If you're walking through the day and you come up to a big, ugly temptation that gets a foothold in your life, it's pulling on you.

Could be lust, could be money, could be power, could be pride, be pride be fear could be a temptation to lie

and cheat to work get out of a fix and it's pulling on you if you've got a good solid word in you

about that and a good promise of god but you don't treasure it. It's not valuable and precious

to you. It won't be any use. Hi, I'm your host, Dan Kruver. How does treasuring God's word

prepare you for temptation? In this episode of light and truth, John Piper opened Psalm 119

to 16 to show that merely knowing a verse of Scripture isn't enough. When Scripture becomes precious,

that's when it becomes powerful.

This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on January 5, 1997.

Well, let's take the book of promises called the Bible and open it to the longest chapter

in the Bible, Psalm 119. Every paragraph begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

That's why it's so long. And we're going to take one of those paragraphs, namely verses 9 through 16 and read it.

And then we're going to take one verse in that paragraph and eat it.

Psalm 119, verses 9 through 16.

We'll focus on verse 11.

So ears open when we get there.

How can a young man

keep his way pure?

By keeping it according to

thy word,

with all my heart I have sought

thee, do not let me

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