Speaker 1: All right, what's up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast.
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Speaker 1: you guys have not liked with the latest format of
Speaker 1: this podcast, I haven't heard your complaints because those are
Speaker 1: future complaints that haven't happened yet. But I really like
Speaker 1: what we're doing. A man has been a big part
Speaker 1: of this. Parker has been a big part of this,
Speaker 1: and so is Paul.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: So what we do here is we answer your questions
Speaker 1: podcast at grangersmith dot com is the answer is how
Speaker 1: you how you asked the question, and then hopefully I'll
Speaker 1: give you the answer I'll ask it. I I think
Speaker 1: it's important that we've been answering a bunch of questions
Speaker 1: kind of bundled into one. Today is a big one.
Speaker 1: I get asked this all the time. Personally, I get
Speaker 1: asked this if I'm doing some kind of Q and
Speaker 1: A at a conference. This is a major question. And
Speaker 1: then on the podcast itself, the last one hundred episodes
Speaker 1: or so, I've gotten this a bunch and the question
Speaker 1: is how do you read your Bible? Speaking to me personally,
Speaker 1: how do you, Granger read your Bible? And I think
Speaker 1: that's a great question. And I kind of figured out
Speaker 1: a system on my own through listening and watching other people,
Speaker 1: and so this wasn't taught to me. So it's not
Speaker 1: the right it's not necessarily the right way. In fact,
Speaker 1: I don't think there is a right way to read
Speaker 1: your Bible as long as you are reading it. I
Speaker 1: think there are wrong ways. Maybe we should start with that, Okay,
Speaker 1: a wrong way. In fact, I just heard this today.
Speaker 1: I heard this today from a friend friend of Amber,
Speaker 1: and she said, my boyfriend just talked about a Bible
Speaker 1: verse and it was Lamentations three and it was great
Speaker 1: as your Faithfulness. And she was like, he screenshotted great
Speaker 1: as your Faithful Faithfulness and sent it to me and says,
Speaker 1: this hits differently. And the girlfriend said why, and she said,
Speaker 1: because I'm realizing now that the Lord looks on our faithfulness,
Speaker 1: not our works. And I was like, that verse is
Speaker 1: not about the man. That's the faithfulness of God.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeremiah's writing that about God. And and in fact
Speaker 1: lamentations are are It's a horrible, horrible story of how
Speaker 1: the Babylonians were wrecking Jerusalem, and Jeremiah's watching it weeping
Speaker 1: as the people are being drug away and the walls
Speaker 1: of the temple are crumbling down. And he then looks
Speaker 1: up at the Lord and as great as your faithfulness?
Speaker 1: That that that is what happened, and what here's the deal,
Speaker 1: and this is what this is where it was wrong.
Speaker 1: He didn't get any of that because he got the
Speaker 1: notification of the Bible app the quote of the day.
Speaker 2: So he has no context.
Speaker 1: There's no context.
Speaker 2: That would be the wrong way to the wrong way
Speaker 2: to read the Bible is out of context.
Speaker 1: That's one verse at a time that pops up on
Speaker 1: your phone from an app and you look at the
Speaker 1: app and it says great is your faithfulness? And you're like,
Speaker 1: I think the Lord's speaking to me saying great is
Speaker 1: your faithless? Jeremi's talking about God. It's the opposite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that is so far fetched that I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. That didn't even compute with me for a second,
Speaker 1: because I've never I never could even imagine that that
Speaker 1: would be talking about us and not talking about God.
Speaker 2: Did you start thinking to yourself, where in the Bible
Speaker 2: does he say that my faithfulness is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I couldn't understand that. I actually walked away
Speaker 1: from the conversation later and I was like a light
Speaker 1: bulb came on. I was like, oh, now I know
Speaker 1: what happened. So that is a wrong way. A long
Speaker 1: time ago, I did a couple of years ago, I
Speaker 1: did a sermon about coffee munk versus. I wouldn't recommend
Speaker 1: listening to it. Don't go listen to it because I
Speaker 1: wasn't very good preacher. I'm still not. But whatever, But
Speaker 1: that is a wrong way. We cannot read our Bible
Speaker 1: that way. Here's another wrong way. And this came up
Speaker 1: in a conversation at a recent conference I did in Illinois,
Speaker 1: did a Q and A, and I was telling people
Speaker 1: imploring them to read their Bibles, which is what I'm
Speaker 1: doing on this episode right now. It's so important. Fact.
Speaker 1: Last time you and I were on a show together
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, we talked about being around other believers,
Speaker 1: preferably in the local church in the body and reading
Speaker 1: your Bible are the two most important things you could
Speaker 1: do in your walk with the Lord. So this guy
Speaker 1: is I'm imploring these people. He raises his hand and
Speaker 1: he says, I read my Bible and I still just
Speaker 1: feel so distant from the Lord. And I said, okay, well,
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, and I don't mean to put
Speaker 1: you on the spot, but can you just tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about what does that reading look like?
Speaker 1: And he said, well, I just pick it up and read.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, if you don't mind, what
Speaker 1: does that mean? And he is, well, just whatever I
Speaker 1: feel like reading that day. I was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: just want to point out that you're basing your reading
Speaker 1: on what you feel. You say, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: understanding more about suffering. I'm going to go read something
Speaker 1: about suffering. I feel like reading something more about being patient,
Speaker 1: so I go look for that. So you're just going
Speaker 1: on the whim of your feelings.
Speaker 2: Would you pick up, for lack of a better one
Speaker 2: Moby Dick and read chapter twenty? Great point, like, well,
Speaker 2: I didn't like this book? I what do you not
Speaker 2: like about it? Well? I mean it just like I
Speaker 2: don't know where this happened and that happened, And like, yeah,
Speaker 2: where'd you hang on? Show me where you started after twenty?
