Mon.12.1.14... One Power Tool to Really Build Up Yourself and your Proteges

First of all, let me welcome you to M3! I'm so glad you're here with us. This is going to be a great time of growing together. Always feel free to call me (708-543-6544) if there is any way I can help you, especially as we get started.

So let's start off talking about power tools. Power tools are great things we men love to use. Not only do we like having that power in our hands, they can also get so much done faster than we could ever do so on our own. For example they enable us to build such things as a house. (Did I ever tell you about the time I was in a building trades class in high school? We built a house! Confession- I kept the foreman busy.) The power tool that God has given us to build up others is His word. Paul said, “Now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which can build you up…”Acts 20:32

It would be a very slow, laborious process to try and build up our protégés if they were solely dependent on us to give them the word. God wants people to get into His word on their own. That’s why Paul said, I commend you to God and the word of His grace.

When I came to New Life as a missionary associate pastor in 1988, the church was still called Berean Memorial Baptist Church. Mark said the word “Memorial” sounded like a funeral home and most people didn’t have a clue why “Berean” was in the name. But why Berean? (Berea was a town Paul evangelized after leaving the riotous Thessalonians who drove him out.) “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true” Acts 17:11. So to call a church people “Bereans” is to give a very high compliment- that they daily dig into the Scriptures. If we want to build up strong multiplying men, we need to get them into the word of God daily. (The following verses also speak of people meeting daily for God's word- Acts 19:9; Psalm.1:1-3 and Prov.8:33-34.)

We want to help men grow up strong in their salvation. Daily feedings on it can do just that. Peter writes, “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good” 1 Peter 2:2-3. And it’s as we get into God’s word that we also taste more and more of God’s goodness. And that stimulates the appetite all the more. So read daily, focusing on the goodness of the Lord. That’s what we will be doing together in the word.

Please click below where it says "Add a Comment" and share your responses to the following 2 questions.

1.-God is not a legalist, so why do you think He wants us to be daily in his word?

2.-God’s word actually has a lot to say about God’s word. For example the longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119 and almost every single verse is about the word of God. As you dig in you will taste and see that the Lord is good. So thumb through its 176 verses and write out a verse or phrase that you especially like. 

  

If you have wanted to be faithful to meet with God daily in his word, that longing is now being fulfilled for you. Just bring your desire and we will help you attain such. Come here anytime tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, have you ever been frustrated with quickly forgetting what you read in God's word? Tomorrow, you'll discover the tool to defeat the giant eraser machine.


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Thanks Champ!