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Psy 220 Week 1 Essay

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Week One Devotional
Hos 4:6 (KJV) “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children”.
David said “O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him (Psalm 34:8 KJV). He goes on to say “But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night” (Psalm 1:2 KJV) and he hides God’s Word in his heart that he might not sin against Him (Psalm 119:11 KJV).
All of this stems from a love for God that is to be a sacrificial love, an unconditional love. A love that puts God’s agenda ahead of his own. It is a love for …show more content…

The Bible tells us to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2Tim 2:15 KJV).
He wants us to learn about Him. Why? So, that we know Him and not know of Him in an intellectual way but in a personal way. God spoke to Moses in Ex. 6:2-3 “and said unto him, I am the LORD: Exo 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them”.
How, then, can we teach others about someone we do not know for ourselves? Christian education is a way on can learn from educators who have given of themselves and dedicated their lives to edify and build others up so that the Gospel would be understood correctly. This begins with a solid foundation, a foundation built upon the Rock, that Rock is Jesus Christ.
“He that has an ear, let him hear” (Matt. 11:15 KJV) and “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom. 10:17 KJV). People in our churches and in our homes are dull of hearing and have to be told the same things again and again until finally their eyes are opened to the

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