Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 3 | Add Knowledge to your faith and to your goodness

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 1 Peter 1:5What does make every effort mean?The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10 (NIV)Knowledge = the facts about your faith in Jesus.Learn God’s Word so that you can live God’s Word so you can be confident you are doing God’s WillHow can you make every effort to add knowledge?Get a Bible that you can understandEnglish Standard Version (ESV)New American Standard Version -1995 (NASB)New International Version (NIV)New Living Translation (NLT)The Bible was written to be read out loudThe Bible was written to be understood, but it takes workBe like Apollos24 Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately. Acts 18:24-26 (NIV)For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 2 Peter 1:8-9 (NIV)