Memorizing Scripture in Your Family

Hey, great topic up here right now on scripture memory. One of the best things you can do with your time and your life. And I want to just give some thoughts here about this subject. Of course, since we're talking fatherhood, it's just so important that fathers do whatever they need to do to give the minds and the hearts of their children steadiness that can be gained at any time and any place. And it's the steadiness of having the words of God hidden deeply within your heart.

There's nothing like being in a situation and having guidance from heaven that could come to your mind to help you know what to think, how to feel, and maybe even what to say. So it's a blessed thing to hide scripture in your heart. Well, we're just going to encourage you to dedicate time, lots of time, to memorizing Scripture. Take the time. Nobody ever looked back in their life and said, you know, I wish we hadn't spent so much time memorizing Scripture.

Okay, why? Why memorize scripture? What's the motivation? How about man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. How about The fact that God's words are really found in only one place.

It's the Bible. How about the proposition that there are no better words to have floating around in your mind than God's words? Or how about the vision of life that Peter casts in 2 Peter 3, grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The knowledge is important. The Knowledge drives the heart.

And I was talking to a friend of mine a few years ago, and we were talking about memorizing and remembering historical facts in the Bible, personalities and events in the Bible. Because in our reading through the Bible, I've developed just lists of questions in each chapter all the way through the Bible that I want my children to know the answers to. And he said, well, it's not really that important that they know the details. And I said, you know, it is important that they know the details. They need to know the structure upon which all these wonderful words hang.

They can't have a context unless they really know the sequences and the personalities and the events. Peter said, Make every effort to add to our faith goodness and to goodness knowledge. And Scripture memory is all about training the mind for knowledge of what? Of the words of God. How about our growth process, our sanctification process?

A growth in the Lord is called sanctification. And it happens by the word of truth. The Lord Jesus said, sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. There's a tremendous sanctifying power in the Word of God in the life of the believer.

And the Word of God enters through the mind and through our understanding in order to change our hearts. That's the way we're wired. And if you bypass the mind, you just don't get to the heart. So, when we stand against temptation, then we can have the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. If we desire purity in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation, then we need to understand the answer to this question.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to your word. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. The memorization of the word, I believe, is a hedge against sin and falling off the horse, you know, on either side. It is the way that we are transformed.

As the Apostle Paul said to the Romans in Romans 12, do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and to prove what the will of God is, what is pleasing and perfect in His sight. It's the mind, it's the knowledge that helps to move the heart so that there's a transformation. This river from God can flow constantly to be at the place where Paul spoke of in 1 Corinthians when he said, we have the mind of Christ. Do you want the mind of Christ?

Would you prefer the mind of Christ over your own mind? I think the answer to that is yes, we do. We really rather would prefer his thoughts over our thoughts. You know, we're not naive about our own thoughts. It's surprising to me how often my thoughts every single day produce things that really aren't all that great.

And I don't mean just direct sinful, wicked, lustful thoughts. We're talking just everyday conversation thoughts and how often it is that I just don't have the mind of Christ. But I do desire the mind of Christ. This is why the Apostle Paul said to the Corinthians, let the word of Christ dwell richly within you. Teach and admonish one another with all wisdom and wisdom is found in scripture So why what's the reason for memorizing scripture all of the above?

It's a blessed occupation that bears much fruit I'd like to talk a little bit about the plan, how to plan for memorization. Let me just give you some points. I'm just going to give you some opinions. Memorizing books is better than memorizing individual verses. Or let me make it a little easier because I see people laughing at me back there.

Some of my best friends are laughing at me at the back of the room. And how about this one? I'll bring it down. I'll bring it down for you, Jason. How about memorizing whole chapters is better than memorizing individual verses?

Does that work a little bit better? Well, of course there's nothing wrong with memorizing individual verses at all. It's a wonderful thing. And that's right. But there is, I'm just going to give you an opinion.

To be able to recite the context has much blessing in it because it places the words in their proper setting and it increases the understanding of the words. You know, there are individual verses that we memorize in our family, But I would just encourage memorizing of chapters and books and things like that as a matter of practice. Yes? What about memorizing complete thoughts? Memorizing complete thoughts, sure, yeah.

