Do You Love The Word?
Foundation Statement: A sincere and genuine
love for the Word of God a foundation element to living a victorious life –
Psalm 119:92
I.
God is the word; You
can’t separate God from His Word; This Word is a much a manifestation of God as
Jesus was when he was here in the flesh (Jn 1:1-5,14)
A. The relationship you have
with the Word is the one you have with God
1.
To
love the Word is to love God who is the word
2.
To
know the Word intimately is to know God intimately
3.
To
reverence, respect, and honor the Word is to do the same to God
4.
To
value the Word is to value God
B. When you spend time with
the Word, you’re spending time with God
1.
You
can’t have God apart from His Word
II.
Believers’ lives don’t
begin 2 change significantly until they fall in love w/ the Word of God
A. A person can be saved,
but until that person falls in love with the Word they’ll not see significant
change in their life
1.
Anything
God does in your life will be done as a result of u hearing & doing the
Word
2.
John
8:31-Disciples are ones who continue
in the Word & the Word makes them free
a.
Continue-Stay
in a given place; the Word shouldn’t be just something you think about in your
devotional time and that’s it
B. The Word is the beginning
of all transformation (Romans 12:2)
1.
It’s
the Word that begins to change your belief and renew your mind and until the
inside changes the outside won’t change
2.
Pr
23:7-Change takes place from the inside out (Pr 4:23,Mt 12:33,15:16-20)
III.
The Believers Love the
Word (Psalm 119:113,119,140,159)
A. Psalm 119:47-48-When you
love the Word you have an appetite or desire for it
1.
48-When
we worship Him we’re worshipping His Word for He is the Word & that’s why
you can’t truly worship Him with a song that doesn’t line up with His Word (Ps
119:54)
2.
Psalm
119:20-I yearn desperately for Your Word; My soul breaks out for the fervent
desire for your Word; My soul wastes away in pining desire for your Word; My
soul is overcome with an insistent longing for your Word
3.
Psalm
119:40,131-Pant-To thirst, long for, earnestly desire
4.
Psalm
119:45-Seek-Seek with care, require, investigate, demand, study, follow, seek
with application
5.
What
you do not give your attention to you will not desire (James 1:14-15)
B. Psalm 119:97-When you
love the Word Love you invest time and energy into
1.
Where
your heart is, where your mind is, where your time is, where you money is,
where your energy is that’s where your love is
a.
Psalm
119:34-He invest all that He has into this word
2.
Meditate
the Word-Psalm 119:15,23,48, 78,99,148-Meditate-To put forth thoughts, commune, speak, ponder,
sing, to, study, to talk, sing, consider,
a.
Psalm
119:30-He set the Word before him and spent time with it
b.
Psalm
119:173-You got to choose the word
C. When you love the Word
you delight in the Word (Psalm 119:35,47,70,77,111)
1.
Psalm
119:14,16,24,143-Delight-Take great pleasure, be greatly pleased, great
satisfaction, rejoiced to display joy
2.
Psalm
119:103-Pleasant-Delightful, Delicious
3.
Psalm
119:171-Praise-Song
of praise, adoration, thanksgiving, public praise
4.
People
who don’t delight in the Word don’t believe (Romans 15:13)
D. When you love the Word
you’re committed to the Word
1.
Psalm
119:31-He stuck with, cleaved to, and pursued the word closely
2.
Psalm
119:51,157-He was under pressure, but he didn’t turn from the Word
3.
Psalm
119:83,141-He was under pressure, but didn’t ignore and cease to care about the
Word
E. When you love the Word
you Reverence/Value the Word
1.
Psalm
119:161-162-Awe-Reverence, respect, honor, value
a.
Psalm
119:129-Wonderful-Extraordinary, marvelous
2.
Psalm
119:15,117-He values the Word enough to pay attention to it and regard it
(disregard)
3.
Ps
119:16,61,109,153,176-He will not cease to care about or ignore it
4.
Psalm
119:127-When you love the Word properly value it above all else; it has
priority in your life; Matthew 6:24
a.
Psalm
119:72-He values the word above riches, gold, and silver
F. Love for the Word and
Victory
1.
Psalm
119:5-7-He respected the Word and it kept him from being defeated
2.
Psalm
119:87-He would’ve been defeated, if he neglected the Word
3.
Psalm
119:92-He would’ve been defeated if he hadn’t delighted in the word
4.
Psalm
119:163-167-Loving the Word brings peace and never failing
IV.
It’s a love for the word
that is a foundational principle to living a successful & victorious life
A. Psalm 1:1-3-He delights,
desires, takes pleasure in and values the Word
1.
Whatever
this guy does prospers
B. Joshua 1:8-Joshua has
been called to lead the Children of Israel into the promise land and task that
his great mentor Moses did not accomplish
1.
God’s
counsel to him is to meditate the Word day and night and then he would make his
way prosperous and then he’d have good success
C. Why must you have the
word to succeed?
1.
No
Word = No faith = No victory (1 John 5:4, Romans 10:12-17)
D. If you don’t have time
for the Word you don’t have time to win
1.
Luke
10:38-Mary chose the Word
2.
Luke
14:16-33-They were too buy for the Word
E. Despise the Word and you
get destruction (Proverbs 13:13)
1.
Despise-Hold
has insignificant, disrespect, not value it properly
2.
Rewarded-Nothing
missing and nothing broken, complete
F. What people don’t know
from the word is cutting them off (Hosea 4:6)
1.
It’s
your lack of knowledge of God’s word that’s cutting you off from all that God
has for you
2.
They
rejected knowledge