True Discipleship: Learning, Living, and Teaching God’s Word

Many define discipleship as following Jesus in a general sense. Scripture presses far deeper. A Biblical disciple is a learner who studies with purpose, submits in obedience, and then teaches others to walk in the same truth. The life of Ezra offers a concentrated portrait of this pattern. The heartbeat of real discipleship is captured in a single verse: “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel” (Ezra 7:10, ESV). In that triad of verbs, study, do, and teach, the Bible presents a comprehensive map for the Christian life. True discipleship is more than belief; it is a life devoted to learning, living, and teaching God’s Word.

This essay will trace that pattern in Ezra 7:7–10, drawing on the Hebrew text’s key terms and their theological freight, and then will place Ezra’s model in conversation with New Testament discipleship language from the Greek, particularly the words for “disciple,” “to learn,” and “to teach.” Along the way, we will engage Biblical concerns about the so-called gap between knowledge and zeal and show that Scripture unites heart, mind, and obedience. Finally, we will propose concrete practices for individual Christians and the Church, so that we may not merely admire Ezra but imitate him.

The Journey and the Hand of God

Ezra 7:7–9 situates Ezra within a historical pilgrimage of return and reform. The narrative reads, “And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants. And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. For on the first day of the first month, he began to go up from Babylonia. On the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him” (Ezra 7:7–9, ESV). The text frames Ezra’s mission with providence, “the good hand of his God,” a refrain that will recur in Ezra’s prayers and plans. God’s sovereign favor does not negate human responsibility; it energizes it. Verse 10 explains why Ezra enjoyed such divine favor. It is not a story of accident but of intentional spiritual posture: “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel” (Ezra 7:10, ESV).

The literary logic is important. God’s providential hand accompanies the person whose heart is intentionally aligned to God’s Word. Ezra’s arrival prepares for Ezra’s reform, and Ezra’s reform flows from Ezra’s disciplined life. Discipleship begins not with public leadership but with private resolve.

Exegesis of Ezra 7:10

The Hebrew of Ezra 7:10 condenses a theology of discipleship into a compact sentence. Each phrase is worthy of careful attention.

“For Ezra had set his heart”: kî ʿEzrā hēkîn libbô. The verb hēkîn is the Hiphil perfect of kûn, “to establish,” “to set firm,” “to make secure.” The expression “set his heart” signals deliberate, covenantal resolve, not a fleeting emotion. The “heart” (lēb) in Biblical anthropology encompasses intellect, volition, and affection. It is the control center of a person’s life, the place where decisions are made and understanding resides. Hence, to “set the heart” describes an act of purposeful, whole-person commitment. Ezra did not drift into discipleship; he established his inner life toward a defined end.

“to study the Law of the LORD”: lidrōš tôrath YHWH. The infinitive construct lidrōš comes from dārash, “to seek,” “to inquire,” “to investigate.” The verb carries the sense of diligent, repeated searching, often used for seeking the LORD Himself or inquiring of the LORD’s will. Ezra’s object is tôrath YHWH, “the Law of the LORD,” where tôrāh means instruction, teaching, or law. In the Old Testament, tôrāh is not merely legal code; it is comprehensive instruction for life under the LORD’s covenant. Ezra’s study is not an academic hobby; it is the devout investigation of God’s revealed instruction in order to know God and to know what God commands. The phrase therefore fuses piety with scholarship. It is disciplined study that loves the God who speaks.

“and to do it”: welaʿăśôt. The infinitive laʿăśôt from ʿāśāh, “to do,” “to make,” “to practice,” emphasizes obedience. The text refuses any separation between exegesis and ethics. Ezra’s inquiry culminates in performance. Biblical knowledge is teleological; it aims at a life of obedience. As Deuteronomy instructs Israel, “that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments” (Deuteronomy 6:2, ESV). Ezra embodies that Mosaic ideal.

