Hello everybody, it's me, it's 1223, back with another video, I'm just going to check this
sound real quick.
Why is it so dark?
I think it's because there's like storm clouds or something outside, yeah, so, don't worry
if it just looks kind of dark, don't worry if it just looks, alright, so, the sound is
working, so, 2 Timothy 2.15 says, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the world of truth, and of course that's about
studying the Bible, about taking verses in context and things of that nature.
So in this video, I don't want to talk about that verse in particular, I just think that
it's a fitting verse for the subject of this video, and this video I want to talk about
how I personally study the Bible, because we should always study scripture, and it's
an important part of growing as a Christian, since the Bible is God's word, it contains
many important truths within it, so I've received a lot of comments on my videos, people commenting
things about what I say in my videos, like, for example, the user Lou Grimm said, marvelous
discernment and most important message, another said, God has truly given you wisdom in these
last days, and then another, Stephen Holm, who comments on my videos often, he said
that I am gifted with teaching, and I appreciate these comments, of course, but it's all the
Lord's work, because wisdom and knowledge comes from God, according to the Bible.
So in this video, I want to share about what I do to study the Bible, and especially what
I've been putting into practice in these last couple weeks, that we've had this whole quarantine
thing going on.
So I have several methods of studying the scriptures, and of course there's different
ways people can do things, you know, not everybody has to follow this particular methodology,
not everybody has to do what I do, everybody has their own thing that works for them, but
in case you want to know what I do personally, here's a video for that purpose.
So first of all, before I get into what I do do, is there, looks like there was an interruption
for a second, maybe that's just on my phone.
All right, so before I want to, before I, well I can't tell if the video's interrupted
if my phone isn't working, I don't know what's wrong with my internet.
Just last couple days it just has not been working.
Okay, so before I get into what I do, I want to talk about what I don't do.
So and I want to talk about big mistakes which Christians do, which hinder the ability to
understand the Bible, or to be interested in studying the Bible in my opinion.
These are things that I don't do when I study the Bible.
As the Bible says in 1 John 2 27, but the anointing which you have received of him abideth
in you, and you need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing peacheth you
of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, you shall
abide in him.
So this anointing is the Holy Ghost, because Jesus said concerning the Holy Ghost that
he would guide us in all truth, bring into remembrance all things whatsoever God has
said unto us.
He said that in John 14 26, John 16 13.
Another key verse about this is 1 Corinthians 2 13, it says which things also we speak,
not in the words which man the wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing
spiritual things with spiritual.
So you see the big mistake that leads a lot of people to misunderstand or get confused
on the Bible or to preach false doctrine, is that they're not actually studying what
the Bible says, they're studying man's words.
See the scriptures teach that we do not need man to teach us, and what we learn is what
the Holy Ghost teaches, not what man's wisdom teaches.
So before I get into the specific methodology of what I do, what I don't do is I don't use
commentaries, I don't use devotionals, lexicons, and I don't call that studying the Bible,
because that's what a lot of people do.
They'll pull up things that aren't God's words, that aren't the Bible, and then they
say that they're studying the Bible.
Because if you actually look at a lot of the notes and commentaries and expositions of
the Bible which are out there, especially the main popular ones, they're written by
false prophets, they're filled with false doctrine, and there's not necessarily anything
wrong with hearing what one's interpretation is about the Bible, but we need to take a
few things into consideration when consulting others and consulting others' opinions on
what the Bible says.
Here are a few suggestions that I have about this particular thing.
So firstly, if you don't know enough about the person who wrote the commentary or the
book or who's delivering the sermon that you're listening to, I would recommend avoiding it.
And the reason why is that if they're not saved, let's say hypothetically you come across
somebody who wrote a commentary, you don't know enough about them, you don't know what
they preached, what they taught, what their theology was, if they're not saved, they're
not going to have discernment of the truth.
The Bible teaches that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.
Only saved, born-again Christians have the Holy Ghost inside of them, and I've heard
this attitude of some people, and I don't know why Christians have this attitude, why
people will defend using unsaved people for biblical interpretation.
They'll say, okay, well yeah, they preach a false gospel, or they may be heretics, they
may teach false doctrine all over the place, but they at least said some stuff that's useful.
But that's not true.
That's not what the Bible says.
It says the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.
Somebody who's unsaved, they can't understand the scriptures without the guidance of another
man.
They need to basically parrot or copy what other people say, or they just completely
twist it.
They just can't understand it on their own.
So you have no idea if what they're saying is actually true, if it's an unsaved false
prophet, especially if you're new to studying the Bible, maybe this is you just got saved
or something like that, or maybe you've been saved for a while, but you've never actually
gone in depth with studying the Bible.
You can be led into a lot of false doctrine if you just rely on what man says instead
of just letting the Holy Ghost guide you.
Now second, understand if you're going to consult a preacher or a theologian to perhaps
learn faster, do not rely on them, as often Christians have their method of studying the
Bible backwards.
See the Bible talks about the Bereans who search the scriptures daily, whether the things
that were preached unto them were so.
So we shouldn't do our own interpretation and study and then see if it fits with a preacher's
theology.
We should test what theologians and the preachers say in light of what the scriptures say.
So if we hear something from a sermon, if we hear something from a commentary or whatever,
we should search the Bible to see if what they're saying is true and we should compare
it with what the Bible says, not compare what the Bible says to what they say.
The Bible is our final authority and it always trumps what man says, no matter how convincing
the argument is of the foolish people who are out there.
And third, not only use that preacher, and that kind of ties in with the last one, the
Bible says that the Holy Ghost is our main teacher, that he teaches us of all things,
and Jesus promised that he would teach us spiritual things.
So if all we're doing is reading man's word instead of reading God's word, instead of
reading God's word without notes and abridgments and things like that, if we don't let the
spirit just guide us on its own, then our mind is going to be clouded by the opinions
of men, which may be false.
I heard a sermon once where the preacher said, nobody becomes a Calvinist by reading God's
word.
They become a Calvinist by reading man's word.
And that's completely true.
They read books written by men who twist the scriptures and use their own man-made false,
faulty logic, and then they hold that, they hold these books written by these theologians
of the past to be a authority rather than searching the scriptures and testing their
claims to be true on the basis of God's word.
So a lot of people rely on these things that are not God's word, that are just man's word.
So I don't use man's word at all when studying the Bible.
And the problem, I think, with many pastors today, with many people out there, is that
instead of sitting down and just reading God's word by itself, they read reference
Bibles, they read commentaries and books about the Bible, and supposed them to be true.
Now that's not studying to show thyself approved, that's just plagiarism and taking what somebody
else said and using it for yourself.
Now another absurd tendency of what a lot of people today who is going back to the Hebrew
or going back to the Greek, which is used by a lot of people who don't speak either
of those languages, and you know, you can tell just by the way that they pronounce the
words and by the way that they butcher the definitions and things like that.
Now I've been learning Greek on Duolingo for about the last year, and just from what I've
learned it's painfully obvious to tell that a lot of these people can't even speak a single
sentence in Greek.
99% of the time if a pastor or theologian says, the Greek says this, they don't know
that.
They're just reading that in a commentary or they looked it up in a lexicon.
And because they don't know the language, they don't know if that's true or not.
They're just trusting that instead of trusting what God's word says.
And the problem with that is that I, just as many people who do this, believe that the
King James Bible is the perfect preserved word of God in the English language.
How can you say that the word of God is preserved in English and believe that this book is true
while simultaneously trying to say that this text is in another language and trying to
use that instead when you don't even speak that language, you know?
The problem is that these people don't know if the lexicon is telling the truth or not
because they don't know the language.
Oftentimes the lexicons out there, this is just kind of a historical fact because most
of these were written after the fake Alexandrian texts were uncovered after people started
to revise the Bible and come up with all these modern versions.
The fact of the matter is a lot of those are written by liberal scholars who base their
understanding of words on pagan ideas and philosophy and they don't believe what the
Bible says most of the time.
