“For I resolved to know

nothing

while I was with you except

Jesus Christ and him

crucified.”

First Corinthians 2:2

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WHAT ARE YOU PURSUING?

Proverbs 21:21

Intr.:

“He who

A. PURSUES

1. righteousness and

2. love

B. FINDS

1. life,

2. prosperity and

3. honor.”

End:

For a long time I have had the question on my mind: WHY DON’T YOU DO THE THINGS YOU KNOW ALREADY?

I ask also two more questions. Here they are: Why do I read more? Why do I hear more? The message for all of us is: Do the things you know already!

Read what the Lord Jesus Christ says in Luke 8:21. Those who hear the word of God and put it into practice he calls what? The answer is mother and brothers. In Matthew 7 we read about the wise and the foolish builders. We can be wise builders and we can be foolish builders. Wise builders hear the words of the Lord and  put them into practice. Foolish builders hear the words of the Lord and don’t put them into practice. Matthew 7:24-27. I don’t really want to be a foolish builder.

But there are not only the hearers. I have mentioned already the readers at the beginning.

But there are also the teachers. They are the ministers, who are standing before their congregations every Sunday. And there are the writers. ( I am writing now and I have written posts on my blog.)

The apostle Paul has something to say about the teachers. In his letter to the Romans he says in Romans 2:21 “you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself?”

Many, many years ago, I read in the Bible, the Word of the Living God,  the words: “…, in quietness …. is your strength,…” (Isaiah 30:15). Those words “in quietness is your strength” have been with me ever since. “IN QUIETNESS IS YOUR STRENGTH!” The word of the Lord is powerful. The word of God is not only like a fire, it is also like a hammer. Jeremiah 23:29, “Is not my word like a fire? saith the Lord.” Read also Jeremiah 20:9. The Bible is like a hammer. Jeremiah 23:28, “Is not MY Word…. saith the Lord……like a hammer that breaketh the rock?”

I believe yesterday I practiced the words “IN QUIETNESS IS YOUR STRENGTH” more than at other times in the past……. and it really worked. In quietness is your strength. Please read it once more: In quietness is your strength!

In my daily reading of the Bible from cover to cover I have come to the book of Proverbs and there are quite a number of verses that talk about our tongue. Let us read some of them. Here they are: Proverbs 10:19; Proverbs 21:23 “He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity.”

“….in quietness …… is your strenght,..” is part of Isaiah 30:15 as you have noticed by now.

Isaiah 30:15 is a really good sermon outline. Here it is:

“For I resolved to know nothing

while I was with you

except Jesus Christ and him

crucified.”

First Corinthians 2:2

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“THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD,

Intr.:

the Holy One of  Isreal, says:

1. ‘In repentance and

2. rest

A. IS YOUR SALVATION,

1. in quietness and

2. trust

B. IS YOUR STRENGTH,

end:

but you would have none of it.’”