This sermons seeks to understand God's Word to us today in Paul's exhortation to prophets to exercise their gift. It looks at the nature and purpose of prophecy in the Bible, the cessation of prophecy after the closing of the NT canon and the contemporary relevance of this exhortation.
Read Deuteronomy 18:14-22;
Joel 2:28-32;
Romans 12:3-8
Text: Romans 12:6b
This text draws attention to the fact that there are two kinds of sorrow for sin. Simply being grieved by our sin, we see here, is not what it means to be Christian. The Christian is led from sorrow to repentance, to salvation in Christ.
Read 2 Corinthians 7:1-12
The result and goal of our transformation is that we are able to test and approve the will of God.
Read Romans 12:2
1. Performed in the Past (vs 3-4)
2. Taking place in the Present (vs 5)
3. Finalized in the Future (vs 6)
Read Philippians 1:1-18
Read Colossians 3:1-17
Read Colossians 3:1-17
Death is a fearful expectation of virtually all people, yet too many mask their fear of death with a worldly wisdom that seeks to find hope in earthly temporal issues. Solomon points out the madness of man's heart at work to deny the appointment with death we all have. He leads us to the Wisdom of God in Jesus Christ who has conquered death for His people to give them a sure and certain hope.
Read Ecclesiastes 9:1-18
Ambivalence to authority affects all three spheres of society - the government, the family and the church. Yet submission to authority is a testimony to the work of God's grace in our hearts and trust in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Solomon shows the signs of this ambivalence and leads us to the Wisdom of God that changes our countenance towards authority.
Read Ecclesiastes 8:1-17
Abram's journey through the land of Canaan is a symbolic conquest of the land which part of the struggle between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. The victory in this struggle is won by Jesus Christ by his life, death and resurrection.
Read Ephesians 6:10-20
Text: Genesis 13:17
God calls us to not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
Read Romans 12:2
