8. Meditating on the Scriptures, Part 2

I just want to talk about the Bible

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Thanks for listening! In this episode we are continuing the conversation on meditating upon the Scriptures. This episode focuses on how to do a word study. Like I mentioned in the episode, here are some steps of doing a word study: 1) Identify the key word(s) in a verse or passage. 2) Look up the definition(s) of the word. 3) Look at other places where the same word is used in the Bible and how it is translated there. 4) Notice any passages that utilize parallelism to give further insight i...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible. If this is your first time
0:10.8	joining us, let me just extend to you a warm welcome and say that I'm glad you are here with us.
0:16.5	My name is Christian Keeter and I live on the east coast of the U.S. with my beautiful wife and two wonderful daughters.
0:24.1	And I am on staff at an international discipleship ministry called mentoring men for the master.
0:29.8	Now this is going to be the second part of a conversation that we started in the previous episode on meditating on the Word of God. And so if you have not
0:39.6	listened to that message yet or that podcast yet, I would encourage you to pause this one and to go
0:45.9	back to that one and listen to it first because I'm going to be building off some of the things
0:49.6	that I've said in that episode. And furthermore, if you skip that part of the process when it comes to this topic
0:57.1	of meditating on the Word of God, then we miss everything because the previous episode was all
1:01.8	about depending upon the Holy Spirit to speak to our hearts, to enlighten the eyes of our hearts,
1:07.8	to take the scriptures and make them real to us.
1:15.6	And that is one of the biggest and most important components to what it means to meditate on the Bible. It is to come to the Lord and to pray and ask him and say, please enlighten the eyes of my heart.
1:22.9	Help me to see. In Psalm 119, 18, the psalmist prays open my eyes that i may behold wondrous things
1:34.0	out of your law he says open my eyes that i may behold wondrous things out of your law and so
1:40.2	beginning with prayer beginning with asking god to do this is so important. It's a big
1:45.6	role of the Holy Spirit plays in our life. And so we can't skip that step. We can't skip that
1:54.9	step of coming to the Lord and praying and just saying, please make your word real to me.
2:00.4	However, I want to now get into more
2:02.2	of the mechanics of what it looks like to actually meditate on the Word of God. So suppose you're
2:07.9	sitting down with your Bible and you're, you've sat there and you've prayed and you've asked the
2:13.1	Lord to speak to your heart and you open your Bible and you start reading wherever you may be reading.
2:18.9	And you want to say, okay, I want to put myself in a position to hear from the Lord.
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