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@Livingwater Study7B...Quickening through HIS Word Key-verse: “”Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word!”” (Psalm 119:107, KJV) How easy it is to get into bondage to sin (Romans 6:12); to self (Romans 6:16); and to Satan (Luke 22:31)! In Psalm 119:153 the Psalmist prayed, “”Look upon my suffering and deliver me, for I have not forgotten your law.”” The Lord Jesus Himself, from the Throne, is the great Liberator, as we learn from John 8:36; but He liberates us by the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, as we learn from Romans 8:2, and the medium through which He works is the Word of God.we stopped at point two in the last part.. 3 . It is through God’’ s Word that the Holy Spirit instructs us in the way of righteousness and enables us to please God . Many times in Psalm 119 the psalmist prays that God would show him the right way and enable him to walk in that way. This is exactly what the Holy Spirit does as we turn to God’’s Word with the desire to hear Him speaking to us

@Livingwater Study 7A THE QUICKENING POWER OF THE WORD Key-verse: “”Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word!”” (Psalm 119:107, KJV) The word we shall consider in this study is the word ““quicken”” (or “”quickening””). It means ““to give life and to preserve life”” and “”to be made alive””. This covers our basic needs, because we need to receive life and to be preserved by life; we need to receive life initially, which takes place at the time of conversion, but we also need to be preserved by life continually, which refers to God’’s work of sanctification From the scriptures we learn two things:- 1. The HOLY SPIRIT is the one who GIVES LIFE (quickens) –- look up and compare John 6:63 and 2 Peter 3:18. 2. The WORD OF GOD is the INSTRUMENT the Holy Spirit uses to accomplish this work –- we learn this from many references in the Scriptures and Romans 4:17 and Romans 8:11 illustrate this. 1 . It is through God’’ s Word that the Holy Spirit quickens us with new life, so that we b

@Livingwater Study6B..WHY WE LOVE THE BIBLE Key-verse: “Oh, how I love your law!”” (Psalm 119:97) We will be checking on the remaining points today.we have study how bible can convince sinner like Zacchaeus,Ethiopia man and others. 2. THIS BOOK CONVERTS THE SEEKER The Bible is the instrument the Holy Spirit uses to show man that he is a sinner. Only the Holy Spirit can convict or convince of sin, and He does it with the sword-thrust of the Word, of which He is the Author –- look up and compare John 16:8 with Ephesians 6:17 and Hebrews 4:12. The Bible shows us that we are sinners, and this is one reason why many do not read the Bible; it shows them their sinful state and their sinful actions. For example, look up Ecclesiastes 7:20; Isaiah 53:6; John 8:7-9 and Romans 3:10-23. The Bible not only declares that all men are sinners, but it states that because of our sin we are dead (Romans 6:23 and Ephesians 2:1); and we are lost (Luke 19:10 and 2 Corinthians 4:3).If we were in a bu

@Livingwater Study 6A . WHY WE LOVE THE BIBLE Key-verse: “Oh, how I love your law!”” (Psalm 119:97) In Psalm 119 we only have to compare verses 16, 24, 47, 103, 111, 113, 119, 127, 128, 140, 159 and 162 with the key-verse of this study (verse 97) to see how much the psalmist loved God’’s Word. It is true to say that our love for the Bible is like a thermometer by which we may tell the temperature of our love for the Lord Himself. Think of Stephen, whose preaching was filled with the Word of Truth (Acts chapters 6 and 7). He was martyred for his love for God’’s Word, and thousands have followed. Why did David love God’’s ““law””? Why do we love the Bible? We could give forty answers to this question, forty reasons for loving the Bible! Here are four worth considering,but in this part we will be considering one out of four and we shall conclude it in the next part...God bless you. 1 . THIS BOOK CONVICTS THE SINNER The Bible is the instrument the Holy Spirit uses to show man tha

@Livingwater Study 5B..God's dealing Key-verse: ““I know, O LORD, that your laws are righteous, and in faithfulness you have afflicted me.”” (Psalm 119:75) Notice that David does not say, ““I think so!””, or ““I suppose so!””, or ““I want to believe it!””, or ““I hope so!”” Nor does he say, “”I can see it to be so!””, because the fact is that usually we cannot see what God is doing –- look up John 13:7. What the psalmist says is, ““I know it……!”” This is the language of faith, faith that is operative in personal experience. Is this your language, or are you questioning, fretting, resentful and rebellious? We stopped at point 2 in the previous part. 3 . Psalm 119 :75 – – “ The Lord has afflicted me in faithfulness !”” This is what David says, and it means that the Lord has been at work in our lives with the sincere intention of doing us good, and that He is just and righteous in all His dealings with us. He is faithful to us and therefore deals with us as He sees best, and b

@Livingwater Study 5 GOD’’S DEALINGS WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE Key-verse: ““I know, O LORD, that your laws are righteous, and in faithfulness you have afflicted me.”” (Psalm 119:75) The subject of affliction is not an easy one for the believer to understand, but it is dealt with very fully in God’’s Word. The psalmist has much to say about it, and in our key-verse he tells of something which he had experienced himself; he knew that God was working out His glorious and gracious purpose in his life, and that is something really worth knowing! Looking at this verse carefully you may feel that the word ““afflicted”” is a hard one, but this is not so, because it speaks of God’’s loving and merciful dealings with His own people. It tells us of the Lord’’s discipline (Deuteronomy 8:2-6), and this word “discipline” is not a hard word; it has to do with a father’’s loving dealings with his child. The psalmist knew this and that is why he could break forth with this wonderful testimony in Psalm 1