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Every Word From The Mouth Of God
Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Jan 15, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: The phrase "it is written" is used seventy-two times in the Bible and even four times when Jesus is being tempted by the devil in the wilderness. (The evil one used it once, too.) Why did Jesus and the apostles lean so heavily on Scripture? Is it really so important?
Every Word From the Mouth of God
Please stand as we read our newest memory Scripture together …
“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”
And our memory refresher verse(s) for today is(are) …
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Please open your Bibles to Matthew 4:1-11
Do you want to live forever?
If “living” means to be conscious and aware of our surroundings then we will all “live” forever!
But, do you want that consciousness to be eternal life in the presence of the Lord?
Or do you want that consciousness and awareness to be eternal death where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth and where the worm does not die? This is NOT a pleasant place … (from Mark 9:48)
Assuming that we all want to spend eternity in the presence of the Lord we certainly want to know how to get there, right?
Let’s read Matthew 4:1-11 and see if Jesus gives us a clue: Matthew 4:1-11
(Prayer for help)
What is the phrase we are looking for in this passage?
“Jesus answered, ‘It is written: “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”’”
What do we have here?
- It is written
- Every word that comes from the mouth of God
The Bible contains every word that comes from the mouth of God that He wants us to have and it has all been written down for our spiritual consumption.
What is one principle that we employ when making such assertions?
The Lord knows we are thick headed so if something is important to our salvation He says it over and over and over hoping we’ll finally get it!
Again … Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
What about our memory refresher verse for this Sunday?
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
What is the Scripture Paul is speaking of when he is writing to Timothy?
There was no New Testament at that time, right?
In 2 Peter 3:16b Peter is speaking of Paul’s writings when he says,
“[Pau’s] 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.”
So, what else do we see?
Psalm 1:1-2 KJV (that’s the way I memorized it as a child …)
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.”
The righteous man or woman delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it day and night!
Another one of our memory Scriptures says,
“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.”
Why is this so important? Why do I seem to harp on this week after week?
Pastor Karenlee and I and any of our Sunday School and Bible study teachers will have to give an account to the Lord of every word we have spoken in preaching, teaching or counseling.
(Don’t let that scare you. It is better to obediently teach God’s Word to the best of your ability than to disobey out of fear that you might not teach something correctly.)
Many denominations are being torn apart because of belief or disbelief of the Scriptures. What do you believe?
Do you believe in the actual existence of:
- Able, son of Adam and Eve? (Luke 11:51)
- Noah and the flood? (Matthew 24:37–39)
- Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? (Matthew 8:11, John 8:56–58)
- Lot and his wife? (Luke 17:28-32)
- Sodom and Gomorrah? (Matthew 10:15)
- Manna in the wilderness? (John 6:31)
- The serpent in the Garden of Eden? (John 3:14)
- Jonah? (Matthew 12:39-41)
- Sheba, the Queen of the South? (Matthew 12:42)
- Daniel? (Matthew 24:15)
- Hell? (Matthew 18:9)
- An eternal dwelling place for the righteous? (John 14:2)
Jesus believed all these things and used them as examples in His teachings!
Do you believe that there was a left-handed judge in the Old Testament who went into the private chamber of the king of an opposing nation, stabbed him with a short sword and the guy that he stabbed was so large that the judge left the sword in the king’s belly and his fat closed up over it?
