Psalm 119:11

Psalm 119:11 (KJV 1900)

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, That I might not sin against thee.

How It Made Me

Scriptural Literacy

Reads the Bible

Several times/4+ times a week 10%

Once a week 9%

Church Attendance

Every week 24%

Almost every week 9%

About once a month 11%

Facebook Usage

Daily 70%

Weekly 17%

Keeping One’s Ways Pure

Psalm 119:9 (ESV)

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Guarding, Keep, Watch

Matthew 13:18–19 (ESV)

“Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

The parable tells the consequences of not guarding the Word of God in one’s heart.

Psalm 119:16 (ESV)

I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

The Hebrew word כָּשַׁח which is translated “forget” literally means to lame or to cripple.

Individuals who fail to guard the Word in their hearts actually cripples themselves spiritually.

Hid, stored, treasured, concealed

Psalm 119:11 (ESV)

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV)

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Jeremiah 31:33 (ESV)

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Mediate, consider, ponder

Psalm 119:15 (ESV)

I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.

1 Timothy 4:11–16 (ESV)

Command and teach these things. Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Paul told Timothy to meditate (practice) and immerse (to be) himself in the Word of God.

It has been said, “You are the only Bible most people will read.”

Conclusion

By guarding, storing and mediating on the Word of God, we will have the means to keep ourselves holy unto the Lord.