The Word of Life

John 10: 10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Introduction:
1. Jesus is the Word.
2. When God’s Word comes, then life begins.
John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die…”
3. God’s Word brings light.
Psalms 119:130
The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
4. God’s Word brings the 3 Fold Prosperity.

3 John 2-3
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is you, just as you walk in truth.
The Word of God is Truth

I. How do you treat God’s Word?
A. Be committed to the Word.
1. No compromise.
2. 100% obedience.
3. You are willing to sacrifice
4. You are willing to step in faith and take
risk.
B. God’s Word is our Top Priority.
1. The Parable of the sower. The two grounds that received the seed but did not produce good fruit have one thing in common.
a. sown on rocky ground.
b. sown among thorns.
They are those who hear the Word but do not continue in it.
3. Those who continued received a hundred fold return.
Luke 8:15
But the ones that fell on good ground are those who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

II. Obedience to the Word means giving glory to God.
God will fill the earth with His Glory. It means that in this last days multitude of people, as numerous as the stars will be obedient to God and His Word.
A. God’s promise: Numbers 14:21
“but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.”
God’s purpose is to fill the earth with His people who are obedient.
But His people rebelled against Him by not entering the promise land as He commanded them. So that generation did not enter. God waited for them to die in the wilderness and prepared for Himself a generation that will obey Him and enter the promise land.
Moses, himself, did not enter the promise land because he disobeyed God at Meribah.
DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD
Will hinder God’s blessing and prevent people from receiving God’s promises.
Will not allow God to be glorified in our lives.
Will bring a soul to hell.
B. Moses failed to enter the promise land because
1. He was moved by anger as a reaction to the complains of Israel.
2. He was presuming to do the old things he usually did. He forgot to do what he was told to do.
3. He disobeyed God.
Failure to obey God has
NO EXCUSE.
Numbers 20: 12
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”