hallelujah! Can learn from the style of the Lord, can correctly handle their own emotions, choose their own attitude properly, and don't let people commit crimes, not hate, but love. It is your love and light that let me put down my hate, and thank you for letting me know how dark and miserable the situation of hate is. Let this truth always rule me. Let me know your love better. Again, hallelujah, thank you, praise God and pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
6. Today's applications
Abandon: Let go of the hatred of those who have hurt themselves and understand that hatred is actually a bitter poison. This bitter poison first harms itself and distorts the darkness in my heart. Now we know that God is love. We have sinned against God many times, but God still loves us because God is bright.
Persistence: Love from God is bright, and we have the strength to live by God's love.
Take the initiative to do it: pray for yourself and others, and ask the Lord to check my heart and get rid of all hatred and jealousy in my heart.
If there is someone who is actually annoying after investigation, take the initiative to contact him and make up with him. Even if this hatred is initiated by the other party, you can still be friendly, leave an outlet for the gospel in his heart, and let him know that you are always willing to accept him and open your arms to him with the love of Christ. -this still depends on the help of the Lord, and it is really difficult to rely on yourself. )