ACTS 2:37-47 - Corps Notes - December 2, 1975
ACTS 2:37-47 December 2, 1975 The Way International The entire Word of God is exciting and electrifying, and I suppose it’s like any experience that the moment you are in it, that’s the greatest. So that’s why perhaps Last year Ephesians was the greatest to us, and this year, of course, the book of Acts. We’re in that tremendous section of the book of Acts that there are just no words to describe its greatness. You can unfold it, you can work it with all of its integrity the best to your ability, and then there are still some things that escape you. Yet somehow when you work through this record you have to just stand in utter amazement at its greatness, its simplicity and its real in-depth beauty. I’m sort of believing that when I finish some of these things here in Acts I’ll do a homiletical analysis for you, which I’ve never done, and just simply handle this whole chapter from a homiletical point of view. Nothing teaches any better than God’s Word on homiletics, which is the art of teaching. How to teach God’s Word most effectively is set forth in God’s Word. The greatness of this record in Acts 2, homiletically, has never been superseded. It has a fantastic introduction and then it has what you call the body, which is the build up. All the build up is in this last session that we did. The introduction is in the preceding tape. Of course, the whole idea of teaching, as well as preaching, is to bring men and women to a point of decision, to what many times, homiletically you refer to as the moment of decision. Acts 2:37 “What shall we do?” That’s the moment of decision. His teaching brought them to the place where the people said, “what shall we do.” (Example of PFAL class) One of the great arts of teaching is to bring men and women to that point where they have to make a decision. It’s like in selling, you can be the best salesman in the world, but if you never say to them, “look, do you want to buy,” you’re never going to sell. The whole thing in selling is to br
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Tweet Topic: logospedia,lp Format: mp3,pdf Publication Date: 12-2-1975 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I noticed again