Transcript Slide 1 - Burlington Baptist Church

The Word must be heard
weekly focus, daily feast
LOOK
LISTEN
& LIVE
God’s Word everyday
last week: why?
this week: how?
John 1:10 He was in the
LOOK
LISTEN
& LIVE
God’s Word everyday
world, and though the world
was made through him, the
world did not recognize him.
What if I already do daily
readings?
1 Samueal 16:7 The Lord
TRAPS:
•The goal becomes
doing it
does not look at the things
man looks at. Man looks at
the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks at the
heart."
What if I already do daily
readings?
1 Samueal 16:7 The Lord
TRAPS:
•The goal becomes
doing it
•We barely engage
with it
does not look at the things
man looks at. Man looks at
the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks at the
heart."
What if I already do daily
readings?
2 Timothy 3:16All
Scripture is God-breathed
and is useful for teaching,
rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness,
TRAPS:
•The goal becomes
doing it
•We barely engage
with it
•The Bible becomes the precursor
What if I already do daily
readings?
Matthew 11:15He who
has ears, let him hear.
TRAPS:
•The goal becomes
doing it
•We barely engage
with it
•The Bible becomes the precursor
•We don’t stop to listen
What if I already do daily
readings?
Matthew 7:24 "Therefore
everyone who hears these
words of mine and puts them
into practice is like a wise
man ...
TRAPS:
•The goal becomes
doing it
•
We
struggle
to
•We barely engage
live
it
with it
•The Bible becomes the precursor
•We don’t stop to listen
LOOK - information
LISTEN - insight
& LIVE - incarnation
God’s Word everyday
Things you will need
•A Bible
2 Timothy 2:15 Do your
best to present yourself to
God as one approved, a
workman who does not need
to be ashamed and who
correctly handles the word
of truth.
Things you will need
•A Bible
•A pen
2 Timothy 2:15 Do your
best to present yourself to
God as one approved, a
workman who does not need
to be ashamed and who
correctly handles the word
of truth.
Things you will need
•A Bible
•A pen
•A notebook
2 Timothy 2:15 Do your
best to present yourself to
God as one approved, a
workman who does not need
to be ashamed and who
correctly handles the word
of truth.
Things you will need
•A Bible
•A pen
•A notebook
•A reading plan
2 Timothy 2:15 Do your
best to present yourself to
God as one approved, a
workman who does not need
to be ashamed and who
correctly handles the word
of truth.
Things you will need
•A Bible
•A pen
•A notebook
•A reading plan
2 Timothy 2:15 Do your
best to present yourself to
God as one approved, a
workman who does not need
to be ashamed and who
correctly handles the word
of truth.
Things you will need to
decide
Mark 1:35 Very early in
•When?
the morning, while it was
still dark, Jesus got up, left
the house and went off to a
solitary place, where he
prayed.
Things you will need to
decide
Mark 1:35 Very early in
•When?
•Where?
the morning, while it was
still dark, Jesus got up, left
the house and went off to a
solitary place, where he
prayed.
What will you do?
1.Ask God to speak to
you
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living
and active. Sharper than any
double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing
soul and spirit, joints and
marrow; it judges the
thoughts and attitudes of
the heart.
What will you do?
1.Ask God to speak to
you
2.Read your Bible
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living
and active. Sharper than any
double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing
soul and spirit, joints and
marrow; it judges the
thoughts and attitudes of
the heart.
What will you do?
1.Ask God to speak to
you
2.Read your Bible
3.Find the verse that
most speaks to you
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living
and active. Sharper than any
double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing
soul and spirit, joints and
marrow; it judges the
thoughts and attitudes of
the heart.
What will you do?
1.Ask God to speak to
you
2.Read your Bible
3.Find the verse that
most speaks to you
4.Begin your journal
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living
and active. Sharper than any
double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing
soul and spirit, joints and
marrow; it judges the
thoughts and attitudes of
the heart.
Why journal?
•A sign you are taking
it seriously
•A sign you want to
remember it
•A sign you want to
return to it & act
upon it
Jeremiah 30:2
"This is what the Lord, the
God of Israel, says: 'Write in
a book all the words I have
spoken to you.
Why journal?
•A sign you are taking
it seriously
•A sign you want to
remember it
•A sign you want to
return to it & act
upon it
Deuteronomy 17:18-20
When he takes the throne of
his kingdom, he is to write
for himself on a scroll a copy
of this law, ...19 It is to be
with him, and he is to read
it all the days of his life so
that he may learn to revere
the Lord his God and follow
carefully all the words of
this law and these decrees
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
Psalms 119:11 I have
hidden your word in my
heart that I might not sin
against you.
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
•Observation
Psalms 37:37Consider the
blameless, observe the
upright; there is a future for
the man of peace.
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
•Observation
Luke 12:27
"Consider how the lilies
grow. They do not labor or
spin. Yet I tell you, not even
Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of
these.
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
•Observation
Mark 12:41
Jesus sat down opposite the
place where the offerings
were put and watched the
crowd putting their money
into the temple treasury.
Many rich people threw in
large amounts.
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
•Observation
Galatians 3:6-7
Consider Abraham: "He
believed God, and it was
credited to him as
righteousness." 7
Understand, then, that those
who believe are children of
Abraham.
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
•Observation
•Application
John 8:37
I know you are Abraham's
descendants. Yet you are
ready to kill me, because
you have no room for my
word.
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
•Observation
•Application
James 1:23-25
Anyone who listens to the
word but does not do what it
says is like a man who looks
at his face in a mirror and,
after looking at himself,
goes away and immediately
forgets what he looks like.
But the man who looks
intently .. not forgetting
what he has heard, but
doing it--he will be blessed
in what he does.
Your journal: SOAP
•Scripture
•Observation
•Application
•Prayer
Colossinas 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly as you teach
and admonish one another
with all wisdom, and as you
sing psalms, hymns and
spiritual songs with gratitude
in your hearts to God.
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Final questions
2 Peter 3:16He writes the
•What about the bits
I don’t understand?
same way in all his letters,
speaking in them of these
matters. His letters contain
some things that are hard to
understand, which ignorant
and unstable people distort,
as they do the other
Scriptures, to their own
destruction.
Final questions
Psalms 119:18Open my
•What about the bits
I don’t understand?
eyes that I may see
wonderful things in your law.
Final questions
Luke 11:3Give us each day
•What about the bits
I don’t understand?
•What if I miss a day
or more?
our daily bread.
We have lived in a famine
long enough:
Amos 8:11"The days are coming," declares
the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a
famine through the land-- not a famine of
food or a thirst for water, but a famine of
hearing the words of the Lord.
We have lived in a famine
long enough:
John 6:35Then Jesus declared, "I am the
bread of life. He who comes to me will never
go hungry, and he who believes in me will
never be thirsty.
We have lived in a famine
long enough:
Psalms 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who does
not walk in the counsel of the wicked or
stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat
of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of
the Lord, and on his law he meditates day
and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by
streams of water, which yields its fruit in
season and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.