{"id":2262,"date":"2020-07-01T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:51:13","slug":"study-do-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Study, do, teach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2258\">yesterday<\/a> about how God spoke to me through the obituary of someone I don&#8217;t even know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Seek God, love people, help others do the same<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, I thought of one of my life verses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel. (Ezra 7.10, NASB)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It ties together:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Study the Word<\/strong> &#8211; not for academic purposes but in order to know God. (<em>You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. John 5.39, ESV)<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Practice the Word<\/strong> &#8211; Jesus said the law of the LORD calls for loving God and loving people (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+22%3A36-39&amp;version=ESV\">Matthew 22.36 &#8211; 39<\/a>)<\/li><li><strong>Teach the Word<\/strong> &#8211; help others do the same. (<em>Anyone who does not know the teaching, you teach them! Ezra 7.25, MSG<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To put it back into the language of the obituary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Study &#8211; <em>seek God<\/em><\/li><li>Do &#8211; <em>love people<\/em><\/li><li>Teach &#8211; <em>help others do the same<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, [Jesus] interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24.27 ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8230;Through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: \u201cYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d (Galatians 5.13, 14, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about how God spoke to me through the obituary of someone I don&#8217;t even know: Seek God, love people, help others do the same Later, I thought of one of my life verses: For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study, do, teach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Au","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}