THE ULTIMATE SUFFICIENCY

1 SAMUEL 17

 

2 Cor. 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

2 Cor. 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

 

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE WORLD [v. 1-11]

 

1. Political & Military Might [v. 1-3]

 

2. Flesh & Finery [v. 4-7]

 

3. Promises & Prowess [v. 8-11]

 

II. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE RELIGIONISTS [v. 12-44]

 

1. Family Ties [v. 12-29]

 

2. Worldly Wisdom [v. 30-42]

 

3. Religious Observation [v. 43-44]

 

III. THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE SAVIOUR

 

1. The Object of Faith [v. 45-47, Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.]

 

2. The Action of Faith [v. 48-51, James 1:21-27]

 

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

 

3. The Expectation of Faith [v. 51c-58, 25-27]