Welcome to Radical with David Platt.

Have you ever heard this, quote,

I don't need to study God's work.

I just read the passage and listen for God to speak to my heart.

Is this approach to interpreting the Bible wrong? Today we close the

unchanging series in Genesis chapter 2. David Platt will use the account of God's

call for Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac and demonstrate how to apply the

reap method of studying scripture. That's read, examine, apply, and pray. If we claim that God's

word is our authority, then we should want to understand it

rightly. This reap approach to studying scripture helps us understand the truths that the

biblical authors intended to communicate.

It helps us think through how to apply those truths to our own lives.

Here's David Platt in Genesis chapter 22.

With faith in... Chapter 22.

With faith in this word, if you have a Bible and I hope you do,

somebody else around you does that you can look on, let me invite you to open it with me to Genesis chapter 22. It's the first

book in the Bible. Chapter 22. I want us to do something a little different during this time in the

words. So part of our purpose in reading through the Bible together and just in case you're visiting with us or

Remember if missed out the last couple of weeks we're walking through a journey over the next two years,

where we're reading a couple chapters a day,

and over the next two years

we'll be through the Old Testament once,

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