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Hebrews 412

• For the word of God is living and active. Sharper
  than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even
  to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow
  it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart

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Question

• Can you know the Bible
• Without knowing God?

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John 537-40

• And the Father who sent me has himself testified
  concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor
  seen his form, nor does his word dwell in you,
  for you do not believe the one he sent. You
  diligently study the Scriptures because you think
  that by them you possess eternal life. These are
  the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you
  refuse to come to me to have life.

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What Is The Bible?

• A Declaration of Gods Story

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What Is Its Purpose?

• To Transform Us Into Holy People

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1 Corinthians 212-14

• We have not received the spirit of the world but
  the Spirit who is from God, that we may
  understand what God has freely given us. This is
  what we speak, not in words taught us by human
  wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit,
  expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
  The man without the Spirit does not accept the
  things that come from the Spirit of God, for they
  are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand
  them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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Goal of Bible Study
Transformation
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2 Timothy 312-17

• In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life
  in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil
  men and impostors will go from bad to worse,
  deceiving and being deceived. But as for you,
  continue in what you have learned and have become
  convinced of, because you know those from whom
  you learned it, and how from infancy you have
  known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make
  you wise for salvation through faith in Christ
  Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is
  useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
  training in righteousness, so that the man of God
  may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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Peter

• Prophets directed by Spirit (110-12)
• The Word of the Lord stands forever (123-25)
• In-between Be Holy (113-22)
• given us all things that pertain to life and
  Godliness Godly living (2 Peter 13)

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Psalm 119105

• Your word is a lamp to my feet
• and a light for my path.

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Why Not Knowledge?

• Not listed as a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5)
• Knowledge puffs up love builds up (1 Cor. 81)
• Virtue comes before knowledge (2 Pet. 15)

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Goal

• What Happens When We Read With Transformation
  in Mind?
• We become better people!