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Study & Meditation as a Spiritual Discipline · Clay to Crown

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody, for another episode of the Clay to
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  Speaker 1: Crown podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so blessed to have you join me today.
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  Speaker 1: It's a rainy Saturday here in beautiful Beaufort-by-the-Sea, but it's
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  Speaker 1: also a beautiful day to record some podcasts inside, so
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're doing And if you recall, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a series on the spiritual disciplines. Hopefully you've been following along.
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  Speaker 1: We've gotten the spiritual discipline of rest and worship under
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  Speaker 1: our hats. And today we'll be tackling the spiritual discipline
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  Speaker 1: of study, study and meditation, the study and meditation of
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  Speaker 1: God's word. And In my mind, it's probably one of
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  Speaker 1: the most foundational spiritual disciplines because it helps to shape
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  Speaker 1: the mind, it anchors the heart, and it opens us
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  Speaker 1: up to the transforming work of God.
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  Speaker 2: You know, A.W.
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  Speaker 1: Tozer, a wonderful theologian, he once wrote,' A new world
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  Speaker 1: will arise out of the religious myths when we approach
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  Speaker 1: our Bible.
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  Speaker 2: with the idea that it is.
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  Speaker 1: Not only a book which was once spoken, but a
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  Speaker 1: book which is now speaking.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and that's the heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: That's the heartbeat of this episode, of the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: this episode, that the Word of God is alive and active.
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  Speaker 1: and sharper than any two-edged sword, as Hebrew says. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that it won't return void, as it says in Isaiah.
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  Speaker 1: We have to approach the Word of God like that,
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  Speaker 1: to know that it has transformation power. You know, and
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  Speaker 1: so what we'll kick off with today is why study matters, right?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the purpose of spiritual disciplines, and I said
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  Speaker 1: in the overview episode a few weeks back, the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual disciplines is it's those habits and practices that
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  Speaker 1: help us build our faith, right? So it's the total
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  Speaker 1: transformation of the purpose of the person. It's about replacing
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  Speaker 1: old with new. Old destructive habits with new life-giving habits, right?
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  Speaker 1: We're replacing our old inner man with a new man
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  Speaker 1: that's alive again in Christ, right? And so that's why
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  Speaker 1: spiritual disciplines matter. That's why study matters. You know, Paul
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  Speaker 1: says in Romans, and I know I've quoted this verse
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  Speaker 1: a lot lately, but Paul says in Romans 12 that
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  Speaker 1: we are transformed by the renewing of our mind.
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  Speaker 2: And study is the discipline that makes that renewal possible, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because at the foundation of every spiritual discipline is God's word.
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  Speaker 1: Study is how we learn who God is, how he works,
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  Speaker 1: and how he calls us to live.
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  Speaker 2: And it's important that we grasp a hold of that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about reading your Bible, although that's important,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm talking about getting the Bible inside of you. becoming, uh,
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  Speaker 1: growing into it and becoming, um, the person that you
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  Speaker 1: were created to be through the transforming power that is
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Again, alive and active and sharper
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  Speaker 1: than any two edged sword. You know, and so what's
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  Speaker 1: my biblical foundation about the practice of study as a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual discipline, right? We always want to be rooted in
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God to be speaking of things that
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  Speaker 1: are biblical, that are true, that are active. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Paul says to Timothy to study to show yourself approved,
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  Speaker 1: rightly handling the Word of truth. And so it's important
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  Speaker 1: that anytime that we come to one of these things,
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  Speaker 1: are we rightly handling it? Or are we speaking heresy?
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  Speaker 1: Or are we taking things out of context and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff? So where is the spiritual discipline
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  Speaker 1: of study found in Scripture? Well, it's found in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament and the New Testament both, but in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, specifically in the 11th chapter of Deuteronomy, In
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  Speaker 1: verse 18, God instructs his people to write his laws
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  Speaker 1: on their gates and on their doorposts, to bind them
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  Speaker 1: to their wrists and keep them forever before their eyes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why would God instruct his people to do this? Because
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  Speaker 1: repeated exposure shapes the mind. If you're consistently studying something,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be influenced by that thing that you're studying.
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  Speaker 1: Study directs our thoughts toward God and his ways. If
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  Speaker 1: we want to know the character of God, we better
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  Speaker 1: be in the word of God. Right? And so then
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  Speaker 1: obviously Jesus, you know, Jesus comes along. He modeled study.
