{"id":45929,"date":"2022-10-01T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-should-we-study-the-bible-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:06:15","slug":"why-should-we-study-the-bible-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-should-we-study-the-bible-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should We Study The Bible? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The primary reason for studying the Bible is because <strong>it is a command from God<\/strong> (2 Timothy 2:15 ASV). The following are additional reasons as to why we should study the Bible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may live spiritually by being born anew by God&#8217;s word (cf. Luke 8:11; 1 Peter 1:23). Unless one is born anew, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven (John 3:1-5).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may grow spiritually (1 Peter 2:1-2; 2 Peter 3:18).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may be able to resist the darts and arrows of Satan as our Lord did (Ephesians 6:16; cf. Matthew 4:1-11).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may have the power to serve and evangelize (Romans 1:16; cf. Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may have safe guidance through the pitfalls of life (Psalm 119:105; John 8:12; 1 John 1:5; cf. 2 Corinthians 4:1-6).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we might guard ourselves from a contagious disease &#8211; sin (Psalm 37:31; Psalm 119:11).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To eliminate worldly poison from our hearts (1 John 2:15-17; John 15:3; 1 Peter 1:22). God&#8217;s word is our antibiotic  because His word is pure (Psalm 19:8). Thus, sin and the Word cannot  dwell in the same heart. When one enters, the other must depart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may bear spiritual fruit (John 15:1-5; cf. Psalm 1:1-3; Gal. 5:22-23). Without Bible study, our  lives are barren (John 15:6; cf. Matthew 3:10; Matthew 7:19).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may grow into the image of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18; cf. Romans 8:29; Gal. 2:20).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>That we may look forward to our future home in the beauties of heaven (John 14:1-4; cf. 1 Peter 1:3-4; Revelation 21).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary reason for studying the Bible is because it is a command from God (2 Timothy 2:15 ASV). The following are additional reasons as to why we should study the Bible: That we may live spiritually by being born anew by God&#8217;s word (cf. Luke 8:11; 1 Peter 1:23). Unless one is born anew, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-should-we-study-the-bible-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Should We Study The Bible? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}