Speaker 2: Well that's not where you start in the book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's maybe yes.
Speaker 2: The Bible is not chronological in every single chapter. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's funny. I'm just now reading, like I'd already read
Speaker 2: some about David and then now I am in I
Speaker 2: don't know, I lost it, sorry, but it's coming back.
Speaker 2: It's after Kings where am I I thought marked, I'll
Speaker 2: think of it later. But it was bringing back up
Speaker 2: about David, and it was it was really going through
Speaker 2: all the stuff with David, and I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: now we're back into the meat of David.
Speaker 1: I like this, So just context, that's all we're asking
Speaker 1: exactly here. Yeah, that's a great point about movie Dick.
Speaker 1: So to this guy in the crowd, I say, have
Speaker 1: you have you ever read the Book of Romans? And
Speaker 1: he said no, And I said, do you know? The
Speaker 1: Book of Romans has just rocked the world. In fact,
Speaker 1: it is the it is the reason for the Protestant Reformation.
Speaker 1: It was was Martin Luther struggling with Romans one p. Seventeen,
Speaker 1: just struggling with that verse about righteousness, and he couldn't understand.
Speaker 1: In fact, he hated the righteousness of man and the
Speaker 1: righteousness of God. He just couldn't understand it. But he
Speaker 1: didn't quite know what it meant, and he wrestled and
Speaker 1: wrestled and wrestled with Romans one until it finally hit
Speaker 1: him what that means. And it just rocked his world
Speaker 1: as he understood finally in context what Paul was talking
Speaker 1: about that were saved by faith. The righteousness is given
Speaker 1: to us through faith, the righteousness of Jesus, not on
Speaker 1: her own. It rocked his world. It caused the whole
Speaker 1: world to split, and many people Parker is another one
Speaker 1: that was saved by the Book of Romans. Ambers thinks
Speaker 1: she can't remember exactly, but she thinks it was Romans.
Speaker 1: So I just pointed out this guy and Romans is
Speaker 1: just one example of sixty six books that I told
Speaker 1: this guy said, this is what you're missing when you
Speaker 1: just try to read emotionally on what you think you
Speaker 1: should read. Another wrong way to read the Bible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense, Chronicles, That's where I was trying
Speaker 2: to think of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so another wrong way to read the Bible
Speaker 1: is to not read it all. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: let's talk about what were you to say.
Speaker 2: No, my my personal encounter with how I'm reading now
Speaker 2: came from a conversation with you and it's but if
Speaker 2: you want to jump into that, well.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever talked about it. I've mentioned
Speaker 1: in passing Machine plan this is what I do. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever shown people what that actually looks like.
Speaker 1: And the reading the Bible is it is. It is
Speaker 1: life changing. It's life transforming, it is life giving, and
Speaker 1: it is it is as close as we're going to
Speaker 1: get to the presence of God outside of the local church,
Speaker 1: outside of heaven. It's that that important. When we pray,
Speaker 1: we're speaking to God. When he speaks back, it's through
Speaker 1: his word in the Bible. There is nothing more important
Speaker 1: to a believer outside of the local church than reading
Speaker 1: your Bible. And if you're in ministry and you're listening
Speaker 1: to this right now, it's not just reading your Bible
Speaker 1: for your ministry work, or in my case, it's not
Speaker 1: just working in seminary and reading what I need to
Speaker 1: read for seminary or what I'm preparing for in a
Speaker 1: sermon I have this week. It is your own devotional time,
Speaker 1: separate from all of those things, Separate from a requirement,
Speaker 1: Separate for what you're learning in your a small group
Speaker 1: at church, or what your pastor's reading to you. Separate
Speaker 1: from all of that your own personal devotional time.
Speaker 2: So you have those in your life. You have your
Speaker 2: own personal time of reading the Bible, and then you
Speaker 2: have your seminary time or your preparation for a message.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I have like right now at church, we're
Speaker 1: walking through Hebrews. Okay, Marshall is walking us through Hebrews
Speaker 1: in our Wednesday night by study, we're going through Judges
Speaker 1: in seminary, where right now we're going through First Corinthians.
Speaker 1: In my message that I'm working on for this weekend
Speaker 1: is Daniel. And my devotional time is different than all
Speaker 1: of those things that just said, And these are critical things.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Bible quickly and talk about the
Speaker 1: importance of the Bible. Now, there's a lot of places
Speaker 1: that we can go. I think maybe Psalm one nineteen
Speaker 1: is a decent place to start. Psalm one nineteen, verse
Speaker 1: nine says, how can a young man keep his way
Speaker 1: pure by guarding it according to your word? With my
Speaker 1: whole heart, I seek you, Let me not under from
Speaker 1: your commandments. I have stored up your word in my
Speaker 1: heart that it might not sin against you. Blessed or you,
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, teach me your statutes with my lips. I
Speaker 1: to clear all the rules of your mouth and the
Speaker 1: way of your testimonies. I delight as much as in
Speaker 1: all riches. I will meditate on your precepts and fix
Speaker 1: my eyes and your ways. I will delight in your statutes.
Speaker 1: I will not forget your word. So we could use
Speaker 1: that word, that word word for statutes and testimonies and precepts.
Speaker 1: We could interchange all of those things. I think David
Speaker 1: makes it clear. The Psalmist makes it very clear what
Speaker 1: he's talking about here. John fourteen. This is the verse,
Speaker 1: the section of scripture that saved me. But fourteen twenty
Speaker 1: ish we can start around there. Jesus is talking to
Speaker 1: his disciples and talking to him about, hey, Lord, why
Speaker 1: why is it that you love us? Why are you
Speaker 1: with us? Why do you manifest yourself to us? And
Speaker 1: he says in verse twenty two, or excuse me? First
Speaker 1: twenty three he says, Jesus answers him if anyone loves me,
Speaker 1: he will keep my word, And then twenty four says,
Speaker 1: whoever does not love me does not keep my word.
