Mind Your Own Business
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I have heard it said that Christians are to point people to their sin so Jesus can draw them to himself. Is it the Christian responsibility to go around and point out the sin of others? Is it our calling to go around and show others their sin?
Intro
Intro
How many of you talk to the television? Why?
Football game? We argue that he coach or ref made a bad call. We tell the player he should have gone right instead of left. We are naturally bent toward telling others what they are doing wrong.
How many talk to the news report on TV? Argue with the anchor. Argue with the person being interviewed? Why? Same thing. We are looking into the world of others and are passing some sort of judgment.
We are a busy people worried about everything outside of us and our desire is to know and control those events.
Newspaper
We read an obituary and see that a friend has died or someone we knew and we think how sad it is and how they will be missed.
In the same paper we see a criminal who breaks into a house and gets shot and killed by the owner and we think, well he deserved that.
In less than 5 minutes we have made a judgment call as if we were God and had the authority to even think that thought.
This is what I believe is intriguing to us about news. We don’t just want to hear about facts that are happening in the world, we desire to place judgments and our rational on them.
How many of you talk to the television?
Our tendency to be concerned about everyone else, deflecting from ourself
It keeps us from focusing on our own sin and depravity
It helps us justify our own actions that may not be pure
Drama
Drama
Peter and Jesus
Peter asks Jesus about John - the Beloved Disciple
This is a revisiting of the Passover Meal where Jesus tells that he will be betrayed
This was to give us further evidence that the beloved disciples was in fact John the write of this gospel
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side, so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?”
Peter asked Jesus about John’s outcome, after hearing about his own demise
He could be asking to include him - “Is he gonna die like me?”
He could be asking to exclude him - “Is he special and beyond death, since you love him so much?”
It is our nature to deflect and be concerned about others
It is easier to look at others and compare
Their sin is worse than ours
It is easy for rumors to get started
So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”
John 21:
Satan loves for us to be distracted by other peoples sin. He also loves for us to be caught up in rumors.
Trust me I hear both of these from many of you. I get caught up in it also. It is how Satan works.
But, Jesus calls for us to be different.
Doctrine
Doctrine
We first, need to understand what it is that Jesus is saying here:
Jesus’ Authority
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Glorification of Jesus
God moves men when and where he desires
Jesus recognizes His providence
Man is not to be concerned with things that belong to God
Jesus
Over man
To give life
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
John 5:21
To execute judgment
John 5:27
& 27
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Over events surrounding the consummation
Over the disciple
“follow me”
Peter was told to keep his eyes on Jesus and not worry about anyone else
Salvation is the work of Jesus and is not for us to know
Mystery of Jesus, He is the Lord and has that right
Also, tells us about Christian liberty
Jesus gives us a longing after him but a freedom to obey or not obey
Christian Liberty
freedom from sin
freedom from condemnation and wrath of God
free from the curse of the law
free from bondage of satan
The Westminster Confession of Faith: Edinburgh Edition Chapter XX. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
THE liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law; and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin,b from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation; as also in their free access to God,d and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear, but a child-like love, and willing mind. All
We need to be OK with Jesus’ authority over us
Anything else is rebellion
This includes the things Jesus puts over us in this life
governments and authorities
Bosses
Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
By submitting to these things, God is honored.
The Westminster Confession of Faith: Edinburgh Edition Chapter XX. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
IV. And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preserve one another; they who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of God.
Reality is that Jesus is King and we are not
The world clamors and tries to remove Jesus from his throne
Politicians play god, CEOs play god, housewives play god, everyone has their domain that they try and dominate
We need to praise God that He is in control
We don’t live in a world of chance, that is chaos
He loved us so much that He gave authority to Jesus His Son, to govern all things
We need to trust in Jesus’ authority over us
He demonstrates his power over the world for us
In creation
In the miracles of his ministry
In His resurrection and ascension
We should focus on Jesus in life and work until his final coming
Some of us have a bad habit of separating church life and real life
These to should be one and the same
We need to be worried less about our neighbors actions and more about ours
Illus: When you stand before Jesus, much like Peter, do you want him to say: “Why were you worried about them, when I told you to follow me?”
Doxology
Doxology
How do we respond? We need to look at our own hearts
Anything else is rebellion
This includes the things Jesus puts over us in this life
governments and authorities
Bosses
Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
By submitting to these things, God is honored.
Reality is that Jesus is King and we are not
The world clamors and tries to remove Jesus from his throne
Politicians play god, CEOs play god, housewives play god, everyone has their domain that they try and dominate
We need to praise God that He is in control
We don’t live in a world of chance, that is chaos
He loved us so much that He gave authority to Jesus His Son, to govern all things
We need to trust in Jesus’ authority over us
He demonstrates his power over the world for us
In creation
In the miracles of his ministry
In His resurrection and ascension
We should focus on Jesus in life and work until his final coming
Some of us have a bad habit of separating church life and real life
These to should be one and the same
We need to be worried less about our neighbors actions and more about ours
Illus: When you stand before Jesus, much like Peter, do you want him to say: “Why were you worried about them, when I told you to follow me?”
Conclusion
Conclusion
It is a sin to:
Believe that you can be God and to act as if you are in control and He is not
And that you could understand it even if it were shown to you
Disobey authorities as if God has no control over them and they alone placed themselves in authority
to look at others and believe that your somehow better than them in any way
The Westminster Confession of Faith: Edinburgh Edition Chapter XX. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
III. They who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, do practise any sin, or cherish any lust, do thereby destroy the end of Christian liberty; which is, that, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Jesus command is simple here. Don’t get wrapped up in what I am doing, you couldn’t understand it if you tried, and 2) don’t worry about what I am doing in your neighbors life.
You are to simply follow me.
Illus: Jonah was a bitter Prophet
Jonah’s Sin wasn’t disobedience
God placed him there anyway - fish
His sin was that his heart was so hard that he had no pity and compassion for a lost and dying people
And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
God saves the people and Jonah get’s mad - bitter and angry because God saved a people who should not be saved
Jesus has softened our hearts with the gospel. We who have received Him through Faith are to operate differently. We are to avoid the sin of comparing ourselves to everyone else by worldly standards and to simply “follow” Jesus.
So, he goes off and pouts
Be in his Word, seeking to reflect him to the world, to show grace and mercy to one another, etc . . .
God sends him shade in his grace and
Mind your own business and follow Jesus.
It is not our job to go around and call people sinners so that Jesus can then swoop in and save them. This is what the Pharisees tried to do. Jesus called them: “Brood of vipers.”
No, our job is to follow our King, Jesus, who graciously rescued us and is rescuing others from death and wrath. We need to focus on following him and worrying about our own sin. This will lead people to Christ.