The Pricelessness of the Word

Well, thank you, and thank you calmly for her researching and writing the book that I think has the potential to be

Historic life -changing If you would stand with me, I'm going to just read one verse

To introduce the sermon and then we will be

Traipsing all around especially psalm 119 So it's all 119 verse 72 if you want to read along you can turn there.

That's psalm 119 verse 72 I'm going to read from the the

Berean standard Bible the law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver

You may be seated. Thank you. I want to begin by reading from the

London Baptist Confession of Faith some of you are familiar with it already

Some of you may not be and if you're not I encourage you to read it and try to understand what it's saying

It is Effectively the Presbyterians confession of faith the

Westminster but corrected in all the places where that one needed correction So that's really the honest way

Baptists look at it. We just never say that out loud but in paragraph 6 of the first chapter of the confession

It states this and this was Something that came up last night in the debate where there were some different wording that that I want to notate

It says the whole counsel of God Concerning all things necessary for his own glory man's salvation faith and life is either expressly set down or Necessarily contained in the

Holy Scripture unto which nothing at any time is to be added whether by new revelation of the

Spirit or traditions of men and so there's a phrase there that everything in God's Word that is expressly set down or Necessarily contained

That we want to keep in mind. This was largely the topic of the debate last night in some ways was the idea that when you adapt the

Word of God when you take what God has said and Then you restate it in other words

There is a sense you're still saying the same thoughts of God to people that he has revealed in his

Word And if it is a doctrine that we can prove is necessarily contained in the

Word of God Then we can rightly say that it has some of the same qualities of The Word of God, which is what we are going to discuss today now on Sunday I preached and there was a sign in the pulpit that said sir.

We wish to see Jesus and now there's just a timer and so if you were here

Sunday, you know, you know why I said that or if you watch the Over hour -long sermon on YouTube, but I promise

I will try to keep you engaged and Do do things in the pulpit that will get your mind on the

Word of Christ and Worshiping him in your heart So what

I want to show you this morning is that the Word of God is priceless. This was not a sermon

Topic that I came up with I wasn't reading scripture and thinking well, this is what

I want to preach about This was assigned to me by Pastor Owens, and I think it's a great topic

I think it's a great way to start things out. And so what I've chosen to do is try to Show you that the

Word of God is priceless in At least two ways one of those ways is that we're going to review a number of scriptures about the

Word of God itself the word testifies about itself and Because you are indwelt with the

Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit will bear witness with your spirit What the

Holy Spirit wants you to believe about his word, which is that it is in essence

Priceless I'm also going to try to demonstrate its pricelessness By showing you that the

Word of God has attributed to it qualities or attributes that are attributes that are the same attributes that we say of God himself and Because we all

I think must agree Priori that God cannot be bought and sold therefore the

Word of God Possessing those same attributes will not be able to be bought or sold and so there's a bit of a

Theological argument which is to say I want your Christian spirit to simply

Understand something that's true because the Holy Spirit reveals it to you Because of his word and there's a logical argument which we will look at in more detail

So let's start in Psalm 119. We're going to spend most of our time

Cherry -picking verses through what Psalm 119 To see ways that the

Bible describes itself in Psalm 119 Verse 72 as we read

What we see is that the word is of more value than other things. So we have this concept of comparison

Psalm 119 72 the law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver and what we can understand from this verse is

That thousands of pieces of gold and silver is Referencing Abundant wealth the concept is this that there is an abundance of wealth that is

Potentially possible in this world. I mean you could accumulate thousands of pieces of gold and silver

David who I think wrote this almost certainly had that kind of wealth and David acknowledges that the

Word of God is More precious to him than even wealth if you turn to verse 127

David says Therefore I love your commandments more than gold even the purest gold

So you take pure gold you take that which we make jewels out of and if you think about pure gold

You take the very substance that Overlays the

Ark, right you have all of the images in the temple and in the

Holy of Holies where gold was the overlay or even the One complete piece of gold for certain things in the temple.

This is the most valuable stuff on earth and David says that he loves

God's commandments more than gold even the purest gold and I will Argue that precepts commandments testimonies statutes law these words when used most of the time especially in Psalm 119 and Psalms like 19 are

References to God's Word. They're not necessarily meant to be thought of in some specific sense like a precept being different from a testimony in Psalm 138

We'll see another comparison About God's Word, I'll just start in verse 1 for it's as a psalm of David and just in case you didn't know this by the way when you read the

Psalms and it has the Little instruction or title before you get to what's usually verse 1

It's my understanding that those words are also the words of Scripture.