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  Speaker 1: You recall when he sat among the teachers in the
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  Speaker 1: temple asking questions and engaging them, you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: he later declared, he says, you will know the truth
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  Speaker 1: and the truth will make you free. And I love
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  Speaker 1: that because it's, it's so true. You will know the
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  Speaker 1: truth and the truth will make you free. Truth frees us,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to know it first. If we don't
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  Speaker 1: know it, it can't be the transforming power in our
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  Speaker 1: lives that it's meant to be, you know? And so
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  Speaker 1: you got the old Testament and then you have Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in the gospels. And then the new Testament church absolutely
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  Speaker 1: followed Jesus. The spiritual discipline of study. Paul says in
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  Speaker 1: Colossians 3, he tells us to let the word of
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  Speaker 1: Christ dwell in us richly. You know, and then Acts
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  Speaker 1: 17 praises the Bereans because they examine the scriptures to
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  Speaker 1: confirm the things that Paul was saying to them, right?
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the saying now, be like the Bereans. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a direct reflection back to Acts 17. chapter 17,
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  Speaker 1: where they would hear Paul speak and then they would
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  Speaker 1: go and study their scriptures, essentially our Old Testament, to
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  Speaker 1: see if what he was saying about Jesus was true,
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  Speaker 1: was in them. You know, and study is not optional
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  Speaker 1: for spiritual growth. It's essential. And I'm a Bible teacher
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  Speaker 1: at heart. I love teaching the Word of God, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and just taking verse by verse and walking people through it.
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  Speaker 1: And I will tell you from my own experience that
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  Speaker 1: I grow more when I'm getting ready for a class
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  Speaker 1: because I'm putting in more effort when I'm studying it
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  Speaker 1: and I'm doing the cross-referencing, you know, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: back to the original context and all of those things, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's important because what we study then becomes implanted into us.
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  Speaker 1: Study is how God's Word moves us, moves from the
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  Speaker 1: page and then into our lives. You know, because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk a lot, you know, about doing what makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel good, you know, especially in 21st century America, right?
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  Speaker 2: We're only.
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  Speaker 1: We get told by culture to, well, whatever feels good
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  Speaker 1: to you, you can do that, right? And that's right
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  Speaker 1: for you. Your truth is the only truth that matters.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all of these things that we're constantly being told.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the truth. Good feelings won't free us. Emotional
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  Speaker 1: highs won't free us. Only the truth, the capital T truth,
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  Speaker 1: is the only thing that can free us.
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  Speaker 2: And that....
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  Speaker 1: That alone comes through the study of God's word. And
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  Speaker 1: then meditation and memorization deepen that transformation. Again, God's word
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  Speaker 1: does not return void.
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  Speaker 2: It never can. It never will. So what is study?
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  Speaker 1: When I say the word study and in this context
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible and studying the Bible, it's And so
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  Speaker 1: what I mean when I say study, it is the
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  Speaker 1: intentional process of engaging the mind with the written or
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  Speaker 1: spoken word of God and with the world he created.
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  Speaker 1: It's conforming the mind to what it concentrates on. That's studying, right?
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  Speaker 1: Engaging the mind with the written or spoken word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 119 verse 105 says, Your word is a lamp
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  Speaker 1: to my feet and a light to my path.
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  Speaker 2: So study illuminates. It warms. It shows us which way
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  Speaker 2: it wants us to go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm reminded as I'm here, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: have time to go into the full story, so if
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  Speaker 1: you write this down so you remember, but I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying his name right. It's like Agassi and the Fish.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a university student. I think he was in America,
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  Speaker 1: but he might have been in Britain, and he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be an entomologist. Well, he had to go to
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  Speaker 1: the head of that department, And the head of that department,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on first contact said, what do you want
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  Speaker 1: to do? Oh, I want to study bugs. That's what
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  Speaker 1: an entomologist does, right? And so the head of this
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  Speaker 1: zoology department in whatever university it was, he gave the
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  Speaker 1: student a fish and said, tell me everything there is
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  Speaker 1: to tell me about it. I'll be back in an hour.
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  Speaker 1: And so....
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  Speaker 2: The guy was kind of put off and he's like,
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  Speaker 2: a fish? I want to study bugs. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to study fish.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but he did it because he needed the
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  Speaker 1: approval of the head of the zoology department. Well, needless
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  Speaker 1: to say, it started this cascade of study and intense
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  Speaker 1: focus and all of these things and finding out new
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  Speaker 1: things that The more he looked at the fish, the
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  Speaker 1: more he began to appreciate different nuances and different, you know,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate how many teeth it had. And you can, again,
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  Speaker 1: read the story for yourself, but it's a wonderful short story.
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  Speaker 1: But it's true, the word of God, because the more
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  Speaker 1: we look into it and the more we study it,
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  Speaker 1: the more we find we really don't know it as
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  Speaker 1: much as what we thought we did. Because there's so
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  Speaker 1: many things that's in there that are hidden. and that
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  Speaker 1: can only be revealed through the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: And through intense study.