Paragraphs, Well, we're going to do that in just a minute. We're going to take a complete thought out of a chapter, and we're going to memorize it together. We're going to go back and forth and do that. So yeah. Oh, you know, I'm not making an argument.

Please don't misunderstand. I'm not making a big argument against memorizing individual verses. You're not going to hear me argue against that, but I'm just giving you an opinion that the contexts are good, that laboring of the longer passages of scripture are helpful, and I just would just encourage you to memorize whole books of the Bible and go memorize the book of James. They're just marvelous, marvelous entire books that you can that you can memorize. Memorize entire Psalms And that's kind of the point I'm making.

Secondly, making a commitment, making the commitment before God, you know, one would have to have some level of resolve to do this because it does impact the schedule. It'll change your life. It'll change what you do every day. It'll mean there's some things you're doing today that you're not going to do if you choose to memorize Scripture Because there's just no other way to get there than to take the time. So a person would have to come before God and say, oh, Lord, help me.

Because it seems so daunting. But let me dedicate a certain amount of time each day to help my family in this process. For long-term retention, reciting the entire book for memory 100 consecutive days really drives it in. This is a thought that I plagiarized. My friend Andy Davis, who is a pastor here in Durham, North Carolina, has one of the best articles anywhere about scripture memory.

And his church is first Baptist Durham and he's got a an article on his oh it's on our church website too you can go to Trinity Baptist desk church org and you can see his article on our website on scripture memory it's a wonderful article I'm gonna plagiarize a lot of his ideas from this because I think it's just the best thing. He says, and Andy's memorized most of the Bible. And here's the beauty of this is whenever you sit down with this man and you're talking about any subject, what comes out? Ah, refreshment, beauty, you know, great words, inspiring things that will stick with you forever. You know, I mean, it's meat and potatoes that sticks to your bones.

And when you leave, you're a different man. So that's why it's really good to do it. Be that kind of man so that when somebody pokes you, you know, the fruit of your latest opinion is not what comes out, but it's the Word of God. So you know, Andy says if you recite a book from memory 100 consecutive days, you will have it absolutely wired. I'm sure that's true.

I've never done that but it's a but that that's his suggestion. Okay let's talk about some techniques. We're going to do a version of this in just a minute. Read the text ten times silently. Step one.

Next, read the text ten times out loud. Next, recite the verse ten times and then move on to the next verse and then read the whole section ten times. This is Andy Davis's formula. This is what he does. This isn't, this isn't, I do sort of a version of this, but I don't do it quite like this.

This is Andy Davis' suggestion. And you know, take it from the master. Take it from somebody who's successful at it. You know, he's been working at this for a lot of years and he's found a method that works and certainly not the only method but I think it's helpful in that it gives us a structure, it gives us a way to kind of think through it and it sort of demystifies it and takes all the complexity out of it. So you just might try something like this to do it.

Let's talk about the schedule. This can only happen, scripture memory can only happen, when you rejigger your schedule and make firm commitments from a schedule standpoint. So a man has to kind of get real about his activities and understand how to fit everything and we're always doing this, aren't we? Isn't it amazing how we're just, there's never been a time in our lives where we didn't have way too many things to do. It's never going to change.

It doesn't matter what you do. You're always going to be in this spot. So you might as well figure that out now, get your big priorities nailed and make sure those things happen. Because LIFEL is never going to get un-busier. You know, you might think you're going to retire and have a lot of time.

That's a myth. It doesn't happen. And I would just say don't wait for that time someday when you have the time because that day will never come. You got to make it happen now. Okay, we are going to memorize.

We're going to practice Deuteronomy 6, 4 through 9. Okay, we are going to read this together, we're going to do this differently than Andy's formula, but we're going to read this together five times out loud together. And we're going to step through a process, and by the time we finish with this hour, hopefully we'll have this memorized. I'm not sure. We'll see.

I've never done this kind of experiment with a passage of this length. But we're going to go through a process and maybe we've started a process that you can continue if we don't completely get it, but we'll just see how we do. Okay. I have it up here in the New King James and we're going to read it five times and then I'll take us on to the next step. Okay, let's begin.

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and you shall frontlets between your eyes you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates okay let's do it again here oh is what we would you say let's do a little bit expository reading as much as Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words, which I command you today, shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way When you lie down and when you rise up You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets near your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. OK?

