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The Word must be heard

The Word must be heard. weekly focus, daily feast. last week: why? this week: how?. LOOK LISTEN & LIVE God’s Word everyday. John 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. LOOK LISTEN & LIVE God’s Word everyday.

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The Word must be heard

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  1. The Word must be heard

  2. weekly focus, daily feast

  3. last week: why? this week: how? LOOK LISTEN & LIVE God’s Word everyday

  4. John 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. LOOK LISTEN & LIVE God’s Word everyday

  5. What if I already do daily readings? 1 Samueal 16:7 The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." TRAPS: • The goal becomes doing it

  6. What if I already do daily readings? 1 Samueal 16:7 The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." TRAPS: • The goal becomes doing it • We barely engage with it

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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 live it • We barely engage with it • The Bible becomes the precursor • We don’t stop to listen

  10. LOOK - information LISTEN - insight & LIVE - incarnation God’s Word everyday

  11. Things you will need 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. • A Bible

  12. Things you will need 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. • A Bible • A pen

  13. Things you will need 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. • A Bible • A pen • A notebook

  14. Things you will need 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. • A Bible • A pen • A notebook • A reading plan

  15. Things you will need 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. • A Bible • A pen • A notebook • A reading plan

  16. Things you will need to decide Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. • When?

  17. Things you will need to decide Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. • When? • Where?

  18. What will you do? 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. • Ask God to speak to you

  19. What will you do? 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. • Ask God to speak to you • Read your Bible

  20. What will you do? 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. • Ask God to speak to you • Read your Bible • Find the verse that most speaks to you

  21. What will you do? 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. • Ask God to speak to you • Read your Bible • Find the verse that most speaks to you • Begin your journal

  22. Why journal? 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. • 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

  23. Why journal? 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 • 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

  24. Your journal: SOAP Psalms 119:11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. • Scripture

  25. Your journal: SOAP Psalms 37:37Consider the blameless, observe the upright; there is a future for the man of peace. • Scripture • Observation

  26. Your journal: SOAP 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. • Scripture • Observation

  27. Your journal: SOAP 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. • Scripture • Observation

  28. Your journal: SOAP 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. • Scripture • Observation

  29. Your journal: SOAP 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. • Scripture • Observation • Application

  30. Your journal: SOAP 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. • Scripture • Observation • Application

  31. Your journal: SOAP 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. • Scripture • Observation • Application • Prayer wwww.burlingtonbaptist.org.uk/dailybiblereading

  32. Final questions 2 Peter 3:16He writes the 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. • What about the bits I don’t understand?

  33. Final questions Psalms 119:18Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. • What about the bits I don’t understand?

  34. Final questions Luke 11:3Give us each day our daily bread. • What about the bits I don’t understand? • What if I miss a day or more?

  35. 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.

  36. 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.

  37. 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.

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