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Every Word of God Is Pure — A Call to Stand on the Word
September 18, 2026 · 15 min
Proverbs 30: the purity and permanence of God's Word and why we must anchor our lives in His unchanging truth as our shield.
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The Author and the Incomprehensibility of God 0:09 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. Today, Proverbs chapter 30 verse 5, every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who put their trust in him. What a what0:21 a promise. Alright. The authorship of these final 2 chapters is uncertain. Today, we're gonna look at chapter 30. Tomorrow, we'll look at chapter 31. The style and the0:33 structure of this chapter, of chapter 30, would argue that it probably was a different author. We don't know for certain. Chapter 31, we'll look at tomorrow. I I think you could make an0:44 argument that Solomon was the author of that. But, again, we'll look at that tomorrow. Alright. The author of chapter 30 is identified as Agur, which means gatherer or collector.0:56 Some scholars suggest it was, not a proper name, but more of a description of his character and his work in collecting these sayings of wisdom. Now his pupils or students, we read were1:08 Ithiel, God with me, or You call, a mighty 1. Now some scholars say these names point to the Messiah. In fact, in this proverb, which is, called an utterance or a1:20 burden, which is a prophetic message, Some scholars interpret as references to the Messiah, and you you can see that in here. The structure of this chapter begins with a confession that God is1:32 God and man is not. Pretty straightforward. There's a prayer followed by a series of topics addressed in fours. That's where the style of this is a bit different is1:44 different than the other Proverbs. Alright. Let's begin verse 2. Surely, I am more stupid than any man and do not have the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom nor have knowledge of the holy 1 who has1:55 ascended into heaven or descended, who has gathered the wind in his fist, who has bound the waters in a garment, who has established all the ends of the earth. What is his name and what is his2:07 son's name if you know? Now it's an attention getter to start this. Surely, I'm more stupid than any man. That's gonna get people's attention as the teacher teaching the pupils. Now this2:19 is an acknowledgment upfront that our inability we have this inability to comprehend god's infinite nature. Finite2:30 man, we cannot do it with our finite minds. We it's it's like it's kinda like watching a a child in a room full of toys trying to gather up all the toys in his2:42 arms and carry them out. You know, he'll get a handful and he'll have to drop 1 to pick up another 1. He just cannot cannot grasp everything. We cannot either. Verse 32:54 verse 5 rather, every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who put their trust in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. The word pureEvery Word of God Is Pure 3:06 here means refined and tested. It's it's pure. It's solid. Alright? It it it's ready to go. You can count on the word of God. It is not going to change3:18 nor will it falter. This, frankly, is at the heart of this bible reading plan stand on the word. That's why we're standing on it. It's solid. It's it's pure. You can3:30 count on it. You know, we I've used this phrase before because I've heard it so often in the debates over public policy in recent years. Oh, aren't you afraid you're on the wrong side of history? No. I'm3:42 standing on the eternal word of God that will not change. Life is sacred. It's created in the image of God. That's not gonna change. Marriage is God instituted it in the garden. It's between a man and3:53 a woman, and and it carries it all the way through scripture. That's not gonna change. Alright. We can stand on the word of God. Now we're gonna read soon in Ecclesiastes that there is nothing new under the4:05 sun. Alright? The lawlessness that we see today is just like what was recorded in ancient Israel when every man did what was right in his own eyes. They had rejected the instruction,4:18 the word of God. And that's what we see today in this postmodern culture that has rejected the idea of transcendent truth, meaning truth that comes from god, truth that is truth,4:30 that we can't change it. We have to change to conform to it. The result is, as a result, we have no common currency of what is right and wrong. And that's only gonna get worse unless we4:42 return to a common currency. We, you know, we hear a lot about the gold standard when you we look at our monetary policy, our currency, that it's in it's in inflating and it's it's losing4:54 its value. Well, when we talk about truth, we have to be anchored to that true standard, transcend the truth. You know, when everyone is deciding what is right and5:05 wrong for themselves, we have chaos and we have lawlessness. You know, it's interesting. There's room for everybody except those5:17 who hold the biblical truth. And that's not acceptable today because they say that's exclusionary. Of course, in making that statement that biblical5:29 truth is exclusionary and that it's not acceptable, they are excluding those who hold a biblical view. But that's that's a a topic for another day. Now there's great pressure. There's great pressure5:41 on Christians who surrender their allegiance to biblical truth or at least be silent about it when it comes to the issues of our day that had been deemed political,5:53 primarily by those who, don't want to confront, the truth about what God has to say about human sexuality. But here's here's what happens. Alright? Here's6:05 what happens if we lay down the word of god. We not only surrender our protection and our strength, we surrender the only place where lasting6:16 unity can be found, and that is truth. As Christians today, we need to fortify we need to fortify our stand on the word of god. Yes. I know. We will face opposition.6:29 And and, yes, you may lose friends temporarily. I think eventually, they many of them come back around. It will be difficult. I can attest to that.6:40 But here's what I have found in a in a in a microcosm of what I believe the the macro view will soon be, is that when the world collapses,6:52 those around us who are doing what they you know, what seems to be right in their own eyes, when the world is collapsing because because of those that are pursuing their own truth,7:04 You and I, who are standing on the word of God, will be standing safely and secure securely with a sense of peace, even though we will be affected by it. But we'll be standing on the proven word of God, and we will be7:16 able to point them at their moment of desperation to a source of hope and healing. But that is only if we will stand firmly on the wordA Wise Prayer for Contentment 7:28 of God, but we have to know