Foundation 3: Hide the Word in Your Heart to Live by It
Foundations
Ruth & Troy Simons
5.0 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Ruth and Troy share the importance of knowing God's Word and how that impacts a family's spiritual foundation. Learn more about Ruth and Troy and their books at RuthAndTroy.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Troy. |
| 0:05.0 | And this is Ruth. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to the Foundations podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | We are so excited to be back with you. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we are going to tackle Foundation 3. |
| 0:15.0 | Hide the word in your heart to live by it. |
| 0:18.0 | We're going to get really practical as we discuss this foundation into the nuts and bolts of it. |
| 0:23.7 | We're so excited and we hope you are too. |
| 0:26.4 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:29.8 | Honey, you wrote this foundation and, you know, the way we worded each of these foundations |
| 0:34.0 | was in a casual manner so as to be saying it to one another. Hide the word |
| 0:40.2 | in your heart to live by it. And it's based on Colossians 316. Let the word of Christ dwell |
| 0:46.7 | in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, seeing psalms and hymns and |
| 0:52.2 | spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. |
| 0:56.0 | Tell us a little bit about what you were thinking when you were thinking, let's make this one of |
| 1:00.7 | the foundations to hide the word in our hearts to live by it. |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah, you know, the first thing that comes to mind is just, you know, when I was really, |
| 1:08.2 | really young and Sunday school, you know, I grew up in a Baptist church, so Sunday school was kind of everything. And, you know, scripture memory was always just, you know, when I was really, really young and Sunday school, you know, I grew up in a Baptist church, so Sunday school was kind of everything. And, you know, scripture memory was always just kind of part of that. And there was this like, Bible drills. Yeah, Bible drills. And you got prizes. And, you know, and that would even be like Sunday night sometimes that were dedicated to everyone just like reciting these verses. And it was neat. It was really a |
| 1:28.6 | wonderful thing. Such a good skill. And I think that that's something that I count as a very rich |
| 1:34.0 | part of my heritage. Grateful for it. Certainly as I grew older, though the value of that never |
| 1:39.6 | diminished, you know, the depth of the call to let the Word of Christ richly dwell within you went way beyond memory. |
| 1:46.0 | It was more than just kind of, you know, making a big long list of verses that you can memorize. |
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