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Acts chapter 20 verse 32, and now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace,

which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

I love this verse at the end of Acts chapter 20, as Paul has spent this time with these

Ephesian elders, and he's wept with them just recounting how night and day for years he has

Horde God's word into them, which makes this conclusion so beautiful. When he says now,

so after spending years with them, he's departing, he's sad, they're sad, but he says,

I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. What a great description of God's word,

the word of his grace. That's what God's word is. It's a picture of his grace toward us,

his love for us. When you see your Bible, see the word of his grace, which is, Paul says,

able to build you up. When you see your Bible, see this book that is able to build you up,

who doesn't want to be built up in life by the God who made you. It is able to build you up and

to give you the inheritance. What a picture when you see your Bible, see it as leading you

to an inheritance and not just an inheritance of money or possessions and inheritance of

eternal life of a kingdom to come among all those who are sanctified, meaning all those

who are set apart by God and his grace and his mercy who is called to himself. Oh, let this verse

transform the way you view the Bible today and every day. I just want to speak this word over

you and then lead us to pray according to it, but I commend you today to God and to the word

of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those

who are sanctified. God, we praise you for the word of your grace. God, we praise you for your

love for us and giving your word to us. I spray based on this picture of your word in Acts 20

for a zeal and a hunger for your word and all of us that just is growing increasingly long

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