They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
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Beautiful. Now let's start identifying the nine things we need to know about the Bible. If you're taking notes, point number one, the word of God is perfect. The word of God is perfect. Like the phrase, the law of the Lord, or the word of the Lord, is simply saying it is perfect. There's no flaws in it. Everything you need to know about God is found in the Bible. Everything you need to know about life is found in the Bible. And it never goes out of date. So many things go out of date. Have you ever noticed how strange most people's photos are in the yearbook? It seems like we all collectively decide, Let's take a really bad picture for our yearbook and have the weirdest hairstyle of all time. And by the way, the mullet's making a comeback. I would highly recommend against that. Please don't do a yearbook picture in a mullet, even if it's popular. Anyway, these things come and go. Hairstyles come and go. …
… The ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and drippings from the honeycomb. Why wouldn't you come hungry and take heed how you hear? So, Christ's covenant church, may God make you a people who hear the word of God with a good heart and bear fruit a hundredfold. So that the fruit is rich for the city of Matthews and wider Minneapolis. us. Charlotte, to eat and your light is shining and in the years to come hundreds and hundreds of people see the fruit of your life and come into the kingdom. Father in heaven, thank you for this church. Thank you for what you have wrought here for the decades. Thank you for its present health and growth and faithfulness. And now I just pray that this text, take heed then how you hear, would make them all the more hungry, all the more vigilant, all the more joyfully receptive and fruitfully responsive to the word of God. …
… The ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and drippings from the honeycomb. Nothing more valuable than gold. Nothing sweeter than honey. You get to live here. Are you kidding me? I remember in 1974, finishing school, finally. after 28 years, getting a job at Bethel College to teach Bible. And I got my contract, and it said $10,500 for annual salary. I went home to Noel, and I said, they're going to pay me to look at the Bible and tell people what I see. And they've been paying me for 50 years. I mean, that's the meaning of privilege. Good night. Six years later, I resigned at Bethel. the key night was October 13, 1980. Did I say that right? No, October 14, 1979. There we go. October 14, 1979 and the leaving of the college and becoming a preacher. And I was scared that I would be giving up a lot. …
… the words of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired are they than gold even much fine gold sweeter also than honey and drippings from the honeycomb and they see he means it. He means it. I can tell he lives there. He lives in that gold and he lives in that honey. I can tell. So summarize where we've been. Let me stop. The saving, sanctifying, Christ-exalting, soul-satisfying purposes of God in your people are humanly impossible. That is the beginning of your power. number two nevertheless God has chosen to bind the fullness of his supernatural intervention in your people's lives with his word that you preach number three there are ways to preach that release or hinder more of this supernatural effectiveness one get the content of your sermons right make his meaning your meaning two make your explanations and illustrations crystal clear and three make your delivery the embodiment of authentic contagious affections for the preciousness of that reality. Let's pray. Father in heaven it's clear then the implication of this message is that we are utterly dependent on you, both for the work in our people, save them, sanctify them, get them home to glory, and in ourselves to be what they need from us in our preaching ministry. So, I ask again, perform these miracles, I pray in Jesus' name.
… Lord is clean, enduring forever. The rules of the Lord are true. They're true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey, and drippings from the honeycomb. This sounds like a bridegroom all over again. Gold and sweetness. Moreover, by them is your servant warned. Oh, In keeping them there is great reward. So he names the word six times. It's law, testimony, precepts, commandment, fear, rules. He takes the one diamond of the Word of God and he just turns it and we see this six facets of the word. Then he describes the word with nine descriptions. It's perfect. It's sure. It's right. It's pure. It's clean. It's true. It's righteous. It's more precious than gold. It's sweeter than honey. What does that mean? It's complete. It contains everything you need as a reader or a listener to know God as he ought to be known. it's flawless. It's not going to mislead you ever, if you rightly understand it. …
This excellence and desirableness of God's gifts is a subject again and again set before us in Holy Scripture. Thus the Prophet Isaiah speaks of the "feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." And again, under images of another kind: "He hath sent Me . . . to give . . . beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called Trees of Righteousness." Or again, the Prophet Hosea: "I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon." And the Psalmist: "O that My people would have hearkened unto Me . . . the haters of the Lord should have been found liars, but their time should have endured for ever. He should have fed them also with the finest wheat flour, and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee." You see all images of what is pleasant and sweet in nature are brought together to describe the pleasantness and sweetness of the gifts which God gives us in grace. As wine enlivens, and bread strengthens, and oil is rich, and honey is sweet, and flowers are fragrant, and dew is refreshing, and foliage is beautiful; so, and much more, are God's gifts in the Gospel enlivening, and strengthening, and rich, and sweet, and fragrant, and refreshing, and excellent. And as it is natural to feel satisfaction and comfort in these gifts of the visible world, so it is but natural and necessary to be delighted and transported with the gifts of the world invisible; and as the visible gifts are objects of desire and search, so much more is it, I do not merely say a duty, but a privilege and blessedness to "taste and see how gracious the Lord is." …