Speaker 1: So the natural implication there is, if how could you
Speaker 1: keep a word, you don't.
Speaker 2: Know, so you have to know.
Speaker 1: You have to know it. Let's go to second Timothy,
Speaker 1: second Timothy three sixteen. This, this one is incredible. This
Speaker 1: one just it blows me away. Every time I see it.
Speaker 1: I'm getting there way faster because I'm using an iPad.
Speaker 2: I'm an old school analog over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do this sometimes when I'm in a Q
Speaker 1: and A. I just have this iPad. It's just so,
Speaker 1: that's great. Second Timothy second Timothy three sixteen is one
Speaker 1: of the most incredible verses in the Bible. Sixteen and seventeen.
Speaker 2: I have it all highlighted already.
Speaker 1: All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching,
Speaker 1: for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that
Speaker 1: the Man of God may be complete equipped for every
Speaker 1: good work. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: I have a new living translation, and it's translation there is.
Speaker 2: All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to
Speaker 2: teach us what is true and to make us realize
Speaker 2: what is wrong in our lives.
Speaker 1: Wow, if that's not I mean tewod Timothy three sixteen
Speaker 1: is just very clear. All scriptures breathed out by God,
Speaker 1: profitable for teaching reproof correction. So one more here and
Speaker 1: then I'll kind of lay off on this Hebrews four.
Speaker 1: Another famous one, Hebrews four twelve. This is another, another
Speaker 1: very obvious one that says, for the Word of God
Speaker 1: as living and active, sharper than any two edged sword,
Speaker 1: piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of
Speaker 1: joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions
Speaker 1: of the heart. Right after that, verse thirteen says, and
Speaker 1: no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are
Speaker 1: naked and exposed to the eye of Him, to whom
Speaker 1: we must give an account. So I think it's very
Speaker 1: clear that not only not only should we should we
Speaker 1: be reading, should we love it like the Psalma says,
Speaker 1: And that should be a prayer for us, that we
Speaker 1: we genuinely love the Word, we crave it like the
Speaker 1: Psalma says. Let me go one more here. This is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite Psalm forty two to one. As
Speaker 1: a deer pants for flowing streams, So pants my soul
Speaker 1: for you, Oh God, my soul thirst for God, for
Speaker 1: the living God. So not only should should that be
Speaker 1: our heart position? And if it's not, pray for it
Speaker 1: that's a great prayer. Lord, I read this Psalm forty
Speaker 1: two one, and I don't feel that way. I don't
Speaker 1: feel that way. Please give me that. That's a good gift.
Speaker 1: That's a good prayer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he says it in one nineteen in it later
Speaker 2: on in thirty six, it's a pleat, give me an
Speaker 2: eagerness for your law, great prayer, give me an eagerness.
Speaker 2: And that's different than being hungry. Yeah, And eagerness is
Speaker 2: a lack of a better And this is very much
Speaker 2: a guy thing. When you have to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I mean like I'm I'm gonna burst, I gotta go.
Speaker 2: That's eagerness. Yeah, give me an eagerness for your laws.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I think I think it clear.
Speaker 2: Sorry, just compared going to the bathroom. But that's it's
Speaker 2: that feeling, that anxiousness.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's something you can't resist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's so.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's very clear that we need,
Speaker 1: we need an ignorant eagerness. We need to crave it.
Speaker 1: And not only do we need to want it, but
Speaker 1: once we do want it, it is so paramount and
Speaker 1: our and our growing and our and our and our
Speaker 1: own correction of our own life, and our own faithfulness,
Speaker 1: and our and our and us getting closer to God.
Speaker 1: All of that, all of it hinges on us understanding, reading, meditating,
Speaker 1: listening to, sitting, under wise, teaching, wrestling with the Bible,
Speaker 1: the word, the precepts, the testimonies, the law, all of those.
Speaker 1: All of those things are equate to what Jesus means
Speaker 1: when he says, if anyone loves me, I'll keep my word. Now,
Speaker 1: we're not capable of doing that on our own. So
Speaker 1: it's important to say too, we're saved by grace through faith.
Speaker 1: This is not our own doing. It is the gift
Speaker 1: of God, not a result of works, So that no
Speaker 1: man may boast Ephesian's two eight and nine. And it's
Speaker 1: important to know that we were not capable of these
Speaker 1: things on our own. We need to have need. We
Speaker 1: need a new heart, We need to be given a
Speaker 1: new desire, new once new and new eyes to see,
Speaker 1: new ears to hear, so that we can crave this.
Speaker 1: But once we do, and once your eyes are open
Speaker 1: to it, then then I want you to tell me
Speaker 1: the story that you I want you to tell everyone
Speaker 1: the story that you told me today. What was that.
Speaker 2: When we started changing the podcast. Here one of them
Speaker 2: that were brought up, and it was the first one,
Speaker 2: Should Christians stop cussing? Or you know, ken Christians cuss?
Speaker 2: George Jenko who used to be on Logan Paul's podcasts
Speaker 2: and they're best friends. He talks very highly of Logan
Speaker 2: still to this day, but they now lead very different
Speaker 2: lives and George's is saved and is moving into the
Speaker 2: you know, he's starting to recognize things in his life.
