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Key Verse

  • All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 AMP

Attitude towards Scripture

1. Crave the Word

  • Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation 1 Peter 2:2 AMPC
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  • like newborn babies, long1 for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation 1 Peter 2:2 NASB
Long = intensely crave 

2. Wait for the Word

  • I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. Habakkuk 2:1 NKJV
  • I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, And I wait for His word. Psalm 130:5 NASB

3. Respect GOD's Word

  • “For all these things My hand has made, So all these things came into being [by and for Me],” declares the LORD. “But to this one I will look [graciously], To him who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who [reverently] trembles at My word and honors My commands. Isaiah 66:2 AMP

4. Meditate on Word

  • But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditatesa day and night. Psalm 1:2 NKJV 
  • This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate2 in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8 NKJV
aponders by talking to himself

5. Memorise the Word

  • Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119:11 ASV
  • Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Colossians 3:16 NKJV
  • My son, pay attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. They are not to escape from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, And healing to all their body. Proverbs 4:20-22 NASB

6. Devoted to the Word

  • Ezra: For Ezra had firmly resolved to study the Law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel. Ezra 7:10 NASB
  • Apostles: we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” Acts 6:4 NASB
  • Paul: But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. Acts 18:5 NASB
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  • we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” Acts 6:4 NKJV

7. Knowledge of the Word

  • On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message3 until midnight… When Paul had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left. Acts 20:7&11 NASB
Paul knew enough of the Word to be able to speak all night till daybreak.

8. Treasure GOD's Word

  • I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food. Job 23:12 NKJV
  • I rejoice at Your word As one who finds great treasure. Psalm 119:162 NKJV

9. Teach children

  • These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be [written] on your heart and mind. You shall teach them diligently to your children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 AMP

Benefits

1. Avoid Error

  • Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29 ESV
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  • Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. Matthew 22:29 HCSB
  • Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29 NKJV

2. Cleanses

Her = the church i.e. believers

3. Enlightenment

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4. Equips

  • All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; so that the man of God may be complete and proficient, outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 AMP

5. Growth & Sustenance

  • Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ” Matthew 4:4 BSB
  • He humbled you and allowed you to be hungry and fed you with manna, [a substance] which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you understand [by personal experience] that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. Deuteronomy 8:3 AMP
  • like newborn babies [you should] long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may be nurtured and grow in respect to salvation [its ultimate fulfillment] 1 Peter 2:2 AMP

6. Life & Health

  • My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:20-22 NKJV

7. Brings about Miracles

  • we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net. Luke 5:5 NKJV
  • When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. Luke 5:6 NIV

8. Peace

  • Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. Psalm 119:165 NKJV
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  • Those who love Your Law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble. Psalm 119:165 NASB

9. Prosperity & Success

  • This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8 NKJV

10. Reverence for GOD

  • Establish Your word and confirm Your promise to Your servant, As that which produces [awe-inspired] reverence for You. Psalm 119:38 AMP
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  • Establish Your word to Your servant, to produce reverence for You. Psalm 119:38 BSB

11. Revives

  • The law of the Lord is perfect (flawless), restoring and refreshing the soul; The statutes of the Lord are reliable and trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. Psalm 19:7-8 AMP
  • revive me with Your word. Psalm 119:37 BSB
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  • The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the [whole] person; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure and bright, enlightening the eyes. Psalm 19:7-8 AMPC

12. Salvation

  • receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21 NKJV
  • having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever 1 Peter 1:23 NKJV
  • He gave us birth [as sons] by [His] Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures [a sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself]. James 1:18 AMP

13. Understanding & Insight

  • I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word], For Your testimonies are my meditation. Psalm 119:99 AMP

14. Weapon

  • And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Ephesians 6:17 NASB
  • The high praises of God shall be in their mouths, And a two-edged sword in their hands, To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishment on the peoples, To bind their kings with chains, And their dignitaries with shackles of iron, To execute against them the judgment written. This is an honor for all His godly ones. Psalm 149:6-9 NASB
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  • The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’” Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. “I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.” But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Luke 4:3-8 BSB

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  • Jesus replied to him, “It is written and forever remains written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’” … Jesus replied to him, “It is written and forever remains written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve only Him.’” … Jesus replied to him, “It is said [in Scripture], ‘you shall not tempt the Lord your God [to prove Himself to you].’” Luke 4:1-13 AMP

15. GOD reveals Himself

  • And the Lord continued to appear in Shiloh, for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word4 of the Lord. 1 Samuel 3:21 AMPC

The Living Word

1. Word is alive

  • the word of God is living and active and full of power [making it operative, energizing, and effective]. Hebrews 4:12 AMP
  • the word of God is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its inherent, supernatural power in those of faith]. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 AMP
  • The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life [providing eternal life]. John 6:63 AMP
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  • It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63 NKJV

