The Tulip Driven Life

By: Thomas F. Booher Here is an example of sermon outlining. I find it to be incredibly spiritually enriching.                                             Samuel Davies’ Sermon: 1 Corinthians 3:6-7   Sermon Outline Intro: God is sovereign over all things, and He uses secondary means to glorify His name Need: There is spiritual lethargy in the land despite full pews and sound preaching. What is lacking? M.P.: Without the divine agency to render the gospel successful, all the labors of its ministers will be in vain.       I.           The present degeneracy of human nature is so great that the gospel, apart from divine grace, cannot remedy it A.     The seed of the gospel dies on barren soil (Matt. 13 parable) B.     Scripture indicates th...

By: Thomas Clayton Booher Total Depravity is the biblical teaching that all men are born into this world with a nature that has no desire to please or glorify God, but only a desire to fulfill its own lusts. There is much in scripture that verifies this doctrine (formal teaching). When David was confronted by Nathan the prophet (2 Samuel 12), he was stricken with grief and sorrow over his heinous acts of adultery and murder. Psalm 51 is David’s prayer in which he confessed his sin to God and sought forgiveness. In his confession, he reveals that his sin goes deeper than the acts he committed; it goes to the core of his nature, Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me , Psalm 51:5. David, like all of us, was conceived and born a sinner. Paul cites the Old Testament to confirm that There is none righteous, no, not one...there is none who seeks after God...there is none who does good, no, not one , Romans 3:10-12. The apostl...

Until we begin to understand the true gospel again and from there start preaching it unashamedly in all its truth and glory, souls will not be saved and we will have people walking around thinking they are Christians who have no idea of the holiness of God and Jesus Christ. Many of you are probably unaware that we are slaves to sin before we are saved. So enslaved to your own sinful, fleshly desires that you cannot do a single thing that pleases God (Romans 8:8). You would not even have trusted in Christ as your Lord and Savior unless God had given you faith as a gift (Eph. 2:8-10) and had chosen you for salvation "through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Thess. 2:13-14). Your faith and repentance are gifts of God- in other words, you would be an unbeliever unless God gave you the desire to believe. Let that sink in- it will move you to tears over your own...