{"id":47104,"date":"2022-10-01T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-wear-our-bible-out-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:00","slug":"lets-wear-our-bible-out-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-wear-our-bible-out-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's Wear Our Bible Out! – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story is told of a Bible teacher who held up his well-worn Bible and told his students, “Every Christian should wear out a copy of the Bible every 10 years.” His challenge reminds me of the saying: “If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn’t!” This certainly is true in my case.<\/p>\n

The years my Bible was considerably under-used, I found myself falling apart instead of my Bible! Thankfully, God used my condition as a means of whetting my appetite for His Word (Psalm 119:67,71).<\/p>\n

When I consistently studied and made application of God’s word (2 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 5:14), I realized that the truths that were being presented to me from the holy Scriptures really did work in my everyday life.<\/p>\n

For me, the Bible was no longer just a guilt producer and a dust collector. As I read it, digested it, underlined key phrases, and entered cross-references, little by little, my Bible began falling apart instead of me!<\/p>\n

As we study God’s word, there’s a practical way we can increase our faith. When we put into practice<\/strong> passages from God’s word and see that they work in our own lives.<\/p>\n

In the study Bible that I’ve used for twenty-five years, I have written the letters “T” and “P” in the margins next to those passages that I have put into practice. The letters mean “Tested and Proved” (cf. Romans 12:2; Colossians 1:9-10; Colossians 3:10).<\/p>\n

Brethren and friends, let’s wear out Bible out!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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