Speaker 1: Picture this, a dusty scroll unfurls in a candlelit chamber
Speaker 1: beneath Jerusalem. The parchment is ancient, weathered by centuries, written
Speaker 1: in a language most modern believers will never read, Hebrew.
Speaker 1: For generations people have been told the same thing. If
Speaker 1: you don't know the original languages, you'll never truly understand
Speaker 1: the Bible. Scholars guard their lexicons like sacred relics, seminaries
Speaker 1: build entire empires on Greek and Hebrew courses, and millions
Speaker 1: of sincere believers sit in their living rooms bibles open,
Speaker 1: wondering if they're somehow locked out of God's deepest truths.
Speaker 1: But what if everything you've been told is wrong? What
Speaker 1: if the very foundation of that belief contradicts Scripture itself.
Speaker 1: Before we step into this ancient mystery and uncover what
Speaker 1: the Bible actually says about, who can understand it? I
Speaker 1: need you to do something crucial so you don't miss
Speaker 1: the shocking discoveries ahead, discoveries that could completely transform how
Speaker 1: you read God's word. Make sure you're subscribed and hit
Speaker 1: that notification bell, because what we're about to reveal isn't
Speaker 1: just theory. It's a truth hidden in plain sight. For
Speaker 1: two thousand years, and it changes everything. The question has
Speaker 1: echoed through centuries of church history, whispered in Bible study groups,
Speaker 1: debated in theological halls, and wrestled with in the quiet
Speaker 1: moments of personal devotion. Can an ordinary person, someone without
Speaker 1: formal training, without knowledge of ancient languages, without years in seminary,
Speaker 1: truly understand the depths of scripture. The assumption has become
Speaker 1: so embedded in modern Christianity that we rarely question it.
Speaker 1: Hebrew for the Old Testament, Greek for the New, Aramaic
Speaker 1: for good measure. The message seems clear. God's word is
Speaker 1: a fortress, and the keys to its gates are held
Speaker 1: only by those who've mastered dead languages. But here's where
Speaker 1: the story takes an unexpected turn, Because when we look
Speaker 1: at the Bible itself, not what tradition says about it,
Speaker 1: but what it actually declares, we find something radically different.
Speaker 1: We discover that from the very beginning, God's design was
Speaker 1: never to hide his truth behind linguistic barriers, but to
Speaker 1: reveal it in living, breathing clarity to anyone with a
Speaker 1: willing heart. The real mystery isn't whether you can understand
Speaker 1: the Bible without Hebrew. The mystery is why so many
Speaker 1: have been convinced you can't. Let's go back to the beginning,
Speaker 1: not to the creation narrative, but to the moment when
Speaker 1: God first chose to communicate with humanity in written form.
Speaker 1: Mount Sinai, thunder shaking the mountain, lightning splitting the sky,
Speaker 1: and there, in the midst of divine fire and cosmic trembling,
Speaker 1: God inscribes his law on tablets of stone. But here's
Speaker 1: what's fascinating. The Ten Commandments weren't written in some encrypted
Speaker 1: celestial code accessible only to religious elites. They were written
Speaker 1: in Hebrew. Yes, but Hebrew was the common language of
Speaker 1: the people standing at the base of that mountain. God
Speaker 1: spoke to them in their mother tongue. The farmers understood it,
Speaker 1: the shepherds grasped it. The former slaves who'd spent generations
Speaker 1: in Egypt, many of whom were likely illiterate, still heard
Speaker 1: and comprehended when Moses read the law aloud. This is
Speaker 1: our first crucial clue. God's method of revelation has always
Speaker 1: been accessibility, not exclusivity. Fast forward several centuries to the
Speaker 1: time of Ezra and Nehemiah. The Jewish people have returned
Speaker 1: from Babylonian exile, and something remarkable happens. In Nehemiah chapter eight,
Speaker 1: Ezra stands on a wooden platform and reads the Law
Speaker 1: of Moses to the entire assembly, men, women, and all
Speaker 1: who could understand the text. Says the Levites helped the
Speaker 1: people understand the law as it was being read. But
Speaker 1: notice they weren't translating from Hebrew to Hebrew. They were explaining, clarifying,
Speaker 1: making claes. The Hebrew scriptures were being opened to ordinary people,
Speaker 1: and the result was profound spiritual transformation. The people wept,
Speaker 1: they worshiped, they obeyed, not because they had mastered ancient grammar,
Speaker 1: but because God's word, when received with a humble heart,
Speaker 1: carries its own power. Now here's where it gets even
Speaker 1: more interesting. By the time of Jesus, the Jewish world
Speaker 1: had undergone massive linguistic shifts. Many Jews in the diaspora
Speaker 1: spoke Greek as their primary language. Others in Judea spoke Aramaic.
Speaker 1: In daily life, Hebrew had become largely a liturgical language
Speaker 1: used in synagogues and by religious scholars, but not in
Speaker 1: the marketplace or home. And yet, and this is critical
Speaker 1: when Jesus stood in the synagogue in Nazareth and read
Speaker 1: from the scroll of Isaiah. The prophecy burned with clarity.
Speaker 1: When he taught on mountain sides and lake shores, using
Speaker 1: parables about seeds and shep and lost coins. Common people
Speaker 1: heard him gladly. Fishermen became apostles, tax collectors became theologians.
Speaker 1: Women who'd never set foot in a rabbinical school became
Speaker 1: the first witnesses of the resurrection. The early Church exploded
Speaker 1: across cultural and linguistic boundaries not because everyone learned Hebrew,
Speaker 1: but because the Holy Spirit made God's truth accessible to
Speaker 1: hungry hearts, regardless of their educational background. Consider the Ethiopian
Speaker 1: eunuch in Acts chapter eight. He's reading from Isaiah, likely
Speaker 1: a Greek translation called the Septuageant, and he's struggling to understand.
Speaker 1: But when Philip approaches and asks, do you understand what
Speaker 1: you're reading? The eunuch doesn't say no because I don't
Speaker 1: know Hebrew. He says, how can I unless someone guides me.
Speaker 1: The issue isn't the original language, it's the need for
Speaker 1: spiritual insight. Philip explains the passage connects it to Jesus,
Speaker 1: and the eunuch believes and is baptized on the spot.
