The Importance Of Reading The Bible (EP 177)
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What is the importance of reading the Bible?
Why is this thing important? This is something that was on my heart this morning. I was praying when I was driving over to the studio, and I said, man, God, like, I just... want to be cautious about what i say what i talk about and so i was like god would you just like reveal to me what you what you want to focus on and this got highlighted to me And so I really want to talk about, I'm going to be bouncing all over the scriptures, talking about some personal experiences in my life and things like that. Let's open up the word of God. The first thing I want to talk about while you're opening, open up to Matthew chapter four. If you're in Matthew chapter four, open up there in your Bibles. But I'll never forget like before being a Christian and even now, sometimes like the temptation of being a Christian is, oh, I know what's best for my life.
And so I'm going to make a decision that's best for Bryce because I I know myself better than anyone else knows me. I'm going to make that decision. And I would consider that sometimes not all the case, but operating in the flesh, right? That's the tendency, especially before a Christian, you're operating out of your own strength. You're your own shepherd. And obviously the fruit of being your own shepherd is blowing your whole life up. And so I want to read Matthew chapter four and see why it is important to read scripture towards the beginning. But before we do that, I want to release a verse to you. Now, I want you to keep in your mind this entire episode, and it's Hebrews 4.12. The scriptures and the writer of Hebrews would say in Hebrews 4.12 that the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, which separates the soul from the spirit.
Meaning the word of God is the most powerful tool to not only change your mind, but change your actions by separating the soul from the spirit. What is the soul? The soul is the way that seems right to you and me. And the spirit, the way that seems right to God. You know, Paul writes in Romans 12, opens up Romans 12, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. If you have a sinful habit or a struggle that you're trying to break, but you're not going to the word of God, that struggle is probably never going to be broken. You know why? Because you're relying out of your own strength and you need the word of God to wash your dirty mind, to take off that dirty record of the flesh and put on the spirit in your mind through the word of God, cleansing your mind, cleansing your actions and changing the way that you think and act.
But let's read Matthew chapter four. So it starts off, it says, Jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, if you are the son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread. So Satan tempts Jesus. He was led by the spirit 40 days of fasting. At the end of his fast, Satan comes in and tries to tempt Jesus in his flesh. And he says, hey, turn these rocks into bread. But he answered, Jesus says, it is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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