Video Transcript: Studying the Bible Prayerfully and Obediently

Francis - So in this lesson, we're talking about studying the Bible in a prayerful  way and, and obedient way. And I actually, no one really told me about the Holy  Spirit's role in interpreting the Bible. And this is so important. I think it's  something we should camp out on this week for you to, you've got to convince  your disciple that it is absolutely impossible to get the right interpretation of this.  Apart from the Holy Spirit, I mean, the scriptures itself, they teach us that, that,  you know, unless He enlightens us, we're not going to get to know truth.  

Brian - And that's what this separates this book from every other book, in the  world, like this book alone, is divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. And it can only  be understood fully in all of its fullness, independence on and desperation for  the Holy Spirit to lead and guide our minds and our thoughts and our reading.  And so when we approach this book, it just creates a humility when it comes to  the Bible. It creates a prayerful dependence. And that's where prayer just kind of saturate the whole picture study. I remember when I was walking through,  talking about disciple making with some brothers and sisters in underground  house churches in Asia, and this one house church in particular, and we were  studying for like, hours a day studying the Word. But one of the things they  taught me was, was I'd jump in, say, Okay, let's just let's open up to here, and  let's start studying and they said, well, we want to, we want to pray first. Okay,  well, maybe we'll do a little 30 second prayer, and then we'll dive in the Word.  But man, all sudden, they get on their faces around the room, and they just start  calling out to God, for and just praising Him, and, and then praying for  understanding, to know His Word, to know him more deeply, and to even be  able to obey him in the midst of the cost of following him in a difficult context.  There where I was. And it just reminded me, this book must be studied in the  context of prayer, and longing, love for God, desperation for His Spirit to lead  and guide us and a willingness to say, we're about to open Your Word, help us  to understand what it says, And and when we understand it, help us to obey it.  We want to pray before we even get into, Lord help us not just to hear this word, help us to do it.  

Francis - You know, what I think would be really cool this week is if you actually  did that, when you're together with your disciple or disciples to say, Okay, we're  going to look at these five verses. But let's, let's pray right now and to pray with  an urgency together, right then like, with its sincere urgency, like God, we're  

about to look at these five verses, and it is impossible, we're going to come up  with the wrong interpretation. Unless you right now illuminous, open our eyes,  help us to get it. And then start studying the word after a time of begging in  prayer to model that along with your disciple. And many of us have never done  that. To really beg and feel the sense of urgency like God, you gotta come  through on this prayer. Because we want to know the truth in this book, and then

the end that time going, Okay, now that we know what it says, we need you  again, because now we're going to do it. And to have another prayer time go  God help me help me because that's a huge command and I can't do that in the  flesh. I need your spirit again.  

Brian - So don't just do that this lesson like yeah, if that hasn't already been  there, let that become a regular part of this time that you have with this person  with people that you were discipling where, where they see this book and learn  this word in the context of prayerful desperation for understanding and prayerful  desperation for grace and strength to obey. Let let that attitude and and that kind of picture just permeate your time with these people or this person you're  walking to it from from this point out. This is this is so