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. In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how

you can go even deeper in this series. With Pastor Rick's video based Bible study

called 40 Days in the Word, this study will ignite your passion for God's Word

and revolutionize your relationship with Jesus. You can take a sneak peek at this

valuable tool by going to PastorRick.com while you listen to today's

message. That's PastorRick.com or you can text the Word Daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

That's the Word Daily to 800-600-5,000-4. Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with

part two of a message called How to Study a Bible Passage.

Alright, I want you to take your Bible and you open it to Philippians chapter 2

and take your message notes and let's go through these four steps. What does it say?

What does it mean? What does the else in the Bible says something about it?

And what am I going to do about it? First, we start with observation. What does it say?

Now, what I would do is I would simply look at this. I would read it through several times

and I would just write down what I see. It's not anything fancy. It's just whatever I see.

And I see three things in this passage. You might write them down. First, I observe

that Paul intends to send two men to Philippi. Paul intended to send two men to Philippi.

And that's just an observation. There's nothing fancy about it, nothing spiritual.

That's what I see. And in verse 19, he says, I hope to send you Timothy.

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