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God Has The Right
Introduction:
Read Isaiah 55:8-9. Because of who
He is, Jehovah possesses many rights not given to man. These rights
are due to His thoughts and ways being so much higher than man’s.
Discussion:
I. The Right to Make Law
- Genesis
2:15-17 From the creation of man, God has given mankind divine
laws by which man is to abide.
- Hebrews
8:10-11 God has the right to terminate one law and bring into
effect a new one.
II. The Right to Forgive Sin
- What is sin?
I John 3:4
- God’s power
Hebrews 10:15-18 He has the right to forgive sins, to
remember them no more.
- God’s people
today Acts 2:38
III. The Right to Specify How His
People Are to Worship Him
- John 4:23-24
Note the use of the word “must.”
- Matthew
15:7-9 Man has no right to worship God any way he likes,
adding or subtracting from God’s commands.
IV. The Right to Specify How
People Are to Live
- II John 9-11
God has the sole right to set the boundaries. Man does not.
Examples: marriage, speech, recreation
- Matthew
7:21-23
V. God Has the Right to Add the
Saved to the Church
- Acts 2:47
People cannot add to the church nor take away. Man cannot
decide who is saved and who is not.
- I Corinthians
1:2 Those sanctified in Christ Jesus are the saved, the
church. If God didn’t add that person to the church, then that
person is not saved!
VI. God Has the Right to Set the
End of Time
- Matthew 24:36,
42-44 No one but Jehovah God knows when the end of the world
will come. Man has no idea, not even a clue! I
Thessalonians 5:1-3
VII. God Has the Right to Judge
Mankind
- Acts
17:30-31 All people everywhere will be judged!
- II Corinthians
5:10 All will be recompensed for their deeds.
Invitation:
John 12:48 The words of God will
judge us, not the words of men.
Bobby Stafford
March 4, 2012
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