081026 Bible Sunday Here We Stand

Here We Stand:
The Bible: Read it and Heed it.

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Indiana Bones: an egomaniac who neglects his students:

Jacques Belhop a talented man with an inferiority complex:
what have they in common with you and me?

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Ezra the Scribe stood the whole people to attention, as he climbed onto a high platform where everybody could see and hear him, and then he spoke the word of God.

The people were guided ion their understanding of the word by a series of teachers who spoke to the people in their groups.

What do those people standing outside the (derelict) temple in Jerusalem have to do with you and me today?

BOTH

They and we need to discover that God loves each of us, just as we are.

That's where Scripture comes into play: the key method God uses to communicate with people (then and) today.

What does the Bible do?

The Bible informs

God’s Character - Love

God’s Person - Trinity

God’s Holiness - Purity

The Bible convicts

Human Frailty - breath

Human Failings - sin

Human Perfection - Christ

The Bible equips

Divine encouragement

Divine explanation

Divine purpose

The Bible directs

Human Rescue-plan

Human Community-life

Human Family-life

Psalm 119.9-16 states a question HOW?

a solution WORD CENTRED

a lifestyle

REJOICE, MEDITATE, DELIGHT

The BIBLE Read it and Heed it!

dedication of hearts (MH) not just our shelves/houses where an enemy may steal it, or our heads/minds where our memories may fail us, but in our hearts, where no-one can reach it

and lips

and eyes

keep their way pure

way= not a broad road but a narrow path a rut in the road, a track down which the young continually fall. A slippery slope down which you/they travel often

word (dabar) may = “address, announce, argue, ask, boast, command, complain, declare, decree, describe, direct, discuss, encourage, explain, foretell, give opinion, instruct, invite, mention, name, order, plead, pray, preach, predict, proclaim, promise, propose, recite, repeat, reply, report, say, sing, slander, speak, state, talk, teach, tell, threaten, urge, utter, warn”

Swanson, J. 1997. Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains

Psalm 119 an acrostic poem, which means the first letter of each line of each section begins with the same letter: in this section B or Beth which is also the word You/your!