Now the only reason I see for the use of this is defending the translation of the Bible
because if you truly study out the Hebrew and the Greek, it's clear that the King James
version is faithful to the original text.
Other instances of which I can see the usefulness of this are based on case-to-case scenarios.
For example, recently I was writing in the book that I've been working on, Why I Left
the Hebrew Roots Movement, and I got to the subject of the Trinity and I pointed out several
times that the word Elohim, which is a plural word, it's the Hebrew word for God, it's used
to refer to the one God, even though it's a plural word, and most of the time the verb
after that is singular in Hebrew.
So I pointed out that sometimes it's actually a plural verb because deniers of the Trinity
will claim that Elohim, that name, is just a plural majesty, it doesn't point to any
plurality of persons and their evidence is usually that the verb associated with Elohim
is singular.
Yet there are some verses, such as in Genesis 35.7, which do use a plural verb, which don't
use a singular verb, and the thing is that you don't need to know Hebrew, you don't need
to be fluent in Hebrew to understand this because all you need to do is to find all
the verses which use that same word.
So halakhu is the plural verb, it means they went.
Neglu means they appeared, and in all other verses where these words appear, so these
verses appear in, or these words appear in verses that talk about Elohim, and they also
appear in other verses where it uses a plural subject, and even in the English translation
you'll see that.
So for example, they appeared, that word is also used, the Hebrew word for that is also
used in a verse where it talks about skirts, the skirts being uncovered, and obviously
skirts is plural, right?
So it could be useful in that way, but other than that, if you're just casually studying
the Bible, if you're studying the Bible and not trying to refute false doctrine or defend
the Bible or something like that, I would avoid it because, I mean, I would recommend
to avoid all the other language nonsense because it's just unprofitable, there's no reason
to it.
Because the Holy Ghost guides us based on spiritual things, that's what the Bible teaches.
Now I'm pretty sure learning a different language and defending the Bible and things like that,
and looking up things in lexicons, I don't think that has anything to do with the Holy
Ghost because you have to consult man's writings on it in order to learn about it, which means
you don't need to learn it in order to understand the Bible.
You don't need to go back to the original languages.
Man's dictionary definition of what a word is, is not a word of God.
I'm going to read those comments afterwards.
So now I want to get into how I study the Bible.
So that's how I don't study the Bible.
I don't try not to look at commentaries, man's word, things like that.
I try not to look at lexicons, you know, go back to the Greek, the Hebrew, things like
that.
It's just about studying the Bible and just studying the Bible.
So now that I'm done with that beginning little recommendation, I want to talk about what
I do.
And there's really four things that I do.
And typically on a day that I have off, like right now for the last four or five weeks
since, you know, this quarantine thing has been going on, I typically spend on average
about four to five hours a day.
It varies from day to day, depending on what's going on.
So if it's not a day that I have off, like a couple of weeks ago and things like that,
when I had school, this schedule wasn't put into place, but the schedule doesn't matter.
This is just how I do it.
Sometimes I'll fit it.
There's some things in here that I'll fit in to my day to day schedule anyway, even
if I don't have four to five free hours.
So there's really four things that I do, four categories that I can divide Bible study into.
So there's my daily Bible reading, topical Bible study and writing, daily verse by verse
study and miscellaneous study.
I could also add in a fifth category, which would help with increasing your knowledge,
but I wouldn't count in a study and that would be listening to sermons.
I've already established that I don't think it's right to use preacher or commentaries
and call that studying the Bible.
But if you follow the basic guidelines, like don't rely on it, don't immediately assume
that it's all true without comparing it to the scriptures, don't listen to it at all
unless you're sure that the person who's preaching is a saved man of God, then this is something
that you can do every day.
And obviously, like I said, I wouldn't recommend only doing this because it's not studying
the Bible, it's just listening.
That's why if you're going to listen to a sermon, you should go back to the Bible afterwards,
study it, see if what they're saying is true, et cetera.
So the fifth thing that I do every day is I basically do some basic exercise for about
20 to 30 minutes and I'll listen to sermons while doing that.
