About Bible Study 2

The Word of God is meant to be put into practice. Look at the early church in the book of Acts. In Acts 2:42-47, we see the believers devoting themselves ‘to the apostles teaching’. That’s the only instance in that section where the believers actually ‘studied’. If you read on, you will notice that the rest of the quotation speaks of how the believers lived out their lives. They put into practice what they learned so effectively that they ‘enjoyed the favor of all the people’ and ‘the Lord added to their number daily those who are being saved’. That was how effective they put into practice the Words of God.

Even Jesus himself condemned the Pharisees for being hypocrites.

This was because the Pharisees studied every single letter of the Law and the Scriptures but they way the lived their lives were inconsistent with what the Scripture teaches. They prided themselves for being ‘experts in the Law’ but Jesus said that such people will be punished most severely.

We are quite familiar of the wise and foolish builders-the one about building house on sand and the other on rock. If we don’t practice the Word of God, we can easily be brought down when troubles or temptations come our way.

Satan also knows the Word of God by hard-every single word of it. He even tried to tempt Jesus with Scripture. The difference is that Satan doesn’t put God’s Word into practice. The bible teaches us not to steal or to murder but it says about Satan that he comes to kill, steal and destroy. Satan doesn’t want God’s Word to be practiced because he knows that when God’s Word is practiced, he is powerless against it. Therefore, he tries to prevent it from being practiced. When it is not practiced, like the house on sand, he can easily pull a person down with temptations and other tricks he has.