Speaker 2: But he was on a recent podcast was talking about
Speaker 2: his father is still alive and both of our fathers
Speaker 2: have passed. But imagine right now if your father wrote
Speaker 2: you something, Yeah, would you not read, Hey, I wrote
Speaker 2: some letters to you and I put him in a book.
Speaker 1: Would you not read single overd of it, every over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. And it's not going to
Speaker 1: be all just encouragement. It's going to say, be careful
Speaker 1: with this, and stay away from this, do more of this,
Speaker 1: try to cultivate more of this, stay steadfast in this.
Speaker 1: This is what a dad would say to his son.
Speaker 2: Well, and I think that some of the language is
Speaker 2: that we use language in the church and it is
Speaker 2: very much appropriates in the Bible too, is that he
Speaker 2: is our father, but is he your dad? You have
Speaker 2: that relationship. Do you climb up in his lap? Do
Speaker 2: you talk to him about your day? Yeah? Do you
Speaker 2: feel his arms around you? Yeah, that's the one we're
Speaker 2: talking about. And that's who did all this. This wrote
Speaker 2: you the letters, and it has them right here for
Speaker 2: you to read.
Speaker 1: This is going on right now with my ten year
Speaker 1: old son, Lincoln. I get him sometimes and I say, buddy,
Speaker 1: I don't want to punish you. Yeah, but I love
Speaker 1: you and I want you to be the man that
Speaker 1: I know you're going to be. Listen to me, do
Speaker 1: what I say. Suffer the consequences if need be, but
Speaker 1: endure through this because you will one day be a man.
Speaker 1: And that's the message of the Bible. It sure is.
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Speaker 1: a pretty good case for why we should read it,
Speaker 1: and not only why we should read it, but we
Speaker 1: should read it all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should.
Speaker 1: We should read it daily. We should read it. It
Speaker 1: should be a habit. That's like oxygen for us, as
Speaker 1: much as we need oxygen. Somebody might ask how often
Speaker 1: how many times a week should I read my Bible?
Speaker 1: Let's say seven, And we need to always have the
Speaker 1: caveat of saying you're not gaining approval by God If
Speaker 1: you read your Bible, you're not gaining status with God.
Speaker 1: If you read your Bible, you're not gaining a ticket
Speaker 1: punched to heaven. If you read your Bible, you're not
Speaker 1: getting justified at all in any way for any other
Speaker 1: reason than Jesus and his world on the cross becoming
Speaker 1: a substitute for sinners, that whoever turn to him and
Speaker 1: believe their sin is wiped away, their debt, the wages
Speaker 1: of sin is paid, is wiped away. It's clean because
Speaker 1: of his sacrifice. So it is not anything that you do,
Speaker 1: including going to church or reading the Bible. But after
Speaker 1: you're saved, after you're justified in that way, after you've
Speaker 1: looked to him and trusted in him, then those desires
Speaker 1: we've talked about, that you want to crave his word,
Speaker 1: that you want to grow, that you want to move.
Speaker 1: Jesus never cause us to stay in the same place.
Speaker 1: It's follow, follow, follow, Let's go. If you want to
Speaker 1: be that guy, if you want to follow him, then
Speaker 1: he'll know you as one who keeps his word. So
Speaker 1: I would say, why wouldn't you do it seven days
Speaker 1: a week?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely? And you know I I personally had the desire,
Speaker 2: but had no knowledge or or real practical way of
Speaker 2: understanding how to make it part of my daily life.
Speaker 2: Although I was going, you know what, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: am I going to read the entire Bible in the year.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I am going to do. Is
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start every day. I'm gonna read one chapter
Speaker 2: of the New Testament, start in Matthew, and then just
Speaker 2: start reading. And I read through the end and I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, you know what I could probably do
Speaker 2: is add a psalm. I do a psalm every day,
Speaker 2: and then a chapter of the New Testament. And then
Speaker 2: you and I were talking and you said, well, have
Speaker 2: you tried the McShane plan. It's like, I don't even
Speaker 2: know what that is, never even heard of it.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a good point to remember. It's
Speaker 1: not quantity, no, No, it's just the daily practice of
Speaker 1: it that I'm looking for first. It's it's like if
Speaker 1: I was telling you you need to run, you need
Speaker 1: to be a jogger, and then you would say how
Speaker 1: far do I need to run? I go, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care how far you run, just run. I
Speaker 1: just want you to put your shoes on. And if
Speaker 1: you run fifty feet then, and if you do that
Speaker 1: every single morning, you run fifty feet with your jog
Speaker 1: and choose and come back, then I'm expecting that by
Speaker 1: next week you're running seventy five feet. I'm expecting that,
Speaker 1: but I'm not requiring it, or I just want to
Speaker 1: build the habit. I've said this before, but by no
Speaker 1: means am I ever trying to put myself forward as
Speaker 1: someone that's got it going on, by no means using
Speaker 1: any kind of bragging language. But the only reason I
Speaker 1: bring this stuff up is to just encourage to maybe
Speaker 1: model something that I'm seeing from other guys. Everything I
Speaker 1: do is modeled from someone else. I'm not inventing any
Speaker 1: of this. In fact, everyone all the way back to
Speaker 1: the first century, we're all just modeling that and trying
Speaker 1: our best. But the reason I even bring it up
Speaker 1: is so that people go, Grandri could do it. I
Speaker 1: could do it. And so one thing I say it
Speaker 1: is last year in twenty twenty three, I didn't skip
Speaker 1: any mornings in twenty twenty three except four, and that's
Speaker 1: when I was in Pakistan and it was literally illegal
Speaker 1: for me to bring a Bible in any in any form,
Speaker 1: even on my phone, even an app. It was illegal
Speaker 1: in that country completely, So I just relied on memorization. Sure,
Speaker 1: and that's it. And and it was a special time
Speaker 1: actually in Pakistan, not to not have my Bible. It
Speaker 1: was a special connection I had because because the Word
Speaker 1: is life for me, the Bible's life. And so as
Speaker 1: I separated the umbilical cord from life. Yes, sure I
Speaker 1: went to Pakistan. I said, Lord, Lord, I need you,
Speaker 1: and I just went through my you know verses that
Speaker 1: I knew and and my prayer life was fruitful. And
Speaker 1: because I think the Lord sustained me knowing I know
Speaker 1: you love my word, and thank you for that. But
Speaker 1: when I pull it away, you still have me. So there,
Speaker 1: I think there's something to say for that. But but
Speaker 1: when I was in Pakistan, it was the only four
Speaker 1: days and then I ended up catching back up later.
