Today, I want you to consider the potency of our work. We work in words and by God's grace those words are used by Him to raise the dead to life.
People are not born again without words.
1 PETER 1:23-25
You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
When we preach, we are attempting to connect our hearers to the Word of God through our words. The Word of God is the source of life, but He has given us the great privilege and responsibility of using our words to speak His.
I leave you with Calvin's comments on why God uses mere men to preach instead of just booming His voice from heaven or sending His angels to preach, since they would presumably do a much better job than we do...
"God might have acted, in this respect, by Himself, without any aid or instrument, or might even have done it by angels; but when a feeble man, sprung from the dust, speaks in the name of God, we give the best proof of our piety and obedience, by listening with docility to his servant, though not in any respect our superior." - Calvin, The Institutes
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