Participants: Shelley Quinn
Series Code: EHW
Program Code: EHW000017S
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00:19 Hello.
00:20 My name is Shelley Quinn 00:21 and I welcome you to 00:23 Exalting His Word. 00:24 Today we will discuss 00:25 righteousness by faith 00:27 and how to demonstrate 00:30 our love for God. 00:31 We are going to learn 00:32 how to take scriptures on these two topics 00:35 and make God's testimony about us 00:38 our life affirmation. 00:40 I encourage you to get a pen 00:43 and paper ready because 00:44 you're probably going to 00:46 want to take some program notes. 00:48 Today's program will be similar to 00:50 a Bible workshop exercise. 00:53 You are going to learn 00:55 how to plug in to 00:57 the transforming power of the word of God 01:00 and I think you're going to love it! 01:04 Before we begin, 01:05 let's review our theme text 01:07 which is Psalms 138:2. 01:10 And in that verse 01:11 the Bible says that 01:13 God exalts His name 01:15 and His word 01:16 above all things. 01:18 And He exalts His word 01:19 even above His name. 01:22 What does that mean? 01:23 I had to do a study in 01:25 Hebrew to really see 01:26 the depth of the meaning of this verse. 01:30 It means that 01:31 God has promoted His word to 01:34 the highest rank of importance. 01:36 Nothing is more important to God 01:38 than His word. 01:40 He has assigned the highest position of 01:43 praise to His word. 01:44 God exalts His word 01:46 more than anything else because 01:49 He has granted creative, 01:51 life giving power to His word. 01:53 Power to accomplish all of His will. 01:57 And today, 01:58 we're going to learn 02:00 how to exalt God's word. 02:02 Let's go to the Lord in prayer 02:03 and ask Him to bless our study. 02:06 Heavenly Father, 02:07 we come before you today to ask 02:10 in the Name of Jesus that 02:12 the Holy Spirit will be our teacher. 02:15 And Father God, 02:16 we ask that you would sanctify us 02:18 by Your word today. 02:20 We thank you Father for 02:22 the privilege that you have given us to be 02:24 called your children. 02:26 In Jesus Name, amen. 02:27 Today's program is going to be 02:30 like a "good ole" Bible study 02:33 with a slightly different outcome. 02:35 I want to show you how to take scriptures 02:39 and speak God's truth over your life. 02:43 Let me show you an affirmation that 02:45 I developed from a number of scriptures. 02:47 Then what we're going to do is 02:49 take it apart line by line. 02:52 And we will look at the Bible verses that 02:55 support this affirmation. 02:57 So here's our first 02:58 Life Affirmation from Scripture. 03:01 [information on screen] 03:33 Now, are you ready to see 03:35 how I came up with this affirmation? 03:38 Let's look at it line by line 03:40 with the scriptural support. 03:43 The first line said, 03:44 "I am the righteousness of God 03:47 "in Christ Jesus." 03:49 You know, 03:50 II Corinthians 5:21 says that about us! 03:53 It says 03:54 "God made Him 03:56 "who had no sin to be sin for us. 04:00 "So that in Him, 04:02 (in Christ), 04:03 "we might become 04:05 "the righteousness of God." 04:07 And in the second line says that 04:10 "God has credited 04:12 "Christ's righteousness to me." 04:14 The Bible says that in I Corinthians 1:30. 04:17 I want to read to you from 04:19 the New Amplified version. 04:20 "But it is from Him (from God) 04:23 "That you have your life in Christ Jesus. 04:26 "Whom God made our wisdom from God 04:30 "our righteousness." 04:33 Which the amplified says, 04:34 "Thus making us upright 04:37 "and putting us in right standing with God 04:40 "and He became our consecration." 04:44 Which means that 04:46 He makes us pure and holy. 04:48 And our redemption. 04:51 He provided our ransom from 04:54 the eternal penalty for sin. 04:56 So there we see that 04:58 Christ is our righteousness, 05:01 our consecration, 05:02 and our redemption. 05:05 And also, 05:06 Isaiah 61:10 05:08 That verse says, 05:10 "My soul shall be joyful in my God. 05:14 "For He has clothed me with 05:17 "the garments of Salvation. 05:20 "He has covered me with 05:22 "the Robe of Righteousness." 05:27 Then the next line says that 05:29 righteousness by faith is 05:31 the only righteousness that exists. 05:35 Isaiah 64:6 says this, 05:38 "But we all are like 05:41 "an unclean thing, 05:43 "and all our righteousnesses are 05:46 "like filthy rags." 05:49 When we stand in the shadow of 05:52 the Holiness of God 05:54 the very best that you and I can do 05:57 by our human effort can not measure up to 06:01 anything that God can do. 06:04 Our righteousness, 06:05 our righteous acts are as filthy rags. 06:07 We have to rely on God to work in us to do 06:13 things His way. 06:16 And in Jeremiah 23:6 says this; 06:19 "Now this is His Name. 06:22 "The Lord our Righteousness." 