THE BIBLE TELLS US TO HEAR THE WORD

The Bible tells us we are to hear and study the Word of God. It is written:

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Jos 1:13-REMEMBER THE WORD.
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Acts 15:7-HEAR THE WORD.
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Isa 1:10-HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
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Jere 9:20-RECEIVE THE WORD.
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Jere 10:1-HEAR YE THE WORD WHICH THE LORD SPEAKETH.
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Jos 1:8-THIS BOOK…MEDITATE THEREIN DAY AND NIGHT.
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Ezek 6:3-HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD GOD.
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Hos 4:1-HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
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2 Tim 2:15-STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD.
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Ja 1:21-RECEIVE…THE…WORD.
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Pv 4:4-LET THINE HEART RETAIN MY WORDS.

The Scriptures were written by about 39 authors, dating from about 1900 B.C. to about 90 A.D., yet they harmonize perfectly. There is not one contradiction or mistake. There are about 10,385 prophecies, and every single one has come true up to this time without one exception. It is written:
2 Pe 1:20,21-KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT NO PROPHECY OF THE SCRIPTURE IS OF ANY PRIVATE INTERPRETATION. FOR THE PROPHECY CAME NOT IN OLD TIME BY THE WILL OF MAN: BUT HOLY MEN OF GOD SPAKE AS THEY WERE MOVED BY THE HOLY GHOST.
2 Tim 3:16-ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IS PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Heb 4:12-THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWOEDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT (it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit), AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER OF (it judges) THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF THE HEART.
Ro 15:4-FOR WHATSOEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN AFORETIME WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING.
We are to receive God’s Word in meekness with a humble spirit.
As Ja 1:21 exhorts us, RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS THE ENGRAFTED WORD, WHICH IS ABLE TO SAVE YOUR SOULS.
Satan will try to keep you from the Word by using things like cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, pleasures of this world, lusts of other things, persecutions, and temptations. Turn off the music. Put down the newspaper. Read your Bible. Forget the party, the date, the movie, or visiting with relatives. Put God’s Word first in your life.

As Col 3:16 says-LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU RICHLY IN ALL WISDOM.

Do you study for school? Do you study for college? Do you study for your job? Can these save your soul? When do you study God’s Word? If you think these things are more important than God’s Word, then you are deceived. Anything that comes before God’s Word is an idol

God tells us in Jos 1:8-THIS BOOK OF THE LAW SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF THY MOUTH; BUT THOU SHALT MEDITATE THEREIN DAY AND NIGHT.
Do you meditate in God’s Word day and night? Are you obeying God’s Word?
We are to Pv 4:4,5-LET THINE HEART RETAIN MY WORDS: KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND LIVE. GET WISDOM, GET UNDERSTANDING: FORGET IT NOT; NEITHER DECLINE (or swerve) FROM THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
Get into the Bible. Get understanding, and do not shrink back from God’s Word.
As Pv 4:20-22 says, MY SON, ATTEND TO MY WORDS; INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO MY SAYINGS. LET THEM NOT DEPART FROM THINE EYES; KEEP THEM IN THE MIDST OF THINE HEART. FOR THEY ARE LIFE.