Some people listen to music while working out.
I think it's much more profitable to listen to sermons instead.
It's a lot more enjoyable.
You actually learn something instead of just listening to music.
So if you know of a good Bible believing, Bible preaching pastor on YouTube, I recommend
doing that if you do any daily workouts or something of that nature.
So that's kind of just a general thought at the beginning, but going to the four main
areas of study, the first one is just my daily Bible reading.
So, so far I've read the Bible from cover to cover four and a half times.
I am currently in the book of Isaiah.
I began back in July, 2018, just a week after I got saved.
And I've read a few chapters pretty much every day since then.
So for the last over year and a half and daily Bible reading is of course very important
because if you've never read the Bible, how are you going to know what the Bible says?
Right?
So every day, the first thing in the morning is that I'll pull up the King James Bible
app on my phone.
I have an app for that and it is a pure word Bible.
So there's no notes, there's no references.
It's just the text of the Bible.
And the amount I read each day varies from day to day since chapters differ in length.
But right now I read about four to six chapters a day on average.
And of course, when you're going through a book like the book of Psalms, that can be
different since there's some chapters that are so short that you can read as many as
like 15 a day.
And then there's like Psalm 119, which is 176 verses long.
I read that a couple of weeks ago and it was the only chapter I read that day since it
was so long.
So it varies, but typically the average length of a chapter is probably about 20 to 30 verses.
I'll read four, five, six chapters, probably a day.
In the past, I did this thing where I wanted to reduce the time that I got through the
Bible each time I read it.
So the first time I read the Bible, starting in July 2018, I did so in seven months.
The second time I did it in three and a half months and the third time in about two months.
Getting through the Bible in two months is kind of difficult because it means about an
hour to an hour and a half on average of reading every day, which for some can be difficult
to find the time to do that every day.
Right now, I've kind of just settled it at a six month plan.
Sometimes people will have a year long plan.
I have a six month plan so I can read the Bible twice a year.
A lot of people do like using it or going through the Bible in one year and they like
using these Bible plans.
You can find all kinds of them online.
I know my own church prints out them and they like put them at the front of the church
so that anybody can take out this daily, or not daily, well I guess it is daily, but daily
Bible reading and you can get through it in a year.
But that would limit reading to about 15 to 20 minutes a day, which in my opinion is kind
of low.
That's just my opinion.
Even if you read at a slower speed, it might be 20, 25 minutes at the most.
So I typically spend about 25 to 40 minutes a day reading the Bible instead.
What I do is I just read.
I always look for key details, but I don't do an in-depth analysis.
It's just like you read any other book.
Every time I go through the Bible, since I've grown in my faith and knowledge of the Scriptures
since then, since I got saved, I always notice something new.
I can guarantee if you have the Holy Spirit of God inside of you and you're consistently
reading the Bible, you'll always learn something new every time you go through the Bible.
I'll read chapters over and over again and see details that I've never noticed before.
I've heard people say that a lot when they start going through the Bible each time.
There's people who've read the Bible 15 to 20 times before.
Again my goal is to read it twice a year, probably for the rest of my life.
I don't know.
Maybe I'll cut it even shorter than that.
Maybe I'll do it three times a year.
I don't know.
We'll see.
At least for the next couple of years, my plan is to get through it twice a year.
That's the first thing I do.
That's just daily Bible reading without any notes, without any in-depth studies, without
devotionals, anything like that.
That's something I think every Christian should do because often Christians make the mistake
of reading just one or two verses or a short passage with half a page of notes.
They call that the daily bread.
You'll have these devotionals out there.
They'll say the daily bread.
It's only one or two Bible verses and then the rest of it is just man's opinion.
But people should just focus on reading God's Word alone every day.
Just stick to reading God's Word.
The second thing that I do is what you all see me do and that's topical Bible study.
What I mean by that is that I'll study various things for the purpose of writing video scripts
for this channel and various books and essays that I've already published and plan to publish
in the future.
