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TEACHINGS OF GOD’S WORD
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Psalm 119:101-102
John 7:14-24
“If any man will do his will,
he shall know of the doctrine…”
TEACHINGS OF GOD’S WORD
God’s Word, when taught, must bring out practical responses that accompany the learning. No one can say they have learned from God’s Word when their lives are not changed, or when God’s Word is not obeyed. When the Spirit of God brings the Word into the heart, there must be observable practices that others will notice.
Refrain my feet from evil: To refrain is to withhold. A Christian convicted of God’s Word will keep himself out of the ways of evil. He restrains his heart to the things that would puff him up with the pride of life. He is not doing all these because of a holier-than-thou attitude, but because he knows that he is a new creature, and the Word is teaching him not to go back to his evil ways of the past. A believer is a follower of Christ, no longer a follower of Satan.
Depart not from God’s judgments: He does not put away the Ten Commandments as if it is an obsolete set of judgments. He does not observe it to be saved, but he obeys it in order not to depart from God’s judgments. He does not want to leave undone the good works that Christ wants him to do. He loves the Lord, and the Word instructs him never to eschew from the right path. He must enter into the strait and narrow way, and turn not away from the righteous judgments of God.
When a born-again believer, regenerated and indwelt by the Spirit of God, hears God’s Word, he wants to obey it. He may not be able to do it perfectly, but he has the burden in his heart to obey the teachings. There are times when he may fail, but he will soon confess the transgression and repent before God. He wants to please his Lord who gave Himself by living a perfect life and died a very painful and shameful death on the cross. Yes, the Lord rose from the dead, and He is coming again.
Dear reader, holiness must be characteristic of a believer’s life. Never will he wallow again in the mud after he is washed and cleansed. You are a sheep, not a pig. A sheep hears the voice of its shepherd and follows him. You must not return to the way of evil nor depart from God’s judgments.
THOUGHT: Am I truly learning from God when I read God’s Word?
PRAYER: Father, help me to depart not from Thy Word.