GET IN THE WORD!

My beloved friends in Christ, if there was ever a reason to be in the word...

Jesus said, "I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away." (John 16:1 ESV)

Said what? For what? Whatever Jesus has taught was to bring people to Himself and to keep them from falling away from Him. Whatever Jesus said, He said it to save and sanctify.

Jesus tells us to make disciples and to teach them to observe all He has commanded (see Matthew 28:19-20).

One of the reasons God gifts us all is so we can admonish one another (see Colossians 3:16). He gifts some leaders to equip the saints and to make believers mature, "so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes." (Ephesians 4:14 ESV)

The Lord Jesus wants us to be stable! He does not want us unstable in our ways nor should we be untethered and "driven and tossed by the wind" (see James 1:5-8).

The Apostle Jude describes false teachers like this: "...swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever." (Jude 1:12b-13 ESV)

Yes, beloved brothers and sisters, there is plenty of reason to be in the word!