Speaker 1: Transformation happens through revelation, not through mastering ancient vocabulary. This
Speaker 1: pattern repeats throughout the New Testament. Paul writes his letters
Speaker 1: in Greek, not Hebrew, to churches scattered across the Roman Empire.
Speaker 1: These letters become scripture equally authoritative as the Hebrew texts
Speaker 1: of Moses and the Prophets. John receives the Revelation on
Speaker 1: Patmos and records it in Greek. Matthew, though writing to
Speaker 1: a Jewish audience, composes his gospel in the common language
Speaker 1: of the day. The early church fathers, from Ignatius to
Speaker 1: Polycarp to Irenaeus, read, studied, and preached from Greek translations
Speaker 1: of Hebrew scriptures, and they experienced profound encounters with God.
Speaker 1: They led movements, they faced martyrdom, They planted churches that
Speaker 1: changed empires. Not one of them had the linguistic tools
Speaker 1: modern scholars claim are essential for true Biblical understanding. What
Speaker 1: no one expected was this. The Bible itself would directly
Speaker 1: address this very question. In Psalm one hundred nineteen one thirty,
Speaker 1: King David writes something that should stop us in our tracks.
Speaker 1: The entrance of Thy words giveth light. It giveth understanding,
Speaker 1: unto the simple. Read that again, slowly understanding, real life
Speaker 1: changing soul illuminating understanding is given to the simple, not
Speaker 1: to the sophisticated, not to those with advanced degrees in
Speaker 1: Semitic languages, to the simple. The Hebrew word translated simple
Speaker 1: here is petie, which can mean naive, open, or unskilled.
Speaker 1: It refers to those who lack worldly wisdom, formal training,
Speaker 1: or cultural prestige, and God says his words bring them understanding.
Speaker 1: This isn't some isolated verse that we can dismiss as
Speaker 1: poetic exaggeration. It's a central theme woven throughout scripture. Proverbs
Speaker 1: two six declares for the Lord giveth wisdom. Out of
Speaker 1: his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. Notice the source not
Speaker 1: human achievement, but divine gift, not earned through academic rigor,
Speaker 1: but received from the mouth of God himself. The implication
Speaker 1: is staggering. If true understanding comes from God, then the
Speaker 1: question isn't whether you know Hebrew, it's whether your position
Speaker 1: to receive what God wants to give. Jesus himself demolishes
Speaker 1: the idea that spiritual understanding requires specialized knowledge. In Matthew
Speaker 1: eleven twenty five, he prays a prayer that turns the
Speaker 1: religious establishment's assumptions upside down. I thank thee O Father,
Speaker 1: Lord of Heaven and Earth, because thou hast hid these
Speaker 1: things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them
Speaker 1: unto babes. This isn't just Jesus being poetic. He's making
Speaker 1: a doctrinal statement about how divine revelation works. The wise
Speaker 1: and prudent, the educated religious leaders, who could parse Hebrew
Speaker 1: verbs and debate talmutic fine points, often missed what God
Speaker 1: was doing right in front of them. Meanwhile, the babes,
Speaker 1: the unlearned, the uncredentialed, the ones who had nothing to
Speaker 1: offer but open hearts, received revelation that changed the world.
Speaker 1: Think about who Jesus chose as his disciples. Not a
Speaker 1: single pharisee, not one scribe or expert in the law.
Speaker 1: He chose fishermen who smelled like the sea of Galilee,
Speaker 1: a tax collector despised by his own people, a political zealot,
Speaker 1: men whose hands were calloused from labor, not softened by
Speaker 1: turning pages in libraries. And to these ordinary men Jesus
Speaker 1: gave the keys of the kingdom. He entrusted them with
Speaker 1: truths that would become the New Testament. He sent them
Speaker 1: out to make disciples of all nations, teaching everything he'd commanded.
Speaker 1: They didn't need to master Hebrew first, they needed to
Speaker 1: master obedience. And here we arrive at one of the
Speaker 1: most revolutionary statements in all of scrip John seven seventeen.
Speaker 1: Jesus says, if any man will do his will, he
Speaker 1: shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God
Speaker 1: or whether I speak of myself. Read that carefully. Jesus
Speaker 1: doesn't say if any man masters the original languages, he'll
Speaker 1: know the doctrine. He says, if any man will do
Speaker 1: his will. The pathway to understanding isn't through grammar books
Speaker 1: and lexicons. It's through surrender and obedience. The person who's
Speaker 1: willing to do what God says, even before they fully
Speaker 1: understand it, will gain a depth of doctrinal clarity that
Speaker 1: no amount of academic study alone can produce. This is
Speaker 1: a principle that runs counter to everything our modern educational
Speaker 1: system has taught us. We're conditioned to believe that knowledge
Speaker 1: precedes action. First you study, then you apply. But Jesus
Speaker 1: reverses the order. First you obey, then you understand. First
Speaker 1: you trust, then you see. The Pharisees hadle libraries full
Speaker 1: of scrolls. They'd memorized vast portions of the Torah. They
Speaker 1: could discuss the minutia of levitical law for hours, But
Speaker 1: they missed Jesus, the very embodiment of the word they
Speaker 1: claimed to study so carefully. Why because their pursuit of
Speaker 1: knowledge wasn't matched by a pursuit of God's will. They
Speaker 1: wanted to be experts, Jesus wanted disciples. This brings us
Speaker 1: face to face with a question that cuts to the
Speaker 1: heart of biblical interpretation. What is understanding really? Is it
Speaker 1: the ability to translate a Verse from Greek to English?
Speaker 1: Is it knowing that agape and philo are different words
Speaker 1: for love? Is it being able to trace the etymology
Speaker 1: of elohem? Or is understanding something deeper, a spiritual capacity
Speaker 1: to receive truth, apply it, live it, and be transformed
Speaker 1: by it. The apostle Paul answers this question definitively in
Speaker 1: War Corinthians two twelve. Now we have received not the
Speaker 1: spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God,
Speaker 1: that we might know the things that are freely given
Speaker 1: to us of God. Notice Paul's emphasis the spirit that
Speaker 1: is of God. He's drawing a contrast between two types
Speaker 1: of knowledge. There's worldly knowledge, the kind you get through
Speaker 1: natural study, human wisdom, cultural insight, and then their spiritual knowledge,
Speaker 1: the kind that comes only through the Holy Spirit. Paul
Speaker 1: goes on to say in verses thirteen not fourteen, Which
Speaker 1: things also we speak not in the words which man's
Speaker 1: wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual
Speaker 1: things with spiritual But the natural man receiveth not the
Speaker 1: things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness
Speaker 1: unto him. Neither can he know them, because they are
Speaker 1: spiritually discerned. This is the game changer. The Bible isn't
Speaker 1: ultimately a linguistic puzzle to be solved by human intellect.
