Four Traits to be a Man (or Woman) of God
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Happy Fathers Day
Happy Fathers Day
We've lost sight of the fact that some things are always right and some things are always wrong. We've lost our reference point. We don't have any moral philosophy to undergird our way of life in this country, and our way of life is in serious jeopardy and serious danger unless something happens. And that something must be a spiritual revival. Billy Graham
Turn with me to I Sam. 9:6
1 Samuel 9:6 (NASB95)
He said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now let us go there, perhaps he can tell us about our journey on which we have set out.”
I. Your Reputation Proceeds You
I. Your Reputation Proceeds You
The People Know He is a Man of God
1 Samuel Chapter 9
an honourable man, or, more literally, an honoured man, one held in honour.
“By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
1 Peter 2:9 (NASB95)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
The world will make godly living (13:13) neither easy nor automatic.
Chuck Swindoll
II. Your Reason is Sought After
II. Your Reason is Sought After
He was held in great esteem
for his wisdom and knowledge
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Godly living is directly linked in Scripture to knowledge of doctrinal truth.
John F. MacArthur
“Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.
I Samuel Vers. 6–10
A very beautiful image is this of the position of Samuel. What is the vocation of the man of God? It is to tell other men their way! All men are morally lost; the man of God points out the way of recovery: all men are in intellectual confusion by reason of their moral depravity; the man of God shows the way to the light! As ministers of the Gospel we are appointed to tell men the way.
III. Your Recitations Come to Pass
III. Your Recitations Come to Pass
1 Samuel 3:19 (NASB95)
Thus Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fail.
He Speaks the Truth
Matthew 5:37 (NASB95)
“But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.
James 5:12 (NASB95)
But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.
IV. Your Roads are Right
IV. Your Roads are Right
He Lead Others down the Right Path
Proverbs 22:6 (NASB95)
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Romans 14:13 (NASB95)
Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
Proverbs 14:12 (NASB95)
There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
The purpose of witnessing is to make something manifest that is hidden. Calvin said that it is the task of the church to make the invisible kingdom visible. We do that, first of all, by the proclamation of the gospel—by evangelism. But we also do it by modeling the kingdom of God, by demonstrating justice in the world, by demonstrating mercy in the world, and by showing the world what the kingdom of God is supposed to look like.
R. C. Sproul
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