Understanding the Bible: It's Never Too Late to Start Learning

I attended a seminar once by the name of TERM. TERM is an acronym for The Emmaus Road Message. Many believers and non-believers for that matter, don't know what the Emmaus Road is, or was.

After Jesus was crucified and resurrected, He appeared to the three disciples out for a mid-day stroll. Approaching them, He asked what they were up to. They didn't recognize Him and asked Him why He hadn't heard what all the ruckus was about. "Haven't you been around? Don't you know what's going on around here?" they may as well have said and in so many words, did just that.

He asked them to explain, which they did. They told Him that their teacher, Christ Himself, had been crucified and promised to show up afterward and they were trying to figure out what He had meant because as far as they knew, He hadn't.
So, He took them on literary trip and beginning with creation, told them the message of the Bible.

A similar story is told by Stephen in the book of Acts when he is being questioned before the Sanhedrin. He recounts the history of the Bible, beginning with creation.

Why? Because to understand God's Word, you have to start at the beginning. When you read a novel or an article, you don't start in the middle. You start at the first sentence and read to the end. If you jump around, you have a bunch of pieces that you've now got to put together in some sort of order so that the story makes sense and if you get them out of order, there is confusion.

I once heard someone say, "People can't get excited about sharing something they don't understand and you aren't going to want to share God's word if you don't understand it." I would even go further and say, you can't understand it if you don't know it. Understanding something involves learning about it, studying, spending time in that area. When you get to know something really well, you understand it.