Results of doubt
Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 13 viewsDoubt results in uncertainty and ineffectiveness in the spiritual life of individual believers and of the believing community. God appeals to those who waver to make a clear choice.
Notes
Transcript
Sermon Tone Analysis
A
D
F
J
S
Emotion
A
C
T
Language
O
C
E
A
E
Social
Doubt results in spiritual uncertainty
Doubt results in spiritual uncertainty
Uncertainty about commitment
Uncertainty about commitment
As they were going along the road, someone said to Him, “I will follow You wherever You go.”
And Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”
Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home.”
But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
See also ; ; ; ;
Uncertainty about God’s power
Uncertainty about God’s power
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”
See also
Uncertainty about God’s love
Uncertainty about God’s love
Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?
See also ; ;
Uncertainty about the meaning of life
Uncertainty about the meaning of life
“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.
See also ; ; ;
Uncertainty about teaching
Uncertainty about teaching
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
See also
Uncertainty about the will of God
Uncertainty about the will of God
So Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speak with me.
See also ; ;
Doubt may result in a spiritual decline
Doubt may result in a spiritual decline
Doubt may result in drifting from faith
Doubt may result in drifting from faith
For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.
See also ; ; ; ; ; ;
Doubt may result in faithless action
Doubt may result in faithless action
;
See also ; ; ; ; ;
Doubt brings the risk of God’s judgment
Doubt brings the risk of God’s judgment
But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
See also ; ;
Doubt leads to ineffectiveness in prayer
Doubt leads to ineffectiveness in prayer
But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
See also ;
Doubt spreads
Doubt spreads
‘Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.” ’
See also ;
God’s appeal for a clear decision
God’s appeal for a clear decision
Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him a word.
See also ; ; ;