2. The Word can be alive in you

  • I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 1 John 2:14 NIV

3. Jesus is the Word

  • In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. John 1:1-3 NKJV
  • For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 1 John 5:7 NKJV

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  • In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was [continually existing] in the beginning [co-eternally] with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him not even one thing was made that has come into being. John 1:1-3 AMP
  • So there are three witnesses in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are One 1 John 5:7 AMP

Insights

1. Importance

  • I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name. Psalm 138:2 NKJV
  • Every word of God is tested and refined [like silver] Proverbs 30:5 AMP
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  • I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else. Psalm 138:2 BSB
  • Every word of God proves true Proverbs 30:5 ESV

2. Permanency

  • For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you. 1 Peter 1:23-23 BSB
  • Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away. Matthew 24:35 BSB

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  • Heaven and earth [as now known] will pass away, but My words will not pass away. Matthew 24:35 AMP

3. Understanding Scripture

  • They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while
    He was talking with us on the road and opening the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:32 AMP
  • Then He [thoroughly] opened up their minds to understand the Scriptures Luke 24:45 AMPC
Why unbelievers don’t understand scripture
 
  • The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life [providing eternal life]. John 6:63 AMP
  • But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters]. 1 Corinthians 2:14 AMP
  • Why do you misunderstand what I say? It is because you are unable to hear what I am saying. [You cannot bear to listen to My message; your ears are shut to My teaching.] You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. John 8:43-44 AMPC
GOD needs to open our mind to understand Scripture.

Word Types

  • 3056 λόγος [LO/GOS] {lógos} \log’-os\
    from 3004; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):–account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work. Eg. John 1:1
  • 4487 ῥῆμα [R(H=MA] {rhēma} \hray’-mah\
    from 4483; an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever:–+ evil, + nothing, saying, word. Eg Matthew 4:4
  • 1697 דּבר [dâbâr] \daw-bawr’\
    From 1696; a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) of thing; adverbially a cause: – {act} {advice} {affair} {answer} X any such ({thing}) + because {of} {book} {business} {care} {case} {cause} certain {rate} + {chronicles} {commandment} X commune ({-ication}) + concern {[-ing]} + {confer} {counsel} + {dearth} {decree} {deed} X {disease} {due} {duty} {effect} + {eloquent} {errand} [evil favoured-] {ness} + {glory} + {harm} {hurt} + {iniquity} + {judgment} {language} + {lying} {manner} {matter} {message} [no] {thing} {oracle} X {ought} X {parts} + {pertaining} + {please} {portion} + {power} {promise} {provision} {purpose} {question} {rate} {reason} {report} {request} X (as hast) {said} {sake} {saying} {sentence} + {sign} + {so} some {[uncleanness]} somewhat to {say} + {song} {speech} X {spoken} {talk} {task} + {that} X there {done} thing ({concerning}) {thought} + {thus} {tidings} what {[-soever]} + {wherewith} {which} {word} work. Eg Ezekiel 33:7

Songs

Footnotes

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  1. 1971 ἐπιποθέω [E)PIPOQE/W] {epipothéō} \ep-ee-poth-eh'-o\ from 1909 and potheo (to yearn); to dote upon, i.e. intensely crave possession (lawfully or wrongfully):--(earnestly) desire (greatly), (greatly) long (after), lust.
  2. 1897  הגה [hâgâh] \haw-gaw'\ A primitive root (compare 1901); to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication to ponder: - {imagine} {meditate} {mourn} {mutter} {roar} X {sore} {speak} {study} {talk} utter.
  3. 3056 λόγος [LO/GOS] {lógos} \log'-os\ from 3004; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):--account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
  4. 1697 דּבר [dâbâr] \daw-bawr'\ From 1696; a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) of thing; adverbially a cause: - {act} {advice} {affair} {answer} X any such ({thing}) + because {of} {book} {business} {care} {case} {cause} certain {rate} + {chronicles} {commandment} X commune ({-ication}) + concern {[-ing]} + {confer} {counsel} + {dearth} {decree} {deed} X {disease} {due} {duty} {effect} + {eloquent} {errand} [evil favoured-] {ness} + {glory} + {harm} {hurt} + {iniquity} + {judgment} {language} + {lying} {manner} {matter} {message} [no] {thing} {oracle} X {ought} X {parts} + {pertaining} + {please} {portion} + {power} {promise} {provision} {purpose} {question} {rate} {reason} {report} {request} X (as hast) {said} {sake} {saying} {sentence} + {sign} + {so} some {[uncleanness]} somewhat to {say} + {song} {speech} X {spoken} {talk} {task} + {that} X there {done} thing ({concerning}) {thought} + {thus} {tidings} what {[-soever]} + {wherewith} {which} {word} work.