The Word of God

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The Word of God

• Deuteronomy 5.28-6.3

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• 28 The Lord heard your words when you spoke to
  me. He said to me, I have heard the words that
  these people have spoken to you. Everything they
  have said is right. 29 If only they had such a
  heart to fear Me and keep all My commands always,
  so that they and their children will prosper
  forever. 30 Go and tell them Return to your
  tents. 31 But you stand here with Me, and I will
  tell you every commandthe statutes and
  ordinancesyou are to teach them, so that they
  may follow them in the land I am giving them to
  possess. 32 Be careful to do as the Lord your
  God has commanded you you are not to turn aside
  to the right or the left. 33 Follow the whole
  instruction the Lord your God has commanded you,
  so that you may live, prosper, and have a long
  life in the land you will possess.

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• 1 This is the commandthe statutes and
  ordinancesthe Lord your God has instructed me to
  teach you, so that you may follow them in the
  land you are about to enter and possess. 2 Do
  this so that you may fear the Lord your God all
  the days of your life by keeping all His statutes
  and commands I am giving you, your son, and your
  grandson, and so that you may have a long life.
  3 Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them,
  so that you may prosper and multiply greatly,
  because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
  promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Deuteronomy 5.28-6.3

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Teaching the Word
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• But you stand here with Me, and I will tell you
  every commandthe statutes and ordinancesyou are
  to teach them
• Deuteronomy 5.31a

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• I solemnly charge you before God and Christ
  Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the
  dead, and because of His appearing and His
  kingdom 2 Proclaim the message persist in it
  whether convenient or not rebuke, correct, and
  encourage with great patience and teaching.
• 2 Timothy 4.1-2

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• For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
  will be saved. 14 But how can they call on Him
  they have not believed in? And how can they
  believe without hearing about Him? And how can
  they hear without a preacher?
• Romans 10.14

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Following the Word
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• But you stand here with Me, and I will tell you
  every commandthe statutes and ordinancesyou are
  to teach them, so that they may follow them
  Deuteronomy 5.31

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• Listen, Israel The Lord our God, the Lord is
  One. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your
  heart, with all your soul, and with all your
  strength. 6 These words that I am giving you
  today are to be in your heart. 7 Repeat them to
  your children. Talk about them when you sit in
  your house and when you walk along the road, when
  you lie down and when you get up. 8 Bind them as
  a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on
  your forehead. 9 Write them on the doorposts of
  your house and on your gates.
• Deuteronomy 6.4-9

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• 12 For the word of God is living and effective
  and sharper than any double-edged sword,
  penetrating as far as the separation of soul and
  spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge
  the ideas and thoughts of the heart. 13 No
  creature is hidden from Him, but all things are
  naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we
  must give an account.
• Hebrews 4.12-13

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• If you open yourself, day by day and week by
  week, to the message of Scripture, it grand sweep
  and its small details, and allow the faithful
  preaching of Jesus and his achievement to enter
  your consciousness and soak down into your
  imagination and heart, then the admittedly
  uncomfortable work of Gods word will be
  happening on a regular basis, showing you (as we
  say) where you really are, whats going on deep
  inside.
• N.T. Wright, Hebrews for Everyone

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Prospering Because of the Word
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• Follow the whole instruction the Lord your God
  has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper,
  and have a long life in the land you will
  possess.
• Deuteronomy 5.33

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• How happy is the man who does not follow
  the advice of the wicked or take the path
  of sinners or join a group of mockers! 2 Instead,
  his delight is in the Lords instruction, and he
  meditates on it day and night. 3 He is like a
  tree planted beside streams of water that bears
  its fruit in season and whose leaf
  does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
• Psalm 1.1-3

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• Now His commands are not a burden, 4 because
  whatever has been born of God conquers the world.
  
• 1 John 5.4

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The Word of God

• Teaching the WordFollowing the WordProspering
  Because of the Word