God's Word
Growing in Revival: Discipleship Preaching • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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This morning we will read a short portion (two stanzas) of the longest chapter in the Bible.
The acrostic here is made up of 22 stanzas… in your Bible you will see each of them has a subheading of a different Hebrew letter and each stanza, in Hebrew, begins with that letter in each of its poetic lines.
One might also connect the number eight, which seems to be a mantra in this text to the following eight Hebrew words used over and over within the text translated in English to the following seven words: law, testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, rules, and word.
97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
In the first sixteen verses of Psalm 119 we find 16 mentions of God’s Word directly and 18 indirect mentions of God’s Word.
16 for 16 — this must be of utter importance.
Renewal is Realized in A Transformed Mind!
Renewal is Realized in A Transformed Mind!
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
A transformed mind is the key to transformed behavior.
John F. MacArthur
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Renewal is Realized in A Transformed Pursuit!
Renewal is Realized in A Transformed Pursuit!
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
D. A. Carson
Renewal is Realized in A Transformed Affinity!
Renewal is Realized in A Transformed Affinity!
97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
113 I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.
The law was given, in order to convert a great into a little man—to show that you have no power of your own for righteousness; and might thus, poor, needy, and destitute, flee to grace.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Walking Away, But In...
Walking Away, But In...
Read the Word — He Alters!
Ponder the Word — He Draws!
Love the Word — He Saves & Renews!
