It Is Written is a series of sermons teaching us to use the power of God’s written Word in daily life. Get valuable insights from our 4-part series:

It Is Written, Part 1
It Is Written, Part 2
It Is Written, Part 3
It Is Written, Part 4

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It is Written, Part 1: In this sermon, “it is written” is used against temptation.

Key verses:
Matthew 4:1-11

I invite you to take your Bible and join with me turning to the Gospel of Matthew chapter four and to begin with, I just want us to read verse four, Matthew 4:4. That will set our theme for this evening and then we’ll be looking at verses 1 through 11.

Matthew 4:4: “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

I want to talk to you this evening and begin a short series on those words, “It is written”.

I said this morning we were talking about what happens next and we talked about the childhood and the growth of the Lord Jesus. We left off at where He began to be, as Luke says, about 30 years and began His public ministry.

Preparing the Way of the Lord

Now, this will not be on your screen, but we will just go back and read part of chapter three. At the beginning of chapter three, John the Baptist comes on the scene, and he begins his ministry. John was a cousin to Jesus, we read that in Luke’s gospel. And John’s whole life was lived preparing people for the coming of Jesus. He was a man who dedicated his entire life to God’s mission, God’s service, all the way through. Very few people, very few people have done that.

At the end of John’s life, Jesus commended him saying he was the greatest man who ever lived. Now, a lot of people would debate about that and say that he never conquered a country. No, he didn’t. He never led a country. No, he didn’t do that. We don’t have any books or songs that he wrote. He may have written them, but we don’t have them. And yet, Jesus said that he was the greatest man who ever lived.

He lived with singleness of purpose and his purpose was to prepare the people for the coming of the Messiah and to prepare the way, the path, for the coming of the Messiah. He did exactly that. So, he’s called John the Baptist. That has nothing to do with denominations because in those days there weren’t any denominations. There were no Presbyterians, no Anglicans, there were none of the denominations. And at this point, there was only one Baptist, okay, and it was John. So, he did not have a denomination either.

John comes on the scene baptizing and towards the end of chapter three, he says, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:” – and what he is saying there is his baptism, his water baptism was a symbolic cleansing, it was a symbolic baptism just as baptism is today. And it was to prepare people. So, he said:

Matthew 3:11: “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:”

Matthew 3:12: “Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

“Whose fan is in his hand” – talking about the fan of the threshing floor to get rid of the chaff, get rid of the husks, and leave the pure grain.

Matthew 3:13: “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.”

Matthew 3:14: “But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?”

Matthew 3:15: “And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.”

Matthew 3:16: “And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:”

Matthew 3:17: “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Jesus Fasts in the Wilderness

Now that brings us up to our text tonight:

Matthew 4:1: “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.”

“Then” – after Jesus was baptized. Can I share with you something? Jesus went through temptation. Later on in the Bible, we read that he was tempted in all points like as we are. He suffered the same kind of temptations you and I do, and we’ll see some of that here in just a moment – yet without sin. It is possible to be tempted and not sin. Our problem is many times we are tempted, we just go ahead and give in to the temptation and we sin. But Jesus shows us it’s possible to be tempted and not sin.

And no doubt someone is going to think, “Well, that’s Jesus. He’s perfect, I’m not.” Well, that’s true. But you have His power as a believer. You have His Spirit as a believer. And you have the ability to resist temptation. Now, we’re not going to turn there tonight but I just want to help you with this. Read Romans chapters 6, 7, and 8, all about dealing with temptation and sin and how to live a victorious Christian life. You read those three chapters together, Romans 6, 7, and 8, and that will help you tremendously to get a hold of what he is saying there.

Matthew 4:2: “And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.”

When I was a boy, someone told me – I’m not sure where I heard it – somebody told me you could live three days without water and you could only live seven days without food. You know I found out that’s not true. It is true you cannot live nearly as long without water. You have to have water and depending on where you are, you may not make it in three days without water. But you can live more than seven days without food. Many people have.

Fasting has become and rightly so, a discipline with Christians, a spiritual discipline. Every time I talk about that I have to issue a disclaimer because if you have health conditions such as diabetes or some other conditions you may want to consult a doctor before you do any fasting. It could hurt you more than it could help you. So, we’re not standing here and telling you that if you’re a member of this church you have to fast. No, that’s not the case at all. I would not dare tell you that. Again, it could be dangerous for some of you.

