The Lord uses the Word of God to build the Church. May your church be a Word-saturated, Word-goverened church, saturated with Bible-talk!
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Piper: God’s Word Grows Church
Posted in: Church Growth
About the Author
Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers.
Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University.
You can hear his sermons and read his manuscripts on sermonaudio.com. Just follow the link to "sermons" at the top of this page.
Cut to the heart and slain by the preaching of the Word wasn’t the first cutting or the last I’ll ever get in this life. It’s only the Word of Jesus the Great Physician through the means of His word that can save and heal us from sin. We all need massive spiritual surgery.
“The disease of sin is deep-seated and has its throne in the heart. It does not lie in the hand or foot, it is not to be removed by amputation, much less by outward applications. No knife can reach it, it is impossible to cauterize it.” C.H. Spurgeon
So look how wonderful God was in His good mercy to cut us to our hearts in the beginning, we had no idea we need it. And now that He has began this good work in us it should give us a desire to be under sound preaching of His word. At times the faithful preaching about sin cuts us deeply and it’s unpleasant for us to hear, but needful surgery. I have heard preaching that was true to the text and very cutting but the pastor was only good at cutting and no stitching up of the wounds he made, but here is where God in mercy comes to us and heals up the wounds by getting us to look at Jesus on the cross and all He did for us. Have you been cut deeply look to Jesus and be healed! Have you been cut deeply, than thank God for it, and look to Jesus! Don’t desire to be free from spiritual surgery, but ask God for more of it.
God uses the Word and it’s marvelous how He does it.