The sermon presents the Church of God as an unshakable, divinely secured institution, grounded in the eternal knowledge and ownership of the Lord, who personally knows and protects His true people.

In the miraculous raising of a young man from the dead, we learn out total inability to bring life to our dead souls and the power of Christ who alone can do it for us through his life-giving word.

The church bears no human arms, but it has the mighty weapon of prayer to God. Here is a two-fold answer to prayer in a time of persecution. Here is where the church and individual believers obtain strength and peace and victoriy in a hostile world.

The sermon centres on the imperative to handle the Word of God rightly and for edification. Here is how preachers and believers should handle the Scriptures for benefit and building up.

The passage presents the early church at Antioch as a model church. Here is how God used and blessed the efforts of ordinary believers to the salvation of the lost. Here is the importance of church order, the centrality of teaching in the church and the care that should exist among believers.

Why does a person seek after God? Why is he so desperate to be reconciled to God? Why does he desire to have Christ? Here are the things that have drawn him and that have given him this intense desire.

The sermon centers on the transformative power of divine conversion, illustrated through the dramatic encounter of Saul on the Damascus road. It emphasizes that every true conversion begins with God's sovereign intervention.