SF073 - GET OUR DUCKS IN A ROW (Luke 19 10)

@PAGE NUMBER = SF073

@RECORD = 1st Dover‑6/90‑1prof, Oak Street 8/91

@TITLE = GET OUR DUCKS IN A ROW

@LEVEL ONE = Text : Luke 19:10

@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION:

@LEVEL TWO = Some Startling Statistics

@LEVEL FOUR = Conservative estimates tell us that 70% of the world's population is non‑Christian with 76% of the remaining 30% Christian by name only.

@LEVEL FOUR = In 1989 7000 SBC Churches did not baptize anyone.

@LEVEL FOUR = Over 2/3 of SBC Churches are either declining or have plateaued.

@LEVEL FOUR = It takes 43 SB one year to win one person to Christ

@LEVEL TWO = What is the Answer?

@LEVEL THREE = Crusade Evangelism ‑ Billy Graham

@LEVEL FOUR = 53% of those who respond are already attending church

@LEVEL FOUR = 47% are unchurched of those only 15% are actively involved in church one year later.

@LEVEL THREE = Para‑Church Organizations

@LEVEL FOUR = Only 3% of those won will be actively involved in church one year later.

@LEVEL THREE = Local Church

@LEVEL FOUR = If won by a friend in a local church, 85% will actively involved in church one year later.

@LEVEL THREE = Tragedy = Only 5% of SB's will attempt to personally lead someone to Christ.

@LEVEL TWO = Problem of Priorities

@LEVEL THREE = What is the Church all about?

@LEVEL FOUR = Worship ‑ monks

@LEVEL FOUR = Fellowship ‑ social club

@LEVEL FOUR = Education ‑ schools

@LEVEL FOUR = EVANGELISM!!!

@ILL TEXT = Dad's saying "You had better get your ducks in a row"

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 2

@LEVEL ONE = 1A. THE PRIORITY OF SINNERS (Luke 15:4‑7)

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. The Incrediable Value of  a Lost Soul (v.4)

@SCRIPTURE = Mark 8:36‑37 (NIV)  What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?  Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

@LEVEL FOUR = "We exist for those who are not yet saved"

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. The Undeniable Victory of the Shepherd (v.5)

@LEVEL THREE = Illustration:

@LEVEL FOUR = As a song writer has said "Jesus Never Fails"

@LEVEL ONE = 2A. THE PRIORITY OF SEEKING  (Luke 15:8‑10)

@SCRIPTURE = "to seek" = "to search, to look for something that is lost with a goal of rescuing or saving it.<R>Infinitive of purpose, shows potential action.

@LEVEL TWO = Lost men, like coins, tend to stay lost.

@LEVEL TWO = Seeking requires ...

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Seeing

@LEVEL THREE = We need clear vision

@LEVEL THREE = We must see:

@LEVEL FOUR = Ourselves as God's mouthpiece.

@LEVEL FOUR = Others as God's mission.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. Sweeping

@LEVEL FOUR = Implies cleansing

@SCRIPTURE = 2 Tim 2:21 (NIV)  If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

@LEVEL FOUR = We cleanse when we remove unnecessary and worthless things.

@LEVEL TWO = 3B. Searching

@LEVEL FOUR = Carefully so as not to miss even one.

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 3

@LEVEL ONE = 3A. THE PRIORITY OF SAVING

@SCRIPTURE = "to save" = deliver, to snatch from peril.  To rescue someone from real danger. The same word used in Matthew 14:30 when Peter called out to Jesus to "save" him from drowning.

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. The Peril of Man

@LEVEL THREE = 1C. Hopeless Condition  (Ephesians 2:1‑3)

@LEVEL FOUR = Dead  (v.1)

@LEVEL FOUR = Deceived  (v.2)

@LEVEL FOUR = Doomed (v.3)

@ILL TITLE = Recognize the Reality of Hell

@ILL TEXT = It has been reported that William Booth once said: "I wish that God would allow every solider in the Salvation Army to look into Hell for five minutes so that they might realize the peril of men's souls."

@LEVEL THREE = 2C. Helpless Condition

@SCRIPTURE = Rom 5:6 (NIV)  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. The Promise of God

@LEVEL THREE = 1C. To Save

@SCRIPTURE = Rom 10:13 (NIV)  for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

@LEVEL FOUR = God is not playing eternal Russian roulette with the souls of men.

@LEVEL THREE = 2C. To Seal

@SCRIPTURE = John 6:37 (NIV)  All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

@LEVEL THREE = 3C. To Satisfy

@SCRIPTURE = John 10:10 (NIV)  ...I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

@ILL TITLE = Rescue The Perishing

@ILL TEXT = By Fanny Crosby

@ILL TEXT = "Rescue the perishing, Care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;<R>Weep o'er the erring one, Lift up the fallen, Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.<R>Rescue the perishing, Care for the dying;<R>Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save."

@PAGE NUMBER = Page 4

@LEVEL ONE = CONCLUSION:

@LEVEL TWO = The Lord says to us: "Get your ducks in a row!"

@LEVEL FOUR = Worship implies staying ‑ Jesus commands us to seek

@LEVEL FOUR = Fellowship implies safety ‑ Jesus compels us to take risks to "save" the lost

@LEVEL FOUR = Education implies refining the saints ‑ Jesus commissions us to reach the sinners

@LEVEL TWO = WE MUST EVANGELIZE

@LEVEL FOUR = I know I am saved

@LEVEL FOUR = I have not made seeking a priority

@LEVEL FOUR = I have not made winning the lost a priority

@LEVEL FOUR = I have grown comfortable with the status quo

@LEVEL FOUR = I am not a christian