God, His Word and Man
Categories: Sermon Outlines, Topical Sermon Outlines Tags: Sermons on GodINTRODUCTION:
1. We now begin a series on the fundamentals.
2. We often tend to forget … to let slip (Heb. 2:1) … and end up with less knowledge than God expects to have (Heb. We now begin a series on the fundamentals.
3. We often tend to forget … to let slip (Heb. 2:1) … and end up with less knowledge than God expects to have (Heb. 5:12).
4. Our series will cover the range: Creation to eternity — perhaps eight to ten lessons in all.
I. We Have This Order: God, The Word and Man.
1. It is the proper order.
2. God is! (Psm. 14:1; 53:1). The Bible gives material in the area of evidences.
3. God has a will, mind operative, even from the time before the world was made.
1) Things secret from that time (Matt. 13:35).
2) Things foreordained from then (1 Peter 1:20).
4. Then, there is man. Is man subject to God? Most certainly so!
II. Let Us Look Back Over These Three Factors.
1. God
1) Genesis 1:1. The Bible does not set out to prove God’s existence; gives evidence.
2) By Psalm 19:1ff, indications that man has basis for claiming evidence.
3) Genesis 1. Day by day, the creation work.
4) Man, made in God’s image, likeness, in a spiritual fashion (Gen. 1:26-27).
2. The Word
1) God pre-existing all, had a word, will.
2) Genesis 1:3 — God SAID — v. 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, etc.
3) The worlds framed by the Word of God (Heb. 11:3).
4) God had will, mind — when it is expressed to man, that is LAW!
3. Man
1) Made in image, likeness, etc., and thus with capacity for reason, determining action.
2) Man formed, placed in the garden, and man subject to God’s law in dressing, keeping the garden (Gen. 2:7, 8, 15).
3) And God gave a LAW as to man’s freedom, and restriction (Gen. 2:16-17). Man is GIVEN LAW, KNOWS LAW, SEES FREEDOM THE LAW ALLOWS, SEES THE RESTRICTION THE LAW CONTAINS, AND PROMISE OF PUNISHMENT!
III. These Three Items Are Permanent.
1. God, the Word, and man.
2. When God speaks, man is subject, and is under law. Man has always been under law.
CONCLUSION:
1. God’s law, today, for man is in The Christ, and made known by the gospel of Christ.
2. Man must obey that gospel (2 Thess. 1:7-8), and we urge taht you do so in these terms from God: Faith in The Christ, repentance of sins, confession of the Christ, and baptism for remission of sins.