How To Understand God’s Word!

1. The FIRST rule for Bible study is to study the Bible for God’s approval.  If you study trying to justify some evil, you many never come to a knowledge of the truth.  Realize that only the TRUTH can make you free (Jn. 8:32) so you have everything to gain by finding the truth and nothing to lose but sin, sinful habits, and things displeasing to God.
2. Forget personalities.  Don’t try to make the Bible either justify or condemn your parents or other relatives or friends.  Realize that the way in which God talks with us today is throught the Bible so study it in that way.  Realize that God’s ways are not man’s ways (Isa. 55:8) so don’t test Gods’s commands as to whether they seem reasonable to you.
3. Realize that man is the creation of God and the created cannot completely understand the Creator.
4. Realize that God is not the author of confusion (I Cor 14:33) but of peace.  Yes, men disagree but it’s not God’s fault.  If all men would agree with God, all men would then agree with each other.  There are over 300 different religious bodies in the U.S. today.  Confusion exists!  God is not the author of it.

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