The truths contained in the word of God are innumerable and take on a life of their own. God's profound truths are sometimes unfortunately overlooked due to their apparent simplicity. Consider this case in point concerning the words of God. The Bible says that the words of God are spirit and they are life. (John 6:63)
Jesus begins this verse from the gospel of John by saying that the spirit quickeneth (or makes alive); He goes on to point out that the words themselves are spirit. Therefore, it is the words that are life. The book of First Peter provides further insight in this matter. It tells us that the word of God brings about our new birth, giving the believer eternal life.
The purpose of scripture is to exhort, comfort and charge the believer so that each person can walk worthy of God. Can you imagine such a lofty goal? Most preaching comes from the perspective that we, as mere sinful creatures, cannot be worthy of anything related to an infinitely holy and righteous God. The Bible teaches otherwise. The Bible says that we can walk worthy and that we should do so. Yet, Christians seem to be groping in the dark for the answers, searching for an unseen key to living this kind of life.
The scripture continues this line of thought in the next verse (verse 13) with the words "for this cause." For what cause? It is the cause just mentioned in verse 12, to enable us to walk worthy of God! The scripture expounds upon this truth beginning in the next verse using these words:
I Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth,...
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