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Applying the Word of God

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  1. Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast.

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  6. You're listening to a podcast from Victory. We study the

  7. Word in order to apply and obey what it says.

  8. Explore this truth in week eight of our series Wordview.

  9. As we end our series. We've been here in our

  10. series entitled Wordview, where for the past seven weeks we've

  11. been talking about the Word of God that we are

  12. called to have a life of devotion.

  13. What else we talked about that.

  14. The Word is perfect, it does not have any error,

  15. it's sufficient, it's clear, and that's why as believers, all

  16. of us here we are willing to put our lives

  17. under the authority of scripture. And as we learn all

  18. that for the past seven weeks, today we're going to

  19. apply what we learn.

  20. The question is how.

  21. Do we apply the Word of God? How do we

  22. do what it says? And how do we study it?

  23. Now we know that the series has been transforming our lives.

  24. It's been transforming our minds against the worldview.

  25. Now it wants us to be transformed by the Word

  26. of God.

  27. And this is actually what we want to talk about today.

  28. How to apply the actual Word of God in our

  29. lives and our main text is found in James Chapter one,

  30. verse twenty one, and it says here, therefore, put away

  31. all filthiness and rampant wickedness, and receive with meekness the

  32. implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. Verse

  33. twenty two says, but the doers of the word, and

  34. not hears, only deceiving yourselves. Verse twenty three says, for

  35. if anyone is a hero of the word and not

  36. a doer, he is like a man who looks intently

  37. at his natural face in the mirror. For he looks

  38. at himself and goes away, and at once forgets what

  39. he looks like. Verse twenty five says, But the one

  40. who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty,

  41. and perseveres, Being no hero who forgets, but a doer

  42. who acts, he will be.

  43. Blessed in all his doings. You know, we.

  44. Start our scripture today, which is found in the Book

  45. of James. The Book of James is said to be

  46. the book of faith, that works. This book was actually

  47. written by James, the half brother of Jesus, and he

  48. was writing to the Jerusalem Church. This was the church

  49. that he was pastoring. He wrote a letter because he

  50. wanted to address two things. Number One, he has seen

  51. that they have failed to put the word of God

  52. into practice. And it was a root of something else.

  53. Why because the people during that time, although they were

  54. saved already, they were deceived by the world. And that's

  55. why he was saying that they were living a life

  56. with a double mind. They were double minded people. When

  57. we say double minded is sometimes you are for the word,

  58. you allow the word to speak to you. But sometimes

  59. there's instances in your life that you actually use the

  60. world as your perspective. These are experiences that we go through.

  61. These are the advice that people give us that we're

  62. not sure if it's godly or something that they've experienced

  63. as well. James was actually talking to double minded people.

  64. But you know what, Yes, it was written two thousand

  65. years ago or more. But the question is in our

  66. lives do we have a double minded life as well?

  67. Are there things that make us decide based on what

  68. the world says or is it all based on the

  69. Word of God. And this is how he starts it.

  70. In verse twenty one, he says, therefore, put away all

  71. filthiness and rampant wickedness.

  72. What does that mean?

  73. He was reminding his people, the people of the church,

  74. the leaders, just like you, guys, everyone. He was reminding

  75. them that what Jesus has done on the Cross has

  76. brought you from.

  77. Sin and slavery. Now you are free.

  78. He was reminding them of their identity in Christ. He

  79. was saying that you are no longer slaves of sin.

  80. He can actually remove that life and move forward. And

  81. that's why he was reminding them to put away all

  82. wickedness and filthiness. He was saying this to remind them

  83. of their true identity in Christ.

  84. And now he starts with.

  85. Saying the word receive. He said and receive in another

  86. translation in the n E version, it's a to receive

  87. is to welcome. You know, when we welcome someone that

  88. we invite our house, we like them to be there.

