How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.
Scripture Proofs
Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
1 Peter 2:1-2
Wherefore laying aside all malice... As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word.
Psalm 119:18
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Hebrews 4:2
The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Psalm 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein... this man shall be blessed in his deed.