Speaker 1: It's a spiritual revelation to be received by spiritual mists.
Speaker 1: Means you can know every Hebrew root and still be
Speaker 1: blind to the truth. You can translate Greek like a
Speaker 1: native speaker and completely miss the point. Because spiritual things
Speaker 1: are spiritually discerned. The Holy Spirit is the one who
Speaker 1: illuminates scripture He's the one who takes ancient words and
Speaker 1: makes them living and active in your heart today. He's
Speaker 1: the one who convicts, corrects, instructs, and transforms, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't require you to pass a language exam before he
Speaker 1: does his work. Consider how the Bible describes itself. Hebrews
Speaker 1: four to twelve says, for the Word of God is
Speaker 1: quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword,
Speaker 1: piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
Speaker 1: and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
Speaker 1: of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Word
Speaker 1: is alive. It's not a dead text waiting for scholars
Speaker 1: to resurrect it through translation skills. It's living and active,
Speaker 1: carrying inherent power to pierce, divide, learn, and transform. When
Speaker 1: you open your Bible, whether it's in English, Spanish, Swahili,
Speaker 1: or any other language, you're not handling ancient history. You're
Speaker 1: encountering a living voice that speaks directly to your present reality.
Speaker 1: This is why believers throughout history who never knew a
Speaker 1: word of Hebrew or Greek have had encounters with God
Speaker 1: that shape their lives and change their worlds. Think of
Speaker 1: John Bunyan, imprisoned for preaching the Gospel, who wrote Pilgrim's
Speaker 1: Progress with nothing but an English Bible and the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit's guidance. His allegory has brought millions to Christ. Consider
Speaker 1: Charles Spurgeon, who read the Bible in English and became
Speaker 1: known as the Prince of Preachers, whose sermons still transform
Speaker 1: lives today, Or the countless missionaries who've translated Scripture into
Speaker 1: heart languages around the world, watching illiterate tribal people encounter
Speaker 1: God's word and experience radical conversion. But what happened next
Speaker 1: would challenge everything the religiousestay pablishment believed about who could
Speaker 1: access divine truth. The Reformation of the sixteenth century was
Speaker 1: at its core a battle over this very question, who
Speaker 1: has the right to understand and interpret scripture. The Catholic
Speaker 1: Church had long maintained that only ordained clergy, educated in
Speaker 1: Latin and trained in church tradition could properly interpret the Bible.
Speaker 1: Lay people were discouraged and often forbidden from reading Scripture
Speaker 1: in their own languages. The reasoning was simple. Without proper
Speaker 1: training and church authority, common people would misunderstand, fall into heresy,
Speaker 1: and endanger their souls. The Bible needed to be kept
Speaker 1: in Latin, accessible only to the learned few. Martin Luther
Speaker 1: shattered that paradigm when he nailed his ninety five Theses
Speaker 1: to the church door in Wittenberg. He wasn't just challenging indulgences.
Speaker 1: He was asserting something revolutionary, that every Christian has the
Speaker 1: right and ability to read and understand God's word. Luther
Speaker 1: translated the Bible into German, the language of farmers and
Speaker 1: merchants and mothers and children. He wrote in the preface,
Speaker 1: I wanted to speak German, not Latin or Greek, since
Speaker 1: I was undertaking to speak German in the translation. His
Speaker 1: goal wasn't a dumb down scripture, but to open it
Speaker 1: up to hungry hearts who'd been told they needed a
Speaker 1: priest to mediate between them and God's truth. The impact
Speaker 1: was explosive. For the first time, German speaking believers could
Speaker 1: read for themselves what Paul wrote to the Romans, what
Speaker 1: Jesus said in the Gospels, what the Psalms declared about
Speaker 1: God's character. And they didn't just read, they understood, believed,
Speaker 1: and were transformed. The Reformation swept across Europe, not because
Speaker 1: scholars suddenly taught every one Hebrew and Greek. But because
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit used translated scripture to bring light to
Speaker 1: darkened hearts, William Tyndale did the same for English speakers,
Speaker 1: giving his life so that a boy that driveth the
Speaker 1: plow could no more scripture than educated pre priests. These
Speaker 1: men understood something profound. The power of the Bible doesn't
Speaker 1: reside in its original language forms. The power is in
Speaker 1: its divine author and in the Spirit who illuminates it. Yes,
Speaker 1: studying the original languages can provide helpful insights. It can
Speaker 1: clarify nuances, reveal cultural contexts, and deepen appreciation for the text.
Speaker 1: But it's not the gateway to understanding. It's a tool,
Speaker 1: not a requirement. The gateway is a surrendered heart, a
Speaker 1: hungry spirit, and the Holy Spirit's illumination. Let's address the
Speaker 1: elephant in the room translation. Many people worry that something
Speaker 1: is lost in translation, that English Bibles or translations in
Speaker 1: any other language inevitably mis crucial meanings that only the
Speaker 1: Hebrew or Greek can capture. There's a grain of truth here.
Speaker 1: All translation involves interpretation. Languages don't map perfectly onto each other.
Speaker 1: Hebrew poetry has wordplay that can't always be replicated in English.
Speaker 1: Greek verb tenses sometimes convey nuances that English has to
Speaker 1: expand into phrases. This is undeniable. But here's what's also undeniable.
Speaker 1: God is sovereign over the translation process. He's not wringing
Speaker 1: his hands in Heaven worried that his truth got lost
Speaker 1: somewhere between Hebrew and English. The same Holy Spirit who
Speaker 1: inspired the original authors also guides faithful translators. The same
Speaker 1: God who preserved his word through centuries of manuscript copying
Speaker 1: also ensures that his essential message comes through in translation.
