The Bible and its reader

Nehemiah 8:8–9 KJV 1900

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Intro:

Butchering animals

Every animal had to eat and gain nutrients in order to grow.

The problem is that so many christians don’t need it enough.

Psalm 42:1–4 KJV 1900

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

We live in a world that knows it has problems in it.

Joseph II

King of Austria from 1780-1790

“I have made philosophy the lawmaker of my empire”

He surrounded himself with people he thought was wise like Voltaire

He issued 6,000 decrees and 11,000 laws

I. What We do with The Word of God

A. Read it

Luke 10:25–28 KJV 1900

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

B.Study it

1 Peter 1:10 KJV 1900

Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

C.Meditate on it

Psalm 4:4 KJV 1900

Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

i. Your alone in meditation

ii. its peaceful

iii. it involves the deepest part of you (Your heart)

300 Sermon Illustrations from Charles Spurgeon Tasting the Sweetness for Yourself (Psalm 119:103)

If anybody were to say to me, “Honey is not sweet,” I would not be very clear about it, perhaps. I could not argue on the subject.

But supposing there were a dish of honey here, and I just took a spoonful of it, I would say, “Tell me that honey is not sweet? Why, my dear man, I have got some in my mouth.” I would scorn to argue about it, because I had the honey still in my mouth as an internal evidence. Therefore, argument would be too poor to be used in the case. I would laugh in his face when I had once got the sweetness of it on my palate.

So it is with you. No infidel or skeptical remark can have any power over your mind if you are at the present moment in the conscious enjoyment of the comfort and sweetness of God’s word. If you feel that it cheers you in the dark, what a fool he must be who says that it does not give you light! Why, the man can have no toleration from you if he says it does not strengthen when you feel the strength of it.

II.What it does in us

A. Takes us to a place of Worship

Nehemiah 8:6 KJV 1900

And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

B. Reveals God’s will

King James Version Chapter 8

14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

C. Instills passion in us

Nehemiah 8:9 KJV 1900

And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

III. Salvation Plan

1 Peter 2:1–6 KJV 1900

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

Acts 4:10–11 KJV 1900

Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

JIMMY AND THE ATHEIST

1. Who Jimmy is

2. Who his grandmother is

3. One night while Jimmy was sleeping…(fire)

4. When the atheist saw Jimmy’s face…

5. The atheist suffered sever burns

6. While Mrs. March was talking to Jimmy

7. and guess who was there…The Atheist

8. When the man took his bandages off

9. What the boy said lingered in his mind on the bed