Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

We've all read all of the books of the New Testament. We've studied through the Word.

So what are we really doing when we study these letters from Paul?

Is this just a waste of time?

Senseless exercise.

Is this just some academic exercise?

And you can say that.

You look at the Greek and the Hebrew and the history and all the things that accompany the word,

and you can say, after you get through, what have you really done?

That's a good question.

What have you done?

Have you done anything at all?

Well, I think what you've done when you study the word is something unique.

Because as we look at Corinthians, for example, which we're going to do today, and we're going to do a lot of intellectual exercises, we're going to see what words mean, and we're going to see why Paul wrote to these

people the way he did and said what he did. This is not an intellectual exercise. What this is

is tapping into the Holy Spirit of God because the words of the Bible are not like the words of any

other book. They are spiritual words written by the Holy Spirit

himself and can only be understood by the Spirit. And so when you study the Bible, you're

doing not an intellectual thing, but a spiritual thing, a spiritual activity. You are not acquiring what the world calls wisdom,

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