  89. That's why we prepare for it. Me.

  90. I like inviting people to our house. I like hanging

  91. out with people in our house. I would always invite

  92. people to hang out like the bagdados. We'd always go

  93. there goes to us now. And as I've shared with you,

  94. we have a twelve bedroom unit. So Cilaria would stay

  95. in one of the rooms and we.

  96. Would hang out.

  97. But before the visitors would go, it would actually be

  98. we would actually.

  99. Prepare for it.

  100. Actually go to the grocery, buy something that they like,

  101. we'd actually prepare it. We clean it, lean ismen. We

  102. make sure that when they get there wellan calead. We

  103. make sure that when they get there, they get there safe,

  104. they know where to part. We welcome them. And when

  105. they're there, what do we do. We entertain them. We

  106. talk to them, We spend time with them. We give

  107. our one hundred persent attention to our visitors. We welcome them,

  108. we receive them, same as the word of God when

  109. we read the word, James is saying that we welcome

  110. it with one hundred percent of our attention when we

  111. read it, when we open the Bible, we're ready to

  112. receive it. We want them there. It's an appointment. They

  113. don't just just barge in. We're ready for it.

  114. We want them there. We want the Word of God

  115. to speak to us.

  116. Have you been to a house now and invite kyo?

  117. We don't do that. Do I do that? No, I

  118. don't do that. When we receive people, we welcome them.

  119. And this is what James was talking about. We receive them,

  120. we welcome the Word of God and it was giving.

  121. Us a posture of what our hearts should be. He says,

  122. how do we receive them in meekness? What do you

  123. mean by meekness? To be meek is actually to be submissive.

  124. It's an act of humility. It's being humbled by the

  125. presence of God that when you read it, you're saying, Lord,

  126. I don't know what you want me to understand, but

  127. I want you to explain it to me. I want

  128. you to reveal it to me. Do we have this

  129. posture when we read the Word of God? Are we

  130. humbled enough to say, Lord, I don't know what to

  131. do and I need your leading. Or are we the

  132. type of people that, whenever we open the Bible, we say.

  133. Al'm kunihan.

  134. The bad therefore nana man wellgum pisa. How do we

  135. respond when we read the Word of God? Are we

  136. people who actually are not one hundred percent fully engaged

  137. to the word whenever we read it, everything that's in

  138. your mind is actually to be on the next task.

  139. At seven o'clock you open your Bible and then you

  140. know that by fifteen and fifteen minutes traffic will build

  141. Upber are.

  142. You fully engaged and concentrated to the Word of God?

  143. Are we in the mood or is it a requirement

  144. already for us? Sabin no me preach keasaygo every day.

  145. And so you have this heart where you say, Lord,

  146. I read my Bible five times this week, Tapa may

  147. wish na n kapali don't Is it becoming a requirement

  148. or something that we negotiate with with God?

  149. What is our heart? Whenever we read the Word of God?

  150. He says we receive or welcome in humility. Which one

  151. the implanted word says there the implanted word. And what

  152. is the implanted word? It means the implanted in the

  153. Greek language is in phutos, which means to be permanently

  154. in place. It's something that takes root, something that's it

  155. holds there. And when we talk about the implanted Word

  156. of God, because James was saying that it is rooted

  157. to the gospel that we know, because if we really

  158. know who Jesus is, we can actually accept all his teachings,

  159. because if he know who Jesus is, that he died

  160. on the cross for my sins. Now I believe that

  161. everything that He wants for me that will save me,

  162. it will be good for me. It will be something

  163. that will protect me with something that will be a

  164. blessing to me.

  165. And this is a covenant that God gave.

  166. And we see this as a prophetic gesture. In Jeremiah,

  167. it says in Jeremiah thirty one, it says, for this

  168. is the covenant that I make with the House of

  169. Israel after those days, declares the Lord, I will put

  170. my law within them, and I will write it on

  171. their hearts, and I will be their God, and they

  172. shall be my people. This was a God saying that

  173. he will be the one to put the word in

  174. our hearts. It's actually him putting it in our hearts.

