You talk about thrills, and I've had a lot of thrills in my lifetime.

I look backward through my athletic career, you know, all of the honors and all of those things that you get in athletics

and all the thrills of participating in a collegiate career and all that stuff.

I'll tell you something.

The greatest thrill that I've known in my life is when I have cracked open the shell of an incredible truth of the Word of God.

It's an exhilarating and joyous experience.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. You've probably

crammed for tests, and maybe that helped you do better than you would do otherwise.

But that's not the same as learning something over time so that it gets beyond your short-term memory and becomes useful throughout your life.

Well, if there's anything you need to commit to long-term memory, it's God's word.

That only comes, though, from a serious commitment to study. Okay. anything you need to commit to long-term memory, it's God's Word.

That only comes, though, from a serious commitment to study.

And today, John MacArthur shows you the steps he takes to get all he can from Scripture

and how you can take those same steps.

You might assume a study like this is mainly aimed at Bible teachers, but if you want to

know how to find answers from

God's word or even interpret difficult passages, this series is for you. Follow along. Here's John

to show you how to study the Bible. One of the first reasons that I believe the Bible is true

is because it gives us the experience that it claims it will give us. For example,

the Bible says that God will forgive your sin. I believe that. I accepted his forgiveness and you

know what? He did it. He said, how do you know that? I have a sense of freedom from guilt. I have a

sense of forgiveness. You know, the Bible says that if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation, old things

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