Speaker 1: When you read a faithful English translation like the King
Speaker 1: James Version, the New King James, the English Standard Version,
Speaker 1: or others produced by godly scholars, you're reading God's word,
Speaker 1: not a shadow of it, not a poor approximation, the
Speaker 1: actual word of God in your language. Consider what happened
Speaker 1: when the Ethiopian Eunuch read Isaiah in Greek trans Philip
Speaker 1: didn't say, well, you're reading the Septuagint, not the Hebrew original,
Speaker 1: so you can't really understand what Isaiah meant. No, Philip
Speaker 1: treated the Greek translation as authoritative scripture and used it
Speaker 1: to preach Jesus. Paul quotes the Septuagint throughout his letters.
Speaker 1: Often when the Greek rendering differs slightly from the Hebrew,
Speaker 1: he treats both as God's word. The early Church operated
Speaker 1: almost entirely on Greek translations of the Hebrew scriptures, and
Speaker 1: they turned the Roman Empire upside down. This tells us
Speaker 1: something vital. God's truth is robust enough to survive translation.
Speaker 1: His word is not so fragile that it shatters the
Speaker 1: moment you move it from one language to another. Yes,
Speaker 1: studying Hebrew can give you insights, but it can also
Speaker 1: give you pride. It can lead you to think you
Speaker 1: have access to truth that lesser believers don't, and that
Speaker 1: attitude is more dangerous than any translation issue could ever.
Speaker 1: Jesus warned against this in Matthew twenty three, when he
Speaker 1: confronted the scribes and Pharisees. These were the Hebrew experts
Speaker 1: of their day. They could quote the law forward and backward.
Speaker 1: They wore philacteries containing Torah passages. They tithed mint and Cuman,
Speaker 1: but Jesus called them whitewashed tombs, blind guides, serpents. Why
Speaker 1: because they had knowledge without transformation. They could parse Hebrew verbs,
Speaker 1: but miss the heart of the law. They strained out
Speaker 1: gnats while swallowing camels. Their linguistic expertise became a barrier
Speaker 1: to real understanding instead of a bridge. The same danger
Speaker 1: exists today. There are people with seminary degrees in Biblical
Speaker 1: languages who are cold, critical, and far from God. And
Speaker 1: there are believers who've never studied a day of Greek
Speaker 1: who radiate Christ, live in victory, and lead others to salvation.
Speaker 1: The difference isn't language skills. It's the posture of the
Speaker 1: heart before God and the work of the Holy Spirit within.
Speaker 1: Here's where the mystery deepens, because we're about to discover
Speaker 1: that God doesn't just allow simple believers to understand his word.
Speaker 1: He actually prefers it that way. In First Corinthians one
Speaker 1: twenty six to twenty nine, Paul writes, for ye see
Speaker 1: your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after
Speaker 1: the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.
Speaker 1: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world
Speaker 1: to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak
Speaker 1: things of the world to confound the things which are
Speaker 1: mighty and base things of the world, and things which
Speaker 1: are despised, hath God chosen yea and things which are
Speaker 1: not to bring to naught, things that are that no
Speaker 1: flesh should glory in his presence. God deliberately chooses the simple,
Speaker 1: the weak, the despised, those the world overlooks to reveal
Speaker 1: his power. Why so that no one can boast, so
Speaker 1: that the glory goes to God alone, not to human achievement.
Speaker 1: If understanding the Bible required advanced education, then the educated
Speaker 1: could take credit for their insight. But when a barely
Speaker 1: literate farmer in rural Africa reads a translated Bible and
Speaker 1: encounters the Living God, transforms his village and plants churches,
Speaker 1: that's undeniably the spirit's work. When a new believer with
Speaker 1: no theological training reads Romans and finds freedom from guilt
Speaker 1: and shame, that's the Word doing what only the Word
Speaker 1: can do. And what no one expected was that this
Speaker 1: principle that God reveals truth to the simple would become
Speaker 1: one of the most liberating discoveries in all of Scripture.
Speaker 1: Let's get intensely practical for a moment. If you don't
Speaker 1: need Hebrew or Greek to understand the Bible, what do
Speaker 1: you need? How does a simple believer actually approach scripture
Speaker 1: in a way that leads to genuine, spirit given understanding.
Speaker 1: The answer is both simpler and more demanding than you
Speaker 1: might think. First, you need humility. James Ford tells us
Speaker 1: that God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Speaker 1: Pride says I can figure this out on my own.
Speaker 1: My intellect is sufficient. Humility says Lord, I need you
Speaker 1: to teach me without your spirit. These are just words
Speaker 1: on a page. When you open your Bible with that posture,
Speaker 1: not as an expert analyzing a text, but as a
Speaker 1: child receiving from a father, you position yourself to hear
Speaker 1: what God wants to say. Humility acknowledges that you don't
Speaker 1: bring understanding to the Bible. The Bible, through the Spirit,
Speaker 1: brings understanding to you. Second, you need prayer. Before you
Speaker 1: read a single verse, pray ask the Holy Spirit to
Speaker 1: be your teacher. Jesus promised in John fourteen twenty six
Speaker 1: that the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Speaker 1: Father will send in my name, he shall teach you
Speaker 1: all things. That's not a promise to scholars, it's a
Speaker 1: promise to all believers. The Holy Spirit is your personal
Speaker 1: tutor available twenty four to seven, who knows not only
Speaker 1: what the text meant when it was written, but also
Speaker 1: what it means for you right now in your specific situation.
Speaker 1: When you pray before reading, you're inviting the author of
Speaker 1: the book to explain what he meant, and he will. Third,
Speaker 1: you need context. This is where many well meaning believers stumble.
Speaker 1: They pick a verse out of the air, slap it
Speaker 1: on a coffee mug, and call it theology. But God
Speaker 1: didn't give us isolated verses. He gave us books, letters, narratives, poems,
Speaker 1: each with a flow, a structure, a purpose. Understanding context
Speaker 1: doesn't require knowing Hebrew. It requires reading carefully. Who wrote this,
Speaker 1: to whom? Why? What comes before this verse? What comes after?
Speaker 1: How does this fit into the larger story of redemption?
