Howard Hendricks - Living By the Book (1991)

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It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

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The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.

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The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.

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The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied.

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The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

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Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

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You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

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Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You've been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.

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The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

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If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

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That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

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The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.

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In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

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The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

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So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

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Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

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So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?

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