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"I don't plan to be a pastor, why then should I study the bible/spend so much time on the bible"
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Acts 20:32 "And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them who are sanctified."
Hebrews 10:16 "
Studying the bible is the will of God.
Hebrews 5:12 "For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food."
We are all ordained to teach and as such should study to teach.
Hebrews 6:1 "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto maturity; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,"
The foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God... God is interested in bringing all to a perfect grasp of His word.
Hebrews 8:11 "
Everyone can and must know God through His word.
James 1:21 "Therefore put away all filthiness and extreme wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."
Joshua 1:8 "
God's success comes by obeying God's demands and the ability to obey them comes through persistent study.
Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
Romans 10:17 "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
Faith; The currency of God is accessed via studies.
"By reading the Bible and praying more, will result in holiness"
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2Corinthians 5:15 "And that he died for all, that they who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again."
Striving to live a good life makes a demand on yourself making you live unto your own self or according to your own sinful nature and power. This can never bring glory to Christ.
Colossians 1:18 "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."
Colossians 3:11 "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all."
The main thing to seek is Christ and not to become a good person.
Galatians 2:19 "For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God."
Living unto God is greater than living a 'good moral life'
Galatians 2:20 "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
The goal or product of the Christian life is Christ that comes with the by-product of a good life.
Jeremiah 9:24 "
A fulfilled life is hidden in the knowledge of God through Christ.
John 14:12 "
A good life is the product of Ultimate faith in Christ as your all in all.
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
A good life is not possible without absolute faith in Christ as the reality of it.
Philippians 1:21 "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
The important thing is Christ and not to become a good person
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.
Christ is the ultimate of all Christian pursuits.
Romans 14:7 "For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself."
Your inheritance in God depends on your studies in God.