Morning Sermon - 4-2-17
Sermon Notes:
Acts 17:30 (NLT) “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in
earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins
and turn to him.
Acts 17:31 (NLT) For He has set a day for judging the world with justice by the
Man He has appointed, and He proved to everyone who this is by raising Him
from the dead.”
I. The Surety of the Final Judgment
Acts 17:31 Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge …
Acts 17:31 (NLT) For He has set a day for judging the world …
Acts 17:31 (Phillips) For he has fixed a day on which he will judge …
Hebrews 9:27 It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.
II. The Set Judge at the Final Judgment
Acts 17:31 … He will judge the world … by the Man whom He has ordained.
He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
John 5:22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23 That all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who
does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
Psalm 139:1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my
thought afar off.
Psalm 139:3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted
with all my ways.
Psalm 139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know
it altogether.
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your
book they all were written …
III. The Scope of the Final Judgment
Acts 17:31 Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world
Acts 17:31 (Phillips) … He will judge the whole world
IV. The Standard of the Final Judgment
Acts 17:31(Phillips) … He will judge the whole world in justice
1. Judge Jesus will get to the truth.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it …
John 8:44 … He does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and
the father of it.
Acts 24:5 For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among
all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 25:11 For if I am an offender, or have committed anything deserving of death,
I do not object to dying; but if there is nothing in these things of which these men
accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
2. Judge Jesus will make wrongs things right.
1 Peter 3:14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed.
And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.
Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Acts 17:30 (NLT) “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in
earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins
and turn to him.
Acts 17:31 (NLT) For He has set a day for judging the world with justice by the
Man He has appointed, and He proved to everyone who this is by raising Him
from the dead.”