Motivation for Bible Study

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A large update to care about a morning thank you very much for being here this is a fight over this morning's a court order prayer and then we can get right into this and will talk about her to review a little bit and we did last week and then talk today about another very important issue for going to Bible reading Bible study as to whether worker together father thank you for your good as or we thank you for the opportunity just to be here together this morning I thank you for these folks and their desire to learn more about how to study your word out of reach and work well and what I pray that you would do work by your Spirit in our lives but this is not just about having the right skills and even just about having the right motivation and it has to be something that you work in us and so I pray that you would do the good work and that's what I pray that today that our hearts would be tuned in to you and to what you would say to his duty station and asked us in Christ okay we talked last week about our grand metaphor a word picture of it arrives with the process of Bible study your Bible reading is lie in the word picture we used was the Bible study of Bible reading is likely to trip at your murderous steps and that's really said you've got to leave home just as in any type of communication were you talking someone else you guys doubting yourself and really can't tune into the other person if you communicate well with them you got to leave home the vehicle that will get us back to where we want to go in terms of understanding what the writer meant by what was written is crossed as he is down process of study will help us make that trip that brings us to understand what Paul was writing to the Corinthians and so we wanted to a work of making that trip in knowing and understanding what was originally intended the destination we want to get to is the original meaning of the tax I said last week that if the text can mean anything to me so it's not as cut up for grabs were just whatever you want the Bible site is okay whatever I want a place where the star is what did God's fire the rider's site at that place and that the lesser destination as it might remember what is the vehicle to get back to our time we got to the point where we understand what the text meant for them what is the vehicle that helps us get back to today in the application environment that it was a muddy wake up to this morning said we did talk some about the culture significance is right we want fast what is the significance of the that we learn from this passage for us today because for a talk about the fact that there a lot of things we experience today that the Corinthians never experienced an event was ever tempted to take the computer and throw it out the window and we have a lot of things that we face today nuclear war there all kinds of examples which you need to use which they had not experienced that experience but the principles that we have in Scripture are significant for me type of experience that we have today okay so we're got asked the question what is the significance and we get to the session and we talked about how he might sound application wouldn't talk about how you think through step-by-step what is an appropriate application of the passage and then where do we start coloring outside the lines of that and then where we want to come to overcome all the way back from our trip is application of the text word is not just to be understood it's also the live and work talk more about that here in just a little bit of This word picture of the trip down patriotic guy gets a place where you become committed to the trip to commit yourself that's what all this as in buying the tickets but God it's as if you're sitting there looking at the computer screen and Uganda were bits or maybe some other website where you're buying a ticket for a trip you got to get to the point where you're motivated enough to push the button to pay the money to get that ticket and go on your trip so we will talk about who's issue of motivation last year are I guess it's really two years ago now my family and I went to North Carolina and we were saying in a friend's cabin out there and while we were there just when I did something very special we went and we took a hike up a mountain to a place called St. John's Roth is a beautiful rock that looks out over this phenomenal scene of mountains and valleys that type of thing so we went one does AMS special marker of him turning 10 years old, right of passage he and I went and we went on this long five up the mountain and we got up to this rock jutting out from the side of mountain were sitting here looking out on this abuse seen in house but talk to him about the transition to becoming of the Dalton were starting this conversation about what it means to be possible and have more privilege to choose and blue are right right nearby to have this conversation and all the sudden a bunch of Boy Scouts came bursting out of the woods of the rock and running around Iraq in the plan didn't go exactly like resolve them in a phenomenal day I gave him a watch because we talked about house and need to use our time will as we grow up in this kind of things we had this wonderful wonderful conversation and a great day we got pictures in Gotham's >now back at the beginning of the process when we are thinking about taking this trip and taking a hike up the mountain now I had thought of think that the round trip is like 7 miles or something like that is going to take a lot of energy and 75 sweaty and you know all of this kind of thing by thinking about the relational payoff of going up that mountain with my son and having a day where we just focused on talking about growing up in all this I was motivated to pay the price to get their to take the high interest in that day and focus on the meaning of what it was a lot of fun it was a great memory which she did do that now in the same way we talk about studying the Bible it is something that takes energy something that we have to be motivated to get off the dime and the Lawrence if we're going to do it in a consistent way to thought so let's begin with this consistent Bible