How to Understand the Bible

John 7:17 - "If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself." (NASB)

Do you struggle with reading and understanding Scripture?
Do you struggle with which book or author to trust? (Is The Shack good for a Christian to read?) Which TV / radio preacher is preaching truth?

Jesus tells us the first step to understanding is the willingness TO DO HIS WILL. Are you Willing?

Why would God shed light of understanding on a person who has no desire to obey?
Not being willing to obey is having no desire to KNOW truth.
We know that Jesus says, “the Truth will make you free.” Jn 8:32

Is there a danger in living with the attitude “I just can’t understand”? Yes!
What is the danger? We WILL drift from what we know or think we know.
What is the danger? We can slowly begin to live w/o religion at all.

We will drift from a growing Christian into a legalistic, stuffed shirt, or we will start to make up our own religious rules – which will always be wrong! We will drift from a Christ-centered life and instruction.


So what is the opposite of being set free by truth? Bondage. Slavery! Slavery to ignorance and lies, and disobedience!


Could it be many are enslaved to sin, and constantly making poor decisions because they do not seek to know or obey Scripture? This really is a key to all of life.
This is the key to completely changing your whole life!!
You will never be the same once you humble yourself and say, “I will obey Scripture!”

Are you willing to have your life completely rearranged by simply being willing to DO HIS WILL? Are you?

Truth is light. God’s Word is light and truth, yet by refusing to seek it or know it we choose the darkness of slavery, sin, and rebellion.

The Key to growing in understanding and knowledge is to honestly practice what we DO know.
We cannot know the deep things of God until we practice the plain things!

Let us not forget – God is not mocked. We cannot think we can put on a good face, yet live in sin and refuse to know and obey His word and expect He is pleased with us. He will NOT bless such a life.

The first thing to do is to approach God’s Word as something different from any other writing in the world!
We must think of it as special, anointed, extraordinary, unique, matchless, and holy!

v. 17 - "If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching,..."

Psalm 25:9 - He leads the humble in justice, and He teaches the humble His way.

Psalm 25:14 - The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him, and He will make them know His covenant.

Proverbs 3:32- For the devious are an abomination to the LORD; but He is intimate with the upright.

John 8:43- "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.


It all starts with obedience.

Are you willing to obey what you do know – regardless.?