Bread enough and to spare

 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! (Luke 15:17)

Preached in the Martyrs Memorial FPC (Belfast)

Lord's Day 3rd April, 2022

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Book of God's Decree Sermon

In Revelation 5, John saw a Book which no man was found worthy to open. This Book was the Book of God's decree which only Jesus Christ could open. In this sermon, we looked at Revelation 5:1-9 and learned some encouraging lessons. 

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At night, I preached on "In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. (Jeremiah 50:20)

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John 20:20 Facebook sermon

 Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord  (John 20:20)

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Psalm 19:14 outline

 

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

 Introduction: One of the first scenes recorded in the Bible (Cain and Abel bringing their offerings to God) shows the importance of having acceptable worship of God. 

The later story of  Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron offering strange fore and dying before the Lord (Numbers 10:1) where the fire of God consumed the sacrifice offerors instead of the actual sacrifices themselves teach the same solemn lesson. 

The meditation of our hearts, in order to be acceptable to God, must be scripture based. 

 

1)     Psalmist knew the necessity of such a prayer

a/ Recognised the deceit of his heart

b/ Recognised the wandering of the heart

c/ Recognised that thoughts lead to words

 

2)     How to offer acceptable heart meditation to God

a/ Practically: Need to be determined and disciplined

Make time – cut off all distractions – see the value of it

b/ Meditate on the Bible itself: Are you actually reading the Bible? Have you a plan?

Make use of the marginal references in your Bible

c/ Meditate on the Biblical thoughts of others: Living and dead (Commentators etc.)

d/ Offer up constantly petitions like this: Ask for divine help

e/ Observe how others accomplish this

 

3)     Particular things to meditate upon

a/ Great Objective truths of Scripture: Person and work of Christ

b/ Great Subjective truths of Scripture: Experience of salvation

c/ Meditate on how God has led you (Providence of God)

 

4)     Some immediate blessings from meditation

a/ Meditation glorifies God

b/ Meditation enjoys Him for ever: Sweet (Psalm 104:34)

c/ Profits all (1 Timothy 4:11)

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Ingram's Calvinists

 I listened to this message last night coming home from a meeting I was preaching in. Calvinists are always interested in revival. Many of the great Revivals and Awakenings in Evangelical History were Calvinist led e.g. Edwards, Whitefield etc. It is only this morning in preparing this post that I discovered that it was preached away back in 2006. Not that this matters that much. If what is said is true then 8 years isn't going to make any difference as far as the substantive issue is concerned.

I came across my Evangelist friend #Billy through Twitter. Let's say, we have clashed on a few occasions. He is the subject of this page here, which gives an idea of where this article is going. Billy has preached more or less this same sermon (doubtless among others) since 2006. Even this year and we are not out of March yet.  It crops up on Sermon Audio usually under the heading of Unbelief. 

I had an idea what would happen and, true to form, the anti Calvinist Revival preacher didn't let me down. Unbelief is the big problem. I agree. It is wickedness. I agree. Let's give a few quotes about unbelief. But where do we turn to get someone articulate our abhorrence of unbelief? The dread Protestants and the accurséd Calvinists. Right on cue. Protestant preacher, AW Tozer wasn't a Calvinist, but he cautiously sided with John Calvin on the sovereignty of God when contrasted with what he (Tozer) called the "teddy bear gods" of modern evangelism. Horatio Bonar was a Scottish Presbyterian Calvinist. Hudson Taylor was another who held to Reformed theology. The stuff, Billy declares to be, in the link above, another gospel and marked and avoided as such (Romans 16:17) Later on, we got CH Spurgeon and DL Moody thrown in for good measure.

Near the end of the message, Billy felt the obvious need to give a good working example of people who were sold out on revival. So where did he run? Again, right on cue: To a Scottish island where a Scottish, Presbyterian, Calvinist evangelist (Duncan Campbell) responded to the call to preach in a Scottish, Presbyterian, Calvinist church where two Scottish, Presbyterian, Calvinist ladies had been praying for revival to come for years. Warming to his theme, Billy actually told us that their minister was a real Spirit filled (or was it "Spirit led"?) man. Not bad for a purveyor of a damnable gospel whom we are to mark and avoid, but yet can hold up as an example of how God can bless His people when we are "right with God".

So, there you go. Say what you want about Protestant and Calvinists heretics, but many sermons would be a lot poorer without them.  

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