Why aren’t we seeing more people come to Christ?
Why do our churches have a hard time meeting budget?
Why do we still have racial divisions?
Why do we have such a high level of poverty in our communities?
Why are so many students graduating, never to return to church?
Why do we have so many Christian families falling apart?
Why do our churches look the same now as it did a year ago?
Why am I not experiencing the fruitful and abundant Christian life?
The answer to each of these questions is the same:
We do not love the word of God as we ought.
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
This is a powerful, anointed sermon on Hebrews 5: 11-14 about our failure to love the word of God and how it effects our days. This teaching is the heartbeat of Do Not Depart.
Click this link to open the sermon.
Here are our highlights of the sermon, with the times you can find them:
Hebrews 5:11-14 gives us 3 Accusations and a Test.
Accusation #1: You have become dull of hearing. (05:13-16:50)
Accusation #2: You should be teachers by now. (16:51-22:39)
Accusation #3: You are unskilled in the word. (22:40-28:30)
The Test: You are mature if you KNOW and DO the word of God. (28:31-34:45)
The answers to our questions. (34:46-41:59)
I hope you can find some time this week to listen to this sermon. If you can’t find 40 minutes to listen to it all at once, take a section a day. Each section is just 10-15 minutes each. I know you will be blessed!
Oh, the sermon is by my husband!
Those opening questions are searing ones that are hard to ignore. I’ll be listening to the sermon!
I love how you are teaching us ladies through your blog how to know the word and love it…thank you for all your work! I ran across an article (http://www.edstetzer.com/2011/08/moralism-at-the-resurgence-wit.html) by Ed Stetzer this morning that I thought might be a good postscript to your post:
“Once the commands of God are laid out, and people can feel their weight and significance, it is important to point them to the gospel above the command. We need to work to help our people see three truths:
1. Jesus atoned for our failure in this command. (Col. 1:3; 2:13, 14; Eph. 2:16; Rom. 5:9)
2. Jesus fulfilled this command for us. (1 Cor. 1:30, 31; Rom. 5:19; Phil. 3:9)
3. Jesus empowers us to live out this command. (Phil. 2:12, 13; Eph. 6:10-20; 1 Pet. 4:11)”
We can’t love the word of God as we ought to without the means of Jesus empowering us.
Love you!
“We can’t love the word of God as we ought to without the means of Jesus empowering us.”
Absolutely!
Thanks for sharing this!