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Daily Bible Reading - Part One
Why We Need To Make It A Habit
Mark A. Copeland
INTRODUCTION
1. John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of our country, once stated...
“So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the
more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and
respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through
the Bible once every year.”
2. George Muller, who established many orphanages throughout England, said...
“I believe that the one chief reason that I have been kept in happy useful service is that I
have been a lover of Holy Scripture. It has been my habit to read the Bible through four
times a year; in a prayerful spirit, to apply it to my heart, and practice what I find there. I
have been for sixty-nine years a happy man; happy, happy, happy.”
3. Both of these men spoke of the habit of Bible reading...
a. This is a habit which many great people in the past engaged in regularly
b. Many people still do so today
c. But I fear that if the truth were known, fewer and fewer people have developed the habit of
daily reading the Bible
1) Many have probably never read the New Testament from beginning to end
2) Even fewer have never read the entire Old Testament
4. And yet, I agree with...
a. Patrick Henry, who said: “The Bible is worth more than all other books which have ever been
printed.”
b. Charles Dickens, who wrote: “The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or
will be known in the world.”
5. For this reason, I have one objective in this lesson and the one to follow: to encourage every
person to develop the habit of daily Bible reading!
[To help motivate us all in this regard, I wish to point out why it is so important to develop the habit of
daily Bible reading...]
I. BECAUSE OF THE POWER OF GOD’S WORD TO SAVE - Ja 1:21
A. GOD’S WORD SAVES US BY PRODUCING FAITH... - Ro 10:17
1. Without faith it is impossible to please God - He 11:6
2. Without faith in Jesus we cannot be saved - Jn 8:24
3. The Word Of God was written to produce such saving faith - Jn 20:30-31
B. GOD’S WORD SAVES US BY CAUSING US TO BE BORN AGAIN... - 1 Pe 1:22-23
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