06:26 Even in the Old Testament 06:29 God was always 06:31 the righteousness of His people. 06:33 It has always been righteousness by faith. 06:37 And Romans 9:30 says this... 06:41 "Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness 06:44 "have attained to righteousness..." 06:47 Notice this... 06:49 "Even the righteousness of faith." 06:54 Now our next line says... 06:57 "Being made righteous 06:58 "I now put it into practice 07:02 "by following God's way of thinking and acting. 07:06 "I am obeying His commandments 07:09 "by His righteousness within me." 07:14 You know we always want to 07:17 have a balanced message. 07:19 Yes, we are righteous by faith but 07:21 I John 2:29 says this... 07:25 "If you know that He is righteous 07:29 "you know that everyone 07:30 "who practices righteousness is born of Him." 07:37 And I John 3:7-8 says this... 07:44 "Little children let no one deceive you. 07:48 "He who practices righteousness is righteous 07:54 just as He is righteous." 07:57 It goes on to say... 07:59 "He who sins is of the devil. 08:02 "For this purpose 08:03 "the Son of God was manifested that 08:06 He might destroy the works of the devil." 08:11 Psalms 85:10-13 says... 08:16 "Righteousness will go before him 08:19 "and shall make His footsteps our pathway." 08:24 Now, let's take all of that 08:27 and put it back together 08:29 and we can declare 08:31 with our living voice 08:33 the testimony of God about 08:36 what He says you and I are in Christ. 08:41 And that is... 08:43 [information on screen] 09:14 Now what I'd like to do is 09:16 just take a quick moment for an announcement 09:19 and we're gonna be right back to do another 09:22 Life Affirmation from Scripture so, 09:25 please stay tuned... 09:29 If this dynamic series is 09:30 making a difference in your life, 09:31 then you should know about 09:33 a special study guide 09:34 written by Shelley Quinn. 09:36 Exalting His Word with 09:37 Life Affirmations From Scripture 09:38 is an in depth study of the word of God. 09:42 Please send your love gifts to... 09:58 Now, let's look at an other 10:02 Life Affirmation from Scripture. 10:04 What we're doing here is 10:05 simply taking God's word, 10:08 His testimony about you and me. 10:11 About who we are in Christ. 10:13 And we are speaking it over our lives. 10:17 That's important to do 10:18 because God says 10:20 His word will not return void 10:23 but will accomplish 10:24 every purpose for which He sent it. 10:26 Our next affirmation says... 10:29 [information on screen] 11:04 You know, 11:05 I used to speak this over my life 11:08 and I would just stop with 11:11 the first part and say, 11:13 I love the Lord my God 11:14 with all of my heart 11:16 soul and strength. 11:18 Because Jesus said in 11:19 Mark 12:30 that 11:21 that is the most important commandment. 11:23 But then as I would speak God's word back to Him 11:26 and I would suddenly just become aware that 11:33 I really wasn't loving God 11:35 with all my heart soul, 11:37 mind and strength. 11:39 And I felt so pitifully inadequate to do so. 11:42 But I'm gonna show you as we take this apart 11:45 how the Lord started teaching me to 11:49 let Him watch over His word to perform it. 11:52 The first line says 11:54 "I love the Lord my God 11:56 "with all my heart soul, 11:58 "mind, and strength." 11:59 that comes from Mark 12:28-30 12:03 and what happened is 12:05 one of the rulers asked Jesus... 12:07 "Of all of the commandments 12:09 "which is the most important?" 12:12 And Jesus said this... 12:15 "The most important one 12:17 "answered Jesus is this... 12:20 "Love the Lord your God 12:22 "with all of your heart, 12:24 "with all of your soul, 12:26 "with all of your mind 12:28 "and with all of your strength." 12:33 Now, we have to realize that 12:35 we can't even do this in our own power. 12:39 This is what's most important to God 12:41 as far as His commandments go. 12:44 Is to love Him with everything! 12:47 Every fiber of our being! 12:49 But as the affirmation says, 12:53 even in this response to Him, 12:56 I am totally dependent upon God. 13:00 God is the source of love. 13:03 I open my heart 13:05 and allow Him to pour 13:07 His love in to me. 13:09 God empowers me to 13:12 respond in love. 13:13 Where I got that part of the affirmation is 13:17 from Romans 5:5. 13:18 And the Bible says, 13:20 "The love of God 13:22 "has been poured out in our hearts 13:26 "by the Holy Spirit 13:27 "who was given to us. 13:29 You and I can not love God 13:34 the way He wants us to love Him 13:36 by human effort. 13:38 It is by the infused power of the Holy Spirit 13:42 and the power of His word. 13:44 It's God working in us to cause us to will 13:48 and to act that empowers us to 13:52 be motivated by love 13:55 and to let God become truly our Abba Father. 