Commit to building your life on the Word.

Your house is your life. The wise man or woman builds his or her life on the ROCK, Christ. Now, if this series is going to have the greatest impact and lasting value on our lives, then, we have to

In other words, we make the Bible the foundation for my life we are building our lives on the rock, on the truth which never changes. Opinion changes but truth doesn’t change. The Bible was truth 2000 thousand years ago; it is still true today, and it will be truth a thousand years from today. When you build on the rock - God’s Word you’re building something that never changes.

You need a solid foundation for your life when the winds and the storms of life, the trials, troubles, temptations and the tough times come. BUT when your life is founded on the unchanging Word of God, you’re not blown away. You don’t crumble like people who have nothing solid to stand upon.

Here’s a disclaimer. When you commit to building my life on God’s Word, it doesn’t means you will always understand, it doesn’t mean you will always like what it is requiring of you. There are times when you won’t like what God’s Word, command. But even if I don’t like what it, I’m going to build my life on it because it is the truth, and it is always right.That’s the starting point. Here’s the second: Commit to building your life daily on the Word.

Next week in the gospel reading, we’ll hear Jesus say to the tempter, the devil,

Matthew 4:4 NIV - Anglicised

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Bread won’t keep you alive forever, but your faith in God will, a faith that is sustained by the Word.

Romans 10:17 NIV - Anglicised

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

A constant, daily hearing of the Word of Christ will keep your faith alive.

Jesus said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Christ promises blessings when we hear and keep the Word of God. Therefore,

Colossians 3:16 (ESV) 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…”

You get to decide how often and how much of the Word of God dwells in You. Today there are so many ways to access the Word of God. We can…

Hear the Word with our ears.

You can go to Biblegateway.com to choose daily bible reading plan and have someone read it to you each day. It doesn’t cost a penny.

We can also, Read the Word with our eyes.

Some people learn best by hearing. Some by reading. Some people learn best by both hearing and reading at the same time. That’s how I do my daily bible reading. I listen as someone else reads and I read along at the same time while making notes.

Just this past week, as I was reading through my daily Psalms, when I heard the same phrase three times in two different Psalms. After the third time I stopped. I wondered, “how many times is this phrase found in the bible, “Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.

I was “surprised” to find out that it only appears in three places in the bible exactly that way.

I wasn’t content. I exchanged the word, God for LORD and searched the phase, put your hope in the Lord and found it in two more Psalms, Psalm 130:7, and Psalm 131:3.

Here is what happened to me after hearing, reading, and searching? I

Remember the Word with our hearts.

Deuteronomy 32:46 (NIV - Anglicised) — 46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.

Revelation 1:3 (NIV - Anglicised) — 3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

When we “take heart” the Word of God, we keep it there to retrieve when needed.

Matthew 6:21 (NIV - Anglicised) — 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

When we Commit to building our lives on the Word we make it a part of our daily living and Never stop growing.

2 Peter 3:18 (NIV) 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

Like living plants that need a constant connection to a life source, so God’s Word is our source to keep our faith alive.

When we Commit to building our lives on the Word we commit to acting on the WORD.

James 1:22 (ESV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

You know, there is so much today that NOT trustworthy. In a poll done around the elections

The great new is: When we Commit to building our lives on the Word, for we have a rock solid foundation we can trust!

Rulers come and go, nations rise and fall, the Psalmist warns,

Psalm 146:3 (NIV) 3 Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.

You may not have confidence in the news.

But there is one place you can trust.

Psalm 20:7 (NIV) Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Why trust in the author of the Bible, in God’s unchanging Word.

Numbers 23:19 (NIV - Anglicised) — 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfil?

God never lies. He always keeps His Word.

Malachi 3:6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

God Word never changes.

Psalm 62:7–8 (NIV - Anglicised) — 7 My salvation and my honour depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. 8 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

We’ve reached the end of our series, “40 days in the Word,” but we’re really just getting started. Our next series, The “Red Letter challenge” is planned to keep our a great thing going. It starts next Sunday.

Make the Word of God a part of your daily life and…

Colossians 3:16 (ESV) 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…”

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