  175. The question is are we.

  176. Welcoming him to do that to us actually allowing him

  177. to put the.

  178. Word of God in our hearts.

  179. You know, we are called to receive the Word in humility,

  180. and when we say humility, what we're saying is that

  181. whenever we read the word, we accept it.

  182. We don't negotiate.

  183. Lord and wedding step one moon Lord and Hindiito Pasa.

  184. Are you a person that when you see the word

  185. that is hard to apply, you would actually automatically look

  186. for someone.

  187. Else kid Glendato. Whenever you read.

  188. The word and you see that it's difficult, you find

  189. fault in other people from because you pugnet transition shap Galitsha.

  190. We receive the word in humility because it's good for us.

  191. That's his heart, our father's heart to us. He always

  192. wants to minister to us. But you know what, James

  193. does not end there. He was saying that to apply

  194. the word of God, it doesn't end with reading it,

  195. with studying the word. He said in verse twenty two,

  196. we have to be doers of the word. We have

  197. to do something about it. We have to apply it

  198. in our lives. You know, one of the last trainings

  199. that I've experienced when I was in the previous company,

  200. when I was still working in a multinational company, they

  201. actually sent me to Antipolo for three days with a

  202. few couple of people. It was a training on seven

  203. habits of effective people, I think by Stephen Kobe. It

  204. was a three day thing. We were locked in on Tipolo.

  205. We were allowed to go home because they wanted us

  206. to make sure that there were exercises in applications or

  207. something that you would think about and reflect about after

  208. the eight to five seminar and me being a very competitive.

  209. Person, I would always have questions.

  210. I would always be the Paccin Avenue facilitator. I have

  211. a question, I will answer. I wanted to get all

  212. the learnings from it. I would write down everything that

  213. I needed to learn. I would market but Stabilo, yellow, green, blue, blue,

  214. nicolam well labs I market, I underline it.

  215. I put a star asterisk. I wanted to learn so much.

  216. I read.

  217. I wrote down everything that I needed to learn, and

  218. I would actually picture the things that I wanted to apply.

  219. Work but efficient all. I will change this. I will

  220. talk to the people. We have to change this. We

  221. have to do this.

  222. The training was on a Friday, three days Wednesday to Friday.

  223. You know on Friday, when I went home, Oh, come

  224. stan Kelley, grabbe, I'm gonna I'm gonna revolutionize my work

  225. at Tinao Feeling Saturday, I met a few people grab

  226. him galingon training.

  227. Damn, you should see the man. I'll lend it to you.

  228. Sunday, gangly by Monday when he got back to working

  229. desk on damning Peter Mahan, dammit and shampre. As a

  230. Christian as we are, so I did what I needed

  231. to do.

  232. I forgot about the training.

  233. If you ask me if I applied one of the

  234. seven maybe the eighth. I don't know, but I don't

  235. even remember applying the one to seven. Why because it

  236. was actually I forgot all about it. I was eaten

  237. by what I needed to do. Sometimes we're like that.

  238. When we read the word, We're excited you want to

  239. do it. We're excited when we read it. When we

  240. when Lord grab the first time looking grabbing a scripture

  241. of Jesus, wept. It's something I want to apply well

  242. on compassion, I want to cry. And then nothing happens.

  243. We experience that it's hard to do. Why, Because we're

  244. eaten by the world. We go back to the daily grind.

  245. We get busy. I want to say this to you,

  246. but stern warning, I'm gonna say this out of love,

  247. and this is for all of us. You know, many

  248. times we have this idea that as we hear a preaching,

  249. the preaching will make.

  250. Us grow as believers.

  251. But reality is, if we don't apply it, we'll just

  252. be back to where we are.

  253. We won't go, we won't grow. Whenever we hear.

  254. A preaching and we like it, we need to do

  255. our part.

  256. We need to apply it. We need to respond to

  257. do our part. I like the message. Version of the scripture,

  258. it says that the word of God.

  259. For people that who do not apply it, it's as if

  260. it enters one ear.