Good. That was better. The third time. Can I ask you a favor? Yeah.

Would you be able to just step back a little for that though? Unless you need your Bible with you. Is that better? I figured you memorized it already so you wouldn't need it. Well, yeah, I've got it.

I've pretty much got it. You ready? Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Okay, So now let's do something different. Okay.

We're going to take this. Now I'm going to show you what I do when I do this with my family. With my family, we just kind of go verse by verse and it's a repetition pattern that we go through. I highly recommend it. It's kind of laborious, but you know, you get to do it together as well and you get it nailed there together and everybody kind of helps each other because some are faster than others in it.

That's for sure. And so everybody kind of, you know, kind of gets assistance. Like in our house, Blair, Blair is the one who always knows it better than everybody else. Everybody else. So we're watching her mouth all the time.

Okay. Repeat after me. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Again. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Again. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And usually about this time if I think that we're kind of getting it I'll ask somebody to say the phrase so I'm going to do that now so Together. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart." You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart.

Again, hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. From the beginning. Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Again. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. From the top. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. Again. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. Okay, all the way to the top.

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words, which I command you today, shall be in your heart." The top. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house. Okay to the top. Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall Talk of them when you sit in your house. Great. You only got a couple words wrong right at the top, but it's excellent.

Together. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. You shall teach them, oh whoa whoa whoa, yes and these words I command you, you got it, from the top. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words, which I command you today, shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children. You shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up from the top. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall Teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

You see the natural sequence there? You're sitting in your house, you're walking, you're lying down, and you're rising up. It's kind of the life cycle of the day. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. Okay, so, so far we've got four verses of Scripture.

Not too bad. We're going to keep going though. We're going to finish to verse nine. I think just for a moment, I'm just going to put this up just in case the visual thing helps. I just find it sometimes helpful to see the words.

I need to see the words to memorize. So This is just sort of a review to see where we are. So we've gotten down there to the end of verse seven. It's not too bad. Okay, let's say it.

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words, which I command you today, shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. Okay?

Let's do it again. Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And These words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Okay, we're going to tackle verse 8. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. There you go, together. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and as frontlets between your eyes.

Okay, I'm going to take that away. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Okay let's go to the top. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be frontlets between your eyes.

Does anybody want to try to tackle this from the top down to verse 8? Okay, surprise. Hero Israel. We'll give you a couple of prompts. Don't worry about it.

Hey, here's the other thing. Prompting is not a bad thing. You know, the fewer prompts over time that you get, the better you get it, but you get locked up. My view is even if you don't know it perfectly, if a prompt can unhook you, it just helps you more and You can see where you got this one word wrong. I almost always stop my children if they get a word wrong and they always stop me if I get one wrong.

That's how it works. Go ahead. And these God the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. And these words which I command you today, they shall be in your heart.

You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up and you shall bind them as a sign on your hands and they shall be at something that you do not. Ha ha, Yes, that's great. Very good. Together. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and on his frontlets between your eyes. Okay, and the last verse.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Again, you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Let's go back to verse 8. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Let's see, I'm going to get some of you young men on the way back there. Thomas, I think I'm going to get you on a verse in a minute. OK. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and on your feet as frontlets between your eyes.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Can you do that one, Thomas? You shall bind them. A sign on your hand. Yep.

Almost perfect. You said upon, but it's you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Good, very good. Okay, again. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. OK. So we've moved through the whole thing. And we're going to flash it up there again, just so you can see it. I have no idea how many times we've gone through this.

But I like when we're together to just kind of do this back and forth program. And I don't even know if it's faster or slower than the technique of reading it 10 times silently and then reading it out loud 10 times and then doing a verse 10 times and going on like that. I'm not really sure which one is better. But for me, I kind of like the interactive thing with my children and all, but I think you can mix that with sending them off to practice and work on it themselves in their own, in the quietness of their own hearts and in their own time. A lot of different ways you can do it.

So let's do it again. Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children.

You shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up, you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets in your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Let's do it again. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart and you shall teach them diligently to your children. You shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates anybody want to give it a crack that's a mouthful yes with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hands, and they shall be a frontment between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorpost of your house and on your gift. Wow. Man.

