Psalm 119:97-104 Mem 97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. 98 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. 101 I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. 102 I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. 103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

1. How can you

2. Our understanding of God’s Word is not limited to our

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3. Any

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6. God’s Word is

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7. Jesus approached God’s Word as if it could be known and understood by

8. The clarity of Scripture means that

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Recommended Reading: “Taking God At His Word” by Kevin DeYoung

Discussion Questions:
1. What did you learn from this teaching?
2. Share some examples of knowledge you would consider obscure versus basic or easily grasped by all people.
3. Into which category would you place the Bible? Why?
4. How does the psalmist’s age and position in life indicate that the Scriptures are readily understandable by virtually all people?
5. What are some of the benefits this psalmist gives to understanding and treasuring the Scriptures?
6. How do these benefits (when paired with the clarity of Scripture) inspire us to read the Bible more closely?
7. Pray for one another.

Next Week’s Message: “Changed by the Word”