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Bible Study 101: Is It A Sin to Write in Your Bible? : Hearing Jesus, Devotional

Bible Study 101: Is It A Sin to Write in Your Bible? : Hearing Jesus, Devotional

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Is It A Sin to Write in Your Bible? : Bible Study 101 Before the color method starts, there's a hurdle a lot of us have to get over first. Rachael is about to ask you to take a highlighter to your Bible, and for some of you that feels close to sin. This episode deals with that honestly, walks through what Deuteronomy 6 actually tells God's people to do with His words, and explains why physically marking a page changes what your brain is able to take in. There's also a practical setup list for the week ahead, and none of it requires spending money. Links Speakpipe: Leave a voice message or prayer request Join the newsletter SEEDS: Download the free SEEDS app and take one small step today: plant your first seed and see what God can grow. Chapters 0:00 Where the color method came from 1:23 Bracing you for it: I'm going to ask you to write in your Bible 2:48 Where the hesitation comes from 4:11 The misprinted Bible Rachael pulled out of the trash 6:23 The pastors who split one Bible into 66 sections 7:49 The words are holy, the paper is not 8:47 The family cookbook and the cookbook that stays on the shelf 11:38 Deuteronomy 6 and the Shema 12:59 Hearts, hands, foreheads, doorframes 13:55 What those little boxes actually are 15:15 The case on the doorframe 16:13 What Jesus was actually criticizing in Matthew 23 17:30 Shanan, the word that means to sharpen 19:08 Why marking breaks your brain's habit of skimming 21:00 The reading problem nobody talks about in church 23:23 Permission to start with a children's Bible 27:36 Can I just use the app on my phone? 29:36 What you actually need to get 32:45 The one Bible you shouldn't write in 33:51 How this week is going to work 38:11 Prayer Is it a sin to write in your Bible? No. And the hesitation you feel about it comes from a healthy place, so Rachael isn't dismissing it. Reverence for God's word is a good instinct. But the distinction worth making is this: the words are holy, the paper is not. The Bible on your shelf came off a printing press, and there are thousands of identical copies of that exact edition. If yours were destroyed tomorrow you could order another one and God's word would be completely intact. What you honor is the words themselves, and you honor them by knowing them. Rachael's picture for this is a family cookbook. Hers is stained, falling apart at the spine, full of notes in the margins, and she has nearly every recipe in it memorized. She also owns a beautiful cookbook with gold edging that she's never once used and couldn't name a recipe from. One of those books is loved. The other one is preserved. What does Deuteronomy 6 say about God's word? Deuteronomy 6:4-9 is called the Shema, named for its first word in Hebrew, which means hear. It's what an observant Jewish person says when they get up and when they lie down, and it's what Jesus quoted when someone asked Him which command was greatest. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Verse 6 is internal. His words go on your heart. No argument there. But everything after that is physical. Hands, foreheads, doorframes, gates. God tells His people to attach His words to their bodies and their buildings. What are the boxes some Jewish men wear? If you've never seen these, picture a small black leather box, roughly the size of a large ice cube, with long leather straps attached to it. Observant Jewish men wear two of them during weekday morning prayer. One is strapped to the upper arm and positioned so it rests near the heart. The other is strapped to the forehead, centered between the eyes. Inside each box is a tiny handwritten scroll with this passage of Scripture on it. So for them, verse 8 was never a metaphor. It's actual words, written out, tucked into a box, tied to the exact places the verse names. What is the case on a Jewish doorframe? That's verse 9. Picture a small rectangular case, usually a few inches long, made of wood or metal or sometimes ceramic, mounted at an angle on the doorframe of a Jewish home. There's a scroll inside that one too. People touch it as they pass through the door, or kiss their fingers and press them to it. It's a physical reminder every time you enter or leave of who that home belongs to. Wasn't Jesus against these? Jesus mentions those boxes in Matthew 23 when He's confronting the Pharisees, and this gets misread. He isn't criticizing them for wearing them. He's criticizing them for making them extra wide so everyone would notice. The problem was never the practice. It was the heart posture underneath it, turning ...
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