It's such a privilege to be able to read our Bibles and it's so essential because

we live in a time and a season and a place where we are subjected to an unprecedented.

There's never been a season in human history when there was so much information cascading

over the lives of people.

You know we used to have a local newspaper and a 30 minute news

broadcast and that was the the total expression of news that was available most of

the time. But now there's a 24-7 news cycle and it chirps into your phone on a regular, I mean it's overwhelming.

It's impossible to decipher.

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We've been talking about gifts and expectations and I have submitted to you, suggested to you that the gift we have of the availability of the word of God comes with expectations

and that we don't want to live presumptuously or arrogantly imagining that we would always have that privilege.

There have been tremendous sacrifices made so that you and I have access to the word of God.

That's hard for us to imagine.

We live in a time in a season where it is so available to us, but I've

traveled around the world. I've been in many, many places where there are people that

have never had the privilege of even holding a Bible. I have been in multiple places where adults

would stand in line for whatever amount of time was necessary if I was

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