Introduction…

1. Someone once said: A Bible in the hand is worth two in the bookcase.

2. And someone else said: A Bible stored in the mind is worth a dozen stored

in the bottom of one’s trunk.

3. DL Moody said: “The scriptures were not given for our information but

our transformation.”

4. Mark Twain, not exactly a die-hard Christian, wrote these words: “Most people

are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand,

but the passages that bother me most are those I do understand.”

5. No matter how many times you have been through it, let it go through you.

6. God’s word is like salt in the back of your car in the winter. It’s a lot more useful

when you take it out and apply it.

We need an appreciation for the Word.

How many have a Bible today? How many do you have at home?

How many have it in a digital format?

Did you know that having your own entire copy of the Word of God is a relatively

new thing in Christianity?

For a great majority of Christian history only a select few had small portions of it.

Even in days of Renaissance and advancement churches had one Bible, and it was

chained to the pulpit so no one could steal it!

With the advent of the printing press [Gutenberg, Johann, not Steve] it became more common for common folk to be able to gain their own copy. That's good, right?

But something else happened that's not so good, which is us today

taking it for granted.

- We get more out of the Bible when we let it get into us.