thanksgiving, and G-d us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever! 18 So we don't look at the troubles we can see right now; rather, we look forward to what we have not yet seen. For the troubles we see will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever.

You can do this same thing in books, just manually.

Let’s further learn how to study a topic in the Bible by doing a word study and a topical study.

Let’s say that this person who made that statement about grace and salvation is Jewish. Well perhaps you would start by looking u p t he word Messiah. If you do this in a standard Webster’s Dictionary or a thesaurus you will find that these both refer you to Jesus being the Messiah. I don’t think you will get too far with this Jewish person going that route. So let’s look at what the Scriptures say by looking up “Messiah” in the Nave’s Compact Topical Bible. Here is what it says:

Notice the word “anointed one” is used . So we can look up “anointed one” in the topical Bible and start from there. Also notice that it refers us to Daniel 9:25,26 as Old Testament Scriptures that relate .

Let’s now learn what the notes on the right side of the page mean . Look at verse 26 of Daniel 9 and you will see a small (a) immediately before the word Messiah which refers you to several other verses for further study . Notice that the small (a) is attached to the sentence; ^aMessiah shall ¹be cut off . See that the first reference on the right column is to Isaiah 53:8 . So what is being done here is the cross reference is telling you to go look at Isaiah 53:8 for further understanding of the meaning of this part of the sentence . As you can see there are numerous other cross references. 

Now before we go looking at Isaiah 53, notice the small # 1 attached to the part of the sentence that says “be cut off” . Look again on the right and find the # 1 . It is defining the meaning further as it says “Suffer the death penalty.”

Notice that under the actual Scriptures there are sometimes commentary notes. These are usually very helpful in obtaining greater understanding and depth as related to the verses they expound on. But always remember that

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