BUILD YOURSELF UP IN THE WORD!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY JUNE 20, 2021.

SUBJECT : BUILD YOURSELF UP IN THE WORD!

Memory verse: "So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified." (Acts 20 vs 32).

READ: Psalm 119 vs 105; John 14 vs 23; 15 vs 7: 

Psalm 119:105: Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

John 14:23: Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

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.

INTIMATION:

The Word of God is not simply a collection of words from God, or a vehicle for communicating ideas. It is living, life changing, and dynamic as it works in us. The Word is tantamount to a lamp and a light to us in this life, and enables us to walk through this dark world of evil. As you believe and act upon the Word, you will manifest the riches of the glory of God’s inheritance in the believers, and the exceeding greatness of His power toward those who believe. Never only believe, act upon the Word.

Our memory verse states the farewell address of the apostle Paul when he was leaving the church at Ephesus. He may never see them again and he commends them to the Father. He turns them over into the hands of love. And he said, "I not only do this, but I commend you to the word of His grace." These Paul’s epistles are the words of His grace, and so the whole New Testament makes up the book of the words of the Father's grace.

If Paul is to be here with us he would say, "I want you to study it. I want you to prove yourself capable of doing the Word." There will be ability in the Word as you study it to put you over and make you a conqueror. To merely know the Word has no real value in it unless it becomes a part of your life in practicing it.

The psalmist found the Word to be a light to his path that will enable him navigate through life safely and conquer all challenges of life. As you begin to live the Word, then the Word becomes a part of your very being, enters into your blood, into your very system. The strength and ability of God becomes a part of you. 

I wonder how many of us have imagined the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit living in you. Definitely there will be no impossibilities with you! As you say it, you have it. This is the inheritance of the believer whom the Word of the Lord abides in. As His Word abides in you, and you abide in Him, you will be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that will make you walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; and strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power working in you.

The apostle Paul beautifully put it in First Corinthians 2 vs 12 as this; "Now we have received, not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God." These things that were given to us were in the finished work of Christ. We have access to all the riches of His grace unveiled in that finished work of Christ. 

Notice some of them; Satan was conquered, defeated by Jesus before He arose from the dead, and that defeat of Satan is set to our credit so you can safely say and joyously too, "I conquered Satan in Christ." As Jesus was Master of the devil, so I am in His Name. I was raised together with Christ. I have in me His resurrection ability, His resurrection life. I am a Master. 

And that great, mighty Holy Spirit who has come to make His home in my body is guiding me into all the reality of the wealth that has been given to me in Christ. He is making me know what the resurrection means to me: that if I were raised together with Christ, I am Master of the forces that operated in slaying Jesus; that I am now taking Jesus' place in this earth walk. I have a legal right to the use of His name that has all authority. I have a legal right to the ability of the Holy Spirit and I know it is God who is at work within me, willing and working His own good pleasure. I am not left to my own resources.

How ashamed we ought to be that we have ever talked about our weakness and our lack when the ability of God, the measureless ability of God is ours.

Prayer: Abba Father, You are so gracious, and loving that You have given me all that pertains to life and godliness. May my knowledge of You continually increase until I am perfected in Christ, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!