Happy Thanksgiving

Lose No One

1.Focus on being child like Christians

Who is the Greatest? 1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

1.Focus on being child like Christians The question points to their lost focus

1.Focus on being child like Christians Jesus’ response Focus on being a child in faith

1.Focus on being child like Christians 2He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

1.Focus on being child like Christians Humble as a child means dependence on God, not self, not comparing

1.Focus on being child like Christians No one has to announce that they are humble Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philip. 2:3

2.Don’t look down on anyone

Encouragement to welcome child like faith, but warned against causing them to sin

2.Don’t look down on anyone 5"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

2.Don’t look down on anyone 10"See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. 12"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?

2.Don’t look down on anyone 13And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.

2.Don’t look down on anyone Don’t look down, because He desires to lose no one

3.Lose No one to sin

15"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

3.Lose no one to sin 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

3.Lose no one to sin A.Make an effort to straighten a person’s life – one to one first

3.Lose no one to sin A.Make an effort to straighten a person’s life – one to one first Offended takes initiative, not waiting for the offender

3.Lose no one to sin A.Make an effort to straighten a person’s life – one to one first Offended should NOT be talking to anyone else first before talking to offender

3.Lose no one to sin A.Make an effort to straighten a person’s life – one to one first Motivation for confrontation must be winning that person back to fellowship with Christ

3.Lose no one to sin A.Make an effort to straighten a person’s life – one to one first Confrontation is not about tearing them down or raising yourself up Confrontation is about sin, not differences of opinions

3.Lose no one to sin B.If the one on one does not work, then we are to go to the person with 1 or 2 others. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'

3.Lose no one to sin C.Then we bring them before the whole church 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

3.Lose no one to sin We must care enough to confront so that we don’t lose them

3.Lose no one to sin 18"I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. What we do today will impact people’s eternity and heaven

4.God desires that we agree, not only confronting others, but in prayer

19"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

4.God desires that we agree, not only confronting others, but in prayer Major on the major and minor on the minor

4.God desires that we agree, not only confronting others, but in prayer The attitude of forgiveness and confronting sin is to lose no one