3. By this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the
elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the
teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by
constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
HEBREWS 5:11-14
6. Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from
the mouth of God.
MATHEW 4:4
7. Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard
through the word about Christ.
ROMANS 10:17
8. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness.
2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17
9. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
PSALMS 119:11
10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise
wisdom and instruction.
PROVERBS 1:7
11. Meditate On The word
• What Is Meditation?
• Set aside a certain period of time of the day
• Free From Distractions.
• Don’t just read, have a plan.
• Techniques
– Pronounce it Method.
– Picture It Method.
– Personalize It Method.
12. Memorize The Word
• It’s the number one tool for resisting
temptation.
• It helps you make wise decisions.
• It strengthens you when you’re under stress.
• It comforts you when you’re sad.
• It helps you witness to unbelievers.
15. Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into
practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
MATHEW 7:24
16. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it
says.
JAMES 1:22
17. Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
JAMES 2:17
18. Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
JAMES 2:17
19. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like
someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself,
goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
JAMES 1:23-24
23. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
PROVERBS 27:17
24. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and
good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of
doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the
Day approaching.
HEBREWS 10:21
27. A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you
must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another.
JOHN 13:34-35
28. Make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
ROMANS 14:19
29. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become
angry.
JAMES 1:19
30. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as
lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just
one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
JAMES 2:8-10
31. Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great
boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The
tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It
corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is
itself set on fire by hell.
JAMES 3:5-6
32. RECAP
• Word Of GOD
– Meditate On The word.
– Memorize The Word.
• Faith Without Action.
• Accountability
– Parents, Friends, Community(Church)
• Dealing With Others
– Quick To Listen, Slow To Speak.
– No Favoritism
– Gossip
