Today's gospel instalment: 04/07/2024
Sermon Title (s): 1. David slews Goliath, 2. Give me a man, 3. The gospel from Goliath's pulpit
Text: 1Samuel17
1. Gospel telling from the Old Testament stories is most wonderful, but it is fraught with potholes by reason of poor hermeneutics.
2. To glean and make sense of the stories, a Christ centered, gospel centered hermeneutic must be used.
3. I argue that much of the New Testament teaching is there in the Old, but hidden in story form.
4. Thus, the characters in the stories must be interpreted in light of the New Testament revelation.
5. Thus, Goliath is not a list of your problems, but a testimony of that which stood against you before God to condemn you.
6. So, His stature was given to amplify that truth of the fearsomeness of attempting your own salvation. And Goliath himself had a wonderful sermon about how the matter of salvation would be settled.
7. He said, give me a man, but NOT just any man, but one who is ABLE TO FIGHT AND KILL ME.
8. In other words, the matter of salvation is about UNION and REPRESENTATION by the qualified Man who could fight to the death.
9. There is a lot of wonderful gospel nuggets in this message if you can listen to the end.
10. But those for whom it was given will make to the end-because it is pure gospel and it is FREE! |