So hey, that was fantastic. I'm confident everybody couldn't do that quite as well, with no prompting. Let's do it again. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates anybody else want to try sure Matthew You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words which I command you today shall be in your heart, and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk with them when you lie.

Sit. Sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up, you shall find them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as footnotes between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorpost of your house and on your gate. Excellent. That's great.

Okay. Anybody else? Now, just a comment here. One of the reasons that it's really good to have, at least when we do it in our family, When one person is saying it, the other people are also practicing and they're comparing it. So there's never any dead time at all.

So the one person doing it is really helpful. And if they make a stumble, then it will help the other person to kind of get the words clear as well. Anybody else want to try it? All together. Hear O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." And all of God's people said, Amen.

Hey, isn't that great though? I'll tell you I just want to encourage you to memorize scripture. Anybody have any thoughts or questions that they might want to share? Yes. I don't know if you were standing right by me when he said, we've got to grow in our churches, we're in the scriptures.

So really, so he mentioned her name and I ended up calling the father. I don't know his first name, he's a classic Malone. I said, do you think, but you know what, I interviewed your daughter with a telephone, because I'd like to know what she would do with her. So he said, sure. So I called Ann, and she was 14 at the time, and not in very good shape health-wise.

She said, I could go through the whole day and if I would, this ties into scripture memory second, it's really amazing what God did with it. She said, if I go through the whole day and if I can remember one thing that I didn't forgive where I placed it, I feel that was successful, Even though I forgot nine other things. She said 14 God impressed upon her to, and I'm not sure exactly how, but he impressed upon her to learn the New Testament before she was 16. And here she's not capable of, she forgets a lot of things real quickly. So she went after that.

She learned the whole new test in less than two years. Before she was 16. So we'll handle, she's now 21. So what have you done since then? She says, she's a very humble girl.

So you have to kind of pull it out of her. She didn't come across as a crowd. She's learned all but four books at the bottom. Yeah. She said, Mr.

Nelson, everywhere I go now, the Holy Spirit has activated scripture in my mind and it helps me evaluate things. Whatever I hear, see, read. Amen. If I gave you a chapter and verse, how long would it take you to recall it? She says, some passages immediately, other passages I may have to go through a process and I probably figured it out in Don and Elle.

Yeah. I guess the second thing, so I'd really like to impress you upon me, but it reminded me of days, and this will happen with our sons one day, it reminded my dad because when I was 14, 15, 16, we would drive home to work together, working with him, I realized then as a young man that scripture memory wasn't just for Sunday school stuff. That my dad felt was still important. It had a big effect on my life. So I wonder what would happen to our sons one day.

Like Scott, when you're son and your daughters, all the times you're putting them to them right now, but they'll sell that to you and others that are doing it. But Hannah really stuck that, stuck the cordon on it. Here's a book, 14. So what I did is I took out the Bible and I said, okay, how many chapters in the New Testament? I said, this is realistic.

It really has to come from the heart to really drive it. But you could really go after that from God. On wonderful oh yeah thanks yes and Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Thanks. That's great. Yes, Andrew. Can I throw it up there real quick? It says, verse six, These words which I command you today shall be in your hearts.

And then it goes down and says, you know, When you're doing it, where you're doing it, how you're doing it, find it on your hands, be frontless to your eyes, something the world knows on the day. Are we talking about the Ten Commandments? We're certainly not talking about this scripture passage. The children of Israel are getting ready to go into the Promised Land and Moses is giving his words. What are those?

I suppose there's some debate on that. All the things that he, all the laws and regulations that he's giving them as they go into the promised land I believe it's the the corpus of God's revealed law to that point yeah I mean they're getting ready to go into this pagan land and the pressures for syncretism are dramatic. And we learned that they did syncretize, they did lose the great stories of faith when they went in the promised land. But this is a charge to fathers to preserve the faith in a pagan land. Guess what?

We live in a pagan land too and this is this is so much it's so appropriate for us. We've been sent here by God to live in a pagan land and and we need we need the statutes and the judgments of the Lord. Yes? Can you explain real quickly what a frontlet is? A frontlet?

