Why Should We Read and Study the Bible?

By Rev. Ernest O'Neill

So this book is really not just literature and not just history, and it’s not just wisdom, but in this book, God himself has spoken to different people down through the years, and this morning that temporal word is able to fade into the background and God is able to speak an eternal word to you personally. So that’s the importance of it, that through this book, your Creator is able to speak to you this morning. That’s what that verse says in Romans 15:4, “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction,” that we might receive encouragement and steadfastness from the Scriptures and that’s why we study this book, loved ones.