14:02 The next part of the affirmation says, 14:05 I am always mindful of Jesus Christ 14:09 my first love. 14:11 And I'll bet you know 14:12 where I got that one! 14:14 That's in Revelation 2:3-5 14:19 Jesus said this, 14:20 "You have persevered 14:22 "and have endured hardships for My name 14:25 "and have not grown weary. 14:27 "Yet I hold this against you. 14:30 "You have forsaken your first love." 14:35 Remember the height from which you have fallen. 14:40 Repent and do the things that you did at first." 14:44 Let me ask you this... 14:46 Have you forsaken your first love? 14:49 Is Jesus still as important to you 14:52 as the first day that you enjoyed 14:56 the joy of your salvation? 14:59 If He's not 15:01 and if you're aware that 15:02 there are other things 15:04 other priorities in you life that are 15:07 standing between you and your Lord, 15:09 I want to encourage you to 15:12 speak this over your life! 15:13 Because, once again, 15:15 when I first started saying that 15:18 I am always mindful of my first love, 15:22 I was very aware that 15:24 that was not what I was experiencing 15:29 in my life. 15:30 But the Bible says in Romans 4:17 that 15:33 God calls things that are not, 15:35 as though they were. 15:37 And as I began letting that 15:40 be my testimony that 15:41 I was always be mindful of my first love. 15:45 God's word did not return void. 15:48 But He began watching over 15:51 His word in my life to perform it 15:53 and within just a few weeks of speaking 15:57 His word over my life 16:00 as my RHEMA affirmation 16:01 I began putting it into practice 16:04 by God's power! 16:06 So now, let's put all of those 16:09 sentences back together 16:10 and we are going to reassemble that affirmation. 16:14 [information on screen] 16:46 I hope you're beginning to see that 16:48 there's power in this practice. 16:51 Now let's move on to our next 16:53 Life Affirmation from Scripture. 16:56 And that says... 16:58 [information on screen] 17:14 You know something? 17:16 I meet alot of people 17:17 who call themselves Christians 17:19 who think that obedience is not important 17:23 and they'll say, 17:24 "Oh, I love the Lord!" 17:26 And it's some type of 17:28 an emotional feeling that they have that 17:31 they're expressing. 17:33 But what Jesus said 17:35 and where I got this first line 17:37 "This is how I demonstrate my love for God 17:40 "I obey His commandments." 17:42 Jesus said in John 14:15 17:46 "If you love me keep my commandments." 17:52 And I John 2:3-4 says this... 17:58 "Now by this we know that we know Him." 18:04 Now listen... 18:05 IT'S BY THIS THAT WE KNOW THAT 18:08 WE KNOW HIM 18:10 IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 18:14 In other words, 18:16 if we do not keep His commandments, 18:18 we don't know Him. 18:20 The Bible says, 18:21 going on in that verse... 18:23 "He who says I know Him 18:26 "and does not keep His commandments 18:28 "is a liar and the truth is not in Him." 18:34 I think that's pretty a stern warning that 18:39 John is telling us here. 18:40 If we say we love Jesus, 18:42 if we say we know Jesus, but, 18:44 we're not walking in obedience to His commandments, 18:49 then we're lying. 18:52 Now, 18:53 well let's go on to 18:55 the next verse which is I John 5:3,4. 19:00 And it says, 19:02 "For this is the love of God 19:04 "that we keep His commandments 19:07 "and His commandments are 19:10 "not burdensome." 19:12 Let me stop there for just a moment... 19:14 Why are they not burdensome? 19:15 Because it is God who is working in us to 19:20 cause us to will 19:22 and to act according to His good purposes. 19:25 If we're walking in surrender, 19:28 yield in daily controlled to God, 19:31 God will do an empowering work in us. 19:35 Remember we studied the law of liberty? 19:39 We must be absolutely reliant on 19:43 Jesus' power to do a work in our hearts that 19:46 causes us and empowers us to walk in obedience. 19:51 And then the scripture goes on and I love this... 19:55 It's I John 5:4 19:57 "For whatever is born of God 20:02 overcomes the world. 20:03 "And this is the victory that has overcome the world 20:06 "our faith." 20:09 The next line says, 20:11 "I put His word into practice." 20:16 I got that as an affirmation from 20:21 Luke 8:21 20:22 Jesus is replying here to someone and He says, 20:27 "My mother and brothers are 20:29 "those who hear God's word 20:32 "and put it into practice." 20:36 We should be practicing Christians. 20:40 Luke 11:28 20:43 I'll read this from the Amplified... 