May I say this , you just cannot jump into The Bible and declare it or heard a sermon. And go from there. Biblical studying is a art. And reading the Bible as a Book is a must. There are rules in doing both. And when you listen to a Sermon being Preach, most of the time the Sermon is not Biblical sound. In other words, you are not getting the word of GOD. Most of the time you are getting a illustration from a human prospective on how you should live. even when one slips clips of inserts taken from a paragraph taken out of the Bible, to enhance their illustration instead of the Bible's target.