THE DAGGER OF THE KISS...
WE WILL ALL FACE THE DAGGER OF REAL LIFE ---
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
I have a large knife that I use as I walk through this lesson.
Several times in the Bible a person uses a hidden dagger to kill.
INTRODUCTION: APRIL, 2015 NEWS ----
MY MOTHER IN LAW KILLED ME? AND SHE WAS DEAD FOR YEARS?
A Pennsylvania man who died after his mother-in-law's tombstone fell on him will be buried
right by her grave. 74-year-old Stephen Woytack was kneeling beside his mother-in-law's
headstone with his wife on the other side on Easter. They were tying a religious ornament
to the stone, as they do every year, when it fell on Woytack and killed him.
His wife says she immediately ran to Ed Kubilus, a caretaker at the cemetery, for help.
"Usually I come down and talk to them right away but I went up the other end to start
picking up the Christmas ornaments and she came running up, 'Help me, the stone fell
on Stephen!'"
Kubilus, who had seen the couple visit several times, says he tried to lift the 400-pound
stone but couldn't.
Seems that shifting gravestones can be an issue in the spring when the ground begins to
thaw out.Woytack's family says they plan to bury him right in front of the headstone that
killed him.
I. THERE IS A DAGGER OF HATRED THRIVING IN THIS WORLD AND THE DAGGER
EFFECT IS BECAUSE IT IS HIDDEN...
A. THE DAGGER TO REAL, PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION IS EASY TO
IDENTIFY: LOVE ---
John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath
eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life
for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
B. THE LOVE TEST WILL REVEAL BY THE FIRE...
When others are bitter, hurt, disappointed --- A MUST ARISE...
C. There news this week recorded a sad story in Kenya.
As a matter of fact the news revealed another sad day in the history of VIOLENCE and
HATRED. The University of Kenya (GARISSA) terrorist in the NAME OF RELIGION demanded
all the MOSLEM STUDENTS to be separated from the CHRISTIANS. After the students were
separated into MOSLEM-ISLAM and CHRISTIAN the motive was revealed. The Moslem students
were sent home.
153 Christian students were killed and 79 were wounded.
II. EASTER! What a wonder story--- from a babe in a manger to a 12 year old boy sitting
in the temple--- TO A FRIEND USING THE DAGGER OF A KISS TO SELL A FRIEND...
To THE OLD RUGGED CROSS--- to an EMPTY BORROWED GRAVE---
TO A RISEN SAVIOR...
A. Jesus knew about the DAGGER OF FALSEHOOD and the real DANGER of
WEARING MASKS and there theaters OF PRETENDING...
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as
serpents, and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils,
and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 18 And ye shall be brought before governors and
kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
B. THIS THEATER OF MASK AND PRETENDING WILL BE REVEAL BY FIRE.
III. WHAT WILL YOU GIVE ME? LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY?
I SIT AT THE COMMUNION TABLE, I EAT THE BREAD, I DRINK OF THE CUP...
I AM GOOD AT THROWING KISSES AROUND. WHY do I leave the communion table?
Matthew 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And
they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
A. I SURE LOOK LIKE A SHEEP?
I am a church member? I give, but not my best? I make a good show?
My sacrifices are small? I have been baptized?
B. I do as I care to do! I build on I WANT TO BE HAPPY and feel good.
My mouth is full of deadly poison?
C. WHAT WILL MY KISS REVEAL?
NOT JUST WHAT DOES THE KISS REVEAL ABOUT ME?
BUT WHAT WILL OTHERS DO ABOUT MY KISS? BITTER VS BETTER.
IV. COME WITH ME TO A HIDDEN LESSON OF EASTER... THE DAGGERS OF THE KISS?
THE LESSON IS A SAD LESSON THAT CAN BE TERMINAL, DEADLY AND HEART BREAKING.
THE HIDDEN LESSON OF HURT AND BITTERNESS...
A. OUR ENEMY HAS MANY STRANGE, DESTRUCTIVE DESIGNS ---
WE SHALL CALL THESE THE DAGGERS OF OF REAL LIFE ---
B. Jesus clearly warns the church of the DANGER OF LOOKING LIKE A SHEEP,
but the honest reality is IT MAY LOOK LIKE A SHEEP, SOUND LIKE A SHEEP ---
BUT THERE MAY BE A BIG, BAD WOLF HIDDEN IN THE FOLD.
C. Sheep that really are the big, bad wolf can be dangerous to your SPIRITUAL HEALTH.
D. They come to Jesus at the Mount of Olives and ask HIM, when are you coming?
Jesus could not tell them a DATE, as he did not know? But he could tell them THE SIGNS...
THE SIGNS WILL REVEAL NOT ONLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE WORLD,
BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE CHURCH.
E. JESUS HAD TO LEARN TO SURVIVE THE DAGGER OF LIFE.
THOSE STUDENT AND DISCIPLES OF JESUS HAD TO LEARN TO OVER COME THE DAGGER
OF BETRAYAL AND HURT.
YOU WILL FACE THE DAGGER OF THE FALSE KISS...
Matthew 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
F. THERE CAN GROW FROM THE WONDERFUL EASTER LESSON A COLD, HARD HEART---
WHAT WILL I DO AFTER SOMEONE STICKS THE DAGGER IN MY BACK?
Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather
be healed. 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up
trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
G. WILL WE SELL OUR BIRTHRIGHT OUT OF PAIN, DISAPPOINTMENT,
THE CARES AND TROUBLES OF THIS WORLD CAN LEAD US AWAY FROM THE HOLY
COMMUNION TABLE.
PETER WALKED A FAR OFF AND WARMED HIMSELF BY ANOTHER FIRE.
This can be dangerous and UNSETTLING...
V. IF WE LOOK FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, WE WILL FIND IT...
BEWARE OF THE DAGGER OF HYPOCRISY...
SOME PEOPLE CAN BE THE GREAT PRETENDER ---
THEY MAY APPEAR AS A SHEEP, BUT UNDER THAT GARB IS A REAL WOLF...
A WOLF WITHIN IS MORE DANGERIOUS THAN LIONS WITHOUT THE CAMP.
A. WANT TO SPEAK OF LIES AND DECEIT?
The kiss of a FOE can grow to be a GREAT DESTRUCTIVE FORCE.
Luke 22:47 And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the
twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?
B. Wisdom must be ON GUARD because flattery and KISSES can KILL...
C. FLATTERY and KISSY KISSY can reveal the DAGGER OF HYPOCRISY.
VI. TO AVOID THE DAGGER HYPOCRISY --- AND DENY THAT HURT RULE YOUR SPIRIT
WE MUST BE QUICK TO FORGIVE AND SET SELF FREE...
A. THE DAGGER OF SELFISHNESS AND GIVE ME...
THE DAGGER OF HURT AND BEING OFFENDED ...
IS CRUSHED MY THE SPIRIT OF FORGIVENESS.
Matthew 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother
hath ought against thee;
Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Mark 11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also
which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as
God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel
against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
2 Corinthians 2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom
I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
CONCLUSION: The rule of 7 times forgiveness was changed after CALVARY.
We must now forgive 7 X 70 a day. 490 times is required. The LESSON OF JESUS IS CLEAR.
BURY THE DAGGERS... We do not fight this battle with TOOLS of FLESH and BLOOD.
Our battle is not CARNAL --- Shame on Judas! But beware that we invest in a life of pretend.
Eternity is at stake. This hurt can be a stepping stone to greater.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
