Building on the Word of God | Part 1

You hunger for the word of God. Listen to Adrian Rogers will render you have a hunger for the word of God you love the word of God.

When you desire for this word as you have a desire for money that something wonderful is going to happen in your life do you desire this morning goal. Be honest, really be honest you want to know what's wrong with your Christian life fractional have a hunger for the word of God. When this is important to you as your physical then you start? Welcome to the word finding between the dynamic teaching pastor Bible teacher and author Adrian Rogers as Nehemiah chapter 8 begin the following walls of been rebuilt. The people of God were secure organized Houston Fed. But there was something that needed to be done building their community on the word of God and what happened among these people is nothing short of a miracle if you have your Bible turned to Nehemiah chapter 8 as Adrian Rogers analyzes this miraculous revival and reveals what happens when we begin building on the word of God now to chapter 7 tells how the people God organize and how they got all registered how they got all Houston how they were all tells how they had a wonderful love all, that's the last few verses of chapter 7.

They took and how God blessed and how God had a part from the highest to the lease from the more wealthy to those who didn't have much everybody had a part wonderful story but wait a minute, wait a minute, there were now but will were real ring was given the job was completed there were secure there were houses that were organized there. They were led, but there was a spark missing. There was something yet that needed to be done and I thank God for Nehemiah and his crowd that they did not have the monument mentality. They were not interested merely in building the walls. What went on inside the wall himself. Are you paying attention to me. The building is not the most important thing a man is what goes on inside that building is going to really count and you find out that God blessed his people with a real genuine incentive only goes down by moving, mountain rattling ribeye and that's the kind of revival that I want us to have and you're going to notice that it happened, of all places, at the Watergate. It happened to the Watergate a real genuine Holy Ghost revival and I tell you that's what we need in America, and this revival was based on word of God and I want you to notice the elements of this revival of the Watergate. I want you to notice the elements of this revival that took place when the buildings were built and when the walls were first of all, it was rooted in a hunger for the word looking Nehemiah chapter 8 verse one and all the people know themselves together as one man into the street that was before the Watergate and they spake under Ezra the scribe rainbow of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded Israel. They said we want to hear the word of God. There was a famine word of God, and there was a hunger for the word of God and all the people gathered and said we want to hear something from word of God. Rainbow book of the law.

Ezra, you be the preacher and tell us what God has said, old friend. Do you have a hunger for the word of God. Do you really come a little boy asked his daddy that is this book was son of course it is reasonable and we better send it back to them because we never use old friend, you have a hunger for the word of God. Do you love the word of God. Psalm 19 verse 10 and 11. The parable Lord is clean and during forever. The ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired are they even go yeah even much fine gold sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb when you get a desire for this word is you have a desire for money that something wonderful's going to happen in your life do you desire this morning goal. Be honest, really be honest you want to know what's wrong with your Christian life fractional have a hunger for the word of God. Listen, if you will to Job 23 verses 10 and 12. But you know the way that I take and when you tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot had held his steps is way I like to not decline. How could a man say something like that. I'll tell you how he says neither have I kept back from the commandment of his lips. I esteem the words of his mouth more than my necessary meet listen what Job said job, said word is more important to me more precious to me more for me than the food that I I esteem the words of his mouth more than my necessary meet when this is important to you as your physical food, then you going to start to grow in your Christian life dear try to fast there and noticed how just important.

Food gets to you just missed three meals, you will find out what a sissy you are.

You will find out how ashamed of that refrigerator you are just one day, just three meals without even and yet some of you can go 1234563 without really feasting on the word of God. Job said I esteem the word of his mouth, and my necessary meet. Listen to Psalm 119 verse 162. David said I rejoice in thy word as one big find of grapes, boiling Evergreen just one day discovering a buried treasure somewhere you know I'm just following box full of rubies and diamonds and gold balloons and all of that. David said old to me to go into the word of God is like a treasure hunt just to dive down deep into the word of God.

I rejoice in thy word as one that find a great spoil and hearing Nehemiah chapter 1 verse eight people had a hunger for basic to us from the word of God and I want to you in that day. Somebody had to stand up and read it because they couldn't go down to the department store.

The Bible book stories. You can buy the Bible they couldn't do it. I wondered one day but dust on our Bibles is not going to testify against us. These ads got married, and no man shall part dust on the Bible and drought in the heart. Now this revival in the Watergate was marked first of all, bio hunger for the word of God, you got that Nehemiah 810 hunger for the word of God. It was Mark number two by a hearing the word of God begin now in verse two and read all down through your school, and Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation. Both of men and women and all here with understanding upon the first day of the seventh month and he read therein before the street that was before the Watergate from the morning until midday before the men and women and those that could understand and the ears of the people were attentive to the book of the law, and Ezra the scribe stood upon a pool would the people here heard the word of God.

