blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
[color=black:bf4d99798d]OK, this is a pop quiz, just to make sure you (and I) are listening and internalizing what's preached on Sunday.
[b:bf4d99798d]Without looking at your notes, what was Sunday's sermon(s) about and name one or two things that stand out for you about what you heard?[/b:bf4d99798d]
The sermon I heard was from the book of 1 John. The preacher had been doing a 5-part series called [i:bf4d99798d]5 Keys to Christian Living[/i:bf4d99798d]. This week was about the importance of witnessing.
Several things struck me:
[i:bf4d99798d]1Jo 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. [/i:bf4d99798d]
The preacher related the passage to a courtroom scene where witnesses are called to witness about what they have seen or heard or know. The point was made about just how faithful God's witness is.
[i:bf4d99798d]1John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. [/i:bf4d99798d]
With God's faithfulness as a witness in mind, not believing his witness is a terrible sin and is the same as calling God a liar.
The witness that we share is something that God has given us. Its something that is in us by God's grace. Its not something we have to "work up". As John says in 1 John 1:1, we witness to what we have seen and heard and know. Things that God has taught us are things we are to share with others.
I was particularly blessed and thankful that I do have a witness inside and that God has granted that I could believe in Jesus.
What was your sermon about?[/color:bf4d99798d]
[b:bf4d99798d]Without looking at your notes, what was Sunday's sermon(s) about and name one or two things that stand out for you about what you heard?[/b:bf4d99798d]
The sermon I heard was from the book of 1 John. The preacher had been doing a 5-part series called [i:bf4d99798d]5 Keys to Christian Living[/i:bf4d99798d]. This week was about the importance of witnessing.
Several things struck me:
[i:bf4d99798d]1Jo 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. [/i:bf4d99798d]
The preacher related the passage to a courtroom scene where witnesses are called to witness about what they have seen or heard or know. The point was made about just how faithful God's witness is.
[i:bf4d99798d]1John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. [/i:bf4d99798d]
With God's faithfulness as a witness in mind, not believing his witness is a terrible sin and is the same as calling God a liar.
The witness that we share is something that God has given us. Its something that is in us by God's grace. Its not something we have to "work up". As John says in 1 John 1:1, we witness to what we have seen and heard and know. Things that God has taught us are things we are to share with others.
I was particularly blessed and thankful that I do have a witness inside and that God has granted that I could believe in Jesus.
What was your sermon about?[/color:bf4d99798d]