God's Word On Our Heart
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Memorizing scripture “used” to be a top priority with God’s children.
I’m not necessarily talking about word for word, syllable for syllable either.
I’m talking about knowing God’s word enough to know how to teach someone the gospel.
To be able to have a sound biblical discussion on just about any topic because of the time put into it.
Isn’t this what the psalmist was getting at in Psalm 119:11?
Psalm 119:11 (ESV)
11 I have stored up your word in my heart…
As you and I know memory work is hard work.
Bible study, for that matter, is hard work too.
So, why should we invest significant portions of our time meditating , memorizing, and studying God’s word?
Why do this, because as the psalmist finished out verse 11…
11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
You see God’s word…
Informs & Warns Us
Informs & Warns Us
It Informs Us Of Sin.
It Informs Us Of Sin.
As the great apostle Paul would say, without God’s word we would not know what is sin.
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
From God’s word we learn that sin is “lawlessness” or the “transgression of God’s word.”
4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Not only does God’s word inform us of what sin is we also see that…
It Warns Us Of Sin.
It Warns Us Of Sin.
Within the mind of God we find it warning us that a single unrepentant sin brings spiritual death to us.
Romans 6:23 (ESV)
23 For the wages of sin is death…
Romans 8:13 (ESV)
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die…
Within the holy writ we find it warning us that sin separates us from God the Father, Son, and Spirit.
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Summary
Summary
Why do we, as God’s children; want God’s word on our hearts?
So that we might not sin against him!!!
God’s word doesn’t just inform and warn against sin.
No, we also find with God’s precious message that it…
Dedicates & Transforms Us
Dedicates & Transforms Us
It Dedicates Us To God.
It Dedicates Us To God.
The more we dive into the wonderful and mighty word of God the more we will become devoted and dedicated to God.
Job, who like no other on the earth after everything that happened to him like such is said of him afterword’s…
22 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
Though that is very impressive I’m more impressed with Job’s dedication in what he later said in Job 13:15…
Job 13:15 (ESV)
15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him…
Or how about God’s word and the impact it had on Caleb and Joshua’s dedication to their God.
30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
And when God’s word motivates us to devotion and dedication to him…
It Transforms Us To God.
It Transforms Us To God.
Remember what Paul wrote to the church in Corinth in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10.
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Here we have the informing and warning again, but notice verse eleven and “transformation” that took place after these brethren decided to be dedicated to God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 (ESV)
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Summary
Summary
Meditating, memorizing, and studying God’s word will make us devoted to our God and transform our lives to that which mimics our God.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The more we meditate, memorize, and study God’s word the more we will be inspired by it to live for our God.
And the more we do these things the more “God’s word will be on our hearts” dedicating us to righteousness and motivating us to flee sinful passions.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.