“and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel”: wĕlēlammed bĕyiśrāʾēl ḥōq ûmišpāṭ. The infinitive lelammed is Piel of lāmad, “to teach,” the causative of learning. The root lmd connects teaching and learning in a way that foreshadows the later noun talmîd, “student,” and the participial form limmûdîm, “those taught.” Ezra’s teaching concerns God’s ḥōq (“statute,” “prescribed ordinance”) and mišpāṭ (“judgment,” “decision,” “rule”). The pairing of these nouns often summarizes covenantal norms. Ezra’s calling is not exhausted by personal obedience; discipleship presses into public instruction. Those who learn must become those who teach.

Ezra 7:10 therefore traces a covenantal progression: heart set toward God’s instruction, persistent inquiry into God’s Scripture, personal obedience to that Scripture, and public teaching of that Scripture for the sake of God’s people. That is the architecture of Biblical discipleship.

Sidebar on the Septuagint and the Greek of Ezra 7:10

The Septuagint renders the core of Ezra 7:10 with the verbs ekzētēsai (“to seek diligently”), poiein (“to do”), and didaskein (“to teach”). This triad resonates with New Testament language of discipleship. Although our essay will remain anchored in the ESV for quotations, the Greek witness underscores a canonical pattern: genuine learning is incomplete without doing, and doing flows into teaching.

“Disciple” as “Student,” the Vocabulary of Learning in Hebrew and Greek

The claim that the Biblical “disciple” literally means “student” is accurate and illuminating. In Hebrew, the classic noun for pupil is talmîd, derived from the lmd root, which unites learn and teach. While the noun talmîd appears infrequently in the Old Testament, the concept is present. 1 Chronicles 25:8 notes the ordering of the temple musicians “the small and the great, the teacher and the pupil together” (ESV), where “pupil” corresponds to talmîd. Isaiah 8:16 speaks of “my disciples” using limmûdai, “my instructed ones.” Isaiah 50:4 refers to “those who are taught” (limmûdîm), showing that a disciple is an instructed person, a learner shaped by the words of God’s Servant.

In Greek, the noun mathētēs means “learner,” “student,” and thereby “disciple.” The related verb manthanō means “to learn,” and the verb didaskō means “to teach.” The New Testament’s use of mathētēs for Jesus’ followers, therefore, carries a strong pedagogical thrust. Jesus calls learners, enrolls them in the school of the Kingdom, and trains them to maturity. The aim of this training is likeness: “A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher” (Luke 6:40, ESV). The verb “fully trained” renders katērtismenos, a word that signifies being fitted, prepared, or restored to usefulness. The goal of discipleship is conformity to the Teacher.

Therefore, when we say that a disciple is a student, we do not minimize discipleship to mere intellectualism; rather, we insist on the inextricable bond between learning and living within a covenant relationship. The learner studies in order to obey, and obeys in order to teach others to do the same. This is precisely Ezra’s pattern.

Heart, Mind, and Obedience Shows the Unity of Biblical Spirituality

Some fear that study will replace spiritual passion, as if the mind could suffocate the heart. Scripture presents the heart as the center of understanding and decision, and therefore commands the mind’s full engagement in love for God. “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5, ESV). In Biblical idiom, the “heart” thinks, plans, understands, and resolves. Proverbs can say, “An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge” (Proverbs 18:15, ESV). The psalmist prays, “Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart” (Psalm 119:34, ESV). The supposed divide between head and heart is foreign to Scripture. The mind is the heart at work, and the heart loves what it understands to be good, true, and beautiful.

Ezra “set his heart” because discipleship requires deliberate ordering of one’s inner life. Love for Christ is not sentimental drift but covenantal allegiance expressed in obedience. Jesus makes this connection explicit: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15, ESV). The Gospel summons the whole person, and the Holy Spirit renews the mind so that our lives are transformed: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2a, ESV). Study does not extinguish passion; it purifies and directs it. The more we internalize God’s Word, the more we learn to love Him rightly and live as He calls us to live.