They came to the worship service for this purpose day here Bible the word of God and these people were not time conscious notice look in verse three and he read therein before the street that was before the Watergate from the morning until midday was a long service and I will see anything about anybody being in a hurry to get out and be number one in the cafeteria line. They were there. They stayed there to hear the word of God. I want to tell you something folks we spend too much time doing other things and not enough time in the word of God and not enough time worshiping the Lord.

These people have reliable because they will not want one of the lines I read somewhere that stuck in my mind for a long time is been this. The clock chimed 12 in the church gave upward. I think that's so often what takes place is people are time conscious.

I don't believe it will drive the services out. I really don't.

But I don't believe that we ought to rush them up either. I believe we all let God the Holy Spirit were and when we get an error when God is blessing when souls are being saved. When the weather is being priest went lives are being blessed and we say to the Holy Spirit interested God and what you were interested in what we want. Now the people were tenant, they were attentive and they were not time conscious and notice again. The last part of verse three and the ears of all the people were attentive onto the book of the law. Now the third thing in this revival. Not only was there hunger forward to.

Not only was there a hearing of the word of God. But there was an honor given to the word of God and honor given to the word of God began here in verse five and continue to read and Ezra opened the book in the side of the people, for he was above all the people and when he opened it, all the people stood and Ezra blessed the Lord of the great God and all the people answered in a man, a man with lifting up their hands and they bow and serve the Lord with pieces to the ground, but people were so enthused about this book.

When God said today we lived our hands and say amen somebody you think there's something wrong with nothing wrong with getting excited injure is nothing wrong with saying a man is nothing wrong with saying praise the Lord.

If you mean praise the Lord. If you mean a man if you caught up in a service now folks don't to pickup up but if it overflows let overflow.

So what if someone gets carried away whatever Nanette would have someone carried away but out a wad is easier to cool down is a lot that it is a warm up a corpse really I want to gain our biggest danger is not at this time by next week we got to become housing finance is not our biggest danger is dangerous, that we go to be so close a little warm so I basically so that we will not get into this and excited about God.

These people were excited about the word of God either.

This book is the word of God is not the word of God and it is the word of God. All how we ought to give honor to how we opted to get excited about Isaiah chapter 40 verse eight bentgrass and the flower but a word of our God shall stand forever, and this word stand young is a Hebrew word which means it realizes disdain Betty as it keeps getting knocked down by keep standing up kids rising to stand against coming up again and again, not through history of all the things that men have done to God about how I can Verizon understand where I think about that Roman Emperor Diocletian Diocletian who hated Christ who hated the Bible hated churches and Christian he made all the laws against the Bible and outlaw the Bible and and beat the Bible down. Christians died and suffered agonizing days under the regime of Diocletian that Roman Emperor Diocletian even said that he had completely done away with Christianity and even built a monument and all that monument he wrote these words in Latin, extinct toe, no money. Christiana Laurel that is the name of Christian that's what Diocletian said.

But the next Emperor that followed Diocletian. Constantine in 312, declared himself to be a Christian.

Old Thomas Paine and early history of the United States of America wrote a book called the age of reason and in that book old Tom Payne tried to blacken the character of the Bible and this is what Thomas Paine boastfully said and I quote, I am going through a wood with a nice and very old trees. They will never grow again. But this man on his deathbed, cried out, God help me oh Lord Jesus Christ tell me somebody ask him if he had a wish to believe in Christ. He said I have no wish to believe on that subject. Old Tom Payne was wrong. The Bible's own volunteer said with my single hand. I'll destroy the editors that it took 12 apostles to rear ball Terry's dad and own the brilliant French skeptic in aviation and lives alone because the Bible says in Psalm 119 verse 9089 for Lord by word is settled in heaven. The people honor the word of God. Do you want of the word of God you get excited about the word of God.

Do you I read about a man came one of these cold churches set in the back. The preacher got up and preached I really don't know what the man got so excited about because it was kind of a liberal church but evidently must've been something in one of the hands or maybe just as all meditation with the preacher said something the man said a man. Everybody turned around and looked at and then after a while the patient praise the Lord then people arched eyebrows and finally he said amen again and I sure went to him and tapped him on the shoulder to quiet these and what is wrong with you anyway. He said will nothing. He said I just got religion.

He said will Mr. you can get it here. While I believe it.

I can believe that the people said a man may praise the Lord I tell you something folks we need to praise the Lord you what so many people think that real worship is they come to watch the perform and they think of us is sort of like participants or actors in a drama and that you are the audience and got up in heaven is standing in the wings. He's what they call the prompter and that God prompts us, and he tells us what to say we say so you can see it and enjoy that's that's the concept that a lot of people have worship. That's not Bible worship me today how different it is this is God who is the audience you are the participants we are the prompters.