Speaker 1: But I say that once again not to brag, but
Speaker 1: to just set set an example for others that might
Speaker 1: be wondering. I'm pretty busy, Granger, Like, I've got a
Speaker 1: lot going on, my work, my wife, my kids, my schedule,
Speaker 1: I go fishing, I get on airplanes to that. To
Speaker 1: all of that, I say, I could probably match you
Speaker 1: in all those things. Yeah, I've been moderately busy the
Speaker 1: last several years, and I don't skip it because this
Speaker 1: is life and whatever else is going on, whatever busyness
Speaker 1: I've got going on, I need to get up earlier
Speaker 1: or I don't if I can't get up, if it's
Speaker 1: not doesn't make sense. If I'm getting up at three
Speaker 1: am to go get a flight, and it doesn't make
Speaker 1: as much sense to get up at two thirty to
Speaker 1: read the Bible or two. Then I'll say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to read in the morning when I wake up,
Speaker 1: but I'll read in the airport, sitting there way.
Speaker 2: Away to flight.
Speaker 1: On the flight itself, I'll read then, but I make
Speaker 1: it a point that I don't miss it. And so
Speaker 1: I say all of that to hopefully wipe away excuses
Speaker 1: from people that think they're too busy. And and then
Speaker 1: I think we should lead into what this podcast really
Speaker 1: is about. And you kind of alluded to that. How
Speaker 1: specifically do we read our Bibles? Now this part what
Speaker 1: everything I said until this part I think is you
Speaker 1: need to do everything I've said up until this part.
Speaker 1: You need to do it. You need to understand the
Speaker 1: importance of it. As the Bible has told us the
Speaker 1: importance of itself, and you need to understand the gravity
Speaker 1: of it, the weight of it, the desperation for every
Speaker 1: breath of it, and you need to do it every day.
Speaker 1: So up until this point everything I would say, do
Speaker 1: it now, you're on your own. After that, like you said,
Speaker 1: and I think you said it well, one paragraph, if
Speaker 1: you read one paragraph, it's something. Don't read one line. Please,
Speaker 1: don't read one verse. Otherwise you might think that's your
Speaker 1: faithfulness and not God is talking about. But if you
Speaker 1: read one paragraph a day. There is another thing I'm
Speaker 1: studying in the Bible, and that is with my family worship,
Speaker 1: and so that's another thing separate. And with that, we're
Speaker 1: working through the Book of Mark and we read maybe
Speaker 1: as much as the kids can handle. And sometimes that's
Speaker 1: only one paragraph, right, and I think that's also enough
Speaker 1: for the average viewer to listen. If you're like, look,
Speaker 1: I don't have time, or I don't understand it, or
Speaker 1: I don't desire it. If any of those things are you,
Speaker 1: then I would say, let's go to one Let's go
Speaker 1: to one paragraph. In the Gospels, they're called perickepees, the
Speaker 1: little sections that have a little title, and then there's
Speaker 1: a little section what I do.
Speaker 2: Like if that is your statement? Though, I find it
Speaker 2: hard to believe that you've made a commitment to Christ
Speaker 2: and have zero desire. Am I wrong in that?
Speaker 1: No, it's a really good check engine light for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, so this truck's not running right because
Speaker 1: I don't care about the Bible. Granger, you say all
Speaker 1: this stuff, I don't understand. It makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, you just told me you dedicated your life
Speaker 2: to Christ and you're saved, and so you have no desire.
Speaker 1: So so you got to check engine light in the truck.
Speaker 1: You need to you need to take it into the station.
Speaker 1: What's wrong? I don't desire your word? In Someone nineteen,
Speaker 1: which is a man after God's own heart, loves the word.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you even just want to go selfishly
Speaker 2: look for the benefits, you know, Let's start there. Let's
Speaker 2: start on service level, flesh level.
Speaker 1: I think the atheist just read the Bible? Why not?
Speaker 1: It's the It's it's the most popular literature in the world.
Speaker 1: You're going to read Homer's Odyssey, why not read the Bible?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: You don't have to believe it if you're a mister atheist,
Speaker 1: But why not read it now? Secretly? As Christians, we
Speaker 1: know what Hebrews four twelve says that it's sharper than inituated.
Speaker 1: Sword pierce into the division soul in the spirit, you know,
Speaker 1: and we know that.
Speaker 2: We know that if they start reading it will happen.
Speaker 1: Yes, but you can go in as a skeptic. That's
Speaker 1: fine with me. Maybe we could spend just a few
Speaker 1: seconds here on translations. I typically recommend against everyone hold
Speaker 1: their breath the King James. Look, I think the King
Speaker 1: James is great. In fact, i'm reading currently the New
Speaker 1: King James. But I would recommend against the King James
Speaker 1: only because of it's hard to understand, especially for people
Speaker 1: that don't that aren't turn off a lot that aren't
Speaker 1: from sixteen they don't live in the year sixteen oh five.
