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Title: This is too big to walk on by.
Theme: We love God with all we are and allow God to love others through us.
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Goal: This is too big to walk on by.
We love God with all we are and allow God to love others through us.ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE
ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE
ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE
Give them an idea of the dynamics?
Two exercises :
everybody stand
everybody 70 and above may sit
65 and above 5 years from now if we do nothing.
60 and above 10 years from now if we do nothing
50 and above 20 years from now if we do nothing.
40 and above 30 years from now if we do nothing
We love God with all we are and allow God to love others through us.
WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)
2. Struggles is burn out
Children’s workers
3. Recover can be difficult, but not impossible
a. what are we willing to do?
4. Does God have a plan?
yes!
We love God with all we are and allow God to love others through us.
GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION
GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION
I. Trick questions can have interesting answers.
25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” (ESV)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law?
How do you read it?”
27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.
(ESV)
28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
(ESV)
A. “What must I do to share in the resurrection of the righteous at the end?”
The test was to see if Jesus could correctly answer the fundamental question: “How can I be sure I’ll be saved in the final resurrection?
B.Jesus can handle himself with those who attempt to trick him.
b.
Maybe this lawyer wanted to look good here?
c.What every each question leads us closer to a serious response.
Knowledge of what God requires is not enough.
Such knowledge needs to be put into practice.
Love that comes from the heart responds with the hands.
In the NT, the Spirit enables the believer to respond
II.
Who is my neighbor, is the wrong question & prospective.
29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
(ESV)
A. We are not to ask who our neighbor is; we are to be a neighbor.
a.
The real issue is not whom we should serve, but that we serve. 1
B. The implication is clear that he wished to soften the demand and not feel a sense of obligation to respond.
a.Jesus rejects all attempts to shrink the scope of responsibility.
The lawyer is looking for the minimum obedience required, but Jesus requires total obedience.
C. How do we soften it?
a. Everybody that comes to VBS already goes to another church.
b.
It is the parents job to ensure they have religious education.
c. clothing drive: We are open on Sunday you know?
d.This is happening in every church!
e.
They live to far away I don’t want to go pick them up.
We are open isn’t that enough.
III.
Next victim
30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.
(ESV)
31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
(ESV)
A.
Here is God’s servant who ministers in his temple and represents the height of piety (on priests, see the exegesis of 1:5).
What will he do?
a.
The priest passes by on the other side of the road.
He is traveling home not toward the temple.
The man is not dead!
He fought the battle of his life.
Have you ever made excuses?
I think we all have, but this may be about to change as we go on.
All of us have attempted to do the minimums ( the least and smallest amount required.)
We have lost our first love.
B. Levite Sunday School Teacher worker
32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
(ESV)
a. second Jewish religious leader also comes down the road.
He too passes on the other side and offers no help.
A Levite (Λευίτης, leuitēs) was a member of the tribe of Levi but not of Aaron’s family.
He was responsible for the less important tasks at the temple and could be thought of as a priest’s assistant1
b.
Who will love this dying man?
Who will care for the lost souls in the church?
There are times we all can get so comfortable.
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