My Pulpit Message - notes Grow in Wisdom
My Pulpit Message Notes are extracted from sermon preached at the Nairobi Baptist Church (NBC) Ngong Road on Sunday 27th February 2022. Preacher: Topic: Scripture: David in Psalm 139 says ‘Search me O God and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any 1. Personal examination offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. 2. Pursue God David was one of those people who was not afraid. He invited God, come, show me if there is anything wrong in my life. 3. Protect yourself And he said, God, then as you show me, deal with it and lead me in 4. Practice the Word. the right path. He opened up his life to the LORD and we should do the same. Jesus is saying we need to always start by examining ourselves and not be quick to judge. We need to also note that when Jesus is saying, ‘Don’t judge…’He is not saying we should overlook Many times our natural instinct as human beings is wrong behaviour, not at all. when we hear something that is quite challenging we start thinking Many times in society people tend to say, ‘Don’t judge about the person who needs to me,’ meaning we don’t have a hear and we often forget to beright to tell them when they gin with ourselves. are going wrong, but this is not If the sermon on what Jesus is saying because in the Mount was is this age, how Matthew 7:5 we see Him saymany forwards would have So as we allow God to deal with the planks in our eyes, may ing, ‘first take the plank out of been sent out right there from we continue to share the truth of God’s Word with each oth- your own eye, and then you will where Jesus was teaching? If aer in love, even if it means sometimes it will be a gentle see clearly to remove the speck we had WhatsApp, it likely we rebuke or correction. from your brother’s eye.” would be sending the messagTherefore Jesus es out to the person you think still had the expectation that we needs to hear that message. would be removing specs from Jesus begins this each others’ eyes, but we need final section of the Sermon on to be able to see clearly in order to evaluate, where am I or the other the Mount with these words, ““Do not judge, or you too will be person doing so that we walk this journey together. judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, Jesus is saying, even in pointing out error, we should and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. not have a judgemental attitude of haughtiness, feeling proud or holier than others, because we are all sinners who have fallen short of 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your God’s glory and we are on the journey of sanctification. brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 Jesus called the Pharisees, who had adopted this attiHow can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your tude of feeling better or holier than others. He called the hypocrites eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? because they would often look at others and condemn them to have So Jesus here is pointing out how we magnify and fo- this pride of, ‘I am doing better than you,” Yet God is the only one cus on the faults in other people’s lives and we fail to see our own who can judge and decide people’s ultimate destiny. major faults. That our eyes have huge planks of wood, but we are Our attitude, as we remove specs from other people’s looking at the speck in our brothers’ and sisters’ eyes. eyes should be one of gentleness, humility, love, a deep desire to see Jesus is telling us that we need to begin by examining each other doing well in Christ. To treat each other as we would ourselves. This is something that we need to put into practice in want to be treated. our day to day lives that we’ll come to the LORD and lay our hearts So as we allow God to deal with the planks in our before Him and allow Him to lead us in the process of examining eyes, may we continue to share the truth of God’s Word with each ourselves. To ask Him, ‘Lord is my character in line with what you other in love, even if it means sometimes it will be a gentle rebuke desire? God is there any offensive way in me, any sin hiding in my or correction. heart? Lord, can those around me testify, my mother, brothers, sisters, spouse testify that I really am truly a believer? Can my workmates actually say that I am a believer, a follower in Christ? Have I been relying on Your righteousness, or have I been trying with my own strength to walk this journey of life?
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