Bible Studies

Codes & Descriptions

Class Codes
[A] = summary lessons
[B] = exegetical analysis
[C] = topical doctrinal studies
What is a Mini-Series?
A Mini-Series is a small subset of lessons from a major series which covers a particular subject or book. The class numbers will be in reference to the major series rather than the mini-series.
Philippians (2022)

Philippians (2022)

April 2022 - March 2024
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:5-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 13 mins 2 secs

Was Jesus a normal, physical human when He lived on earth? Listen to this message to learn about His humanity, including His human attributes such as hunger, emotions, and physical tiredness. See His voluntary humiliation as He limited His divine attributes in order to fulfill His mission. End the message by hearing Mark Musser describe the missionary work he and his wife, Caren, are doing in the chaotic countries of Armenia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

You can find out more about Mark's ministry at arewf.org (Ararat-Ranier East-West Fellowship).

Thursday, July 13, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:5-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 3 mins 29 secs

Was Jesus Christ just a wise and good man who lived on this earth? If you’ve ever heard that false view, listen to this message to hear the amazing facts about Jesus that prove His divinity beyond a doubt. Hear a list of His divine attributes and where He declared Himself to be God in the Scriptures. Find out how these claims He made about Himself angered the Pharisees and made them try to stone Him to death. Realize that you need never fear that something man does can destroy this earth because Jesus Christ created this world and holds it together.

During this message Dr. Dean referenced three schools that still provide a non-propagandized education. Quoting Pete Hegseth's statement in The Battle for the American Mind: “... save for a few exceptions—Hillsdale College, Liberty University, College of the Ozarks, to name a few—higher education is a wasteland.” There may be a few others, but I only know of these three as well.

Additional information is available in the Text: notes link below.

Thursday, June 29, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:5-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 6 mins 34 secs

Have you ever tried to share the gospel with a Jewish friend and found that they have trouble understanding the Godhead and believe that there is only one divine Person? Listen to this message to learn about a time during the period between the end of the Old Testament and the coming of Christ when Jewish rabbis wrote a number of Targums, or commentaries, about the word Memra throughout the Old Testament and showed that it referred to two distinct divine Persons. Hear how rabbis later reversed these teachings after the Apostle John used the Greek word LOGOS to refer to Jesus.

The handout Dr. Dean referenced during this lesson is available in the Text: notes link.

Thursday, June 01, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:5-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 57 mins 46 secs
Was Jesus Christ always the Son of God? Listen to this message to hear Scriptures that you can reflect on that show Christ as the eternal Son of God. Find out who the Angel or Messenger of the Lord is and see a number of passages concerning this. See seven ways the rabbis used the term “Memra” as the visible expression of God.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:5-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 10 mins 25 secs
What was involved when Jesus added to Himself a human nature? Listen to this message to learn more details about this enormously complex question which baffles our finite minds. Find out the importance of the Creator/creature distinction and hear a number of passages to meditate on to help us grasp these concepts.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:5-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 11 mins 27 secs
One of the most difficult concepts for our finite minds to understand is that of the Trinity. Listen to this message to learn that God is a unity and there is not more than one God but there are three Persons in the Godhead. Hear a number of passages both in the Old Testament and the New Testament that refer to this unity and name the personages. See that Christ not only pre-existed mankind but had eternality like the other Members of the Trinity. Realize that as you listen and study these passages you will begin to get a glimmer of who Jesus was before His Incarnation, during His Incarnation and is now.
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:5-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 7 mins 56 secs
If asked, who would you say Jesus is? Listen to this message to get details about Jesus’ eternality and pre-existence as Deity. Find out how the early Church Fathers struggled to explain the biblical concept that there are three Persons but one nature in the Godhead, all with identical essence. Learn who first explained the concept of the Trinity. Grasp the rich meaning of the hypostatic union.
Thursday, May 04, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:4-11
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 6 mins 52 secs
Who was Christ before He came to Earth? Who was He when He lived on this Earth? Who is He now? These questions were debated by the early Church for several centuries. Listen to this lesson to learn biblical answers to all of them. Learn of the Scriptures that tell us that Jesus always existed with all the attributes of divinity and that He willingly restricted the use of those attributes while He was on Earth. Learn that He is fully human and see that He used some of His divine powers to show that He was God, such as taming the storm. See the practical significance of His mental attitude of humility which should be our thinking also.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:4-9
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 8 mins 37 secs
What would you say humility is? Listen to this lesson to learn that humility is a mental attitude that puts other people’s interests above your own. Find out that it is primarily a biblical concept, taught in both the Old and New Testaments and that the Lord Jesus Christ is the example of humility during His time on Earth. Find out it is not something we can develop in ourselves but it is one of the outcomes of walking by means of the Holy Spirit. See that over the centuries people have struggled with a number of questions concerning Christ’s being that will be answered in coming weeks.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Passage: Philippians 2:3-6
Series: Philippians (2022)
Duration: 1 hr 5 mins 1 sec
What is God’s standard for the body of Christ and the local church? Listen to this message to learn that there is to be unity in the Church, unity in the doctrine believed and taught, and unity among the members of the congregation. Find out that this depends on developing mental attitudes of humility and unselfishness and viewing other people’s concerns as important as your own. Understand that our example for this humility is the Lord Jesus Christ.