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- of Revelation this morning. And time and time again, Jesus is saying in the book of Revelation, these words are true and trustworthy.
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- These words are true and trustworthy. And of course, that applies not only to the book of Revelation, but the entire 66 books of the
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- Bible. I've been benefited in my life from reading systematic theologies, from reading church history, from reading biographies, from reading commentaries.
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- I think all of those things, actually, I think Christians should be reading all of those things. And I think all of those things are actually essential and pivotal to a healthy life as a
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- Christian, as a church body, all those things matter. But there is nothing more consequential in your reading than the word of God.
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- Would to God that we would read the Bible. I think about Charles Spurgeon, what he said of John Bunyan.
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- Charles Spurgeon said of John Bunyan, prick him anywhere and he bleeds bibling. I'm not seeing that today.
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- Are you? I'm seeing a lot of fights on social media. I'm seeing a lot of, between Christians, I'm seeing a lot of pontifications about Thomas Aquinas or Van Till or these things.
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- And I'm not saying those things are not important, but I am saying this, I'm not seeing the
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- Bible ooze out of us. And that's what I would like to see. And I'll start right here. I'll start right here in my own life.
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- I'd like to see more Bible coming out of me. I'd like people to be able to say of me, you prick him anywhere and he bleeds bibling.
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- So can you consider your habits with the Bible in 2025? There's lots of plans out there.
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- It's not necessarily you have to get through the Bible in a year, although I do advocate that, but it's just as simple as David Miller used to say, take up, begin reading in Genesis 1 .1,
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- read wherever you finish the next day, pick up and read some more until you've made it through the whole
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- Bible. And let us be people who are in the book every single day in 2025.
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- Open the word of God. Let it speak to you. Let it read you. Let it change you.
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- Not so much mastering it. Let it master you submit to it. Let it change your life.
