This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue with a series called 40 Days in the Word.

In these messages, Pastor Rick shares practical Bible study tools

that will reignite your passion for God's Word and revolutionize your life

as you grow closer to Jesus.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a message called,

understanding the meaning of a text.

I want to welcome you to week five of 40 Days in the Word.

And as you know, we've been studying how to study the Bible.

Last week, I mentioned that regardless of the kind of study you do,

whether it is a word study, a character study, a book study, a chapter study, a verse study,

any of the 12 different methods that we cover in the Bible study methods book,

that you always come back to four main categories of questions.

Observation, interpretation, correlation, application.

You remember last week we talked about this.

That when you look at a text and you want to study what the Bible says,

the first thing is observation and you ask, what does it say?

What does the Bible say?

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