Pay attention…

 BIBLE….

One of the speakers for this conference make makes acronyms for everything…people names, locations, titles…

One that has probably been around a long time, but I had never heard before or had lost in the many files of my mind is…

BIBLE…Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth…

I thought of this as the following came as today’s verse of the day popped up…

 You shall walk after the Lord your God and you shall fear [and worship] Him [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], and you shall keep His commandments and you shall listen to His voice, and you shall serve Him, and cling to Him. 

Deut.13.4

This coupled with another speaker, Alistair Begg, whom our Womens’ Bible study has been following in Mark 4…spoke of “pay attention “…(here he is doing the devotional on the book of Philemon…encouraging Philemon to welcome back Onesimus, a former slave as a brother in Christ…)

Go back the “pay attention “…a phase found 20 plus times throughout the Word…

 

 A few…

A warning not heeded…

Exodus 9:21 (ESV)

but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

An admonition…

Exodus 23:13…Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

Exodus 23:21 (ESV) Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

 Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

2Chr.6.16

 I set watchmen over you, saying,‘Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’But they said, ‘We will not pay attention.’ Therefore hear, O nations,and know, O congregation, what will happen to them. Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,the fruit of their devices,because they have not paid attention to my words;and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Jer.6.17-19

 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

Zech.1.4

 And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you. For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken Mark.4.24-25

 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Acts.20.28

 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. 

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,

Heb.2.1,Heb.2.3

Admonishments and encouragements….Basis Instructions…Pay Attention…

Thank YOU…