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  How would you prioritize the three reasons given in this lesson for studying the Bible: “It is essential to knowing and loving God;” “It is essential for growing up in God;” and “It is essential to serving God”? What is the basis for how you prioritize them?

  Michelle Hagans replied 5 hours, 33 minutes ago 141 Members · 141 Replies

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  Jeffery Young

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  05/02/2025 at 14:33

  Developing a relationship with God, with Him in His deserved place upon the throne of your life and you in loving service to Him, is the first priority. Scripture is God’s divine, special revelation to us and is needed for us to grow in our comprehension and thus our love of Him. He is the invisible God, thereby we must rely on His self-disclosure in scripture (special revelation) and creation (to a lesser extent, natural theology).

  Growing up in God is next, as it is our spiritual maturity that spurs us on to serving God appropriately, but it is our love and knowledge of God that spurs on this spiritual growth in the first place. We must grow to produce fruit (which is proper service, that we produce good spiritual fruit according to our LORD).

  Logically, all of these components are interconnected and exist side-by-side in the life of a Christian. As we study God’s revealed Word, devotionally and academically, we grow in our love and knowledge of Him, growing spiritually as we seek to serve Him as a result.

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    Melinda Koons

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    05/06/2025 at 16:56

    I agree with the replies that I just read.

    I couldn’t have said it any better myself.

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  Renee Marseille

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  04/21/2025 at 17:56

  It is essential to knowing and loving ; “ God is Spirit “ and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” – it is through His word we can get to understanding His nature and to loving Him, we need the spiritual connection and recognizing His presence. Then we learn to love Him for who He is.

  It is essential to growing up in God – connecting in relationship by spending time with Him you naturally growing up steps by steps – learning the truth of His nature and we grow in maturity.

  It is essential to serving God – serving God is a demonstration of knowing and loving Him while maturity – we learn how to honor Him our daily lives.

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  Amie Miller

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  04/15/2025 at 05:18

  Exactly in the order they are written.

  Loving God 1st, though knowing God could fall down a step or two because we have to grow up in God to really know him. Then, growing up in God because in order to serve Him as He would expect and appreciate, we have to know Him.

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  Joshua Mays

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  04/07/2025 at 20:15

  How would you prioritize the three reasons given in this lesson for studying the Bible: “It is essential to knowing and loving God;” “It is essential for growing up in God;” and “It is essential to serving God”? What is the basis for how you prioritize them?

  “It is essential to knowing and loving God;”

  – How can you serve a king that you don’t know. In my perspective of military and law enforcement we are given a chain of command for who is, “in-charge”. The bible gives a direct understanding of who’s really calling the shots. For instance, “I AM” in Exodus.

  “It is essential to serving God”

  – “Faith without works is death” from Mathew. We cannot pay or earn our way to God for the debt in blood has been paid in full, it’s up to us to accept or deny His grace, however. Serving God is by discipleship, the big one, DISCIPLINE. Cutting away the flesh to fully see the way of the Father.

  “It is essential for growing up in God;”

  – We usually start in the same fashion as Christians when we become fired up for God to reflect the same image of infants, crawling all over the place, clinging to everything in sight and unaware of the dangers lurking, lying in wait for us. Like a Good Father, God sees and anticipates our infancy nourishing us through milk before we can take the big bites at the dinner table. Growing from asking, telling then showing God’s precious word.

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  Jessica Garcia-Valle

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  03/26/2025 at 21:59

  I would prioritize them as follows:

  1- Knowing & loving GOD = We cannot know someone if we do not make the time to, we definitely cannot love someone without knowing them & this comes through the WORD. & we can only know the WORD by partaking in it.

  This knowing and Loving leads us directly to,

  2- Growing up in GOD = as we learn we grow, we mature and move from little children to mature believers and true disciples of Christ.

  3 – This knowing and loving, grows us, moves and in this growth we naturally take on responsibilities in the house of the LORD = serving others with the love we have received and the loved we have learned so much about, serving like Jesus severed and serves.

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    Rosalind Bordain

    Member

    04/01/2025 at 22:14

    Without knowing about some one or something you can’t understand it or the person, you must have at the minimum an idea or concept of what the person or object is. I gain knowledge about God through reading and reflecting what the Bible informs me about God, his plan for my salvation and his instructions on how I am to live.

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