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God’s Word and His Messenger

INTRO:  Our SS lessons this month are on Giving and Receiving ministry. This AM we looked at how important prophecy is to personal ministry. In the sermon today we are going to focus on the power of God that accompanies the Word of God.

We want to build our faith in God’s Word so that we can have confidence to deliver it. We want to become eligible to become a messenger of God’s Word.

The Word of God is accompanied by God’s power to perform it.

·         Heb. 11: ³By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

·         Gen. 1: ³Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

·       Is. 55: ¹¹            So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;  It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

God’s Word is not like the words of men. He never has to apologize for being wrong.

·       Num 23: ¹⁹“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Healing and deliverance come through a Word sent by God

·       Ps. 107: ¹⁹Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses. ²⁰He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.

God sends His perfect Word through imperfect people

Moses – bashful, introverted, inferiority complex

Aaron – wishy-washy, people pleaser

Jonah – a racial bigot, uncompassionate

Elijah – prone to depression and fear

Samuel – sons a disgrace, dishonest, took bribes, perverted justice

Peter – easily influenced by Satan at times, egotistical, denied the Lord, prone to be a people pleaser even after the resurrection.

·      James 5: The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ¹⁷Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain…

·      2 Cor. 4: ⁷But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

Paul laid down his education and his powers that he might be used of God

1 Cor. 2: ³I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of ^£human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

If you are not wise by human standards, not influential, not of noble birth, you have a good chance to be used by God.

1 Cor. 2: ²⁶Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ²⁷But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹so that no one may boast before him. ³⁰It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. ³¹Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”^£