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Practical Applications
of God’s Word
Part 1 — Living
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Peter 1:23).
The Bible is the only book in the world that is actually “living.” That is why we can never exhaust it, and why it is always fresh. Any book written by man we can eventually exhaust, but not God’s book.
It is the Word of God in the power of the Spirit that God uses to impart divine life to us. That’s why when we present the gospel to the lost, we always want to use the Word in communion with the Spirit. “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).
This living book is also what God uses to exercise our souls and speak to our hearts as believers. “For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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” (Hebrews 4:12).
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