This is towards my original forum to those that helped thanks so much and here's what i have lea
https://community.logos.com/forums/t/206642.aspx Title of the forum "Hello i'm not so educated and just wondering"
xnman i'm going to work on that im going to share a little of my experience with everyone here on top of using all the tools everyone has suggested
'New Testament for Everyone' series.
Knowles Bible Guide.
and the NLT STUDY guide mainly, but Also used Eerdmans Commentary, Dictionary, and Companion for further Word Study
I know listening and trying to focus on the word through audio because of working on comprehension skill. for starters the"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." --- Romans 10:17 what xnman said. And by that in that romans 5 talking about endurance had been brought to my attention from by HS yet i walked away not knowing what i was to understand there not knowing meditation but what i got from it hearing it literally seemed the work of the holy spirit that it was enough for him use to have better control of my life. and another later in Ephesians 14 pauls prayer for spiritual growth had caught my attention but i never really truly grasped what i heard there so little do i know what to do with that but learning to trust him and something about my roots with grow deep into his love? This all has came from NLT while listening, but also recently i picked up NLT study bible so i can use to go through the listen you "marked" out for me starting with mark. I just wondering should i go and just read and focus listening to the whole NT first? and then start with Mark? I learned something interesting in "Can be read Below" "Charles Octavius Boothe, Plain Theology for Plain People" that "God puts forth the word which he wants us to receive. He shows us the strength of that word. What remains to be done must be done by us" and i am just wondering should i read the whole NT having that desire too before anything else? Because of my experience just listening to chapters in the books in NT as well reading Brought those scriptures to my attention.
For anyone that owns Charles Octavius Boothe, Plain Theology for Plain People and wants to go to that section in the book for more context and or could point out things, I'm open for rebuke and reproof.
Chapter 2: Man
IV. Man Fell of His Own Choice
(1) Immediate Results of the Fall
IMMEDIATE RESULTS OF THE FALL
Obedience was their covering, their righteousness, their robe of heavenly citizenship. While this remained untorn they were honorable, appearing in royal apparel. But now it is torn, and their nakedness shames them. They are troubled for garments, and fall to “sewing fig leaves together” to cover themselves. These dry and crumble and fall off. God is heard. They flee from his approaching voice, and seek to hide among the thick trees of the garden. He pursues them, overtakes them, holds them to trial. For the first time, that lordly pair of creatures begin to experience complainings and bitter feelings against each other. Here we come in sight of the first signs of human cowardice and deception. The man lays the blame on the woman, and the woman lays it on the serpent. Here it may be asked why God did not perfect their faith in him, so that doubt would have been impossible. Replying to this, I would say that active faith is composed of two operations; namely, first, it is the putting forth of evidence on one side, and, second, it is the acceptance of this evidence on the other. In the case of faith in God, it engages two parties: First, God puts forth the word which he wants us to receive. He shows us the strength of that word. What remains to be done must be done by us; that is to say, man must perform the part of resting on the word put before him. God put the word before Adam; he satisfied Adam of his power, wisdom, sovereignty, and goodness. God had done his part. Now if Adam refused to rest his confidence, his interests, and hopes in him, it is plain that the fault was entirely his own.
“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove the man out: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life” (Genesis 3:23, 24).
Sad sight! Bitter cup! Dark and doleful future! The soul is leprous! Woe to the world for the mournful sounds and woeful sights which it must now hear and see!
I'm Going to go with after possibly reading first the whole NT "Also by listening focusing better improving my comprehension on top of that because that is where faith had worked out best for me because i cannot read out loud that well and that it seems that the HS reveals best, on top of that now i have learned to stop and learn better what he's wanting to teach me there as well. I've went back to Ephesians 3:14-21 and Romans 5:5 several times trying to understand better what he wanted me to learn there and apply them, i do know that those are crucial books to learn"