reading and study are foundational for life is really what this session is to be about Christ followers are to be people of the word to be people who are living in the Bible who are reading the Scriptures on a consistent basis who are getting into studying it that type of thing this is not optional for those of us who are price fall into something that is very important but I think all of the even know we agree with that statement would also say that most of us struggle with reading and studying the Bible consistently struggle with reading and studying the Bible says that what you think NES and listen right here with you at his website right from the beginning that this is something from Nietzsche be consistent in my Bible reading my Bible study does it from easily something that I have to stay with them as recommit to a science why is that why is it that we struggle with Bible reading Bible study on a consistent basis since my coming to study or experience or future observation like probably most of us would say it's a matter of time to get up in the morning we have a lot to do it's easy to get right out the door and get on with the day and by the time we get to the end of the day if you finish up what you need to do that day about seven or eight pocketknife tire you don't feel like being disciplined with anything you really raise to get on and do whatever you do whether it's read or watch TV or whatever so five is the fact that we have to deal with what else okay alright Tom said that we think we must already know enough to know basic layout hard to stuff all my life and so if you feel like the arty Which you need there which in essence if somebody says that it's an indicator that they really haven't spent much time in the Baath success fact is that the one theologian said that if one portion of Scripture that it is the enough for notes and swimming in shallow enough for all of us can understand basically the baby weight in so doing something that always unfolds is always more lyrics reaching the derived some thought given to the attitude we really don't need to learn anything else see said what that probably again for a lot of us this has similar to the time issue but we have a lot of other things that draw the way our emotional energy in our focus in life and we distracted and we don't focus so that's another reason Charles Gibson have rights if we struggle with even knowing what to do where to begin any plot down in the first to start a Bible reading program you got if you like you're floundering there and you really don't know how to go about selecting breakpoint on a scale right anybody else having a good we are creatures of habit and if we are not already a pattern of doing the things she does take a lot of energy to make the transition to get that feeling doesn't affiliation several things in the scoundrel right along with what you're saying were actually just start with the last one and move up to the first one because I think that there's a pattern here of going deeper and deeper in terms of the issue shall be verse that is a lack of discipline to make interaction with the Bible priority a lack of discipline I know for myself at times when I'm struggling with my pattern is all down to the fact that in one sense of legacy I don't have the discipline to really do the things I want to do it and I know that I should answer all the lack of discipline is real issue we make time to do the things that we wanted to we make time to do the things that we wanted to and I should say really that we feel the time we have with my time time is there for all of us everybody has the same number of minutes a day it's a matter of how we are going to feel that time if you can imagine that I have a big basket of fear and the things in the basket represent the different things that I do during the day so maybe there's a newspaper because I like to read the newspaper in the morning but maybe there is an animal because an ego feed the dog at this animal was that the vast magnificent offices in the baskets and I have a gardening trial because I love gardening and I like it out there with that, books I'm reading something you have all the different things filling the basket all of us have a basket probably for this very fool for going get to a point where we are going to make the time to do something very important that we really really wanted to like Bible study Bible reading for half of you probably use rearrange the best of it maybe take a couple of days out of the basket that really ought not to be that big priority for us and put those things lack the Bible in the basket because we all have the time shift the question of how or when the user time so most of us struggle son for honest with us secondly might be a lack of skill sets for said just a minute if it may be that if no one has to thought this through a process of Bible reading or process of file you study the Bible you can be very frustrating for us and it's not very fulfilling to get in their struggle with even knowing how to start approach if I have a chance as an antique chest next my chair at home and that chess and the changes broken off of its and I think it's been like this since we got it and him wanting to start using it instead of just filing all my books and junk on the table next to my chair onto power laws by Jonathan Chesley somebody will see if you want to come over and so I wear it to the store and I've never fixed a chess like this have never had those kinds of changes and honestly it was kind of a frustrating process for first changes that God did not work well they weren't heavy enough and I got this real fancy caffeine to get him inside the box and hold the lid up and I could get that thing to work right but finally my trial and error after was a land-use changes that really aren't even supposed to be used in this kind of box upgradable actually with antique-ish release now fully editable raising flows but it was frustrating because I'd never have the money for a while through faith are the kinds of changes which use and hear us how you put them on so it took a wild and don't look too closely at it to come over my house with this you can tell that my skill is not right there but one thing I hope that we have happened