But fasting is a discipline. It is a denial of the strongest urges that we have. I’d say second to the urge to breathe and the thirst for water, second to those two, would be hunger as the strongest urge we have. You need to control that, and you can control that. I’ve known of people and perhaps people have done longer, but I have known people to do 40-day fasts. I’ve read this when I was young and said nobody could do that, nobody could fast for 40 days without eating. Oh, yes, they can. Many people have done that. I’ve known people to do a 60-day fast and longer.

Now, again, you have to know what you are doing. You have to know your own health, your own body. And you have to do it wisely. And Jesus did it. What is important is not only that He fasted but when He fasted and why He fasted. You see, He gets baptized at the beginning of His earthly ministry. That baptism with John there was what marked the beginning of His ministry here on earth and from that day forward.

Then, we have Him fasting immediately afterward. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. Now, He knows He’s going to be tempted. And you think if you were going to be tempted, “I want to have all my strength and so I wouldn’t want to fast.” Well, He fasted not for physical strength but for spiritual strength and to be able to deny the urges of the flesh.

Matthew 4:2: “And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.”

Resisting Temptation

And you would know that. It would certainly be true. Verse three, “And when the tempter came to him” – isn’t that interesting. The tempter waits those 40 days and 40 nights to come. He doesn’t come at the beginning because he comes to us when we are weak.

Now can I share something with you? Temptation does come from Satan. We see that here and we see that in other places in the Bible, but not all temptation comes from Satan. “Oh, I think it does.” No, think about it. You know, James writes that every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts. That’s not Satan. That’s our own carnal, sinful nature. We get ourselves in areas of temptation.

That’s why Paul tells us to get as far away from temptation as we could get, and I think that’s a great recommendation. If you have temptation in certain areas, stay away from that area. Don’t get near it. Paul puts it this way, “Neither give place to the devil.” What does that mean? It means don’t give him any room to work in your life. If you give him room to work, he’ll take it. He will.

And then John tells us our problem is the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. That’s all human. So, is Satan a person who tempts? Yes, he is the tempter, but we’re also tempted from our own sinful nature.

But Satan comes when he knows we are weak a lot of times and I give you this warning. A lot of times when people have been on a spiritual high, and by that, I don’t mean like a drug or alcohol high, I mean they’re at a high point. Some people like to call it a mountain top experience. They’ve seen great blessings and they’ve seen God at work in their life and wonderful things happen.

And then they’ll have a crash. Why is that? Because at that point many times they feel so blessed that they’ve let their guard down. They’ve let their guard down and given place to the devil. They’ve allowed him room to work in their life. So, it’s even at those points when we’ve had great spiritual victory that we need to be on guard. Then Paul says [paraphrasing], “Let him who thinks that he standeth take heed lest he fall.”

The Master Tempter

Matthew 4:3: “And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”

So, the tempter comes. Now, how are you going to tempt Jesus? It would take the master tempter to do it, wouldn’t it? And that’s exactly who came. Verse three, “And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God” – stop right there.

Here’s the situation. The first time we are introduced to Satan in the book of Genesis is in the Garden of Eden and he comes to Eve, and what does he say? He begins to question God’s Word. He says, “Yea, hath God said?” – [paraphrasing] “Did God really say that? You don’t think God really meant that do you? Oh, yeah, yeah, He says it, but He doesn’t mean it.” How do you know He doesn’t? “Thou shalt not surely die.” – saying “Come on you’re not going to die. Don’t believe God, you’re not going to die.”

And we said this here many times, but I think it will help us to think about it again. Put yourself in Eve’s position. Had she ever seen anything die? No. Had she heard of anything dying? No, because nothing had died at that point. So, when Satan says, “Heh, you’re not going to die, nothing’s going to happen to you. God’s just telling you. That’s not true.” She had reason to give that some credibility. He was lying. It didn’t appear that he was lying, and Satan is very good at that, very good at being the deceiver making you think what is true isn’t true and what you think isn’t true is true.

I was talking about this the other day and a lot of movies have been made, I guess in the last 10, 15, 20 years, and certainly not all of them, I haven’t seen all of them and don’t intend to. So, I couldn’t tell you about all of them. But there are many that I have seen, and I call them agenda movies because they make you believe.

Take old stories that you are familiar with, and you know in the old story who the good people are and who the bad people are. And they’ll take these stories and switch them around so that what you always thought was good was really bad, and what you always thought was really bad was really good. And who you always thought the good people were really the bad people. Who you always thought were the bad people are really the good people.

