Wednesday Service | Unlocking Your Bible Study | Part 1: My Why

[1] WHY STUDY THE BIBLE? It’s my God given for

• There is a for our attention and our mind… we win by to feed our souls content

Proverbs 4:26-27 (MSG)

^23-27 Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts. Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.

• There is a war for our [and understanding]

Genesis 3:1-5 (NIV)

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ³ but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” ⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. ⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

• It a spiritual discipline that us

Romans 15:4 (NIV)

⁴ For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

• Scripture helps us understand and look for the we are meant to do

2 Timothy 3:14-17 (NIV)

¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, ¹⁵ and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

• The bible helps me live a life

Joshua 1:8 (AMP)

⁸ This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall read [and meditate on] it day and night, so that you may be careful to do [everything] in accordance with all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will be successful.

John 10:10 (NLT)

¹⁰ The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

[2] HOW DO I GET THE MOST OUT OF GOD’S WORD? By becoming a of scripture

• A student of scripture knows it was not written to us, but it was written

Romans 15:4 (AMP)

⁴ For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction…

• A student of scripture understands the nature of

• We better understand what scripture is saying “” when we have understood what it was saying “”

• A student of scripture reads a passage

• A student of scripture what they are learning

• Students of scripture make

[3] HOW WILL I GROW THIS YEAR AS A BIBLE STUDENT? By taking my

• If you’re completely new to the bible… Start with reading the Gospel of John beginning to end. And then continue into the Book of Acts.

• If you’re not brand new to the bible but you haven’t read that much, start with the gospels and finish the New Testament and then read the Old Testament starting in Genesis.

• Maybe you’ve read a lot of the bible, but not all of it. This would be a great year to read it beginning to end.

• Maybe you’ve been reading the bible for years, but you’ve never been apart of a group bible study. This could be your year to get a friend or 3 and choose a book to study over a month or 2.

EXTRA RESOURCES

[1] The Divine Mentor by Wayne Cordeiro – Book

[2] Living By the Book by Howard and William Hendricks – Book

[3] 40 Days in the Word by Rick Warren – Online teaching series

Matthew 5:17-20 (NLT)

¹⁷ “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. ¹⁸ I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. ¹⁹ So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

²⁰ “But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!