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Charts & Mechanical
Layouts
Dr Rick Griffith
Singapore Bible College
Biblestudydownloads.com
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How to Study a
Section of a
Biblical Book
1. Read the whole text
2. Paragraph titles
3. Relate the
paragraphs
4. Section to the whole
5. State the theme
6. Observations
7. Persons & places
8. Ask questions
9. What learned?
Literary Structure of
Habakkuk
Book Chart Habakkuk: Babylon's Destruction
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Chapters 1–2
Chapter 3
Punishment of Babylon
Praise Song
Habakkuk's Perplexity
Habakkuk's Praise
God's Actions Challenged
God's Actions Commended
Faith Troubled
Faith Triumphant
Problem
Resolution
Habakkuk
God
Habakkuk
God
Why aren't
you judging
Judah's sin,
God?
I will. I'll
judge Judah
with the
Babylonians!
But can you
use a nation
more
wicked than
Judah?
Sure, but
I'll judge
them too.
In wrath
remember
mercy.
Our God
is an
awesome
God!
I'll wait
patiently
for
Babylon's
judgment
and rejoice
in God.
1:1-4
1:5-11
1:12–2:1
2:2-20
3:1-2
3:3-15
3:16-19
Judah
c. 607-605 BC
Habakkuk
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Forgive Others and Seek Forgiveness
Book Chart
Greeting
1-3
Prayer &
Commendation
4-7
Appeal for Onesimus
8-21
Conclusion
Conclusion
22-25
Preface
Praise
Petition
Postscript
People
Concerned
Philemon's
Character
Onesimus'
Conversion
Paul's
Co-Workers
Authors
Authors
1a-b
Recipients
Recipients
1c-3
Thanks
Thanks
4-5
Relationships
Relationships
6-7
6-7
General
General
Appeal
8-11
8-11
Reasons
for
Reasons for
Return
12-16
12-16
Rome to Colosse
Fall AD 61
Specific
Specific
Appeal
17-21
17-21
Preparations
Preparations
Greetings
Blessing
Blessing
22-25
22-25
583
Amos
Judgment for Social Injustice
Eight
Judgments
Three
Sermons
Five
Visions
Promise of
Restoration
Chapters 1–2
Chapters 3–6
7:1–9:7
9:8-15
“This is what the
LORD says…”
“Hear this
word…”
(1:3, 6, 9, 11, 13; 2:1, 4)
(3:1; 4:1; 5:1)
“This is what the
Sovereign LORD
showed me…”
“In that day…”
“The days are
coming…”
(7:1, 4, 7; 8:1)
(9:11, 13)
God's Impartiality
God's Justice
God's Judgments
God's Grace
Pronouncements
of Judgment
Provocations
of Judgment
Future
of Judgment
Promises
after Judgment
Neighbor Nations
Judgment
Renewal
Horror
Hope
Northern Nation
767-753 BC (before the fall of Samaria)
Matthew 18:15-20
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If your brother sins against you, go and show him his
fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you,
you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not
listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter
may be established by the testimony of two or three
witnesses.' 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the
church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church,
treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will
be loosed in heaven. 19Again, I tell you that if two of you
on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done
for you by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or
three come together in my name, there am I with them.
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The Mechanical Layout
Rewrite
the text
for more
accurate
understanding
Reveal the
Grammar
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Main statements at left
One statement per line
Subordinate clauses below
Modifiers generally below
Coordinate clauses at left
Lists tabulated vertically
Ephesians 4:11-15
Matthew 18:15-20 Mechanical Layout
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If your brother sins against you,
go and show him his fault, just between the two of you.
If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
16But if he will not listen,
take one or two others along,
so that 'every matter may be established
by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'
17If he refuses to listen to them,
tell it to the church;
and if he refuses to listen even to the church,
treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18I tell you the truth,
whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth…loosed in heaven.
19Again, I tell you
that if two of you…agree about anything you ask for,
it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
20For where two or three come together in my name,
there am I with them.
Matthew 18:15-20
If your brother sins against you, go and show him his
fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you,
you have won your brother over. 16But if he
will not
How
to
listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter
Restore
may be established by the testimony of two or three
witnesses.' 17If he refuses to listen to them,15-17
tell it to the
church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church,
treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be
bound in heaven, and whatever you looseWhy
on earth
will
to
be loosed in heaven. 19Again, I tell you that if two of you
Restore
on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done
18-20
for you by my Father in heaven. 20For where
two or
three come together in my name, there am I with them.
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