I’m telling you it is done on purpose; it is a psychological preparation to tell you that what you always believed is wrong and what you always thought was wrong is really right. There’s no accident there, there’s no coincidence there. Are you saying it’s a conspiracy? “You must be one of those conspiracy theorists.” No, I’m not a conspiracy theorist I’m a conspiracy factist. If it’s true, it’s true.

So, the tempter comes to Jesus, and he tempts Him by questioning the Word of God. “If thou be the Son of God” – it says that you’re the Son of God, but if you’re the Son of God – because here is Jesus in human form with all the urges and frailties of a human body. He took on human form for many reasons but one of the primary reasons is so He could die. Without a human body, He could not experience death. So, “If thou be the Son of God” and then he knows He’s fasted for forty days and forty nights, he knows He’s at a weak point, chances are he would have known that.

Feed the Spiritual Man

So, he says [paraphrasing], “If you are the Son of God, you’re hungry, aren’t you? I bet you are. You haven’t had anything to eat for a month and 10 days. You haven’t had a morsel. I know you’ve got to be hungry. Why don’t you command these stones to be made bread? If you’re the Son of God, you commanded the universe into existence. Surely, surely if you are the Son of God, you could turn these stones into bread and satisfy your hunger.”

Put yourself in that position. You’re hungry, you haven’t eaten, and, on the surface, it wouldn’t seem like it would be wrong to make bread if you could make bread. If you had the ability to make bread. There’s more to it than that.

Matthew 4:4: “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

“But he answered and said, It is written” – now that’s our title tonight, that’s the beginning of our series “It Is Written”. You’d be amazed how many times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that phrase appears, “It is written.” Every time without a single exception in the New Testament when you read “it is written” it means it is written in what we call the Old Testament.

But that phrase also appears in the Old Testament. And sometimes it does refer, most of the time I should say, it does refer to the Word of God, but sometimes in the Old Testament, it doesn’t. It means it is written somewhere else. So, you have to be careful to read that to read it in context. And in our series, we are not going to look at all of those times because there are hundreds of them, but we are going to look at some primary ones. So, Jesus answered and said:

Matthew 4:4: “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

Now, Jesus is quoting scripture there and that is what He does in resisting the temptation of Satan.

But there’s something else I want you to see here. What Jesus is teaching us is yes, use scripture to resist temptation. Memorize scripture and “hide thy word in my heart,” the psalmist says:

Psalm 119:11 “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

It will help keep you from sin if you memorize scripture. And I challenge you to memorize scripture. I’ve had people tell me, “I can’t memorize scripture. I’ve tried. I can’t memorize verses.” Sure, you can. You memorize things all the time.

Raise your hand if you have a telephone. A few of you. Raise your hand if you don’t have a telephone. Okay, no hands up so I’m assuming you all have telephones. Well, not everybody raised their hand saying that they had one, but nobody raised their hand saying they don’t, so I’ll assume you have a telephone.

Next question, do you know your telephone number? Yeah, you do, don’t you? See, you can memorize things. How many of you have an address? Okay, you know your address? Sure, you do. You can memorize things. We can go on and on with that, but you get the point. You can memorize things. You do memorize things.

“Yeah, but it’s easier to memorize those things than it is the Bible.” Well, there are ways we can help you with that. Several different methods, not just one method to use. There are several different methods.

Use one, a really simple one. Take a verse you want to memorize – and by the way, don’t memorize a verse just to memorize a verse. Memorize a verse that says something to you, that means something to you. That’s what is going to make it easier. So, you take that verse and you read it over and over and over, and eventually, you’ll get it. And as you read it over and over and over, try saying it without looking at it. And if you can say it without looking at it, you could say, “Well, I can only get to a certain point.” Well, then look at it again and keep working on it, you’ll get there. That’s one method, it’s not the only method.

I’ll tell you what, when I was, goodness what year of college was I in? I think in my third year of college, I believe that’s right. We had a professor at school who had given, he was quite the professor, he had given his own title to every chapter of the New Testament, and he wanted us on our final exam to write those down to give back to him his titles for every chapter in the New Testament. I mean every chapter in the New Testament, his title.

“Did you, do it?” I did. I put it on tape, cassette tape, now you know how long ago that was. I put it on tape, and I just listened to it over and over and over and over and over and I did it when the test came. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Let’s hear all those titles. I don’t remember them now, but I knew them for the test. I sure did and that’s how I did it, just by listening to it over and over and over.

There are other ways of doing it. Another method is to set it to music. Set the words to a tune that you know that you are familiar with and sing. It’ll get familiar to you. Last night at the recital one of the ladies played a version of “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God” Matthew 6:33, and you sing it. Let’s see, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Good.