See, that's the way supposed to be worship is to be asked on God we praise the Lord. Come and watch us put on a religious extravaganza some sort of a show. My job as a minister is to encourage you, praise the Lord. I used to be going to father at this very moment, so it won't hurt you. Every now and then to say a man what made this such a great service on that day. Why was there a revival of the Watergate look at a number on a global word of God number to a hearing God number three and honor to God when the book was open. The people rose and stood and said a man number a handling of the word of God, a handling of the God notice chapter 8 beginning in verse seven and Joshua and naming and a lot of other fellows and the Levites caused people to understand the law and the people stood in their place and so they read the book of the law distinctly and gave a sense and cause them to understand the reading. Now, folks, not only must we read the word and honor the word to word and hunger for the word we must properly handle the word all you know it's not just enough to read the word of God. Somebody has to explain look again in verse eight, so they read in the book of the law of God's being likely and gave the sense, and cause them to understand the reading I tell you something that really had asked me all this to go to church here. Somebody stand up and preach without an open mind. Or maybe the quoted text and close the Bible and imaginal range make a speech animating wonderful oration. It may even be inspiring.

People are not learning the word of God, malice, and what we need to do is to read the book, take boat going to do the way they did it in the Bible reading distinctly and explaining. I think it is taking a passive Scripture read that passage of Scripture analyze it. Verizon illustrated and apply. That's what I think preaching the Bible and I believe is a famine in the land today for that kind of preaching, but I believe that is the kind of preaching. Ultimately, that will build great Christians where people can understand the Bible that if I preach and you don't understand the Bible. Frankly, I have failed. I don't care how great the message may be, you will come away saying yes says so and so Roger says it is word and I'm able understand. Sometimes we go we are preacher preacher was a man he must be brilliant. Item understanding don't you just this because a rivers money doesn't mean his need to know what is said about the Lord Jesus Christ.com and people heard him gladly claim folks to come in close and I have a PhD to understand the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because Jesus took the word of God analyze organized and expounded where people could understand it all. How we need Sunday school teachers who will do this, and deacons who will do this actually verse seven I believe is talking about the Old Testament counterpart of our New Testament. Sunday school teachers and training workers. Notice what it says. This group of man caused the people to understand the law. The people stood in their place. That's a wonderful not only was Ezra the scribe a big teaching it and preaching it, but he had a group of workers who are out there in smaller groups, teaching and explaining the word of God all power in people getting together after they come to one great service and someone stands up and and then they break down in smaller groups and they study the word of God to all the power of the Sunday school did you know that John Dillinger, the great notorious outlaw got in trouble as a teenager as a little boy really even before teenager and his mother and his daddy thought well maybe if Johnny could go to Sunday school with my changes life and I got Johnny Dillinger in Sunday school, but you know what happened when some of the parents found out that John Dillinger was going to Sunday school. They said to the teacher.

We don't want that bad boy in the Sunday school class with our children and little Johnny Dillinger is coming to that Sunday school class that I kids can't come in. And when John Dillinger's mother heard that she was heartbroken and Johnny Dillinger dropped out of Sunday school in 20 years. He was the most notorious outlaw died in a hail of gunfire. The most notorious outlaw in the United States on the American continent. I just wonder what happened to Johnny Dillinger and stayed in Sunday school and some Sunday school teacher at explain the word of God and made no the Bible to there was a Sunday school class.

It was more like a club that was like a Sunday school class. All I want to tell you friend that needs to be a proper handling of the word of God.

I want you to learn how to take the word of God and study to show yourself word when the need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of true. What a powerful reminder today. If we believe that the Bible truly is the word of God. We will honor it is the people did in Nehemiah chapter 8 will pickup with part two of this message tomorrow, but if you have questions about the word of God, your faith in Jesus Christ. Many answers can be found at our discovered Jesus page. Just go to LWF.org/radio and click Discover Jesus resources materials away to leave a prayer request and much more. Go to LWF.org/radio and click Discover Jesus if you'd like a copy of today's message on CD. Call us at 1877 love God, to order building on the word of God's message is also part of the powerful series turning problems into possibilities for the complete collection all eight insightful messages. Call us at 1877 love God or go online to LWF.org/radio to order or write us at love worth finding box 38, 600 Memphis, TN 38183 thanks for tuning in for today's powerful message. Do you have a relationship with Jesus, built on the word of God until you know Jesus you understand his word and until you understand his words will never truly be sure to join us tomorrow for the powerful conclusion. Building on the word of God right on love worth a listener in Arkansas by the word of encouragement when she wrote us recently.

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