You know, some of you probably have some real depth of knowledge here. Of course, there are different expressions throughout history. Now the Pharisees had these extreme expressions of you know putting boxes with scripture verses all over there you know between their eyes and all kinds of things like that and can anybody give us some some good historical information on this yeah you know the idea is that the Word of God is just right in front and center for everything that is involved between your eyes and that His commandments are the guidance system of your eyes. That's the principle that's there. How it worked out physically I you know I don't know yeah this is this was this was how the Pharisees applied this later on.

Yeah, for sure. The reason I think is because men want the result and women usually go after the process. So we have to change our thinking when we're going to memorize and not think of I'm going to have the Bible memorized, I'm going to have this passage memorized, I'm going to have this book memorized. You have to make a commitment to the process and the same thing with exercise and I have a problem with that, because I want the results on a thin body, and if I don't get it within a few weeks, I'm done. And, yeah, I've never been able to achieve it in a few weeks, but that's the same thing with biolinearization.

We have to make commitment to the process for a period of time and not worry about the results. Just like you had said today, we're going to do this for an hour. I don't know if this will work or not. We're going to do it. And lo and behold, we all learned it because we followed the process, not because we did it until we memorized it.

So I just want to bring that, share that with you guys, that please do this, but do this for the process and not for the end result. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. I just want to say, my memorization also last April when we had the Church and Conference here in Wake Forest, Barlow area, Arnold Hint got up and quoted many scriptures together with the daughter Victoria, and he challenged us to go back and memorize 2 Timothy. We're about three or four verses short, Yeah, it really is a blessing.

I have a question. Do you have a set schedule or do you find that sometimes in the day in your family, in your experience, how do you work it out? Well, there are probably a couple of different ways that works out. We are reading the Bible and we do that. We'll not always memorize during that time.

I try to do it at mealtimes. If we're in the car, you know, a windshield time is a great time to do it. I just think also picking a rhythmical time in your family schedule, you know, like just have a practice before you eat you just recite just recite that verse right there at the table it's just something you do. You don't have to schedule it's just part of the part of the deal. I mean I think there's some there's some rhythmical normal parts of life that you can punch this into and keep it and keep it going.

You know and like I said automobile rides, dinner time, you know when you sit down, you know anything like that. I know. Quickly lose it, that's true. That's why Andy Davis says, if you say it a hundred times, I mean a hundred days you'll have it. That sounds pretty daunting doesn't it?

That's reality. We lose a lot of what we memorize. In college, he was supposed to be a Christian college, but he was a science teacher. And everyday in class, he would never take notes. He would grab garbage out of the garbage can, borrow a pencil, write it down in the trash, go home immediately, write it into his notebook, and then reread, everyday he reread everything, all his notes for that class.

And his explanation, physiologically and mentally, is that it becomes protein. You renew it so much and it's in protein, it's there permanently. You know, if you reverted, you knew it enough. Everybody else is cramming for finals, I didn't need to because it was part of who I am. And just to realize that if it's good enough, then it's there.

Yeah. Like a hundred times, that's part of his brain. Yep. Yep, that's true. Well, and one of the realities you bump into when you're going through extended passages of Scripture, the passages at the end you didn't review as many times.

So as you're going through this, make sure that you get those later passages because you're always going back to the top you just have to think about that and and keep bearing down on the on the lower you know the lower and in the food chain passages that are there and that'll help you out too anybody else Anybody else? Yes. I found when our kids were side-scripturing and learning, some of them would just fly through it and run through it as fast as they can. I felt like I needed to slow them, just like you were doing with the doctors. Slow them down and let's think about what they're saying.

It's really easy to fly through the first, especially when it's a chapter in the poetry. Does that happen to your family? Yeah. Yeah, it does. Oh yeah.

It's the normal old problems. My son David could give you all the problems right here. It's either reading too fast or it's reading with no passion, no sense of what the meaning is. But that's a challenge. It takes time to get that.

Reading mindlessly is really not right. And we don't allow our children to try to be funny with the text either. That's just something that we don't do that. But those are some of the problems that you just have to kind of work with. One other comment we learned last year about trying to work through the book.

We have little ones. I had a three year old, four year old last year and we were surprised. We would pause in our reading when we were trying to memorize it and she would fill in. We were like, oh you're going to write a sheet too. We hadn't really expected her to, but she was catching the time and thought about it and going, oh, that's great.

Okay, let's stand and recite. Are you ready? Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.