The Salvation of the Soul
The engrafted word is God’s word planted in our hearts. The word of God is able to save our souls. The devil comes to steal the word of God that was sown in our hearts. We are to guard our hearts with all diligence. Our heart is a soil and it needs moisture for it to grow. A bitter heart is a heart of rock and will cause us to fall from the grace of God and lose our salvation.
Podcast 11/27/2023
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The engrafted word
Jam. 1:19 19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Be a doer of the word
Matt. 7:21 21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
The Devil comes to steal the word of God
Matt. 13:18 18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
Jn. 10:10 10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
We are to guard our heart from the Devil coming to steal the word
Prov. 4:20 20My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
We need a heart of moisture
Luk 8:6 - And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, G5453 it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
Luk 8:8 - And other fell on goodground, and sprang up, G5453 and barefruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
A heart of bitterness and unforgiveness will make you lose your salvation
Heb 12:15 - Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing G5453up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Matt. 6:14 14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
A heart of moisture is a heart of love
Eph. 3:17 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Matt. 22:36 36Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
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