A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

Ses s i on 4: Cu l t i vat i ng Our Commun i on: The I nward Di sc i p l i nes 127

c. Deut. 31.11-13 – when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. [12] Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, [13] and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. d. 1 Pet. 4.11 – whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

e. Acts 17.11 – Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

3. The Word is to be proclaimed and examined in the Church, and all things are to be judged according to the hearing, reading, and exposition of the Word.

a. 1 Thess. 5.19-21 – Do not quench the Spirit. [20] Do not despise prophecies, [21] but test everything; hold fast what is good.

b. Notice the leaders in 2 Chron. 17.7-9 – who went teaching the people the Word of God, cf. [9] And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the Lord with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.