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Introduction
Greetings...
Last month we studied God’s amazing love for each and everyone of us.
We saw how God’ loves us even when we sin.
We studied God’s great love for us in salvation through His “protection, procreation, and production.”
Proclamation
Procreation
Production
We then examined God’s amazing love for us in salvation by way of the promised Holy Spirit’s seal that protects us and guarantees our salvation ().
This amazing love of our God should invoke a response from His creation.
The promised Holy Spirit’s seal and the protection and guarantee
Last week saw “Man’s first response” which should be to “remove sin from our lives i.e. seek purity.”
Today, I want us to focus on “man’s second response” which should be “keeping God’s Word.”
Let us examine our lesson for today.
However, many struggle with understanding how one
God’s Word
God’s Word is...
You wouldn’t think this would be a difficult sentence to finish, “God’s Word is the Bible.”
After all you can go down to almost any store that sells books and find several “Bibles” just waiting for you to pick up and buy, many of which have the heading “God’s Word.”
Add to that the Bible is the best selling book every year hands down and the idea of finishing the phrase “God’s Word is...” seems silly almost.
However, God’s Word is more than “The Bible” in which I mean it isn’t just a “best selling book” or a bunch of “words on paper.”
God’s Word is...
The mind of God.
Paul, in defending his apostleship, would declare how the Holy Spirit searched the mind of God to deliver to him what God wanted written down to the Corinthians.
Paul then declared this written letter to the Corinthians was “the mind of Christ.”
The synergy between the physical and spiritual of man.
There is a war going on between the physical and spiritual sides of man.
Rom 7:22-23
The “God’s breathed” Word is that which marries the two together into harmony.
Summery
Knowing this helps us better understand Jesus’ comment in “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
Man’s Love In Response To God’s Love Means we understand what Jesus was saying when He said...
Keep My Commandments
You will keep my commandments
Jesus
Jesus is the Word of God manifested.
Jesus is God in
God in the flesh was the manifested “mind of God.”
A lack of understanding this has led to so much confusion it is scary.
The problem is that a faith that is rooted in the Scripture alone is not sustainable.
It will dry up and wither on the vine.
While the Bible is an important and authoritative guide for Christian faith and practice, it isn’t the foundation or center of our faith- Jesus is.
~ Brandon Robertson 1
Jesus was the Bible manifested physically.
The Bible is clear that He is the Word of God in the flesh.
Jesus only did and taught the “Word of God.”
This is exactly what Jesus taught over and over.
Jn 12:
This is why faith comes through the Word of God and not some feeling of “communing with the Spirit of Christ.”
Rom
When Jesus said “keep My commandments” what He was saying was “keep God’s Word.”
Keeping God’s Word isn’t...
A suggestion.
Some have it in their mind that the “mind of God” i.e. the “Holy Scripture” is something that can be taken as one pleases.
This usually is formed in sentences like...
Participants in the new covenant are expected to obey the single command Jesus issued as part of his new covenant: as I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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This is clearly refuted by Jesus when He stated in .
Just about listening to the parts of the Bible you like.
Just about listening to the parts of the Bible you like.
Some have tried to suggest that the only thing we must follow are the “red letters” in the Bible and that anything else is “corrupted” or “less important.”
However, this forgets one important fact, for example, those red letters were written by men that wrote other books of the Bible also.
John also wrote 1, 2, & 3 John.
Luke also wrote the book of Acts and spoke, in the book of Acts, of Paul’s apostleship.
Also, Jesus Himself, quoted from passages “not in red letters” and deemed them authoritative.
Jn 10:
Here Jesus clearly states is Scripture though not in “red letters.”
When Jesus said “Keep My commandments” it meant “keep God’s Word.”
Keeping God’s Word is...
Our response to God’s love for us.
1 Jn 5:
Making captive every thought and action according to the knowledge of Scriptures and not just zeal.
Summery
When we respond to God’s love for us it will always be manifested in obedience to God’s Word.
Conclusion
God’s love is clearly demonstrated to us throughout Scripture, are we responding to that love as we should?
Let us strive for purity in our lives through “keeping God’s Word.”
Invitation
4 Teachings of Jesus That His Followers (Almost) Never Take Seriously (http://bit.ly/2USscWf)
Andy Stanley from North Point Community Church (http://bit.ly/2GjNOba)
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