Doing The Word
Foundation
Statement: Through attachment to
the Word you become a doer of the word and develop spiritually. The key to
being a doer of the Word is attachment.
You can’t do the Word beyond your level of commitment to attach yourself
to the Word. The level of your
attachment determines the output of your performance. You have four attachment
points: eyes, ears, mouth, mind. The attached word will make your inner man
whole and cause you to grow spiritually.
You
have to listen for the purpose of being trained. If we
don’t make the application of
the Word part of our daily lives are growth will be impossibility.
I.
Through attachment to the
word you become a doer of the word and develop spiritually – James
1:19:25
A. If we don’t make the application of the Word part of
our daily lives are growth will be an impossibility
1.
How
then do I make application of the Word part of my daily life?
2.
Practice
of the Word becomes more prevalent when fellowship with the Father is
maintained; If you’ll practice is presence, you’ll be more likely to practice
His Word-Proverbs 3:1-6
B. The key to being a doer
of the word is attachment (Goes-To
go away, depart; Forgets-No longer
caring for, neglecting; Continues-Remain
beside, continues always near)
1.
James
1:22-They both looked into the law of liberty but it’s what you do after you
look that is going to determine whether you are a doer of the Word
a. 24-He looks (sonsiders attentively, fix eyes or mind upon); so this is
someone who is engaged in what he is hearing; He goes his way and forgets and
neglects and no longer cares for what he saw when he looked; We see a
separating and neglecting leading to not being a doer; And you left because you
didn’t care enough to keep looking
b. 25-AND-It’s not
just looking into it, the first guy did that, it’s looking into it and
continuing to look-He cared enough to keep looking
1)
If
I want to be a doer of the word and develop spiritually then I must stay attached
to the Word all the time
c. 25-Not that man (V24) THIS
MAN (V25) shall be blessed
2.
Joshua
1:8-Why is God telling Him to attach like this? So that you may do it; If you
don’t attach yourself to it you won’t be able to be a doer of it
a. Attachment with the
mouth-Shall not depart out of your
mouth; If it doesn’t leave your mouth then it’s attached to your mouth
b. Attachment with the mind-Meditate-To utter, to mutter, muse,
speak, study; To dwell on anything in thought, to turn or revolve in the mind
1)
People
negatively meditate in worry day and night all and if they’d practice doing it
with the Word they’d develop in it
c. Attachment all the time-There
are 2 parts of a day: Day and Night; So means that you’re attached to the word
at all times
d. We start to see this
pattern: Attachment to the word leads to the doing of the word and that leads
to being blessed
3.
Deuteronomy
11:13-25-Therefore-If you bind yourself to these words you’ll be a doer of
these words and be blessed
a. Attachment in the heart-Lay up-Plant, fix, station, set in
place; If you’re laying them in your heart then where you go they go
b. Attachment-Bind-Tie, bind together; Tie them to
your hand and forehead
c. Attachment-Teach them to
your children; Talk about the Word all the time; Write them on the door posts
of your house and on your gates so that you’ll see them coming and going; MSG-Talk about them from the time you get up in
the morning until you fall into bed at night
d. This is more than just
reading some in the morning – We’re talking about attachment all the time
– We are talking about living the Word
4.
Proverbs
4:20-22-You have 4 attachment points-Eyes, ears, mouth, mind
a. Attend-Be attentive, give attention; Incline-Extend; Depart-Lost
from view; Keep-Treasure up
C. If you want to develop
spiritually you have to be a doer of the word, but if you don’t attach yourself
to the word you won’t be a doer of the Word; And therefore you level of
attachment to the word actually determines your development because no
attachment > no doing > no developing
II.
You can’t do the Word
beyond above your level of commitment to attach yourself to the Word; The level
of your attachment determines the output of your performance; If your
attachment to the Word is low your application of the Word CANNOT be high
A. You can’t live on a level
beyond of what you are willing to eat
1.
1
Timothy 4:7-You can’t eat old wives’ fables and exercise yourself unto
godliness – You can’t train towards godliness and eat that junk
2.