That is not just something that was inserted later Those are those are actually words of Scripture that are for our obstruction

So David says I give you thanks With all my heart before the gods.

I sing your praises. I Bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name

For your loving devotion and your faithfulness

You have exalted your name and your word above all else

So there we have David saying that God has exalted his word Above all else along with his name his name, of course being synonymous synonymous with his person and his works

Proverbs 8 just keep moving along and looking at verse after verse if I say nothing from my own imagination here to convince you the abundance of Scripture verses that will speak of God's Word from God's Word itself should be enough to convince anyone of its pricelessness

David says in Proverbs 8 We'll start in verse 10

The entire Proverb is pretty strong to support what I'm saying. He says receive my instruction instead of silver

This is Solomon. Excuse me. I think I said David and knowledge rather than pure gold for wisdom is more precious than rubies and nothing you desire compares with her

I Wisdom dwell together with prudence and I find knowledge and discretion wisdom

Is of more value God's instruction is of more value than silver.

You should desire it more than you desire wealth. I don't think it is Necessarily wrong to desire the good things in this world, and I don't think it's wrong to Be wealthy.

In fact the two men that we've read now in the scripture David and Solomon Would have been two of the most wealthy men alive at the time which

Strengthens the point that desiring God's Word and God's instruction above even great wealth shows its pricelessness in Psalm 19

If you bounce back there and then the rest of the time will be in Psalm 119 so I apologize if we tear the spine of your new

Bible and by Apologize what I really mean is

I'm not sorry if I make you turn the Bible pages a lot I think you should I think when you sit in a sermon you should turn the pages of your

Bible actual paper Bible I would recommend although you could argue about the Bible app thing

And I think that you should be used to looking at the Word of God yourself and following along with the preacher

Particularly when you have a different version of the Bible sometimes that provides you insight into what God was saying in Psalm 19

Verse 10 Referring to the law of the Lord the testimony of the

Lord the precepts of Yahweh the commandments of Yahweh the fear of Yahweh the judgments of Yahweh and referring to God's Word David writes they are more precious than gold

Than much pure gold they are sweeter than honey than honey from the comb So the things that we need the things that we value in this world

The things that are sweetest to us none of them compare to God's Word So this is point number one that the word is of more value than everything else and the

It's the only thing I did to show you those verses. I think It proves that the word is of more value than everything else

But let's turn to Psalm 119 again, and we're just jumping around and we're going to go to verse 89

What I want to show you now is that the Word of God Proclaims itself in such a way that it is equated with or will take equivocated with eternity

So now we are starting to talk about attributes of the Word of God That cannot be used to describe anything that is itself not

God We wouldn't describe created things

Which by nature would be the only things that have any kind of exchangeable value We wouldn't describe created things as eternal

So here are four verses That will show you that God's Word is eternal

Psalm 119 89 Your word. Oh Yahweh is everlasting

It is firmly fixed in the heavens. So God's Word is everlasting.

It's Term to help us see that it is from Before creation and it's firmly fixed.

It's Established. There's something about God's Word. That is also unchanging

Do you know any other beings that are unchanging but the one true God? I don't

I'll take your silence as a no 96 I have seen a limit to all perfection but your commandment is without limit or exceedingly broad there's there's a

Infinitude to God's Word. There's an eternality to it. There is an expansiveness

To it that is beyond limit, it's Unfathomable and you cannot plumb the depths of it completely

It's incomprehensible. That does not mean you can't understand God's Word It means you can never fully

Understand God's Word. So it's actually a nice phrase. I've heard in Reformed Theology is a

God is apprehendable, but not Comprehensible so you can understand things about God, but you will never wrap your arms around God That's an attribute of God.

