This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue with a series called 40 Days in the Word.

In these messages, Pastor Rick shares practical Bible study tools

that will reignite your passion for God's Word and revolutionize your life

as you grow closer to Jesus.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called,

How to Study a Bible Passage.

Now let's just review where we've been so far.

And week number one we talked about the inspiration of Scripture.

The seven reasons why you know you can trust the Bible as God's Word.

And we looked at the scientific reason, the historical reasons,

and all these different other reasons.

And why we know the Word of God is the Word of God.

We, too, we looked at the Bible's foundation, the seven reasons God gave us the Bible.

And what it does in your life and what it wants to do to transform you and make you the kind of person

that you've always wanted to be and God wants you to be.

Last week we looked at illumination.

And we looked at how does God show me what He wants me to see in the Bible,

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