2 Timothy 3:16-17

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[a] may be complete, equipped for every good work."

The Word - God Said - “Hear The Word, Do The Word” - James 1

1. “...for you know that the testing of your faith produces…”

2. “...ask in faith, with no doubting…”

3. “...lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation,...”

4. “But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.”

5. “Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth,...”

6. To Do the Word requires the Word to be implanted in you. Hebrews 10:16 - “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”

- James 1:19-21 - “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

7. To do the Word requires that you not only hear but to act on it. - Deuteronomy 8:1 - “The whole commandment that I command you today vyou shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers."

- James 1:22-25 - “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.”

8. Pure religion is to be a Doer of the Word. - James 4:17 - “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”

- James 1:26-27 - “If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”

The Word - God Said - “To Love Is To Obey”

John 14

1. To obey Christ is to Love Christ. - Joshua 22:5 - “Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

- John 14:16-17 - “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

2. To Love Christ is to obey the Gospel. - Ecclesiastes 12:13 - “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."

- John 14:18-21 - “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

3. The Father Loves those who Love Christ and obey His Word. - John 15:10 - “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.”

- John 14:22-24 - “Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.”

4. Those who Love Christ have been given the Holy Spirit to keep and learn God’s Word! - Psalm 143:10 - “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!”

- John 14:25-31 - “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.