LESSON 23
Writing the Word on Your Heart
Part 3
You shall know the truth
and the truth will set you free. God's
word sets you free. The Holy Spirit is
right by your side.
Jer. 31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel; After those days, saith the
LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their
hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
The word is with power.
Eze.
36:26-27 A
new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do [them].
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God will cause you to
obey His commandments. He will put the
Word in your new heart.
We don't have the power
to obey God in and of ourselves. If we
did, then Jesus would never have had to come.
The law would have been powerful enough.
Rom. 8:3-4 For
what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending
his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh: That the righteousness of
the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after
the Spirit.
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The power is in the Word
to cause you to fulfill it. The power to
bring the promise to pass is already in the Word. You don't have to struggle to bring the
promises to pass. The promises will come
after you and overtake you.
God says that He will
perform it.
Psa. 107:20 He
sent his word, and healed
them, and delivered [them] from their destructions.
God's not waiting on
you. God says He will do it, with or
without us, despite our own shortcomings.
Many of us weren't even searching for God when He saved us.
God never gives a
command without the way and the power to fulfill that command. He commands us to keep His commandments. He has provided a way for us to have the
power to keep these commandments by having His Word written on our hearts.
Deuteronomy 6:4-6 gives
us four keys to having His Word written on our hearts.
Deut. 6:4-9 Hear, O
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4 STEPS TO GETTING GOD'S WORD WRITTEN ON YOUR HEART
1.) TEACH THE WORD.
Deut. 6:7
And thou shalt teach
them diligently unto thy children.
The word ‘teach’ here
means to sear it on their hearts. It invokes
the mental image of a branding iron.
God understands how the
human mind works. Many learn more when
they teach others what they do know.
Many pastors say they receive more than the congregation. Teach what you know.
Matt. 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost: Teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.
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Why does God say
teach? He says this for two reasons; so
people may hear the Word and so you will get the Word in your heart. When the Word is constantly on your mouth and
you're teaching someone, you see things you haven't seen before.
The Bible says that the
early church went from house to house teaching the Word of God. We don't need ordination titles or a Bible
college degree. You just need to go next
door to your neighbor and teach the Word of God to him. Teach principles of the Word.
Take examples and look
for opportunities to teach your children everywhere you go. Teach your wives what you know. And as you teach them, the Word becomes
written on your heart.
2.) TALK ABOUT THE WORD.
Deut. 6:7 ...and
shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when
thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up.
Eph. 5:18-20 And
be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord; giving thanks always for
all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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When God gives a command
He always follows it with a way to fulfill it.
Whenever you get together, talk about God.
Matt.
When you hang around someone
all day it is easy to tell where they are at spiritually, because of what comes
out from their mouth. What they talk
about will flow from the abundance of their heart.
The Jewish culture would
take the Word of God and play it to a tune.
That is how they memorized scripture.
As you talk the Word of God, it progressively gets written on your
heart.
When you speak it you
also hear it. When you hear it, the more
it becomes ingrained in your mind.
Statistics say you only remember 10% of a sermon, but if you get together with
others and start to talk about it you will remember more. The more you talk about it the more it gets
on your heart and becomes a part of your life.
Josh. 1:8 This book of the
law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate
therein day and night, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
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The word ‘meditate’ here
means to mutter.
It's God's command to
talk about the Word. It is not a
suggestion. The more you talk about it the more it will be written on your
heart.
In Review:
1. What
does Eze.
36:26-27 mean to you?
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2. Do you have to struggle to
bring God’s promises to pass?____________ Have
You?________________________
3. Who
or what brings God’s promises to pass in your life?
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4. What
does God require you to teach?
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5.
Define the word teach from Matt. 28:19-20.
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6.
Describe how the Jewish culture would learn the Word of God.
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7.
According to statistics, how much of a sermon does one usually remember?
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8. What
does “meditate” mean?
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