The Word of God is our weapon, our guide, our power, our foundation and our life. Without knowing- and using the Word we are religious and without power and life. The Word has so much truth and wisdom and it covers every aspect of life.
Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:15: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.” This is advice in the midst of a plague of false teachers, but is so relevant to us today as well. The most effective way for Satan to combat the Lord’s advancing Kingdom is to confuse both the Christians and the unsaved. This is why so many false religions and doctrines exist and why the Lord’s people are kept busy with materialistic commitments. False religions are meant to get the unsaved on the wrong track so they can’t get saved, and if Christians don’t know their Bible, they are powerless and subject to incorrect teaching.
I’d like therefore to tell you as Paul told Timothy: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.” Read your Bible, know your Bible, get filled with the Holy Spirit and be tuned in to Him so He could quicken the Word in you when you need it. As seen in our previous two teachings in this series; the Word of God is alive and active and only it changes people. A godless man once wanted to prove to his godly wife that she believes in fantasy. While she was in church, he paged through the Bible to find contradictions. When she returned, he was weeping over the Word of God – he got saved.
When we advise people we need to quote Scripture, for it is the Word of God that has power to change and not our own wisdom. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil,” (Proverbs 3:5-7).
One statement in the Word of God could receive more attention: “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work,” (2 Timothy 3:16, 17). If you carefully consider the teaching you receive from preachers, how much of it contains
· Teaching that would equip you to do the work of the ministry efficiently?
· Words of rebuke, making you realise you should change your ways to please and obey the Lord?
· Correcting, i.e. challenge you to believe differently. You e.g. believe you were chosen and are therefore okay with God. Have you been corrected to realise you need to be born again?
· Training in righteousness? Are you made aware of everything the Bible expects of us to be right with God?
How often do you see a brother/sister or, as a church leader, a member of your church living in sin, but you don’t correct or rebuke them with God’s Word, for it would make you feel embarrassed, or you feel they may leave church? (Luke 17:3, Matthew 18:16-17, 1 John 5:16). If we want to see revival my dear one, we need to do what the God’s Word tells us to do. God is holy and He comes back for a holy and pure bride and it is up to us to see that the bride lines up with the Word of God that washes her clean (John 15:3).
Lord, help me to do as your Word tells me to.
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