Just Say the Word Matthew 8 8 Just
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Just Say the Word Matthew 8: 8
Just Say the Word • • • How much does God have to say before you will obey Him? How many times must God say something before you believe it & obey? Warned against failing to listen to & obey God, Isa. 6: 8 -12 (Matt. 2
It only took a word for God to… • Create the world, Psa. 33: 4 -9; Heb. 11: 3 • “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, ” 33: 6 (Heb. 11: 3) • “For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it 3
It only takes a word for God to… • Uphold all things, Heb. 1: 3 (Col. 1: 17) • To bear, to carry, keep from falling • “By the word of his power” • Christ is the Preserver of the Universe • Calm the storm, Mk. 4: 37 -41 4
It only took a word for God to… • Heal, Matt. 8: 8, 13, 16 • Only speak a word, 8: 8 • Healed that same hour, 8: 13 • With a word, 8: 16 “They cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His word and healed them…” (Psa. 107: 1920) 5
It only took a word for God to… • Reveal His mind, 1 Cor. 2: 613 • Revelation, 2: 10 -12 • The things which God has prepared • Inspiration, 2: 13 • Spoken in words the Spirit taught 6
It only took a word for God to… • Speak a word that produces faith and saves sinners, Rom. 10: 8, 17 • Gospel, Rom. 1: 16 -17 Word of the cross, 1 Cor. 1: 1821 • Implanted, Jas. 1: 21 • Purifies & saves by giving life, 1 Pet. 1: 22 -23; Jno. 6: 68 • 7
It only takes a word for God to… • Judge us, Jno. 12: 48 • “The word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day” • Judged by the things written in the books, Rev. 20: 12 • According to our works 8
When God Speaks… • • Do we listen & obey? Do we argue, dispute & gainsay? • Samuel, 1 Sam. 3: 9 -10 • Israel, Rom. 10: 21; Isa. 6: 8 -12 • Cornelius & his house, Acts 9
When God Speaks… • How to be saved • “I feel I’m saved…I was saved when I believed. . . before I was baptized…” • Believe & be baptized, Mk. 16: 15 -16 For remission of sins, Acts 2: 38 • Saves us, 1 Pet. 3: 21 • 10
When God Speaks… • Music in worship • “I like the instrument…I want the instrument…I’ll be playing the instrument in heaven…” • “You can’t tell me it’s wrong” • Sing: Eph. 5: 19; Col. 3: 16 11
When God Speaks… • Moral conduct • Modest dress, 1 Tim. 2: 9 -10 • Shamefastness & sobriety • Dancing, 1 Pet. 4: 1 -3 Lewdness & lust, Rom. 13: 11 -14 • Associated sins, Eph. 5: 11 • 12
When God Speaks… • Moral conduct • Drinking, 1 Pet. 4: 3 • All of its forms • Fornication, 1 Cor. 6: 18 • Flee, not flirt • Companions, 1 Cor. 15: 33 -34 • Influence of evil is deceptive and corrupting 13
When God Speaks… • Marriage, divorce and remarriage, Matt. 19: 6, 9; Rom. 7: 2 -3 • One cause to put away & remarry • Non-Christians are under Christ’s law • Repenting of unlawful 14
We Must Speak What God Speaks • God speaks to us in His Son, Heb. 1: 1 -2 • “If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God” (1 Pet. 4: 11) 15
We Must Hear What God Speaks …This is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the LORD; Who say to the seers, “Do not see, ” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, 16
Hear What God Speaks and Do What God Says “…they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your 17
“Just Say the Word” • What word do you want to hear? • “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” Luke 8: 8 • “Take heed how you hear” Luke 8: 18 • What word do you want to 18
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