A Bird’s Eye View: The Epistles | Introduction
A Faithful:
Devotion to God’s Word
Approach to God’s Word
Application of God’s Word
The heart that treasures God will hunger for His Word, labor to understand it, and joyfully live beneath its authority.
A Faithful:
Devotion to God’s Word
Approach to God’s Word
Application of God’s Word
Psalm 119:47
47 for I find my delight in your commandments,
which I love.
Psalm 119:97
97 Oh how I love your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
“Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship with God.”
John 5:39
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
The heart that treasures God will hunger for His Word, labor to understand it, and joyfully live beneath its authority.
A Faithful:
Devotion to God’s Word
Approach to God’s Word
Application of God’s Word
Psalm 119:66
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in your commandments.
Psalm 119:130
130 The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.
2 Timothy 2:15
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,[a] a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Acts 17:11-12a
11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. 12 Many of them therefore believed,
The heart that treasures God will hunger for His Word, labor to understand it, and joyfully live beneath its authority.
A Faithful:
Devotion to God’s Word
Approach to God’s Word
Application of God’s Word
Psalm 119:11
11 I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 119:105
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
James 1:22-25
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Matthew 7:24-27
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
The heart that treasures God will hunger for His Word, labor to understand it, and joyfully live beneath its authority.
John 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life,[a] and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:14
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son[a] from the Father, full of grace and truth.
2 Corinthians 4:6
6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
The heart that treasures God will hunger for His Word, labor to understand it, and joyfully live beneath its authority.