Under Authority!

Transcripts for Dr. Wiersbe's sermons are forthcoming. Below is an outline of his message.

If you don’t know what you have and where you are, you don’t know what to do or where to go.

In the Bible, God often took inventory of His people.

Paul told the church to examine themselves before God.

Looking at the characteristics of the centurion can help us examine our own lives.

Three areas of our spiritual lives that may need encouragement:

• We need greater concern.
  • The Roman centurion was filled with compassion and concern for his sick slave boy.
  • One of our biggest problems today is selfishness.
  • We should be concerned with the spiritual needs of the whole world because we have experienced the love of God.
  • We are called to love in deed and truth.
• We need greater faith.
  • We hinder God’s work when we don’t believe.
  • The Roman centurion, a Gentile, showed greater faith than the Jewish people.
  • God’s Word has the power to change people.
  • We increase our faith by using it.
• We need greater submission.
  • We can only exercise authority when we know how to be under authority.
  • When we submit ourselves to God’s authority, He reveals His plan for us.
  • God made us, loves us, and died for us; He has every right to tell us what to do.
  • Do we willingly follow God’s lead?

The greatest joy in the world is being used by God.