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We’re going to discuss 5 strategies to allow the Bible to transform us like Paul talks about in Romans 12:2. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. We’re going to discuss hearing, reading, studying, memorizing, and meditating on God’s Word for breakthrough.

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We’re heading into our last breakthrough discipline today and it’s probably the discipline you expected us to lead off with - reading the Bible. Hopefully, in this series, you’ve discovered that it isn’t the discipline in and of itself that gives us the full and abundant life Jesus promises; it’s what the discipline does.  In John 15:5, Jesus said “I am the vine, you are the branches.  If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing.”  What all of these disciplines do is help us stay connected to the vine. Prayer and fasting, solitude, slowing, and silence, and spending time in God’s Word - all help us stay connected to Jesus.  

We’re going to discuss 5 strategies to allow the Bible to transform us like Paul talks about in Romans 12:2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.  

Hearing

Hearing the Word is reading through someone else. What can you learn about a passage from a godly pastor or mentor?

• Right now you’re hearing from us, but a lot of what you’ll be hearing is the Word of God.  You’re hearing God’s Word through us.  That’s a very biblical concept.  Going to church, having a mentor, listening to a podcast or online sermon are all simple ways to let God’s Word get into your life.  The question you should be asking when you’re doing this first thing is what can you learn about a passage from a godly pastor or godly mentor in your life.

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.

• Faith comes from hearing.  Think about this in the context of the early church.  We don’t realize how blessed we are to have bibles as individuals or to have the bible on our phone.  To think that each of us can have access to a personal copy of the inspired Word of God would have been mind blowing to Christians in the early church.  In the early church, only the very wealthy had books.  Very few people had scripture in their personal possession.  It was mainly hearing in the synagogue, hearing when they would come together in house churches.  They would listen as someone else read from the scroll.  Someone would read from the Old Testament, someone would read one of Paul’s letters to the churches and the majority of the people received God’s Word by hearing. 
• The same is true even for sharing the gospel.  The scarlet thread of the gospel winds itself through the bible from the very first book to the very last book.  But the gospel is a great example of something most...