He is Infinite he is limitless

So when God's Word Describes God's Word as something that is limitless in comparison to David saying he's seen a limit to all perfection it is an explicit statement of God's Word having

Attributes that only God can have in Psalm 119 144 your testimonies are righteous forever

Give me understanding that I may live separate topic in there, but it's

God's testimonies are forever is why we went to that verse and it is life -giving we must understand in order to have life and in 152

David says long ago. I learned from your testimonies that you have established them

Forever and so God's Word is Compared to the most valuable things that men can imagine or women can imagine

And God's Word is equated with eternity God's Word is also equated with truth

Jesus is the way the truth and the life. So if Jesus is going to describe himself as the truth

Then anything else that God's Word describes to or excuse me anything else that God's Word Describes as the truth should be taken seriously the one of the most wicked men in history pilot said what is truth and in that statement he testifies that Truth can be standing right in front of someone and they won't see it

And so I want to exhort you today You must be born again, I don't know everybody in here

Preaching to you as if you're Christian men and women But I want you to remember that that when these things are hard to understand

That you must be born again to be spiritually enlightened and illuminated to actually grasp what

God's Word teaches Even though it's plain requires the Spirit's work

Again that's proven in chapter 1 of the Baptist Confession. If you don't know

I love that confession so 138

Psalm 119 138 The testimonies you have laid down are righteous and altogether

Faithful, I'm gonna argue that to be faithful. There's something about it being truthful there.

That's the truth in verse 142 David adds your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true in 151

I love hearing the pages turn. I love it. Thank you

You are near. Oh Yahweh and all your commandments are true and in Psalm 119 verse 160

The entirety of your word is truth and all your righteous judgments endure forever

I'm just going to challenge you right now that when you do your Bible reading plan and you read Psalm 1 and it's 6 verses

And you read Psalm 2 and it's 12 verses and you read Psalm 3 and I don't know how many that one is maybe 9

And then you start getting into some of the bigger Psalms and you put in the effort and you read through them and you think

About them and you get to Psalm 119 For many people that's a tough day in their

Bible reading, especially if you do the multiple chapters a day I'm gonna recommend two things at least once in a while read the whole thing all together

Don't don't split it up as if it's not one Psalm But secondly,

I'm going to encourage you to endure to the end and to keep your mind focused as you read this long psalm

I think it's easy to read the first 44 or 48 verses and to be engaged and now you've gotten to about the longest length of most chapters of the

Bible and Then you just can read word after word after word And what's important to understand is that every word of God proves true and that all scripture is inspired and it's profitable for you and So I want to encourage you when you read

Psalm 119 Ask God to help you to stay focused the whole time

I'm speaking as a man who has read Psalm 119 and realized afterwards.

Well, I didn't really read at that time I just looked at all the letters and my brain made the sound inside of the word

But I didn't understand it as I ought to have and so if you're anything like I am fellow child of Adam So you are you struggle to read

God's Word sometimes too And You know the same God that raised his son from the dead

It promises to raise every one of us from the dead one day Can also do something as simple as free your mind from some distractions while you're trying to do something wonderful and spiritual like study his word

So ask him for help Knock and it'll be opened unto you right seek and you shall find

You do not have because you do not ask I could preach on a million things off some of these verses It's just amazing.

The whole Christian life is encompassed by God's Word teaching us from every scripture Which brings us to the next point.

So first of all, I said the words of more value than the most valuable things It's equated with eternity and equated with truth.

Thus it has will say attributes of God and anything with attributes of God By its very nature.

It must be priceless The word is essential to God's children Because the

Word of God is what sanctifies us Jesus said sanctify them by your truth.

Your word is truth That's John 17 17. He's praying to his father and what's called the high priestly prayer where he's interceding for us

Such a wonderful way. It should bring you to tears if you read that chapter The Word of God sanctifies people and if it's a tool of sanctification

Sanctification where the power and authority that the Word of God has is what is actually capable of changing you and helping you and Cleansing you of all unrighteousness, then

I'm gonna make a logical argument by its very nature. It's priceless. It cannot be sold or bought so if you go back to Psalm 100

Psalm 119 verse 9 and 11 I Would expect that if I asked 75 % of people in the room, could they quote this?

These are good memory versus people quote. How can a young man keep his way pure?

It's a question It's a legitimate question By guarding it according to your word

I am a salvation by grace through faith Alone preacher and I expect everyone here understands that I think that we do not do any works to contribute to our salvation

God loves us by grace and it has nothing to do with anything that he sees in us or foresaw in us, but I will argue that part of the

Christian life is something that is called evangelical obedience and For many

Christians obedience is a very nasty word. They equate it with law the Mosaic law.