So every script that I read on my videos, that is from this topical Bible study because
obviously I need to study in order for these videos.
I don't just have all these verses just ready out of nowhere.
Obviously I have to do study to make these videos that I make on this channel.
So this involves an in-depth study of doctrines and concepts in the Bible.
For example, the other day I did a video just I think like two or three days ago, I did
a video about the gifts of the Holy Ghost versus spiritual gifts.
Now that was topical because I wasn't just reading one passage, I wasn't just reading
one scripture or a set of chapters or anything like that, but I was reading several which
had the same general idea and the subject was spiritual gifts and so I had to do these
specific topics like why did I do an hour and a half video about Isaiah 53 or why did
I write a book refuting the doctrines of Mormonism?
Well not really a specific criteria that I use.
It leans more towards attempting to teach and preach right doctrine from the Bible,
preaching the gospel and refuting false doctrine.
You'll notice that in a lot of my videos, those are the specific things that I do.
It's like apologetics using only the Bible.
That's kind of the theme of this channel, defending the truth of the Bible against false
religion and false teachings.
How I get the ideas for the specific topics varies from video to video and usually depends
on whether or not I've already made a video on the subject, what's going on in the world
at the time, specific suggestions I have from people I know or people in the comments or
just things I tend to come across.
For example, the book I wrote against Mormonism refuting the Mormon doctrine, that's kind
of a more personal thing for me because I live in Arizona and one of the biggest religions
out here is Mormonism and I know a lot of Mormons.
Everywhere I go, there's an LDS church on every block and the school I went to, since
I don't go there anymore, the school I went to, there were a lot of Mormons.
They were everywhere, right?
Even before I was saved, I didn't believe in Mormonism and I would kind of get into
arguments with them and things like that and throughout the years, I've just had conversations
with them and I made a live stream, I think it was a live stream, yeah, it was a live
stream, like a five-hour live stream about two years ago refuting the doctrines of Mormonism
and everything that I had in that video was built up from the things that I learned over
arguing and debating and discussing with these Mormons I knew at my school.
So that's kind of a more thing because Mormonism is more prevalent.
Things like, I don't know, Buddhism, something like that that isn't really popular in my
area, I don't really come across a lot of Buddhists or whatever, obviously it's a big
deal but not as many people are, I'm going to interact with that, I'm not going to really
know as much about it, things like that.
So it's just kind of a case-to-case thing, it's just things that I tend to come across,
things that happen in my personal life.
So this topical Bible study that I do is in-depth on the topic and I usually try to find as
many verses as possible on this subject and to create a thorough explanation of that topic.
Now one tool I like to use to assist me is a website called kjvbible.net, I'll pull that
up real quick just to show you what it looks like.
So I really recommend this if you're studying the Bible, kjvbible.net.
It allows you to search words and phrases and you just enter a word and it'll bring
up every single appearance of the word in the King James Bible.
So this is what it looks like, right?
This is the King James version of the Bible, kjvbible.net.
Let's say I'll just type in the word faith, right?
So you type in the word faith and find and it'll pull up every single verse in the Bible
that uses the word faith in it, right?
And all these different verses.
So that's really useful, it actually has 338 verses in the Bible that use the word faith.
So that's really useful, I really like that and I use that a lot.
So if you're looking for a specific term, anything, for example, the other day when
I was doing the video on Isaiah 53, see the Jews claim that the servant spoken of in Isaiah
53 is Israel because Israel is called my servant in the book of Isaiah.
So all I did was type in my servant to kjvbible.net, it showed me all the verses where other figures
like Moses, Eliakim, Isaiah, David, the branch of righteousness, all these other instances
where somebody's called my servant in the Bible and I just searched through them and
that's how I figured out and discovered, and I didn't really know this before, that's how
I learned that David is called the servant of God, that the Messiah is called the servant
of God in the Bible.
I did that because I just typed in the word my servant.
So that's really useful, it really helps you to see what the Bible says about specific
things and terms that are reused in the scriptures.
Another thing that I'll do with this topical Bible study is the fact that I share these
studies.
