Right Receiving of the Word Preached
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
10/6/2019 PM
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Text:
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Acts 17:11
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Psalters: |
173, 218, 40, 334 |
- The receiving.
- It was Paul’s custom to preached on the Sabbath out of the Scriptures (2).
- The content of Paul’s message was based on the Word of God, specifically about Jesus’ suffering and resurrection.
- The Bereans were outstanding Bible students (studied them every day) and held them as the standard for all truth.
- They received the message by attending the preaching and by listening.
- How did they receive the preaching of God’s Word?
- First and foremost, “with all readiness of mind.”
- They had a zeal for the Word preached so it was with enthusiasm; as was Paul’s preaching.
- Their enthusiastic reception led to faith: “many believed” (12).
- Spirit gives and then uses this enthusiastic receiving of the preaching as the way He works faith originally & continually.
- Second, they listened with a critical mind: “searched the scriptures whether those things were so.”
- The proper critical reception of the Bereans.
- Biblical critical reception of the preaching is the only proper way to receive the preaching.
- Such receiving of the preaching made the Bereans “noble” (well born, the quality of excellence, admirable/exemplary).
- True nobility is spiritual and arises from the enthusiastic reception of God’s Word.
- The spiritually noble are those born into the royal family of God, having the King of kings as their Father.
- Let us learn.
- The preacher must preach out of the Scriptures, setting forth Scripture’s message of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.
- The ones gathered under the preaching are to receive God’s Word enthusiastically.