The Word 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Hebrews 4:12-13 Colossians 3:16 08.18.14

THE WORD

BREAD

¹⁶ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)

¹² For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. ¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Hebrews 4:12-13 (NIV)

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:16 (NIV)

BUTTER

“Keep your constant hours every day with God.  Begin the day with God, visit God in the morning before you make any other visit; wind up your hearts towards heaven in the morning and they will go the better all the day after!  Oh turn your closets into temples; read the Scriptures.  The two Testaments are the two lips by which God speaks to us; this will make you wise unto salvation.  Besiege heaven every day with your prayer, thus perfume your houses.”   Thomas Watson
 

“The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection.  And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others.
Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.”   A.W. Tozer

"We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism...To your knees, man! And to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!” C. T. Studd

“Jesus claimed that the Word of God is inspired, accurate, authoritative, infallible, unerring, and trustworthy down to its smallest elements.  Every single Word of the Bible is precious.”   Robert J. Morgan

“The bottom line is that when the church has moved away from the Bible as the complete and clear Word of God, it has moved away from Christ.”   David Robertson

HEART SAVOR

• ·       All of God’s Word is profitable for me.
• ·       I do not know my own heart yet God does.  His Word shines light on the thoughts and attitudes of my heart to grow me up in Him. ⁹ For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.  2 Chronicles 16:9 (NIV)
• ·       God’s Word is to dwell in my heart for out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks and the hands act.