There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible

message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local

church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

Thank you. will be a help to you today. John chapter 17. What a great chapter John 17 is.

How many of you would say the Lord's taught you something from John 17 this week?

And I want to say this to you. He has much more to say to all of us.

I think one of the dangers when you study a portion of scriptures, you come to the end of it and you think you've come to the end of it.

But I want you to know when you've come to the end of it, you've just scratched the surface.

In fact, that's the very time to go back and concentrate on it even more.

I would challenge you to do something.

You've been reading John 17 each day, then we've been studying John 17 each evening,

but I'd like to challenge you to do something over the next several days,

maybe between now and the Lord's Day.

Take John 17 and read it again every day.

You may even vary the way you read it a little bit. For example, read it out loud. I don't know about you. I get distracted. Any of you ever get

distracted? And I found when I read the Bible out loud, it helps me concentrate because my eyes and my

ears and my mouth and my mind they're all working together sometimes I

listen to it I did that today I listen to John 17 listen to someone else read John 17 it

helped me just to meditate and think through it I like to read the Bible on my knees

and I'll tell you what happens to me when I read the Bible my knees, it turns the Bible into a conversation with the author.

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