Hey everybody and welcome back to I just want to talk about the Bible. For those of you

who this is your first time joining us, let me introduce myself. My name is Christian Keeter

and I am on staff at an international discipleship ministry called Mentoring Men for the Master,

which is based out of

North Carolina on the east coast of the U.S., which is where I live with my beautiful wife and two

wonderful daughters. So we are in the middle of a conversation on meditating on the Word of God.

This is going to be part three. And so if you have not heard parts one and two, I would

encourage you to pause this episode and go back and listen to those because it's important to

hear those first, especially, especially episode one. Episode one is probably going to be the most

important episode in this entire series, because it's when I talked

about relying on the Holy Spirit to take the Word of God and to move it from our heads and place it

into our hearts. Because when it's just in our heads, we may agree with it intellectually,

but when it's in our heart, we really believe it.

It becomes real to us.

And so I just want to repeat that because that is our focus.

Even though we're getting into the mechanics of Bible study and getting into some pretty specific ways of studying the Bible,

I don't want this to become a cold, dry, rigid exercise

where we just become more intellectual.

I want to keep us focused on we're doing this because we want to study the word more so that we can meditate on it and do it

and apply it because we love Jesus because we want to know him more. We want to experience him more.

We want him to be more real to us in our practical experience. And so I just wanted to say that by way of

introduction. If you haven't heard those two episodes, go listen to those first. But if you have

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