Bibles For America Podcast

This is the first podcast in a special series on reading the Bible. These podcasts include helpful excerpts from books by Watchman Nee and Witness Lee that provide insight about reading the Bible. The Bible is the foundation of Western civilization—morally, politically, literarily. Even the secular world recognizes the Bible as the most influential book in the world. It is the highest in its record of the origin of mankind, human history, and prophecies and in its wisdom, profoundness, ethics, and morality. While these qualities are compelling enough reasons to read the Bible, they cannot compare with the amazing fact that God Himself is embodied and expressed in His Word. But God does not want His words to remain confined in a book, and He tells us so in the Word: John 15:7 says, “If you abide in Me and My words abide in you.” And Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.” God’s destination is our inward being, and He gets there through His Word. By reading the Bible with our spirit,