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  Speaker 1: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a
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  Speaker 1: light to my path.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and study is relational.
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  Speaker 1: It gives us the quality of time with God that
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  Speaker 1: we so need and desire. When we spend time alone
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  Speaker 1: with God and in His Word, we learn Him. We
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  Speaker 1: learn His heart, His love, His truth. And when we're studying,
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  Speaker 1: we realize that what we're studying, we're getting taught, we're
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  Speaker 1: getting directed, we're getting protected, and we're getting healed from
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  Speaker 1: the inside out. You know, a lot of people want
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  Speaker 1: to make, you know, that God's word is archaic, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or outdated. And it's not for today because of some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that are in there. But I'm here
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, every single thing that's in there is
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  Speaker 1: meant to grow us and to protect us, to heal us.
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  Speaker 1: But are we getting into it and learning what those
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  Speaker 1: things are? You know, God wants a relationship with us.
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  Speaker 1: And relationships take time. You know, like I said, study
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  Speaker 1: isn't just reading the Bible. It's about paying attention to
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  Speaker 1: what we allow in our minds. It's paying attention to
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  Speaker 1: what we are reading. And you can study anything, right?
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  Speaker 1: I can study a book. app on my phone that
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  Speaker 1: gives me distraction, right? A silly game that's distracting to me.
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  Speaker 1: Or I can study Facebook, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So what do we want to allow in our minds?
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  Speaker 1: We can study nature. We can study theology, you know, books.
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  Speaker 1: You can study anything you want. But it's only this
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  Speaker 1: study of Scripture that can stir our affection toward God.
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  Speaker 1: I think nature and theology and those sorts of things
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  Speaker 1: can too. Those things can stir our affection toward God.
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  Speaker 1: You know, looking at the greatness that is creation, that
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  Speaker 1: can definitely stir our affection toward God. But to know
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  Speaker 1: that he is creator first comes from the opening pages
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible. In the beginning, God created. And we
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  Speaker 1: must be intentional about these things, right? What we meditate
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  Speaker 1: on then becomes planted in our heart and in our
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  Speaker 1: mind and in our soul. We become like what we
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  Speaker 1: think about. So God's word speaks into our pain. It
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  Speaker 1: can speak into our confusion, speaks to our circumstances, but
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  Speaker 1: we must give it the space. So when you're properly studying,
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  Speaker 1: it's a sacrifice. It's a sacrifice of time. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: have to get up earlier. Maybe you have to go
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  Speaker 1: to bed later. Maybe you don't scroll as much. It's
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  Speaker 1: a sacrifice of our time. But when we actually study
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  Speaker 1: the word, the Holy Spirit uses that word to transform us. Again,
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  Speaker 1: God's word does not return void. So how do we study?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and there's different ways to do this. But
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  Speaker 1: there's four steps, really. The first step is repetition. It
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  Speaker 1: directs the mind repeatedly in a specific direction. It builds
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  Speaker 1: a habit of thought. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then you got to concentrate.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so repetition, doing the same thing at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, you know, put it in your schedule that
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  Speaker 1: at seven o'clock in the morning or whatever time works
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  Speaker 1: for you, you're going to, you're going to set aside,
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  Speaker 1: you know, time to study the word of God.
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  Speaker 2: It builds a habit, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have to concentrate, clear out any distraction
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  Speaker 1: that you have, turn your phone on silent, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe put on the do not disturb, whatever you have
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  Speaker 1: to do, right? and then start reading it. And then
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  Speaker 1: you're going through these things, and when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: you have the comprehension part, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like when truth becomes clear, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have to sit there and reflect on that truth,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the significance of what you just studied and seeing
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  Speaker 1: from God's perspective. You know, and these things build on
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  Speaker 1: each other and they deepen our transformation. So again, be consistent,
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  Speaker 1: make it a practice. Start small and then grow from there.
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  Speaker 1: And then give yourself a little bit of grace. You know,
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  Speaker 1: missing one day doesn't mean failure. God's not keeping score like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Sally didn't do her Bible study today, you know, She
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  Speaker 1: gets a demotion, you know, or whatever. God's not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: We do that. You know, and if we keep, we
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  Speaker 1: do that a couple days in a row, then we
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  Speaker 1: automatically think, well, it doesn't matter anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to stop. Well, that's not, you can't
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  Speaker 2: do that either.
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  Speaker 1: So give yourself some grace and then start again.
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  Speaker 2: Do it again.
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  Speaker 1: And here's a good thing. You know, use resources wisely.
