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Pleasing Him or Pleasing Them - We Can’t Do Both

Pleasing Him or Pleasing Them - We Can’t Do Both. Pastor Ed Riddick September 8, 2013. Review . Everyone is welcome Following Jesus begins with sitting and listening Following Jesus will bring you to honesty about your need for Christ. Review .

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Pleasing Him or Pleasing Them - We Can’t Do Both

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  1. Pleasing Him or Pleasing Them - We Can’t Do Both Pastor Ed RiddickSeptember 8, 2013

  2. Review • Everyone is welcome • Following Jesus begins with sitting and listening • Following Jesus will bring you to honesty about your need for Christ

  3. Review 4. Those who want to follow Christ must count the cost. Are you a fan or follower? 5. Following Christ will eventually bring you to the place where you rely on Christ alone for security and meaning and purpose.

  4. Today… 6. Following Christ will eventually bring you into disfavor with our culture

  5. Luke 3:15-17 “The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

  6. Luke 3:18-20 “And with many other words John exhorted the people and preached the good news to them. But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.”

  7. Luke 3:21-22 “When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.””

  8. The Intolerance of ToleranceD.A. Carson(Feb. 2013)

  9. Don Carson Examines the tides of pluralism washing over virtually every aspect of American culture. Carson asserts the uniqueness of Jesus in a world of competing pluralistic claims, and despite the attempt to "gag God".

  10. Os Guinness • The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity, (August, 2013) • The Last Christian on Earth: Uncover the Enemy's Plot to Undermine the Church, (Feb., 2010) • A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, (July, 2012) • The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It, (January, 2008)

  11. Ravi Zacharias • Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message • The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

  12. “pleasing” word study • Luke 2:14 • Matthew 14:6-12 • Luke 12:32 • Galatians 5:17 • Acts 12:1-3 • Romans 12:1 • Romans 14:15-18 • Colossians 1:10

  13. I. Christ’s Example Luke 3:22 “And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”” John 5:30 with John 8:29 “By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me…The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.””

  14. II. John the Baptist Luke 7:18-28 “Blessed is the one who is not offended by me…Not a reed shaken by the wind or someone dressed in soft cloths…Yes, a prophet and more (Is 40:1-3) the messenger sent to prepare the way…“I tell you among those born of women none is greater than John”

  15. II. John the Baptist Luke 3:18-20 And with many other words John exhorted the people and preached the good news to them. But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.”

  16. III. King Herod Matthew 14:6-12“On Herod’s birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for them and pleased Herod so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted and had John beheaded in the prison.”

  17. Study of the “Herods” • Acts 12:1-3, 23 Herod, grandson of Herod the Great • Herod Agrippa II, great grandson of Herod the great, Acts 26:28

  18. IV.What about you and me? 2 Corinthians 5:7-10“We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.”

  19. IV.What about you and me? Ephesians 5:8-10“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) trying to learn what pleases the Lord.”

  20. IV.What about you and me? Philippians 2:12-13 “So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both inspiring the will and the deed for His good pleasure.”

  21. Bottom line • Following Christ will lead you to take a stand against sin – first in your own life and then, when pressed, against the sin of the world. Luke 16:13Galatians 6:8 1 Peter 4:1-5

  22. Bottom line 2. Following Christ will lead you and me into disfavor with our culture. . John 15:18-20““If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.”

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  24. Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk

  25. Bottom line 3. Decide to be a blessing Luke 6:28 “bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”

  26. Bottom line • At the right time Christ will rescue His people 2 Peter 2:5-9 “if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.”

  27. How to have the strength to stand Acts 4:13 “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”

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