It Is Important For You To Learn About God And Always Keep Learning

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Today we are talking about how it is very important to do exactly that—to learn about God, to read the Bible, to do more to learn about God. How can you learn about God? Well, the number one way would be to read the Bible. But sometimes the Bible could be confusing.

Sometimes you may read the Bible and you may not understand exactly what those verses mean. Well, there are two things that you could do in that instance. Number one is [to] pray and ask God, for the Holy Spirit, so that you would be able to interpret those verses. Number two is to seek someone else. Seek some outside reference, some outside interpretations.

That is what this sermon is about, that is what all of these sermons are about. At Social Media Ministries, our goal is to provide you with that external interpretation so that we can read and interpret these scriptures and then give them to you in a way that you can understand and apply them to your life.

Now of course, other pastors, preachers, sermons, [and] blog articles, they all do the same thing and there is a lot of false teaching and false doctrine out there that you need to be aware of and be careful of. Because that is how Satan is working in today’s world.

Salvation, that is really the whole point of everything we do. We want you to be saved. Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes to the Father except through me.” We want you to go through Jesus to get to Heaven. Nothing else will get you there. You will never get to Heaven unless you believe that Jesus Christ died for you. He died for your sins.

You need forgiveness. You got to ask Him, “Jesus forgive me, I am a sinner, come into my life, lead my life, I want you to lead my life.” You got to let Him lead. Trust Him. Salvation is the most important thing that will ever be and that is the entire purpose of Social Media Ministries. Our purpose is to do more, but we ultimately want everyone possible to be saved.

Now, of course, not everyone can be saved. The fallen angels, the demons, they are not going to be saved. They are going to go into the eternal lake of fire, in Hell. They are going to burn forever. We know that because it is in the Bible. You want to know where? You can comment below, we can engage in some discussion on that.

Acts Chapter 4 Verse 12, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” Who is it talking about? Salvation is found in no one else, so who is it found in? Jesus. Remember He is the way, the truth, and the light. No one gets saved unless it is through Him.

Studying the Scriptures and spending time with God is the greatest investment of all. You might say, “Well wait a minute, I am buying gold, I am buying bitcoin, I am buying crypto, I am buying stocks and commodities,” this and that, “They are doing pretty well, I am up incredibly.” No, studying the Scriptures and spending time with God is even greater.

What does that get you, monetary gain, wealth, earthly things? This is [a] heavenly treasure. Solomon knew this. You think you are wealthy? You think you have money or you think if you had all the bitcoin in the world you would be really wealthy?

You would be, but it would not be anything compared to what Solomon had and he knew that even all of his wealth, wisdom was more important. Why? Because he could give up all that wealth today and with the knowledge and wisdom that he had, he could build it all again even stronger and get even more.

He says this in Proverbs 4:7, “Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom. Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.” You are investing in your eternity, not just your here and now, your earthly future. This is your eternity. The more time you spend with God, studying what He has to say, the more you will become like God.

Joshua 1:8 says, “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” Solomon knew this. Get wisdom though it cost him everything he had. Get understanding. Then prosperous and successful.

Just like another Verse says, “Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.” Seek first God, build heavenly treasure, get wisdom, meditate on this book of the law day and night then you will be prosperous and successful.

It does not say you are going to be prosperous and successful, then you can make time for the Bible. No, if you are broke, you are in a good spot. Start meditating on this day and night, guess what, prosperity and success. But you do not do this just to become prosperous and successful. You do this because you have a heart for it—because you want to save the lost.

You want to save the lost. At this point in time, roughly one-fourth of Christians read their Bible and attend church regularly. Regular church attendance is only considered to be twice a month. Hopefully, you have changed that.

If you have not learned about reading your Bible, check out this video that we have made. The sermon you can see on our YouTube channel. It is called “Use Your Bible.” It is a good message.

It is also like I said, most people go to church, they consider regular attendance twice a month, it is less than half some months. I challenge you to go three times a month. We have got another one about the importance of going to church. Check out that sermon, if you have not seen it already it is a good one, “Go To Church.”