in this flat is that for all of us here at our skill level will rise significantly so the scale is some issue and were also talk about shoes goals along with that there are wonderful tools that come out the last 15 to 20 years wonderful Bible study tools and sort of talk about though some in the next action or third thing would be a lack of motivation and I think in some ways the lack of this galactic scale really feed into this lab motivation motivation is the energy and desire to get moving energy and the desire to get moving and so we're hopeful to talk about some things this morning that will help us to be motivated such as give this a shot as any energy here and really get moving at the final point which is a yes our spiritual condition our spiritual condition and something that I want us to see is that ultimately will we don't spend time in the word consistently and goes back to the matter before it really goes back to an issue of our spiritual laws and condition -- that is absolutely foundational fact I feel like if we get that issue addressed in some ways it will help us greatly with motivation help us with the issue of discipline well of any passages that really deal with this think so no one should think of a relational parallel before we look at the facets think about marriage for instance if the relationship is off in the mirror each then everything else is for all of us to have relationships those of your students think about relationship parents if you have a very close relationship with somebody but it's messed up stuff off kilter in some way then what that does is it makes everything else that surrounds the relationship difficult for her know doing the right thing is just far to do when you don't have this relational softball and on and sideways relationship with God were not walking toward the way that we need to for really struggling that it makes it much more difficult to do other things and it makes it more difficult to hear God's Word to study God's Word when we need to account for not really where we need to be spiritually in March after four versus three through nine of their past for me just for a minute more chapter 4 versus 339 very familiar passage here where Jesus was giving a foundation all terrible for all of his other teaching for all of the other parables really the reason why this parable of the sewer is a nation of ethos it is about Al person received the word of God how unreceptive we are due to word of God really focuses highlights the spiritual issues that surround our openness to hearing God's word with you what Jesus said in versus three through nine listen to this folder so or when after so when it came about as he was selling some seed fell beside the road and the birds came and ate up another seed fell on the rocky ground where did not have much soil and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil and after the sun had risen it was scorched and because it had no roots with her way and other seed fell among thorns and the thorns came up and show fifth and it yielded no crop in other seats fell into the good soil as they grew up and increase the yield of the crop can produce 30 6C and 100 fold and these saying she has asked fiercely here leading here -- so Jesus gives this wonderful word picture and this is a very simple word picture it's about a farmer going out to sow seeds in the field of accident and time they would say can broadcast the seeds by handing you can imagine that as the farmers going down one side of the field and each taking a seat in throwing it out maybe like some you've done if some grassy before some other fantasy ashy throwbacks E. it's not real exact science you can kind of see about where the seats fallen and try to get it just right but if you're down the side's that see is that a blowout of the field itself and over on this side and that's the picture that Jesus is getting here say some see us fall on the half they can imagine a person who is walking that path and that have to endure this down like there's a path that goes around the west side of our house in that soil is justice for seeking the Bekaa score dog goes on it constantly and we walk on is he just packed down so their seed that falls on the top of the Greyhound and the birds come and they snatch away because there's no penetration at all and Jesus describes your person who has what I call a hardpacked for their hardest so far to God to God's word that they're just not sexy but all that what's here it's the one here at the second picture is a person who is why seed falling on soils that is very fantasy Darth glitch riddled with its routes and it starts coming up with a shallow so that when the sun comes and bears down on it because the roots are very shallow it withers away Jesus describes this and says it's like a person who initially is all led to what God say they want to fear they may be motivated in a very initial way but we had difficulties from persecution comments do what it does is it drives up that motivation ethos therefore this shallow it's not off our backyard this case if one has little to recent activity but shallow and therefore doesn't handle situations that come along with demand some kind of endurance and depth person writes the third type I can identify with tremendously and that is the seed that falls in we soil where the plant comes up and it's starting to grow but it's among the weeds in the Florence and that type of thing and so the plant shut down where the process at our house right now we have some beds and cranial area that had just gotten out of hand and fat is the master reader blaming Shia south is there and she's a detail person I'm not a very good detail purse box for some of our plans we have for radios that grow well normally in this climate but they have gotten choked out :-( now it's because of the Wii's around and she says that this is like a person who really they have some depth to the really want to do the right thing but the cares of this world and desires further thinks the main choke out the word so this is the kind of person who gets distracted and gets really another things to the point that they're not focus spiritually on the word they need to delight when I am struggling with Bible reading