  261. And then sits another, just passes through. Warren words.

  262. We said, too many Christians mark their Bibles, but their

  263. bibles never mark them.

  264. Isn't it true? Sometimes we could write down everything that

  265. we could do, mark it, but.

  266. The world would actually lie to us and deceive us

  267. that there are a lot more things important.

  268. For us to do than to apply the word of God.

  269. In verse twenty three, it says James was giving us

  270. a picture.

  271. Of what it is if we do not apply it. Sabitazhan.

  272. For if anyone is a hear of the word and

  273. not a doer, he.

  274. Is like a man who looks intently at himself natural

  275. face in the mirror. For he looks at himself and

  276. goes away at once forgets what he was like if

  277. you think about it back you no, no, Why was

  278. James talking about a mirror that when you look at

  279. yourself intently and then you leave and back What's it

  280. about that mirror? You know during this time that James

  281. wrote this well up upon mirror in the glass mirrors

  282. were made of polished metal, and when you look at

  283. yourself in a polished metal object, it's something that will

  284. not give you one hundred percent of the reflection. So

  285. it means you need to look at it intently.

  286. You need to look at yourself.

  287. Paramasmaliti ilungko almko but iba. When your mirror is not

  288. one hundred percent reflective of you, you get to look

  289. at it in different angles.

  290. We get to think about it, is this really what

  291. I look like?

  292. And the verse is that when we see something different

  293. or we see something not try it in our faces,

  294. when we see the reflection, we have to actually do

  295. something about it. It's tomorrow when you wake up, before

  296. you leave for office, muta, ohi muta you take it

  297. out right? We take it out why because it's not normal.

  298. It's not normal that you go to the office with muta.

  299. You have to clean your eyes. You know, this is

  300. what the Word of God does.

  301. It's actually a reflection of what we need to see,

  302. more than a mirror to actually show us what's wrong

  303. with us. When we read the word of God, we

  304. would actually see what we need to do to actually

  305. give us a reflection of the sin that we're going through,

  306. to actually give us a reflection of our attitude. But

  307. mayavan bada do we have that pride? It's a picture

  308. of reflecting what we need to see about ourselves. But

  309. the problem is we don't do it. Some of us

  310. can actually ignore it. You feeling moment, do migan conte

  311. where everyone sees it. Now there's something wrong with you,

  312. but for you no.

  313. Normal.

  314. This is very unfortunate when we continue to live our

  315. lives as if.

  316. There's nothing wrong with us.

  317. When the Word of God is clear for us to

  318. see that we need to change, for us to see

  319. that we need to do something about it, for us

  320. to see that we need to repent for our things,

  321. for us to see that we need to say sorry

  322. to a loved one, but we don't do it.

  323. We close the book.

  324. The Word of God is saying that we're deceiving ourselves.

  325. It's us who is at the losing end.

  326. I like what James said in the same book, Chapter four,

  327. verse seventeen. It says, remember it is sin to know

  328. what you ought to do and then not do it.

  329. When we learn what we need to do based on

  330. the word of God and we don't do it, the

  331. Word says, it's actually sin. How do we respond when

  332. God reveals things to us once we receive it in humility,

  333. How do we respond to his word?

  334. You know?

  335. God desires the best for us, but we all if

  336. we only read the word, understand it, study.

  337. It, but don't do it s actually.

  338. Rubbing ourselves of the best of what God wants us

  339. to experience.

  340. We're called to obey the word of God. Very simple.

  341. We have to do our part. God reveals to us truth.

  342. Now we need to do our part. We need to respond.

  343. Psalms one one nine, verse thirty says teach me, o, Lord,

  344. the way of your statutes, and I will keep it

  345. to the end. Give me understanding that I may keep

  346. your law and observe it with.

  347. All my heart.

  348. Lead me in the path of your commandments, for eye

  349. delight in it.

