FORGOTTEN SERMONS

FORGOTTEN SERMONS

Sunday, June 05, 2016

Romans ISV 10:17 Consequently, faith comes from listening, and listening comes through the word of Christ.

  This morning I’ll hear yet another sermon.

  Have you ever been asked to recount Sunday’s sermon, or other sermons? Or possibly you’ve missed church for some bona fide reason and asked your spouse to recount the sermon?

  In discussing this through the years, including preachers I’ve asked including their sermons, the answers for the most part come under the heading of Forgotten Sermons.

  Using simple arithmetic I figure I’ve heard at least seven thousand five hundred sermons and even more Bible lessons plus the thousands I’ve studied for and delivered; and yet I must confess that I am hard pressed to detail very many of them.

  So why bother going to church and Bible study? Why invest in preparing and delivering sermons and Bible studies?

  Consider this: How many lectures sat under, homework done, exams taken, do you remember from your secular education? But how much of it, without crediting or thinking, do you use, with yourself and others benefiting from every day? At some time or another most or all of it!

  And so it is with God’s Word, Truth delivered in sermon and lesson; remembering verbatim or portions not being the preeminent work; the preeminent affecting and resultant effect is that we have been educated and edified in The Way; now changed people, ever being changed, forever changed here and in preparation for eternity.

  How wonderful are the works of God in His children!