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The Word of God - Fundamentals

May 15, 2022    Aleksey Khizhnyak

Is 66:1-2 This is what the LORD says:
Heaven is My throne,
and earth is My footstool.
What house could you possibly build for Me?
And what place could be My home?
2  My hand made all these things,
and so they all came into being.
This is the LORD’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble, submissive [a]  in spirit,
and trembles at My word.

I. From the beginning we were created to be dependent on the word of God.

Gen.2:7 Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the
breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Gen. 1:28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and
subdue it.
Gen. 2:16   And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the
garden,  17  but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day
you eat from it, you will certainly die.” 
Do you understand your make up? From the beginning you were made to live and depend on
God. God created man and began speaking to him. Giving him instructions, guidance,
boundaries. Adam was never meant to live independently of Gods word, even before the fall! He
was to obey God and follow his commands. Adam was created to be a word follower. Any
attempt to be autonomous is rebellion and is bound to fail!
As soon as Adam accepted another alternative: “Did God really say…? No you will not die…”
the whole humanity fell and still suffers to this day from blindness and confusion, of who they
are and what they are to live for.
Paul came to Areopagus and found people to be extremely religious in every respect.
Acts 17:23-“as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even
found an altar on which was inscribed: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, what you
worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.  24  The God who made the world and
everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth… 26  From one man [f]  He has made every
nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and
the boundaries of where they live.  27  He did this so they might seek God, and perhaps
they might reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.  28  For in
Him we live and move and exist…

Dr. Allchin had a woman come to him for counseling and said: “I have been seeing a counselor
for 7 years now, and in these year have spend 100,000 dollars and did not get any help, will you
be able to help me?” For seven years, paying a lot of money trying to make sense out of life and
found no answers. After coming for several weeks to see a biblical counselor she reoriented her
life to her Creator, and got the help she was looking for, because there is no other help outside
of the counsel of God.
Jesus was lead by the Spirit in to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty
days he became hungry and the devil started tempting him.
Matt. 4:3…If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” 4  But He
answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God.” …It is written… It is written…
The perfect man Jesus, lives his life by depending on the word that came out of the
mouth of God. Notice what Jesus is doing in this passage, first he shows us an example
of how all of us were created to live from creation, in complete dependence on Gods
word. But secondly who is Jesus quoting? Deuteronomy 8. Even though Moses wrote
that passage, Jesus considers it as words that came out of the mouth of God. He
confirms the doctrine of inspiration! Even though Moses wrote it, Jesus considers it as a
word that came from the mouth of God!
Deuteronomy 8:3-6
3  He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you
and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread
alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.  4  Your clothing did not
wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years.  5  Keep in mind that the LORD your
God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.  6  So keep the
commands of the LORD your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him.
No food, then special food. Clothing did not wear out, feet did not swell for 40 years.
Why? So that you know that your life depends on every word that comes out of the
mouth of God! Notice he could have said
• “your life depends on Me” and still be correct. He choses to say
• “on every word that is coming out of my mouth”
• Keep in mind that the Lord your God has been disciplining you just as a man
disciplines his son.
• So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in His ways and fearing
Him.
Perfect Man Jesus demonstrates to us what that means. It is written, so I will obey! Do
you understand today your make up? Your engineering? You were created to depend
on God’s word, to live on it, to be guided by it, otherwise you will be completely lost!

II. We are saved by the word of God

General revelation is not enough for salvation. General revelation leads people to create
image of god and worship it other than the real God. Through creation we know there is
a creator. Through our conscience we know there is a law give and he is our judge.
Human heart attempts to create many ways to please the imaginable god that they
create by bringing sacrifices and establishing different religions.
Psalm 19:1-6 General revelation
Psalm 19:7-14 Special revelation
Dr. Allchin took his family to South America for 6 weeks. As they were traveling through
the villages, the guide would explain: See that mount of bricks, that is the sun god; that
mount of bricks, that is the moon god. One village they were passing by a river and they
believed in crocodile god, because once one woman was washing clothes and her child
got swept by a current and the villagers believed it was snatched by a crocodile. Once
in a while they would sacrifice a child to the river to appease the god. They also had
lightning god, tree god, river god. This is how lost humanity it without the word of God!
We were created to live on every word that comes out of the mouth of God. If there is
no word of God, there is no salvation.
Romans 10:14-15 But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how
can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a
preacher?  15  And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How
beautiful [ i ]  are the feet of those [j]  who announce the gospel of good things!
Acts 17:29-30 “ 29  Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is
like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and
imagination. 30  “Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now
commands all people everywhere to repent,
1 Peter 1:23 since you have been born again—not of perishable seed but of
imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.  24  For All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
25  but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was preached as
the gospel to you.

III. We are sanctified by the word of God

Spiritual food: 1 peter 2:1-2 So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy,
and all slander.  2  Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may
grow by it for your salvation.
Spiritual medicine: Ps 19:7-8 The instruction of the LORD is perfect, renewing one’s life;
the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making the inexperienced wise. 8  The precepts
of the LORD are right, making the heart glad; the command of the LORD is radiant, making
the eyes light up.

Power to fight sin: Ps 119:9,11,104 How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping Your word. I have treasured Your word in my heart so that I may not sin
against You. I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
One of my favorite passages about scripture is found in Hebrews 4:12-13 For the word
of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as
far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas
and thoughts of the heart.  13  No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked
and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.
One person shared how he was burning with anger that the pastors were stepping in to
his private life and asked him about his sins, until they started reading the scripture to
me, and that is when I broke down.
If I were to ask anybody today if they believed that they are created to live by every
word from the mouth of God, salvation comes from the revelation of God, and
sanctification is possible only through the working of the word of God, everyone would
say yes, for sure! If the same question would be addressed to many churches today,
they would all say yes for sure! My question is why is the Christian often so dim? Hearts
are hardened, burdened by sin? Churches are legalistic and cold hearted? What has
gone wrong?
John 14:21,23
21The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the
one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself
to him.”
23 If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come
to him and make Our home with him.