So there's the books that I write and the videos that I make, so I try to make these
videos a little less personal and more teaching oriented.
So you'll notice that in my videos, they're not like, the purpose of them is to teach
and to explain these things to you.
I'm not just making these videos for myself, I'm making these videos for other people.
So that's the second thing, topical Bible study.
The third thing that I do for Bible study is daily verse by verse study.
Now this differs from the Bible reading because instead of reading several chapters a day,
I'll spend about an hour or so in an in-depth analysis of a short set of verses.
And for this, I use a software which I promoted back in the video I made in September called
Logos Bible Software, and I can't show that to you right now because I can't figure out
how to share my screen.
I used to be able to do that with Google Hangouts, but since they got rid of that, I'm not sure
how to do it.
I'll have to do some encoding and stuff, but I just do the quick stream thing on YouTube,
so I can't really do that.
So if you want to know about Logos, go find that video.
It's from, what, like seven or eight months ago.
I uploaded a video about it.
It's a free software that you can download.
It gives you tools for studying the Bible.
Now there's all kinds of things that I don't use, like I said, lexicons and books and dick
dictionaries and things like that, which come along with it.
I just ignore these things.
When I use Logos, I have three columns.
I have the King James Bible, notes, and then a highlighter column, which gives you different
options for how to highlight verses.
So far, I've only been going through the book of John.
Right now I'm in John chapter 11, and I've written about 800 total notes.
I typically take a section of about five or six verses a day.
It depends on what's written, and before I started to go through the book of John, I
planned out each day what I would study.
And that way, I don't have to stop in the middle of a story or the middle of a sermon
or something.
That would just make it confusing.
I just use a little chunk, a good place to start, a good place to end.
And what I'll do is I'll highlight key phrases or verses in this little section, and then
in the notes column on Logos Bible software, I'll write notes and observations on that
phrase.
I'll take into account the context of that.
The Bible says, rightly dividing the word of truth, that's taking it in context, while
also comparing with other scripture.
Now, sometimes there are verses and chapters, which I already have in memory, which I can
write about.
But otherwise, if there's a subject, I also use kjvbible.net.
So that's a useful tool when I'm doing my daily Bible study as well.
So on one side, when I have my computer, I have the Logos Bible software on this laptop,
I'll have my Bible on one side, and then I'll have my phone on the other side, which
I'll use for kjvbible.net.
And typically for each phrase I highlight, depending on what it is, what it's about,
I could write one or two paragraphs, sometimes more, sometimes a little bit less.
Sometimes we'll just write a sentence, depending on what the observation is, depending on how
much scripture there is to compare it to.
And I'll just write a little bit in each annotation and always make sure to quote heavily from
other scripture.
I don't want to just give my interpretation with no other references, no other proofs
from the rest of the Bible, et cetera.
So so far in doing this, it's really helped my understanding of the book of John in particular,
since that's what I've been going through.
And based on the fact that I'm not going back to school for the remainder of the year and
never again, because I decided I'm not going to college anymore, I think I'll finish it
around June or July or something like that, and then I'll move on to the book of Romans.
I don't really have a particular order of which books I'll study.
It's just kind of book of John, book of Romans.
Those are important books.
I think I'll just start with those and probably go to the rest of the gospels afterwards,
something like that.
So the fourth and final way that I study the Bible is what I call miscellaneous study.
And this differs from the second one, topical Bible study, because it's more personal and
less detail.
I got this idea from a video that I watched a few weeks ago on how Jonathan Edwards, who
was one of the famous preachers during the first grade apostasy, how he studied the Bible.
And it's not I don't do exactly the same way he did, but the general idea that I got from
the video, there's a guy, I don't remember his name, he was explaining what Jonathan
Edwards was doing.
And I like that idea.
So what I did was I bought this journal right here from Barnes and Noble a couple of weeks
ago. This particular one was twenty five dollars.
I just like it because it's there's enough pages and it's, you know, made out of leather
or so. It's not just like a typical notebook.
Right. It's like good quality.
