Sunday, February 23, 2025

I HAVE A MESSAGE FROM GOD UNTO THEE

JUDGES 3:12-22

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. NOTE THE PARTICULARS

1. It Is A Personal Message [v. 19-20]

-Be sure your sin will find you out.

- The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

-Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…

-Come unto me all ye that labor..

- Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature

It may be a universal message, but it is personal.

2. It Is A Powerful Message [v. 21-22]

- He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

- And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore

- I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;

3. It Is A Permanent Message [v. 23-25]

- He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

- And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

 

II. NOTE THE PERSON – This is not “our” truth, it is His Truth

1. It is God’s Judgment [Rm. 6:23] The wages of sin is death

2. It is God’s Justice [Psalms 89:14, Is. 9:7]

-Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

3. It is God’s “Justness” [Isaiah 43:15, 2 Tm. 2:13, Rm. 3:26]

- If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

-I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

- To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

 

III. NOTE THE PRIORITIES

1. It is a Message of Choice [v. 12-14, Hebrews 11:31]

By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

2. It is a Message of Christ [3:14, Ruth 1:16-22]

3. It is a Message of Consequence [Hebrews 4:1-3a]

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest

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