Good. In the church, please turn your
Bibles to Proverbs Chapter 30, Proverbs 30.
Today we will look at the importance of God's word.
We will be looking at verses 5:00 and 6:00.
Please stand for the reunion. God's Word and the Bible says
every word of God is pure. He just showed them to them that
put their trust in him. Added on out to his words.
Let's he approve thee and I'll be found a liar.
Let's pray you Lord, thank you for stay.
Who would help me to do this message?
You think the Spirit would help me?
Say the right words and I'll become my nerves.
But you'll be teach us the importance of your words today.
Just name. Amen.
Can't be seated. Thank you for standing.
The first thing we are going to look at today is the Bible's
guidance. We're all in there.
Perfect. We're all sinners.
But did you know that you and I own those perfect, precious, and
the holy book of the whole world?
The Bible. Wow, do you read it?
You should. Do you know why?
It says every word of God is pure.
The Bible's pure words are sustain and strengthen us.
The Bible is a letter from God our Father that helps us get
through life, make a dark dirt Rd. full of ditches.
Those ditches in life may be sent our tribes if we don't turn
on our headlights and drive carefully.
Whatever our tires may get stuck in a ditch.
That's kind of like the Bible. The more we read it, the
brighter our headlights become and we won't get stuck in the
ditch. However, the less we read the
Bible, the dimmer our headlights become.
If we won't see a ditch a yard in front of us, we will get
stuck. The Bible shines a lot.
A light on our path distinguishes good from bad life
from darkness. So on one at Team one of five
says that word is a limp into my feet and line to my path.
This word is in darkness. And we all know that the Bible
is what we need to go through it.
As Christians, we are pogons just passing through.
We're on our way to a better place.
Think of the world as a hard journey and you're going through
it all. But all you have is this map.
That map is the Bible. If you follow the directions on
the map and the signs got put along the path to warn you
upcoming disaster, you'll be successful and reached your
destination. Those sons along the path are
people that God put our lives to God and admonish us.
Whether that's parents, pastors or friends.
God puts people our lives for a reason.
Look back the verse. Look back at verse five ago with
me. Since every word of God is pure,
he's a shielding to them that put their trust in it.
This is the Every line, arrow or direction on that map is pure
and right. If you two want to live the
right way and follow God, you need to read God's word.
Growing up, I used to not take my personal devotions in the
morning seriously. I had lied in that I in that I
had done it or read the sort of song I could find.
My dad said the more we read the Bible, the more we know about
God and when we know him, the closer to him become, The closer
we are to him, The closer we are to God, the more like Him we
become. That's like one of things close
to the family. Now, if you want to be like God,
if all of his ways, you need to read His word every day.
If you're not faithfully reading God's Word every day, then don't
say you desire God's will for your life because you really
did. You would immerse yourself in
God's Word. The Bible is our guide, so we
looked at the Bible's guidance. Now let's look at the Bible's
power. Please turn your Bibles to Acts
1124. And while you're turning in
there, let me read you. Isaiah 40 verse 8.
Isaiah 40 / 8 says the grass where the the flower faded but
the word of our God will stand forever.
Aren't you glad that God's word will endured?
That's never going to come to an end.
The Bible is everlasting. The Bible is a powerful book for
generations who have been trying to stamp out the existence of
the Bible but it kept enduring. You should be in the Bible.
You should be there in your bibles and Acts totally 4.
Acts totally 4 says but the word of God will multiply.
He was 412 says. For the word of God is quick and
powerful sharper than any two wedges sword you see even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit and and under the joints
and marrow and is the discern of the thoughts and the touch of
the heart. It says the word of God is
powerful. It was so powerful that the
people even seriously should do. The scriptures from top to
bottom were amazed. Luke 431 to 32 says and came
down to the Capernaum at city of Galilee and taught them on The
Saturdays. And they were stonish at his
doctrine, for his word was with power.
Wow, this really states it here. Clearly here in this passage,
God's Word is not normal, and we each have this one.
God's words are not normal, and we each have at least one side
copy of them. God's Word is powerful #1 the
Bible's power, #2 the Bible's #1 the guidance, #2 the Bible's
power. Now thirdly, let's look at
respecting the Bible. Go back in verse six of probably
30 again with me. It says add it on up until his
words. Let's see you prove thee and
that'll be found the liar. There are many versions of the
Bible today. However, the Bible says that we
shouldn't add to it. Another thing is that some of us
take the Bible for granted or we just don't care about it.
I recall seeing the kids junior church and kids put their rival
on the floor underneath their seat.
They put the most holy book in the world on The Dirty floor.
One time I wanted to stick at throwing it to the most holy
book in the world on The Dirty, filthy floor.
Also somewhere that some people took God's holy word, ripped out
the pages, and dropped it all on the toilet.
These things shouldn't be we should have more respect for
God's holy word. Please turn your vows to me and
my 85. We need to reverence the Bible
The M I8 verse five says and and Ezra opened the book and decided
of all the people for he was above all the people and when he
opened it all the people stood up.
All the people stood up for the New York as a word that's
reverence. Those people get the respect the
the Bible, the respect they deserved.
The Bible was not just the book, it's alive.
But I like to see someone who really cares about the Bible.
So on one 19170 says, hold it on me up and I shall be safe and I
shall have I will have respect into the statues continually.
Is that our prayer and commitment to God to have
respect for statues? So I want it seen. 15 says I
will meditate in that presence and have respect into their
ways. As Christians, we ought to have
respect for God's holy word. People back then treasured the
word of God so much we didn't have a copy of it.