Speaker 1: These aren't questions that demand a US seminary degree. They
Speaker 1: demand attention and thought. Fourth, you need consistency. Understanding grows
Speaker 1: over time. The Bible is a deep well, not a
Speaker 1: shallow puddle. You don't master it in a week, a year,
Speaker 1: or even a lifetime. But as you read consistently, day
Speaker 1: after day, year after year, patterns emerge, Themes, connect mysteries, clarify.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit uses repetition and meditation to inscribe truth
Speaker 1: on your heart. Psal One describes the blessed person as
Speaker 1: one who meditates on God's law day and night. Meditation
Speaker 1: isn't about mystical experiences. It's about chewing on scripture, turning
Speaker 1: it over in your mind, letting it saturate your thoughts.
Speaker 1: When you do this consistently, understanding compounds. Fifth, you need obedience.
Speaker 1: We already touched on John seven seventeen. If you're willing
Speaker 1: to do God's will, you'll know the doctrine. This is crucial.
Speaker 1: The Bible isn't given primarily to satisfy your curiosity. It's
Speaker 1: given to transform your character and direct your steps. When
Speaker 1: you read something convicting, obey it. When you encounter a command,
Speaker 1: follow it. When God speaks correction, submit to it. Obedience
Speaker 1: unlocks deeper revelation. Disobedience closes doors. Many people complain that
Speaker 1: the Bible is confusing, but often the problem isn't comprehension,
Speaker 1: it's submission. They understand what God is saying, they just
Speaker 1: don't want to do it. Sixth, you need community. While
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit teaches individually, he also works through the
Speaker 1: body of Christ. God gives teachers, pastors, and mature believers
Speaker 1: to help us grow in understanding. Hebrews ten twenty five
Speaker 1: tells us not to forsake assembling together. When you sit
Speaker 1: under sound preaching, discuss scripture with other believers, and learn
Speaker 1: from those who've walked with God longer than you have.
Speaker 1: Your understanding multiplies. This isn't about needing a priest to
Speaker 1: interpret for you. It's about the mutual edification that happens
Speaker 1: when believers sharpen one another. Iron sharpens iron, and God
Speaker 1: often uses other people to illuminate truths you might have
Speaker 1: missed on your own. Now let's address a critical question.
Speaker 1: Are there difficult passages in the Bible? Absolutely? Peter himself
Speaker 1: admits this in Second Peter three, p. Sixteen, where he
Speaker 1: says that Paul's letters contain some things hard to be understood.
Speaker 1: Notice hard, not impossible, not locked behind a linguistic barrier,
Speaker 1: just hard, requiring effort, thought, dependence on the spirit. Even
Speaker 1: in the original languages. Some passages are complex, Scholars debate them,
Speaker 1: commentaries offer different interpretations. But here's the key. The difficult
Speaker 1: passages are not the essential passages, the core truths of Christianity,
Speaker 1: Who God is, who did Jesus is, what he did
Speaker 1: on the cross, How we're saved, how we should live.
Speaker 1: These are blazingly clear in scripture. You don't need a PhD.
Speaker 1: To understand that God so loved the world that he
Speaker 1: gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him
Speaker 1: should not perish, but have everlasting life. That truth is
Speaker 1: accessible to a child. God designed his words so that
Speaker 1: the most important things are the most clear. The difficult
Speaker 1: passages exist not to confuse us, but to humble us,
Speaker 1: to keep us dependent on the spirit, to remind us
Speaker 1: that God's ways are higher than our ways. But they
Speaker 1: don't prevent us from understanding what we need to know
Speaker 1: for salvation, sanctification, and service. Let's also destroy a myth
Speaker 1: that modern English translations are somehow inferior to older versions,
Speaker 1: or that they hide truth. This argument usually comes from
Speaker 1: a place of tradition rather than fact. The King James version,
Speaker 1: beloved by many is a magnificent translation produced in sclin
Speaker 1: Exteen eleven by godly scholars, but it's not the original.
Speaker 1: It's a translation just like the NIV, ESV, Nasby and others.
Speaker 1: The KJV translators themselves acknowledged in their preface that translation
Speaker 1: is difficult work and that multiple good translations can exist.
Speaker 1: Modern translations benefit from manuscript discoveries that weren't available in
Speaker 1: sixteen eleven. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls. They use contemporary
Speaker 1: English that communicates more clearly to modern readers. This doesn't
Speaker 1: make them better or worse. Inherently, it makes them different
Speaker 1: tools for different purposes. The point is this God has
Speaker 1: given English speakers and speakers of thousands of other languages
Speaker 1: his word in a form they can read, understand, and obey.
Speaker 1: To insist that you must go back to Hebrew and
Speaker 1: Greek to really understand is to undermine the entire Protestant Reformation,
Speaker 1: to disregard the testimony of billions of believers who've met
Speaker 1: God through translated scripture, and to subtly suggest that God
Speaker 1: is less powerful than he claims to be. This is
Speaker 1: the moment most people overlook. God doesn't need your linguistic
Speaker 1: expertise to accomplish his purposes through his word. He needs
Speaker 1: your availability, your humility, your hunger. When you bring those
Speaker 1: to scripture, he brings understanding. Let's talk about what actually
Speaker 1: happens when a simple believer encounters scripture through the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit's power. Because this isn't theoretical, it's the daily experience
Speaker 1: of millions of Christians around the world. They open a
Speaker 1: translated Bible, whether it's English, Mandarin, Arabic, Swahili, or one
Speaker 1: of the thousands of languages, Scripture has been rendered into
Speaker 1: and God speaks not in an audible voice, but in
Speaker 1: that unmistakable internal witness that says, this is for you,
Speaker 1: this is true, this is what you need right now.
