4/30/2023 0 Comments Daily bible scriptures![]() ![]() (1 Thessalonians 1:6)Īnd on his law he meditates day and night. You received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus prays to his Father, “Sanctify them in the truth your word is truth.” It couldn’t be more plain, or more important. We don’t become perfect in this life, but we do become holy. ![]() for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.” Sanctification is the process of becoming holy - that is, becoming more like Christ and like God, who is perfectly holy. “We’re all assigned in some measure to handle the word of God.” Sanctify them in the truth your word is truth. If we want to be made peaceful and powerful through divine grace, Peter says, it happens “in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” That knowledge is found in one place: Scripture. Knowledge of God gained through Scripture is not identical with grace, but Peter says it is a means of grace. May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Every time Jesus was tempted by the devil (Matthew 4:1–11 Mark 1:12–13 Luke 4:1–13), he struck back with “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephesians 6:17), and he had it memorized, so he didn’t have to carry a book in the wilderness. This is our only hope for defeating a supernatural enemy. So, John writes to the young believers,Īnd you have overcome the evil one. He is a thousand times stronger than you are. (John 8:32)Īnd the context is that Jesus is showing the Jewish leaders that, though they think they are not slaves, “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires” (John 8:44). You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Paul says to hold fast to the teaching and thereby save yourself. Salvation has happened to God’s people, salvation is - at this moment - happening to God’s people, and salvation will happen completely at the resurrection of God’s people, and it is happening now by means. ![]() Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Resist feelings of self-sufficiency that say, “I don’t need the Scripture every day.” Here are my ten reasons. So, I have ten reasons that I believe this - ten reasons to make Bible reading, Bible understanding, Bible memory essential to the Christian life. I don’t regard that as a very good habit at all. They think it’s optional because they know so much already and they read so many other books. They don’t do this, and they’ve been Christians for years, and they’re lackadaisical. So, what I want to do is persuade our new believing friend that it is absolutely essential, after coming to faith in Christ, to be radically, deeply, experientially devoted - unshakably, unwaveringly persuaded - that reading and meditating on and understanding and memorizing and enjoying the Scriptures is absolutely essential for the Christian life, which would include being in the word every day with the aim that we will meet God there and, little by little, the glory of his truth will fill and transform our lives.Īnd that may seem obvious to them or to others, but it isn’t obvious, because I know fairly well-along Christians who don’t do this. I have never met a mature, fruitful, strong, spiritually discerning Christian who is not full of Scripture, devoted to regular meditation on Scripture, and given to storing it in the heart through Bible memorization - and that’s not a coincidence. Well, my answer is probably going to be a little bit frustrating, because he’s asking for a particular truth in the Bible, and I’m going to say, “Bible, Bible, Bible, Bible.” Absolutely Essential In other words, where do I start? What is the first and most essential thing I need to know to follow Christ by reading his word?” But with the Bible, I feel like the test is life, and I don’t know what I need to know to be prepared, if that makes sense. ![]() If I were studying for an exam in a class, I would start with a list of essential topics to be tested on. I want to be knowledgeable about Scripture so that it can guide me and so that I can use it to guide others in the future. I’m overwhelmed at how much I don’t know about the Bible. “Pastor John, thank you for this podcast. Today we talk to new believers, and it’s an email from an anonymous listener, a new believer himself. At the start of the week, in episode 1510, we talked about leading someone to Christ, and Pastor John walked us through four treasure chests. ![]()
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