They equate it with being unspiritual The Bible does not have any problem commanding

God's children to be obedient and it should be your desire as a

Christian to exalt and magnify the Lord Jesus Christ by trusting that he is your propitiation for sin and at the same time working feverishly if you must to fight your sin and How do you do that?

By guarding it according to God's Word, it's God's Word that tells you what sin is and it's

God's Word that tells you the remedies and the things to do to fight your sin and It has the power in the privacy of your own home

To reveal your sin to you. It's a thought It discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

It's more powerful than any two -edged sword Verse 11, I've hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you

David now basically challenges us. Hey memorize God's Word Memorize it

Because when you memorize scripture a few things happen One of those things is that the scripture is now available at the moment of temptation

Some of you think you're going to go to church on Sunday you're going to hear a good sermon and then you're going to go watch football after and do all the other things you want to Do and then on Wednesday when temptation comes you just hope

God's going to just jump in and help you He can that's not the normal means by which

God grows Christians God expects you to be bathing yourself in his word in such a way that when the moment of temptation comes

You're able to quickly discern that it's temptation and know what to turn to instead. That is what

God expects of us And I dare say that Jesus mocked men in His day for not understanding basics of the scriptures that I think are more complicated than what

I just said So bathe yourself in God's Word hide it in your heart Memorize it when you memorize

God's Word one of the things that happens unless you're an insane genius Which I think there's a couple in here, but is you have to continuously roll it over in your mind

You know, most people don't read something that haven't memorized forever You have to think about it over and over and over and then you got to pull out a little note card

You got to review it and then you and then you review it again And then somebody asks you your accountability partner asked you hey, can you quote this to me?

And then you realize you can't then you got to do it again And you do it again. And while you're doing that you're meditating on it day and night feasting on the law of the

Lord As David also commands us to do in Psalm 1 Verse 24 your testimonies are indeed my delight.

They are my counselors God's Word is a counselor to God's child Verse 38

Establish your word to your servant to produce reverence for you.

I will submit to you That if you had reverence for God, you'd never sin It doesn't mean you don't revere

God at times But we in the moment of sin We are always breaking commandment number one along with whatever other commandment we're breaking

God's Word is essential to his children for their sanctification Verse 130 one more the unfolding of your words gives light it informs the simple

The light shines in the darkness and the darkness is not overcome it

Why would you not unfold God's Word for yourself regularly if you hate the darkness?

it's essential to God's child and I'm gonna I'm gonna insert the thesis here of the of the

Dorian principle and the concept is because God's Word is so essential to his children.

I don't know how we can charge people for it It's like saying

I have the thing that's going to help sanctify you and I'm not going to give it to you unless you give me a quarter $25 or whatever things equate to in your life in Psalm 119 verse 36 moving on this is similar to the first point that it has value, but David says turn my heart to your testimonies and not to covetous gain turn my eyes away from worthless things

He says revive me with your word. I Separated this out. This is an explanation of God's Word having great value, but it's he's contrasting it to worthless things

I just wanted to remind you that there are worthless things in this world and God contrasts his word to those

God's Word is to be on our lips Look at verse 13 With my lips

I proclaim all the judgments of your mouth verse 43 Never take your word of truth from my mouth for I hope in your judgments in Verse 46.

I will speak of your testimonies before kings and I will not be ashamed.

I Don't think that's a good thing that other people that are also a Christian are supposed to be able to just speak to one another

How do you speak to one another in Psalms hymns and spiritual songs? how do you have the Word of Christ Christ dwell in you richly and share it with one another and Provoke one another to good works with God's Word and use it for correction and training and instruction and righteousness

So the man of God may be equipped to every good work How do you do that with one another if every time you want to do it you have to think do

I have to pay? Somebody for it The answer is you can't if it's supposed to be on our lips it has to be free

So it's of more value than everything It's equated with eternity. It's equated with truth.

It's essential to our to God's children for sanctification It's contrasted against worthless things

It's to be on our lips and the word itself is wisdom if you turn to Job 28

Job 28 one of the neatest things in the world is to try to understand when

Job's Friends say things how to understand that There's a there's an apparent contradiction where God says at the end of the book.