  350. You know.

  351. And a practical way to look at the word is

  352. to ask, Lord, show me what you want me to

  353. understand in your lass, in your words, Lord, teach me,

  354. give me understanding and lead me to what you want

  355. me to do.

  356. This reality.

  357. Maybe some of us or maybe most of us, with

  358. quote scriptures in the Bible, we may know a hundreds

  359. of scriptures. We may know a lot of things, principal

  360. stories from the Old Testament to the New Everything. We

  361. may know all that, But if you don't apply the

  362. word of God in our lives, won't be able to

  363. move forward. God won't be able to put us in

  364. his will. God won't be able to use us the

  365. way He designed us. Question that we want to ask

  366. each and every one of us today, or there things

  367. that we need to obey, or their things that we

  368. need to apply. You know, one of the things that

  369. I want to do today, which is different from most

  370. of our preachings, is to actually do it. Apply it,

  371. apply the word of God. And today we're going to

  372. go back practical. So what's next?

  373. We want to apply the word?

  374. But the question is how? Verse twenty five says we

  375. start it by looking. But the one who looks into

  376. the perfect law, the law of liberty, is talking about

  377. the scripture, the word look here that was used comes

  378. from the Greek word para kupto, which means to bend

  379. over to see something better, to find out something intellectual

  380. about it. It's actually not just looking in front. It's researching,

  381. it's reading, it's meditating, it's looking for answers. Did you

  382. know that your bibles, most of our Bibles would have

  383. pages and pages of an introduction to a book. Sometimes

  384. it's at the back, sometimes it happens before the book.

  385. But it's there. We just need to read it.

  386. We just need to study it to be able to

  387. know the leading of God.

  388. We need to make sure.

  389. That we study the word of God. We need to

  390. make sure that we did deep. One of the things

  391. that I want to share with you on the practical

  392. side of it is this that as you study each

  393. book of the Bible, how many books do we have?

  394. Sixty six books? We need to actually know this. And

  395. if you're starting your devotion tomorrow and starting a new book,

  396. this would be a good thing to start with. Number One,

  397. know the author, Know the author, know the audience. Who

  398. is he talking about Latin yea, What is the purpose

  399. of the book, and then what is the context? And

  400. this is what we did a while ago about James.

  401. Now you understand when we read the scripture. Okay, so

  402. let's James.

  403. His church and in purpose.

  404. Yeah, he wanted to address issues of double mindedness. What

  405. was the context? They were thriving church?

  406. He U was all that this time. We only learned

  407. that if we.

  408. Read, if we study the book, if we study the scripture,

  409. and if you're ready, we're gonna do something different today.

  410. We're gonna do road.

  411. Have you heard of road as a method of doing

  412. your devotion? So road means R? What does what do

  413. we mean by R?

  414. It's read.

  415. When we read the word, we have to read it fast,

  416. read it slow, read it silently, read it aloud in

  417. any meth read it in different styles, read other translations.

  418. After you read ESV read NIV. You know, one of

  419. the things that we have the privilege of having is

  420. free Bibles in the Internet.

  421. There are a lot of versions.

  422. There that we can actually validate from. Even the Tagalog

  423. Bible is available there. So we read the scripture, and

  424. once you read the scripture, you highlight the things that

  425. impact you. You highlight the thing that you feel that

  426. God is speaking to you with.

  427. What's oh, oh is observe there? When we observe.

  428. We look at the context. What was happening, Where were

  429. they when was this?

  430. What are the words that were used?

  431. Was it repeated? Is there a concluding word?

  432. Is there a word? Therefore? Sometimes you would hear and.

  433. Read words like truly, truly? Why did they repeat the word?

  434. We observe that there are commands. Why are their commands?

  435. Look for the promises we observe, and then letter A

  436. is ask ask questions like why why did this happen?

  437. Ask questions like what what is going on?

  438. What does it say to me in my life?

  439. We can ask questions, And then lastly is do how

  440. do we respond? We need to repent? Do we need

  441. to say sorry?