and Bible study one of things I stop and ask myself if something was distracting me here what is it that's really draining my focus and my energy wife what am I lying in bed thinking about is not waking up the next morning thinking about the point it's taking all my attention and it's taking me away from the word less fearful issue that's your Bush can't simply write it off so we are busy at work or whatever we think of you with an underlying spiritual issue there might not trusting God with this for some gadget stuff I love gadgets and things like that I can focus on that in a good sense with them getting this thing out of the spiritual issue is a draining my attention away from a healthy walk with God the fourth feature Jesus gives this parable is set before us the time see if it comes up and it thrives because it has a great atmosphere to thrive in Amwell assayed USS Bible study and Bible reading is not an end in itself is not an angel in heaven and ask for the Bible study lists in your name is okay they did that day so they get the blessing for the day for they were consistent this week solve in order to give them five stars this week because of this yet in Bible study Bible reading dude they fled us in an atmosphere that's conducive for growth in our relationship that's what they do situation and that really brings up why we should read and study the Bible consistently source offered several of these species will first of all and that this something that we need to land on first and that is that God's love is express this fall for us to believe and live fish were God's love is expressed in the fall rice to believe and live his word in other words it's a matter of obedience is a matter of obedience are six rule says this access I plead with you to study the Bible for personal edification I fried the art of persuasion to stimulate your quest for happiness I can say that the study of the Bible would probably be the most fulfilling and rewarding educational experience of your life I could cite numerous reasons why you would benefit from the serious study of Scripture but ultimately the main reason why we should study the Bible is because it's our duty if the Bible were the most boring book in the world doll's an interesting and seemingly irrelevant if she'll be our duty to study it if it's literary style or awkward and confusing the duty would remain relentless use of beings under an obligation by divine mandate to study diligently guards were BSR sovereign is his word and he commands that we study a duty is not an option that will start there because we had our culture can you be so self-centered that we can start out by just appealing what Cisco do for us and we are getting into that because the Bible has a lot to say about how Word of God itself is really the way to live and work talk about that just minute analysis of the fact that we need to remember that we are under the Lordship of France is not just about us and any something that is really an obligation for Ross to get to know God's word and to live it as trying to be obedient to him he studied someone I'd seen for this week and hope that she saw a lot of wonderful things there about what God's word will be for threads talk more about those a minute but notice that Francis and Psalm one 1945 the psalmist rice you have charged us to keep your commandments carefully over my actions would consistently reflect the principles and verse 52 I meditate on your age-old false allure they comfort me circle the word in those two passages of Commandments law's loss commandments are not since they're not served -- and this they are something we are intended to take seriously the faithful a God swallow certain knocks something that's far hard and egregious sin something that's really bring us down in life they are something they give us life and that's why wants to move to the next point and that is though that God's word as a gift for life the wonderful thing is these Commandments that God gives us the fact that these are obligations these are matter the buyer also right in line with what really blesses us in line with what gives us life and all this talk about that aspect of the motivation here for just a minute notice the value that the psalmist basis of God's Word in fact I was reading the use togetherness leave out the reference and reset the content of the passage here to give us our resolve in 1914 was read these out loud together will go right down through them I have rejoice in your decrease as much as in richness you are law is more valuable to me than millions in gold and silver your decrees are much fresher they are truly my heart's life I will delight in your principles and not forget your word made off along the path of your command's for that is where my happiness staff how sweet are your worst in my case they are sweeter than honey look down on me with love teach me all your principle known as all of the word seer that have to do without you have to do with the word being a wonderful gift is life richest fishlike Fraser Edie is a delight it is something that is where my happiness is found the word suites -- an expression of God's love that he gives us his principles in other words the word is a key to happiness or fulfillment's in life is a key to happiness or fulfillment in life believe Donald has written this in his little book with safety first excess life with Christ is life indeed he is the answer to every question of the human mind the answer to every longing of parks and he answered every need of the sphere is the Fountainhead of all three Fletcher D. is the only one in whom we can hope without fear of dissolution with the only one of whom we can both without fear of disappointment and the only one in who we can thrust not spare the Lord Jesus is the ideal companion the one who sticks closer than a brother through field the troubled soul finds peace with God takes away the burden of sending this perfect rest fears Linux we need not stumble he is the way we need not go astray if the fruits we need not fear just why we need not perish he alone gives purpose to living in a bright prospect of dying Christ is love is with some useful use strength diesel wonderful Savior blessed Redeemer of glorious King shrewdly use