In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
Matthew 28:16-20
Pastor Bob Hiller
6/15/2014
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/7L9kRH2A9yg
Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
1. Our culture considers ____________ a ____________.
2. Two wrong ways to deal with doubt:
(a) ____________ it.
(b) ____________.
3. Jesus comes to those who doubt with a ____________ of ____________.
Scripture Readings
Genesis 1:1-2:3
Acts 2:14a,22-36
Matthew 28:16-20
Take It With You!
Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.
For my own part, I frankly confess that even if it were possible, I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive toward salvation. For, on the one hand, I should be unable to stand firm and keep hold of it amid so many adversities and perils and so many assaults of demons, seeing that even one demon is mightier than all men, and no man at all could be saved; on the other hand, even if there were no perils or adversities or demons, I should nevertheless have to labor under perpetual uncertainty and to fight as one beating the air, since even if I lived and worked to eternity, my conscience would never be assured and certain how much it ought to do to satisfy God. For whatever work might be accomplished, there would always remain an anxious doubt whether it pleased God or whether he required something more, as the experience of the self-justifiers proves, and as I myself learned to my bitter cost through so many years.
Since God has taken my salvation out of my hands and into his, making it depend on his choice and not mine, and has promised to save me, not by my,own work and exertion but by his grace and mercy, I am assured and certain both that he is faithful and will not lie to me, and also that he is too great and powerful for any demons or any adversaries to be able to break him or to snatch me from him.
Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will