  442. This is action?

  443. We start doing it? Do we start learning new disciplines?

  444. And another way of doing something is actually prayer. When

  445. God leads us to.

  446. Prayer, it's doing it.

  447. It's something that is a spiritual that when God reveals something,

  448. we get.

  449. Down on our knees and we pray. We do it.

  450. All right, So I hope you guys are excited because

  451. today we're gonna actually do rude. I'm gonna give you

  452. a scripture for the next few minutes. Let's read it

  453. and then we'll try to observe, we'll try to ask questions,

  454. and we'll do all right.

  455. Are you guys ready? All right, let's.

  456. Read John chapter twenty verse twenty four to twenty nine.

  457. All right, I'm gonna give you guys time, okay, all right,

  458. so we'll just check something that you have observed. Can

  459. I hear someone to say something about what you have

  460. observed in the scripture? So well, I know, busy, yeah,

  461. Abram choose one? Yeah, all right, let's give a hand

  462. to the young gentleman.

  463. What have you observed? Are you Thomas? Yes?

  464. From the other disciples, yes, yes, that's good.

  465. They didn't believe Thomas.

  466. May prove they were convincing when they were convincing him. Okay,

  467. one more observation, all right, what's one thing that you observed?

  468. Thomas was not with the.

  469. Disciples, Yes, when they encountered Jesus he was not.

  470. Yes, all right, but yes, yes, one more, one more?

  471. One more observation from Abrams group. Yes, ma'am.

  472. Thomas wanted for evidence, yes, to believe. That's good. All right.

  473. Let's give around the lost or volunteers.

  474. All right, so we'll see you know, stay there loud, Okay, observation,

  475. This is what I wrote down. Number one almost did

  476. not believe the other disciples about Jesus resurrection. Maybe he

  477. was a person that needs to see first to believe.

  478. It's very obvious, right. Another observation that.

  479. I found is Jesus defines a blessed person and that's

  480. believing without seeing. So because of my observation, what did

  481. I conclude? That we are called by Jesus to live

  482. a life of faith and that faith is a life

  483. of faith? Is what that we don't need to see

  484. a life of faith. It's not seeing to believe, it's

  485. an other way around. We can actually believe something that

  486. we do not see. When we do road we write

  487. down all our observations, there's no limit to it. You

  488. can fill in the entire page for this. So now

  489. we should ask what's one thing that you want to ask?

  490. But tep of friend Silla. If you think about it,

  491. the burk out the time.

  492. But to get any.

  493. If I was Peter or Paul or John or Ringo whatever,

  494. one more question?

  495. Yeah, and what's the purpose? Yes?

  496. I know I am purpose bay that's good.

  497. That's good?

  498. And how these are the two questions that I wanted

  499. to get clarified. The first one is clarity of the verse.

  500. This is my question, how did Jesus enter the room?

  501. Since the verses the door was locked.

  502. These are the.

  503. Questions that we want to ask because if you don't

  504. understand it, we can actually look for the answer. Lord

  505. back at and on purpose it was locked the verses

  506. the door was locked, and then all of a sudden

  507. Jesus was around them. Why because it was no longer

  508. in his flesh that is pinto He just appears where

  509. he wants to appear. Okay, another question that I wanted

  510. to ask, But this time I want.

  511. You to get this.

  512. This is a reflective question that I wanted to ask,

  513. and this is my devotion. By the way, a few

  514. days ago, I really chose this to.

  515. Share it with you. This is my question, what are the.

  516. Things that I've been believing for that I've lost hope

  517. on because I do not see it happening, no progress.

  518. It was like a Thomas.

  519. In me guides a bin and victory group leader, go guys,

  520. abin and pastors that I don't believe why because there

  521. was an I.

  522. Don't see it?

  523. Is there things in my life that I need to

  524. see first to believe, so I think questions go in

  525. my mind, okay.

  526. And the last one is do all right?

  527. What is one thing that you want to do based

  528. on the scripture were.