So I bought this on Barnes and Noble a couple of weeks ago.
And basically what it is, what this miscellaneous Bible study entails is an index set of
journal entries on biblical subjects.
So I have this table of contents right here.
So what makes this different from the topical Bible study is, first of all, it's
obviously written by hand.
I'm writing it down with a pencil in this journal here.
So that's a major difference as all the books that I write and all the scripts that I do
for these videos on this channel are all on WordPad, the the software, the app that
comes with Windows.
Right. And I do that because it's a lot easier.
Now, writing down with your hand helps memorization and helps you focus.
So that's a lot more beneficial to me because I don't just do my usual Bible study
methods, but I also use more traditional methods of writing down things and et cetera,
because at the beginning of each of the entries, I'll have a scripture and I'll write
out that scripture.
Now, another difference is the indexing, which this which I do with this.
So there's a table of contents that I showed you in the beginning.
Let me pull that up again.
So the table of contents, as you can see, there's only five entries or actually, I don't
know if you can see that or not.
Maybe, OK, so there's only five entries so far because I only started this a couple of
weeks ago. So there's five entries in this.
And the table of contents in the front of the journal and each of them will lead, so
I'll have a page number lead to a short essay that I write on each of the pages, and
then I'll write the number of that essay next to the verse that is based off of in my
personal Bible. So therefore, I don't necessarily have to have access to a computer
like the logos or whatever in order to read my thoughts on verses and passages.
Now, another major difference is the content as with this topical Bible study.
As I said, it's more based on teaching others.
So the things I do on this channel, that's more based on teaching others and focuses on
in-depth study of biblical doctrine, things like that.
This is more of a personal miscellaneous Bible study.
So it just tends to be whatever I'm thinking about.
So maybe I do my daily Bible reading and I counter reverse, which brings another verse
in a memory and gets me thinking about a particular subject.
Or maybe there's something that happens in my life or I hear something that somebody
says, which makes me think, what does the Bible say?
And really, that's what we should be doing constantly, asking ourselves just on a daily
basis, things that happens around us or what say if the scriptures about this?
Because if we believe that the Bible is God's word, we should consult it for everyday
things. Now, other things I use it for is sermon notes at my church.
If the sermon is interesting, if it's something that I've never really thought about
before, I'll basically I won't take this with me, but I'll write it down on like a little
card or piece of paper or something like that, something small.
I'll write down the verses and I'll look them up on my own.
Afterwards, and then I'll I've only done one of those so far, but I plan to do it and
further serve in the future.
So so far, I only have five entries.
I'll just give you an example, show you what they look like.
So like here are the first two pages right here, see all these words I wrote up by hand.
So the first one is the subject of being judged by what we trust in.
And that was I think I got that from just I think I got that from there was a certain
thing I saw in my daily Bible study that got me thinking about some some subject, this
subjects being judged by what we trust in, whether you trust in the law, you'll be judged
by the words of the law. If you trust in Jesus Christ, there is no condemnation,
according to the Bible. The second one is God's commandment to go to church.
Now, this was based on just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote it March 31st.
This was based on when the shutdowns were happening in my state, Arizona.
They're not enforced or anything, but a lot of people are shutting down churches and
they're not going to church because they're afraid.
This is about Hebrews 10, 25, where it says we shouldn't forsake the assembling of
ourselves together. The third one right here.
So here's the next page is about working with what we have.
That was based on a sermon that I heard a couple of Wednesday nights ago.
I really like that it was based on second Kings four.
The fourth one is teaching one's own children.
That's based on Proverbs 22, six, and this has to do with my decision not to go to
college and about how I think I started really thinking about what the Bible says
about teaching and learning, which is kind of the subject of this video and about just
how I learn, not just biblical things, but just everyday things, how I learn
about stuff. I learn more at home than I do at school.
I don't think college is necessary at all.
And I think it's on biblical.
So this is about learning.
And the fifth thing, this is another thing that I kind of do, just like shower
thoughts. You know, I kind of thought about this while I was in the shower, about
how this one is about in Revelation 16, where God is God's wrath is being poured
out in the vials and how the second, third, fourth and fifth vials, it turns all
the the water on earth and the blood.
