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Good morning, my name is Leigh Ann Friesman and this is Restoring Word.

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I'm talking about studying the Word of God and the importance of studying your Bible.

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I want to reflect on a scripture that I used last time out of Acts 17 verse 11.

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The Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica,

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for they had received the message with great eagerness and examined the scriptures every

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day to see if what Paul was saying was true. All right, so what's going on here?

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Well, you've got Paul the Apostle, he's preaching the Gospels,

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and he is going back and quoting the Old Testament.

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Okay, so what are these people doing? Well, they're going back

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in the synagogues and they're opening up their scrolls and they're going back and they're seeing

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if what was prophesied about the coming Messiah regarding Jesus was true, and they were seeing it

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in scripture. They were listening to what they were hearing and then they were going back into

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their Bibles and studying it for themselves. And that's something that I want to encourage

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every listener and every believer and honestly every non-believer to do.

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Get into your Bible and see what your Bible says for yourself.

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This is from 1 John 4 and verse 1. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit,

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but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets

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have gone out into the world. You know, the one thing I've always

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dreaded or I just never ever wanted to be called a false teacher. I know those scriptures in there

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that talk about false teachers and about false preachers, and I'm a teacher, okay. I love teaching

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the Word, but I know that without a good spiritual mentor in my life to help inform me, to tell me

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what's really going on in the body of Christ, how to expose maybe my blind spots and my weaknesses

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and the things that I might be listening to because it feeds my flesh and,

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Leanne, you need to make adjustments here and you need to make adjustments there.

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If you don't have a good teacher that can help you divide the Word of Truth,

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you're going to get off into stuff that's false, okay. And we're seeing an explosion of this right

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now. And you know why so many people are getting off? And you know why? It's just really simple

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because it's all about money. They want to be accepted. They want to be liked. And you know,

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I'm guilty of it too. I mean, at the end of this video today, what am I going to ask you to do?

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I'm going to ask you to like and subscribe, okay. Of course, you want people to like what you're

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saying, but honestly, a lot of what's in the Bible isn't really likable and it isn't really

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comfortable. I'm so thankful for the people early in my walk with Christ who said,

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if you're going to church that doesn't make you uncomfortable, you're probably not going to the

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right church. Why? Because if you're sitting under a good teacher and a good pastor, a good shepherd,

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your flesh is going to be uncomfortable, okay. It's going to make you go home and examine your

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life. And that's wisdom. Because if you're examining your life, if you're judging yourself,

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if you're pulling the plank out of your own eye, then you're not going to miss it. You're going to

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walk in repentance. I'm telling you, we can all miss it. I don't care how long you've walked with

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God. If you go through something that's heartbreaking and you get hurt, listen, you're

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going to have to deal with bitterness and unforgiveness. And you need people in your life to tell

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you, hey, you're off. Get with it. And that's a good thing. You know what? When you study the Word

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of God, it is going to help you be a better Christian and a better servant of Christ. This

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is from 2 Timothy 3, verses 16 and 17. Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for

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teaching and for reproof and for instruction and for training in righteousness. Okay, scripture is

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not going to train you to walk in sin. It's going to train you to walk in righteousness.

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That the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work. Listen, I'm

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telling you, serving Jesus and walking in the kingdom is not fun unless you're walking in some

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semblance of spiritual authority and you're hearing from heaven. Well, how do you get spiritual

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authority? You consecrate your life and you walk in a level of holiness. Okay, and then when you're

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able to walk victoriously in a world that's full of darkness, then serving Jesus is fun.

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All right, 2 Timothy 2, verse 15. Be diligent to present yourself

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to God as a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed accurately handling the word

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with truth okay is it possible to handle this scripture and not be in truth yes

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okay always look at what's coming before the scripture what's coming after the

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scripture you might even have to go back and look at the original language I'm

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not a Hebrew or a Greek scholar by any means but I've got some pretty good

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software out there and there's some great stuff that's out there on the web

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that's free that will help you really look at what does the Bible say all

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right it's also gonna help you answer questions anybody ever kind of challenged

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you about what you believe I always loved it when I had a kid challenge me

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it was like oh you're thinking I love you this is great okay challenges don't

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make me insecure challenges actually keep me on my toes I love it when

