Devos
01-05-2012, 12:41 AM
God’s Word Is Pure
18 of 22 from Psalm 119
Psalms 119:137-144 TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD,and upright are thy judgments. (138) Thy testimonies thatthou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. (139) My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thywords. (140) Thy word is very pure: therefore thyservant loveth it. (141) I am small and despised: yet donot I forget thy precepts. (142) Thy righteousness is an everlastingrighteousness, and thy law is the truth. (143) Trouble and anguish havetaken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. (144) The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give meunderstanding, and I shall live.
OurPsalmist, King David tells us in (v 144) that his God, The God of Israel, is an EverlastingGod, and begs for the necessaryunderstanding he needs to allow him to live. King David knows that God’s Word is “very pure,” and continues to expound that he loves God’sWord.
(Thisbrings me to my concern.) Our King JamesBible (God’s Word) teaches us through The Parable of the Sower, (Matthew 13:3-9and 18-23) that seventy-five per cent of the people we encounter in ourChurches are non-believers. Consequently, we can surmise they have never read God’s Word, nor do theycherish it as did King David. (In some Christian circles, our Bible hasbecome “just another book.”)
AsChristians, many of us have lost the “zeal” we hadwhen we first accepted Jesus. We have “droppedout” of Church or “moved” to a Church that entertains rather than exhorting TheWord of God.
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will notendure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselvesteachers, having itching ears;
Many of us are running “to and fro” to “find a church”where love and forgiveness is all that is preached. We don’t want to hear about the sin we arein, (and as a hypocrite) we don’t want to attend Church and sit by ahypocrite. Yet, we go where hypocritessit and never consider our sin or our eternity.
Romans 3:10, 23 As it is written, There is none righteous,no, not one:…23 For all have sinned, andcome short of the glory of God;
Everyone that calls himself a Christian should knowthat Jesus does love us, and He has forgiven us. He loved us so much that He died on that “OldRugged Cross,” and while on that Cross, He accepted our sins, (which was placedon Him) and from that Cross, He forgave us.
If wehave accepted Him, (but have failed to follow His teaching,) where do we standwithin His “love and forgiveness?”
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
We are taught that “faith cometh byhearing” and that it is from “the word of God.”
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, andhearing by the word of God.
“If you don’t read God’s Word, attend a Church that onlycalms “itching ears” and refuses to discuss your sin, or your eternity, doyou love The One that loves you and has forgiven you? How do you show it? Have you repented of your sins and yourhypocrisy? Have you realized that your sin of pride hasenveloped your life?”
“Callon Jesus, ask for forgiveness, and repent of your sins. (You have more than you know!) Now begin reading His Word. Learn to love Him as He loves you! Let Him be your Guide eternally.”
Bro John R. E Chastain
Retired Pastor
Wylie, Texas
fundamentalthoughts-preacher.blogspot.com FundamentalThoughtshttps://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/396602453215336106-8449925565882536769?l=kjvdevos.blogspot.com
18 of 22 from Psalm 119
Psalms 119:137-144 TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD,and upright are thy judgments. (138) Thy testimonies thatthou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. (139) My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thywords. (140) Thy word is very pure: therefore thyservant loveth it. (141) I am small and despised: yet donot I forget thy precepts. (142) Thy righteousness is an everlastingrighteousness, and thy law is the truth. (143) Trouble and anguish havetaken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. (144) The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give meunderstanding, and I shall live.
OurPsalmist, King David tells us in (v 144) that his God, The God of Israel, is an EverlastingGod, and begs for the necessaryunderstanding he needs to allow him to live. King David knows that God’s Word is “very pure,” and continues to expound that he loves God’sWord.
(Thisbrings me to my concern.) Our King JamesBible (God’s Word) teaches us through The Parable of the Sower, (Matthew 13:3-9and 18-23) that seventy-five per cent of the people we encounter in ourChurches are non-believers. Consequently, we can surmise they have never read God’s Word, nor do theycherish it as did King David. (In some Christian circles, our Bible hasbecome “just another book.”)
AsChristians, many of us have lost the “zeal” we hadwhen we first accepted Jesus. We have “droppedout” of Church or “moved” to a Church that entertains rather than exhorting TheWord of God.
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will notendure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselvesteachers, having itching ears;
Many of us are running “to and fro” to “find a church”where love and forgiveness is all that is preached. We don’t want to hear about the sin we arein, (and as a hypocrite) we don’t want to attend Church and sit by ahypocrite. Yet, we go where hypocritessit and never consider our sin or our eternity.
Romans 3:10, 23 As it is written, There is none righteous,no, not one:…23 For all have sinned, andcome short of the glory of God;
Everyone that calls himself a Christian should knowthat Jesus does love us, and He has forgiven us. He loved us so much that He died on that “OldRugged Cross,” and while on that Cross, He accepted our sins, (which was placedon Him) and from that Cross, He forgave us.
If wehave accepted Him, (but have failed to follow His teaching,) where do we standwithin His “love and forgiveness?”
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
We are taught that “faith cometh byhearing” and that it is from “the word of God.”
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, andhearing by the word of God.
“If you don’t read God’s Word, attend a Church that onlycalms “itching ears” and refuses to discuss your sin, or your eternity, doyou love The One that loves you and has forgiven you? How do you show it? Have you repented of your sins and yourhypocrisy? Have you realized that your sin of pride hasenveloped your life?”
“Callon Jesus, ask for forgiveness, and repent of your sins. (You have more than you know!) Now begin reading His Word. Learn to love Him as He loves you! Let Him be your Guide eternally.”
Bro John R. E Chastain
Retired Pastor
Wylie, Texas
fundamentalthoughts-preacher.blogspot.com FundamentalThoughtshttps://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/396602453215336106-8449925565882536769?l=kjvdevos.blogspot.com