All the Words of This Life
Categories: Sermon Outlines, Topical Sermon OutlinesSUBJECT: Salvation
TITLE: ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LIFE
PROPOSITION: To set forth some things Peter understood when he heard, “all the words of this life.”
OBJECTIVE: That we know this life, partake of it and share it.
INTRODUCTION:
1. Read: Acts 5:20.
2. Regarding the text:
1) Ananias and Sapphire just punished by God.
2) This discipline caused the church to grow and no growth was hypocritical.
3) Peter healed many.
4) The people believed the apostles.
5) The high priests with the Sadducees put the apostles in prison and charged them not to preach any more in Jesus’ name.
6) An angel of God released these men and spoke Acts 5:20 to them.
7) What did Peter and the other apostles understand when they heard, “all the words of this life”?
3. Reference to Subject, Title, Proposition and Objective.
DISCUSSION: When Peter heard this phrase he thought –
I. ABOUT WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAID AND MEANT.
1. Emphatic construction in Greek, “the life this.”
2. Peter may have remembered Jesus words in John 14:6.
1) Clinical life, not the meaning.
2) Quality or realm is under consideration.
3) Aren’t there many ways of life?
4) How can God here refer to only one way, quality, realm or plane of life?
5) The answer is so simple it is frightening. (6) James 2:26; Isaiah 59:1-2; Jeremiah 6:16; 2 John 9-11; Ephesians 4:4-6 – there is only one way pleasing to God.
3. Peter, therefore, thought of spiritual life and the only way to obtain it – obey “all the words of this life.”
II. “ALL THE WORDS.”
1. 2 Peter 1:3.
2. Jude 3.
3. Matthew 4:4.
4. Some say the Bible is not enough.
5. Peter knew “all the words, or could not have spoken them.
6. Paul had all the words: Galatians 2:6; Acts 20:26.
7. 2 Peter 1:16.
III. SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE.
1. Christianity: taught and learned, John 6:44-45; Romans 10:10-15.
2. Mark 16:15-16.
3. 1 Corinthians 1:18-21.
CONCLUSION:
1. When Peter heard this phrase he thought:
1) ABOUT WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAID AND MEANT;
2) “ALL THE WORDS;” and
3) SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE.
2. “All the words of this life.”
3. Romans 10:17.
4. Herod never found baby Jesus, but shepherds and wise men did because they sought him according to “ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LIFE.”