PM Sermon 4/1/07
Posted by Bob on March 26, 2007
Sunday evening’s sermon will follow my pattern for choosing a text from our daily Bible reading schedule. I’ve chosen 1Samuel 17 and will call it “Faith Without Restraint.” I want to make sure that I just don’t moralize about having faith but want to show the passage in God’s movement toward redemption in Jesus Christ.
What I see in the passage is that David has trust in a God who doesn’t need our resources to deliver us. In fact if we have trust in our resources (like Saul and his army) then when we come up against a stronger opponent then we give up. Our God is able to deliver without our weapons in unconventional ways. God often sets our standards upside down and choses things that we would never think of.
This will be a good follow up sermon for our campaign. By the time I step into the pulpit for this sermon we will have already begun our follow up for our contacts. I’m sure we will find some of them don’t really have any interest. We need to trust God and not let our defeats stop us. He is able to give the victory so we press on.
Loni said
This all reminds me of the passage in Judges 7 where God whittles down Gideon’s men to only 300 chosen ones. Gideon starts out with 22,000 & God makes it into only 300, yet they still triumph over the Midianites, Amalekites & all the sons of the east (who were as numerous as locusts v12). God was showing that it is He who wins the battle, not the number of men Gideon has.
By the way, if I read you sermon text each week, can I sleep through the sermons on Sundays?!?!