Speaker 1: Think about the missionary translating the Bible into a previously
Speaker 1: unwritten language in a remote jungle. This translator isn't teaching
Speaker 1: them the indigenous people Hebrew. They're giving them God's word
Speaker 1: in their heart language. And when those people hear the
Speaker 1: Gospel in their own tongue for the first time, when
Speaker 1: they read about Jesus dying for their sins and rising again,
Speaker 1: they don't say we can't really understand this because it's
Speaker 1: not in the original Greek. They weep, repent, believe, and
Speaker 1: are transformed. Villages, change generations are redeemed, all through a
Speaker 1: translation of a translation illuminated by the same spirit who
Speaker 1: inspired the original. Or consider the imprisoned believer in a
Speaker 1: hostile nation with nothing but a few pages of scripture
Speaker 1: smuggled into their cell. They can't access commentaries, they don't
Speaker 1: have study bibles with footnotes explaining Greek verb tenses. They
Speaker 1: have the Word and the Spirit, and in that strip
Speaker 1: down encounter, God sustains them through torture, gives them supernatural peace,
Speaker 1: and uses their testimony to convert their guards. The Word
Speaker 1: proves itself alive and powerful, regardless of the language it's
Speaker 1: dressed in. Or think about the teenager struggling with depression,
Speaker 1: suicidal thoughts pressing in who picks up their Bible and
Speaker 1: reads Psalm thirty four eighteen. The Lord is nigh unto
Speaker 1: them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such
Speaker 1: as be of a contrite spirit. They don't need to
Speaker 1: know that nigh is an Old English word meaning near,
Speaker 1: or that the Hebrew word for broken heart carries connotations
Speaker 1: of shattering. They just need to encounter the truth God
Speaker 1: is close to them in their pain. That simple understanding
Speaker 1: delivered by the Spirit becomes a life line that pulls
Speaker 1: them back from the edge. This is what the religious
Speaker 1: elite miss. They're so focused on the mechanics of language
Speaker 1: that they forget language is just a vehicle for truth.
Speaker 1: The truth itself transcends the vehicle when God speaks, whether
Speaker 1: through Hebrew, Greek, or English. The issue is never the
Speaker 1: words themselves. It's whether the hearer has ears to hear.
Speaker 1: Jesus said repeatedly, he that hath ears to hear, let
Speaker 1: him hear. He wasn't talking about physical ears or linguistic training.
Speaker 1: He was talking about spiritual receptivity. Scripture itself testifies to
Speaker 1: this principle through the concept of revelation. Revelation is not
Speaker 1: information you discover through study, though study has its place,
Speaker 1: Revelation is truth that God unveils to you. Paul Praise
Speaker 1: and Ephesians one seventeen to eighteen that God would give
Speaker 1: believers the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
Speaker 1: of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that
Speaker 1: ye may know what is the hope of His calling.
Speaker 1: Notice enlightened eyes of understanding. This is spiritual sight given
Speaker 1: by God, not intellectual prowess achieved through effort. Think about
Speaker 1: Peter's confession in Matthew sixteen. Jesus asks, who do you
Speaker 1: say that I am? Peter responds, thou art the christst
Speaker 1: the son of the Living God, and Jesus tells him,
Speaker 1: blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath
Speaker 1: not revealed it unto thee, but my Father, which is
Speaker 1: in heaven. Peter didn't figure this out by studying Messianic
Speaker 1: prophecies in Hebrew. God revealed it to him divine disclosure,
Speaker 1: not human discovery. That's how spiritual understanding works. Now, someone
Speaker 1: might object, but doesn't. Second in Timothy two fifteen say
Speaker 1: we should study to show ourselves approved rightly dividing the
Speaker 1: word of truth. Yes, it does, and studying is important.
Speaker 1: But notice what the verse emphasizes, being approved unto God
Speaker 1: a workman that need not be ashamed. The goal of
Speaker 1: study isn't mastering languages. It's being faithful to rightly handle
Speaker 1: the truth. You can rightly divide truth in English. You
Speaker 1: can be a faithful workman without knowing Hebrew. Study means
Speaker 1: giving effort, attention, and care to unders standing scripture, not
Speaker 1: necessarily learning ancient languages. In fact, some of the most
Speaker 1: dangerous false teachers in church history have been highly educated
Speaker 1: in the original languages. They use their knowledge to twist
Speaker 1: scripture to justify heresies to lead people astray. Knowledge puffs up,
Speaker 1: Paul warns in First Corinthians eight one love builds up.
Speaker 1: The issue is never how much you know, it's whether
Speaker 1: what you know transforms you into the image of Christ.
Speaker 1: A simple believer who loves God and walks in obedience
Speaker 1: understands the Bible more truly than a scholar who knows
Speaker 1: the syntax but lives in rebellion. Let me give you
Speaker 1: a personal example that illustrates this principle. Imagine a single
Speaker 1: mother working two jobs, barely making ends meet. Exhausted and overwhelmed,
Speaker 1: she doesn't have time to attend seminary or learn Greek.
Speaker 1: But early in the morning, before her kids wake up,
Speaker 1: she reads Philippians four nineteen. But my God shall supply
Speaker 1: all your need according to His riches in glory by
Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. She doesn't need a commentary to explain Paul's
Speaker 1: use of the Greek word pleiru to fill completely. She
Speaker 1: just needs the Holy Spirit to take that promise and
Speaker 1: seal it in her heart. And when he does, she
Speaker 1: experiences a peace that surpasses understanding. She trusts God in
Speaker 1: a new way. She stops worrying, She sees provision show
Speaker 1: up in unexpected ways. That's understanding, not academic, but real,
Speaker 1: life changing, spirit enabled understanding. Or consider the business man
Speaker 1: who's been cutting corners, justifying shady practices to get ahead.
Speaker 1: He reads Proverbs eleven to one. A false balance is
Speaker 1: abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to study the Hebrew words for false
Speaker 1: balance and just weight to know what God is saying.
Speaker 1: The Spirit convicts him Immediately he changes his practices. He
Speaker 1: loses some prophet but gains integrity. That's understanding, not knowledge
Speaker 1: about the text, but obedience to the truth the text contains.
Speaker 1: This is where everything shifts, because when you realize that
Speaker 1: understanding the Bible is fundamentally a spiritual issue, not an
Speaker 1: educational one, it changes how you approach scripture. You stop
Speaker 1: feeling inadequate because you don't know languages. You stop being
Speaker 1: intimidated by scholars who lurd their knowledge over you. You start
Speaker 1: coming to the Word expectantly, knowing that the same God
Speaker 1: who spoke to prophets and apostles wants to speak to you,
Speaker 1: and he will because his promise in Jeremiah twenty nine
Speaker 1: thirteen is certain, and ye shall seek me and find me,
Speaker 1: when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Speaker 1: But here the mystery deepens even further because we're about
Speaker 1: to uncover the real reason why some people struggle to
Speaker 1: understand the Bible, and it has nothing to do with language.
Speaker 1: The real barrier to Biblical understanding isn't linguistic. It's spiritual.
