Temple Baptist Church - 11-30-2025
Psalm 138:2
Introduction:
A. We, as Bible believers, hold to this truth. If at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, we see the biblical importance of this verse.
B. By magnifying the Word of God above all His name, it shows the character of the Word of God. God’s eternal honor is firmly attached to God’s Word! God’s reputation is firmly attached to God’s Word. God’s glory is connected to God’s Word.
C. This statement shows the impeccability and immutability of the Word of God. It is eternally pure and unchanging. Jehovah God said, “I change not!”
D. Having said this, the Word of God has a supreme place in both the work of God and the life of the believer. Therefore, if God magnifies His Word, how can we do less?
E. Magnifying God’s Word:
1. Because it is pure and perfect in its nature. I find no verse of Scripture where it says that any part or word of Scripture will either corrupt or pass away.
a. It is pure – Psalms 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Not one flaw, not one error, not one mistake. Pure in origin, pure in doctrine, pure in intent.
b. It is preserved – Psalms 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
God magnifies what He preserves. His Word has not faded, failed, or fallen—because He sustains it.
c. It is powerful – Hebrews 4:12 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.
It does what nothing else can do—discerns the heart, exposes sin, heals the soul.
2. Because of the Person, Jesus Christ, who it reveals.
a. The Word reveals God’s holiness - His purity, His justice, His righteousness.
b. The Word reveals God’s will – Psalms 119:105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
c. The Word reveals God’s Son - John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
3. The Word accomplishes God’s purpose.
a. It will not return void because it works – Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
b. It produces salvation – 1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
c. It brings righteous judgment – John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
4. We are also to magnify God’s Word!
a. By simply believing it. God magnifies it, and so should we. Psalms 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
b. By obeying it – James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
c. By defending it – Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Conclusion: We need to:
1. Love the Word of God.
2. Learn the Word of God.
3. Live the Word of God.
4. Lift up the Word of God.
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