1
Corinthians 9:25-To run your race you have to train and your level of training
is going to determine the type of race you can run
B. You can’t train like an
amateur and perform like a professional; You can’t train like most “christians” and live like Christ; You want to be a
spiritual giant then you got to eat a certain way-2 Timothy 3:4
1.
We
talk about living these glorious types of lives where we are doing the works of
Jesus, having miracles and victory in every area, being used of God in a mighty
way but I think we’ve underestimated the type of commitment to the Word it
takes to live like that
2.
You
can live like that, you’re supposed to live like that, you should be striving
to live like that, but you can’t live like that and eat and train like an
amateur; Our dreams can’t be high while our process and practice is low
C. Do I have to do that? No
you don’t have to do that, but how do you want to live; It seems hard-Wrong
thought; Is it worth it?
III.
This word becomes my life
and as a result my inner man starts to grow
A. We live by the Word, We
live by God, We live by faith-John 6:57, Matthew 4:4, Hebrews 10:38
1.
This
word has got to become your life-Prov4:22,John6:63,Col3:4
(Not just something you read in the morning, but how you live everyday)
a. Matthew 4:4-ERV-Their lives depend on what God says; EXB-A
person lives not on bread alone, but by everything that God says; NLV-Man is to
live by every word that God speaks; WE-He needs to live by every Word that God
says
b. We can’t clock it where
the Word is concerned; We read in the morning for this long and then we unhook
– No I live the Word
2.
Because
I live by the Word I filter every experience, every thought, every
circumstance, every occurrence, every happening through this word and then I
make it my practice to conform my thoughts, my beliefs and my actions to line
up with what Word; It is the governing entity over my life
a. We are not living like
this and as a result daily application of the Word has not been in place
3.
We’ve
made the mistake of only practicing the Word when the pressure gets really
great and that limits our effectiveness in times of pressure
B. The attached word will
make your inner man whole, cause you to grow spiritually
1.
This
saving of the soul is not talking about being born again;
a. 18-Your spirit was born
again in V18 and now in V21 your soul needs to be saved/made whole and that
comes through the engrafted word
b. 19-My beloved brethren
– The people he’s righting to apparently are already born again
c. 21-1 Cor13:11-Paul said I put away childish things and putting stuff
away refers to spiritual growth not spiritual salvation and so verse 21 is talking
bout spiritual growth, not spiritual salvation; You don’t put away filthiness
and then get saved, you get saved and then put away filthiness
2.
The
word that is attached will cause you’re inner man to be made whole; It causes
your spirit to develop and your mind to be renewed
a. Soul-Seat of feelings, desires, affections, aversions; The soul
as an essence which differs from the body
b. Engrafted-To attach something permanently to something else; To plant
or introduce something foreign into that which is native for the purpose of
propagation (spreading)-As that word begins to spread and over take the soul
you are developing spiritually
Foundation
Statement: Training in the word cause my perspectivce to be like
Jesus’ perspective and it’s at this place that major spiritual growth takes
place. Your perspective determines your response. You can respond like Jesus if
you see it like he sees it. If
you’ll practice looking at every situation from the perspective of the word of
God and being willing to do it what it says you can get to the place where you
see like Jesus sees and respond like he responds.
IV.
Training in the word
causes my perspective to be like Jesus’ perspective-At this place major
spiritual growth begins to take place
A. Heb5:14-Senses-Faculty of the mind for
perceiving, understanding, judging; How you see it, how you understand it, how
you judge it; Its your perspective
1.
1 Corinthians 13:11-When
I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood (faculty for perceive and
judging) as a child, I thought as a child
a. When he was a child he
had the perspective of a child, but with maturity something happened to his
perspective; you gain perspective
2.
Your
perspective determines your response; You can’t respond like Jesus until you
see it like he sees it
a. When you respond wrong it’s
because you saw it wrong, you thought wrong, you understood wrong
3.
