Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 2 - Psalm 119:2
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- Welcome back to Daily Bites of God's Word. This is Andy K and it's a joy to be back with you once again. Today we are looking at Psalm 119 and verse 2.
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- It says, How blessed are those who observe his testimonies. Now this is piggybacking and going in connection with verse 1 that we looked at last time because it's continuing the theme of the blessed person.
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- How blessed this person is. This is a blessed person. Of course, verse 1 talked about how the blessed person is blameless and walking in the law of the
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- Lord. And here we see that the blessed person is those who observe his testimonies.
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- Meaning you hold fast to them, you watch over them, you keep them. They are a continual part of who you are.
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- They ultimately define you. Now Christ is ultimately our identity because it is his righteousness that becomes our own.
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- But in the definition of Christianity, what is definitionally, if we were to define
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- Christianity and say this is Christianity but this is not, the key hallmark of the one who is a
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- Christian, the key hallmark of the one who has truly been saved is the one who is submitted to God's Word, submitted to Christ's commands.
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- They are obedient. They observe his testimonies. They observe, hold fast to what
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- God has said. Not what man thinks, but what God has said.
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- And we see this in a heart that is fully committed to God.
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- We know from Deuteronomy 4, and then I believe it's Mark 12, where it says we are to love the Lord our
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- God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. This verse 2 here says they seek, they meaning those blessed ones, seek him with all their heart.
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- It is an obedience that manifests outwardly but originates and comes from the heart of a person that has been transformed by the power of God.
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- So the truly blessed person is one of God's people. They've been saved, they've been transformed, they've been made a new creature, and they love the law of God and they pursue it and seek
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- God to be like God. But as he tells us in Leviticus, be ye holy for I am holy.
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- We seek to be holy increasingly as we live because we want to do this with all of you.