Sermon on Christian Living – Doing and Teaching
Categories: Sermon Outlines, Topical Sermon OutlinesSERMON ON CHRISTIAN LIVING
INTRODUCTION: Acts 1:1
1. Acts a continuation of Luke (former treatise). Luke 1:3
2. To write, Luke had to learn what Jesus did and taught.
3. It is implied that he found out that Jesus didn’t do anything without teaching also. He was not a silent example.
4. Neither did he teach without doing. Not a hypocrite.
5. Hence Luke declared what Jesus did and taught.
6. Jesus being our example, we learn from Him:
1) The folly of doing and not teaching.
2) The folly of teaching and not doing.
3) The wisdom of doing and teaching.
DISCUSSION:
I. THE FOLLY OF DOING AND NOT TEACHING.
1. Consider our losses if Jesus had performed his mighty deeds without words.
1) His wonderful sermons. Matthew 5, 6, 7
2) His promises. John 14:1-3
3) His warnings. Luke 13:3
4) His commands. Mark 16:15-16.
2. Consider yourself. (Influence)
1) Do your children have to wonder why you live the way you do? What a loss. Will they think that the Christian life is optional?
2) It takes doing and teaching to train a child. Deuteronomy 6:3-7
3) Give an answer. 1 Peter 3:15.
4) Teach that others may teach. 2 Timothy 2:2.
5) Preach the word. 2 Timothy 4:1, 2.
II. THE FOLLY OF TEACHING AND NOT DOING.
1. Do we realize the folly of the saying, “Do as I say and not as I do?”
1) Do we say, “Don’t cuss,” and then we cuss? Rom 2:21-24
2) Do we extol the virtues of giving and then are like those in James 2 and say, “be ye warmed and filled” and don’t provide the things that are needed?
3) Do we say, “Amen” when sermons on the Great Commission are taught and yet one would be hard-pressed to find any evidence of our carrying it out? Matthew 28:18-20
4) Have we made the mistake of inviting others to assembly and then fail to show up ourselves? Hebrews 10:25
5) Do we claim to be Christian and ye do not do the will of the Father? Matthew 7:21-23
2. James 3:1-13
3. Matthew 15:9
4. Matthew 23:1-3
5. Acts 15:1-11; Gal. 2:11ff.
III. THE WISDOM OF DOING AND TEACHING
1. Doing and teaching is the Lord’s way.
2. Ezra is an example of this. Ezra 7:10
3. Abraham would command his children after him. Genesis 18:18-19
4. Deut 6:3, 7
5. 2 Timothy 2:1-2
6. 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 4:1-5. Scripture makes us doers and preachers.
CONCLUSION:
1. Christianity is a taught religion. Teaching is absolutely mandatory. “Doing” without teaching will not do.
2. Teaching without doing is called hypocrisy.
3. We only follow our Lord’s example when we do and teach.