This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue with a series called 40 Days in the Word.

In these messages, Pastor Rick shares practical Bible study tools that will

reignite your passion for God's Word and revolutionize your life as you grow

closer to Jesus. In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how

you can go even deeper in this series. With Pastor Rick's video-based Bible study

called 40 Days in the Word, this study will ignite your passion for God's Word

and revolutionize your relationship with Jesus. You can take a sneak peek at this

valuable tool by going to PastorRick.com while you listen to today's

message. That's PastorRick.com or you can text the word daily to

800-600-5,000-4. That's the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called

seeing what God wants me to see. If you've ever thought this, you know,

I just never get anything out of the Bible. When I read it, it's just flat

out boring. I don't get anything out of it. It seems dry. I don't understand it.

It doesn't make sense. I don't know what the big deal about it is. It seems

like a closed book to me. If you've ever felt that way, you picked a good

weekend to come to church because I'm going to explain why the Bible is a

closed book to you and how God wants to open it up and how you can start

seeing what God wants you to see. The fact is, the Bible is a difficult book if

you don't understand the principle of illumination. That's what we're going to

talk about this week. Now, week one, we talked about inspiration. The seven

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