Watch Yourselves!
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Introduction
Introduction
Illustration: Sheep Follow The Herd
What are the characteristics of sheep that remind the LORD of you and me?
What is he really saying when he refers to us in that way?
Well, shepherds and ranchers tell us that thee animals are virtually defenseless against predators, not very resourceful inclined to follow one another into danger, and they are absolutely dependent on their human masters for safety.
Thus, when David wrote, “We all, like sheep, have gone astray,” he was referring to ur tendency to move as an unthinking herd and away from the watchful care of the shepherd.
I observed this herd instinct a few years ago in a documentary on television. It was filmed in a packing house where sheep were being slaughtered for the meat market. Huddled in pens outside where hundreds of nervous animals. They seemed to sense danger in their unfamiliar surroundings. Then a gate was opened that led up a ramp and through a door to the right. In order to get the sheep to walk up that ramp, the handlers used was is known as a “Judas goat.” This is a goat that has been trained to lead the sheep into the slaughter-house. The goat did his job very efficiently. He confidently walked to the bottom of the ramp and looked back. ‘then he took a few more steps and stopped agin. The sheep looked at each other skittishly and then began moving toward the ramp.
Eventually, they followed the confident goat to the top, where he went through a little gate to the left, but they were forced to turn to the right and went to their deaths. It was a dramatic illustration of unthinking herd behaviour and the deadly consequences it often brings
Transition To Body- Inconsistencies in what the scribes, pharisees, and teachers of the law say vs. what they do
Transition To Body- Inconsistencies in what the scribes, pharisees, and teachers of the law say vs. what they do
44 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”
Body- Followers Of Jesus Christ
Body- Followers Of Jesus Christ
Disciples Live Self-attentive Lives
Disciples Live Self-attentive Lives
(and so teach through their life sound doctrine)
Temptation to sin= skandala
i.e. word from which we get scandel
An act or circumstance that leads one to act contrary to a proper course or action or set of beliefs, enticement to apostasy or false belief
A device for catching something alive, trap
One difficulty grows out of the fact that not all members are at the same level of maturity; there are always “little ones,” that is, brothers and sisters newly baptized.
The speech and behavior of more mature members could cause one of these new to the faith to stumble and fall.
The speech and behavior of more mature members could cause one of these new to the faith to stumble and fall.
“Being the cause of stumbling” more accurately translates the matter at issue than do “temptations to sin” (v. 1) and “cause to sin” (v. 2).
13 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Disciples Correct & Forgive One Another
Disciples Correct & Forgive One Another
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 88.289 ἁμαρτάνω; ἁμαρτία, ας
to act contrary to the will and law of God—‘to sin, to engage in wrongdoing, sin.’
rebuke = correct, reprove
to express strong disapproval of someone
Why? honor; value; price
help one another grow up
so speak the truth in love
11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Ephesians 4:11-
forgive him continually
the church is a hospital full of patients being healed
some of the patients have recurring sickness
hence forgive them continually
Disciples Trust The LORD
Disciples Trust The LORD
i.e. express faith i.e.
Faith to speak powerful words and go anything:
11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Note that it said “the apostles said to the LORD”
Isaiah
Note now it says apostles here versus disciples which was used in verse 1
Illustration: How everybody can invite someone they know to church- friends & family day idea of Min. Nikki
Illustration: You’re the recruiting team or promotion/marketing department or committee of the Kingdom of God
Worrying over how people will respond!
When Jesus is in the building!
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
John 11:23
Disciples Serve Jesus Humbly
Disciples Serve Jesus Humbly
Illustration: Fast-forward to chapter
(our faith does lead us to be arrogant)
Illustration: Waiters/Waitresses bringing your food. When do you tip?
Other service can never be worthy of tipping because Jesus Christ paid the bill already
6 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaish 64:6
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Transition To Close- Why ought we be humble?
Transition To Close- Why ought we be humble?
Illustration: Fast-forward to , the persistent widow
8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Luke
Illustration: The Pharisee and the tax-collector
10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’
13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:10
Close- Jesus Christ the suffering servant
Close- Jesus Christ the suffering servant
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.