Spiritual Disciplines The Word: Study

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Spiritual Disciplines The WordStudy
Meditation
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Study Meditation

• In pointing out these things to the brethren, you
  will be a good servant of Christ Jesus,
  constantly nourished on the words of the faith
  and of the sound doctrine which you have been
  following.
• (1 Tim. 46)

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Bible 101

• The Bible assumes that God exists.
• The Bible claims to be true.
• The Bible claims to be written by God.
• The Bible is a book about _____.

God
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Study of the Word

• And beginning with Moses and with all the
  prophets, He explained to them the things
  concerning Himself in all the ScripturesAnd they
  said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning
  within us while He was speaking to us on the
  road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to
  us?"
• Luke 2427-32

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Study of the Word
Intentional
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Influential
Intensive
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Study of the Word

• ?Intentional

For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of
the LORD, and to practice it, and to teach His
statutes and ordinances in Israel. Ezra 710
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Study of the Word

• ?Intentional

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God
as a workman who does not need to be ashamed,
handling accurately the word of truth. 2 Timothy
215
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Study of the Word
Intentional
Influential
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Intensive
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Study of the Word

• ?Influential

Do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
you may prove what the will of God is Romans
122
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Study of the Word

• ?Influential

The goal of our instruction is love from a pure
heart and a good conscience and a sincere
faith. 1 Timothy 15
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Study of the Word
Intentional
Influential
Intensive
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Study of the Word

• ?Intensive

Acts 207-12 A young man named Eutychus
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And on the first day of the weekPaul began
talking to them, intending to depart the next
day, and he prolonged his message until midnight
And there was a certain young man named Eutychus
sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep
sleep and as Paul kept on talking, he was
overcome by sleep and fell down from the third
floor, and was picked up dead.
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But Paul went down and fell upon him and after
embracing him, he said, "Do not be troubled, for
his life is in him." And when he had gone back
up, and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked
with them a long while, until daybreak, and so
departed. And they took away the boy alive, and
were greatly comforted. Acts 207-12
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Study of the Word

• ?Intensive

Galatians 113-17a A young man named Paul
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For you have heard of my former manner of life in
Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of
God beyond measure, and tried to destroy it and
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my
contemporaries among my countrymen, being more
extremely zealous for my
ancestral traditions.
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But when He who had set me apart, even from my
mother's womb, and called me through His grace,
was pleased to reveal His Son in me, that I might
preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not
immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did
I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles
before me but I went away to Arabia
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Study of the Word
Intentional
Influential
Intensive
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Meditation
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Meditation
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• Meditation

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Meditation

• When I think about the LordHow He saved, how He
  raised meHow he picked me upTurned me
  aroundHow He set my feetOn solid ground
• James Huey When I Think About the Lord

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Meditation

• Hebrew Siach

• To go over a matter in ones mind
• Key the object of meditation
• ?Gods Works
• ?Gods Words

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Meditation

• Hebrew Siach

?Gods Works On the glorious splendor of Thy
majesty, and on Thy wonderful works, I will
meditate. Psalm 145.5
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Meditation

• Hebrew Siach

?Gods Words O how I love Thy law!
It is my meditation all the day.
Psalm
11997
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Meditation

• Hebrew Hagah

• Filled with deep thoughts of the deeds or will of
  God
• Lost in God
• Key Deep

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Meditation

• Hebrew Hagah

But his delight is the law of the Lord, and in
His law he meditates day and night. Psalm 12
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Meditation

• Hebrew Hagah

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my
rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 1914
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Application

• Can I really expect to grow as Christs disciple
  without practicing spiritual discipline?

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Application

• What activities did Jesus practice? Such things
  as solitude and silence, prayer, simple and
  sacrificial living, intense study and meditation
  upon God's Word and God's ways, and service to
  others.
• Dallas Willard
• The Spirit of the Disciplines

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Application

• ?Gods Word
• Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to
  whom shall we go?
  You have words of eternal life."
• John 668

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Application

• ?Gods Word
• The goal of my life is to
  know God better than I know anything else so that
  I can delight in Him more than anything else.

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Application

• ?Gods Word
• ?Bible reading programs
• www.Biblein90days.com
• ?Scripture Memory
• ?Advanced Classes/Training
• Mini-Seminary, Leadership U, Online, Seminary,
  Seminars, Weekly Classes
• ?TeachTeachTeach

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Application

• ?Intentional
• ?Firm up my heart to study the Word (Ezra
  710)
• ?Diligently attempt to cut it straight (2
  Tim. 215)
• ?Think about the Lord Be Still

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Application

• ?Influential
• ?Actively purse mind renewal (Rom. 122)
• ?The goal of instruction is love
• (1 Tim. 15)

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Application

• ?Intensive
• ?Study late sometimes (Acts 207-12)
• ?Go away to Arabia (Gal. 113-17a)
• ?Go deep with God

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Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light unto
my path. Psalm 119105