Ezra’s Triad and the Great Commission: From Learner to Teacher

Ezra’s triad finds its New Testament echo in the risen Lord’s Great Commission: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations … teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19–20a, ESV). The imperative “make disciples” (mathēteusate) demands that the Church enroll the nations as learners of Jesus. The participle “teaching” (didaskontes) specifies the means, and the content is ethical and comprehensive, “to observe” (tērein, to keep, to guard) everything Jesus commanded. That pattern aligns with Ezra’s “study” and “do” and “teach.” The Church does not merely gather hearers; it forms doers who are then teachers. Likewise, Paul entrusts the apostolic pattern to future generations: “what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2, ESV). Discipleship is generational and instructional; it is study that bears the fruit of obedience and multiplies by teaching.

Ezra’s Ministry in Practice

Ezra’s ministry is not limited to a personal motto. In Nehemiah 8, Ezra stands upon a wooden platform, opens the Book, and reads the Law to the assembly from morning until midday. The people stand in reverence, lift their hands in worship, and bow their heads. Critically, the priests and Levites do not merely read; they explain. “They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading” (Nehemiah 8:8, ESV). This is public discipleship. Ezra and the Levites exemplify expository ministry, which seeks clarity, conveys meaning, and fosters understanding that leads to repentance and joy. When the people weep under conviction, they are directed toward rejoicing in God’s grace: “the joy of the LORD is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10, ESV).

This is Ezra 7:10 in action. He studied the Law, he obeyed its demands, and he taught God’s people with clarity and pastoral wisdom. The community’s transformation confirms that discipleship is not a private aspiration but a public task. True discipleship shapes families, congregations, and cultures.

Hebrew Terms for Discipleship in Ezra 7:10

To make explicit the exegetical core, we highlight principal Hebrew terms and their force for discipleship:

hēkîn libbô (“set his heart”): resolve, establish, and fix the inner life upon a goal. The heart is the seat of intellect and will. Discipleship requires intentional interior formation.
lidrōš (“to seek,” “to study”): diligent, repeated inquiry. Study is an act of piety that pursues the LORD by pursuing the Word of the LORD.

tôrath YHWH (“the Law of the LORD”): God’s instruction that guides covenant life. This includes commandments, promises, narratives, and wisdom. The disciple studies the whole counsel of God.

laʿăśôt (“to do,” “to practice”): enactment of God’s instruction. Knowing is ordered to doing. Obedience authenticates study.

lelammed (“to teach”): the calling to make learners. Those who are taught must become teachers in content and example.

ḥōq ûmišpāṭ (“statute and rule”): the prescribed norms and just decisions that make up the pattern of holy living. Teaching aims at formation in God’s ordained order.

These terms form a chain of discipleship: resolve, inquiry, obedience, instruction. Remove any link, and Biblical discipleship collapses into sentiment or scholasticism.

Key Greek Terms for Discipleship in the New Testament

A parallel set of Greek terms fills out the Biblical portrait:

• mathētēs (“disciple,” “learner,” “student”): the fundamental identity of a follower of Jesus. Disciples are enrolled students of the Master.
  
  

• manthanō (“to learn”): the act of acquiring knowledge and skill through instruction. Jesus invites learners to take His yoke, which implies disciplined training (see Matthew 11:29, ESV: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me”).
  
  

• didaskō (“to teach”): the authoritative transmission of truth that produces understanding and obedience.
  
  

• katērtismenos (“fully trained,” Luke 6:40): fitted and prepared to likeness. The aim of learning is conformity to the Teacher’s character and mission.
  
  

• tērein (“to observe,” “to keep”): to guard and practice Jesus’ commands, as in Matthew 28:20. Teaching in the Church is never bare information; it trains for obedience.