  529. Young faith by the mass Manuel at yes Teva.

  530. It's something that will allow you to do that meaning

  531. it's to have that faith that even though I do

  532. not see it.

  533. Now, I will believe it.

  534. Or these are the two reminders that I wanted to do, sabiko,

  535. remind myself of the things that I'm believing for that

  536. it will happen by faith. Although I don't see it yet,

  537. I can declare it's yes an aim and in Jesus Christ,

  538. it's a picture of Thomas and his unbelief Nis and

  539. Inula and the Tartana Jesus and savage Jesus. Blessed, Peace

  540. be with you. Blessed are the ones who do not

  541. see yet believe. And this is what I want in

  542. my life now, Lord, Now I don't even need to

  543. see what I can believe. This is what I learned

  544. from this text. And now I began to actually write

  545. down the things that I needed to remind myself that Lord,

  546. dig maa maa magiar in Alam, it's yes and Amen,

  547. I was actually giving a picture of a cake that

  548. whenever we buy a cake, do we need.

  549. To see how it's big. We just know it's there.

  550. We just know that when we need it, when we

  551. buy it, it's already there.

  552. And a build up in faithful. But I needed to

  553. do my part.

  554. I needed to write the things down that I needed

  555. to believe again and lastly, dun sad, I wrote down

  556. to pray that God will guard my heart from unbelief.

  557. That I don't want to live in unbelief. That whenever

  558. people would ask me something and I would reply to

  559. them that they need to see first to believe. I

  560. don't want to impart that to others unbelief And it

  561. starts with me. And I hope you get this. That

  562. doing is an act of prayer as well. Doesn't mean

  563. that when we pray we're not doing something. We're actually

  564. doing something when we pray and ask God to change us.

  565. When we pray and ask God.

  566. To change our heart of stone to a heart of flesh,

  567. what we're saying is Lord, Digo Kyah, do your work

  568. in me.

  569. Its surrenderer our lives to the one who can do it.

  570. Last few reminders, some guide questions during your devotion as

  571. you do your road on a daily basis. Number one,

  572. does it reveal an attitude to change.

  573. Or a sin to forsake?

  574. Ask these questions based on the scripture that we read.

  575. Number two, does it reveal a specific promise to claim?

  576. Does it reveal an example to follow? Does it reveal

  577. a command to obey? In these four questions that we

  578. ask and even that applied, don't skate Thomas.

  579. A story in Jesus.

  580. It's number one. Does it reveal an attitude to change?

  581. Second one, lord attitude know of unbelief? And then second

  582. it reveals an example to follow the example of Jesus

  583. saying that to believe is not necessarily to see, but

  584. actually to believe that it has already happened. Ohibyon in road,

  585. thank you, don Selima. In verse twenty five we end

  586. it says we are called to study.

  587. The word says there.

  588. But the one who looks into the perfect law and

  589. the law of liberty. And there's a keyword here, it

  590. says persevere. When we persevere, we do our part, we

  591. meaning we do it, we fight for it.

  592. Here's discipline, we do it. Until the end.

  593. And I was thinking about an example of who that

  594. this might be. And I know that you've noticed social

  595. media being flooded of posts about Billy Grant, a nineteen

  596. nine year old pastor, reverend, powerful evangelist speaker, someone who

  597. is devoted to the Word until the end at nineteen

  598. nine years old, if he could actually preach at that age.

  599. When we persevere, the Word of God.

  600. Makes stronger roots in our life. The Word of God

  601. just overflows in us.

  602. When we persevere and receive the word, and when we

  603. apply it.

  604. We can actually benefit from it. We have a blessed life.

  605. And this is the reward, the promise, the change gives.

  606. In the end, he said that whoever not only hears it,

  607. but does it, he will be blessed.

  608. In his doing.

  609. When we apply the word of God, when we study

  610. it diligently, we can have a blessed marriage. When we

  611. apply the Word of God and study it, we can

  612. have actually a blessed career, blessed relationships.

