Charlie Kirk's Essential Guide for New Christians: Bible Study, Commentaries, and Faith-Building Resources

[00:00] we're going to start with some written

[00:01] questions today Charlie where would you

[00:04] recommend for new Christians to start

[00:08] when it comes to studying the Bible

[00:11] reading books question mark

[00:13] Etc phenomenal question so first and

[00:16] foremost read the actual Bible itself I

[00:19] know that sounds to be a simple answer

[00:21] but reading the word of God will never

[00:24] turn void secondly and this is a great

[00:27] opportunity to segue Ryan can you find

[00:30] the John MacArthur clip recently please

[00:32] one of the greatest Bible commentar so

[00:35] if you are a baby Christian or a new

[00:37] Christian awesome praise the Lord

[00:39] there's something called commentaries

[00:42] commentaries are written by theologians

[00:44] or pastors where they go verse by verse

[00:47] and chapter by chapter and offer

[00:49] commentary and explanation on what you

[00:53] are reading uh John

[00:55] MacArthur who is a phenomenal person

[01:00] and just amazing he has uh Grace to You

[01:04] Ministries he is one of the most

[01:07] disciplined and thoughtful and impactful

[01:11] Fighters for Christ of this era just a

[01:15] wonderful human being I've had the

[01:16] opportunity to speak with him uh on our

[01:19] program a couple times uh John MacArthur

[01:23] has some of the best Bible

[01:26] commentaries that um of the modern era

[01:29] John I have all I have almost all the

[01:31] MacArthur commentaries on almost every

[01:34] book of the Bible just the one the Book

[01:35] of John now that might be a little bit

[01:38] heavy for some folks but I I I would

[01:43] encourage you to work through other

[01:46] supplementary

[01:48] texts that are biblical that can help

[01:51] fasten your faith anything written by CS

[01:54] Lewis Mere Christianity written uh read

[01:59] in Harmony and in parallel

[02:03] to reading the Bible is terrific uh

[02:06] anything by least stroble especially

[02:09] case for Christ uh talks a lot about

[02:11] apologetics it will give you more a firm

[02:15] foundation for your faith and then of

[02:17] course my friend Dennis Prager who

[02:20] continue your prayers for Dennis Prager

[02:22] by the way I visited Dennis Prager in

[02:24] the hospital last week and he's fighting

[02:27] very hard he's making significant

[02:29] progress he is in a much better position

[02:33] than he was back when I saw him in

[02:37] December he's in a far better position

[02:40] but still keep that Legend in your

[02:42] prayers he wrote something called the

[02:44] rational Bible Genesis Exodus he hasn't

[02:47] yet published Leviticus but I told him

[02:49] in the Bible and I told him in the

[02:51] hospital you better get that last of the

[02:54] of of the Bible commentary series done

[02:57] and he was very supportive of that he

[02:59] has numbers and then Deuteronomy Genesis

[03:03] written by Dennis Prager is a

[03:05] GameChanger and then finally find some

[03:09] bible-based podcasts and podcasters you

[03:12] can listen to this program but

[03:14] everything we do is through a Biblical

[03:15] lens but it is not necessarily every day

[03:17] we're doing devotionals I would also

[03:20] point you to the great Allan Jackson

[03:23] Allan Jackson alanjackson.com is a

[03:25] phenomenal partner of this program and

[03:28] is someone where you guys can go

[03:29] alanjackson.com a len and become part of

[03:34] his ever growing community so that's

[03:37] just off the top my heads also of course

[03:39] the phenomenal and legendary Jack hibs

[03:43] uh Jack Hibbs I'm actually going to be

[03:44] at Jack Hibbs Church a week from

[03:46] Wednesday so I could just go on and on

[03:47] and on but the more seriously you take

[03:51] your

[03:52] faith the deeper your journey will be

[03:55] the more profound with Splendor and

[03:57] glory and joy you will have that

[04:00] experience there's a lot of talk about

[04:02] what's happening in Israel right now

[04:04] hostages being released terrorists

[04:06] resurfacing Gaza plans and so on but

[04:08] there's one thing we tend to overlook

[04:10] the people of Israel the war has taken a

[04:13] huge physical and emotional toll on the

[04:15] Jewish people and that's why I want you

[04:17] to know about the International

[04:18] Fellowship of Christians and Jews and I

[04:21] want you to support the important work

[04:23] they do ifcj is on the ground throughout

[04:25] Israel providing food and life-saving

[04:27] Aid to the sick and elderly even

[04:29] released hostages and their families

[04:31] join with me and visit

[04:33] ifcj.org

[04:35] learnmore I just love his joy and

[04:39] his his Spirit he basically acknowledges

[04:42] that he had a tough time at the hospital

[04:44] his health is not great but a great

[04:46] example for all of us to finish the

[04:47] fight well and you sir Pastor MacArthur

[04:50] are finishing the fight well what he did

[04:52] during covid was corageous it was

[04:54] wonderful it set a standard this guy is

[04:57] as good as it gets honored to be able to

[04:59] say spoken to him play Cut

[05:02] 274 I want to say grace to you all of

[05:07] you who are at the shepherd's conference

[05:09] for me it's the highlight of the year so

[05:12] you have to know my disappointment in

[05:15] coming to you through video it really

[05:18] came down to being the only option

[05:20] because I haven't had such a speedy

[05:24] recovery as I hoped to have I feel great

[05:30] I just uh lost a lot of strength by

[05:34] being seven weeks in the

[05:37] hospital I mean it's it's the hospital

[05:39] that can kill you you can survive the

[05:42] illness if you can survive the hospital

[05:45] then you've won on every level it took a

[05:47] toll on me physically so I'm seeing

[05:50] physical therapists and trainers and

[05:54] trying to get

[05:55] back as soon as possible I had the

[05:58] message on my heart

[06:00] and I I didn't want to lose the

[06:03] opportunity to give it to you so we

[06:05] printed it up in a booklet the good news

[06:08] is you don't have to listen to me and

[06:10] you don't have to take notes because

[06:12] you're going to get the sermon in a

[06:14] booklet form I just know how much I miss

[06:18] being at Shepherd's conference I love

[06:21] the fellowship I love the

[06:23] preaching I especially love the

[06:26] singing every aspect of it and the

[06:29] comaraderie and fellowship of meeting

[06:31] people is always a highlight so thank

[06:35] you for your prayers thank you for your

[06:37] faithfulness and being a part of

[06:39] Shepherd's conference I'll be praying

[06:42] for you and asking the lord to bless in

[06:46] an unusual way and sharpen all of us for

[06:51] whatever the Lord has for us in the

[06:53] future I realize I'm on the last lap

[06:57] that takes on a new meaning

[07:00] when you know you're on the short end of

[07:03] the candle but I am all thanks and

[07:07] praise to God for everything he's

[07:10] allowed me to be a part of and

[07:12] everything he's accomplished by his

[07:15] word in these years of ministry Grace

[07:19] and peace to you from God our Father and

[07:23] the Lord Jesus

[07:26] Christ amen that is uh that is beautiful

[07:30] and very sad but he's not sad cuz he

[07:33] knows he says I'm on my last

[07:35] lap what a what a beautiful message to

[07:37] us all gu's a legend a legend I'm

[07:40] telling you what he what he has done for

[07:43] the kingdom finish the race it is

[07:46] unprecedented in the modern era I'm

[07:48] telling you the books he has published

[07:50] the scholarship that he has

[07:51] written we'll do another we'll do a

[07:53] whole program honoring John MacArthur

[07:55] I'm I'm positive of that everybody

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