It's rude to stick out your tongue, Jamie!   

the Lord told us how to read his word and he mentioned nothing about context.
Isaiah said read his word this way

Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge?  and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?  them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10: For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12: To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13: But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

we are to read Jesus words line upon line and precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.

The Bible is the truth. And the truth that God has imparted through His Word is found linked within the Old and New Testaments. In Bible study, it is important to see these connecting Scriptures and that I think, was the methodology used by the Bereans (see Acts 17:10-12). By studying this way, we can prevent falling into the heresies that others have advanced because they began taking isolated Scriptures out of context.

Connecting the OT and NT truths and " types " is made easier by studying a Bible that has some form of detailed cross-referencing. Thompson's Chain Reference Bible is a very good reference tool as is Nave's Topical Bible. My great grandmother's family Bible (dated 1884) was published in Scotland. It is almost a foot thick with each page listing scores of parallel passages, cross references and commentary on difficult/obscure passages by various noted theologians. It offers me far more detail than any other Bible I have come across.

canuck

Canuck--

Looks like you and I posted at almost the same time----but with basically the same idea.  I agree with you totally. 

It is easier just to let someone tell you what it says. Be a follower not a leader. Leaders have to answer for all they lead astray. Followers just need to exercise faith in that their leader is a true spokesman for Christ.

What I did was to be interested in a specific subject, like lets say, the Sabbath, which day is it really?
 
Get a pen and paper and write all the references to the Sabbath question or any other subject matter you may want to learn. Then pray that God give you the understanding of what you read. Read each verse over, looking at it and thinking about it. You will be supprised how much you can accomplish. For instance. notice Geneses Ch. 2: 7; it states that God breathed into the nostrils of of man and man became a living soul. If that be the case, the body is the Soul of man. When man dies he becomes a dead soul. Just look at your scriptures really close.

freeman4:

continue to read really close: a dude hacked up his dead woman, and sent the parts all around the Hebrew lands.  It brought about revival.  Go for it?

Shipping dismembered corpse parts wouldn't revive much in me besides maybe dismemebereddeadgirlapho bia.