Understanding these terms prevents two distortions. One distortion divorces learning from obedience, reducing discipleship to mere information transfer. The other divorces obedience from learning and reduces discipleship to activism without truth. Scripture binds them. Jesus declares, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31–32, ESV). Abiding, knowing, and freedom interpenetrate.

Knowledge and Obedience are Inseparable

Ezra’s life dismantles the false dichotomy between knowledge and passion. Study by itself can puff up when it is detached from love, yet the Bible insists that true knowledge engenders love and obedience. The Psalms celebrate a scholar’s delight. “Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day” (Psalm 119:97, ESV). That love expresses itself in action: “I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments” (Psalm 119:60, ESV). The Bereans model the noble habit of testing preaching against Scripture: “they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so” (Acts 17:11, ESV). Paul urges Timothy, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15, ESV). The approved worker is not anti-intellectual, nor is he merely intellectual; he is a craftsman of the Word who lives by the truth he teaches.

We must therefore resist two temptations every day in contemporary Christian culture. The first temptation is to trust feelings as a reliable guide to truth. Without study, our faith becomes shallow and easily manipulated. The second temptation is to equate theological study with spiritual maturity, as if knowledge alone proved holiness. Without obedience, knowledge becomes hypocrisy. Ezra calls us to a third way: rigorous study for the sake of faithful obedience and the equipping of others.

The Heart as the Center of Understanding and Decision

The Biblical “heart” unifies the mental and the moral. It thinks, chooses, loves, and believes. Jesus commands total devotion: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37, ESV). Holistic love necessarily includes cognitive engagement. To love God with all the heart is to engage the mind deeply in His Word, to desire what He commands, and to decide accordingly. Ezra’s “setting of the heart” is therefore a model for modern Christians who must resist distraction and superficiality. By setting our hearts to study, we reject the idea that serious learning quenches the Spirit. The Spirit authored the Scriptures and uses the Scriptures to sanctify the people of God. Jesus prays to the Father, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth” (John 17:17, ESV). Spiritual growth requires Scriptural saturation.

Teaching as the Overflow of Obedience

Ezra’s third infinitive, “to teach,” highlights a crucial dimension of discipleship. Study that stops at personal piety is incomplete. Discipleship always looks outward. Jesus gathered disciples to become disciple-makers. “Everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher” (Luke 6:40, ESV), which implies that training aims at reproduction. Paul makes the generational logic explicit in 2 Timothy 2:2. The one who learns must transmit the pattern to others, who will in turn teach still others. Teaching is therefore not a clerical specialty, although those set apart for pastoral office bear a unique responsibility to preach and teach the Word. Teaching is the natural overflow of a life shaped by the Word. Parents teach children in the ordinary rhythms of the day: “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7, ESV). Older believers teach younger believers by counsel and by example. Congregations teach one another through songs, prayers, testimonies, and Bible study. The Church is a community of learners who teach.

Practical Pathways: Living Ezra’s Pattern Today

How can Christians embody Ezra’s triad in practical ways that honor the Gospel and build up the Church? Consider several pathways.

Cultivate Intentional Resolve

Begin by imitating Ezra’s interior posture. Establish a rule of life that gives priority to the Word. This may include a daily time of unhurried reading, meditation, and prayer; a weekly rhythm of deeper study; and a seasonal plan for memorization. Ask God to incline your heart to His testimonies: “Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain” (Psalm 119:36, ESV). Prayers like Psalm 119 align desire with discipline. Commit to a plan and hold yourself accountable. To set the heart is to fix the compass of life toward Scripture.

Study the Law of the LORD

Make study purposeful. Choose books of Scripture and work through them slowly, noting key themes, repeated words, and structure. Use cross references and summaries to see how the passage fits the whole Bible. Read with the aim to know God, not merely to accumulate facts. Since tôrāh means instruction, ask in every text, What is God teaching me about Himself, His saving work, and His will for His people? Supplement personal study with trusted resources that illuminate the historical and literary context. Attend the Church’s preaching with a prepared mind and take notes. Join a serious Bible class that seeks understanding, not entertainment. Imitate the Bereans by testing teaching with Scripture itself.