It’s
not just seeing what’s good and bad, it’s seeing in every situation of life
what is going to help the most and what is troublesome and destructive
a. There’s an inherent thing
in nearly every human being that inside they know what’s right and wrong; This
verse isn’t talking about that
b. Discern-Distinguish, decide, determine; Good-Useful, suitable, choice, excellent; Bad-Troublesome, injurious, destructive
B. My perspective can be
trained-I’m exercising my senses/perspective, I’m training them vigorously - Exercised-Exercise vigorously
1.
My
perspective can be trained to see it like the master sees it so I can respond
like he responds and that is maturity
a. You can actually get to
the place where a situation arises and you see it like Jesus sees it and you respond
like he would respond without having to think to do so –That’s having
your senses exercised to discern both good and evil
2.
If
you are willing to practice you can get to the place where you see, think, understand
like Jesus and in turn respond like Jesus
a. You’ll have to practice
looking at every situation from the perspective of the word of God and then be
willing to do what it says; I’m going to the manual and practicing and going to
the manual and practicing and as I’m doing that my perspective is changing
b. We want tot get to the
place where we see everything through the lens of God’s word
c. My thinking and
understanding and perspective can’t be like Jesus’ if I don’t practice the Word
3.
Renewing
the mind is not the process of filling your head with knowledge, but instead
it’s actually changing the way you think and see and perceive and in turn
respond and that doesn’t happen cause you come to church a couple days a week
– That happens when you live the Word
Foundation Statement: God uses people to feed you the Word of God.
Who did He send into your life to feed you.
You got to watch jumping around from preacher to preacher because
there are divine connections that God has made for you, people you are supposed
to stay hooked to. We grow by the 5-fold ministry gifts. God sends a
preacher to initiate change and growth in your life. If all you
needed was a bible to grow up God wouldn’t have given
you these gifts. If you’re going to grow up you have to make much
of the Word and much of the vehicles God uses to get you the word.
V.
To grow to another level
you have to exercise at another level and to exercise at another level you have
to eat at another level – Who’s feeding you?
A. God uses people to feed
you both the milk of the Word and the meat of the Word-1 Corinthians 3:2-I have fed you
1.
Hebrews13:7-Who are you following? Who is preaching the Word of God
to you? Who are you sitting under? Be on the watch against jumping around
2.
John
6:63-They left when they should have stayed – You will be tempted to
leave the ones God has connected you with
3.
1
Corinthians 4:15-There are divine connections and God hasn’t connected you with
every preacher in the body of Christ – There are certain things you need
that you’re only going to be able to get from the ones God has hooked you with
4.
EX:
You can cook something, but not like a five star chef can cook you something
B. Ephesians 4:8,11-We grow
by the 5-fold ministry gift
1.
If
all you needed to grow up was a Bible, God wouldn’t have spoken about these
ministry gifts in such a way
2.
Romans
10, Matthew 13-God sends a preacher to bring the world to build faith to spark
change
3.
This
is not about making much of flesh, this is about making much of God-Matthew
10:40, 1 Thessalonians 2:13
C. If you’re going to grow
up you need to make much of the Word and much of the vehicles God uses to get
you that word
1.
The
Word of God and the vehicles God uses to get me that word, people that are
mature, will esteem those two things very highly – If you don’t value the
word (which you grow by) and the five-fold ministry gifts (which you’re
perfected by) you won’t grow
2.
You
won’t desire what you don’t not value – If you don’t value the word, you
won’t desire the Word and you won’t grow
a. Most people on the planet
don’t think enough of the Word of God to go to any kind of service or even own
a Bible and read it
3.
If
we value God, we value doing what God says; If we value doing what God says
(our ministry) we value growing up; if we value growing up, we value the Word
of God because we grow by the Word; If we value the word we value the vehicle
or vessel God used to the Word to us-Romans 10:10-17
a. You got to be at a place
spiritually to even receive some of these things-So many Christians come to
church, haven’t spent time in the Word all week, they are weak, malnourished,
worn out, tired and can’t handle strong teaching or instruction, but just want
to be encouraged; When you live like that you’ll never grow-You got to get on
solid ground before you can build a house-1Sam30:6