The Word Requires a Response (Psalm 119:56)
This has become mine, that I observe Your precepts. Psalm 119:56 The psalmist is recognizing all the benefits that he has received because of God’s word and the truth it…
This has become mine, that I observe Your precepts. Psalm 119:56 The psalmist is recognizing all the benefits that he has received because of God’s word and the truth it…
…not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. 1 Timothy 3:3 For the overseer must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed,…
O Lord, I remember Your name in the night, and keep Your law. Psalm 119:55 When meditation becomes a consistent discipline in our lives, our minds can be filled with…
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, … 1 Timothy 3:2 (emphasis mine) Herein is the major distinction…
Your statutes are my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. Psalm 119:54 If you recall, the immediately previous verse speaks of the burning indignation the psalmist had because of…
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach… 1 Timothy 3:2 … but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible,…
Burning indignation has seized me because of the wicked, who forsake Your law. Psalm 119:53 The psalmist is not without emotion. In other words, it is not as though he…
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, … 1 Timothy 3:2 (emphasis mine) To be respectable is to…
I have remembered Your ordinances from of old, O Lord, and comfort myself. Psalm 119:52 It is an interesting concept that the psalmist comforts himself. Let’s face it, we all…
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent , respectable, hospitable, able to teach… 1 Timothy 3:2 (emphasis mine) A spiritual leader in the…