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someone says where is that in the Bible mrs. Friesman I'll go I don't know but

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let's find it okay second Timothy 2 to what you have

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heard from me though many witness witnesses and trust to faithful people

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who will be able to teach others as well okay we are trusted with the Word of God

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and we want to hear from people who are empowering us so that we can share the

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Word of God as well I love it when I sit under somebody that when I go home

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and I get in my car my head is spinning oh my gosh I love that

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first Peter 315 but sanctify Christ as the Lord in your hearts always being

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ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you and to give an account for the

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hope that is in you to give an account for the hope that is in you first Peter

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315 yet yet with gentleness and reverence okay that doesn't mean that

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we're cocky or that we're arrogant or we get an attitude about it no we just want

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truth in love okay I'm gonna tell you the truth because truth is love I'm

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gonna tell you the truth because if I don't tell you the truth you could end

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up messing up your life I'm gonna tell you the truth that the occult and the

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demonic will destroy you if you play with it long enough I'm not telling you

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that because I'm a legalistic mean-spirited arrogant Christian no I'm

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telling you that because I watched a lot of other people mess with it and their

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lives are destroyed okay I mean I just love you enough to tell you the truth so

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that you don't you know mess yourself up we're supposed to live by the Word of

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God okay and we're supposed to be led by his spirit and by peace and that peace

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comes from being in his presence Matthew 4 4 but he answered it is written man

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doesn't live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God

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okay so we're not supposed to just you know walk in the world we're supposed to

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live by it you know that God will talk to you when you're in this I use the

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example of the brazen altar the brazen altar is the place in the tabernacle of

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Moses where the priests would go to wash themselves before they offered a

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sacrifice you know when I'm in my Bible my Bible deals with Leanne who has a

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tendency to have a lot of flesh I do okay but when I get in there what

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happens is I see myself in the word and I realize what I have to wash myself I

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have to get myself right that's one of the blessings of being in there so this

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is Isaiah 55 verse 11 my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me

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empty but it will accomplish what I please and it will prosper in what I

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have sent it to do Luke 1 37 no word from God will ever fail this word is

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alive it will deal with your heart it will go forth and it will accomplish

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what it's supposed to and you know what guys when you pray the Word of God or

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you sing it in praise and worship that's where the real anointing kicks in that's

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where his presence comes that's where people begin to hear you know my pastor

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always used to say Leanne don't get upset about having to go to word

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explosion and sitting in on all these meetings for a week when you're worried

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about your classroom and your lesson plans and how you're gonna run your

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classroom just sit under the Word of God let the Holy Spirit talk to you let him

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adjust what needs to be adjust and I can promise you you'll have a better school

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if you do it man he was always right and my class

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room always worked out fine and my decorations always got up and my lesson

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plans always got done but I was in such a hurry I just can't believe I'm sitting

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here and I'm listening to this preacher and what a bad attitude right okay this

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is out of Colossians 3 17 you know we are to honor the Lord and express our

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love for him and one of the ways that you show your love for God is just by

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spending time in the word I don't have enough time to be in the word I'll be

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honest with you Colossians 3 17 and whatever you do whether in word or deed

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do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God the Father through

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him so if you're in the word be thankful that you're able to do it be thankful

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that you have that time in it I have the dream job I get to teach and if I have a

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kid that doesn't show or if I if I'm in a situation where I've got to drive to a

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different location I can put on worship in my car or I can listen to someone

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preaching on the radio I love to listen to the word I run to the word the Word

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of God is a strong tower and the righteous run there and they're safe

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that's your safe place it's where I manage stress and anxiety and fear why I

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just if I'm in his presence I'm gonna be okay Psalms 119 96 verses 96 through 98

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oh how I love your law I meditate on it all day long your commandments are

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always with me and make me wiser than my enemies if you really want revelation

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on how to walk in victory if you've got stuff going on in your job if you've got

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people that are trying to take your job or somebody that's trying to do things

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that are wrong or unethical and you just need the Holy Spirit to expose those

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things pray talk to Jesus he'll help you anyway we're at a walk victorious in

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this life and the only way we can do that is with the Word of God thank you

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and have an outstanding day please like and subscribe yes I am going to ask you

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to like and subscribe because that helps me grow the channel thank you for

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listening