What I learned from a recent Bible study:


I learned that the prophets foretold Jesus' birth, acts, death, and resurrection. I learned where in the Bible to find all this information (I took that info. out in this document).

I also learned that it's important to be baptized, and that we all need a little help while searching for the Way. I learned where "The Way" originated, it originated when Jesus was foretold.


Here is a summary of the Bible study.

The Guide Who is Also the Way.


The Bible often pictures life as a journey, in which we must
choose the road we will travel. We should be careful because,

"There is a way that seems right to a man but in the end
it leads to death (Proverbs 16:25)."

Claims With Proof.....

The hard part is proving those claims to be true.

Most books by great thinkers do not try to offer real proof for
what they say about God. The Bible not only offers good evidence,
it is itself the proof! Remember that the Bible was written over a
long period of history. Because of this, the Bible stands alone in
being able to combine two things: It could foretell coming events.
And, much later, it could then report their fulfillment.

Earlier Bible writers told of things yet to come. Then, even
centuries later, other Bible writers saw and recorded those
things coming true. These are not 'guesses' about small, hidden
happenings. Many of these prophecies deal with entire nations,
and world-changing events. Many of the prophecies are about the
Christ.

Prophecies showed the line of parents through whom He would be
born. (Genesis 22:18; 49:10; Psalm 89; Jeremiah 23:5). They predicted the exact place of His birth. (Micah 5:2)They described His nature and work. (Psalm 2; 110; Isaiah 9:6-7; 11:1-10) They foretold His death, and even His victory over death. (Isaiah 53).

This picture of the Christ was drawn hundreds of years before the
coming of Jesus. Yet Jesus fit every part of this prophetic
picture so well that He is now called Jesus, the Christ. The
evidences about Christ are so strong that the world has never been
the same since His arrival.

Because the Bible is so convincing, Christianity has spread
around the world. As it spread, some took its good name and
twisted it, for their own selfish purposes. Terrible things
have been done in the name of 'Christianity'. Much of what
claims to be 'Christian,' is not! Jesus Himself said that His
name would be misused (Matthew 7:15-23). The apostles predicted
that "many" would follow false leaders who would change
Christianity (2 Peter 2:1-2; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12; 1 Timothy
4:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:5; 4:3-4). False forms of Christianity have
caused people to ask, "Where is the true Way, The Christianity
of Jesus? Can we find it again?" Here is the greatest value
of the Bible, for it has safely kept the true knowledge of Jesus.

Real Christianity is based on what Christ is, does and teaches.

As a person is willing to listen with "a good (honest) heart",
sometimes the Lord gives him understanding through the help of a
Christian friend. This is what happened to a man from Ethiopia:

The journey was long, and there was much time for thought. The
official read carefully. His mind was on the greatest journey of
all - life and death. This death, of which he read, was unusual.
He did not fully understand it. Yet he knew that it was an
important death, for the book telling about this strange death
was _The Book_. Generation after generation, century after century,
The Book's wisdom led the way to a better life. The part he now
read had first been penned 800 years earlier, by the prophet Isaiah.

To whom did Isaiah point, when he wrote of One killed as a
sacrifice, like a lamb? Looking up, the official saw a man coming.
Could this man help him? Could this be the friend he needed? The
friend was a Christian called Philip. The official immediately
asked him, "Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about...?"
[Let's conclude the story in the words of the Bible itself...]

"Then Philip began with that very passage of scripture and
told him the good news about Jesus. As they traveled along
the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said,
"Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?" Philip
said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." The
eunuch answered, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God." And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then
both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and
Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water,
the spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the
eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing
(Acts 8:35-39)."
As chief treasurer for the queen of Ethiopia, the official (or
"eunuch") had many duties. Yet no duty was greater than his
duty to God - from Whom all else comes. The official was religious.
He had just been in Jerusalem to worship God. He was a Bible
reader. These things did not make him proud. They made him aware
of how much more he needed to learn. He welcomed a friend who
could help him more fully understand God's word. In so doing, he
gained great happiness. In baptism he was "buried" and then raised
up with Christ to a new and better life, and the same can be done with us!