Speaker 1: Then I would say, hey, you you should probably read
Speaker 1: a more modern translation and hang on with me. People
Speaker 1: are already getting pissed off, I could tell. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to go through the reasons behind
Speaker 1: what I just said, and I'm gonna hopefully make you
Speaker 1: feel better if you're really people are angry at me
Speaker 1: right now. I could feel it because I just talked
Speaker 1: to I said, don't read the King, James.
Speaker 2: I almost sent you a via a video to react to,
Speaker 2: which was a preacher saying, thank God we have the
Speaker 2: King James, therefore we no longer have any need for
Speaker 2: here or for the Greek and I just laughed and
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'm sure we have other things
Speaker 2: to talk about. So I didn't send it to.
Speaker 1: You, Okay, So what am I to do? And then
Speaker 1: that'll help with that discussion. I'm gonna hit screen record
Speaker 1: on this iPad, which is my Bible. So here we are,
Speaker 1: we're looking at Psalm forty two one. That's the last
Speaker 1: thing we read. So what we're looking at here is
Speaker 1: an app and I choose to read my I read
Speaker 1: different pieces of media for different situations. For instance, with
Speaker 1: our kids when we do our family worship, I'm reading
Speaker 1: the actual paper Bible when I get up in the morning,
Speaker 1: and I read my own devotional time. I'm using this
Speaker 1: the screen I'm looking at right now. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons. One it this is syncing with my phone.
Speaker 1: What's on my iPads syncs with my phone. So when
Speaker 1: I have those moments when I'm like in an uber
Speaker 1: and it's three o'clock in the morning and I didn't
Speaker 1: get to read. I'm reading right here on my phone.
Speaker 1: It's always on me, so I don't have to have
Speaker 1: my Bible in my bag. I don't have to have
Speaker 1: because that's a good excuse. If you don't, you're like, man,
Speaker 1: my Bible is not in my backpack. I guess I
Speaker 1: can't read today. That's a bad hangout.
Speaker 2: Eliminate those barriers.
Speaker 1: Eliminate barriers great. Another reason is it's got a light.
Speaker 1: It's got a backlight to it, so I'm reading early
Speaker 1: in the morning. I don't necessarily need a lamp or
Speaker 1: a light on the airplane or in the terminal or
Speaker 1: in my living room. It's got its own light. That's cool.
Speaker 1: Another reason for the iPad is this particular thing I'm
Speaker 1: looking right here. This is called Lagos or other people
Speaker 1: pronounce it logos l O g O S. That is
Speaker 1: an app and effectively go out here. So it's right
Speaker 1: here on the top left, Lagos Bible. It's blue and
Speaker 1: it has a white cross on it, and there are
Speaker 1: many versions. So don't take don't think that this is
Speaker 1: the only way to do it. But what we're looking
Speaker 1: at here is, as you could see on the screen,
Speaker 1: the as a deer pants are flowing streams. So pants
Speaker 1: my soul for you, Oh God, is highlighted in yellow.
Speaker 1: So I could highlight that. I could. I can go
Speaker 1: in here and highlight any verses, and as I get
Speaker 1: as I come back to it, I see what I
Speaker 1: previously highlighted. Also, you see on the top left on
Speaker 1: this verse one there's a little tea, and I could
Speaker 1: hit that tee and it's going to say Joel one twenty.
Speaker 1: So there is a reference to Joel one twenty and
Speaker 1: it says, even the beast of the field pant for
Speaker 1: you because the water brooks are dried up great and
Speaker 1: fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. So there's
Speaker 1: a connection between Joel one twenty and Psalm forty two
Speaker 1: to one. Great. Another thing I could do on Longos
Speaker 1: is I could take a word like soul and I
Speaker 1: hit soul, and now I have Hebrew, and I could
Speaker 1: look at the word study on soul and the way
Speaker 1: that this was used, and I could study the word.
Speaker 1: I could study. If I'm in the New Testament, I
Speaker 1: could study the Greek of it, and I could see
Speaker 1: the way that this was translated. So this goes back
Speaker 1: to the kind of this King James conversation is I
Speaker 1: could look at what do these words means? So if
Speaker 1: I don't trust a translation, then let me look at
Speaker 1: what the actual word says myself. So I don't have
Speaker 1: to sit here and go I don't trust a certain translation.
Speaker 1: Well it's twenty twenty four. We have logos. Look at
Speaker 1: the word yourself. Look at the word yourself that was
Speaker 1: found on the actual scroll itself. So I can get
Speaker 1: a definition of the word. I can get the Hebrew word.
Speaker 1: I can get what the Hebrew word means. I can
Speaker 1: go way deeper than that I could look. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can get really really deep. What I'm looking at
Speaker 1: on the screen now is the English Standard version. This
Speaker 1: is my preaching text that I use. Sure, it's also
Speaker 1: my personal reading and my personal devotional. It's it is
Speaker 1: also what I read with the kids. But I said
Speaker 1: personal devotional. That's wrong. That's this is my preaching text,
Speaker 1: and this is what I read with the kids, and
Speaker 1: this is what I teach with. But my personal reason
Speaker 1: my church uses it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you stay in line with the same verbiage.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's the best easiest way
Speaker 1: to answer that. My church reads the ESV, and there
Speaker 1: I think it's an excellent translation. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: other reasons, but let's start there. But my personal devotional
Speaker 1: translation changes every year. Right now, I'm in the King
Speaker 1: James or the New King James. Last year in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, I read the CSB Christian Standard Bible.
Speaker 2: So go ahead, New King James. Is that take out
Speaker 2: a lot of these and dows?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, that's pretty much where that's It's the same
Speaker 1: as King James, just without the these and dows.
