For in our text Paul declares in 2 Cor 1: 18-22 "as God is true our word towards you was not yea and nay for the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us even by me and Silas and Timothy was not yea or nay. For all the promises of God are yea and in him Amen."
The passage asserts that Paul’s message and lifestyle were based on truth, Jesus himself in his prayer to the father for the disciples in John 17:17 said sanctify them by the truth your word is the truth. (tell story about situation at Corinth verse 17 )Therefore, Paul is saying they had integrity. Integrity is the characteristic of consistency or “what you see is what you get.” The apostle insists that the Gospel is not two faced, trying to be yes and no at the same time. The truth about Jesus doesn’t change with every shift of the breeze. Why? Because it is based on the faithfulness of God’s promises that are always affirmed and fulfilled in Jesus! Somebody say amen! For the bible says that Jesus is the same yesterday, to day and forevermore. The bible says that God does not change. So we who are believers can take our stand with security. We say AMEN to God’s message knowing that it won’t change on us. Amen is not an empty word. AMEN says we believe that there is truth. God’s Word is true and that it is the foundation of our faith. Amen says—it is true. For in Rev. 3:14 Jesus calls himself the Amen the faithful and true witness. Amen says God said it We believe it and that settles it Amen. We pledge our obedience to it. When we hear a promise of God’s Word and we say Amen, we are laying claim to that promise. It is ours. We are going to live as if it were already real. If it is the promise of God, it shall be done. Somebody say amen!
Amen is a statement of faith and hope.
Amen then is a statement of confidence in God. When we hear the truth of God’s word declared and we agree with it. When we pray, we can conclude with a firm AMEN because we are confident our prayer has been heard, our God is at work, and the best response to our petition is already in the making. Somebody say Amen
For when we say Amen we are saying Lord we agree! We agree with your will and your ways Amen. We agree that you are God and besides thee there is none other. Amen. We agree with your statues and your precept for the bible says “that your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” Amen. We agree that you formed and you fashion and you created everything that was created for the bible says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Amen We agree that the earth is the lords and the fullness there of.
Somebody say Amen!
1st point: Get My head around my Amen
a. I need an intellectual understanding of what thus says the lord, if Amen means to agree, then I can’t agree with something I don’t know. We have to study I have to get this word in my head. That’s why Paul said “don’t be conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may be able to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Notice what the Psalmist says “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of the sinner, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he meditates both day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season whose leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he does shall prosper.” I’ve got to get my head around my Amen
b. Brother Joshua can you help me out what did God tell you. “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it both day and night that you may observe to do all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
c. Paul told Timothy “study to show thy self approved a worker who needs not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.”
d. I’ve got to get my head around my Amen I’ve got to search the scriptures for in them I find truth. John 7:38 Jesus says "He who believes in me as the scriptures has said out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." Somebody say Amen
2nd Point : I’ve got to get my heart around my Amen
My amen has to move 16 inches down from my head to my heart. I have to get it in my heart
The Psalmist said” I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” The proverb says “trust in the lord with all thy heart and lean not to thy own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.” In other words I need to feel my Amen I need to have some passion about my Amen. I need to have some emotion about my Amen you know how when you find that right women you say I just love her with all my heart. You just feel that thing. Turn to your neighbor and say I feel this thing. Jesus said that “we should Love God with all of our heart, all of our soul and our all of mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.”
Paul says in the text” all the promises of God are yea and Amen in Christ Jesus.” Now Paul is not trying to paint a rosy picture here Paul feels this thing
Go back to verse 8
3rd Point: Holy Ghost around my Amen
The Holy Ghost Empowers my Amen
Action and power: Paul says we have been sealed by the spirit as a guaranty of the promise. The Holy Ghost assures me that what God says it shall be done. I can speak to mountains and they have to move Amen. God said it I believe it and that settles it Amen. I can lay hands on the sick and they can be healed in Jesus name Amen. I don’t know how you feel about it but I say Amen. I Agree with Jesus have I Got a Witness!
a. We agree with Jesus for John 6:35 Jesus says " I am the bread of life he who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst." Amen
b. John 10:9, 10 Jesus says, "I am the Door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes but to steal, kill, and destroy, but I have come that you might have life, and have it more abundantly." Amen
c. John 11:25, 26 Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die yet shall he live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.
THEN HE LOOKED AT MARTHA AND SAID DO YOU BELIEVE THIS!
SHE SAID YES LORD I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE CHRIST THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD. Somebody say Amen
Not only do we agree with what you say about yourself but also we agree with what your witnesses say about you.
We agree with the patriarch Abraham that you are in the blessing business for you told him "and I make thee a great nation and I will bless thee and thou shall be a blessing." Amen!
We agree with the judge Samuel that God still calls our name can you hear him Samuel speak lord thy servant heareth thee. Amen
We agree with the king David that the lord will fight your battles. For
King Jehosepht would agree the battle is not yours it’s the Lords.
Somebody say Amen!
We agree with what the prophet Elijah that were not in this by ourselves for the lord has reserved 7000 prophets who have not bowed down. Amen
We agree with Peter that you are the Christ the son of the living God. Amen
We agree with John that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Amen
We agree with Paul that god shall supply all of needs according to his riches in Glory.
Somebody say Amen!
