07/22/23 STUDY FOR THE RIGHT REASONS

07/22/23 STUDY FOR THE RIGHT REASONS

Here are four good reasons people want to learn Biblical truth.

I will give them in no special order. Though they are each different, they should all be part of a person's search for truth. Each of the four is the flip side of one of the other four reasons. (#s 1 and 2 are the flip side of each other and #s 3 and 4 are the flip side of each other). People hope that studying the Bible will meet their need and lead them to their goal.

#1 People want to learn the truth of God because they want to be saved from wickedness in their lives. They not only realize they have sinned, they know that sin has power over them and they want to be delivered from the shame, the guilt, the power of evil.

#2 People want to know God's word because they want to be in a right relationship with God, they want to please God in this present evil world, they want to live life as life was meant to be lived.

#3 People want to learn the word of God because they want to spend eternity with God, they want to go to heaven.

#4 People want to study the Bible because they do not want to spend eternity in torment, they do not want to suffer eternal punishment.

I am afraid that some folks who started studying the Bible for any of these reasons eventually settled for studying the Bible simply as a pursuit knowledge, information, religion or as a philosophical principle.

We should study God's word in order to escape eternal torment in the lake of fie; in order to live forever in the presence of God; in order to find deliverance from the corruption of sin; in order to be conformed to the image of Christ, and in order to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus and to be conformed to the image of Jesus and in order to be equipped for the evangelizing of the unsaved.

Do you study the Bible for the right reasons?

Are you hungering and thirsting for God's truth, which will lead you out of temptation and into spiritual victory?