POUR
OUT WHAT HAS BEEN POURED IN
BREAD
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who
bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim
salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Isaiah
52:7 (NIV)
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD
our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love
the LORD your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are
to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress
them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk
along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and
bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses
and on your gates. 10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land
he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you--a land with
large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses
filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not
dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant--then when you eat and
are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not
forget the LORD, who brought you
out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Deuteronomy
6:4-12 (NIV)
6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he
will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
10 For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and
observance of the Law of the LORD,
and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel. Ezra
7:10 (NIV)
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one
approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles
the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15 (NIV)
1 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus. 2 And the things you have
heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will
also be qualified to teach others. 2 Timothy 2:1-2 (NIV)
1 You
must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. 2
Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect,
self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 6Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. Titus 2:1-8 (NIV)
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 6Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. Titus 2:1-8 (NIV)
2 Preach the Word;
be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with
great patience and careful instruction. 3 For
the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to
suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers
to say what their itching ears want to hear.
2 Timothy 4:2-3 (NIV)
14 How, then, can
they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the
one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone
preaching to them? 15 And how can
they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet
of those who bring good news!” Romans 10:14-15 (NIV)
17 Consequently,
faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word
of Christ. Romans 10:17 (NIV)
BUTTER
“In an age bereft of courageous leadership, declining biblical
literacy, and rising cultural accommodation, a faithful voice from the gospel
center is needed - a voice that prophetically speaks the ancient text to our
contemporary context.”
The National
Gospel Coalition
“We came into this
world wretched, miserable, and undone creatures, in cruel bondage to sin and
Satan, under guilt and under wrath, hostile toward God—the fountain of
blessedness—and in a state of condemnation leading to everlasting destruction.
But when a man is converted, he is brought out of that state of woe and misery
into a sure title to glory, honor, and peace forever. When once a man is
converted, all this blessedness that we have heard of is his; he has an
absolute right to it. God’s work is accomplished for it; His faithful promise
is given.” Jonathan
Edwards
“Every miracle always begins with the first ordinary step of faithfulness.” Ann Voskamp
“Though
salvation is not by the works of the law, yet the blessings which are promised
to obedience are not denied to the faithful servants of God. The curses our Lord took away when He was
made a curse for us, but no clause of blessing has been abrogated. We are to note and listen to the revealed
will of the Lord, giving our attention not to portions of it but to ‘all these
words.’ There must be no picking and
choosing but an impartial respect to all that God has commanded. This is the road of blessedness for the
Father and for His children. The Lord’s
blessing is upon His chosen to the third and fourth generation. If they walk uprightly before Him, He will
make all men know that they are a seed which the Lord has blessed.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Our significance isn’t found in fame or
fortune, but in knowing that we have been links in God’s chain. Our faithfulness to Him, even in obscurity,
will yield results that can only be calculated in eternity…..Our only duty in
life is to be faithful to all the work the Lord assigns.” Robert J. Morgan
“I do not pray for success. I pray for faithfulness.” Mother Teresa
HEAR SAVOR
·
God’s
plan is for His children to share and live the good news. We are to leave the aroma of Christ in every
circumstance.
·
There is often
no earthly glamor in ordinary faithfulness to the Master yet God considers it extraordinary. We are to live our lives for an audience of
One.
·
I am to
be faithful to His call on my life. I
am not my own, I was bought with a high price.
I am to honor God with my body.



