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One Thing is Needed
Ever go shopping and when you think you are done you realize there is one more thing?
Or Ever ask your kid to do something and get the response just a minute?
Ever get home from shopping and realize that one item you went looking for your forgot?
One thing is needed?
This morning I want to talk with you about that one thing that is needed.
I want to talk to you about setting priorities about how the Bible talks about five significant occurrences of the expression “one thing” in (Psalm 27:4; Mark 10:21; Luke 10:42; John 9:25; Phil.
3:13).
Each of these passages of scripture speaks about our priorities.
This morning I want to zero in on Luke 10:42; Psalms 41:7-13; Luke 10:25-11:4
This morning I want to talk to you about a vision for this assembly that I have had burned into my heart.
I want to share it with you so that we can see right from the start of this season of ministry if this is where you want to go.
First I want to pose a question?
What is outreach?
We all see and view this differently.
I want to share my perspective with you.
Outreach to me is getting outside these four walls and doing ministry thinking outside the box.
Building relationships with others.
I feel that you cannot go in “cold Turkey” and talk about the things of God and expect good results in the end.
Building that relationship with people is essential.
Yes its an investment of time, energy and resources but it will and has ended in leading whole families to Christ.
I have said before that I dislike greatly the word “status quo” just keeping everything running.
Our church is bursting with enormous potential so why would we keep all that hidden away, locked inside these four walls.
I don’t want to be seen as preserved with pickling spices ready until the rapture.
I want to do my best to get out there and share this wonderful life, this wonderful Saviour with all those I can.
Are you with me in that?
This week I was honored to spend time at the Global Leadership Summit and while there I felt my bucket was filled up and my passion and desire to do what I have been told to do more adament in my heart and spirit.
This morning I want to share three different scriptures with you talking about situations where outreach is important, scenarios I want to drive home to you to evaluate your heart on where you stand and where you want to be.
I know this is a church that prays, that loves God, but the other question I want to ask is do we genuinely love each other?
It is one thing for us to want to go, do and reach out but if we don’t love the ones that are here do we really believe that God is going to entrust us with new babes?
We have to be ready to love each other and work together in harmony and love.
Then He will entrust us with new babes.
The Priority of Presence
You can know God’s presence and his pleasure in the midst of all the challenges of life.
David had his worries and distractions, he had his enemies and, like Jesus, he says ‘Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted me up his heel against me’ (v.
9).
This morning there are relationships in this assembly that need to me fixed.
This level of distrust and discontentment and even hatred cannot continue.
There must be resolve and RESTORATION!!!!!!
Once this happens then we can be confident, ready to receive the work God has for us and reach out and be trusted with the new babes and growth He wants to bless us with!
Be confident as David was in the ultimate triumph over good over evil (Psalm 41:11b).
Know that God is pleased with you (v.
11a).
David’s overwhelming desire is that God would set him in his presence (v.
12).
This should be our highest priority.
This is what we have been created for.
The presence of God satisfies our deepest need.
And to be right with God and be ready to respond to His leading.
How can we love our neighbour if we don’t love each other?
2. The Priorities of Jesus
What are your priorities?
Is time with Jesus in there?
Is it something you try to squeeze into your busy schedule?
Or do you schedule your relationship with him as your number one priority?
In our text a learned theologian and lawyer asks Jesus, a layman, the billion dollar question about the way to eternal life.
Jesus gives us a model way to respond.
Jesus asks the question “What do you think”?
(Luke 10:26,36)
The lawyer gives the correct answer:
This should be our highest priority and the next is to love your neighbour as yourself.
There are times when we are not sure if we love the one who sits next to us in church.
But we are called to love your neighbour as yourself.
Church this morning, take measure of your life?
Where do we stand?
Are we ready to love and support new babes?
Are we able to be entrusted with the care and compassion needed for new babes?
Are we loving and caring for those we share this assembly with?
Jesus then asks another question which shows that the lawyer is looking for a loophole (v.
29).
He wants to make ‘neighbour’ a term of limited liability - family, friends, relatives, members of the same people and religious community.
Jesus responds with a story about injustice.
It is a familiar one.
The Good Samaritan.
A man was travelling down a dangerous road 17 miles long with 3,000 foot decent from Jerusalem to Jericho.
He was carrying goods and valuables.
He became a victim of injustice.
He was robbed, stripped, beaten and left for dead (v.
30).
The religious leaders came along.
First, the priest (who had probably just been running the services in the temple in Jerusalem), and then the Levite (the assistant responsible for the liturgy and music).
Both ‘saw’ the victim but neither of them stopped.
There are at least three possible reasons why they, and we don’t get involved:
We are too busy - in a hurry, don’t want to get involved in a time consuming activity.
We don’t want to get messy - pollute ourselves, touching a dead body would make them unclean.
They would not have been able to enter the temple during this period.
They might have lost their duty at the temple.
We don’t want to take the risk - vicarious liability - danger of being blamed, or risk of getting hurt because there could still be trouble lurking.
This could be a decoy for an ambush.
The hero of this story that Jesus was telling was someone the audience was shocked to hear.
Jesus chose their least favorite person.
The Samaritans were a race despised by Jews socially, politically and religiously.
This is a story about a person of a different race having compassion.
The Samaritan provided practical help.
It cost him time, energy, and money.
The story Jesus told shows that the lawyer asked the wrong question.
The right question is not “Who is my neighbour?”
but, “To whom can I be a neighbour?”
Jesus teaches the absolute and unlimited nature of the duty of love.
Jesus came to destroy all the barriers.
The same is true in the church today.
We are brothers and sisters in Christ, a common thread of love binds us together here and we need to acknowledge that and love and accept one another.
Put the past behind and claim forgiveness and second chances for the future.
Queen Elizabeth II said in one of her Christmas Day messages: “For me, as a Christian, when Jesus answers the question, “Who is my neighbour?” the implication drawn by Jesus is clear.
Everyone is our neighbour, no matter what race, creed or color”.
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