all in all Ace of Christ really just a source of our life and the word is worth is foundational for us experiencing life as a gift to ask you this only studied Psalm 119 this past week was other things if you remember from your study about how the word is a blessing to us and every go through just a few votes can you tell me from your study would use see what are some ways in which the word it's a blessing to us and gives us life it gives great sense of being blessed and was what thoughts you your turn in for okay it talks about the richness of life when it is live according to gods were such rights -- life is okay yes encouragement gives encouragement that's absolutely right what else it councils and gives us direction in life absolutely something else less safe for families with several of these together for these rather quickly because of our time of us off about the source of all through the word we know God through the word we know God someone acting chance S. I've tried my best to find shoes don't let me wander from your command's notice the connection between finding God knowing God and knowing the commands of God Psalm one 1957 Lord your mine I promise to obey your worse again if the connection is there between relationship and the dynamics of knowing God of heaven relation with God share were Sunday before about the fact that NetSuite is down at Southwestern seminary and she was in a class I was teaching and I remember that like it was yesterday and just imagine with me know if I've got a laugh finally got up enough for each single author heard there on campus and asked her to go have something to drink coffee CD or whatever and I can remember this so distinctly I was walking across campus and I saw her over near the women's dorm and I just kind of suck it up and got Kurds there for a minute I started towards her and if I went towards her she was talking to a couple and suddenly she saw me coming and she turned toward me and took a couple steps towards me and I thought this is a good sign so I went up to her but what if I had gone up to her I just own up interested smiles and had not said anything well maybe somehow she got the message that I wanted to go spend time with her in doctor or something what if I had gone to figure out that first time we went out together which was breakfast seven the clock in the morning guys don't do that check it out like to start getting ready Senate-that's only time that we can if we decoded this time together but what if I picked her up in the full-time one out ;-) everything I had ever said anything smiled and nodded my head every once in a while the relationship not gone anywhere with it if I think if our foundational worse are two relationship in the initiation of relationship in the ongoing growth progress of relationship and same way that relation with God is why the word of God that we are born again we are change were transformed into his feeble is also by the word of God that we are nurtured and they had any role in our relationship rights so it is by the word that we know God and that it's a phenomenal gift secondly though through the word we are fat fee as bad" as we live by God's truth and Chris's we are happy as we live by God through and principles which for that is translated happy in these passages often mistranslated and blasted it has to do with a person having well-being and why having a sense of life working the way it's supposed to it being something that is really rich and fulfilling some 119 125 happy are the people of integrity who follow the law lords have to go through phases decrease in search for him with all her heart's big compromise with evil they walk only enhance passenger charges to keep your commandments carefully all that my actions were consistently reflect your principles and then versus 54th and 56 or principles have been the music of my life I love think about your principles have been the music of my life throughout the years of life which I reflect at nights on who you are Lord and I'll buy your law office in this this is my fancy way of life they commence this Les was excited about the word of God fastened sauce very positive effect of the word on his life and as I think back over the past 25 to 30 years of trying to grow in Christ if it's increasingly clear to me that basically the Scripture foundation only means for us God's people be people prayer the people who were if we are walking in the principles of God in a way that we are receptive to hear God's voice ceased the choice of the word and green channel being obedient to that defined her life's getting rich something that really enhances us in life and gives us a great deal of blessing in life what are some ways that the word blesses our life gives us this pattern of life for life to be like music well the first is that the words are guards against in the word guard us against them were familiar with someone I feel that I've seen your word in my heart, not sand against few verses 36 and 37 gimme an E. furnace for your decrees are not inflate me with a love for money turn my eyes from worthless things and give me life through your word fleeing with God God help you think correctly about why I'm not placing a value on things that really should have no values help you make the right choice this it also assumed a relationship with other people summon 1961 evil people try to drag me in the sand I am firmly anchored to your word and firmly anchored to your law and then finally verse 133 guide my steps by your word so I will not be overcome by any evil felt God's Word guard service in three ways God's word both in for this and it transforms as we read the word we learned Goddess principle so that we adjust our lives to God for his divorce but we also experience God file were as God's word works to transform us in work changeups talk a lot about living by principal Skinner/share illustration I think illustrates what it means to live by the principles of years ago what they would do in their training Arabian horses. Kings and queens of Europe as best they would take a force that was a beautiful specimen out of her and then we began working with the horse training it using the whistle so that the force were various types of commands if the trainer's