Gods Word Learn It Live It
“GOD’S WORD: LEARN IT, LIVE IT”
Mat. 28:19, 20
“19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
INTRO: We have seen a society change vertiginously, that if we stop all of a sudden it would just run over us. These past years, we have seen many changes. Accept it or not, we ourselves are not the same. People have said: “Nobody will change my way of thinking” and that is so, because nobody changed it, they changed it themselves. Many have had a change of convictions.
Back tracking in a Ecclesiastical view: How have we changed! The church that we use to be, we are not anymore. In many churches, the spiritual priorities are torn down and upon them another unleveled foundation has been placed with a disastrous end. Our society itself is groaning because of the world we are living in. Divorce, suicide, immorality, alcoholism, drug addiction, terrorism is going strong in a loose country that its end is destruction
The solution for this chaos should be Biblical, return back to “God’s Word: Learn It and Live It.” Acts. 4:12 “12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” What is that name? Jesus! He said: “39You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me.” The teaching of the Word is supposed to be essential in the Church today. Christ said: “Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Letting ourselves be taken by the new religious systems will make us be like the house that was built on sand.
I. THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING
1. It is based on life or death
A. Hosea 4:6 “6my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge”
B. Jesus dedicated more than 50% in teaching
C. Moses dedicated 5 books to the teaching
(1) Age 13 – 323 verses
2. Life is in it
A. Prov. 7:2 “2Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.”
B. Our worship and Praise songs: How Biblical are they?
C. The manifestations of the Spirit: Are they Scriptural?
(1) I believe that we should seek first His presence and the manifestations will come but many want the manifestations before His presence
D. It’s the Scripture and it’s teachings that bring deliverance, renewal and sanctification!
3. For Perseverance
A. Rom 15:4 “4For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
B. History of SS. – Robert Raikes in 1782 started the SS movement in Gloucester, England. His objective was to find a solution for the problems the children were causing on Sunday.
C. Sunday School is important but Raikes’ objective was “Teaching”
(1) Teaching the Word should be our prerogative
(2) Sunday School or Sunday Evening Service might not be given but the most important asset of the Church is “Teaching the Word”
4. Mat 24:46 “35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
II. THE BIBLICAL METHOD
1. In the Old Testament
A. The Method of Repetition
(1) Dt. 6:7-9 “7Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”
(a) Given by the Men – Fathers
(2) The Scripture is to be repeated
(3) Dt. 4:9 “9Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.”
B. School of Prophets
(1) For those that needed to understand more the Scripture
(2) Founded by the prophet Samuel
(a) 2 Kings 6:1 “The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us.”
(b) There are some that say that teaching isn’t necessary, this is Anti-Biblical!
(3) Times of Ezra - Neh.8:1-3 “1all the people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded for Israel. 2So on the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand. 3He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.”
(a) They brought the Book of the Law before the people
(b) Men, women, everybody that was able to understand
(c) Read from 6:00 AM to 12 Noon – 6 hours
(d) Nobody left! – Example of the AMEN, AMEN
2. In the New Testament The Primitive Church –
A. “In the Apostle’s Teaching”
(1) Acts. 2:42 “42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”
B. Teaching was their point of preaching
(1) Acts 5:42 “42Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.”
III. THE NEED FOR TEACHING IN CHURCH MINISTRIES
1. It is placed in the same level of the Ministry of Prophet
A. 1 Cor. 12:28 “28And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.”
(1) How many times have we heard: “Let’s go listen to that Teacher”
B. Today’s “Times of Peril” requires it
(1) 2 Tim 4:3 “3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
(2) 2 Pet 2:1 “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.”
C. To be Faithful unto the Lord Jesus
(1) 2 Tim 2:2 “2And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.”
IV. A HIGH CALLING MINISTRY
1. It’s appointed by the Lord
A. “He Gave” “appointed”
(1) It is not mere human arrangement, it’s officers are of Divine Appointment
V.
1. It is God who give the ability
A. To Teach His law
(1) Lev 10:11 “11and you must teach the Israelites all the decrees the Lord has given them through Moses.”
B. It gives you time with God
(1) Dt. 5:31 “31But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”
2. It’s self-discipline
A. Ezra 7:10 “10For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.”
3. You devote yourself to it
A. 1 Tim 4:13 “13Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.”
4. It is given with Authority
A. Acts 4:13 “13When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”
5. Judgment will come if we are not faithful
A. James 3:1 “Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.”
CONCLUSION: