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Back to Basics: Habits that lead to spiritual growth • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 35:45
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How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping your word.
I have sought you with all my heart; don’t let me wander from your commands.
I have treasured your word in my heart so that I may not sin against you.
Lord, may you be blessed; teach me your statutes.
With my lips I proclaim all the judgments from your mouth.
I rejoice in the way revealed by your decrees as much as in all riches.
I will meditate on your precepts and think about your ways.
I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.
For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.
For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,
and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,