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Hi, my name is Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word and I just want to talk today

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about studying your Bible.

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Now what I'm going to say is probably common sense, like Christianity 101, but let's go

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back to what we're seeing all over the web.

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We're seeing it on social media, we're seeing issues in the news, and really people have

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strong opinions about things, but they don't often know how to back those up.

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So I taught Bible for 27 years at a private Christian school to teenagers, very salty

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opinionated teenagers, who would challenge me and you know I loved every minute of it

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because I was humble and wise enough to admit that I don't know it and I would always take

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my kids back into a good study Bible, okay, guys I don't know the answer but let's go

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figure out what the answer is, okay, and I spent an awful lot of time teaching my students

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how to use the Thompson Chain Study Bible and here's why, because if you have a good

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study Bible you can take any topic that's out there and you can do an exhaustive scriptural

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study on that topic and things that were hot in my classroom were usually Halloween

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or Valentine's Day, real love, or I mean just take any hot social issue right now and you

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can study it out with scripture.

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I would say things to my kids like, you know, my opinion doesn't really matter, but the

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word matters and when you can break hot topics up, like the big one was probably the occult,

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okay, if you take witchcraft, if you take the occult, if you take like demonic manifestations

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or stories in the New Testament where there were demons manifesting and then you'd have

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kids like share all of those scriptures, then all of a sudden opinions would change, okay.

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So how do you study the word?

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Well the first thing you got to do is you've got to study the word with the right attitude.

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Ezra 7.10, this was because Ezra had determined to study and obey the law, so he had determined

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it first, of the Lord and to teach those decrees and regulations to the people of God.

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So first off you have to study with the right attitude and the right heart.

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You're doing it for the right motives, okay.

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Secondly, I will study your commandments and reflect on your decrees.

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I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word.

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Psalms 119 starting in verse 15.

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So if you really love God and you really love the Bible, then you're going to delight

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in what it says and you're not going to forget about it.

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You know, there's so many things that are controversial that are in there and I don't

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get the luxury to take those things out.

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They're in there for a reason, okay.

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It's not my opinion.

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Who cares about Leanne?

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I'm nobody.

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It's the Bible.

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It's the inspired word of God, okay.

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Next, really get in there and study what scripture says about studying the word.

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Bible study is so important because when you open your Bible, I liken it into the brazen

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altar, okay.

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Number one, that brazen altar is bronze and number two, it has water in the top, okay.

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And number one, if you look in water, it will reflect your image.

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So when you're reading the Bible, number one, it's going to deal with your heart first,

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okay.

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And number two, it's going to wash your heart and your attitude and all your stinky flesh

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and trust me, I have it.

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It doesn't matter how long you've walked with Jesus.

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It doesn't matter who you, we all have flesh.

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I have a lot of it, okay.

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And I get to repent a lot and that usually happens when I'm faithfully in the word, studying

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the word.

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Hebrews 4.12, for the word of God is living and it's active and it's sharper than any

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double-edged sword, piercing until it divides the soul and the spirit, the joints and the

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marrow as it judges the thoughts and the purposes of the heart.

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So when you study the word, it's going to judge you and you're going to look at it,

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you're going to go, oh, I can't believe I'm still like that.

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At least I am, okay.

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Joshua 1.8, the book of the law should not depart from your mouth, but you will meditate

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on it day and night so that you might be careful to do according to what is written

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in it.

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For then you will make your way prosperous and you will have good success, okay.

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You want to be successful?

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You want to be blessed in this life?

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You want to have wisdom and insight and revelation?

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Well then guess what?

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You're going to have to study the word.

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Remember all those Ephesians prayers.

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This is the armor in Ephesians 6.

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Also, take salvation.

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as your helmet and the Word of God as the sword that the Spirit supplies. You

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know, when you guard your mind with the Word, when you meditate and you feed on

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Scripture, what happens is it sets your mind straight and you realize,

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oh my gosh, you know, I don't know about you but whatever I listen to or I watch

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on TV or whatever song I'm listening to, it will it will pound in my brain. I'll

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give you an example. Last night Grant and I were watching old music videos from

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the 70s. Okay, there's this old song from the 70s. I'm telling you, the music back in

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the 70s, a lot of it was really good and we're sitting there and we're just, you

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know, just like, oh man, remember that guy? Remember his long hair? And we're just

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kind of laughing and I'm, I wake up this morning and I'll be danged if I'm not

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hearing those old songs from the 70s. Okay, whatever you're listening to,

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whatever you're watching, whatever you're focusing on, it's gonna pump inside your

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head and that works for the Bible as well. If you're feeding on Scripture,

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that's what's gonna roll around in your head. You're going to have peace that

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passes all understanding. Why? Because you're guarding your mind and your

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heart and you're meditating on what it says instead of the fear and the anxiety

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that somebody else wants you to meditate on. Okay, have you ever noticed

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that people like to listen to like campfire horror stories or spooky stories

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or zombie apocalypse movies? You know why? Because they like being scared. Well, the

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problem with being scared, if you do it over and over again, all of a sudden

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you've got a life filled with anxiety. Okay, I'm a special education teacher. I

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can't tell you how many kids, all they do is meditate on witchcraft, demonic

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manifestations. Okay, you know, you look at their social media and

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usually their name starts with something like demon baby. Okay, no wonder our kids

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have anxiety. No wonder they can't sleep. No wonder they have to be heavily

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medicated in order to go through this world because, listen, the demonic realm

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is real. Fox Nation this last, I don't know, last week, Tucker Carlson was doing

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a documentary on exorcism with a Catholic Church. You need to

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watch that. Okay, Fox Nation, Tucker Carlson, look at the Catholic dude on the

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priest who's teaching on exorcism. The Catholic Church has gone from 12 priests

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who specialize in exorcism to 125 and you know why? Because that's what we're

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seeing right now in our society and you know why a lot of Christians don't have

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any authority over that stuff? It's just really simple because there's no

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consecration. They're not walking in holiness so they don't have any victory

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over it and that stuff just plays games with them, just runs their life. They're

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in misery. Oh, I don't know what to do. I just drug my kids and put them on this

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medication. It doesn't matter how much medication you put your kid in. If the

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kid still is feeding on stuff that's demonic, he's gonna be tormented. Okay,

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you want a house full of peace? Well then you've got to put up the, put up the

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gates, put up the walls. Don't allow stuff into your home or into your kid's

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head that's gonna torment your kid. I mean, is that not common sense? I think

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it is. Okay, and then the big one I love is out of Acts 17 here. It says, Now the

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Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica. For they

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received the message with great eagerness and examined the scriptures

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every day to see if what Paul said was true. Okay, so this is the early church.

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They are examining the scriptures. Examine the scriptures. Okay, get a good

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study Bible. Get in there and back up what you believe. I'm gonna continue with

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part two next. Have a great day. Thank you for liking and subscribing and I hope to

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see you again soon. Thanks.

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you