Ten Reasons to Read the Bible Every Day

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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If we are going to grow up into maturity in Christ, we need to feast on Scripture — and not just here and there, but every day.

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0:00.0	At the start of the week, in episode 1510, we talked about leading someone to Christ and
0:09.7	Pastor John walked us through four treasure chests of glorious truths that we need to make
0:14.6	clear to someone who wants to close with Christ as the Puritans called it.
0:21.3	And today we talk to new believers, and it's an email from an anonymous listener, a new
0:26.0	believer himself. Pastor John, thank you for this podcast. I'm overwhelmed at how much I don't
0:30.8	know about the Bible. I want to be knowledgeable about Scripture so that it can guide me, and I can
0:35.4	use it to guide others in the future. But there is so much. I don't know where to begin. If I
0:43.0	were studying for an exam in class, I would start with a list of essential topics to be tested on.
0:48.1	But with the Bible, I feel like the test is life, and I don't know what I need to know to be prepared.
0:54.4	If that makes any sense. In other words, where do I start? What is the first and most essential
0:59.3	thing I need to know to follow Christ by reading his word? Well, my answer is probably going to be
1:06.8	a little bit frustrated because he's asking for a particular truth in the Bible, and I'm going to
1:15.4	say Bible, Bible, Bible, Bible. I have never met a mature, fruitful, strong, spiritually discerning
1:26.4	Christian who is not full of Scripture, and devoted to regular meditation on Scripture,
1:34.4	and given to storing it in the heart through Bible memorization. And that's not a coincidence.
1:41.0	So what I want to do is persuade our new believing friend that it is absolutely essential
1:51.2	after coming to faith in Christ to be radically, deeply, experientially devoted, unshakably,
2:00.7	unwaveringly persuaded that reading and meditating on and understanding and memorizing and enjoying
2:10.0	scriptures is absolutely essential for the Christian life, which would include being in the word
2:18.6	capital W every day with the aim that we will meet God there and little by little the glory of his
2:28.1	truth will feel and transform our lives. And that may seem obvious to them or to others, but it
2:37.2	isn't obvious because I know fairly well-along Christians who don't do this. They don't do this,
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