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“Walking with Jesus”. Are You…. …Walking With Jesus?. Who Was He?. Who Did He Become?. Who Did He Become ?. He Emptied Himself. Who Did He Become ?. He Surrendered His Rights. The right to wealth.
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Are You… …Walking With Jesus?
WhoDidHeBecome? • He Emptied Himself
WhoDidHeBecome? • He Surrendered His Rights
The right to wealth 2nd Corinthians 8:9 – “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.”
The right to honor and esteem Isaiah 53:3 – “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed Him not.”
The right to purity 2nd Corinthians 5:21 – “For He (God) hath made Him (Christ) to be sin for us (you and I), who (Christ) knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
The right to beserved Mark 10:45 – “For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
The right to live John 1:4(a)- “In Him was life;…” Matthew 27:50 – “ Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded upthe ghost.”
Romans 12:1 – “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
“Walking with Jesus” • A Significant Step
“Walking with Jesus” • A Selfless Step
He Was Well Disguised. • He was motivated by self interest.. • He was a cold, calculated, deceiver. • He was a replica of his father, the devil.
He Was Well Respected. • He was known for serving. • He was known for benevolence. • He was known for being busy. • He shined outwardly.
How could they not have known? SelfandPride
Proverbs 6:16-17 – “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood..” • Proverbs 16:18 – “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” • Proverbs 15:25 – “The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.” • Proverbs 16:5 – “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”
“Walking with Jesus” • A Suffering Step
Colossians 1:17 – “And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.”
Colossians 1:17 – “And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.” • He gavebreathto the menwho took His away.
Colossians 1:17 – “And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.” • He gave breath to the men who took His away. • He counted the hairson the heads of themwho plucked His.
John 13: 1-5 • Washing the feet of those arguing over who should be the greatest.
John 14: 1-3 • Comforting the troubled hearts of those who would soon troubleHis.
John 15: 7, 16 • Promising to answerthe prayers of those who would soon failtopraywithHim.
John 14:18 • Promising to neverforsake those who would soon forsakeHim.
Are You and I… …Walking With Jesus? Romans 5:8 – “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Are You and I… …Walking With Jesus? John 20:21(b) – “…: as my Father hath sent Me, even so send I you.”
Are You and I… …Walking With Jesus? • You DON’T GIVE to RECEIVE • You DON’T LOVE for RESPONSE
Isaiah 53:6 – “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
Kidron • A place where destroyed idols and the bodies of the rebellious were crushed and burned.
Kidron 2 Kings 23:4 – “And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.”
Kidron 2 Kings 23:6 – “And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.”
Kidron 2 Kings 23:12 - “And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.”
Kidron • A place where destroyed idols and the bodies of the rebellious were crushed and burned. • It ran past the place where sacrifices were offered, through the wilderness of the scapegoat into the Dead Sea.
Leviticus 16:7-8 – “And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.”
Leviticus 16:22 – “And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.”
Isaiah 53:6 – “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
Leviticus 16:22 – “And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.”
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