{"id":119504,"date":"2026-10-27T11:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/?p=119504"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:09:18","slug":"new-believer-bible-study-knowing-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/30-days-with-jesus\/new-believer-bible-study-knowing-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New Believer Bible Study: Knowing More Isn’t the Next Step"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n \t<\/i> Read Time:<\/span>9 Minute, 37 Second <\/div>\n\n <\/div>

Three weeks in, you have a notebook, a highlighter, and a quietly growing list of words you cannot define. Grace. Righteousness. Covenant. Somebody used “sanctification” in a sentence last Sunday like it was a normal word, and you nodded.<\/p>\n\n

So the plan becomes obvious: learn more first. Get the knowledge down, then start actually living it. It sounds humble and it sounds responsible. There is a short conversation in Luke 10 that takes it apart completely, and it does it in the gentlest way possible — because the man asking the question had already done every bit of the learning.<\/p>\n\n

Take the First Step<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n

The man who asked knew the Scriptures cold<\/h2>\n\n

Luke sets the scene in one line: “And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” (Luke 10:25, KJV).<\/p>\n\n

That word “lawyer” has nothing to do with a courtroom. In the Gospels it means a specialist in the law of Moses — a man whose whole working life was the Scriptures. If anyone in that room had the vocabulary, the memorized passages and the confident answers, it was him.<\/p>\n\n

Hold that next to your highlighter and your list of words. The person who starts this conversation is the one who already finished the reading.<\/p>\n\n

Jesus didn’t answer. He asked two questions back.<\/h2>\n\n

Here is the reply, and it is worth reading slowly, because almost everyone remembers the first half and drops the second: “He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?” (Luke 10:26, KJV).<\/p>\n\n

Two questions, not one. The first one is about the text — what does it say?<\/em> The second one is not about the text at all. It is about the person holding it. How are you reading this?<\/em><\/p>\n\n

And the man answers. Correctly, from memory, no help: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself” (Luke 10:27, KJV).<\/p>\n\n

Then comes the sentence that should take the pressure off anyone new: “And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live” (Luke 10:28, KJV).<\/p>\n\n

Thou hast answered right.<\/strong> The expert had the right answer the whole time, and Jesus said so out loud. Nothing was added. No deeper teaching, no correction, no reading list. The only thing in that reply the man did not already have was two words: this do<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

“How readest thou?” is not the question Jesus usually asks<\/h2>\n\n

This is the part that surprised me, and it is easy to check for yourself. When Jesus asks people about reading in the Gospels, the question almost always has the same shape — and it is a yes-or-no question.<\/p>\n\n