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* I told you last week that in Chapter 18 when you see Jesus talk about Children, he is actually talking about a believer.
*He has some strong words for how we as believers lead other believers.
(vs 6)
*But in these next verses here this morning, Jesus is concerned about how we lead others, but also how we lead our own lives according to his will.
In other words he is concerned about how we affect other believers holiness and even how we remain holy in difficult times.
*Look at verse 7
We can to protect others.
*From what?
Temptations.
*they will always be there.
As long as the world exists, sin will exist.
Temptation will exist.
*With all the temptations in this world, we need to be careful not to allow ourselves as believers to lead another believer into temptation.
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Many people think this very points to the Devil.
He is the liar, the tempter, but look what it says “Woe tot he one by whom temptation comes.”
That is a fellow believer leading another down the path of sin.
Sin is easy to fall into, and if another believer is right there with you, it makes it a-lot easier.
SO Jesus (7-9) talks about how we need to protect others, but then he says that we need to also protect ourselves.
2. We can protect ourselves.
*When we give into temptations, they start in the heart and the mind… but we act on them with our eyes and our hands.
*What is the answer?
Cut them off.
Cut yoru hands off, cut your eyes out, and you will be a better Christian.
Right?
IS this what Jesus saying that we should do?
*Jesus is using some strong language here and he is not telling us to do this.
He is simply showing us the importance of staying away from sin that draws us away from Him, and even helping us to understand that we don’t need to leaders others there as well.
After all, since is a heart problem not a hand or eye problem… it all starts in the heart.
*And when we first begin to concisely battle sin in our own lives, we can help others to battle it in theirs.
3. We can love others
*As fellow believers, we are to love on another, just like he loved us.
He uses this parable to show the extent he goes to to care for one of his own.
But before he speaks the parable about eh 99 and the 1.
He says something here in verse 10: Matthew 18:10
Some people look at this and think that every Christian has their own angel that watches over them.
It’s true that angels did come to people to help them in the Bible (Peter in prison, Daniel in the Lions Den).
It’s a nice thought, but Scripture doesn’t say anything about that anywhere else.
But here is what Scripture does say.. Hebrews 1:14
This is one of the purposes fro angels: ministering Spirits to help those who are saved.
But here in this parable, there is a wonderful picture of love and care that God has for his children.
He doesn’t want us to “despise them” get them off track, lead them away from God
But just as he wants us to care for them, we see a picture of how he cares for us.
How does he see us? Seeing this parable and his care for the one sheep reminds me that he is the good shepherd.
This morning we are baptizing....
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