The Process In Eating God’s Word

Date
June 2, 2022
Speaker
C. William Roberts, Pastor

Hebrews 5:11-14 (KJV)

¹¹Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
¹²For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
¹³For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Jeremiah 15:16 (NIV)

¹⁶When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, Lord God Almighty.

1 Timothy 4:13 (NIV)

¹³Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.

Romans 10:17 (NIV)

¹⁷Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Exodus 24:7 (NIV)

⁷Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”

1 Timothy 4:13 (NIV)

¹³Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.

Deuteronomy 17:18-20 (NIV)

¹⁸When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests.
¹⁹It 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
²⁰and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.

Ezra 7:10 (NIV)

¹⁰For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.

John 5:39-40 (NIV)

³⁹You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
⁴⁰yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

Acts 17:11 (NIV)

¹¹Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

Deuteronomy 11:18-20 (NIV)

¹⁸Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
¹⁹Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
²⁰Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,

Psalm 119:11 (NIV)

¹¹I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

Colossians 3:16 (NIV)

¹⁶Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

Psalm 119:11 (NIV)

¹¹I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

Joshua 1:8 (NIV)

⁸Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Psalm 1:1-3 (NIV)

¹Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
²but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.
³That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.

Psalm 119:97-100 (NIV)

⁹⁷Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.
⁹⁸Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.
⁹⁹I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
¹⁰⁰I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

Joshua 1:8 (KJV)

⁸Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Matthew 7:24-27 (NIV)

²⁴“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
²⁵The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
²⁶But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
²⁷The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

James 1:22-25 (NIV)

²²Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
²³Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror
²⁴and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
²⁵But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV)

²And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.