THE PLEASURE OF THE SUCCESSFUL BELIEVER

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: THE PLEASURE OF THE SUCCESSFUL BELIEVER

We started talking about successful believer yesterday and we will continue this morning again.
The successful believer is genuinely and completely in love with the Word of God.

A. The Word Has Captured His Full Affection – Delight = Pleasure! The Word of God isn’t a Book of fables, myths and legends. To the child of God it is the very Word of Truth. it is God-breathed and infallible, inerrant and absolutely perfect. He loves it and he lives it, finding in its pages all he needs to grow and prosper for Jesus.

The value of the Word:
1. It is Food – Job 23:12; Matt. 4:4
a. Milk for the baby – 1 Pet. 2:2
It gives the baby Christian everything he needs to grow up strong and healthy!
It needs to be prepared and served right however!
b. Meat for the growing – Heb. 5:12-14
It provides all we need to make us strong in the Lord!
c. Bread for everyone – John 6:51 Bread is the staple food of the world! No matter where you go, people need the Bread of life!
d. Honey for those in need – Psa. 19:10
nothing has the power to encourage as does a Word from God!

2. It is Light – Psa. 119:105
3. It is Truth – John 17:17
4. It is a Mirror – James 1:23-25
5. It is Water – Eph. 5:25-27
a. It Cleanses – Eph. 5:26

b. It Quenches – John 4:13-14

c. It Refreshes – Psa. 119:150

6. It is a Seed – 1 Pet. 1:23
7. It is a Sword – Heb. 4:12; Eph. 6:17
8. It is a Hammer – Jer. 23:29
a. It can Build Up – Pro. 16:24

b. It can Tear Down – Rev. 2:16; 19:15, 21

9. It is a Fire – Jer. 20:9; Luke 24:32
The successful believer is in love with the Bible. He knows that in its pages, he can find all that his soul requires. It embodies the complete revelation of God to men. It meets the need of the Christian life.

Do you love it as you should?

B. It Has Captured His Full Attention – Not only does the successful believer love the Book, but he lives out the Book daily. The Bible is internalized and it becomes the singular standard for faith and practice. Every thought, every move, every decision is made against the backdrop of God’s Word, and what it has to say about an issue. However, before life can ever be lived in this fashion, the Bible must be consumed and made a vital part of who you are – 2 Tim. 2:15.

The Psalmist declares that the successful believer spends his days and his nights in the pursuit of the Book.

Does the Bible fill your thoughts? Do you find yourself consumed with its content and mesmerized in the meditation of it?
The Bible is never better than when it is read and then lived out!

LET US PRAY
FATHER IN JESUS NAME, LET YOUR WORD CONTINUALLY BE IN OUR MOUTH AND HELP US TO LIVE BY IT IN JESUS NAME. AMEN

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