And then the sun scorches men with fire.
According to that, it gets a lot hotter on earth and then darkness is poured out.
And the whole kingdom of the beast is enveloped in darkness.
And how that's a picture of hell, because the Bible describes hell as a place of fire
and great heat, describes it as a place where, you know, Luke 16, where the rich man
is begging for water.
So there's no water there, obviously.
There's fire and then there's darkness.
The Bible describes it as outer darkness.
So that's that was an interesting thought that I had about how really is going to be
kind of hell on earth when God's wrath is poured out.
They will experience what hell is like before actually dying and being sent to hell.
So. Yeah, so that's the miscellaneous Bible study that I have.
So that's a good way just to study personally.
I don't have any schedule for making these.
It's just whenever I have an idea, I write about it.
It's just a simple overview of a topic.
Those are just one pages per entry, just a short essay, two or three paragraphs on a
variety of ideas.
So those are the four ways that I personally study the Bible.
Of course, everybody does it differently.
Everybody has their own methods.
Everybody learns differently.
I think this is effective for me.
And of course, since I've only been doing some of this stuff for a short period of
time, I have a lot more work to do towards perfecting these methods.
So it's kind of a trial and error thing.
So far, the first three things definitely do work well.
The fourth thing that I've only been putting into practice for about two weeks, you
know, that might have to do a little bit of work.
I might have to try and see if it's right for me or whatever.
But so far, I like it.
And then, of course, I recommend getting into the word as much as possible just
besides these things.
So if you like some of these ideas, you want to put them to practice, it's not just
this.
I recommend memorizing scripture, quoting scripture constantly, things like that.
Listen to sermons while exercising.
Like I said, go to church as often as possible, all these things.
You want to make sure to be in God's word as much as possible.
So I thank everybody for watching.
That's really all I have to say about the studying, but there are a lot of comments.
I don't know where all these videos or all these viewers are coming from.
Usually when I have a live stream, it's like three or four or two or three people at the
most. So I love your videos.
Thank you.
It's just some Hebrew roots people.
OK.
Now, this is not really the subject of the video, but I'll answer these some of these
questions anyway. So is the law done away with depends on what you mean by the law.
If you're talking about the Torah as in the first five books, then no, none of the
scripture is done away with.
But if you're talking about and if you're talking about the commandments in general,
then no, there's certain commandments which the carnal commandments, according to
Hebrews chapter nine and Ephesians chapter two, et cetera, those things have been
abolished. So how do you know that you're saved when you're not actually saved until
the end? That's not true.
The Bible says unto us, which are saved or the preaching of the cross is foolishness
unto them which perish, but unto us, which are saved.
I don't know the exact verse, but there are several verses in the Bible that say are
saved like we are saved.
The Bible says he that believeth on the sun hath everlasting life.
We have everlasting life the moment that we believe.
I know belief in Messiah and accepting the Savior is definitely a requirement, but is
it really that easy? Yes, it is.
Really that easy. That's what the Bible teaches.
You know, Jesus compared a salvation to entering through the door.
He said, I am the door compared to eating bread.
He said, I'm the bread of life compared to drinking water.
He said, whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.
And then some other guy, Sean Hogan, explained it.
OK.
I don't know why people are having arguments in the comments about.
This is completely unrelated.
Churchianity teaches otherwise, I don't know where all these Hebrew roots guys came
from. Well, I'm not in the way, I don't know what
you. I don't know if these people think I'm in the Hebrew roots movement, but I'm not
in the Hebrew roots movement anymore.
I left because teaches false doctrine.
I made plenty of videos on that in the last few.
Probably not months, like the last year and a half, pretty much, I don't know where you
guys have been, if you think that I still believe this Hebrew roots nonsense, but that's
it for this video.
You know, the subject of this video is not that it's studying the Bible.
So that's how I study the Bible.
That's what I do. Thank you everybody for watching and God bless you.
Goodbye.