Do the Word: Practice Immediate Obedience

Resolve to obey promptly. James writes, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22, ESV). After each study session, identify one concrete action to take. Forgive an enemy; give generously; confess sin; reconcile with a brother or sister; practice hospitality; cultivate secret prayer; guard speech. Obedience educates. The one who practices the truth gains experiential knowledge that deepens understanding and joy. Jesus promises, “If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God” (John 7:17a, ESV). Doing clarifies knowing.

Teach Others

Begin teaching within your sphere. Parents teach children. Seasoned believers mentor new believers. Small group leaders facilitate Scripture discussion that “gives the sense.” Not everyone will teach publicly from a pulpit, but every disciple can teach personally and relationally. The criterion is faithfulness, not eloquence. Teach what you have learned and lived, and do so with humility and love. Aim not for novelty but for clarity and transformation. Remember that the content is God’s ḥōq and mišpāṭ, His statutes and rules that lead to life.

Build Churches that Form Learners

Congregations can embrace Ezra’s pattern in several structural ways. Commit to expository preaching that reads the passage, explains it clearly, and applies it concretely. Establish pathways for catechesis, where new believers learn the foundations of the faith. Encourage Bible memory programs across ages. Provide training in how to study Scripture, how to read the Bible theologically, and how to teach the Bible to others. Schedule seasons of corporate Scripture reading, as in Nehemiah 8. Order congregational singing to teach sound doctrine, since songs are teachers that lodge in the memory. Above all, ordain leaders whose lives reflect Ezra’s triad, men whose hearts are set, whose study is deep, whose obedience is evident, and whose teaching is faithful.

Addressing Common Objections

Objection 1: Does study suffocate spiritual passion?

Biblically understood, study ignites passion by unveiling the beauty and authority of the Lord. The psalmist’s love explodes precisely because he meditates on the Law day and night (Psalm 1:2; Psalm 119:97, ESV). Study detached from faith and obedience can puff up, but study aimed at communion with God quickens affection and energizes obedience. Ezra’s life is devout, not dry. Nehemiah 8 concludes with rejoicing because the people understood the words that were declared to them (Nehemiah 8:12, ESV).

Objection 2: Can obedience be separated from knowledge?

No. Obedience without knowledge is hazardously vague and tends to follow cultural winds. Knowledge without obedience is hypocritical and self-deceiving. Scripture joins them. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15, ESV). Love leads to obedience; obedience presupposes knowledge of the commandments. Discipleship therefore demands learning and living together.

Objection 3: Is teaching only for officeholders?

While the pastoral office includes a unique teaching mandate, Scripture deploys a broad ecology of teaching. Parents teach; older women teach younger women; all believers teach one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Ezra’s model calls every disciple to become a conduit of truth within his or her God-given sphere.

Being Like the Teacher

Jesus’ words in Luke 6:40 set discipleship’s telos: likeness to the Teacher. “A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher” (ESV). The training involves rigorous learning, practiced obedience, and the habit of teaching. To be like Jesus is to be taught and transformed by His words. The training mechanism is the Word of Christ dwelling richly among us, producing wisdom and worship and mutual instruction. Teaching is part of the likeness; Jesus is Teacher par excellence, and His disciples become teaching people.

Ezra and the Pattern of Spiritual Maturity

Ezra demonstrates a maturation arc that is reproducible. He chooses a direction, he pursues God’s Word with diligence, he acts upon what he learns, and he shares it with others. This is not an elite pathway. It is the normal Christian life. It is also the normal congregational life. Churches that set their collective heart to study, to do, and to teach, become communities of transformation. They make disciples who make disciples. They hold the Gospel fast and display its power.

