How Do We Answer God’s Word?
How Do We Answer God’s Word?Chapter 1 — God and His Word
Lesson 8: How Do We Answer God’s Word?God’s Word must be listened to, believed, and lived.
Explanation
God’s Word is not given to us only to hear, but to receive with faith and put into practice. If we only hear but do not obey, we deceive ourselves.
To answer the Word well means to be attentive, humble, and ready to change. Sometimes Scripture comforts us, and sometimes it corrects us, but in both cases the right answer is obedience.
Bible story
Jesus speaks about the wise man who builds his house on the rock. He is not only the one who hears Jesus’ words, but the one who also does them. When the rains and the winds come, the house stays standing because obedience was its foundation.
Remember
- The truth: God’s Word must be listened to, believed, and lived.
- Obeying God means more than knowing the right answers.
- God’s Word bears fruit when it is believed and lived.
James 1:22
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Tap to open the verse in Scripture and mark it as read.
- After you read the Bible, ask yourself: What should I believe? What should I change?
- Start with small, clear steps of obedience, even today.
- Ask God to give you a heart ready to receive both His correction and His comfort.
1. How should we not listen to the Bible?
2. What is a good answer to God’s Word?
3. What does a forgetful hearer do?
4. Why must we live the Word?