People have been reading and studying and committing their life to this book for thousands of years.

Why is it so important?

It is the worship book that defines the conduct that rightly regards God for who God is.

But it's also flawless.

There's no imperfection.

This is the supernatural power of God through the word of God to do the work of God

in my soul. That's core to me. It's healing to me. It's life giving to me. It's life restoring to me.

That doesn't change. This book is reliable from beginning to end.

Hey, Ariel, thanks for sitting down. I wanted to walk through some things today as we embark on a new year.

Different people have New Year's resolutions.

It's often a time where people make goals and objectives for the year that's coming.

And if you told me, you know, I want to be fit in 2025, but that was divorced from

maybe a habit of exercise or a conscientiousness of what you ate, I would be like, well, you're

delusional. And if someone said, I want to grow in my walk with the Lord this year, but was

disconnected and detached from a personal commitment and devotion to the Word of God, I would say, well, that might

be a good goal, but it's not a goal that's going to be realized.

You can't become more like the Son of God if you're not committed to the Word of God.

And so I wanted to begin to maybe just in this episode talk through why we should study

the Bible and look to the scripture to provide those

reasonings, but we have to first understand what the scripture is when we open it.

But before we embark on that, would you just maybe initially,

someone's listening and they're going, why is this so important to study the Bible?

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