The New Testament illustrates this maturation in many vignettes. Apollos, described as “mighty in the Scriptures,” humbly receives further instruction and becomes an effective teacher of the Gospel (Acts 18:24–28, ESV). Timothy is trained from childhood in the sacred writings that “are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” and that “are breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:15–16, ESV). The pattern is continuous: learn the Scriptures, live them, and teach them.

The Christological Fulfillment of Ezra’s Pattern

All Scripture points to Christ. Ezra’s commitment to the Law of the LORD anticipates the One who perfectly delighted in His Father’s will and fulfilled all righteousness. Jesus embodies the Law and the Prophets, teaches with authority, and obeys unto death for our salvation. On the Emmaus road, “beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27, ESV). Discipleship is therefore Christocentric. We study to know Christ, we obey to follow Christ, and we teach to make Christ known. The Gospel animates and sustains the Ezra pattern by uniting us to Christ and pouring out the Spirit who opens the Scriptures and empowers obedience.

A Concrete Exercise: Practicing Ezra 7:10 in One Week

To move from admiration to imitation, try a simple exercise.

Day 1: Set the Heart. Pray Psalm 119:33–40. Write a brief covenant of intent: “By God’s grace, I set my heart to study the Law of the LORD, to do it, and to teach it.”

Day 2–4: Study a Passage. Select a short passage, perhaps Psalm 1 or Philippians 2:1–11. Read it slowly three times. Mark keywords and commands. Summarize the main idea in one sentence. Identify how the passage reveals God’s character and will.

Day 5–6: Do the Word. Choose one concrete step of obedience that corresponds to the passage. Share your plan with a friend for accountability. Pray for strength to act.

Day 7: Teach Someone. Share what you learned and how you obeyed with a family member, friend, or small group. Encourage them to try the same exercise.

Repeat with another passage. Over time, this weekly rhythm shapes a life in accordance with Ezra 7:10.

A Word to Leaders and Teachers

Those entrusted with teaching in the Church must take Ezra as a ministerial charter. Study the Scripture deeply. Live it visibly. Teach it clearly. Shape sermons and lessons that read the text, explain it, and apply it in ways that form hearts and habits. Make room for questions. Train others to teach. The aim is not to produce fans but followers of Jesus who can feed others. Paul’s counsel stands: “Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:16, ESV). The life of the teacher and the content of the teaching must harmonize.

When Study Meets Suffering

Often, discipleship is tested not in the calm of study but in the storm of suffering. It is precisely here that Ezra’s triad proves durable. The one who has set the heart, who has studied the Law of the LORD, and who has practiced obedience, finds that the Word sustains faith in trial. The Psalms assure us that in affliction, God’s statutes are a delight and a counselor: “If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction” (Psalm 119:92, ESV). Suffering also opens doors to teach others the comfort we have received. The disciple becomes a guide to fellow pilgrims, pointing to the promises of God that he or she has tested in the furnace.

Making Disciples by Being Disciples

Jesus said, “Everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher” (Luke 6:40, ESV). He also said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15, ESV). The path to likeness and the proof of love both run through the Word. Ezra reminds us that true discipleship begins with setting the heart on the Word, continues through diligent study, results in obedient practice, and culminates in faithful teaching. To make disciples, we must first be disciples. This is the pattern that guards the Church from shallowness and anchors zeal in truth. It is the pattern that keeps knowledge from becoming sterile and keeps passion from becoming aimless. It is the pattern that shapes individuals, families, congregations, and cultures.

Therefore, let us take up Ezra’s holy ambition. Let us set our hearts. Let us study the Law of the LORD. Let us do it. Let us teach it. As we do, we follow the Lord Jesus Christ who is the very Word of God incarnate, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and who sends us by His authority to teach the nations to keep all that He has commanded. The good hand of our God will be upon us as we walk this path, for God delights to prosper those whose hearts are set upon His Word and whose lives are ordered by His truth.