Master the Bible: How to Get and Keep the Big Picture of the Bible's Story

Chapter 2: Hi dden Treasure

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a. Recite the topic of the MTB series.

b. Recite the theme of the topic you’re memorizing.

c. Recite the Scripture reference.

d. Recite the verse.

e. Re-recite the reference and theme.

5. Schedule reviews with another to go through your newly learned verse (including the topic, theme, reference, verse, and review reference and theme).

6. Reflect and pray in supplication to the Lord over the facts, truths, or commands in the text.

7. Rehearse the memorized text daily for two weeks, less often monthly.

C. Focus on excellence: honoring the Scriptures as the Word of God.

1. Let us aim for word-for-word perfection, Deut. 6.4-9 – “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. [5] You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. [6] And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. [7] You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. [8] You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. [9] You