{"id":47454,"date":"2022-10-01T02:53:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-be-a-book-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:53:58","slug":"lets-be-a-book-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-be-a-book-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s &#8220;Be A Book&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have we ever wanted to write a book? Its certainly a worthy goal, but its better to be a book than it is to write one.<\/p>\n<p>The apostle Paul believed it was better to be a book when he penned these inspired words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Clearly you are an epistle of Christ &#8230;.. written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart<\/em><\/strong> (2 Corinthians 3:3; cf. Psalm 37:31; Psalm 40:8; Hebrews 8:10).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The work that Christ is doing in us as Christians, can result in a godly influence far greater than any book we might write (cf. Romans 1:8; 2 Corinthians 8; Philippians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 1; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-9).<\/p>\n<p>By having Gods Word written on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33; Hebrews 10:15-16), the Lord is displaying His love, mercy, forgiveness, and goodness to all the folks with whom we interact with every day of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>As a Christian, we may never write a book or have a book published, but by living as Christ lived (Gal. 2:20; cf. Acts 10:38; 1 Peter 2:18-22; 1 John 2:3-6), we will be a book.<\/p>\n<p>Brethren, lets be a book  an epistle of Christ for all to read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice What You Preach<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Preaching Without Practicing!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Preach What You Practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we ever wanted to write a book? Its certainly a worthy goal, but its better to be a book than it is to write one. The apostle Paul believed it was better to be a book when he penned these inspired words: Clearly you are an epistle of Christ &#8230;.. written not with ink &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lets-be-a-book-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#039;s &#8220;Be A Book&#8221; &#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-47454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454","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=47454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}