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Psalm 107:20
He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. Note
Psalm 56:4
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can
flesh do to me?
Praising God’s Word is equivalent to praising God. Jesus was God’s Word
made flesh John 1:1-2; 14.
Psalm 138:2
I will worship toward Your holy temple Which every believer
is a temple which we don't have very far to go 1 Corinthians 6:19
And praise Your name
For Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing to the division of soul and of spirit,
of joints and of marrow, and
discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Note
Matthew 4:4
But Jesus answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Note
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Note
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Note
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof,
for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Note
Reading the word of God is taking in God's breath, a
spiritual CPR
17 that the man of God may be
complete, equipped for every good work.
Note
John 17:17
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. Sanctify
Refers to God’s ongoing work to set His people apart for His purposes—
to make them holy as He is holy (see Note on 1 Thess 4:3). The Spirit is the one
who prompts and tends to this work (see Note
on John 14:26).
Isaiah 55:11
So shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to me
empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the
thing for which I sent it.
Note
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Note
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another
in all wisdom,
singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness
in your hearts to God. Proverbs 4:20-27
Note
Luke 11:28
But Jesus said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!
John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father
will love him,
and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
Note
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
John 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I
have spoken to you are spirit and life. Not only are we
reading Jesus but Holy Spirit as well
Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God proves true; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof,
for correction, and for training in righteousness
The Scriptures don’t just contain God’s words; the Scriptures are God’s
words
1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk of the word that by it you may grow
up into salvation—
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory
as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Note
James 1:22
But be doers of the word
God Ep 5:1
and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Ref
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word
of God Jesus, call on His name with faith!
James 1:21
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with
meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. Note
John 15:3
(Jesus speaking)
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Note
Psalm 119:11
I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
Note
Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words
of His mouth more than my portion of food.
Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not
know, nor did your fathers know,
that he might make you know that man does not
live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of
the Lord. Note
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God constantly for this, that
when you received the word of
God, which you heard from us,
you accepted it not as the word of men but as what
it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
Psalm 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
Note
Psalm 33:4
For the word of Yahweh is upright, and all His work is done in faithfulness.
Ref
Psalm 119:130
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
Note
Psalm 18:30
This God—His way is perfect; the word of Yahweh proves true;
He is a shield
for all those who take refuge in Him.
Ref
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
God speaking to us
Commentary
John 7:38
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow
rivers of living water. Jeremiah 1:7, 9
When the word of God is in you, you cannot help but speak His word to give life
to others
Matthew 7:24
Everyone then who hears these words of Mine [the bible] and does them will be like a wise
man who built his house on the rock.
Doing the sayings of Jesus is the sure safeguard against self-deception
(Matthew 7:24-27; Galatians 6:3; 2 Timothy 3:5 with 13; Titus 3:3; James 1:22,
26; 1 John 3:7).
John 8:31-32
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide
in My word, you
are truly My disciples,
Ref
32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you
free.”
John 1:1-2
1
In the beginning
was the word, and the word was with God,
Ref
2 and the word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
Hebrews 1:3
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact
imprint of
His nature, and
He upholds the universe by the word of His power.
After making purification for
sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high
Ref
Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth [words] come knowledge and understanding;
2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no
need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
The word of God
Psalm 119:160
The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous rules endures
forever.
Romans 15:4
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that
through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures [God's words]
we might have hope.
Psalm 19:7
The law [word] of Yahweh is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of Yahweh is
sure, making wise the simple;
Psalm 12:6
The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the
ground, purified seven times.
Psalm 119:2
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, [do His word] who seek Him with their whole heart,
Psalm 119:114
You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word.
Proverbs 4:20-21
(God gave the wisdom so thus this is God speaking)
20
My son, be attentive to
My words; incline your ear to My sayings.
21 Let them not
escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
1 Peter 1:23
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable,
through the living and abiding word of God;
Jeremiah 23:29
Is not My word like fire, declares Yahweh, and like a hammer that breaks the
rock in pieces?
Luke 24:45
Then he opened their minds to understand the Word
John 10:35
If He called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be
broken—
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that
was preached to you.
Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law [God's words] shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on
it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is
written in it.
For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will
have good success.
Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God proves true; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
Note
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your word.
Revelation 1:2-3
2
Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even
to all that he saw.
3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are
those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your words became to me a joy and the
delight of my heart, for I am called by Your name, O Yahweh Elohim Tsebaoth.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are
being saved it is the power of God.
Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Isaiah 55:10-11
10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but
water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and
bread to the eater,
Through the Spirit, God imparts His desires, values, and concerns to believers so that they share in His likeness and image. In doing so, God aligns the moral actions of believers with their legal status (i.e., righteousness) in Christ.
The judge is God, and people are judged based on whether they follow Jesus’ command to believe that eternal life comes through His death and resurrection (John 12:48–50).
When on earth, Jesus was the means for believers to interact with God the Father since their sin prevented them from doing so directly.
The Spirit is sent to do the same work. This is one of His many tasks. Paraklētos is used throughout Greek literature in a legal context (e.g., Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 11.37.1; Demosthenes, De falsa legatione, 1).
