2. Joshua 1:7-8
(7) Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

3. Joshua 1:7-8 (8) This book of the law
*shall not depart out of thy mouth;
*but thou shalt meditate therein
* day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein:
for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

4. READ IT
“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people.  The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

5. Jesus Expected The Bible To Be Read
Matthew 21:42 “Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?”

6. Jesus Expected The Bible To Be Read
Matthew 22:29 “Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.”

7. Jesus Expected The Bible To Be Read
Matthew 26:54 “But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?”
Matthew 26:56 “But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.”

8. False religion has always thrived where the people either cannot read the Bible or can read the Bible but don’t.

9. MEDITATE ON IT
“Reading the Bible without meditating on it is like trying to eat without swallowing.”

10. Luke 2:19 “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.”

11. “Obedience is the very best way to show that you believe.”
OBEY IT
“Obedience is the very best way to show that you believe.”

12. Acts 5: “Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. (29) Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”

13. THIS BOOK:
READ IT
MEDITATE ON IT
OBEY IT