Sunday 19 June 2016

Heeding God’s Word – Part XII

Over the course of a series of blogs we are outlining two reasons why heeding the Bible is going to be at the foundation of our life together as a church.  From our previous blogs we saw that the first reason was that the Bible is at the foundation of our life together because it is God’s word.  In this blog we will continue to outline the second reason…because the Bible is trustworthy and true.

The difference the truth makes…to life now as God’s saved people…
From Psalm 119 I have picked out 9 differences having this trustworthy and true word of God at the foundation of our life together as a church will make.  We will look at 1 each day over 9 days…

7 – Hearing and Heeding God’s word leads a life where we are Passionate for God’s Word (and seeing people trust it)
Psalm 119.139 My zeal wears me out, for my enemies ignore your words.  To respond rightly to God’s trustworthy and true word is to be passionate about seeing the truth of that word heard…
·       To not be Ok when it is rejected by our peers and family…
·       To not be OK when it is maligned in the public square…
·       To not be OK when it is re-shaped…re-interpreted…re-packaged by others…
And not because we are pendants…no…because we know why God has spoken the truth…we know it is his word of rescue…we are zealous about God’s truth because it is how he saves lives and we want people to live!

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