A tent maker made a tent out of a lot of different animal skin.

And he took every one of those animal skins and he cut each piece properly so that he could put the whole thing together.

If you don't cut every piece right, the whole thing doesn't fit together.

And what he's saying is you can't have theology without exegesis.

You can't have a total theology of Christianity unless you have all the verses rightly interpreted.

Cut it straight.

And that takes

study.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm Phil Johnson, your host. What a pity it would be

to learn of an adult who couldn't feed himself, not because

of a medical condition or physical impairment, but just because he never learned how to feed himself

or chose not to learn. Well, the Word of God is your soul's greatest source of nourishment,

but how well can you feed yourself on its life-changing truth?

It's encouragement, its correction, its challenge, and comfort.

If you're a Christian, nothing is holding you back from getting all you can from God's word

except maybe not learning the steps for studying it.

So today, John MacArthur is going to show you how he approaches

studying scripture. Practical stuff, he calls his current series, what else? How to study the

Bible. And here's John with the lesson. Why should I study the Bible? What should motivate me

to Bible study? Number one, the Bible is the source of truth. Number

two, the Bible is the source of joy. Third thing. A third motivating force, a third reason

to study the Bible is that the word is the source of victory. It's the source of truth,

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