THE DAY I TORE UP THE BIBLE ( 2 OF 7)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Jude 1:3-8
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The Day I Tore Up The Bible ( 2 of 7)
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
Jude 1:3-8
(No actual Bibles were damaged in the preaching of this sermon)
Last week I said that we're going to make one statement over and over throughout this series:
We don't have to apologize for our faith. We don't need to rally to God's defense. Our God is bigger than we are - and doesn't really need our help. But in spite of that... God calls us to contend for the faith.
One of the tools God has given us to contend for the faith is that book you have in your hands - your Bible. Charles Spurgeon once spoke of Scripture this way:
''Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself.''
It's a powerful book that is THE main weapon we have in contending for the faith.
Because of the power Scripture has to do that, I've discovered over the years is that there are people out here who seemingly do everything they can to undermine the Bible. God's Word gets in the way of things what they want to believe or do.
(I placed a book that looked like a Bible - but wasn't - on stage to use for this illustration).
ILLUS: At the first church I served - about the 6th year I was there - I sensed a darkness in the ministry I couldn't understand. I spent a great deal of time praying about that feeling, and not long after I began praying I became aware of why I sensed this darkness: I found out that one of the Deacons in the church was committing adultery. What was frustrating was that I later found out that many in the church knew about the situation long before I did. I ended up ''firing'' the Deacon... which didn't make me real popular with him.
It also didn't make me real popular with the Deacon's cousin Stan, who was kind of like the ''head'' Elder at church. That Elder called a Board Meeting and reinstalled the sinful Deacon to his position. In a later Elders' meeting Stan told me ''I know Paul said we shoul ...
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
Jude 1:3-8
(No actual Bibles were damaged in the preaching of this sermon)
Last week I said that we're going to make one statement over and over throughout this series:
We don't have to apologize for our faith. We don't need to rally to God's defense. Our God is bigger than we are - and doesn't really need our help. But in spite of that... God calls us to contend for the faith.
One of the tools God has given us to contend for the faith is that book you have in your hands - your Bible. Charles Spurgeon once spoke of Scripture this way:
''Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself.''
It's a powerful book that is THE main weapon we have in contending for the faith.
Because of the power Scripture has to do that, I've discovered over the years is that there are people out here who seemingly do everything they can to undermine the Bible. God's Word gets in the way of things what they want to believe or do.
(I placed a book that looked like a Bible - but wasn't - on stage to use for this illustration).
ILLUS: At the first church I served - about the 6th year I was there - I sensed a darkness in the ministry I couldn't understand. I spent a great deal of time praying about that feeling, and not long after I began praying I became aware of why I sensed this darkness: I found out that one of the Deacons in the church was committing adultery. What was frustrating was that I later found out that many in the church knew about the situation long before I did. I ended up ''firing'' the Deacon... which didn't make me real popular with him.
It also didn't make me real popular with the Deacon's cousin Stan, who was kind of like the ''head'' Elder at church. That Elder called a Board Meeting and reinstalled the sinful Deacon to his position. In a later Elders' meeting Stan told me ''I know Paul said we shoul ...
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