The first words that Jesus spoke in his ministry that's recorded in scripture immediately after his baptism in the river Jordan. I don't know whether you all know what

to babes so you know when we come to scripture if we try to understand it with our cleverness we'll invariably go wrong the scribes were people who studied the scriptures but they were completely wrong concerning jesus

Truth, the truth of God is like a body. Think of the truth of God in scripture like your human body. If you have one thing way out of proportion to the importance the Bible gives to it, and you give very little importance to some

like this in scripture that very often we don't take seriously. And uh we say the Bible is God's word. But if he really believed it was God's word, we would take every word seriously. We would first of all read through it

but i mentioned how three quarters of the bible is the old testament and there's a lot we can learn from that even though the old covenant has been abolished the old testament is still very very important all scripture is inspired by god and is profitable

baptism but I didn't take baptism month after month the whole year went by I was studying the scriptures I was keeping my conscience clear until about one and a half years went by in my life and one day when I was kneeling in

you can study the Bible a lot better in your single days then after you get married and have children I I say this from my own life that in the years before I got married I really got to know the scriptures and that's helped me

I'm not permitted that is inspired scripture that's why I believe that anyone who's caught up to heaven will not be permitted to speak whatever he saw there so when a man writes a book and says this is what I saw in and I say

amazing when we read the scriptures with a humble Spirit there is no end to how

by quoting God's Word it was not a mechanical action it's not just that we can just call the scripture and devil goes away Jesus had an appropriate word for what each temptation because first of all he

voice so I found great help in being able to hear what God is saying by meditating on scripture regularly which I've done for over 60 years okay the other question is I struggle with having Assurance in Christ even though I've asked God for help

jesus life and acts as the history of the church and then you come to the episodes which is teaching and then in revelation it's teaching again concerning the future the history sections of scripture however are very important

it's very important to keep my conscience clear more important than keep my body clean I must keep my conscience clean and more important than eating food is to feed myself on scripture and prayer prayer is like breathing you know there are some people

when we look at scripture to see the context in which a verse comes because just like we would read a letter and if you take a sentence out of a letter you could misunderstand it if you don't

humbling and because of that I believe that even Jesus in the 30 years which are nothing is written about in scripture he must have gone through many many trials oppressed by his four younger brothers and two sisters you know when you have

searching question when you read the bible do you try to get some clever thought from it or some message from it or do you seek to see the glory of jesus in scripture you'll get what you look for

16 to 18 that all scripture is inspired by god and is profitable for instruction and righteousness the man of god may be perfect so where i find in matthew chapter 11 that

people and then I quote scripture Matthew 5:14 you know we the reason why we're not willing to face up to that is because we sh responsibility we want to avoid responsibility we want to say don't look at me look at

speaks about a hope and to most Christians the hope is to see the Lord when he comes face come comes back to earth. And I'll tell you that was my hope too for a long time till I began to study the scriptures. And I discovered

verse. They don't follow it. They may do it in a scripture memory, Bible memory verse, but they don't actually follow it. Is something that is said to be done daily. Notice the word daily there. He must deny himself daily. Take up his

walk seven miles in a slow pace, 3 hours? What was they doing for those three hours? It says Jesus verse 27 the last part opened the scriptures from Genesis to Malachi and explained it to them. Isn't he the same

I wonder if we read the scriptures as carefully as that even though that earthly document has only got something to do with our earthly life this has got

to try and memorize some of the just like we memorize portions of scripture some really good hymns we cannot memorize everything but but sometimes I memorize just a few verses or half a verse sometimes of a

but the real really valuable things like diamonds and gold are not on the surface. They are in the depths. And that's a parable the way it is in scripture. If you read scripture superficially, you'll get a certain amount of wealth. It'll be like the