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The five minute Bible study- The importance of reading the Bible everyday! · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Hello and welcome back to my podcast spending
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  time with dr. Christina We're still in season
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  7 of the five -minute Bible study and tonight.
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  We're in episode 4 talking about the importance
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  of reading your Bible To begin in past episodes.
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  I've spoken about building a relationship with
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  God and this is one of the major components of
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  building that relationship it's reading the Bible
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  and This is really important because in today's
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  world, a lot of people do not read the Bible
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  that are Christians. In fact, a lot of people
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  don't even go to church or go to Bible study.
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  Sometimes they may listen to even a podcast like
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  mine or something secular or maybe they will
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  watch television. on Sundays and that's their
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  going to church. But the Bible tells us don't
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  forsake the gathering of the believers. So we
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  know the importance of being in church, right?
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  The next important part to that is being able
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  to understand God's Word for ourselves. Sometimes
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  a pastor can't always explain things to us. They're
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  not there 24 hours a day as we live our lives.
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  And it's important for us to learn how to read
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  the Bible ourselves and build that relationship.
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  So let's talk a few moments about this. Reading
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  the Bible is something very important for our
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  relationship because it goes from cover to cover,
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  Old Testament to New Testament, about the character
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  and the work and the principles and what God
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  expects from us. So when we read the Bible, we
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  learn everything. We learn about the testimonies
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  of those that lived before us. We learn about
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  what's important to God, building our faith.
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  We learn also from the Lord about renewing our
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  minds. This is how we start to walk with Him.
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  And if you don't read the Bible and you're just
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  fed, say, ministry, which is, say, a service
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  or a sermon from someone, it's just not enough.
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  It doesn't sustain us. For example, suppose you're
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  going through a tough time. Maybe you're even
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  experiencing depression. How do you overcome
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  some of these thoughts or thought patterns or
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  feelings? It's the Word of God. And if you don't
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  know the Word of God, you can't defeat the enemy.
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  So let's go to our passage. In Mark 4 15, Jesus
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  states that some people are like seeds sown along
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  the path. Where the Word is sown, when they hear,
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  Satan immediately comes and takes that Word that
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  was sown in them. So we know that Also, faith
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  comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
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  So the minute you hear the truth, the word of
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  God, the enemy, whom is Satan, he comes and he
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  steals it. He'll bring a distraction. He'll plant
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  an idea in your head. And if you don't know the
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  word of God, you can't defeat those thoughts.
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  Let's go to another passage, Luke 8 -12. The
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  devil removes the message from people's hearts
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  specifically, lest they should believe and be
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  saved. So he comes to steal the word so that
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  You can't know the truth, so you can't be delivered,
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  so you can't be set free and walk in the freedom
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  that comes from God. Another passage, John 10,
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  10. The thief's purpose is to come to steal,
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  kill, and destroy. So whatever it is in your
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  heart that you know about God, if it's not well
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  planted, right? It's the seed, it's the word
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  of God, the enemy comes and steals it. And then
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  you are left defenseless. when you're left defenseless
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  the enemy comes he plants all sorts of wandering
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  thoughts confusion he brings all types of interruptions
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  into your life and then the Word of God which
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  is the seed right this is what we get when we
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  read the Bible and when we hear the word it's
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  stolen from us then you're tossed about not knowing
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  what to do or how to defeat the enemy and how
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  to stop him at his onset so reading the Word
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  of God plants his will, his purpose, everything
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  that God wants us to know about living in this
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  lifetime and then some. Now, you may be thinking,
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  where do you start? Well, I want to recommend
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  a few different Bibles, whether you are a beginner
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  or intermediate. They have the everyday Bible,
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  where you read a passage every day for the year.
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  They have Bibles that focus on giving you a personal
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  Bible study. And then they have Bibles for either
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  men or women. This is even external to the regular
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  King James Bible or contemporary version or whatever
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  version that you prefer. But what's most important
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  is that you start to read daily. Even if you
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  read just one paragraph. I had a mentor one time,
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  Reverend Hall, and she told me she reads one
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  passage every night. If you can do this you are
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  well on your way to building your relationship
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  because as you read that one passage it builds
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  and builds and builds. This is what you want
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  to do and your hunger will grow and grow and
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  grow and get satisfied with the Word of God.
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  Well this is the end of this week's episode and
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  I hope this message was a blessing to you and
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  in the meanwhile I wish you all a very good week.