LIFE
GIVING WORD
BREAD
45 When
Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, "Take to
heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may
command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. 47 They are not just idle words
for you--they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are
crossing the Jordan to possess."
Deuteronomy 32:45-47 (NIV)
1 Be
careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and
increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the
desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what
was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to
hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had
known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word
that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:1-3 (NIV)
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)
29 The
secret things belong to the Lord
our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that
we may follow all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29 (NIV)
165 Great
peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.
Psalms 119:165 (NIV)
BUTTER
“The
rabbis spoke of the text being like a gem with seventy faces, and each time you
turn the gem, the light refracts differently, giving you a reflection you
haven’t seen before. And so we turn the
text again and again because we keep seeing things we missed before. When you embrace the text as living and
active, when you enter its story, when you keep turning the gem, you never come
to the end. Inspired words have a way of
getting under our skin and taking on a life of their own. They work on us. We started out reading them, but they end up
reading us.” Rob Bell
“Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Now when a man
has learned through the commandments to recognize his helplessness and is
distressed about how he might satisfy the law…and then being truly humbled and
reduced to nothing in his own eyes, he finds in himself nothing whereby he may
be justified and saved. Here the second
part of Scripture comes to our aid, namely, the promises of God which declare
the glory of God, saying, ‘If you wish to fulfill the law….come, believe in
Christ in whom grace, righteousness, peace, liberty, and all things are
promised to you. If you believe you
shall have all things; if you do not believe, you shall lack all things’.” Martin
Luther
“God
has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has
been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact,
God’s Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine
authority over men.”
John Stott
“Take heed that you
do not glory in your graces, but let all your glorying and confidence be in
Christ and His strength, for this is the only way you can be kept from
falling. Pray more often. Spend longer periods of time in holy
adoration. Read the Scriptures more
earnestly and constantly. Watch your
lives more carefully. Live nearer to
God. Take the best examples for your
pattern. Let your conversation emit the
fragrance of heaven. Let your hearts be
perfumed with affection for the souls of others. So live that others may recognize that you
have been with Jesus, and have learned of Him…On, Christian, with care and
caution! On, with holy fear and trembling! On, with faith and confidence in Jesus alone,
and let your constant petition be, ‘Sustain me according to your promise.’ He, and He alone, is able ‘to keep you from
falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with
great joy.’”
Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
- · God’s Word is not to be merely idle to me – it is to be my life.
- · All Scripture is profitable for me.
- · All Scripture is God’s revealed will.
