PARTIAL NOTES AND LIST OF SCRIPTURES:

How should you and I Study the Bible to really come to understand it?
1-Surrender to GOD and the Authority of the Bible forsaking our ways and those of this society.
Isa 66:1  Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 
Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 
2-Believe GOD and what HE says, His Word and accept its plain meaning.
Joh 5:42  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 

Joh 5:43  I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 
Joh 5:44  How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? 
Joh 5:45  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. 
Joh 5:46  For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 
Joh 5:47  But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? 

3-Study to find WHAT THE TRUTH IS. Ask God for guidance to understand the truth, to understand the meaning. 
2Ti 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 
2Ti 2:16  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 

TIPS TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE
You can't come to understand it by yourself. You can come to see somethings but you won't see the ovearll picture without someone to guide you
Act 8:27  And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 
Act 8:28  Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. 

Act 8:29  Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. 
Act 8:30  And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 
Act 8:31  And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. 

4-Can't do it on your own...  
5-Study a topic from Cover TO Cover!  There are religions founded on a single passage.
6-Don't try to "interpret" the Bible!  IT interprets itself!
7-Study the CONTEXT of the Scriptures.
8-Be careful TO PROVE all things.
1Th 5:21  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 
TEST ALL THINGS... Prove them thoroughly in various ways.
9-Avoid jumping to HASTY conclusions and take course of action that will prove to be destructive.
JOKE: SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD JUMPS OUT OF THE PLANE

Joh 5:38  And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. 
Joh 5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 

5- ACT on the Knowledge you gain.
    a- Can't understand it if YOU DO NOT APPLY IT. YOU apply it, then you understand it.
    b- Unless applied it is of absolutely NO Value!
Jas 1:23  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 
Jas 1:24  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 
Must LEARN & DO.   Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

Jas 1:25  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 
Pray for HIS GUIDANCE and MORE of the Spirit of Truth IN you so you understand and DO!

7-STUDY Regularly. Set aside quality time each day and make Bible Study in your life!!!!

2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 
2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 

8-BE ZEALOUS in your own life. Precious few others have been blessed as we have.
"Make HAY while the sun shines" Oklahoma

Heb 11:   Without faith... 

Ecc 9:10  Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 
Heb 11:6  But without faith, it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 
Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. 
Rev 3:13  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 
Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 
Rev 3:15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 
Rev 3:16  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 
9-Study to come to understand the OVERALL Purpose of the Bible to understand what is coming to try the entire WORLD.  God will reward us at the end of it all and abundantly.