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  Speaker 1: Use your resources wisely. You know, so Bible dictionaries, concordances,
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  Speaker 1: you know, commentaries, you know, all of those are great tools.
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  Speaker 1: But when I teach my how to study the Bible class,
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  Speaker 1: those are some of the last things that I talk
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  Speaker 1: about in that class.
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  Speaker 2: One of the main things.
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  Speaker 1: I talk about is the word itself and trying on
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  Speaker 1: your own to glean.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever context, like.
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  Speaker 1: What does the text say, you know, and maybe write
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  Speaker 1: those things down. And then trying to come up with
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  Speaker 1: what does it mean? First and foremost, what does it
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  Speaker 1: mean about God? And then in relation to that, what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean for you? And again, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: don't use concordances and dictionaries and commentaries because I use
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  Speaker 1: them myself, but it's only after I've read it and
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  Speaker 1: I've read it and I've read it, trying to glean
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  Speaker 1: whatever I can from it with the Holy Spirit's help.
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  Speaker 1: And then do I go to these other resources, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because you're always asking the Holy Spirit first. Always ask
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  Speaker 1: him first. Holy Spirit, reveal to me what you would
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  Speaker 1: have me know. And so study is how the word
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  Speaker 1: of God gets off the page and then into your life.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the difference between meditation and study? I think
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of in the same family, but they are different.
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  Speaker 1: Study is kind of analytical. Again, what does the text say?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and then the meditation is trying to get
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  Speaker 1: those things out of it. You know, the word says...
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  Speaker 1: to meditate on it day and night. It says that
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  Speaker 1: in Joshua, and it says that in Psalms. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and that Hebrew word there that is translated as meditate
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  Speaker 1: is the Hebrew word haqqah. You got to do that guttural,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throat thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Hebrew word haqqah.
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  Speaker 1: And And it's like a muttering sound, right?
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  Speaker 2: You're savoring.
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  Speaker 1: Picture like a lion cub or, you know, if you've
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  Speaker 1: watched National Geographic, you know, where a prey animal has
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  Speaker 1: just taken down his prey, you know, whether it's a
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  Speaker 1: wolf or a tiger or a lion, and they're kind
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  Speaker 1: of like you know, savoring the meat and you hear them.
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  Speaker 2: Do this like guttural growl thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's the picture that this Hebrew word is trying to
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  Speaker 1: get across. We're trying to savor what we're reading. We're
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  Speaker 1: enjoying it. You know, meditation delights in the word. And
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  Speaker 1: so study provides the framework for And then meditation provides
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  Speaker 1: the warmth. And you can't have proper study of the
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  Speaker 1: word of God without both of those things because together
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  Speaker 1: they create the living and breathing relationship with God that
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  Speaker 1: we all desire. So I want to encourage you that
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  Speaker 1: study and meditation are not dry disciplines, right?
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  Speaker 2: They're not boring. Ask me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a self-professed Bible nerd, and I absolutely love them.
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  Speaker 1: Because once you understand the Bible....
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting. It's fun. It's amazing. It is an amazing work.
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  Speaker 1: And there is no doubt in my mind that it
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  Speaker 1: is a supernatural work. And so study and meditations are
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  Speaker 1: invitations into that world. They are invitations to hear God speak.
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  Speaker 1: invitations to be shaped by truth. It's invitations to be
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  Speaker 1: transformed from the inside out. Again, dying to the old
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  Speaker 1: self and coming to life again as a new.
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  Speaker 2: Creation in Christ. To go back to A.W.
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  Speaker 1: Tozer's quote, the Bible is not just a book that
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  Speaker 1: was spoken. It is a book that is still speaking.
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  Speaker 1: But the question is, is are we going to be
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  Speaker 1: a people who will listen? Are we going to be
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  Speaker 1: a people who will listen? Will we listen in order
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  Speaker 1: to hear God speak? Will we listen in order to
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  Speaker 1: be shaped by his truth? Will we listen in order
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  Speaker 1: for us to be transformed from the inside out?
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  Speaker 2: And are you willing to do the work?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I think we think we can just snap our
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  Speaker 1: fingers and make everything easy and okay. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: how it works. You have to be in the word.
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  Speaker 1: You have to put in the work to understand how
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  Speaker 1: everything fits together. And it is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: But we have to put in the work and we
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  Speaker 1: have to be people will listen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I so.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate everybody listening to, uh, to our episode, um, to
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  Speaker 1: this episode. I, uh, I can't do this without you. Um,
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  Speaker 1: to continue in this vein of our spiritual discipline study.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a couple more to do before I close
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  Speaker 1: it out. And until next time, this is Amanda Hughes
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  Speaker 1: with Clayda Crowd. Grace and peace to you.