Revival is Marked by God’s Word

He's the one who breathed these pages into existence and divinely inspired them. He's talking about the word of God. He's talking about what we are hopefully not just reading on Sundays, but every single day and saying, when we pick up these pages, it revives our soul. It refreshes who we are. Listen, friends, our Christian brothers and sisters, our ancestors before us, what you have in your pocket in the palm of your hand with all of the hundreds of access of translations that you have, they would have died to have that in their hands. [00:17:07] (36 seconds)  #ScriptureRevivesOurSoul

These pages were put together with blood, sweat and tears of martyrs that have gone before us. This is God breathed and divinely inspired and authoritative and it never fades. Listen, these pages have survived empires that have tried to get rid of them. And tyrants that have tried to eradicate and edit what these pages held. Wars that tried to extinguish them, rulers and leaders that tried to ban them furnaces that tried to burn these pages, but these pages piece together the story of God and the the grass may wither, the the flowers may fade away, but the word of God endures forever. [00:17:43] (39 seconds)  #BibleEnduresThroughPersecution

Like, oh, you're getting me right now. Jeremiah 15. Jeremiah tells God, when your word came to me, I ate it and my heart was glad. In first Peter two, Peter tells the early Christians to long for God's living and enduring word like spiritual milk. In Hebrews five, the author tells the body of Christ actually to grow up, to move from milk to solid food as a way of intaking more of God's word. There is a metaphor of food all throughout the scriptures and hunger all throughout the scriptures as it connects to God's word. [00:22:41] (33 seconds)  #ScriptureFoodMetaphor

Most prevalent maybe for us is when in Matthew four, Jesus goes into the wilderness and he's tempted and he's fasting and praying for forty days. And the enemy comes and he says to Jesus, go ahead and turn these rocks into bread. And that'll resolve your little hunger issue here. How many of you, like forty minutes into fasting, you'd be like, if I could change rocks into bread, I will do it right now. Right? Forty days. And you know what Jesus says? Deuteronomy eight verse three, man shall not live by bread alone, but on by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Right? [00:23:15] (34 seconds)  #JesusSustainsByTheWord

And in overcoming the enemy's temptation, he quotes the word of God which was connected to when the Israelites were getting manna from God in the wilderness. And he's doing it in this place to say, listen, God's hand will provide what I need and what is most important for me is not my intake of the physical things, it's my intake of his word. And he revealed this through his lifestyle and then he invites each one of us to receive that by saying this, I am the bread of life. I am the bread of heaven. [00:23:49] (33 seconds)  #ChristIsTheBreadOfLife

And when you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will be satisfied. You will never hunger and thirst again. It is an unperishable gift of eternal life from the father through the son by his spirit to each one of us. Amen? The scriptures is God's word. Lead us to Jesus' God's word. And when we taste of him, as he promised, we never go hungry or thirsty. And, when we receive his eternal life, we know God now, and we know him forevermore. The good news is that when we taste of God though, we we taste of his goodness in his word and we keep coming back and saying, I am satisfied but I'm craving more. Amen? [00:24:22] (41 seconds)  #TasteAndCraveJesus

To be truly aware that God is the only thing that will ever truly satisfy and when we hunger for him and hunger for his word, we will continue to encounter his goodness and then crave more from that place of gracious satisfaction that only the Lord will bring. Amen? So, how do we do this? What does it look like to build our hunger? One practical action step for you today is this, read God's word more than anything else. Read God's word more than anything else. [00:25:47] (29 seconds)  #GodSatisfiesAndWeCraveMore

And based off of certain dietary preferences or restrictions, you have certain things in your diet that you consume more frequently than all of the others. And I just wanna say this, as Christians, our diet must consist of God's word more than anything else. Christian historians tell us that John Wesley had the entirety of the New Testament memorized in biblical Greek. I could quote 80% of Nacho Libre to you right now. I'm nowhere close to having the New Testament memorized, let alone in biblical Greek, y'all. [00:26:24] (37 seconds)  #ReadTheBibleDaily