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- It takes, for an average reader, it takes less than 75 hours to read the entire
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- Bible. Less than 75 hours. So that's 4 ,500 minutes.
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- If you take 4 ,500 minutes and you divide that by a year, 365 days, it comes out to about 12 minutes and 20 seconds a day.
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- 13 minutes a day. Sleep less. Sleep 13 minutes less a day.
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- Eat a quicker lunch or eat no lunch at all. But honestly, the vast majority of us in this room, we can give up even less than food or sleep.
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- We can cancel social media. We can cancel our streaming services. We can delete the games off our phone. 12 minutes and 20 seconds a day to read all of God's Word in one year.
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- I'm just going to tell you from a personal testimony, nothing has changed my life more profoundly than reading
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- God's book. And I just want to plead with you and encourage you, 12 minutes and 20 seconds a day.
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- Listen, I'm telling you, this can change your life. What do
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- I got to do to change my life? Do I got to wake up an hour early? What is it that I need to do? And there might be tons of things that we can talk about, but I'm just asking for you right now, 12 minutes and 20 seconds a day.
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- Now, I am not saying if you don't read the Bible in a year, you're not a Christian. Do not take that away from this sermon.
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- You might have a different plan. You might have a different strategy. That's OK. You might do it over two years.
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- You might do it over three years. You might in the next year, instead of reading through the whole Bible, you're working to read and memorize the book of Romans or something like that.
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- Praise God, that's wonderful. The point that I'm trying to make is, is that if you do not have 12 minutes in your life to spend in God's Word daily, then you must repent and redeem the time.
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- Ask the Lord. I'm not saying come up here and get publicly flogged. I'm saying ask the Lord to give you insight into where you can redeem the time for the purpose of knowing
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- Him more deeply and using your time better for His glory. And let me remind us this.
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- Those you love, you love to spend time with. OK, what about the Scriptures? Do you love the
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- Scriptures? Those who love the Scriptures love to spend time in the Scriptures.
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- And friends, we live in a Bible -ignorant age. And when I'm saying at Perryville Second Baptist Church, let's change that.
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- Let us be people of the book. Let us redeem the time. Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time because the days are evil.
