Love GOD, Love His Word, Love His Ways, Love His Things
Love His Word: Delight In His Word…
Psalm 119
“...it is impossible to know God, unless He has been pleased to make Himself known to man. He recognizes the force of Zophar’s question (Job 11:7), “Can you by searching find out God?” It seems utterly impossible to him that man, by his unaided reason, should discover God, and he therefore considers the question, “Has God spoken?(Numbers 23:19” as one of the utmost importance.” - Louis Berkhof 1942
What is the Word of God?
The revealing of God by Inspiration given through men as He led them to accurately record and communicate what His character and message, is known as Inspiration of scripture, and the revealing of God in His incarnation through the virgin birth by the power of the Holy Spirit, He is called the Logos, known as the Living Word. 2 Timothy 3:16 and John 1:1
“The Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 The Word is the sustainer and giver of life. Matthew 4:4 “But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” - Psalm 119:93 - “I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.
God has caused and commands us to Love His Word.
- John 14:15 - “15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments”
- Psalm 119:97 - “Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.”
- Psalm 119:113 - “I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.”
- Psalm 119:119 - “All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.”
- Psalm 119:32 - “I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!
God commands us to obey His Word - 1 John 2:4-6 - “Whoever says 'I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”
- Psalm 119:1-4 - “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! 2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, 3 who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! 4 You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.”
- Psalm 119:44-45 - “I will keep your law continually, forever and ever, 45 and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.”
God commands us to teach His Word. - Colossians 3:16 - “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”
- Psalm 119:13 - “With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
- Deuteronomy 6:4-9 - “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 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. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
Do you delight in God’s Word?
READ: Psalm 119:14,16, 20, 24, 34, 35, 47, 77, 89, 92, 143, 174
Psalm 119:151-152 - “But you are near, O Lord, and all your commandments are true. 152 Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever.
Psalm 119:160 - “The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.”
Psalm 119:172 - “My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.
