Coming up next on renewing your mind.

There is a prophet from a careful studying of the Bible,

and it's because the Bible is inspired by Almighty God

that it gives us an asset that is valuable and profitable,

and that asset is doctrine.

The Bible is profitable for doctrine.

Do you see the Bible that way?

Do you read and study it in order to gain that valuable asset

that we call doctrine?

The common refrain in the church today is that doctrine divides.

We don't need to study theology, they say.

We just need to follow Jesus.

Well, if we intend to follow Jesus,

it's important to learn everything we can about Him.

Here's our C-Sprull from his classic series Foundations.

In our first session in our study of this series of systematic theology,

I mentioned how theology is unified coherent and so on

and warned about the danger of taking a preconceived system

and imposing it and forcing it upon Scripture.

And after that first lecture,

one of the members of the studio audience where we taped it,

came up to me and said,

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