One-fourth of believers actually spend time with God. Think of what would happen if one-half of believers started spending time with God. Think of how our world would change. Oftentimes, I look around when I go to church and I see there are like 1,000 people here between the services, all three services. You go to other churches, same thing. You go to other churches, there are thousands of people every Sunday that go to church.

All right, something is wrong because if there are thousands of people that are going to church, they must not be doing what they hear, they must not be practicing what they listen to. They must not be reading and engaging in the Bible. They are not meditating on this day and night.

How do I know that? Go look around the world. People are driving angrily, people are budging in line, people are yelling at you at the coffee shop, people are angry at the grocery store. If they were all spending time with God, think how much better the world would be. I am serious.

I would say if one-fourth of the people spend time with God and of the people going to church only twice a month regular attendance, are half of them reading their Bible? No, only one-fourth are actually reading and doing what they are. So out of that 1,000, only a fourth of them are doing and reading and spending time with God. That is pretty sad.

It is only like 250 people out of that 1,000, 250. Let’s get to half. If you are not reading your Bible daily and spending time in prayer with God, make that change in your life. Make me wrong when I say one-fourth, make me wrong, make it three-fourths. Think what the world would do then.

Be different. Learn about God. How much time do you spend learning about God? Seriously, how much time do you spend learning about God? How much time do you spend learning about everything else?

You see King David, he knew the importance of learning about God. He knew it was the best investment he could make. He was a sinner. King David did all kinds of wrong things yet he knew it was important to repent, to come to God.

The Book of Psalms says it over and over again. This is a wonderful book of the Bible to start reading. If you say, “All right, I am going to start reading my Bible, where do I start?” Open up Psalms. Start there. Read Psalms, read Proverbs, then jump up to Matthew and start reading Matthew.

How much time do you spend learning about other things, other than the Bible? You attempt to remember jokes, memorize them. Movie lines, “Oh that is a good line, I should remember that, I will have to remember to use that one next time.” “Good comeback.” Birthdays, you remember people’s birthdays, you try to remember the date and call them up every birthday. Special events, your anniversary. Do you remember Valentine’s Day, those kinds of things?

Why do you not try to remember some of the lines in the Bible? Memorize some verses every once in a while. Psalm 119:11, “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Now King David wrote that. He knew the importance of hiding the Word in his heart because it would help him to be a better person. It would help him not sin. You can do the same.

Maybe instead of memorizing all these jokes or all these comebacks or these cool lines in a movie or these quotes, you can memorize some lines in the Bible. That one was not very long, “For I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” Pretty easy, only a sentence, Psalm 119:11.

Remember the reference too so you can tell other people where to go and find it for themselves. What about the great comebacks used in the Bible, pretty good lines in the Bible that people use, or the amazing stories and parables within the pages of the Old Testament? Man, the first half is just filled with awesome stories, wondrous stories that really happened, that have lessons.

The New Testament is filled with parables and stories about Jesus. You want to read a bedtime story to your kids? Open up the Bible, start reading some chapters to them. It is gonna be better than any other book out there. Most people spend more time memorizing movie lines than the Word of God. Do not let that be you. Make a change, dedicate yourself to remembering one verse or even one Bible concept each day.

Matthew Chapter 6 Verse 33, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” This is Jesus talking. What is He talking about? In essence, He is saying do not worry, I will give you everything. You need clothes, money, a house, all that stuff, food, seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all that will be yours as well.

Exactly like it says in Joshua. Meditate on this day and night, do everything it says, then you will be prosperous and successful. Start memorizing these verses. Start learning more about the Bible. Start learning about God and who He is.

Jesus is an awesome guy. Man, if He was here I would hang out with Him every single minute of every single day. He would be like, “Go away. I do not want to see you today.” Because I would be there all the time.

This guy has such a sense of humor. He is so fun. He is so smart. He has so much wisdom and He speaks in such a way that He captivates every single audience no matter where they come from. Think of what you could learn being with Him every single day. Guess what? You can be with Him every single day. You just have to want to.

