God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

Many years ago, a famous preacher was asked, are you ready to preach? And his answer was, not yet, I have not yet got a morsel for myself.

He meant by that. He understood that his own soul had to be fed if he was going to pass the bread on to anyone else.

I give you that story because in our journey now, we've come to the book of Second Corinthians.

And Second Corinthians is a book that means a great deal to me.

As a preacher and teacher of the Word of God, many years ago,

I came to the book of Second Corinthians and found in it a morsel for my own soul.

As a matter of fact, the classic passage on ministry is found, I believe, in 2nd Corinthians.

If you take chapter 2, beginning at about verse 14 through chapter 7 and verse 1,

these are some of the verses that I frequently meditate on just before I get up

to preach and teach the word of God to someone else. It does my heart good. And if you're teaching

or preaching the Bible trying to minister to anyone else, I would challenge you to read this

passage for yourself. It's filled with truths for ministers. For example, 2 Corinthians

3 verse 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our

sufficiency is of God. Isn't that a great verse? A reminder that we're nothing and God is everything. The key

word of this book literally is the word minister. It or some form of it is found about 20 times

in this particular book. And yet the emphasis is not on the minister himself but rather on the

minister bringing glory to God.

You remember that 1 Corinthians showed us the inside workings of a local church. Well, if that is

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