Speaker 1: It's the condition of the heart before God. Jesus made
Speaker 1: this explicit in Matthew thirteen, when he explained why he
Speaker 1: taught in parables. The disciples asked, why do you speak
Speaker 1: to them in parables? Jesus answered, because it is given
Speaker 1: unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven,
Speaker 1: but to them it is not given. Then he quoted
Speaker 1: Isaiah six nine to ten. By hearing, ye shall hear
Speaker 1: and shall not understand, And seeing, ye shall see and
Speaker 1: shall not perceive. For this people's heart is waxed gross,
Speaker 1: and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes
Speaker 1: they have closed. Notice the problem isn't that the people
Speaker 1: didn't know Hebrew. The problem was their hearts had grown dull,
Speaker 1: their eyes were closed, not physically but spiritually. They had
Speaker 1: access to God's word. They heard it read in the
Speaker 1: synagogues every Sabbath. Many of them could recite large portions
Speaker 1: from memory, but they didn't understand because they didn't want
Speaker 1: to understand. Understanding would require repentance, change, surrender, and they
Speaker 1: weren't willing. This is the uncomfortable truth that modern Christianity
Speaker 1: often avoids. God doesn't hide his truth from sincere seekers,
Speaker 1: he hides it from proud resisters. If you approach the
Speaker 1: Bible with a rebellious heart, determine to justify your lifestyle
Speaker 1: or opinions, you can read it in Hebrew, Greek, and
Speaker 1: Aramaic and still be blind. But if you approach it
Speaker 1: with a broken and contrite spirit, eager to obey whatever
Speaker 1: God says, he will make his truth blazingly clear, even
Speaker 1: if you're reading in a language three translations removed from
Speaker 1: the original. Proverbs twenty eight five puts it plainly. Evil
Speaker 1: men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord
Speaker 1: understand all things. The dividing line isn't education, it's spiritual hunger.
Speaker 1: Those who seek the Lord understand not because they're smarter
Speaker 1: or more learned, but because God reveals himself to those
Speaker 1: who genuinely seek him. This principle explains why Jesus's harshest
Speaker 1: words weren't for prostitutes and tax collectors, people who knew
Speaker 1: they were sinners and were open to change. His harshest
Speaker 1: words were for the religious leaders who prided themselves on
Speaker 1: biblical knowledge but lacked love, mercy, and humility. They could
Speaker 1: quote scripture fluently, but missed its central message. They strained
Speaker 1: out gnats and swallowed camels. They shut the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: Heaven and people's faces while claiming to be its gatekeepers.
Speaker 1: The same dynamic plays out today. There are atheist scholars
Speaker 1: who've studied the Bible in its original languages more thoroughly
Speaker 1: than most pastors. They can write dissertations on Pauline theology,
Speaker 1: trace the development of Messianic prophecy, analyzed textual variants in
Speaker 1: ancient manuscripts, but they don't believe why, because spiritual truth
Speaker 1: is spiritually discerned, all their knowledge amounts to no if
Speaker 1: the Spirit hasn't opened their eyes to see Jesus in
Speaker 1: the text. Conversely, there are believers with minimal formal education
Speaker 1: who nevertheless grasp the heart of the Gospel with stunning clarity.
Speaker 1: They understand grace in a way that transforms how they
Speaker 1: treat others. They comprehend God's sovereignty in a way that
Speaker 1: produces radical trust. They perceive spiritual warfare in a way
Speaker 1: that keeps them watchful in prayer. This understanding doesn't come
Speaker 1: from language skills. It comes from walking with God, being
Speaker 1: taught by his spirit, and applying what they learn. Let's
Speaker 1: be clear, this isn't anti intellectual. God created the mind,
Speaker 1: and he expects us to use it, studying the Bible, carefully,
Speaker 1: learning historical context, even studying Hebrew and Greek. If you
Speaker 1: have the opportunity, these are good things. The problem comes
Speaker 1: when we elevate these good things into requirements for understanding,
Speaker 1: or when we let them become sources of pride that
Speaker 1: create division in the body of Christ. Paul addresses this
Speaker 1: tension beautifully in First Corinthians eight one to two. Knowledge
Speaker 1: puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think
Speaker 1: that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing, yet as he
Speaker 1: ought to know. Real knowledge, Paul says, is inseparable from love.
Speaker 1: If your biblical knowledge makes you arrogant, condescending toward less
Speaker 1: educated believers, or critical of those who read translations instead
Speaker 1: of original languages, then you don't truly know as you
Speaker 1: ought to know. You've missed the point entirely. The apostle
Speaker 1: John gives us perhaps the most encouraging promise about understanding
Speaker 1: in First John two twenty. But ye have an unction
Speaker 1: from the Holy One, and ye know all things. Then
Speaker 1: in verse twenty seven, but the anointing which ye have
Speaker 1: received of Him abideth in you. And ye need not
Speaker 1: that any man teach you. But is the same anointing
Speaker 1: teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is
Speaker 1: no lie. And even as it hath taught you, ye
Speaker 1: shall abide in him. This anointing, this empowerment by the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, is what gives believers the capacity to know truth.
Speaker 1: Not human teachers, though they have their place, but the
Speaker 1: Spirit himself. Think about what this meant for the early Church.
Speaker 1: Most believers were slaves, servants, laborers. They couldn't read. They
Speaker 1: didn't own personal copies of scripture. They heard it read
Speaker 1: aloud in their assemblies, usually in Greek translations if they
Speaker 1: were outside Judea. And yet Paul writes to them, assuming
Speaker 1: they can understand deep theological truths, he expects them to
Speaker 1: discern false teaching to grow in knowledge of God to
Speaker 1: make sound judgments about doctrine and practice. Why because they
Speaker 1: had the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit was and is sufficient.
Speaker 1: This brings us to the ultimate question, what is the
Speaker 1: Bible for? Is it primarily an academic text to be
Speaker 1: analogeed and mastered or is it a living letter from
Speaker 1: God to his children designed to reveal his character, his will,
Speaker 1: and his plan of redemption. The answer determines how we
Speaker 1: approach it. If the Bible is primarily academic, then yes,
Speaker 1: you need specialized training to understand it. You need to
Speaker 1: treat it like any other ancient literature, study its languages,
Speaker 1: analyze its cultural context, debate its interpretations in scholarly journals.
