1. Why Love and Study the Bible in 2017

3. God’s Word Brings Life

4. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. Genesis 1v1-3

5. ‘And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the land’ Jonah 2v10

6. For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4v6

7. God’s Word Brings Judgement

8. For the word of God is alive and active
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews 4v12

9. God’s Word is Jesus

10. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1v1-5

11. God’s Word is Jesus

12. And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself Luke 24v27

13. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. John 5v39-40

14. It is Good!