What if you don’t remember that and you want to remember it? Sing it. [sings] “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” – and you’ve got it. You can do that, can’t you? Of course, you can, of course, you can. So, there are many different ways to memorize scripture, and this is what I’m telling you. There are different methods for memorizing. The important thing is to memorize it.

So, Jesus said, “It is written.” “It is written, man shall not live by bread alone” – because that meets our physical needs but “by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” We need to feed our spiritual man as well as our physical man.

Don’t Do Anything Foolish

And then in verse five it says:

Matthew 4:5: “Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,”

The pinnacle of the temple is the highest point of the temple.

Matthew 4:6: “And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.”

Now, look what’s happening here. Satan is quoting scripture. He’s quoting from the psalms. He’s saying [paraphrasing], “If you’re the Son of God” – still questioning that, “jump off this temple.”

Why you may fall but the angels are going to catch you. You won’t hit the ground. You won’t even dash your foot against the stone.” Where did he get that? He gets it from the psalms, it’s there. You mean the devil knows how to quote scripture? Sure. He’s been around here longer than any of us have. He’s heard it more than any of us have. Yes, he can quote scripture. Well, guess he wins there. No. Look at verse seven:

Matthew 4:7: “Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”

You know, think about what’s happening here. Satan is tempting the Lord Jesus to jump off the building and says [paraphrasing], “the angels will catch you. So, you’ll be safe you won’t be hurt. Do it.” Jesus says [paraphrasing], “Do not tempt the Lord your God.” Can I help you with that? Do you know what Jesus is saying here? Don’t do anything foolish.

Does God promise to take care of you? He does. He does promise to take care of you. That doesn’t mean you should go out and take foolish chances that a reasonable person wouldn’t do. Well, sometimes you’ve got to step out on faith. Yes, that’s true, but there’s a line between faith and foolishness. If you’re going to step on faith, be sure it’s faith you’re stepping on.

I wouldn’t dare say to you, “Look here, I know the Lord’s going to protect and I know I’m His until His will is finished for me and my service for Him is finished and my time is up and His timing as so, I’m just going out here and walk across I-95 about six times today.” You know what? That’s not faith. That’s not. That’s foolishness. And the Lord is teaching us here, yes, we need to have faith, but we don’t need to be foolish.

The Power of God’s Word

Verse eight:

Matthew 4:8: “Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;”

Matthew 4:9: “And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”

So much in verse nine. But the first question that ought to come to our minds is this: Where does Satan get off offering Jesus the kingdoms of the world? He’s the Creator of this world. He’s the God of this world. How does Satan think he can offer Him a kingdom? You need to remember and understand Satan is the god, little “g”, of this world. He is the prince of the power of the air. He has spiritual authority in the kingdoms of this world. Why does he have spiritual authority in the kingdoms of this world? Because they have given it to him. That is one of the reasons but there are other reasons.

But that’s one of the reasons why we need to pray for our governmental leaders. Do you ever pray for your governmental leaders? “I don’t pray for them; I didn’t vote for them.” I didn’t ask you if you voted for them, I asked you if you pray for them. There’s a difference and we need to; we need to pray for them.

I’m telling you one of the things that astounded me years ago and still does, Peter writes to honor the king, love the brotherhood. Okay sounds great. Fear God and love the brotherhood, we’re all for that. Honor the king? The king when Peter wrote that was persecuting Christians. The king when Peter wrote that was putting Christians in prison and having them killed. And Peter still writes to honor the king. Why? He’s the king. We’re under his authority. So, again, I’m not asking you who you voted for, I’m asking you who’d you pray for, who you need to pray for?

Let me share this with you and then we’re going to move off of that topic. Suppose we were under a king who was an absolute tyrant. And his word was his word, and it didn’t always make sense, but boy, if he said it, it happened because if it didn’t happen and you crossed him, he’d have you killed. And he was a selfish man, and he was a self-centered man and he cared nothing for other people. He just wanted power and more of it and he already had it, but he wanted more. Could you pray for a man like that? It would be hard, it’d be hard.

“I don’t see anything redemptive in him.” No, and you wouldn’t see anything redemptive in him, but God did. God worked in that man’s heart. God gave him a new heart. His name was Nebuchadnezzar. He was a tyrant and a horrible king. He desired power above all else and he was ready to kill you to show you he had ultimate power. He set up idols of himself, but God took him through the valley and God worked in his heart and he came to acknowledge the one true God.

