The Ethos of Jesus - Week 3
Sharable notes for the March 10, 2024 message. You can post these notes on your social platform!
Scriptures used: Mark 11:28-30; 12:1-12; Jeremiah 38:4; 2 Chronicles 24:20-21; Psalms 118:22-26; Romans 5:8; 8:7-8; 11:20
Passages Referenced: Matthew 21-22:1-14; Isaiah 5:1-7
You can’t have the salvation that Jesus offers and reject the authority that Jesus commands. Jesus is Savior and Lord.
Doing religious acts is like wearing a fragrance that keeps you from recognizing the stench in your own heart.
The truth of the gospel cannot be broken, you can only be broken by it.
Repentance means you have to recognize in your heart that by nature you are opposed to God, and you have to embrace what he’s done to change that in you.
Self proclaimed morality is opposition to God because it’s morality only for the cause of saying "I’m this good."
At the core of our unwillingness to change, to give up certain things in our life because we want to think God is ok with them, is opposition to God. That unwillingness to change is an unwillingness to follow God.
Following Jesus takes total surrender even if you don’t have total understanding.
Jesus was willing to make himself vulnerable and put himself in harms way for no other reason than to rescue us from our rebellious hearts.
The opposition between man and God is what put his son on the cross, but through the cross his son broke the power of that opposition.
Jesus made it clear he can’t be on the periphery. We have to center our life around him and let his power reproduce his character in us.
Reflect or meet with someone to discuss:
What has been your response to authority throughout your life?
How do you treat your faith as something you do instead of it being someone you are? What is the danger in that?
What are common ways we tend to be slow in giving Christ full authority over our life?
In what ways do we try to take ownership in our life over what God has only called us to tend?
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