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Your faith is a matter

How did you find out About The Faith?

How did people know To come see Jesus?

Trained by the culture To say nothing to anyone

So busy proving We're not obnoxious That we miss the opportunity To say that Jesus is real

Surgery went perfect She's gonna be OK Privileged to share…

What do you do when What the culture has taught you Collides with God's plan For you?

Your faith is contagious And it's a privilege To give it give it away

…As he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem.

And the power of the Lord was with him to heal

And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus

…but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd…

…they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus…

And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you”

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”

-he said to the man who was paralyzed-“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”

And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God - Luke 5:17-25

Double-healed! Because his friends Did whatever it took To get him to Jesus

Outside the Circle K

Macado's Faith

Witness= Someone who has seen Something worth repeating

The Dentist

Who and where?

"…When you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just"

Give to those others forget And look to give without Expectation of repayment

When one of those who reclined at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”

But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.

And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

But they all alike began to make excuses

The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’

And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’

And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

So the servant came and reported these things to his master.

Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant…

‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

No one else would ever Invite such rabble Except our Christ (and those who love him)

And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’

And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.

You'll never meet someone: - For whom Christ did not die - Better off not knowing Jesus - Who shouldn't hear the Truth - God isn't drawing

Compel people… that my house may be filled It's in their best interests…

For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet’” - Luke 14: 14-24

Context: Religious and Sinners Jews and Gentiles

Principle: God is still sending You and me

Disciples became Apostles

Ministers of reconciliation… Ambassadors… It's an honor and a privilege

Peter

"Andrew...found his brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ)…

He brought his brother to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas (Peter)” - John 1:41-42

Before Jesus ever called Peter to fish for men Peter had already Been brought to Jesus

…how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” - Romans 10

Band Camp Chick Tracts and Poor Money Management

God is strategic. Who? Pray… Go and make disciples… And I will be with you