The hunger for God's words so much that they came impressing
crowds. We need to respect God's word.
We looked at the Bible's guidance on the Bible's power
and respected the Bible. The last thing I want to look at
with you today is using the Bible as our spiritual weapon.
Please turn your balance to effusion. 617 The Bible is our
spiritual weapon. I wish we can fight the devil.
If using 617 says take the hell of salvation and the sword of
the spirit, which is the word of God, how are you going to fight
through the battlefield without a sword?
You can't have your sword on the wall for decoration.
Let it sit there and get rusty and dusty.
Need to daily take up that sword and practice with it.
Needs to get together as fellow Knights and spar with each other
once in a while. If you did spar with someone
today would you fall short? You never know when the devil is
going to attack or what kind of siege weapons he's going to use
against your church. First Peter 5/8 says be sober.
Be vigilant because your advocate of the devil is a wrong
line. Walketh about seeking human made
devour. The devil is hard at work trying
to destroy and take down everything that the Lord has put
in place as Knights under his wave in of love.
We need to take a stand and go out recruiting of this for his
purpose. Some people claim to be
Christians, but when the time comes to take a stand, they
won't defend the Bible. Alexander Hamilton said those
who stand for nothing fall for anything.
We need to take the Bible and use it to daily fight the devil.
In conclusion, God's word is very important.
It's our guide, it's powerful, it's worthy of our respect and
it's our weapon. We need to treasure God's word
daily. Hope this message was an
encouragement to you. Let's pray you will think for
this message our opinions. Help us with to apply this
message to our daily lives, to let you regard us and remember
its power to respect it and use it to fight the flesh, the
world, and the devil. I prefer the rest of the day to
go well and just say Amen. Amen.
And I'll tell you this, many years ago now, I I came to the
conclusion that the Bible was the most precious thing that we
have. And.
You know we he didn't mention this, but the way we treat our
flag with respect, I mean we don't even, we don't let the
flag touch the ground. We make sure there's a light on
it at night. We have ways that we folded and
and do all these things with it. And that's just a flag.
I mean it and it represents a lot but it's just a flag of a
country, right. And we treat that was such
respect. And then it comes to the word of
God that represents everything that God gave to man, and we
don't treat it with anywhere close to the same respect.
I've been doing this for years and years and years and years,
but you will never see my Bible sitting on the floor.
You'll never see anything else sitting on top of my Bible.
I don't put my phone on top of it.
I don't put anything on top of it.
I have a stack of books that I'm carrying.
Doesn't matter how thin or small or whatever they are, the Bible
always goes on top. And it's just, I mean, it's not,
it's not anything I'm going to get a medal for, but it's just
something that, you know, the the Bible is valuable.
And the way that we show respect for it shows us, shows how
valuable we think it is. And I mean, it's it is just a
book, right? You can a Bible can be replaced
when it starts to fall apart. But your Bible ought to be the
thing that you take care of the most.
I've had this Bible, I think for for 25 years.
This Bible, I use it for everything.
And yet you see it's not falling apart.
It's still in good shape because I take care of it.
It's not just another book. It's the word of God.
And we ought to treat it as the word of God.
And you ought to think about that.
I I haven't really mentioned it too much.
I I think I've mentioned it a few times.
But, you know, it's something that we ought to be teaching our
kids how to do is take care of the word of God.
You know, it's not a it's not a weapon, it's not a it's not a
toy, it's not a, you know, it's not just some other book.
We ought to treat it as the word of God and not just the fact
that it is the word of God that we can hold in our hands.
It's all the things that he mentioned spiritually, too.
And, you know, the the way that we treat it and the way that we
we respect it shows how much we value it.
Could you imagine how valuable you would hold your Bible if you
knew that you were never going to be able to get another copy
of it? That they may come sooner than
we think? And then what?
And I again, I know it's just paper and and and leather or
whatever your Bible is made out of, but you ought to treat it
with respect. You ought to reverence it.
You ought to to to to show the world that you love it, and you
ought to not treat it like any other book.
And that's just a couple things. He didn't really mention this
necessarily, other than mentioning that that people
throw it on the floor or set it on the floor and it doesn't
really bother them. Whatever else you know, unless
there's absolutely no other place to set it and you have to
set it down because somebody's dying and you have to catch
them. You ought not to put your Bible
on the floor, right? Set it up on something.
Put it on a shelf, put it somewhere where it you.
It shows that you have that respect for it and let the Bible
be what's on the top of that stack, wherever you're at.
And it's it. It is just it's a small thing.
It's a small thing. But we do it for a flag.
Why can't we do it for the word of God?
It's it's it. I think there ought to be rules
for carrying your Bible in the same way that we have rules for
flag etiquette, Rules for Bible etiquette.
Maybe we'll make up our own and. Post them in the back or
something. But anyway, good message and
just a good reminder of what the word of God is to us.
Let's stand and we'll have a time of invitation.
We'll pray and then the piano will play and give you an
opportunity to make a decision. If the Lord's dealt with your
heart tonight, Father, we love you.
Can we thank you for the message?
I thank you for all the young men and their dedication to to
wanting to do what's right. God, I pray that you'd help them
to keep that desire and that you just use them in a great way.
Now and going forward, God and and each of our young people are
young ladies as well. God, I pray that you would just
help them, all of them, to know what your will is for their life
and that they'd be willing to do it When I would find out what it
is. And got to thank you for the
message tonight, I pray that you'd use it in our hearts.
But thank you for all you do for us.
In Jesus name, Amen.