Hey, I'm David Platt. I wrote a book on how to read the Bible, a simple guide to deeper intimacy with God.

I think about Psalm 119, 162. It says, I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

There is spoil. There's treasure waiting for you and me every day in God's word, not just so that we know it and understand it,

but so that we know God and walk in love relationship with God. That's why I wrote this book

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There's two foundational truths that we're seeing here in Hebrews chapter 10.

The first one we looked at last week, we were recipients of a new covenant.

Last week what we looked at is we saw how the new covenant in Christ changed everything, revolutionized everything.

We didn't just dive into Old Testament history and theology for the fun of it, because we didn't

have anything else better to do on a snowy day. We dove into that picture to see the important,

eternally important, eternally relevant implications of what we see in Scripture

for our lives.

This is why, even to go back when we were talking about earlier with Bart, why it's necessary

for us to have solid biblical, theological, theological foundations in the local church and in each

of our Christian lives, because when

we face trials in this life, when we go through different struggles, face different situations

in this life, we don't want to face them standing on sand that is sinking beneath us.

We want to face them standing on a rock.

When you get unexpected news from your doctor, when that tragedy hits your home that you never

could have imagined happening, when you're facing foreclosure or when your job is gone, when things are not working

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