DAILY MANNA
SATURDAY JULY 27, 2019
TOPIC: THE ENGRAFTED WORD
TEXT: James 1:16-27
KEY VERSE:
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls” - (James 1:2)
If we are going to be free from error, falsehood and deception in this age, we must take in the purest form of the word of God. The engrafted word is God's word as energised by the Holy Ghost, received and internalised by the believer.
Our text reveals beautiful benefits we derive from God's word only by being the doers of the Word. The word of God is capable of changing the nature of man; that however bitter and vile his nature seem to be, through that engrafted Word, it might produce righteousness.
We are begotten of the Father by the word of truth. It is a potent fountain that cleanses us from all defilement. When received with meekness, God's word rids our life of filth within and without, thus giving our soul desired salvation and eternal hope.
The issue of the engrafted word is central and critical to our continued victory in Christ. We must discreetly pursue the Scripture of truth and diligently appropriate the rich knowledge, lessons and blessings garnered therefrom. Those who hear and fail to be doers of the Word deceive themselves as the word of God profits them nothing. However, true wisdom is to adopt methods, positive measures that would enable us read, reflect and constantly remember this word, thus making it functional in our life and experience like Ezra who prepared his heart to seek, do and to teach God's word (Ezra 7:10). We are reminded in James 1:25, “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein ... this man shall be blessed in his deed”. The fine result we get from God's word is entire freedom from sin, its depravities as well as its guilt.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God's word is the only potent fount for our soul-cleansing.
THE BIBLE IN A YEAR:
2 Chronicles 30-33
SATURDAY JULY 27, 2019
TOPIC: THE ENGRAFTED WORD
TEXT: James 1:16-27
KEY VERSE:
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls” - (James 1:2)
If we are going to be free from error, falsehood and deception in this age, we must take in the purest form of the word of God. The engrafted word is God's word as energised by the Holy Ghost, received and internalised by the believer.
Our text reveals beautiful benefits we derive from God's word only by being the doers of the Word. The word of God is capable of changing the nature of man; that however bitter and vile his nature seem to be, through that engrafted Word, it might produce righteousness.
We are begotten of the Father by the word of truth. It is a potent fountain that cleanses us from all defilement. When received with meekness, God's word rids our life of filth within and without, thus giving our soul desired salvation and eternal hope.
The issue of the engrafted word is central and critical to our continued victory in Christ. We must discreetly pursue the Scripture of truth and diligently appropriate the rich knowledge, lessons and blessings garnered therefrom. Those who hear and fail to be doers of the Word deceive themselves as the word of God profits them nothing. However, true wisdom is to adopt methods, positive measures that would enable us read, reflect and constantly remember this word, thus making it functional in our life and experience like Ezra who prepared his heart to seek, do and to teach God's word (Ezra 7:10). We are reminded in James 1:25, “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein ... this man shall be blessed in his deed”. The fine result we get from God's word is entire freedom from sin, its depravities as well as its guilt.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God's word is the only potent fount for our soul-cleansing.
THE BIBLE IN A YEAR:
2 Chronicles 30-33
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