A healthy Bible diet.
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In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul challenged the believers to stop being children in Christ and to mature to the stature of Jesus by growing in all aspects. If they mature, they would not be easy prey of deceit because they would know the truth very well.
Peter wrote something similar in
Read 2 Pe 3:14-18
As you may have noticed, He was warning the believers to be prepared and in guard against those “ignorant and unstable that distort the Scriptures.”
How would they be prepared? He also gives the answer -> “growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior.” 18
Unfortunately, according to the statistics I mentioned last Sunday:
81% of believers do not read the Bible daily or regularly.
A good diet is very important to the health of the body. When we talk about diet, we must talk about frequency and type of food.
Regarding frequency: Is eating once a day good? Once a week? Nutritionist recommend that we eat at least three times a day; and if you wan to burn fat, five times a day.
Regarding type of food: hamburgers? hot dogs? Chips? Sodas? (junk food) A thousand times NO! You need vegetables, grain, protein, and water.
As a healthy diet is good for the body, a healthy Bible diet is good for the soul.
How can you know your condition in this spiritual discipline? How is your diet?
Survey
I read the entire Bible at least once a year. ____
2- Yo memorizo las Escrituras regularmente. ____
I regularly memorize the Scriptures. _____
3- Yo tengo un tiempo devocional todos los días. ____
I have a devotional time every day. _____
4- Yo estudio la Biblia regularmente. _____
I regularly study the Bible. _____
5- Yo leo la Biblia todos los días. ____
I read the Bible every day. _____
I can give a detailed description of the Bible. ____
6- Puedo dar una descripción detallada de la Biblia. ____
7- Conozco el resumen de cada libro de la Biblia. ____
I know the summary of each book of the Bible. _____
I know and I can defend the main doctrines of the Bible. ___
8- Conozco y puedo defender las doctrinas principales de la Biblia. ____
I read non-fiction Christian books. _____
9- Leo libros cristianos (no de ficción). _____
I read theological books. _____
10- Leo libros teológicos. _____
What is your Bible stature/maturity?
“No other spiritual discipline is more important than the ingestion of the Word of God. Nothing can substitute it. Simply, there is no healthy christian life apart from a diet of the milk and the meat of the Bible.” (Donald Whitney)
A healthy Bible diet is the most important discipline of a disciple because...
It helps us to love God as He wants.
It helps us to love God as He wants.
The answer Jesus gave to the scribe who asked Him about the greatest commandment tells us that we must love God with knowledge.
And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
mat 22:37
The heart is weak and deceitful and can fail us, but the mind is the deposit of our knowledge. It is thru the knowledge of God that we learn to love Him with our heart.
How can you love someone you do not know? It is impossible. How can you trust in someone you do not know?
We know Him thru His Word.
We know Him thru His Word.
God has revealed Himself thru the creation That’s called General Revelation and is available to all. Thru it, anyone can come to the conclusion that God exists and He is not a creature, but the Creator.
because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
Rom 1:19-20
Thru General Revelation, man only gets a general idea about God.
Thru General Revelation, man only gets a general idea about God.
God has also revealed Himself thru His Word, the Bible, the Specific Revelation. It is thru the Bible that we get a more personal and specific knowledge of Jesus.
“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
There is no other way that you may know Jesus, but thru the Bible.
It is very important that you have a healthy Bible diet because “the more you know Him, the more you love Him”.
The more you know Him, the more you love Him.
The more you know Him, the more you love Him.
How can you love someone you do not know? It is impossible. How can you trust in someone you do not know?
A believer’s faith is not a blind faith! It is a faith based in facts, and in the knowledge about the person we believe in.
How can you know how much He loves you if it is not thru the Bible?
How can you know His promises if it is not thru the Bible?
A healthy Bible diet is the most important discipline of a disciple because...
It helps us to grow in Christ.
It helps us to grow in Christ.
“grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 18
like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
Spiritual growth, growing in grace, and growing in respect to salvation cannot happen apart from the discipline of regular Bible intake.
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It helps us to grow in Christ because
Teaching us what God expects.
Teaching us what God expects.
Growing in grace implies growing in obedience? Obedience to what? To God’s commandments!
How can you know His commandments if you do not read and study the Bible? It is impossible!
The Bible is the Creator’s Manual of Instructions. Thru it, we learn what God wants from us. The Bible gives us the instructions for a life that pleases Him, for a life of joy and peace, for a successful life.
Now you may understand the words of the psalmist:
Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You.
In other words, “I always carry your instructions in my heart to avoid sinning against you”.
If your life is not going well, it may be because you are not living according to the divine instructions.
Equipping us to defeat temptation.
Equipping us to defeat temptation.
“The Bible will keep you away from sin or sin will keep you away from the Bible.”
Who has not heard that Jesus responded to every temptation the devil presented Him, with the Scriptures?
We have heard time after time; and, despite that, we do not give to healthy Bible diet the importance that it deserves. Why? Because we have become hearers, but not doers of the Word!
We have foolishly believed that if we tell the devil, “I rebuke you Satan!” or “I declared you defeated!”, we will defeat temptation. Your words have no power, but the Word of God has power to defeat it.
A healthy Bible diet is the most important discipline of a disciple because...
It prepares us for other spiritual disciplines.
It prepares us for other spiritual disciplines.
Every other spiritual discipline is built on the foundation of knowing the Bible. You cannot run unless you have learned to walk!
Think about any spiritual discipline and you’ll see its connection to discipline of Bible intake. Exam.:
Why should we pray? Because the Bible commands it!
Why should we testify? Because the Bible commands it!
Why should we give? Because the Bible commands it!
It is easier to practice any other discipline if you have the discipline of coming regularly to the Bible than vice-versa.
A healthy Bible diet is the most important discipline of a disciple.
What can you do to implement this discipline?
1- Make the decision tot start today.
2- Take small steps first. You may start with one chapter a day!
3- Increase the steps as soon as you have developed the habit. You may increase to 2-3 chapters a day.
4- Develop the habit of reading the entire Bible every year.