Main idea: Let the Word do the work.
Outline:
- What? What is the Word of God?
- Why? Why should we let the Word do the work?
- Reason #1: God’s Word is sufficient.
- Reason #2: God’s Word is efficient.
- How? How do we let the Word do the work?
- By sowing faithfully.
- By praying fervently.
- By sleeping soundly.
Secondary sources cited:
- Martin Luther, “The Second Sermon (Monday after Invocavit, March 11, 1522),” from The Works of Martin Luther, vol. 2, translated by A. Steimle, edited and modernized by Robert E. Smith (Philadelphia: A. J. Holman, 1915), https://ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/LutherTheEightWittenbergSermons.pdf.
- Michael Reeves, The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation (Nashville: B&H, 2010).