  613. He promises that that we will be blessed. It will

  614. always be.

  615. For us, protect us, strengthen us, lead us to the

  616. right path. If you think about it, this is the

  617. heart of God, the only reason why he wants us

  618. to obey this.

  619. For you, it's really for you. It's for us to

  620. have a life that is full, to have a li

  621. life that.

  622. Is worthy, something that honors him, and we can enjoy

  623. that life. As I end, I want to share with you, Luke.

  624. Chapter eleven, verse twenty eight. In this verse, Jesus was

  625. teaching a crowd just like this, a bunch of people,

  626. huge number of people, teaching.

  627. Them what to do with their lives.

  628. He was preaching about the kingdom that is at hand.

  629. Because of the preaching that he gave.

  630. There's this one woman shouts, blessed is your mother who

  631. carried you, Sabina in verse twenty seven ale bayum patita

  632. in our context, by your mommy most.

  633. Chapter with you.

  634. She shouted, blessed are you among women? Sorry, Sabina, blessed

  635. is your mother?

  636. Sorry?

  637. It is that Sabina, blessed is your mother in verse

  638. twenty seven. But what did Jesus say, Versey, It says

  639. blessed Rather are those who hear the word of God

  640. and obey it. I know you want to be blessed.

  641. Sometimes we claim it. Lord, we are blessed people because

  642. we are your children. God wants that for you. He

  643. has given his instructions for us, spoken to us, wants

  644. to speak to us on a daily basis, But we

  645. need to do our part. The biggest part he has

  646. done already by dying on the cross. And this is

  647. our position as sons and daughters of God.

  648. He wants us to be blessed. How do we do that?

  649. We need to obey the word of God. Amen, Amen,

  650. Heavenly Father, Thank you that your word is clear to us.

  651. Thank you, Lord God, that we can declare this word

  652. that we are blessed. Why because we are people who

  653. obey your word. Thank you, Heavenly Father, that you are

  654. in our midst today. Lord, speak to each and every

  655. one of us. Lord, I declare that you're giving them courage.

  656. Right now.

  657. Some of you, my brothers and sisters, are having this

  658. hard time because you know that it's gonna hurt you

  659. if you obey God. Why because it may be a

  660. wrong situation, maybe a relationship that you're in that you

  661. shouldn't be in. But you know what God is saying

  662. that he will be the one to restore you. Some

  663. of us might be afraid to obey God. Why because

  664. we're not sure of what will it turn out of

  665. what will happen if we obey him. But you know what,

  666. this is my declaration for each and every one of us,

  667. even to myself, that when we obey the word of God,

  668. we know that his plans are always good, pleasing, imperfect.

  669. You know, when God blesses us, he does not add

  670. trouble to it. Well, I'm Sabbath always be good for us,

  671. even the time that when we obey, He knows that.

  672. I believe some of us are hesitant, But you know what,

  673. I believe God is bestowing courage to each and everyone.

  674. Nor thank you for your people today, Nor thank you

  675. that their hearts are ripe for you, Lord God. Lord,

  676. thank you that whenever they read the word, they will

  677. look into it Lord, in all angles they will study it.

  678. Lord. Thank you, Lord God, that you have given us

  679. this hunger to know you more.

  680. Nor thank you that as we obey you, Lord God,

  681. You're gonna be a father who is delighted to us

  682. that whenever we do something, Lord, as we obey you, Lord,

  683. you're gonna be a father who is so happy that

  684. you're gonna reward us. Lord Nord, thank you that you're

  685. giving us an inheritance of a children of children that

  686. belongs to you, Lord nor, thank you for bestowing blessings

  687. upon blessings upon your people.

  688. Lord.

  689. They declare that you're gonna surprise them this week. Thank you,

  690. Lord God, that you're gonna move in and through them.

  691. Lord God, Favor upon men, Lord God as they obey you.

  692. Favor upon transactions, Lord, Favor upon restoration of relationships. This

  693. we declare in Jesus' name, and everybody say.

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