20:46 "but He said, (Jesus said) 20:49 "Blessed rather are those 20:52 "who hear the word of God 20:54 "and obey and practice it." 20:59 Now, the next line says, 21:02 "I am held accountable for that which 21:07 "He has reveled to me." 21:12 You know, 21:13 I wanna stop here for just a second 21:15 and say, 21:17 when I really started studying the Bible 21:19 in a topical fashion 21:21 and when the Lord lead me on 21:25 a really wonderful study on the Old Covenant 21:30 and the New Covenant. 21:31 And when He lead me to really take 21:34 a new look at the ten commandments, 21:37 one of the first things that I recognized was, 21:40 all of my life I thought 21:45 but I was ignoring 21:48 the fourth commandment which says, 21:50 "Remember the Sabbath." 21:52 And the reason I was ignoring it 21:55 is because I had been taught that 21:58 the commandments were nailed to the cross. 22:00 And the Lord had to take me to a deep study to 22:03 help me unlearn that err. 22:05 And once He proved that to me, 22:08 then suddenly I was faced with 22:13 an issue that was very important. 22:16 Because we are held accountable 22:18 for that which has been revealed to us. 22:20 So, I was very excited 22:23 and thrilled and nervous in some ways 22:28 about changing my life 22:29 to walk in obedience to that commandment. 22:33 But the first time I ever celebrated 22:36 one of God's Holy Sabbaths 22:38 I understood what it meant to 22:40 have complete freedom from performance. 22:43 To come to that point where 22:45 I was completely relying on God. 22:48 Let me go on... 22:50 I am held accountable for that 22:53 which He has revealed to me. 22:55 This comes from Philippians 3:16 that says, 23:02 "Only let us hold true to 23:05 "what we have already obtained 23:09 "and walk and order our lives by that. 23:13 And also in I Corinthians 4:2 23:19 It says... 23:20 "Now, it is required that 23:23 "those who have been given a trust 23:27 "must prove faithful." 23:30 And then Romans 14:23 from the Amplified says, 23:38 "For whatever does not originate 23:40 "and proceed from faith is sin." 23:45 I like the notation here 23:47 in the Amplified version because 23:49 it helps explain what the scripture is saying. 23:54 It says, 23:56 "Whatever is done 23:58 "without a conviction of its approval by God 24:01 "is sinful". 24:03 In other words, 24:04 we must, 24:06 we are held accountable to 24:08 what God's word says. 24:11 And when we say that we're doing 24:13 something by faith, 24:15 just because we want to be doing it 24:18 and we don't see anything wrong with it, 24:21 really we're in err! 24:23 We have to be walking in conviction that 24:27 what we are doing is approved by God. 24:32 Once again now, 24:33 let's put all of these affirmations or 24:36 sentences back together to form affirmation. 24:42 [information on screen] 25:02 You know, 25:04 it's interesting 25:05 and this may seem a little strange to you initially 25:09 to be speaking God's word over your life. 25:13 But it is so amazing how as we change our testimony, 25:21 I was talking with someone recently who said 25:24 "It was like changing yourself talk." 25:28 When we quit speaking things over our life that 25:32 don't line up with God's word, 25:35 when we start speaking God's word over our life, 25:40 it is something about 25:42 planting God's word in our heart. 25:46 Planting His promises in our heart 25:49 and confessing them with our living voice. 25:52 There is something in this process that 25:57 releases the transforming power of 26:01 the word of God. 26:04 It is a practice that I've been doing since 1995 26:09 and I can tell you that 26:12 it's amazing how the Lord 26:14 has developed His word 26:16 in me. 26:19 He has empowered me to put 26:23 His word into practice 26:25 and it all came because 26:27 I started speaking God's word over my life. 26:29 I started recognizing in this process 26:34 who I was in Christ Jesus. 26:37 And God has filled me with love, 26:41 joy, peace, and zeal! 26:43 I am a very enthusiastic Christian! 26:47 And I don't know if you know this but 26:49 the word enthusiasm is really 26:53 if you break that down "enthio" 26:55 means God within. 26:57 Christians should be enthusiastic! 27:01 We should be joyful. 27:03 Well, I hope that you can join us next week. 27:07 What we're going to do then is learn 27:10 how to pray God's promises back to Him. 27:14 And we're also going to learn 27:17 how we can walk in perfect peace 27:19 and trust God's plan for our lives. 27:23 May God multiply His mercy, 27:26 His love and His grace to you. 27:28 And may He watch over His word to 27:33 perform it in your life. 27:36 As you cooperate with Him. 27:38 As you make His word your life affirmation. 27:43 Returning it to Him because 27:46 it will not return void. 27:48 I hope my dear friends, 27:50 that you will remember to spend your time 27:54 making that which is most important to God 27:56 the very thing that's also most important to you. 28:00 Exalting His Word. |
Revised 2023-10-24