It is time for the people of God to start being the people of God. Turn that one forth into one half and change the world. Change the world around you. You want to start learning about God. But maybe you say, “I do not want to be reading the Bible all the time, it is too difficult, I will watch the message once a week,” or “I will go to church once a week, but after work I just get tired and I like to sit on the couch and watch TV.”

If that is what you like to do, then that is fine, you can watch TV, you can relax. But maybe instead of always watching some sitcom or reality show that really does not mean anything, you could supplement the entertainment with some Bible lessons, some biblical entertainment.

Now you might say, “Okay I get it, but a lot of the Christian movies or the stuff not produced by Hollywood is really just not that good.” I would agree with you. The film quality production of a lot of those is very poor, low-budget films, however, there are some. There are some diamonds in the rough. Some excellent shows, movies, TV series, that you can watch. You want a list? Comment below and we can help you find them.

I am going to give you some right now though. If you have not seen “The Chosen” series, that is a pretty good one, it is newer, it is good, and produced very well. It is very very accurate, it is a little slow so not as riveting as maybe some of those Hollywood TV series that you just binge-watch one after another.

There is another one though, “The Bible Series.” This was made by Netflix. It is on Netflix. Now this one is not as accurate, they have got a few discrepancies but it is still stories in the Bible. So “The Bible Series,” check it out. How about for the kids? They could watch those, yep, but some that might keep their interest a little bit more, check out “Story Keepers.” That is a great cartoon, it is animated. Awesome show.

“Super Book,” that is an old one. You probably know it if you grew up back in the 80s, maybe 90s. “Super Book Adventure” is an odyssey, one of my favorites by Focus on the Family. Now if you are looking for content, Focus on the Family has all kinds of excellent material, check it out.

A really cool one, this is great for kids and adults, is called “The Animated Bible Series.” You can watch it for free, punch it up on YouTube. “The Animated Bible Series,” [is an] unbelievable production of the stories in the Bible. Another one, very famous, very good, it is called “Veggie Tales.” Great lessons there as well.

So there are all kinds of good content that you can check out. You can watch with your family, you can learn about God and still relax and not have to read or study or talk. You can watch the shows and get the biblical lessons from them as well. I really hope that you make the effort to start learning about God. Check out the content.

If you need more, if you have any suggestions, please comment below. I am always looking for a great way to unwind on the couch and watch something that will also feed my soul and my spirit. So if you have suggestions I would love to hear them and I am even talking about movies, movies like “Greater,” that is an awesome movie.

“The Passion of the Christ,” that was pretty good. There are a lot of other good movies out there that you could watch that really have the great biblical lessons in them, but they may not be exactly about the Bible.

Let’s pray. Lord, thank You so much for giving us Your Word and for allowing us to have a personal relationship with You through your son Jesus. Man, I love Him. I love Him so much. Thank You very much for allowing me to have that relationship with Him.

Lord, I ask that if there is anyone watching and they do not have that, they do not have this joy that I have, that I cannot even contain, that they would want that and that they would get it. They can get it. It is easy. If they need help, Lord, inspire them to comment below or to contact us on social media or to speak to someone.

God thank You so much for everything that You do for us each and every day. For the ability to talk to You, for the ability to seek You, for the Word that You have given us. For the ability to read and have the Bible, for the ability to punch up on YouTube anything we want to know about You, that we could watch someone talking about it.

I ask that You would inspire each and every person watching and listening to do more, to learn more. That they would take that statistic from one quarter all the way up to three quarters. That together we would change the world and that they would start mentally making those changes in those decisions.

That instead of watching their favorite sitcom, a reality show, which really is not biblical—a lot of them are filled with bad content—that they would start switching to watching more family-friendly content and then even start watching Bible-based content. That they could continue to learn even while they relax. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Thanks again for spending your time here. I really hope that you will be inspired to learn more about God. There are so many ways you can do it and if you need any help, please feel free to comment below. Also if you have any suggestions of great content or resources, comment below because a lot of people will go there and find your comments which could really help them as well. God bless.