we are given the scripture's rule of interpretation. Scripture interprets scripture. So clear passages shed more light on harder to understand or unclear passages. And it's important to keep in mind then that the whole of scripture is the product of one divine mind. So we must always keep in mind the big picture. So I'm pretty sure all of you have heard the phrase, he can't see the forest for the trees. Well, what does that mean? It means that if a man is so focused on a particular detail, one tree, that he can't grasp the idea of the whole forest, the big picture. So as we study the trees of scripture, the details of a sentence, paragraph, or passage, it is important to keep in mind the wider context of that book, of that testament, of the whole Bible, the whole forest. That's why it's important for believers to read the whole Bible through on an ongoing basis. And I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. Robert Murray McShane has a read through the Bible system. And there are other systems set up that way where you can read through the whole Bible. Now, personally, I find that approach more difficult if you're just gonna start in Genesis and you're gonna just read through the whole Bible in like a year or thereabouts. you're going to, in my opinion, you're gonna get perhaps focused on certain trees, if you will, and you're gonna miss the whole forest. And you might give up. A lot of people end up just, by the time they get to Leviticus, they're like swimming in, oh my goodness, I don't get how all this connects with the Bible and so on. I have a method which I have done for goes to 40 years, which I call the four cycle method, where I take four bookmarks. I put one bookmark in Genesis, one in Job, one in Matthew, one in Romans. And in the morning, you read in Genesis and in Matthew. In the evening, you read in Job and in Romans. And so throughout every day, you are in all of the parts of scripture, the historical narrative, the poetic and prophetical books, the New Testament gospel and acts narratives, and then the epistles. So you're, in a sense, getting a upward view or aerial view of the whole book as you're reading through in these four cycles. And it kind of goes like that. It goes like cycles. And you'll end up reading through the New Testament at least twice by the time you go through the Old Testament. And then you start again. And if you've gotten kind of off kilter, you just finish up in those sections by the time you're getting done, and then you start again at those four points. Genesis, Job, Matthew, and Romans, and then you move through those cycles. I strongly recommend that approach versus a starting in Genesis and going to work your way all the way through just chapter by chapter and so on. And if you want to ask me more about that afterwards, I'd be glad to talk to you about that. I strongly recommend it. I think it's a better way of being in all of Scripture all of the time, instead of just spending nine months in the Old Testament, and then you finally get to the New Testament, and you're like, oh, you know, now I'm in the New Testament. Now things are clearer, which is true. Clear in the New Testament, but you could be in it all, all year round.