Basically, they're all kind of wrong But all scriptures given by God and it's profitable and so there's something about the things

Job's friends say that is right and true and There's something about what

Job's friends do that's totally wrong And I think the simple way to put it is that they say a lot of really true things about God and they apply it

Wrongly, that's you know, I think that's the basic but in verse 15 in speaking about wisdom

Job 28 15 It says it cannot be bought with gold nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

So now you have wisdom Equated with this thing that's beyond the value of gold and silver and I'm going to tell you that Jesus is wisdom personified

So we'll just spoil the the whole ending of that one But that's how wisdom is perceived in Scripture and Proverbs 8 as well in Job 28 at the very end

Speaking of God it says then he looked at wisdom and appraised it Okay, well now it's interesting because I'm going to tell you that the

Word of God is priceless and now I just read a verse That says God appraised wisdom in which

I'm equating with the Word of God It says he established it and searched it out and he said to man behold the fear of the

Lord that is wisdom and To turn away from evil is understanding and now we have this phrase the fear of the

Lord that is wisdom I would argue that the fear of the

Lord is In our context coming to Christ in the

Old Testament, it would have been believing in the coming Messiah so Proverbs 15 a

Couple verses just to prove the point about wisdom verse 14 and discerning heart seeks knowledge

But the mouth of a fool feeds on folly 15 all the days of the oppressed are bad

But a cheerful heart has a continual feast and then he says better is a little with what the fear of the

Lord Then great treasure with turmoil. So now we have the fear of the

Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom equated with great treasure or not equated with but elevated above great treasure word desire the

Salvation of God above all things and true wisdom recognizes that Proverbs 16

Wonderful proverb About wisdom how much better to acquire wisdom than gold in verse 16

To gain understanding is more desirable than silver So now we have wisdom that's spoken of in the same way that the law of the

Lord was spoken of in Psalm 119 Verses 19 and 20

It's better to be lowly in spirit among the humble Than to divide the spoil with the proud

God has repeatedly told us in Terms, we understand that there are things that are better than wealth

It's really that simple and you know

The reason is because we desire wealth and we love wealth and we're by nature and Adam covetous people and we fight that nature

When you're born again, you still have to deal with the indwelling sin and so God tells us how to value things so yesterday pastor

Owens quoted an Augustine or Augustine Sermon, I don't know which is the correct

Protestant way to say it And I have a more lengthy version of the same quote

I'm gonna try to read it and give you some comments on it because it is a little bit of It's not the kind of quote you can just read and understand the first time

I'll just say it that way but Augustine speaking on the incarnation of the word so in John 1

Says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was

God He was in the beginning with God all things were made by him And without him was not anything made that was made and then moving on to verse 14

It says and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. So we have this very clear equivocation now of Jesus and the word the logos and Augustine says

How without price is that which surpasses all things?

So now we're we're getting to the the juice here we're going to prove that all these things that I made you read and listen to have all

Culminated in the theological and I'd say logical and natural conclusion that the

Word of God itself is priceless With all its implications one of those meaning you can't sell it

How without price is that which surpasses all things any? purchasable thing is either equal to the price or It's below the price or it exceeds it, right?

So if you're from the Midwest if you've ever met a person from Ohio, all right What do they do?

You tell them I like your shirt and they tell you how little they paid for it. That's that's our thing We all do it. You're not even laughing in California because you don't do this.

You probably overpay for everything here. I guess You're overpaying for Gavin Newsom. I'll tell you that.

Oh Now we got political sorry, sorry Colleen Made g3 mad and state of California.

All right, any purchasable soul thing is either equal to the price It's below it or exceeds it

So the idea is this you're either paying what it's worth or you underpaid and you got something of more value

You're you paid more than it was worth and you know, there may be reasons to do any of those things at any time and Augustine says but to the

Word of God nothing can either be equaled To exchange can anything be below it or above it?

For all things can be below the Word of God for that all things were made by him

He says yet Are they not in such wise below as if they were the price of the word that anyone should give something to receive that?

So he's saying Everything is below the value of the word because it is through the word that all things were created

It's all created things that you'd even exchange for the word Can't compare to it He says yet if we may say so and if any principle or custom of speaking admit this expression the price for procuring the word is the procurer himself and now it gets really beautiful I'm gonna

Explain that again in a second, but I'm gonna go down to a little more in the quote where he explains it himself

So accordingly when we buy anything We look out for something to give that for the price we give we may have the thing we wish to buy

So he's saying whenever you buy something you look for what you have That you can give in exchange for it and that which we give is without us.

