Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, October 1st.

The Bible is every believer's essential guidebook.

But how do you read it in a way that encourages and strengthens you?

Let's close out our series with six practical steps for how to handle the Bible.

Now, the truth is, how you and I handle something

depends upon the value we place on it. How we handle it depends upon the value we place on it.

Now, the way I value it is going to depend upon a couple of things. First of all, what's the

nature of this thing that I'm valuing? And secondly, what benefit is it to me personally? So when we think

about the nature of this, this is the eternal word of the living God. The Bible says about itself that

the nature of the truth that is in here is that it's active and alive. It's not reading like

any of the book. There's no book to match it because it's the mind of God put in print so

that you and I know the ways of God. We may understand the character and the attitude of God.

We may understand the power of God. There's no book like it, nothing so precious. And no matter

who you are and what you own, you do not possess anything more valuable than this book. This is the book that teaches us how

to know God, how to relate to him, how to be forgiven of our sin, how to live successful in this

life, and how to die unafraid and spend eternity with God.

Know the book ever been printed has been able to do what this book has been able to do.

Now, what I want to do is to give you some simple ideas about how to use this book.

We've said, now, these are the benefits of it, some of them.

How do I use this book?

And so most of us here have one in our

hand. And if you have one in your hand, then I just want to give you a few suggestions. And, you know,

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