Choosing Victory, Overcoming Defeat: Joshua, Judges, Ruth
By Kay Arthur
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Readers will discover the keys to victorious living and winning life's battles in this enriching Old Testament study of how Joshua, Ruth, and the judges overcame defeat by following God's path to success.
Kay Arthur
Kay Arthur is a four-time Gold Medallion award-winning author, member of NRB Hall of Fame, and beloved international Bible teacher. She and her husband, Jack, cofounded Precept Ministries International to teach people how to discover truth through inductive study. Precept provides teaching and training through study books, TV and radio programs, the Internet, and conferences in over 180 countries and 70 languages.
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Choosing Victory, Overcoming Defeat - Kay Arthur
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CHOOSING VICTORY, OVERCOMING DEFEAT
HOW TO GET STARTED…
Reading directions is sometimes difficult and hardly ever enjoyable! Most often you just want to get started. Only if all else fails will you read the instructions. I understand, but please don’t approach this study that way. These brief instructions are a vital part of getting started on the right foot! These few pages will help you immensely.
FIRST
As you study Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, you will need four things in addition to this book:
1. A Bible that you are willing to mark in. The marking is essential. An ideal Bible for this purpose is The New Inductive Study Bible (NISB). The NISB is in a single-column text format with larger, easy-to-read type, which is ideal for marking. The margins around the text are wide for note-taking.
The NISB also has instructions for studying each book of the Bible, but it does not contain any commentary on the text, nor is it compiled from any theological stance. Its purpose is to teach you how to discern truth for yourself through the inductive method of study. (The various charts and maps that you will find in this study guide are taken from the NISB.)
Whatever Bible you use, just know you will need to mark in it, which brings me to the second item you will need . . .
2. A fine-point, four-color ballpoint pen or various colored fine-point pens that you can use to write in your Bible.
3. Colored pencils or an eight-color Pentel pencil (available at most office supply stores).
4. A composition book or notebook for working on your assignments and recording your insights.
SECOND
1. As you study Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, you will be given specific instructions for each day’s study.
Remember, anytime you get into the Word of God, you enter into more intensive warfare with the devil (our enemy). Why? Every piece of the Christian’s armor is related to the Word of God. And our one and only offensive weapon is the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. The enemy wants you to have a dull sword. Don’t cooperate! You don’t have to!
2. As you read each chapter, train yourself to ask the 5 W’s and an H
: who, what, when, where, why, and how. Asking questions like these helps you see exactly what the Word of God is saying. When you interrogate the text with the 5 W’s and an H, ask questions like this:
a. What is the chapter about?
b. Who are the main characters?
c. When does this event or teaching take place?
d. Where does this happen?
e. Why is this being done or said?
f. How did it happen?
in the margin of my Bible beside the verse where the time phrase occurs. You may want to draw the clock over the time-related word or phrase, or you may want to underline or color the references to time in a specific color.
Remember, time may be expressed in several different ways: by mentioning an actual year, month, day, or by mentioning an event such as a feast, a year of a person’s reign, etc. Time can also be indicated by words such as then, when, afterwards, at this time, etc.
4. You will be given certain key words throughout the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. Marking key words is the purpose of the colored pencils and the colored pen. If you develop the habit of marking your Bible in this way, you will find it will make a significant difference in the effectiveness of your study and in how much you remember.
A key word is an important word that is used by the author repeatedly in order to convey his message to his reader. Certain key words will show up throughout the book; others will be concentrated in specific chapters or segments of the book. When you mark a key word, you should also mark the key word’s synonyms (words that mean the same thing in the context) or pronouns (he, his, she, her, it, we, they, us, our, you, them, their) in the same way. I will give you suggestions for ways to mark key words in your daily assignments.
Marking words for easy identification can be done by colors or symbols or a combination of colors and symbols. However, colors are easier to distinguish than symbols. If I use symbols, I keep them very simple. For example, I color repent The symbol conveys the meaning of the word—a change of mind. When marking key words, do it in a way that is easy for you to remember.
You should devise a color-coding system for marking key words throughout your Bible so that when you look at the pages of your Bible, you can see instantly where specific key words are used.
When you start