Lewis will certainly force would stop if we blew another way to force return ride another Wentworth return with another way to force would gallop ahead and after for weeks and weeks and months of training with saying that the horse was completely obedient to the trainers whistle what they would do if they would take the worse number three in the corral that would use that no food to give very little water for two or three dates at the end of that. When the force is stronger which chance they would often the gag to the corral and the force would take off to the trough of food and place out in the field near the corral because he could smell that food and dose hunger pains were just energized by that food and so forth take off that fall through half way to the trough food trainer would blow the whistle for the worst stop it for stocks at that point and was obedient to the trainers whistle more than just a hunger pain since feeling that force went on. Seeing something severe but why is that the reason is because they knew that force could be trusted in a wide variety of situations when other voices if you will work falling to bits to listen to the trainers whistle and be obedient to that the word of God acts to us like the trainers whistle when we are really walking a word of meditating on it thinking about it -- we are going through life what happens this.principles come into play in life and even when we have to conflict in Cyrus and things like that in weekend yield weekend for our actions to God's word rather than yielding to the other things are going around this ballot suggests the use of it has to be even more than us just making the choice has to be something that God is working in this and Hebrew chapter 4 verse 12 says that the words goddess with a powerful and sharper the need to ensure it can scarce down in the depths of who we are it's not something that this -- if something that is active and powerful issue and I expose ourselves to the word of our lives up to it then we make choices through by its bits also as the Spirit of God is working dynamically in SuperNet's truly inside of us to transform us and it brings to mind a passage in Romans 12 129 be conformed to the world's beach France for by the renewing of your mind how is our mind renewed on the suggest is renewed by the word of God as we are listened to God's truce and open to him and God brings about transformation book couple of other things of the word does for us that really gives us life and enhances our life second word gives guidance asked Ashley said a few minutes ago Psalm one 1919 by about a foreigner here on earth I need the guidance of your command's inverse 5900 direction of my life and I turned to follow your statutes now that doesn't mean that every decision that we may work in open it up and the Bible is to tell us all you should marry this person rather than this first or you should take this job rather than this for the job if he doesn't evacuate us to give guidance by giving us principles and guidelines and a lot of times if we are walking according to the principles of Scripture that will narrow down the choices of the decisions that we make and the word helps us have wisdom for those that make good choices so it gives us guidance in life the third thing is the word gives us encouragement the word gives encouragement S. Jason amended Osama 1925 I lie in the dust completely discourage rude by me by your word probably all of us at times and we've been very discouraged and just sit down and read through portions of the Bible that mean a lot to us really can't abide since it gives us a true in this amount of encouragement and a fourth link the word gives general well-being word gives general well-being some 119 140 3S pressure and stress fair down on me I find sure in your command's solid 19 165 those who love your law have great cease and do not stumble and in verses 9 to 293 if your law had sustained me with joy I would've died in my misery I will never forget your commandments for use them to restore by Julie in hell so the word is a gift to us in De Smet to bless us to give us life the way it was meant to be experienced in with this morning is Father's Day force and I got all kinds of the father safe guess that I was not thinking this really cool watch this is my Father's Day gift and this really nifty part of shirt I have on this morning Mrs. off applause day gift and so I'm excited about the gifts I received this morning for father stood for what you have when my family brought out the bag had Gibson regarded one through dose for F. I had this fat loss that said don't have to wear this for me I'm just not really side of God were to watch right now so you don't have to wear this and cannot put aside when nothing do with my family would not have responded well to that kind of attitude and the fact is that the watch is if it's to be a wonderful thing to keep me where I should be when I've should be there if everything I got this morning in terms of the gifts of things that could be useful there really blessing some iLife for suggested we need to look at God's Word that way when you see something that God has given to us to enrich our lives to bless us in wonderful wonderful way this well for third thing very briefly assisted through the word not only do we have the option you know God and have an opportunity to have less laws-the third thing you see the word we have a positive impact on this board and access this preaching and teaching of God through not my feeling perspective the changes once the preaching and teaching of God fruit non-perspective that changes lives now there are a lot of tools that God uses in this world Council were sent different books you can read things like that there's nothing wrong with a life transformation of why and real phenomenal impact on other people come through us having a biblically-based approach to world doing and try to minister to others someone 1974 system they all fear you finding me false for chewy thrive for my hoping your words fault that we are developing a community of faith feared Northbrook where we are grounded in the Word and as we minister to each other we are in far ministering each other on the basis of God's word rentals of God's Word so