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Do You Want The Word?


"Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all suffering and teach. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers. "
2 Tim. 4:2-3


   If the word is everything that pertains to godliness and life (2 Pet. 1:3). The word is God breathed and is profitable so that every man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17).  The word is the commands of Christ (Matt. 28:20). Christ is righteousness (1 John 2:29). Everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him. We are to walk as he walked (1 John 2:5-6).  If we want to be righteous we must observe all His commands. Any one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous (1 John 3:4-9 *7). He was obedient so that we may have salvation in obedience (Heb. 5:8-9).  Christ is only going to claim those who hear and do the word (Matt. 7:21-23; Matt. 25: 34-40; Luke 8:19-21). Then everything we need to know to be righteous is in the word. Therefore anything contrary to the word is unrighteousness and that is sin (1 John 5:17). To be righteous we must do exactly as we are instructed by the word. 

 Do you want the word?

Do you want it to dwell richly in you (Col. 3:16)?

Are you seeking it?

Are studying it (Joshua 1:7-8)?

What do you need to change?

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