Author Archives: Werner Dekarski
Quote
HARAKEKE – FLAX
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus
“Literacy is the key to understanding”
“Literacy is the key to understanding,” I am reading on a LITERACY AOTEAROA INC. poster.
Not long ago I came to Psalm 41 in my reading of the Bible from cover to cover and it came to me that the first three verses of Psalm 41 are actually a very good sermon outline. In order to find out what the Holy Spirit has taught other servants of the Lord about the first verses of the Psalm, I looked up some devotional books.
“Literacy is the key to understanding”
Not neglecting my commentaries on the Bible I came to the Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible by Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott. But it was really disappointing to find out that the Psalms had Roman numerals. I am somewhat familiar with Roman numerals, but I like Arabic numerals better. Fortunately we have many books in our house and in one I find the Roman numerals. (Pears Cyclopaedia 78th Edition)
“Literacy is the key to understanding,” also to understanding the Bible, as I have found out not long ago.
Sermon Outline – OT – NIV
THE CROSS
“Blessed is he
Psalm 41:1-3
Intr.:
who has regard for the WEAK;
1. the LORD delivers him in times of trouble.
2. The LORD will protect him and
3. preserve his life;
4. he will bless him in the land and
5. not surrender him to the desire of his foes.
6. The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed and
7. restore him from his bed of illness.”
End:
“Foolishness” or “Power of God”?
“… the message of the cross …”
“For the message of the cross is
foolishness
to those who are perishing,
but to us who are being saved it is
the power of God.” – First Corinthians 1:18
Sermon Outline – OT – NIV
THE CROSS
“‘THE LAMP OF THE WICKED IS SNUFFED OUT;
Job 18:5-21
PART ONE
Intr.:
1. the flame of his fire stops burning.
2. The light in his tent becomes dark;
3. the lamp beside him goes out.
4. The vigor of his step is weakened;
5. his own schemes throw him down.
6. His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
7. A trap seized him by the heel;
8. a snare holds him fast.
9. A noose is hidden for him on the ground;
10 a trap lies in his path.
PART TWO
11. Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
12. Calamity is hungry for him;
13. disaster is ready for him when he falls.
14. It eats away parts of his skin;
15. death’s firstborn devours his limbs.
16. He is torn from the security of his tent and
17. marched off to the king of terrors.
18. Fire resides in his tent;
19. burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
20. His roots dry up below and
21. his branches wither above.
PART THREE
22. The memory of him perishes from the earth;
23. he has no name in the land.
24. He is driven from light into darkness and
25. is banished from the world.
26. He has no offspring or descendants among his people,
27. no survivor where once he lived.
28. Men of the west are appalled at his fate;
29. men of the east are seized with horror.
End:
Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man;
such is the place of one who knows not God.'”
The Meeting on the Street …
The meeting on Kitchener Street today lasted for quite some time and was all about the Gospel.
KITCHENER STREET
The Gospel “is the power of God for salvation of everyone who believes: …”
There were only three people standing on the footpath. The two listeners came from Utah and California in the United States of America. They were Mormon missionaries, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founded in 1830 in New York by Joseph Smith.
“LIFE IS ONE UPWARD STRUGGLE!”
“LIFE IS ONE UPWARD STRUGGLE!”
All of us are involved in the struggle. Read what the apostle Paul writes to the saints in Ephesus, to the believers who are in Christ Jesus: He writes in the last chapter of his letter,
“For our struggle
“Life is one upward struggle!”