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What We Are to Do with the Word of God

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The following list is taking from the works of F.E. Marsh. The commentaries of F.E. Marsh are one of the many items that will be added to the Blue Letter Bible website in 2012. 

What are we to do with the word of God? Eight things:

Receive the Word with meekness, and thus be saved from all wickedness (James 1:21).

Let it dwell in us richly, that we may teach others (Colossians 3:16).

Keep it, and thus have His love perfected in us (1 John 2:5).

Continue in it, that it may be manifest that we are His disciples indeed (John 8:31).

Hold it fast, that we may be able to convince gainsayers (Titus 1:9).

Be doers of it, and not deceive ourselves by thinking that hearing is enough without the doing (James 1:22).

Speak it out boldly, that the Lord may be honoured (Philippians 1:14).

Hold it forth faithfully, by living it out truly (Philippians 2:16).

Comments

  1. What 10 things
    Abide in the word of God & you will be His Disciples indeed. (John 8:31)

    Meditate on it day & night that u may observe to do all that is written in it, for then u will make your way prosperous & then u will have good success. Joshua 1:8

    • Dear Mr. Rai,
      I raise you and all your Muslim brothers up to Christ Jesus that be drawn closer to the only true gospel of salvation thru the death and reasarection of Jesus Christ.
      Until the whole world hears

  4. Help us LORD to not pretend that your words are ours and that we would not seek our own glory Help us O LORD that we would glorify you Help us LORD to know your words are our suffiency

    1 Corinthians 4:7 For who maketh thee to differ from another and what hast thou that thou didst not receive now if thou didst receive it why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it

    John 7:16-18 JESUS answered them and said MY doctrine is not mine but his that sent ME (17) IF any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of GOD or whether I speak of myself (18) HE that speaketh of himself SEEKETH HIS OWN GLORY but he that seeketh HIS glory that sent him the same is true and no unrighteousness is in him

    Jeremiah 23:21 I have not sent these prophets yet they ran I have not spoken to them yet they prophesied

    Jeremiah 23:22 But if they had stood in MY counsel and had caused MY people to here MY words then they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doing

    Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel therefore hear the word at MY mouth and give them warning from ME

    Ezekiel 3:18 When I say unto the wicked thou shalt surely die and thou givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand

    1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine continue in them for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee

    Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the LORD is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid

    Proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom is an house builded and by understanding it is established

    Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong yea a man of knowledge increaseth strength

    Proverbs 8:14 Counsel is mine and sound wisdom I am understanding I have strength

    1 Timothy 6:3 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words even the words of our LORD JESUS CHRIST and to the doctrine which is according to godliness (4) He is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings (5) perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness from such withdraw thyself

  6. What are we to do with the word of God?

    …worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev. 19:10

    Luke 10;38-42

  7. II Timothy 2:15 Study it
    Acts 17:11 Search it daily

    Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly-dividing the Word of truth.

    God is encouraging us to study it. The Word, so it mush be available not to study it.

    Show thyself approved unto HIM, not people or anyone.
    God is encouraging us to approve ourselves to Him.
    So it must be available to approve ourselves to others.

    A workman, you and I, a workman of what? The truth.

    Needeth not to be ashamed,
    God is encouraging us not to be ashamed, so it must be available to be ashamed. How? wrongly dividing the true.

    Rightly-dividing the word of true, God here is encouraging us to rightly-divide it
    It must be available to wrongly-divide the word of truth if God is encouraging us not to.

    The Word of truth, not our own truth, God’s truth. So it must be available to have something other then the truth.
    God wants us to focus and study on His Truth, bring His Truth down to our thinking, not our thinking up to Him, see it?

    That’s what we also do with the Word of God, Study,approved,not ashamed,workman,rightly-divide it, the word, the truth.

    man, let’s have fun with God’s Word and quite twisting it up.

    Good Day
    Jim Schultz