4 My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

1. WHY WE MUST TRUST IN THE POWER OF THE WORLD
2. HOW TO SHARE THE WORD
   1. In Preaching
   2. In Saving the Lost

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

15 He sends forth His command to the earth;
His word runs swiftly.
16 He spreads the snow like wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes;
17 He casts forth His hail like pebbles.
Who can withstand His icy blast?
18 He sends forth His word and melts them;
He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.

28 Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD. 29 “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven
and do not return without watering the earth,
making it bud and sprout,
and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
11 so My word that proceeds from My mouth
will not return to Me empty,
but it will accomplish what I please,
and it will prosper where I send it.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

…how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God 10 and to await His Son from heaven…

1. Use the text to develop your points
2. Support the points with other Scripture
3. Illustrate the points with analogies, stories, and metaphors
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