it. And that's what this journey is all about. Verse 7, 2 things I requested you, deprive me not before I die. Remove falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches.7:40 Feed me with the food allotted to me. Lest I be full and deny you and say, who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God. This is a really,7:52 really good passage and a very, I think, wise and applicable prayer for us. It contains an element of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples, the prayer that asks for provisions, God's grace8:04 that is sufficient for our need, but also to keep us from the temptations that would come from either poverty or riches. And and notice the reason. So as8:16 not to deny or profane the name of the Lord. Position me by your grace, Lord, to bring honor to your name and let me not bring reproach upon you, oh, Lord. This is a powerful8:28 prayer and a and a a good request for us to make of the Lord. Now what we move to next is stylistically much different than anything else we see in Proverbs, which is why it8:40 would appear that someone else wrote or compiled this chapter. Verse 11, there is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed8:51 from its filthiness. There is a generation, oh, how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up. There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose fangs are like knives to devour the poor from offFour Kinds of Ungodly People and Numerical Proverbs 9:03 the the earth and the needy from among men. 4 kinds of ungodly people here covered, disrespectful to parents, self deceived and self righteous, proud and9:15 arrogant, and then greedy, cruel oppressors. Now we move into a series of numerical proverbs. Verse 15, the leech has 2 daughters, give and give.9:27 There are 3 things that are never satisfied. 4 never say enough. The grave, the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water, and the fire never says enough. And this speaks9:39 to the insatiable nature of evil itself. It's never satisfied. Evil will never stand still. You can never the the the takeaway from here, you you can never9:51 reach consensus with evil. Alright? To compromise with evil, you can't reach a compromise. It is never satisfied. That's why we should stand for truth. We cannot compromise truth to10:03 try to gain peace with evil. It doesn't happen. Verse 17, the eye that mocks his father and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young eagles will eat it.10:15 That doesn't sound too good. You know, the eye, the eye that expresses contempt or mocks the parents, frankly, does not have a promising future. Children10:28 take note. And and this is not just for children. I think this this goes into adulthood. We should always honor our parents. It doesn't matter. We should be honoring toward our parents.10:39 Verse 18, there are 3 things which are too wonderful for me. Yes. 4, which I do not understand. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the10:51 sea, in the way of a man with a virgin. This is the way of an adulterous woman. She eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wickedness. Now the 1st 3 set up the 4th. These11:03 natural things, the course of the eagle in the air, the course of a serpent on the rock, and the ship in the water are difficult to track and discover. The 4th is the deceitfulness and wickedness of the heart that11:15 pursues sexual immorality. As Jeremiah wrote in Jeremiah 17 9, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it. The course of sin comes from the11:26 very depths of hell, and it's hard to understand and discover its course. Alright. I wanna drop down to, to verse 32. If you have been foolish in exalting yourself or if you have devised evil, put your11:38 hand on your mouth. For as the churning of milk produces butter and ringing of the nose produces blood, so the forcing of wrath produces strife.11:50 Now this speaks to self control and restraint in both our words and our actions. This call to restraint is especially important when12:02 we are at fault. And as a result, we're confronted for what we've done. Now we can inflame the situation or we can deescalate deescalate byThe Call to Self-Control and Restraint 12:14 acknowledging our error in humility and not defending ourselves in anger, not being defensive. Even if someone and sometimes this happens, someone's being unreasonable in the12:26 manner in which they confront us. If our actions were the catalyst for the conflict, then let our actions actions were the catalyst for the conflict, then let our actions be the path to peace as well. A lot of practical12:36 wisdom here in the book of Solomon, a book of, Proverbs, many of them written written by Solomon. Alright. Before we close in prayer, I just wanna remind you there is time to still time to register for the pray12:48 vote stands summit coming up next week in Leesburg, Virginia, just not far from here in DC. And, next Saturday, in fact, we will be doing stand on the13:00 word with those who are on the journey with us at the Pray Vote Stand Summit. So we'd love to have you there. There's still time to register and time to get here. Just text summit to 6 7 713:12 4 2 to register. That's summit to 6 7 7 4 2. Father, we thank you for your word, for the wisdom contained in it, and I pray that the Holy Spirit would continue to guide us.13:24 Lord, we're we're not looking just for intellectual understanding of the word. We're we're not on this pursuit, Lord,13:37 to discover history, although we will and we are. But, Lord, our pursuit is to know you better and to come into alignment with your word that the holy spirit would show us13:49 the principles of your word, the truth of your word, and how they apply to our lives in this world in which we live. That we would be as Jesus prayed for us in John 17, that we would be14:01 kept from the evil 1 and from evil by your word because we're sanctified through your word, which is truth. So we thank you for that, and we yield ourselves to the work of the holy spirit. And I thank you for each14:13 1 that's on this journey. Bless the the individuals, bless the couples, bless the families, bless the generations that are a part of this journey. And Lord, may you use us to advance your kingdom,14:25 to bring glory to your name. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright. Thanks for joining me this morning. And until next time, keep standing on the word.14:35 Today's study comes from the stand on the word bible reading plan available for free at frc dot org slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you14:46 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 The Author and the Incomprehensibility of God3:03 Every Word of God Is Pure7:25 A Wise Prayer for Contentment8:58 Four Kinds of Ungodly People and Numerical Proverbs12:06 The Call to Self-Control and Restraint93.9K followers
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