How Pride Killed God's Son
1 Thess. 2:13-20
Intro: Paul shares his whole heart with the loving church at Thessalonia.
He knew what it was to be worried by the Corinthian and Galatian fellowships. But he found rest and peace when he thought of God's work among the Thessalonians. The most tired ministers have some bright spots and some people that bring joy in their service for the Lord.
He knew that, ''the word was working in them.'' It is by the word that we are brought to repentance, and by that word that we are regenerated. Peter said:
''Being born again by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.''
It is the word of the gospel that brings the message home to the hearts and consciences of men, and by that same truth they are sanctified.
How urgent it is that we see the Word of God clearly as God's infallible and inerrent, totally reliable word that gives us direction.
Now they did not see the gospel as the word of men, and their faith was not based on the clever, eloquent, logical, dogmatic or affectionate way in which it was preached. They received it as God's revealed word, and therefore, it did its work.
Question: Do you receive the Word of God on its own merit, or what men say about it or how they validate it?
ILL: ''Whoever made this book,'' said a Chinese convert, ''made me. Because it tells me the thoughts and the actions of my heart and my very life.''
When God's word is preached, for instance to an Indian of long ago, it brought that conviction in his heart and grace in his life when he repented of his sins. When that word was preached in Greenland to a man that missionaries said was so soddish and senseless because of his sin that he was scareless removed from the fish on which he lived, it brought conviction and conversion. Wherever God's word is preached, it does its work because it works.
Someone said the edition of all the word of God ...
1 Thess. 2:13-20
Intro: Paul shares his whole heart with the loving church at Thessalonia.
He knew what it was to be worried by the Corinthian and Galatian fellowships. But he found rest and peace when he thought of God's work among the Thessalonians. The most tired ministers have some bright spots and some people that bring joy in their service for the Lord.
He knew that, ''the word was working in them.'' It is by the word that we are brought to repentance, and by that word that we are regenerated. Peter said:
''Being born again by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.''
It is the word of the gospel that brings the message home to the hearts and consciences of men, and by that same truth they are sanctified.
How urgent it is that we see the Word of God clearly as God's infallible and inerrent, totally reliable word that gives us direction.
Now they did not see the gospel as the word of men, and their faith was not based on the clever, eloquent, logical, dogmatic or affectionate way in which it was preached. They received it as God's revealed word, and therefore, it did its work.
Question: Do you receive the Word of God on its own merit, or what men say about it or how they validate it?
ILL: ''Whoever made this book,'' said a Chinese convert, ''made me. Because it tells me the thoughts and the actions of my heart and my very life.''
When God's word is preached, for instance to an Indian of long ago, it brought that conviction in his heart and grace in his life when he repented of his sins. When that word was preached in Greenland to a man that missionaries said was so soddish and senseless because of his sin that he was scareless removed from the fish on which he lived, it brought conviction and conversion. Wherever God's word is preached, it does its work because it works.
Someone said the edition of all the word of God ...
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