So I want you to turn to two passages all right turn to Matthew chapter six and

John six if you're new here we bring our Bibles to church and we normally turn to two passages we're always turned at least one.

So open your Bibles to Matthew chapter six and then put a marker at John chapter 6.

We're beginning a new series called The Holy Bible Beyond Words.

And we're going to talk about God's Word, but not just the importance of it, we're going to get

in God's word, and I'm going to show you some keys about studying God's word, and we're going to see

some things in God's word that possibly you've never seen before. I heard about a

family that they've been and had one of the family members in the hospital and

they came home and after a few days the pastor just dropped by to see

them kind of unexpectedly but just wanted to check on them and all and so they were

visiting for a while and then the man decided kind of thought to himself I think I'm going to try

to impress the pastor and so he said to his son he said son go get dad's favorite book and he went and got the Bass Pro catalog.

Well, what we want to do is get to the place and stay at the place where God's word is our favorite book.

I want to show you, this is the original Bible that I had when I got saved.

And we had to have it rebound two times in four years and

because I'm gonna show you what I would I would in the front of it I write down, I would do Bible studies and I'd just write down scripture.

I don't know if you can see those, just scripture after scripture.

And then when I'd find the scripture, uh oh.

Yeah, that's someone's phone number I don't even know.

Okay, anyway, what I do, you can see this at NRH as well is I would just underline or and then I'd go through it again. I saw it highlight.

This is just Psalms here. Now we're into proverbs and here's Ezekiel. I like the Ezekiel as you can see

And of course let's see and then after that would be

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