<![CDATA[Step Study Teach - Bible Study Steps]]>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:11:51 +0800Weebly<![CDATA[Who Was Melchizedek?]]>Thu, 23 May 2019 15:11:09 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/who-was-melchizedek
Who was Melchizedek? Follow this short Bible study to understand his purpose and place in history. Keep Reading...

Worship
Psalms 110:1-4 - The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies. Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”

Worship: Praise your mighty King and faithful High Priest. His name is Jesus. Honor him today!

Remember
Genesis 14:17-20 - After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Remember: There is One who is different and higher than the greatest human authority. Abraham recognized this. Do you?

Believe
John 8:54-56 - Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”

Believe: Do not tie your personal security to father, mother or any human authority. Jesus was, is and will be. He is the foundation to your life and your worship.

Surrender
Hebrews 6:19-20 - We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

Surrender: Grab onto hope in Jesus. You can count on him. Jesus as the faithful king and priest is not wishful thinking. He is your rock solid hope.

MORE INFORMATION on MELCHIZEDEK

Melchizedek was the king of Salem (Jerusalem) who suddenly appeared to Abraham after he rescued Sodom, Gomorrah and family from the enemy kings. (Genesis 14:17-2)

Some debate whether Melchizedek was an angel, a real king, or Jesus Himself. From the weight of Scripture, it seems most likely that he was a real king that lived at Abraham's time. (Hebrews 7:1-10)

What we do know... Melchizedek's family line was not recognizable to the author of Genesis. His day of birth and death was also not known. In this way, he resembled the One who would come in the order of Melchizedek - Jesus Christ. His name means "king of righteousness" and "king of peace".

Melchizedek's purpose in the Bible was to point the way to Jesus as our permanent priest who always lives to intercede for us. (Hebrews 7:24-25)

Melchizedek is a prefiguration of Jesus Christ. His life points the way to Jesus, reminding us that the Father's plan of salvation through Jesus was in place throughout all of history (first glimpse of this in Genesis 3:15). Indeed, Melchizedek reminds us that the whole of Scripture (including the Old Testament) points to Jesus. He is the central figure in the Bible. If we miss him, we miss everything.

]]><![CDATA[The Patience of God]]>Wed, 22 May 2019 14:41:12 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/the-patience-of-god
Do you recognize God's patience with you? Can you remember the time(s) when he has rescued you? Scroll through this Bible study on His patience. Keep Reading...

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Psalms 18:16-19 - He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Worship: Think back to a time when God rescued you. Thank him for his strength and mercy.

Remember
Genesis 14:11-16 - The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away. They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

One who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

Remember: Notice the mercy of God on Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah. He used the unity of Abram's family (318 trained relatives) to rescue and restore the people of these cities.
Believe
Luke 19:9-10 - Jesus said to him [Zacchaeus], “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”

Believe: Jesus came to rescue and restore all of us who are lost. He is still rescuing the sons of Abraham.

Surrender
2 Peter 3:9 - The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Surrender: Yield to God’s patience in your life. Don’t test him or run from him. He desires to rescue you.
]]><![CDATA[Where Will You Live?]]>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:27:54 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/where-will-you-live
Where will you choose to live? If you live close to the fire (wickedness), you will get burned. If you choose to live near God, spending time in His presence, you will get blessed. The choice is yours. Keep Reading...

Worship
Psalms 84:1-4 - How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young– a place near your altar, O Lord Almighty, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.

Worship: God doesn’t want “once-a-week" worship. He wants us to dwell with him. Speak out your longing to live in God's presence (even before you "feel" the longing).

Remember
Genesis 13:10-13, 18 - Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord…

(v. 18) So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

Remember: You have a choice to live near sin or stay far away. The choice to live around sin and rebellious people will have a devastating effect on your future and family.

Believe
John 14:23-24 - Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

Believe: Obedience to Jesus attracts the Trinity to your home. They intend to move in. Will you let Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in your home, giving them access to every room?

Surrender
Ephesians 5:8-13 - For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible.

Surrender: Do you condone or "wink at" any fruitless deeds of darkness? God says to expose them (be firm and clear about wickedness). Go one step further. Find out what pleases the Lord.
]]><![CDATA[God Protects His Promise]]>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:17:55 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/god-protects-his-promise
God is always at work protecting His promises. Will you join Him? Keep Reading...

Worship
Psalms 105:42 - For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.

