Sermon Tone Analysis

! The Abiding Word – 2:24

!! The Effects of the Word in our lives.

1.       Keep us from sin (Psalm 119:11)

 

The Object Aimed

 

a.

Here is the best thing - - “God’s Word”

b.       Hidden in the best place - - “My heart”

c.

For the best purposes - - “that I might not sin against you”

 

The Illustration /Joseph Genesis 39:7-9/

 

a.

He loves the Word because it is /God’s /Word

b.

He hates sin because it is sin against /God /Himself – Psalm 51:4

 

The Way in which to Do This

 

a.

It’s a choice to be made – Daniel 1:8: /Daniel purposed in his heart/

b.       Psalm 119:10              

 

1)       Seek Him with the /whole heart—/an /undivided heart/

2)       The more a man's whole heart is set upon holiness the more does he dread falling into sin

3)       A whole heart that seeks after God will not want to wander from a path of holiness.

“But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find /Him/ if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul” Deuteronomy 4:29

                “And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did /it/ with all his heart.

So he prospered 2 Chronicles 31:21.

“And you will seek Me and find /Me/, when you search for Me with all your heart” Jeremiah 29:13

 

c.

Those who seek the Lord with a W/hole Heart/ will:

 

1)       Walk in the law of the Lord – v.1

2)       Keep His testimonies – v.2

3)       Do no iniquity – v.3

4)       Keep His precepts diligently – v.4

5)       Not be ashamed when looking into all His commandments – v.6

6)       Praise Him with uprightness of heart – v.7

7)       Have his way cleansed by taking heed to God’s Word – v.9

8)       Declare with his lips the judgments of His mouth – v.13

9)       Rejoice in the way of His testimonies – v.14

10)   Meditate on His precepts & contemplate His ways – v.15

11)   Delight himself in His statutes & not forget His Word – v.16

 

2.

Power over temptation

 

a.

Christ used the Word against Satan – Matthew 4:4, 7, 10

 

 

3.

Power in prayer, /“If you abide in Me…” /John 15:7

 

a.

There are limitations:

 

1)       /must abide in Christ & His Word/ (John 15:7)

 

2)       /must pray in  accordance to His will/ (1John 5:14)

With abiding in Christ our self-will is kept down.

3)       /must pray only to seek the glory of God// /(John 14:13)

James 4:1-3 /not for selfish desires/

 

4)       /must pray in “His Name”/  (John 14:13)

Asking in the name of another means that the other has authorized me and sent me to ask, and wants to be considered as asking himself.

If the name of Christ is to be wholly at my disposal, so that I may have the full command of it for all I will, it must be because if first put myself wholly at His disposal, so that He has free and full command of me /self-denial.

/ 

 

5)       /must have faith/ Matthew 9:2

 

b.

This prayer is for God to accomplish His purposes by placing His desires in my heart (Psalm37:4)

 

1)       Jeremiah 31:33 cf.

2Cor.3:3;

Ezek.36:25-27;

Heb.8:10

When God does this we can say as Jesus did “I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law /is/ within my heart."

/ /

/Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, /(Ephesians 3:20 NKJV).

!!

The Effects of the Word in others.

1.       Produces Conviction, /“The Word of God is living and active.”/

Scripture says several things about the Word of God being /living and powerful/.

The Word of God is:

 

a.

/the piercing sword of the Spirit/ (Ephes.

6:17).

It strikes and arouses an awareness of one’s immortal spirit and discerns one’s thoughts and motives (Hebrews 4:12).

b.       /the reflecting mirror of life/ (James 1:22-25).

It reflects and exposes the kind of person one is (Romans 3:9-27).

c.        /the burning fire of conviction /(Jeremiah 23:9, 29).

It burns and consumes the heart, the conscience of men (Jeremiah 5:14; Luke 24:32).

d.       /the pounding hammer which crushes the hardness of man’s heart/ (Jeremiah 23:29).

e.        /the reproducing seed of the new birth/ (1 Peter 2:23).

Man is spiritually born again by hearing and believing the Word (Romans 10:17).

f.        /the nourishing food of the believer/ (1 Peter 2:2-3).

The believer grows and lives and is built up through the study of the Word (Matthew 4:4; Acts 20:32; Hebrews 5:12-14).

g.        /the guiding light of the believer/ (Psalm 119:105).

h.       /the cleansing water of sanctification /(John 15:3; John 17:17).

God washes and cleanses His own, the church, through the use of the Word (Ephes.

5:25b-26).

i.         /the measuring instrument by which one receives the approval of God/ (2 Tim.

2:15).

2.

Accomplishes results, /“My Word will not return to Me void” / Isaiah 55:8-11

 

 

!! How to read the Bible.

1.       Take time.

!!!  

!!! Bible Study Is Essential…

!!!!  

!!!! /To Spiritual Growth/

!!!!! 1st Corinthians 14:20, 1 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 3:17

 

!!!! /For Spiritual Discernment// /

!!!!! Hebrews 5:11-14, 2 Peter 2:3

 

!!!! /To Spiritual Effectiveness/

!!!!! 2nd Timothy 3:16-17

!!!  

!!! Bible Study Is Our Duty…

“We fail in our duty to study God’s Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work.

Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion.

Our problem is that we are lazy.”

/R.C.

Sproul/

 

        /Scriptural Evidence/

        Matthew 11:29; 1Timothy 4:4-6; 2Timothy 2:1