The Lesson today is NOT simply an announcement! Or an advertisement! It contains a real “kernel” of Biblical Truth, I believe.

Yes, a four-hour Bible Study! (Truth be told, we are going to take a “break” around Noon for a snack, refreshments!) But still, concentrated Bible Study, Ephesians chapter 6, Paul’s great “Whole Armour of God” Passage.

At a Church perhaps 45 minutes from our home. Next Saturday, January 21st. By the way, since I’ve mentioned this outreach for our Ministry … let me ask you to pray with us about the day. That God will powerfully instill His Word within our hearts.

Today’s Bible Lesson …

Is THAT MUCH Bible Study “overkill,” too much in too short a time?

I think not.

I see examples in the Bible of men who were placed, by God Himself, into such times of accelerated Bible training!

Paul, for example.

Virtually, soon as he was saved … “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I WENT INTO ARABIA, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after THREE YEARS I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.” Galatians 1:15-18

Why would Paul give all that time, up to three years, in the Arabian desert?

I believe … to be taught of the Lord, a multi-year seminary course in “the things of God!”

Wow!

Moses too!

Forty years, in his case, in the wilderness … learning from God!

All I’m saying is this … maybe WE too should set aside some times of dedicated Bible Study, more than just an hour of Sunday School (which isn’t really an hour most places now).

And that’s (partly) the idea behind our Ephesians 6 Class.

I realize most of you can’t be in attendance next week.

BUT I also realize you can do your own focused Bible Class, perhaps just you and the Holy Spirit, next week or next month or anytime the Lord directs you!

Goodness!

I love this idea.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

PS – Tackle that Book of the Bible about which you feel you know the least! Study it diligently a week, or a month! Here 2nd Timothy 2:15 does apply. “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Where the verb “study” (in Greek “spoudazo”) liteally means “intensively giving it all you’ve got!” Fervently! Laboriously!

Amen.