Well, you believe that the Bible is powerful?

Good.

You resolve to read it daily?

Wonderful.

But why does this commitment to daily reading sometimes feel so powerless and actually

changing me?

Today on Ask Pastor John, we study a classic sermon clip where John Piper helps us out with some keys to reading the Bible well.

A sermon clip? I know. We haven't done this in years. A sermon clip. But I love this clip because it looks at Daily Bible Reading from all sorts of angles. Listeners to the podcast will know that John Piper preached through the entire book of Romans and 225 sermons.

The series took him eight years and eight months to complete spanning the spring of 1998 to the end of 2006.

And all 225 of those rich messages are collected online under the series title, The Greatest Letter Ever

Written, Most Epic John Piper Sermon Series ever recorded, one I know many of you have listened to

in its entirety. As you do, you'll come across a bunch of little nuggets along the way,

like this one, where Pastor John gets into the topic of how we ensure that we get daily benefit

from our daily Bible reading.

The topic arose in the Romans series in a sermon title, Let Love Be Genuine on Romans 12, 9, preached on November 21, 2004.

Here's Pastor John.

Let's begin with some thoughts here now from Romans about how to read a text like this in a way that changes us deeply.

There are 13 exhortations in just verses 9 to 13.

So, suppose you get up in the morning and you've set yourself like a good Christian to read your Bible before you head off to work.

That's a good idea.

You should do that.

So you've set yourself maybe to read a few chapters or let's say Romans 12 is included.

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