Speaker 1: But if the Bible is primarily God's revelation of himself
Speaker 1: to humanity, then it must be accessible to all who
Speaker 1: seek him with sincere hearts. A God who requires elite
Speaker 1: education to be known is not the God of scripture.
Speaker 1: The God of scripture reveals himself to children, to the simple,
Speaker 1: to the humble. Jesus thanked the Father for hiding things
Speaker 1: from the wise and revealing them to babes. He didn't
Speaker 1: thank the Father for creating a complex system that only
Speaker 1: experts could navigate. He celebrated divine revel that bypasses human
Speaker 1: wisdom and goes straight to the heart. That's the God
Speaker 1: we serve. That's the Bible we read. And now, in
Speaker 1: light of this revelation, we arrive at a truth that
Speaker 1: changes everything. This is where everything shifts. Here's the truth
Speaker 1: that religious gatekeepers don't want you to know. The Bible
Speaker 1: was never meant to be the exclusive property of scholars, linguists,
Speaker 1: or the academically elite. From the very beginning, God's design
Speaker 1: was radical accessibility. He spoke to shepherds and fields, to
Speaker 1: fishermen on boats, to women at wells, to children in crowds.
Speaker 1: He chose the foolish things to confound the wise. He
Speaker 1: selected the weak to shame the strong. He picked the
Speaker 1: despised and the overlook to carry his message to the world.
Speaker 1: And then the truth finally emerges from centuries of religious obscurity.
Speaker 1: Understanding scripture has never been about mastering ancient languages. It's
Speaker 1: about having a heart postured toward God. It's about coming
Speaker 1: with humility instead of pride. It's about being willing to
Speaker 1: obey what you discover instead of merely accumulating information. It's
Speaker 1: about inviting the Holy Spirit, the author of the book,
Speaker 1: to be your teacher. When you do this, something supernatural happens.
Speaker 1: Words on a page become living truth in your heart.
Speaker 1: Ancient stories become present realities, Commands become convictions, Promises become anchors.
Speaker 1: The Ethiopian Eunuch understood this, the Bhreans grasped it, the
Speaker 1: early Church lived it, Reformers died for it, and millions
Speaker 1: of believers today experience it every time they open God's
Speaker 1: Word in their own language and hear the Spirit whisper
Speaker 1: this is for you. You don't need Hebrew to understand
Speaker 1: that God loves you. You don't need Greek to know
Speaker 1: that Jesus died for your sins. You don't need Aramaic
Speaker 1: to grasp that the Spirit lives within you. You don't
Speaker 1: need a seminary degree to be transformed by the renewing
Speaker 1: of your mind. You need an open Bible, a humble heart,
Speaker 1: and a living God who delights in revealing himself to
Speaker 1: those who seek him. This is the moment most people
Speaker 1: overlook the simplicity of divine revelation wrapped in the power
Speaker 1: of supernatural transformation. God doesn't complicate his truth religion does.
Speaker 1: God makes it simple, simple enough for a child, powerful
Speaker 1: enough to change the world. And now, in light of
Speaker 1: this revelation, consider what it means for your daily walk
Speaker 1: with God. Every morning when you open your Bible, whether
Speaker 1: it's a warn King James, a Study E. S V,
Speaker 1: a Pocket NIV, or a Bible app on your phone,
Speaker 1: you're not accessing a lesser version of God's truth. You're
Speaker 1: encountering the living Word of God in a language you
Speaker 1: can understand, illuminated by the same spirit who inspired prophets
Speaker 1: and apostles. The farmer in rural Kenya reading a Swahili
Speaker 1: Bible has the same access to divine truth as a
Speaker 1: seminary professor in Princeton reading Greek. The grandmother in Tennessee
Speaker 1: reading by lamplight has the same potential for transformation as
Speaker 1: a scholar in a library surrounded by ancient manuscripts. Because
Speaker 1: the power isn't in the language. The power is in
Speaker 1: the author and in the Spirit who makes his words live.
Speaker 1: If this story teaches us anything it is that God's
Speaker 1: greatest revelations often come to the most unlikely people. Not
Speaker 1: the educated, but the humble, not the sophisticated but the simple.
Speaker 1: Not those who've mastered languages, but those who've surrendered their hearts.
Speaker 1: David was a shepherd boy when God chose him to
Speaker 1: be king. Peter was a fisherman when Jesus made him
Speaker 1: a foundation of the church. Mary was a teenage girl
Speaker 1: when God selected her to bear the Messiah. The pattern
Speaker 1: is unmistakable. God delights in using what the world dismisses.
Speaker 1: So where does this leave you. If you've been intimidated
Speaker 1: by those who claim you can't truly understand Scripture without
Speaker 1: Hebrew and Greek, that burden fall away. If you've felt
Speaker 1: like a second class Christian because you read in translation,
Speaker 1: recognize that lie for what it is. If you've hesitated
Speaker 1: to trust what God speaks to your heart through his word,
Speaker 1: step forward in confidence. The next time you open your Bible,
Speaker 1: do so with fresh expectation. Pray before you read, ask
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to teach you approach the text with
Speaker 1: humility and hunger. When you encounter a command, obey it.
Speaker 1: When you find a promise, believe it when God convicts you,
Speaker 1: submit when He encourages you, receive it. This is how
Speaker 1: understanding grows, not through mastering grammar, but through knowing God
Speaker 1: just as they were called the simple fisherman, the uneducated disciples,
Speaker 1: the ordinary believers who turned the world upside down. So
Speaker 1: are we today called to encounter God through his word.
Speaker 1: Not because we're qualified by our education, but because we're
Speaker 1: qualified by his grace. Not because we know languages, but
Speaker 1: because we know the one who speaks through all languages.
Speaker 1: Not because we're wise, but because He reveals himself to babes.
Speaker 1: The Bible is yours, in your language, illuminated by His spirit,
Speaker 1: powerful to save, transform, and equip you for every good work.
Speaker 1: You don't need Hebrew to understand it. You need Him,
Speaker 1: and He's already given you everything you need. Walk forward
Speaker 1: in that truth, read with confidence, trust the spirit, obey
Speaker 1: what you learn, and watch as the simple, powerful word
Speaker 1: of God does what only it can do, change your
Speaker 1: life from the inside out.