out a few of these prophets and kind of think about what the scripture says and what it reveals to me and so the first uh set of prophets are these two guys Elijah and Elisha and they have a conversation I think you're familiar with the

compounds over time. Before we move forward, I want to quickly turn to the book of Luke chapter 16. Keep that example in aside. Just we will go to the scripture a little bit

that you can do during a weekend like this or every day in your homes and on on during your weekday meetings where it's not cute ideas it's not an interpretation of scripture or anything like it's simply there's a weary person

where I could see it I guess I'm a visual learner or an auditory learner but like it's real and we have Jonathan who's doing exactly what is commanded he's loving somebody else as himself and if the scriptures didn't say it I'm not

they've gotten so used to the darkness and we're told in the scriptures that God has translated us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his marvelous light and so we are as it were walking in the light in this room full

think josh your mind needs to be transformed you spend a lot of your life you know looking up and admiring these things that the world considers great but there's something that wants to change that right the scriptures the

who drifted away from the Scriptures you read about it more and more in your country how Christianity which had certain values 70 or 80 years ago in

and he thought well I've cleaned up this and I'm a I know more of the scriptures now and I'm studying every day and I pray every day I obey the law Rel religiously and then he hears about this man who's doing Miracles and is

you you Jews alone that's what infuriated them that God loves some other people including the Jews as well so I found that as I read the scriptures that I knew Jesus so little and I my passion became to read the Bible to know Jesus Christ better

missing in Christendom that are part of God's purpose for his church and if you read the scriptures carefully you'll see there are many things that are missing and one of our missions is to emphasize those things that are

same manner as he walked. So thankfully God has given us four gospels and then there's epistles and we we get a glimpse of Jesus life and some of the things are written in the scripture clearly some of the things are not written but the holy

that when it comes to me my worth uh i'm infinitely valuable i'm very valuable and i would point you to the scriptures and say because of what christ gave up for me by shedding his precious precious blood it makes me incredibly valuable i'm worth more than

why and the first reason that i came up with that we work is because we're hungry right this is a principle of scripture it's in the new covenant it says this this is in second thessalonians 3 and if you want to go a little more into it paul goes into

deluding influence it says in verse 10 of 2nd Thessalonians 2 two things those who don't love the truth and those who don't want to be saved from sin that means when they see something in scripture which is the truth and they

and verse 38 it's a wonderful thing to compare scripture with scripture john 6 38 jesus says i came from heaven why now if you were to ask the average christian perhaps many of you is sitting here

words of faith and of the sound doctrine and again he talks about verse 13 also until I come give attention to the public reading of the scripture and exalt to exhortation and teaching uh we have physical bible now in those days

some privacy. And if you look at these scriptures um in Timothy, it tells us the conditions of an of an elder. And now that I have uh two boys that are uh you know, no longer living at home and

know fathers the the responsibility to bring up our children in the discipline of the Lord and the instruction of the Lord is on us that means if I uh if if I find that my children don't know the scriptures or

to a new light in the scripture. um to to hang on to whatever God is showing you the and the truth of his word and the promises of Jesus to to to not let go of that. Hang on. As my aunt told me, hold

people. I did not believe that. I saw very clearly in scripture that anger is a sin. And this the first sin that Jesus spoke against in the sermon on the mount and bad thoughts was the f second sin that Jesus spoke about in the sermon on

means that God wants to speak to us every day of our life have you noticed that in Genesis 1 if you haven't noticed it please turn for a moment I never get tired of repeating this so that even those who are not familiar with scripture

that. I feel we I want to encourage all of you whenever you read a verse of scripture to not quickly go through it go over it and finish with it but to meditate on it. What does it mean in practical terms that the of Jesus is always being always

as I wake up in the morning before I get out of bed and say Lord I want to talk to you I want to listen to you and because I know the scripture so well I can even without reading the Bible I can bring some scripture to my mind but in

really started and it months and months. So, and it's still in progress for sure. But just be encouraged that if the Lord if you ever hear a word in a meeting or from a brother or sister or from the scripture, if there's not an instant