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2012-01-22 AM - Ps Carel Berndt.mp3

Sermon Notes

Introduction

Begin the year with a fresh zeal for the Word of God. Make a decision to please God by studying and knowing His word. See how the Word of God will change your life, renew your thoughts and your words. If you love Him you will do His commandments and those commandments are found in His Word.
Time to ARISE in the Word of God!

A. It helps us

1. It renews our mind (Romans 12:2)
2. Purifies our heart (Psalm 119:9; Hebrews 4:12)
3. It helps us resisting temptation (Psalm 119:11; Matthew 4:1-11)
4. It helps us to know God (Psalm 119:10)
5. It provides guidance (Ephesians 5:17)
6. It aids us in worshipping God (John 4:24; John 17:17)
7. We are commanded to meditate on God's Word (Joshua 1:8)
8. It helps our prayer life (John 15:7)
9. It helps our study of the Bible (2 Timothy 2:15)
10. It protects us against wrong doctrine (Ephesians 4:14)
 
B. It helps others

1. It helps us to evangelize unbelievers ( Acts 2:14-36)
2. It helps us to teach believers (Psalm 119:24)

Ephesians 5:18, 19, 20
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Colossians 3:16, 17
16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

C. Fiiled with Holy Spirit and the Word of God

Conclusion

Ephesians 5:18, 19, 20
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Colossians 3:16, 17
16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

• Rom 12.2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
• Ps 119.9  How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.
• Heb 4.12 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
• Ps 119.11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.
• Matt 4 ….Jesus resisted satan’s temptations by saying IT IS WRITTEN
• Ps 119.10 With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
• Eph 5.17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (only the Bible will teach you this)
• Jn 4.24 ….true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
• Jn 17.17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth
• Jos 1.8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success
• Jn 15.7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
• 2 Tim 2.15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
• Eph 4. 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting
• Holy Spirit  Word of God
• Christ Foundation Stones
• Gal 2.20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me
• Jn 14.21 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
• Rom 10.17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God
• Heb 7.25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
• Heb 10.23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
• Rom 1.16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek
• Matt 6.33 3 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
• 1 Jn 2.155 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him
• Gal 6.14 14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Jn 15.15 5 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you
• 2 Cor 3.5 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
• Mark 10.45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to  serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
• Matt 28.18 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
• Mark 8.34-36“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
• Jn 12.24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
• Rom 6.11 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Eph 5.1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
• 1 Cor 11.1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
• 1Pet 2.21 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps
• Matt 6.19 19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
• Lk 6.38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.