Classic Sermon Outlines
CLASSIC SERMON OUTLINES —. Matthew Henry
2. Separate and interfering interests in this world. Neighbors and relatives quarrel about their rights and properties, their estates and trades, their honors and powers and pleasures. These disputes, as they are the most common, so they are the most scandalous.
3. Passion and clashing tempers. Some indulge themselves in a crossness of temper that makes them continually uneasy to all about them. They love to thwart and disagree and to dispute everything, though ever so plain or trifling.
2. If doubtful, remember you may be wrong. In matters of doubtful disputation, while contending for that which we take to be right, let us think it possible that we may be in the wrong. ee cuit Pe may ey aoe us; . gudeicinemerice renal and sedate in whatever argument we a re the account we must tne give to our ey Master of all 6 our disputes with our fellow servants by the way.
IV. ALL BELIEVERS WILL BE MOST STRICTLY RECKONED WITH FOR THEIR DISPUTES ABOUT SUPREMACY.
A. The Disciples' Subject of Dispute.
It was about precedency and superiority—"Who should be the greatest?" fA Sermon on Disputes
C. The Reasons for Our Lord's Displeasure Concerning the Disciples' Dispute. xample set by the Lord Jesus. The same mind as in Him who "made Himself of no repu- 'ation (mpted His)" and who washed the disciple fet (Phiipians i 4 la render them unfit for their abpointed service rt was very absurd for ne coe to strive a should fee eS when they were all to labor and suffer reproach and poverty and ignominy.
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CONCLUSION
Let us never argue about who shall be greatest in this world for it is despicable and dangerous; but let all our strife be who shall be best. Especially let us strive to excel ourselves and to do more good than we have done (Philippians 3:13, 14).
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SERMON TWENTY-TWO
CHRIST'S DISCOURSE ON
REGENERATION
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh and wither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.
——J ORIN 323 o30 one. This was a man of the Pharisees, bred to learning, a scholar. The principles of the Pharisees and pera of their sect were cp Beco spn to the Ns of aaa! vet ere were so response to Ne denis S visit that 'the Lord Jesus nia on the new birth.
I. THE NATURE OF REGENERATION.
A. It Is a New Life.
Birth is the beginning of life; to be born again is to begin anew, as those that have hitherto lived either much amiss or to little purpose. We must not — think to patch up the old building, but begin from the foundation.
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B. It Is a New Nature. born again."
B. This Is Seen in That We Cannot Understand the Nature of the Kingdom of God without Regeneration.
Such is the nature of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God (in ree ee er arte ee nee ayer
C. This Is Seen in That We Cannot Receive the Comfort of the Kingdom of God without Regeneration.
We cannot without the new birth, receive the comfort of it; cannot expect any benefit by Christ and His Gospel which is absolutely necessary | to our happiness here and hereafter. Considering what we are by nature,