The TEN Tests: From Promise to Purpose - The Prophetic Test

SERIES: THE 10 TESTS: FROM PROMISE TO PURPOSE

THE PROPHETIC TEST – SERMON

PSALM 105

OCTOBER 16, 2022

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Psalm 105:16-19 And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread.¹⁷He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.¹⁸His feet they hurt with shackles; He was put in chains of iron,¹⁹Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true, The word of the LORD tested and refined him.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

John 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

#1. THE PROPHETIC IS PARTIAL

1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

 #2. THE PROPHETIC MUST BE JUDGED

1 Corinthians 14:29 Let two or three people prophesy, and let the others evaluate what is said.

PRACTICAL (GO-TO) PRINCIPLES:

• DOES IT EDIFY?
• DOES IT AGREE WITH SCRIPTURE?
• DOES IT GLORIFY JESUS?
• DOES IT BEAR GOOD FRUIT?
• DID IT COME TRUE?
• DOES IT BRING A SENSE OF FREEDOM, PEACE, and CONFIDENCE?
• DOES IT BRING FRESH LIFE?
• DOES YOUR SPIRIT BEAR WITNESS?

#3. PROPHETIC WORDS ARE TO BE HELD BY FAITH.

1 Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast to what is good.

1 Timothy 1:18-20 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage good warfare, ¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.