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Introduction
Seeing Upside-Down – brain adjusts upside-down image
What if the way we see the spiritual world is the same way?
Actually, that is exactly what happened.
Sin turned our vision
That’s why Jesus taught in parables, to turn our understanding back upright.
The Kingdom is near, learn to see it.
Starting in - Turn there
A Servant’s Duty
A Servant’s Duty
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v.5 Increase our faith – faith to forgive.
v.6 It doesn’t take miraculous faith to forgive.
Faith and obedience.
vv.7-9 story of servant doing his work.
Servant obeys.
Faithful.
Servant obeys.
Faithful.
Moving to - Turn there
Rich and Loving It
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v. 16 What good thing must I do to have eternal life?
Luke 17
v. 17 Only God is good – obey His commands
v. 17 Only God is good – obey His commands
v. 18-19 six commands – the Love Others commands
v.20 already do them.
What do I lack?
= knows something is still missing
matthew 19:21
v.21 sell everything, give to poor, treasure in heaven, follow Me.
= Love God and Love Others.
v.21 sell everything, give to poor, treasure in heaven, follow Me.
= Love God and Love Others.
v.22 sad because wealth lifted to idolatry.
Loves wealth more than God.
v.22 sad because wealth lifted to idolatry.
Loves wealth more than God.
Checking the 10 Commands boxes, but still breaking the Law.
Missing out on Life.
v.23-24 Jesus comments on rich to disciples – uses exaggeration/hyperbole camel and eye of needle
What Is Our Reward?
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v.25 amazed – belief that wealth was a sign of God’s favor – but here it mostly keeps you out of the Kingdom.
Who can be saved??
v.26 impossible for man but not for God
v.27 Peter – left everything, what do we get?
v.28 renewal of all things = alluding to new heaven, new earth
v.29 leave it all – eternal life
100x as much another exaggeration = blessed beyond belief
matthew
v.30 is the point – first will be last, last first.
Same as parable of rich man and Lazarus from last week.
v.30 is the point – first will be last, last first.
Same as parable of rich man and Lazarus from last week.
First and Last, and Upside-Down and Backward
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v.1 Kingdom of heaven is like…
v.1 Kingdom of heaven is like…
Story of hiring workers throughout the day and paying them all the same at the end.
Cultural situation = workers waiting to be hired (not servants) paid at end of day
Paid the last first.
Denarius = they all received a full day’s wage
matthew 20:
v.11 Of course they grumbled.
Wouldn’t you?
Of course they grumbled.
Wouldn’t you?
v.12 made them equal to us but we worked harder
Story of work at Martins.
v.13 not unfair, you agreed for a fair day’s wage.
v.13 not unfair, you agreed for a fair day’s wage.
matthew 20:
vv.14-15
I have the right to be generous.
vv.14-15
I have the right to be generous.
This statement helped me
Compare the workers in the vineyard to the two lost sons.
One squanders and comes back, the other is there all the time working faithfully.
Both are loved, cared for, provided for.
Generous Father
v.16 last will be first, first last – turned it around this time.
v.16 last will be first, first last – turned it around this time.
In a way, Jesus is saying that no matter when you enter the vineyard you receive the same reward.
Conclusion
Upside-down and backward Kingdom Economics – the Kingdom of God is not like the kingdom of the world.
First will be last and last first.
That’s backward.
Sacrifice and Reward – inherit eternal life and vastly more than before.
This is really upside-down.
What is our attitude toward wealth, position, value, work?
When is enough, enough?
Big Idea: Forget the Formula, Our Father is Faithful.
Forget the Formula, Our Father is Faithful.
He is faithful, just, and generous.
Many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
So (conclusion) the last will be first and the first will be last.
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