Welcome in to the Wednesday Bible study.

Thank you for joining us today.

My name is Rick Burgess in case this is your first time

to be with us.

Co-host of the Rick and Bubba Show and director

of TheManChurch.com and thanking you

for being with us today.

We are studying a brand new series today.

We're in part five of a new series.

This is from the book by J.I. Packer called Knowing God.

And really the premise that J.I. Packer is unpacking

is that we must be very careful that our pursuit of knowledge

concerning God is not the wrong pursuit.

It can't just be to know about God,

scripturally it should be to know God.

And we've talked about that quite the God desires

that we know Him.

He is not hitting Himself from us.

And this is one of the biggest assets we've been given,

the biggest tools that we've been given to use to know God.

His revelation about Himself and the Holy Word of God.

And so as we've said in the Wednesday Bible study,

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