Worship: Praise God that he always remembers his promises… even words spoken long ago. We may forget, but he never forgets.

Remember
Genesis 12:14-20 - When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman. And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

Remember: The promise of God (all nations being blessed through the line of Abram and Sarai) was under attack. Even Abram took part in potentially sabotaging the promise. God keeps his promise. God protects his promise (even when we go astray). Ask yourself, "Am I hindering God’s promise to me or my family in any way?"

Believe
Matthew 5:17-18 - Do not think that I [Jesus] have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Believe: God kept his promise to Abram. He sent his Son, Jesus, to fulfill the promise. All nations of the earth are blessed through Jesus.

Surrender
Hebrews 10:22-23 - Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Surrender: God’s faithfulness should move us to respond. We are called to draw near and hold onto the hope of eternity with him. God kept his promise to Abram. He will certainly keep his promise to us. John 14:1-3
]]><![CDATA[Abraham's Altars]]>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:53:15 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/abrahams-altars

God draws us back to the altar, the place where he dwells. It’s like a homing device within us. Be drawn back to remember his goodness today at his altar. Keep Reading...

Worship
Psalms 43:3-4 - Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

Worship: God draws us back to the altar, the place where he dwells. It’s like a homing device within us. Be drawn back to remember his goodness today at his altar.

Remember
Genesis 12:6-9 - Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

Remember: The altars represented significant moments of God speaking, as well as the active remembering of God's promises. Where are the altars in your life? Do you have any?

Believe
Matthew 5:23-24 - Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

Believe: Jesus clarifies what appropriate worship at the altar should look like. He desires right relationships between people as much as the personal act of worship at the altar.

Surrender
Acts 9:1-6 - Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.

“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Surrender: Can you remember a significant time when God spoke to you or appeared to you? What happened? Remember and thank God today for this moment. Make an altar today.
]]><![CDATA[The Call of Abram]]>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:41:11 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/the-call-of-abram
God is still calling. He calls to you and makes his promises. Can you hear his voice? Do you know his promises? Read 2 Peter 1:3-4.
]]><![CDATA[The Tower of Babel]]>Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:06:43 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/the-tower-of-babel
Do you notice an impulse within you to glorify yourself? Do you long for attention or get annoyed when you’re overlooked? These are the same impulses of those who tried to make themselves great at Babel. Scroll through the Bible Study Step above...
]]><![CDATA[The Rainbow and the Promise]]>Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:58:29 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/the-rainbow-and-the-promise
Remember how many promises that God has kept in your life? Are you a promise-keeper also? Keep Reading...
]]><![CDATA[The Covenant with Noah]]>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 03:59:08 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/the-covenant-with-noah
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What does God's covenant with Noah mean for us today? Keep Reading...

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Worship
Psalms 18:25-27 - To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd. You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

Worship: Praise you, Father, for your fairness. You always keep your end of the covenant. Thank you for your faithfulness.

Remember
Genesis 6:18-22 - But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark–you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Remember: God makes and keeps his covenant with his people. There are always two parties in a covenant. Noah had to fully participate (obey - build the ark) in order to make the covenant fully effective. God always works with us.

Believe
Matthew 24:37-42 - As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Believe: Jesus is coming again. Don’t be caught unaware, as the people were in Noah’s day.

Surrender
Hebrews 11:7 - By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Surrender: It is out of the fear of the Lord that we obey. Our obedience is counted as faith that is blessed. Fear God and obey today!
]]><![CDATA[The Grief of God]]>Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:44:19 GMThttps://www.stepstudyteach.com/bible-study-steps/the-grief-of-god
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God feels deeply over your choices. You have the ability to grieve or gladden Him. Keep Reading...

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Worship
Psalms 19:14 - May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Worship: Oh Lord, I want to be pleasing to you today. In the places that no one can see but You, I want my thoughts and motives to please You.

Remember
Genesis 6:5-8 - The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth–men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air–for I am grieved that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Remember: God grieves over the rebellion of his creation. He notices all of our thoughts and motives. He is pained over our sin. Righteousness makes God glad.

Believe
John 12:37-40 - Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

“Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: “He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn–and I would heal them.”

Believe: Acknowledge Jesus and his miracles in your life, whether great or small. Refuse to walk in unbelief.

Surrender
2 Peter 3:10-11 - But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives.

Surrender: There should be an urgency to our holiness. The end is coming. The Day of the Lord approaches. 
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