that if someone has a need we can help address that need because wrong track in terms of thinking the way God would have us think according to this word think about the way you said the word felt suss in having a positive effect on others verse would be bearing witness Gospel itself being able to share with somebody else how they can abuse this secondly the worst powerful meet people me if it's an encouragement to us we need to also be able to come alongside someone who is the church and on the basis of Scripture saith read this together and demand for issue here are help you find the answer to your niece for third thing would be combating for teaching and his seats combating for teaching and heresy folks are alive of quirky weird sometimes damaging as DS and the world are a lot of people out there who believe very strange thinks about God if immediate just one example of right as now one of the most popular books out there is the da Vinci code and I haven't read all of the richest little bit of it but what I fear is it's a great region and then surprise me all that what the guy does this make sense things that are historical with a whole lot of stuff that's not historical and false in the question whole approach in ministry of the church in who Jesus is and you know what it's doing is having a profound impact on this millions of people throughout their reading and math students who said his sister are response that remembered was being on new church was all screwed up and this just confirms it even though this guy is not basing this off on historical facts people are being sucked into this very wrong way of thinking by Jesus and about the church well how do we know what is arriving to think how we approach truth well if you feel the basis of really understanding God's word and warning them and then finally to understand how the church should function well the menu several real brief thoughts for help with motivation and wolves draw to a close athletes over the coming weeks think about starting archive energizing our pattern of Bible reading her Bible study or some all be realistic about the gold she sex be realistic about the goldfish that I river when I was in college we had a speaker company was dynamically missed often five relationship with God is fading, God morning and Yossi spent 2+ hours every morning with guys like well that's what you're supposed to do and assess young college student I set out than two hours of God every morning well that lasted for like three dates and Dan and I just burned out and made off with as I wasn't able to handle that for most of us when we're just starting assets if we stand 10 to 15 minutes reading the Bible dates 10 minutes but to consistently read on daily basis and then maybe one time when we died down a little bit deeper in the process of setting them galore in this class if you choose starting out I went for if you have a goal and one time we either on the passage sets can be preached on earth thought on your church or some passes that you're interested in God's just to start out with 10 to 15 minutes of reading a day and about 45 minutes to an hour week's more realistic place to start for most of us a second thing is the Bible reading and study and community and community what I mean by that is that I have friends around me who are also reading instead of the Bible and were sharing an encouraging one another and that is very helpful I'm in software for lengthy morning with a shocking and some other guy's and in that very first group and their response to God's word in eagerness of the obedience is very encouraging to me and helps me in my own process's cease the third thing you set aside a consistent time and place if you do Bible study and reading how serendipitously justice found wherever and whenever it's never going to cover pattern of your life and I found if I have a set place in a set time but I'm trying to do that every day they become something that not only is the fact that it's a hunger I long for it unless it's if it's not part of my day so have a set time and place the fourth is worth hard application and we're talking good and rim a full session which we talk about application SBC guy changing us Winchester alliance and see God changing our lives is a tremendous motivator spent time in the word and so we want to work hard at applying those scripture and then finally make sure that you have the right tools and spiritual commitments make sure that you have the right tools and searchable commitment and again and again that even in the next session to talk about what our basic spiritual commitments and tools for the hosts to look like the media couple of guidance for next week and I'm going to have to work prayer together well I fear those of you have the book will book the David doctrine idea if you go ahead and raise each at least the first chapter in that book which us all motivation that cover some of the things that we talked about this morning if you can read that first chapter that would be good starts only after the bath and the thing I would ask you to think through this filament of time to think for yourself we're arguing your motivation for five study where you and your motivation for Bible study and your use of time to think through that -- think about what value your place in the church are right now in the Navy in life talk about this morning how you could change your perspective something free set for far I've covered a lot of ground this morning thank you very much for being here with several were prayer will dismiss father thank you for this time I think the slopes for afraid that if we reflect on the cruise that we talked about this morning from your word that you would help us to really grasp the value of being people who are spinning time in your word at February that it would become a pattern of our lives that really blesses our lives and energizes us and helps us to be people who are obedience and walking with you to what you have us do so we pray Lord that you would help us this week as we consider these issues related motivation advice for your work in us to really give us a passion for your words as we naturally turn to talk more about skills and tools are also to help us we pray in Jesus name, Amen.