Faith Obeys God Part 2

You can be slow to speak and slow to Anger 19-20

You can obey God’s Word 21-25

You can be truly spiritual 26-27

You Can be a Receiver the Word of God (21)

Removal (21a)

Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness,

These things prevent the reception of the Word

Parallel passage

1 Peter 2:1–2 NASB95

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

Suppresses the appetite for the truth

Don’t get anything out of the lesson/message

Reception (21b)

in humility receive the word implanted

You must approach the Word of God with humility

You are coming to God saying I do not have all of the answers.

Acknowledging your need for the answers.

Promoting/Advocating/Platform

Everyone is the expert on everything. 99% Sure

Those who disconnect to the church because of pride and you I don’t need you.

1 Corinthians 12:21–22 NASB95

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

Result (21c)

which is able to save your souls.

(Focus on Sanctification)

1 Peter 1:23 NASB95

for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

Romans 10:17 NASB95

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

2 Timothy 3:15 NASB95

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 119:11 NASB95

Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You.

Word of God helps fight against sin/temptation

2 Timothy 3:16 NASB95

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

Romans 6:23 NASB95

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Just as the Word of God is used in your justification the Word of God is essential in your sanctification

You Can be a Doer of the Word of God (22-25)

Being a receiver is not the last stop

Prove yourself through action

The Deception - if you hear or study the bible you are spiritual

Not intended to be herd but to be obeyed

John 13:17 NASB95

“If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

The blessing comes from doing not from hearing

blessed when you apply what you are receiving

Instead of Knowledge you gain Wisdom

1 Corinthians 8:1 NASB95

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.

Hearing must lead to Obedience

23-24 The man in the mirror

The Word of God is the Mirror.

Mirrors tell you the truth of what you look like

Receives but does not apply

If I act inconsistent with the holy life God has called us to we will forget our position in Christ

When our practice doesn’t mirror our position we forget our original position - Andy Wood

2 Peter 1:9 NASB95

For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

Speaking in Biblical Languages, when you do not use or Medical field

Live a life consistent with our position

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Look intently at the Word of God

Psalm 1:2 NASB95

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.

The Law of Liberty - No longer a slave to sin

John 8:32 NASB95

and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Deuteronomy 10:13 NASB95

and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?

The Word of God Liberates not the other way around - The shoe illustration

An Effectual Doer (a doer doer)

Seeks to obey God in every area of life - Habitual doer (Daniel)

Daniel 6:10 NASB95

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

Daniel 6:16 NASB95

Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”

Daniel 6:20 NASB95

When he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?”

Joshua 1:8 NASB95

“This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.

Ezra 7:10 (NASB95)

For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.