Sermon Tone Analysis

How do you know what you believe is absolute truth?

Acts 5:17-25

Intro

“A Mind for truth and a heart for God”

The importance of God’s Word to the life of the Christian.

Churches today are moving away from truth - God’s truth.

Bible Study - Tell me what you get out of this, or what do you believe about this?

Rather, we should be asking, what does God tells us in this?

What is the truth?

The church needs to be very careful in falling prey to this relativistic mindset and approach to Scriptures.

The Word of God is synonomous for Scriptures for us.

A. W. Tozer in Pursuit of God - Chapter 6

“God is speaking.

Not God spoke, but God is speaking.

He is, by his nature, continuously articulate.

He fills the world with his speaking voice.”

I am afraid we have become a people who no longer desire to hear God’s Word.

Drama

The Word of God was the motivator for the Apostles

It was their only message

It was their reason for sustaining persecution

They knew it’s results - Spiritual Healing

The result - God added to their numbers

God is building his kingdom by the power of His Word.

This must be the main source for the Christian.

It is our foundation.

We must start there.

Start with truth and everything else is compared to that

We don’t start with everything else and ask what does the Bible say?

We must start with what Gd says about himself, the world, his R-H plan.

How should we view the Scriptures - God’s Word for us?

Doctrine

God’s Word is Truth

An Angel - messenger - brings God’s Word

God’s Word is true -

God’s Word brings life -

Eternal life -

The Holy Spirit is the one who applies God’s truth and brings one to salvation, but the means are God’s Words.

“The Words that I have spoken” - Jesus

=9

God uses words, His words to save people

We have the message of reconciliation - God’s Word

God’s Word sustains the believer

Satan opposes God’s Truth

As he did in the Garden - argued with Eve about the words God used

He is attempting to stifle the most powerful tool God has given to men - His Word (Truth)

Satan attacks in two areas:

Physical

Has apostles thrown in prison to hinder the spreading of God’s Word

Uses the Sadducees

Religious people but not Christian

Opposed Jesus throughout NT

Spiritual

Sin of Jealousy

10th Commandment - covet

coveting leads to jealousy or vice versa

Jealousy is opposed to truth

Illus: Jospeh and His brothers

“Dreamer”

Reuben did not want him killed, but was OK with him being thrown in a pit

Jealousy will drive us to do things against one’s we love.

Satan seeks to destroy the promulgation of God’s Word throughout the world.

Yet, God is faithful and nothing will stop His Truth from going forward.

He provided a miraculous escape for the Apostles:

Doxology

How many of us have been physically attacked?

How many of us have ben spiritually attacked?

God’s Word brings the lost to salvation!

God’s Word sustains the Christian in this life!

Mothers, teach your kids God’s Word an to stand on it.

Grandmothers, teach your “grands”

Apostles were obedient to teach the word in every situation!

They knew the importance of Standing on God’s Word and Truth.

It must be told!

Driving a car without gas.

Many of us are driving around with our check gas light on.

The check engine light, also known as an “idiot light”

Ways we move away from God’s Word

We buy into the promises of the world

We believe God’s Word needs improvement

We approach it as a self help book

We neglect it in our daily lives

We compromise it’s truth to “fit in”

We put other things as our foundation

God’s Word must be our foundation:

Wellesley

Wellesley was founded in 1875 by Henry and Pauline Durant, both evangelical Christians and friends of Dwight Moody, who served as an early trustee.

Wellesley was founded in 1875 by Henry and Pauline Durant, both evangelical Christians and friends of Dwight Moody, who served as an early trustee.

Concerned that Christian women were not being well-educated, the Durants felt the need for a women’s college.

Henry Durant, in his opening address to the college, said that “the Higher Education of Women is one of the great world battle cries for freedom… I believe that God’s hand is in it.”

Concerned that Christian women were not being well-educated, the Durants felt the need for a women’s college.

Henry Durant, in his opening address to the college, said that “the Higher Education of Women is one of the great world battle cries for freedom… I believe that God’s hand is in it.”

Now the school has moved toward the pluralistic and all embracing PC way of the world.

Now the school has moved toward the pluralistic and all embracing PC way of the world.

His wife Pauline placed a leather Bible in one cornerstone of the first building erected on campus.

On the fly-leaf of that Bible, she had written:

His wife Pauline placed a leather Bible in one cornerstone of the first building erected on campus.

On the fly-leaf of that Bible, she had written:

This building is humbly dedicated to our Heavenly Father with the hope and prayer that He may always be first in everything in this institution; that His word may be faithfully taught here; and that He will use it as a means of leading precious souls to the Lord Jesus Christ….