Jewish writer Philo uses the legal term in a religious context,
referring to a sinner pleading their case (e.g., Philo, Antiquitates Romanae,
166).
The Spirit acts as the means of communication between God the Father and His
people. Since God the Father dwells in His throne room in heaven, believers need
a means to communicate with Him (see note on v. 2).
The Spirit communicates with
Jesus in heaven; Jesus then communicates with God the Father. Jesus’ sacrifice
makes this possible since His death atones for people’s sins, providing the
Spirit with a reason for believers to be allowed to communicate with the Father
(compare Heb 4:14–16; 7:26–28).
The Paraclete John
Paraclete ISBE
Holy Spirit DJG
Paraklētos Word Study
The Spirit, as God’s means of communication on earth, instructs believers and
leads them to follow God’s will. The Spirit gives them access to God, His plans,
and His wisdom. He can do so because of Jesus’ sacrifice for sins.
It never means annihilation, but a change only.
The heavens and earth are eternal (Ps. 72:5-17; 89:3-37; 104:5; Eccl. 1:4) and cannot pass out of existence.
They will be changed (Heb. 1:10-12; 12:25-28; Rom. 8:21-23), be renovated by fire (2Pet. 3:5-13), and be renewed (Rev. 21:1), but never pass out of existence.
They will be changed but "My words will not be changed."
Those passages elaborate on what we are to lay aside–things like anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of our mouths, guile, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speakings.
Notice that in all three of the lists, it speaks of the
ungodly things we say as something we should stop doing.
This verse speaks not only of putting off, or aside, these negative things but
also of putting on, or receiving, the positive influence of God’s Word.
And we have to receive it with meekness.
That means we humble ourselves and submit to the authority of God’s Word above our own wisdom.
It needs to be engrafted into us as branches are engrafted
into trees.
Indeed, the Greek word KATHAROS, which was translated “clean”
in this verse, is simply the adjective form of the Greek word KATHAIRO, which
was translated “purgeth” in the previous verse.
Here, Jesus told how this purging, or cleansing, will take place.
It comes through His Word. God doesn’t purge, or cleanse, us with problems.
His Word is given to discipline, correct, and make us
thoroughly furnished unto every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
This is saying that when we put God’s Word in our hearts and protect it—keep it from being stolen away (Mark 4:15)—God’s Word will keep us from sin.
It works.
Fifty-ninefold Testimony of the Psalmist
1. I have sought You with a whole heart (Ps. 119:10).
2. I have hid Your Word in my heart (Ps. 119:11).
3. I have preached all Your judgments (Ps. 119:13).
4. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches (Ps. 119:14).
