Tabor Baptist Church

Introduction

• Names - e.g. Lucius
• A doxology: v25-27
• A wonderful end to the book
• Praise to God
• Praise for the gospel of Jesus Christ
• God had saved Paul from religion
• He continually wanted to give glory to God
• He closed many letters in a doxology
• Doxology
• Doxo - glory
• Logos - word
• A benediction also - may you be a blessed and a strong church
• 11:36 - a mini doxology
• From Him are all things
• To Him are all things
• Eph 3:20
• Paul was forever breaking out in praise
• Is there too little praise from our lips?
• Do we have a right view of God?
• Do we lack experience with God?
• Let us be stirred up
• Overview:
• Giving Him Praise
• A Reason to Praise God

Giving Him Praise

Many reasons to praise God

• We ought to be praising God
• Be filled with the Spirit
• Speak in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs ...
• Be ever thankful
• Lift our voices and make melody in our hearts
• Rom 15:9-11
• Sing, Rejoice, Praise, Laud
• Rejoice with the Jewish people
• Saved not just from hell but to glorify God

The Psalms

• The Psalms/Psalter:
• Contains the full range of Christian experience and emotions
• It sounds a great note of joy, wonder, praise and awe
• 5 books - each ending with a doxology
• Ps 34:1-3
• Bless the Lord at all times
• Praise Him continually
• Ps 41:12-13
• Continual blessing
• Ps 72:17-19
• Wouldn't it be a fitting end to our day to praise God?
• The Lord's prayer ends with a doxology
• Ps 89:52
• A double amen
• Ps 106:48
• Ps 150:1-6
• The whole psalm is about praise
• All musical instruments and even dance is to praise God

• Quote from CS Lewis and AW Tozer
• We are made to worship God
  • Example of George Muller
• Quote from JI Packer
• Are you giving God the praise He deserves?

A Reason to Praise God

• v25-27
• God can establish us [through the gospel]:
• As we believe the gospel
• We are taken out of the realm of uncertainty onto certain ground
• We are adopted into the family of God
• The gospel is able to establish us
• Rom 1:11
• We must always be under the word of God
• God has revealed the mystery:
• Long kept secret
• We have now understood the prophetic scriptures
• The prophets understood a little but much was kept from them
• They did not know the gospel was for all nations
• They had Isaiah 53
• They had so many teachings
• They didn't understand
• These things have now been revealed to us
• We have a complete Bible - a complete revelation
• We can understand the types and the shadows by God's grace
• The God of the nations
• Eph 3:3-6
• Fellowship with other Christians, of other nations
• God has caused believers to come to obedience and faith
• God's character:
• Rom 11:34 - God's mind, God's wisdom, God's completeness
• No flaw in God
• He is perfect

Closing Remarks