Speaker 2: That's where a lot of a lot of people get
Speaker 2: hung up in that verbicon, these and thousand. There they
Speaker 2: be talking about at this point.
Speaker 1: The New King James and the King James. They come out.
Speaker 1: They come out of Textus receptus manuscripts, and the ESV
Speaker 1: and the CSB comes out of the Alexandrian Old manuscripts.
Speaker 1: The Alexandrian manuscripts are slightly older and found slightly more recently.
Speaker 1: Interesting we found recent more recent we have found Alexandrian
Speaker 1: manuscripts that are older. The older ones sometimes exclude certain
Speaker 1: things which is why people see now and it's like
Speaker 1: popular on TikTok to go look at this Bible, y'all,
Speaker 1: it's missing verse twenty three, right, how dare they remove
Speaker 1: twenty three? Well, the reason is not because someone's being
Speaker 1: deceitful and taking it out of a major translation that
Speaker 1: we all can trust. It's because the older manuscripts don't
Speaker 1: include it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it's wrong. And none of that
Speaker 1: changes major doctrine. It's all all of those instances where
Speaker 1: something is excluded or included. It's it's always second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth tier type stuff. It's never a major doctrine. It
Speaker 1: doesn't change any of our beliefs. It doesn't change the faith,
Speaker 1: it doesn't change anything about what we believe. It's just
Speaker 1: slight details. But what's cool is that we know that
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty four. We know these slight differences. And
Speaker 1: as I read logos, I could go back, So watch
Speaker 1: what I'm doing now on screen. I can go to
Speaker 1: text comparison, and I could go to let me see
Speaker 1: if I go to we're looking at some one, let's
Speaker 1: go to Psalm one. And so now I have the ESV,
Speaker 1: the l e B, the NASB, the NIV, the NRSV,
Speaker 1: the KGV, the good old King James, and the NKJAV.
Speaker 1: It goes on and on, and so I could sid
Speaker 1: he and go. Blessed is the man who walks not
Speaker 1: in the council of the wicked. Blessed is the man
Speaker 1: who does not walk in the advice of the wicked.
Speaker 1: How blessed is the man who does not walk in
Speaker 1: the council.
Speaker 2: Of the wicked.
Speaker 1: Blessed is the one who does not walk in step
Speaker 1: with the wicked. Blessed is the man that walketh not
Speaker 1: in the council of the ungodly. Blessed is the man
Speaker 1: who walks not in the council of the ungodly. How
Speaker 1: happy is the man who does not follow the advice?
Speaker 1: So here it is, here's all that. This makes everybody
Speaker 1: happy and logos even monitors. Right here the percentage of
Speaker 1: difference in what the translation you're looking at is. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, the KJV is thirty one percent different than
Speaker 1: the ESV in Psalm one one, And you could look
Speaker 1: right here. Blessed is the man that walketh not in
Speaker 1: the council of the ungodly. Blessed is the man who
Speaker 1: walks not in the Council of the Wicked slightly different,
Speaker 1: but you see what I mean, it's the same thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's the same idea. It's very obvious if it's different,
Speaker 1: if it means a different thing, or if it hits
Speaker 1: differently or a different emotion, that would be wrong. And
Speaker 1: these major translations are not wrong. It's a different way
Speaker 1: of looking at an ancient translation. And you know what,
Speaker 1: it's probably fair to say that none of them are
Speaker 1: exactly right right.
Speaker 2: Because they're English.
Speaker 1: They're English, but we know that the word is preserved
Speaker 1: for us in a way that we could trust it
Speaker 1: that it is still the inerate word of God. It's
Speaker 1: spoken differently, but it's the same essence, it's the same feeling,
Speaker 1: it's the same nature character of God that comes through
Speaker 1: the text that we can believe and wrap our lives around.
Speaker 1: So I hope this makes people comfortable. It makes people comfortable.
Speaker 2: Well, I think a question two that can come up
Speaker 2: is like, well, how are they just now discovering new
Speaker 2: scrolls with this text? And what have you? We saw
Speaker 2: it firsthand. I mean literally, there will be an area
Speaker 2: of ten feet by forty feet that a year ago
Speaker 2: was solid ground and today it's steps of of a
Speaker 2: Roman colisseum or what have you, that that is uncovered
Speaker 2: little by little and they're doing that every day in
Speaker 2: all of these old historic places over in Jerusalem, over
Speaker 2: in that area, and they are discovering stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: With you know what, we should do another episode on
Speaker 1: the the historicity of the Bible and the accuracy of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of stuff, because because I'm like, man, we're almost out
Speaker 1: of time, and I want to go to that. But
Speaker 1: that's probably another episote to another episode. Right now, this
Speaker 1: is just how to read, how to read the Bible.
Speaker 1: So back to the screen here. If you look what
Speaker 1: I as I scroll on Lagos, I've got the English
Speaker 1: Standard version here, there's the King James right there. So
Speaker 1: for all the people that are that love the King James,
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. I actually love it too.
Speaker 1: I just don't read it on my daily devotional because
Speaker 1: it's hard. But as I am going through my preaching
Speaker 1: or teaching and I want to look at and what
Speaker 1: does the King James say here? I don't want to
Speaker 1: miss that, And so an easy way is to go
Speaker 1: to this text comparison and then back to my reading.
Speaker 1: So now let's get specifically to what this podcast is about.
Speaker 1: How do I Grangersmith? How do I read? Here's here's
Speaker 1: a I read right here. This is my mc shane
Speaker 1: reading plan. Help me spell it? M apostrophe c h
Speaker 1: e y n e y n e yes mic Shane.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the details of who
Speaker 1: McShane was. That's probably irrelevant. He was a brilliant man
Speaker 1: and a dear brother from a couple of centuries ago.
