Sermon Tone Analysis

SCRIPTURE:

Eight Hebrew Words for God’s Covenant Revelation:

Law, torah: instruction

Testimonies, ‘edot: what God solemnly testifies to be His will

Precepts, piqqudim: what God has appointed to be done

Statutes, khuqqim: what the divine Lawgiver has laid down

Commandments, mitswot: what God has commanded

Judgments: mishpatim: what the divine Judge has ruled to be right

Word, dabar: what God has spoken

Word, ‘imrah: the words of God

Over and over again, the psalmist writes of his love for God’s words.

It is said in many different ways:

I seek them

I choose them

I follow them

I desire them

I want you to see some of the verses where the writer specifically says he loves God’s words.

What kind of person would love God’s words?

I want to refer us back to and .

Psalm 111:10

Notice the righteous person described in both feared God and delighted greatly in God’s commandments.

Fearing God and loving what God says go together:

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Ps. 112:63

Psalm 112

Ps 112:63

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Having a deep awe and reverence for God means we have a deep awe and reverence for what He says.

Is reading the Bible a necessary part of your day or does it have a low priority in your life?

George Mueller, after having read the Bible through one hundred times with increasing delight, made this statement: “I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

Friends often say, ‘I have so much to do, so many people to see, I cannot find time for Scripture study.’

Perhaps there are not many who have more to do than I.

For more than half a century I have never known one day when I had not more business than I could get through.

For 4 years I have had annually about 30,000 letters, and most of these have passed through my own hands.

“Then, as pastor of a church with 1,200 believers, great has been by care.

Besides, I have had charge of five immense orphanages; also, at my publishing depot, the printing and circulating of millions of tracts, books, and Bibles; but I have always made it a rule never to begin work until I have had a good season with God and His Word.

The blessing I have received has been wonderful.”

is packed full of ways God’s Word is worthy of our love.

Let me encourage you to read it this week and see what value you can find about God’s words to us.