We All Have A Sermon To Preach

My Utmost For His Highest

God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ… —Galatians 6:14

“Most of us are not consistent spiritually because we are more concerned about being consistent externally. […] The great basis of his [Paul’s] consistency was the agony of God in the redemption of the world, namely, the Cross of Christ. State your beliefs to yourself again. Get back to the foundation of the Cross of Christ, doing away with any belief not based on it. In secular history the Cross is an infinitesimally small thing, but from the biblical perspective it is of more importance than all the empires of the world. If we get away from dwelling on the tragedy of God on the Cross in our preaching, our preaching produces nothing. It will not transmit the energy of God to man; it may be interesting, but it will have no power. However, when we preach the Cross, the energy of God is released. “…it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.…we preach Christ crucified…” (1 Corinthians 1:21, 23).”  CHAMBERS

What? You say “I am not a preacher so this does not apply to me.”  Your life is a sermon.  Your life is to be a proclamation of a sinner reborn by faith in Jesus and the Cross.  Romans 10:9 says that salvation comes by believing that Jesus is Lord, that God, the Father, has established Jesus the Son as Lord of all and that God raised Jesus from the dead after Jesus paid the penalty for our sin on the cross and died for us.  Through our re-birth – which is spiritual – there is, or should be, a change in us.  The old things, the love of this world and the things of this world, the things we once did that do not honor God, pass away, (2 Corinthians 5:17) and our lives change.  People see the change in us.  They notice it and wonder what has happened.  And we must always be ready to share what has happened to us (1 Peter 3:15).  That is our sermon.

I can remember when my mom became a Christian.  The four older children, there are seven and I the youngest of the oldest four, saw the change, but we didn’t believe it was real.  We knew what our mom had been like in the past, and thought that what we were seeing in her, the change, would not .. could not last for long.  Before she would get very angry, yell at us and cuss like a sailor.  But out skepticism proved to be wrong.  We could see the change in her, but our problem was that we had no spiritual understanding.  Each of the four of us (actually all seven) eventually put our faith in Jesus as well.  Our mom lived for Jesus, she had feet of clay, but she loved the Lord and His Word.  My point in sharing this is that there should be a change in our behavior .. in the core of our being. It is not because we are acting differently, but because we different.  And that difference is happening from the inside out.   So what is your sermon like?  ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

Charley Elgin