How To Be a Christian in 2020: In the Word

YouTube, you don’t learn.

YouTube, you don’t learn.

I watch a lot of motorcycle videos, but until I do a job I haven’t learned it.

Q. How many people have SERIOUSLY memorized a Memory Verse?

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FOUND - Tear Your Clothes (but you didn’t)

v.8

[Markup IN RED v.8]

How did they lose the Bible (the Law)!?

**WE MUST MOVE TO THE NEXT STEP. Finding the Bible is not enough. We also must read it!

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READ - Tear Your Clothes

v.9-11

[Markup v.9-11]

[Markup IN BLUE v.11 and v.13]

The only HONEST response to the Law is this!

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**WE MUST MOVE TO THE NEXT STEP. Reading the Bible is not enough. We also must understand it!

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UNDERSTOOD - Tear His Clothes

v.12-20

[Markup IN RED v.13]

[Ask five men…and one lady to DELIVER A LETTER]

Bad news and BAD news

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[Markup WITH YELLOW the TWO BEHOLDS

[Markup MAN w/ HILKIAH and SHAPHAN]

[Markup BUT w/ TORE]

**WE MUST MOVE TO THE NEXT STEP. Understanding the Bible is finding the Gospel!

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Bad News! God is going to destroy them.

Bad News! The King is going to die.

Good News: “Come on. What’s the Good News? This is a story about a King and tearing clothes...”

Another King had His clothes torn off!

Isn’t that GOOD NEWS!?

Invite: I’d just invite you now...

Need God’s wrath quenched?

Need daily hope?

Look, YouTube! Meh!

Frustrated: You spend countless hours on YouTube and your phone…and when you’re finished you feel meh!

But finding Jesus is a daily mystery, solved.

Independent: We must read the Bible in Community.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Not

David isn’t even David and so certainly not you.

Oh! Never-wrong-always-the-hero. YOU are the enemy. YOU are the one who’s wrong.

No Gospel

Moralism? Check. Bible Trivia?

A cushy Fb post? Check.

Cat video or Baby Yoda? Check.

Football hopes? Check.

Depressed

“The Bible is depressing.”

But here is daily GRACE!

Gospel:

Be in the word. Be dedicated. Find the Gospel.

Faith: The Word is in you.

“When you don’t know what to say...”

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Application:

Write the word. Dwell is not enough.

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