You don’t know what God can do for somebody that you pray for. You pray for him, and you trust God and let Him work. “Well, that’s a good story about Nebuchadnezzar but it does not always turn out that way.” You’re right, it doesn’t. It doesn’t always turn out that way. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pray. You pray and let God work in the hearts and minds of these governmental leaders. If nothing else, pray for peace. Pray that they will have enough wisdom to allow us to live a quiet and peaceable life. That’s their job. Pray for them to be able to do their job.

“I prefer godly leaders.” Don’t we all, then pray for godly leaders. Pray for God to work in the hearts of the ones we have and pray for new leaders who would be godly and not just meeting your certain point of view but godly. So, Satan says:

Matthew 4:9: “And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”

And that has been his goal from the beginning. You read it in Isaiah the prophet. Satan’s goal has been to usurp the authority of God to sit on the throne of God, to sit in the place of God, to be worshipped as God, and you get a little taste of that in Revelation 13, it tells us during the tribulation period. But now, he wants even the Son of God to fall down and worship him. “I give you the world. You came to save the world, I’ll give it to you if you worship me.”

Matthew 4:10: “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

“Get thee hence, Satan” – get out of here Satan. Time for you to leave. There is only one God, Satan, and you’re not Him. Folks, understand this. “It is written” – is the power of God’s Word. Hebrews tells us:

Hebrews 4:12: “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

That’s power. Paul tells us:

Romans 1:16: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

I told you before the word “power” in Romans 1:16, it is the power of God. It is the Greek word “dunamis” from which we get our English word “dynamite”. “It is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first” – because the Gospel comes from the Jews first – “and also to the Greek.” So, when Jesus said:

Matthew 4:10: “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

Take Time to Recharge

What happened? Verse 11:

Matthew 4:11: “Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.”

“Then the devil leaveth him” – that’s what happened. I heard a man years ago, he’s with the Lord and has been for many years. He was a pastor up in Michigan. I heard him preaching. The sermon was titled “The Only Thing That Impresses the Devil”. Like to know what that is? He took the text, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” He says, “The only thing that impresses the devil is for me to resist.” Well, how do you resist? Here it is:

Matthew 4:10: “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. Use it. “Then the devil leaveth Him.” Then what happens? The devil left and the angels came. Why? Not only had He fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He had done spiritual warfare and when you’ve done that, you’re likely to be exhausted. Think of Elijah when they came and ministered to him under the juniper tree. He just had great spiritual victory and now He was down. Folks, that can happen to you and me.

Close with this. Pastor Eddie Champion, you probably wouldn’t know his name but a great man, a great pastor for many years, retired now. He performed the wedding of Mrs. McClure and myself. He was her pastor at the time when she was saved and for a good while thereafter. A great preacher.

We were having a conversation one day and he said this. He said, “You remember the story of Jesus, he’s walking along, and the crowds are thronging him and a woman who was sick, had an issue of blood. She comes up to him and says, ‘If I could but touch the hem of his garment’ and she touches his robe. Jesus stops and asks, ‘Who touched me?’ And I think it was Peter, one of the disciples who spoke up, ‘What do you mean who touched you? Everybody is touching you. What do you mean who touched you?’ And Jesus said, ‘Virtue has gone out of me.’”

Pastor Champion pointed this out, “When you do good, when you are ministering, when you are serving the Lord, virtue goes out of you.” You need to recharge, you need that – which is why if you’ve had great spiritual victory, when you’ve been on that spiritual mountaintop, it’s so easy for you to crash. You need to recharge. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” “Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.” It is written, know what is written. Memorize what is written. Hide it in your heart and let the Holy Spirit of God use it to strengthen you.

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Let us pray. Thank you, Father, so much for blessing us. Thank you that we’ve had this time together and Lord, it is my earnest prayer that you bless and help us this evening. Lord help us to get into your Word. Help your Word get into us. Help us to hide it in our heart. Help us to keep it in our mind. Help us to proclaim it to those who need to hear it. Help us each day. Lord, we are weak. We are but flesh and we need your strength. Oh, Heavenly Father, strengthen us we pray.

Our heads are bowed, our eyes are closed, not a stranger here tonight. We’re going to sing the song of invitation. If God has spoken to your heart and there’s a decision you need to make this would be the prime time to do so. Father, bless now in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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It Is Written, Part 1 — Related Sermons

It Is Written is a series of sermons teaching us to use the power of God’s written Word in daily life. Get valuable insights from our 4-part series:

It Is Written, Part 1
It Is Written, Part 2
It Is Written, Part 3
It Is Written, Part 4

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