Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy this message by Chris

Valatton. For more information about this podcast and other resources visit iBethel.org.

We just bless your people. We pray that you would open our eyes. We pray that you would

open our eyes of our hearts, our understanding that the spirit revelation would rest in this

room and rest on the hears that anyone who accesses this word would be enlightened, would

be enlightened in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you Lord. I'm going to do, I think it's a

three-part series on understanding the scriptures. I think that a lot of times I feel like Christians,

and I'm sure I've done this myself, I feel like we're like Peter. You know how Peter, Jesus

said, get swords and Peter took the sword and he cut off the man's ear. I feel like a lot of

Christians are using the word the sword and we're cutting off people's ears in the name of God.

Oh, and Jesus is like, what are you doing? And so I want to talk to you about how to understand

the scriptures in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 15. It says Paul writes to Timothy and said this,

be diligent to preserve, I'm sorry, be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a

workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handing, handling the word truth. See if I can

get it right once. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to

be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. And so in 2 Timothy 3, 16, Paul goes on to say,

all scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,

for training and righteousness so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

And so I want to do a series on how do I actually handle the word of God? How do I understand

the scriptures? And if anybody interact on social networking and all any of you guys on social

networking, it's all anybody on Facebook. That's the battleground for all Christianity, I think.

It's so interesting how people use the word of God. It's interesting how many times I watch

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