OBC Jan/Feb 2007 SBW-IV_Course Description
A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF BIBLE WOMEN (IV)
(Course
Description)
This series of lessons is
entitled "A Systematic Study of Bible Women” (part 4) will be an 8 lesson
course, beginning with Zeruath
(mother of Jeroboam) and ending with a
study of widows in general. There
are nearly 200 women identified in the complete series (Old Testament and New
Testament). Our purpose is to
identify and scrutinize the actions and character traits of each woman as well
as her position in the home, family and the nation where she lived.
We will also study how she carried out her duties as a servant of God or
as an enemy of God. We will see how
her life influenced those around her and particularly how she used that
influence for good or evil.
We cannot gainsay the fact that the women who were mothers, wives,
sisters or daughters to their sons, husbands or fathers not only shared their
experiences, but also influenced them and others for good or evil.
These women, great or lowly, should be studied in order to understand the
complete Bible picture.
Individual lessons for this class SBW (Part 4) are taken from a book by
the same name, written by Coleman Overby—last printed in 1945.
Because Overby’s book contains such extensive research, it has been the
basis for several larger publications written by several modern day authors.
However, rather than following those newer works, we feel that our time
would best be spent studying the original. You
will not be expected to buy anything since the book is now out of print.
My sincere hope in this lesson series is to provide more than just a
cursory look at each personality in order to help us compare the information we
glean with God’s will for us as Christian women.
We will attempt, in every case, to compare what actually happened with
what should have happened.
“Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
(1 Cor 2:12-13)
His servant,
Beth Johnson