5. I have had respect unto Your ways (Ps. 119:15).
6. I have kept Your testimonies (Ps. 119:22; Ps. 119:167-168).
7. I have had princes speak against me (Ps. 119:23).
8. I have meditated in Your statutes (Ps. 119:23).
9. I have declared my ways (Ps. 119:26).
10. I have chosen the way of truth (Ps. 119:30).
11. I have laid Your judgments before me (Ps. 119:30).
12. I have stuck to Your testimonies (Ps. 119:31).
13. I have longed for Your precepts (Ps. 119:40).
14. I have hoped in Your judgments (Ps. 119:43).
15. I have loved Your commandments (Ps. 119:47-48).
16. I have not declined from Your law (Ps. 119:51).
17. I have remembered Your judgments of old (Ps. 119:52).
18. I have comforted myself (Ps. 119:52).
19. I have been in horror because the wicked have forsaken Your law ( Ps. 119:53).
20. I have sung Your statutes (Ps. 119:54).
21. I have remembered Your name (Ps. 119:55).
22. I have kept Your law (Ps. 119:55).
23. I have kept Your precepts (Ps. 119:56,168).
24. I have vowed to keep Your words (Ps. 119:57).
25. I have intreated Your favor (Ps. 119:58).
26. I have thought on my ways (Ps. 119:59).
27. I have turned my feet unto Your testimonies (Ps. 119:59).
28. I have made haste to keep Your commandments (Ps. 119:60).
29. I have been robbed by the wicked (Ps. 119:61).
30. I have not forgotten Your law (Ps. 119:61,109).
31. I have believed Your commandments (Ps. 119:66).
32. I have kept Your Word (Ps. 119:67).
33. I have been lied about (Ps. 119:69).
34. I have been afflicted (Ps. 119:71).
35. I have been made by Your hands (Ps. 119:73).
36. I have hoped in Your Word (Ps. 119:74,81).
37. I have knowledge that Your judgments are right (Ps. 119:75).
38. I have knowledge that You were faithful in afflicting me (Ps. 119:75).
39. I have delight in Your law (Ps. 119:77).
40. I have had pits dug for me by the proud (Ps. 119:85).
41. I have not forsaken Your precepts (Ps. 119:87).
42. I have sought Your precepts (Ps. 119:94).
43. I have seen the end of all perfection (Ps. 119:96).
44. I have sworn to keep Your righteous judgments (Ps. 119:106).
45. I have had snares laid for me by the wicked (Ps. 119:110).
46. I have not erred from Your precepts (Ps. 119:110).
47. I have taken Your testimonies as a heritage forever (Ps. 119:111).
48. I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes always (Ps. 119:112).
49. I have done judgment and justice (Ps. 119:121).
50. I have been consumed by my zeal (Ps. 119:139).
51. I have had trouble and anguish take hold on me (Ps. 119:143).
52. I have known of old that You have founded Your testimonies forever (Ps. 119:152).
53. I have been persecuted by princes (Ps. 119:161).
54. I have great peace because I love Your law (Ps. 119:165).
55. I have hope for Your salvation (Ps. 119:166).
56. I have done Your commandments (Ps. 119:166).
57. I have chosen Your precepts (Ps. 119:173).
58. I have longed for Your salvation (Ps. 119:174).
59. I have gone astray like a lost sheep (Ps. 119:176).
b [that I might not sin against thee]
Thirty Reasons for Vows and Requests
1. That I might not sin (Ps. 119:11).
2. That I may live (Ps. 119:17,77,116).
3. That I may keep Your Word (Ps. 119:17).
4. That I may see wonderful truths (Ps. 119:18).
5. I have kept Your testimonies (Ps. 119:22).
6. So that I can speak of Your wonderful work (Ps. 119:27).
7. So that I shall keep Your Word to the end (Ps. 119:33-34).
8. I delight in Your commandments (Ps. 119:35).
9. Your judgments are good (Ps. 119:39).
10. I trust in Your Word (Ps. 119:42).
11. I hope in Your judgments (Ps. 119:43).
12. So that I shall keep Your law (Ps. 119:44).
13. I seek Your precepts (Ps. 119:45).
14. Because of Your righteous judgments (Ps. 119:62,164).
15. I believe Your commandments (Ps. 119:66).
16. That I might learn Your statutes and commandments (Ps. 119:71,73).
17. Your law is my delight (Ps. 119:77).
18. That I may not be ashamed (Ps. 119:80).
19. So that I shall keep Your testimony (Ps. 119:88).
20. I have sought Your precepts (Ps. 119:94).
21. So that I will keep Your commandments (Ps. 119:115).
22. So that I shall be safe (Ps. 119:117).
23. So that I will have respect to Your statutes continually (Ps. 119:117).
24. That I may know Your testimonies (Ps. 119:125).
25. So that I will keep Your precepts (Ps. 119:134).
26. So that I shall live (Ps. 119:144).
27. I do not forget Your law (Ps. 119:153).
28. I have chosen Your precepts (Ps. 119:173).
29. So that my soul shall praise You (Ps. 119:175).
30. I do not forget Your commandments (Ps. 119:176).
c [against thee] All transgression of the Word of God is sin against God (1Jn. 3:4). Sin affects both God and man. It robs God of His creative purposes in blessing man eternally, and robs man of such blessing. Sin really affects all creation which man was created to rule, under God, and for the highest good of all (Ps. 8).
Dake's Annotated Reference Bible.
They caused this when they rebelled at the Lord in Numbers
14:1-4. However, the Lord used the situation to instruct the Israelites. They
could have learned this through His word (2 Timothy 3:16-17) without the school
of hard knocks.
Humility is when we humble ourselves (James 4:10 and 1 Peter 5:5-6). When we are
humbled by someone else, that is humiliation.
Eighteen Secrets of Victory over Sin
1. Taking heed of God's Word (Ps. 119:9).
2. Seeking God wholeheartedly (Ps. 119:10). Dake
3. Hiding God's Word in the heart (Ps. 119:11). Dake
4. Being always open to truth (Ps. 119:18).
5. Removing from the way of lying (Ps. 119:29).
6. Receiving salvation (Ps. 119:41).
7. Hastening to keep commandments (Ps. 119:60).
8. Delighting in God's Word (Ps. 119:77,143).
9. Meditating in God's Word (Ps. 119:97,99).
10. Refraining from every evil way (Ps. 119:101).
11. Hating every false way (Ps. 119:104).
12. Consecrating to obey to the end (Ps. 119:112).
13. Hating vain thoughts (Ps. 119:113).
14. Hating and abhorring lying (Ps. 119:163).
15. Loving God's Word (Ps. 119:163,165).
16. Praising God (Ps. 119:164).
17. Permitting nothing to offend (Ps. 119:165; Heb. 12:15).
18. Hoping for salvation (Ps. 119:166; Rom. 8:24).
Dake's Annotated Reference Bible.
[whole heart have I sought thee] Seven things to do with the whole heart:
1. Seek God (Ps. 119:2; 2Chr. 15:15).
2. Praise God (Ps. 9:1; 111:1).
3. Observe the truth (Ps. 119:34).
4. Entreat God's favor (Ps. 119:58).
5. Keep commandments (Ps. 119:69).
6. Cry to God (Ps. 119:145).
7. Return to God from backsliding (Jer. 24:7).
Dake's Annotated Reference Bible.
So, this could be denoting those who are uncomplicated or
those not being choked by the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches,
and the lust of other things (Mark 4:19).