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The sermon presents Scripture as God’s truthful, authoritative, sufficient, and dependable Word. Saving faith does not rest on dreams, private experiences, human testimony, feelings, or personal righteousness, but on what God has promised, especially His promise to save sinners who come to Christ. Believers are encouraged to use God’s promises actively in prayer, trusting that God cannot lie and will fulfill His Word. This promise-based faith also sustains the weak, hungry, guilty, and fearful believer through perseverance.
Theological center: Faith rests on the authoritative and sufficient Word of God, whose promises are guaranteed by God’s truthfulness and fulfilled through Christ.
Applications: Read and search Scripture · Plead God’s promises · Trust Christ for salvation · Believe Scripture is God’s truth
Primary texts: 2 Samuel 7:25 · Isaiah 1:18 · Matthew 11:28
“Do as thou hast said.” 2 Samuel 7:25 NATHAN had been giving to David, on God’s behalf, sundry exceedingly great and precious promises. David expresses his gratitude to God for having so promised and he says, “Now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.” It is a prayer to God. Those words naturally flowed from his lips after hearing such precious promises, he was anxious for their fulfillment. Such words will be equally in place if they shall be adopted by us in these modern times, and if, after reading a promise, on turning to God’s Word, we should finish by saying, “Remember thy word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope,” it will be a practical application of the text, “Do as thou hast said.” I shall not commence my sermon tonight by endeavoring to prove that this Bible is what God has said. I do not come here to give you arguments to prove the inspiration of Scripture. I assume that I speak to a Christian congregation and I assume, therefore, at starting, that this is God’s Word and none other. Leaving that matter, then, altogether, permit me to proceed at once to the text, understanding by what God has said, the Scriptures are His truth. And I trust there are some here who will be led tonight to cry to God in behalf of some promise made to their souls, “O LORD, do as thou hast said.” I. Our first remark shall be HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO KNOW WHAT GOD HAS SAID, for unless we know what God has said, it will be folly to say, “Do as thou hast said.” Perhaps there is no book more neglected in these days than the Bible. I do verily believe there are more moldy Bibles in this world than there are of any sort of neglected books. We have stillborn books in abundance. We have innumerable books which never see any circulation except the circulation of the butter shop, but we have no book that is so much bought, and then so speedily laid aside, and so little used as the Bible. If we buy a newspaper, it is generally handed from one person to another, or we take care to peruse it pretty well. Indeed, some go so far as to read advertisements and all. If a person purchases a novel, it is well known how he will sit and read it all the way through, till the midnight candle is burnt out. The book must be finished in one day, because it is so admirable and interesting. But the Bible, of course, in the estimation of many, is not an interesting book. And the subjects it treats of are not of any very great importance. So most men think. They think it is…