Making the Word Work For You (ii)Read, Listen and Study

Making the Word Work For You (ii)
Read, Listen and Study (10/12/2019)

By Pastor Aggrey Soyekwo

Acts17:11: “These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

There is a price for knowledge acquisition. Some are too lazy to read and study the word of God by themselves. Entirely depending on others makes you susceptible to being misled. Not all that is passed on to us is the authentic word of God. It’s therefore critical that you get it first hand for yourself and whatever else you get from others should be compared and weighed against it. Alot of adulteration of God’s word goes on around us, leading to falsehoods.

The Bereans did this daily. They heard apostle Paul preach but went back to compare what he said with the written scriptures. They were commended for that. Countless number of people have been led astray because they took only what the preacher said as total truth, without testing it against the written word. Men can err and misfire. Others have hidden intentions but use the word to achieve it. But we are safer crosschecking and ascertaing the truth ourselves. We are tasked to test ALL spirits behind what we hear, see, read or listen to (1 John 4:1). Whatever is from God we take. Whatever is not, we leave out.

Apostle Paul similarly adviced his mentee, Timothy, to study so as not to be ashamed, but approved before God and the people he ministered to as he rightly divided the word of God. Study goes into depths and the heart of any matter, revealing the truth or any fallacies. Then one is able to sieve truth from error. Friends, let’s get to the word, be rooted in it and fill our hearts and minds with its knowledge. The word will only work for those who are knowledgeable about it and apply its principles. You can’t apply what you don’t know. And you cannot acquire knowledge untill you seek it by spending time to read, study, listen to others expound it. Fill yourself with the word. Delight and be rooted in it.

2Timothy 2:15: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

Shalom children of God.