So it's something outside of us It's your it's your four dollars or your sixty silver pieces or whatever you're buying, you know, you're trading

He says and if it was with us before what we give becomes without us that that which we procure may be with us so if you want to buy the

Bluetooth speaker for $60 when the things over you have a Bluetooth speaker and now you don't have the $60

That's what he's saying. There's an exchange happening. This isn't complicated Complicated language because it's translated from Latin He says whatever price the purchaser may find it

Must needs be such as that he gives what he has and receives what he has not so you have to give something

That's yours to get the thing. That's not yours so that he from whom the price goes himself remained

So you remain after you make a purchase and that which you for which you give the price is added to him

So now you've added something to yourself, whatever you're purchasing But Picking up on what he said earlier the price for procuring the

Word of God is the procurer himself or the the purchase price For receiving the

Word of God is the purchaser is what Augustine saying now He says but whoever would procure this word or get the word or do something in exchange for it

Commenting on the pricelessness of it whoever would have it let him not seek for anything without himself

So don't look for the stuff you have So he's saying don't look for $30 or you know a cow or whatever whatever you trade avocado toast or in California He says whoever would procure this word let him not seek for anything without himself to give but let him give himself and When he shall have done this he does not lose himself as He loses the price when he buys anything the difference in the pricelessness of the

Word of God Augustine is saying is that the value of it is exceedingly great

It's of no exchangeable value with any created thing. And so for you to get it your

Your role is to give yourself to the word and then in a beautiful irony of how exchanges work

You don't actually lose yourself You actually find yourself when you give yourself to Christ.

You actually find your true identity That God has for you if that wasn't enough

Make you believe that the Word of God is beyond value. We will go to Revelation chapter 19

Where I will now show you that Jesus is the Word of God. It wasn't by accident that Andrew named the website selling

Jesus org or the YouTube page Revelation chapter 19

Revelation of Jesus Christ verse 11 then

I saw heaven standing open John writes and There before me was a white horse and its rider is called faithful and true

With righteousness he judges and wages war His he has eyes like blazing fire and Many royal crowns on his head.

He has a name written on him that he only knows He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood and his name is the

Word of God. I Believe that Jesus is the Word of God. He is the

Word Incarnate the Word became flesh and dwelt among us Jesus is sharper than a two -edged sword

Able to divide soul from spirit as bone from marrow and as a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart

In Hebrews 4 13 the next verse after the one we all know about the Word of God He says and no creatures hidden from his sight, but everyone is naked and exposed to him before whom they're going to give an account

It's even more beautiful in the KJV. Actually, I love the way that is rendered Jesus is the

Word of God He is The truth Jesus is eternal his spirit

Gives us sanctification and so in conclusion

The Word of God is priceless

Not in the sense that it doesn't have value But in the sense that there's nothing that we can exchange for it

That doesn't any kind of honor I would argue

That if we could I hate hypotheticals because they're always wrong but if one of us could live a perfectly holy life and With our with our hands that are that are not even sinful hands if we could create really great things

That even the best thing that a million holy people could do Wouldn't be anything more than a pile of dung compared to the value of the

Word of God How much worse is it that We're so tainted with sin and corruption in this world that nothing we could come up with Could be of value compared to the

Word of God So do not Do not look at the

Word of God As just the words on the page All that is necessarily contained or expressly set down in the

Holy Scriptures are God's thoughts God's thoughts are revealed to his people by his spirit because nobody knows the thoughts of a man if he doesn't know his spirit

These things are spiritually understood and when you have God's thoughts in you they are to be on your lips

They are reminders of eternal truths therefore the edification and sanctification of you and your dear beloved brothers and sisters in your

Christian walk and they testify to you of The Son of God who came into the world

The one who didn't count it robbery to be equated with God, but humbled himself by becoming a man

Even to the point of death even death on a cross And Jesus Christ died so that sinners could be forgiven and Then because he did that God has highly exalted him and given him a name that is above every name and so Remember that this word that teaches you about Jesus is worthy of your respect and That its pricelessness is dictated not only by clear

Explicit statements about that in God's Word, but even good logical deduction Pray with me

Father in heaven We're thankful that you have provided all that we need your word is sufficient and so help us to believe that Help us to trust it and we ask you to keep our minds free of all of the little evil distractions

That are out there as we are to remain attentive to the preaching of your word and the teaching of your word help us to Have sweet fellowship with one another