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We read further in
Col 3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the
Lord rather than for men,
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Words!!!
Ralph Waldo Emmerson said, Your actions speak
so loudly that I can not hear word you are saying!
It is our example that most people will remember,
the way we treated them, the way we acted toward
others, this is the lesson they WILL remember!
And I think that we all would agree that this is a
basic axiom of life! I think that we can safely say that
someones life and character has as much or actually
more to do with who and what they are than their
words! More often than not, our words are only an
expression of what is really inside of us.
Our text today, exhorts us to teach in every action,
every step, every part of our lives... Look back at our
text in Deut 4 and look at the end of vs 7 and vs
Deuteronomy 6:7-9 "...and shall talk of them when you sit in
your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie
down and when you rise up. (8) "You shall bind them as a sign
on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. (9)
"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on
your gates.
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night!
My Momma used to say that we needed to be
steeped in the Word! That is a vivid and classic pictoral
illustration that provides a very graphic and powerful
picture for us.
You see my friends, when you make a pot of tea,
you can make it weak or you can make it strong. If Im
going to drink tea, I want to know that I am drinking
tea! I want the taste to be strong and crisp, not diluted
and weak!
So hears the deal friends... When you steep tea, the
strength or weakness of it has to do with one thing and
one thing alone... How long you leave the tea bag in the
water. The longer you leave it the stronger, more
robust, more pungent the tea!
But if you dont steep the tea for a long time, the
tea will be weak, watery and tasteless...
Listen friends... The Word of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Holy Bible itself is the tea bag of Faith, if we soak
the tea bag for only a short time, our Faith is weak and
tasteless.
So you see my friends, the strength, the vibrance,
the pungency of the Cup of tea is totally depended on
how long you steep the tea!! Likewise, the strength, the
vibrance, the pungency of the Faith God has given us,
will be either weak or strong based upon how much
time we spend in the Word of God, in Prayer and in
faithful obedience going about doing Good!!
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So we are to
1. We teach by word
2. We teach by deed
3. We teach intentionally
4. And we must never forget that we my be
teaching our most powerful and most important
lessons unintentionally!
That is why it is so CRITICALLY important that we
obey Ephesians 4:1 where we read...
Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you
to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with
which you have been called,
Point IV: Share Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deut 6:13
Matt 28:18-20, Acts 1:8, Acts 5:32, 10:39