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We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work

We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work. This chapter begins with a snapshot of an ugly attitude. (Luke 15:1-2). We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work.

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We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work

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  1. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • This chapter begins with a snapshot of an ugly attitude. (Luke 15:1-2)

  2. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • (Luke 15:1-2 NKJV) Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. {2} And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.”

  3. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • Somehow the Pharisees in all of their study and religious experience had missed the true nature and work of the Lord.

  4. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • Somehow the Pharisees in all of their study and religious experience had missed the true nature and work of the Lord. • Jesus now tells three parables: the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son.

  5. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • Somehow the Pharisees in all of their study and religious experience had missed the true nature and work of the Lord. • Jesus now tells three parables: the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. • Here we see a moving, vivid picture of the human and divine side of conversion.

  6. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • On the one hand we see the foolish “reasoning” of one in sin and the terrible consequences. (Isa 48:22)

  7. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • (Isa 48:22 NKJV) “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

  8. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • On the other hand we see how people come back to the Lord in an acceptable way. They do not just slip back in.

  9. We need to be reminded about what really is God’s Work • Above all we see the deep concern and the warm welcome of God to the sinner who returned.

  10. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Luke 15:10-13 NKJV) “Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” {11} Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. {12} “And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.

  11. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • {13} “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

  12. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The demand for independence.

  13. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The demand for independence. • The son got tired of restraint, even though it leads to security and plenty.

  14. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The demand for independence. • The son got tired of restraint, even though it leads to security and plenty. • God’s commands are always for our good. (Deut 10:13)

  15. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Deut 10:13 NKJV) “and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?

  16. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Why love our enemies? (Matt 5:46)

  17. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Mat 5:46 NKJV) “For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

  18. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Why give? (2 Cor 8:9)

  19. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (2 Cor 8:9 NKJV) For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

  20. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Discontent.

  21. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Discontent. • Satan likes to promote the idea that you are being left out.

  22. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Ex. “All my life I have been doing what others wanted”. “It’s my right!”, I deserve it!.” This is the spirit described here.

  23. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Worldly joy.

  24. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Ex. “All my life I have been doing what others wanted”. “It’s my right!”, I deserve it!.” This is the spirit described here. • Worldly joy. • The Bible admits that sin has it’s pleasures. (Heb 11:25; 2 Pet 2:13)

  25. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Heb 11:25 NKJV) choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

  26. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (2 Pet 2:13 NKJV) and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,

  27. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Several have told me, especially when depressed, that going out and getting drunk give you a high and a relief. The same it true of fornication.

  28. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Several have told me, especially when depressed, that going out and getting drunk give you a high and a relief. The same it true of fornication. • The peer pressure on our young is great. They will think you are crazy not to. The young cannot see death, plus “everyone else is doing it”. (1 Pt 4:4)

  29. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (1 Pet 4:4 NKJV) In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

  30. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The wasting of one’s substance.

  31. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The wasting of one’s substance. • When you lose your sense of responsibility to God everything else will soon follow.

  32. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • This son was not aware or seemed to care that he was throwing it all away. (Ex. I have seen both men and women throw away their family, job and eventually their lives.)

  33. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • This son was not aware or seemed to care that he was throwing it all away. (Ex. I have seen both men and women throw away their family, job and eventually their lives.) • God has made us to do His will and be busy in it. (Ecc 12:13; Jas 1:17)

  34. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Eccl 12:13 NKJV) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.

  35. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (James 1:17 NKJV) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

  36. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • What are true riches? Do not throw this away. (Luke 12:21)

  37. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Luke 12:21 NKJV) “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

  38. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The hypnotic effect of sin.

  39. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The hypnotic effect of sin. • Sin gives you a power of control that does not exist! “I can quit anytime.” They are underestimating several things.

  40. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • The power of habit - When you are doing anything long enough, you feel compelled to continue. “An act often repeated hardens into a habit, and a habit long continued petrifies into character.”

  41. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Ex. “I still have to fight because it is so much a part of me.”

  42. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • Ex. “I still have to fight because it is so much a part of me.” • The demands of sin. (Luke 15:14-16)

  43. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Luke 15:14-16 NKJV) “But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. {15} “Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. {16} “And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

  44. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • You will find yourself doing things you never dreamed of. (John 8:34)

  45. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (John 8:34 NKJV) Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. (Ex. Drugs, fornication …. High becomes hard to keep.)

  46. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Ex. Drugs, fornication …. High becomes hard to keep.)

  47. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Ex. Drugs, fornication …. High becomes hard to keep.) • Soon you cannot have the same high, then comes the famine. There is no more fulfillment and satisfaction but cold hard reality. What then?

  48. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • “No man would give to him.” - There are no rewards for Satan, he does not care.

  49. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • “No man would give to him.” - There are no rewards for Satan, he does not care. • Judas found this out. (Matt 27:1-5)

  50. The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 15:11-13) • (Mat 27:1-5 NKJV) When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. {2} And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

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