When Priorities Are Wide Of The Mark---Luke 18: 18-34

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                                           ~REFLECTION~  

 

“If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.”                                                                                    ~William Law Better to spend a day thinking it over than a week working for no purpose at all.”                                                                                     ~Balto-Finnic Proverb 

“He who provides for this life but takes not care for eternity is wise for a moment but a fool forever.”                                                         ~John Tillotson     

  

~COMMITMENT~

 

Scripture Lesson: Luke 18: 18-34 

 

18A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

19"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. 20You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'"

21"All these I have kept since I was a boy," he said.

22When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

23When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. 24Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

26Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?"

27Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

28Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"

29"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."

31Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. 32He will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him and kill him. 33On the third day he will rise again."

34The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.

   

Sermon-When Priorities Are Wide Of The Mark       Russ Kapusinski

 

 

~COMMUNITY GROUP/FAMILY WORSHIP ASSIGNMENT~ 

 

 

         1.What are you top five priorities in life? Write them down and have each person in the group share them with one another.  
  
Read Luke 18: 18—34  
  
 
  1. Do your priorities match you’re actual practice of how you live each week. Give an example from each priority of how you’re actually living it out each week.
  
  1. Jesus frames out priority living in this encounter with the Rich Young Ruler as follows. Your priorities should be: storing up reassure in heaven, caring for the poor, seeking to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and ordering your life around the values of God’s Kingdom (vvs. 29-30). What adjustments do you need to make?
  
  1. In the sermon entitled “The Problem With Superficial Morality” what one thing particularly gripped you and what do you plan to do about it in way of applying it to your life? Share these things with one another and pray for each other.
  
  1.  Remember to “preach the gospel to yourself and to one another.” Whenever we have an encounter with God in His church and through His Word there are going to be areas highlighted where we haven’t lived according to His plan. “Preaching the gospel to ourselves and to one another” is reminding one another that Christ obeyed (always) where we have failed and that he paid the price for our failure on the cross—so we’re forgiven and free! Therefore, end your time with prayers of thanksgiving and praise to Christ for his wonderful gift of salvation!
 
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