Holding Fast to God’s Word
Text: Acts 2:42
“And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers”
Main Points
The Beauty and Preciousness of God’s Word
The necessity of holding fast to God’s Word
The Peril of not holding fast to God’s Word.
Some relevant Scriptures (all Scripture references are in ESV)
The Beauty and Preciousness of God’s Word
Psalm 119:96: I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.
Psalm 119:160: The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
Psalm 119:72: The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
Hebrews 4:12-13: For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
The necessity of holding fast to God’s Word
Ecclesiastes 12:13: The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Psalm 119:56: This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.
John 6:68-69: Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Psalm 119:105: Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 119:11: I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
The Peril of not holding fast to God’s Word
James 1:22-25: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Matthew 7:26-27: And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.
2 Corinthians 5:10: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.