Speaker 1: But he was absolutely brilliant, died young. I believe he's
Speaker 1: twenty nine when he died. Oh really, yeah, brilliant man.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: And he put together a really neat Bible reading plan
Speaker 1: that includes two chapters from the Old Testament and two
Speaker 1: from the New. What it does is if you read
Speaker 1: it every single day in one year, you will have
Speaker 1: made it through the New the New Testament twice, the
Speaker 1: Psalms twice, in the Old Testament once if you stick
Speaker 1: every day to those four chapters. And sometimes it's five chapters,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's three. It changes a little bit, but usually
Speaker 1: it's four.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's not a whole chapter. One nineteen might be
Speaker 2: split up.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's not a whole chapter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So.
Speaker 1: Looking back to the screen. This is it says session
Speaker 1: complete because that's what I did this morning. So you
Speaker 1: could load the mcchain plan through.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh that's great.
Speaker 1: So you go to logos and you could load a
Speaker 1: reading plan and you could you could load any plan
Speaker 1: you want. There are the chronological plans. There's read the
Speaker 1: Bible in one year plans, there's the McShane plan, there's several. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't really care what you do. Like I said, a.
Speaker 2: Plan just really helps. It helps you organize your life
Speaker 2: as you're organizing everything else. A plan goes, hey, if
Speaker 2: you do this today, it will help you get through.
Speaker 2: It help you accomplish a goal that maybe you've set
Speaker 2: for your h If it's just reading today, that might
Speaker 2: be the goal. And that's great. It does that. If
Speaker 2: it's reading the Bible in a year, it does that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me hit plan overview. Go to plan overview.
Speaker 1: This is my personal plan. You could see in the
Speaker 1: top left McShane reading plan, and it's this is the
Speaker 1: new King James version. I try to read a different
Speaker 1: translation every year. I've done the n IV, I've done
Speaker 1: the ESV twice, I've done the CSB, I've done CSB again,
Speaker 1: and I've done new Now I'm doing the new King James.
Speaker 1: This is all on the McShane, so I think it's
Speaker 1: helpful for me to see different text. And I start
Speaker 1: in March and so you could see it. I'm on
Speaker 1: day thirty five and my next reading is Genesis thirty seven,
Speaker 1: Mark seven, Job three, Romans seven. And then you could
Speaker 1: see here these are the previous days and it's simple.
Speaker 1: So as I'm reading, I could highlight, I could remember that,
Speaker 1: I could tweet it or exit copy it and copy it.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: I could click on all these little tabs which are
Speaker 1: just so helpful, all the little little numbers here. Then
Speaker 1: I can go back and see what is First Samuel. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a connection between First Samuel and
Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven two. Anyway, it's a deep rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: You don't have to get into it all. But this
Speaker 1: is how I read the Bible. So I'll go back
Speaker 1: to overview so that I'm ready tomorrow to hit read man.
Speaker 2: That's great. And if if you're looking for it, this
Speaker 2: we didn't go I've learned something right here today, but
Speaker 2: we didn't go this deep. When you told me about
Speaker 2: the machine plan. But that right there helped me tremendously.
Speaker 2: And today this is this is even better. I didn't
Speaker 2: I didn't realize you were really using the logos. I
Speaker 2: was just using the Bible app if I need it
Speaker 2: on my phone.
Speaker 1: Or the great So this is the Bible app, dude.
Speaker 1: Similar thing it does.
Speaker 2: It doesn't import, but it just all go look at
Speaker 2: my email because they get an email every morning, it's
Speaker 2: the one at the top, and that in that account,
Speaker 2: it's the the top emails that early and nothing else
Speaker 2: has come in after that. And saw a click on
Speaker 2: it first thing in the morning, see what the passages
Speaker 2: are to read and then flip over either in my
Speaker 2: Bible or if I'm traveling, flip over on my phone
Speaker 2: and let's read those. Yeah. And I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people look forward to those those tweets every morning,
Speaker 2: and those come from your daily.
Speaker 1: Reading that comes from this Mixshane plain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: I will post something from those one of those four chapters.
Speaker 1: And that kind of forces me whenever I tweet it
Speaker 1: or post it. That forces me to not just skim read,
Speaker 1: but I got to read something worth taking away.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can, because you can't get into a place
Speaker 2: where you are mindlessly reading.
Speaker 1: I'm guilty of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And part of my prayer every morning before
Speaker 2: I read is to what the Bible tells us to
Speaker 2: do in many other circumstances, though, is to keep is
Speaker 2: to take thoughts captive, take those thoughts kept. So those
Speaker 2: thoughts that are not about what I'm reading right now,
Speaker 2: either reserve those for later if I need to pay
Speaker 2: attention to the thought later, or just cast it out
Speaker 2: and be done with it. But right now it's my
Speaker 2: time to read and understand and to get closer to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Amen, that's well, you guys. I'd love for you
Speaker 1: to be able to comment below, if you're watching or
Speaker 1: listening on a platform where you can comment, say I'm reading,
Speaker 1: or even better, i'm starting now.
Speaker 2: Yes, gonna be day one.
Speaker 1: If we get an army of people that just do
Speaker 1: this to be well equipped, ready for all the good
Speaker 1: works prepared for you. That is, and that's the goal.
Speaker 1: That's that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Is it? A Chinese proverb that says the best the
Speaker 2: best day to plane a tree was twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: The second is today. That sounds right, The best day
Speaker 2: to start reading your Bible was twenty years ago. The
Speaker 2: second best day is right now?
Speaker 1: Is right now? Yeah? Yeah amen. If you guys comment that,
Speaker 1: that would be super encouraging. See you next time. He
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