The Church Part 2: Our repsonsiblity to the Word
II Kings 22, 23
Message by Pastor Roe
The foundation of the church is Christ and we are given the necessary information through His Word to live and function. The holy, inerrant, inspired Word of God. Therefore, we as the church have a responsibility to it.
Matt. 4:4 tells us the man cannot live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. If we want to live we must be people of the Word. I believe that families, churches, and our country have gone the way they have because we have forgotten the importance of the Word. It must be foundational.
Well, then how do we place the Word back as the foundation to our lives and our church? First, we must do what Psalms 119:11 tells us to do. We must hide His Word in our hearts that we might no sin against God. We can make excuse after excuse about memorizing or our lack of that ability but they are just that, excuses. The challenge this week is to memorize a verse and do it as a family or with someone else. When Christ was tempted, He quoted scriptures because there is power in the memorized Word. Christ also did it as an example to all those who follow after Him.
Next, we need to make God’s Word a lamp unto our feet, Psalms 119:105. Too many times when decisions need to be made, when trials come our way or when we are tempted, we turn everywhere but to the Word. It should be the first place we turn.
Lastly, we need to engraft it into our life. To engraft means to implant and make part of. The Law of Cognition says you are what you think. The Law of Exposure says that what you expose yourself to is what you think. To implant the Word into our lives we must expose ourselves to the Word continually.
Let’s be doers of the Word and take up our responsibility to the Word!