WHEN FAULT IS FOUND-IV—Luke 4:16-30
Finding Fault with God’s Grace forfeits....
Hank driving home/Furniture supply truck in front with back door open/Huge box falls out/Hank swerves to miss the box/Motions to driver/Return to box/Police has traffic rerouted/Open box/Full of upolstery tacks/Officer thanks Hank & sends him on his way/Furniture truck driver protests— ‘You should have arrested that man!’/Officer puzzled asks “Why?!”
Why, Tacks Evasion of course!
Truck driver fould fault with the officer’s grace.
God’s people can likewise find fault with God’s grace.
We also forfeit a great deal when the find fault with God’s grace.
The synagogue of Nazareth despised the grace offered them in Jesus.
Religious people can find fault with God’s grace.
What is forfeited when God’s grace is frustrated?
When fault is found with God’s grace, we forfeit...
1. Godly Influence
2. Rest
3. Guidance
4. Anointing
5. Good News
6. Status
7. Healing
8. Freedom
9. Sight
10—When fault is found we forfeit
POWER(:18e)
—Explanation:(:18e)Authority
“...To set free those who are oppressed;...”
“Set free/Set at liberty”—
“Oppressed/Bruised”—To crush or burden by abuse of power.
Thru either Shame, Weakness, Sin
1Pet. 2:4-8—“And coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected by men, but choice & precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For this is contained in Scripture: “BEHOLD I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.” This precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve, “THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,” &, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, & to this doom they were also appointed.”
—Argumentation:
Lk. 24:45-49—“Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, & He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer & rise again from the dead the third day; & that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. “You are witnesses of these things.” And behold, I[Jesus] am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you[disciples]; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Rom. 1:16—“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first & also to the Greek.”
1Cor. 2:4-5—“And my message & my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit & of power, that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.”
Php. 3:8-11—“More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, & count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, & may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him, & the power of His resurrection & the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
2Tim. 1:7—“For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power & love & discipline.”
Acts 5:40-42—“And they took his[Gamaliel’s] advice; & after calling the apostles in, they flogged them & ordered them to speak no more in the name of Jesus, & then released them. So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name. And every day, in the temple & from house to house, they kept right on teaching & preaching Jesus as the Christ.”
—Illustration:
James & undice fortner/Undine punished their son by making him sit on the porch/He says, ‘I’m sittin’ on the outside but I’m standin’ on the inside!’/Power over situation
Dog over another/Hold down thru sheer power —Teeth—Size—Stamina
—Application:
?You traded the offense of God for the acceptance of men?
?You Forfeited God’s Offense?
?You Found Fault with God’s grace?
11—When fault is found we forfeit
OPPORTUNITY / FAVOR(:19)
—Explanation:(:19)Grace
“To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD.”
“Favorable/Acceptable”—dektoV—Receive favorably
Visitation—Lk. 19:
“Year”—Extended time—Open window of opportunity
Grace—Give what is undeserved.
—Argumentation:
Jn. 12:46-48—““I have come as light into the world, that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in darkness. “And if anyone hears My sayings, & does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. “He who rejects Me, & does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.”.
Jn. 3:16-18—““For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Rom. 3:23-25—“...for all have sinned & fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;”
Eph. 1:3-12—READ—“...In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us....”
Eph. 2:4-9—“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), & raised us up with Him, & seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, in order that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; & that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.”
Eph. 2:11-16—“Therefore remember, that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands-- remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, & strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope & without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, & broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, & might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.”
—Illustration:
Elephant ear/Retrieved from creek/Planted, Watered, Fertilized—Favored/Responded appropriately/Divided
Balckberry/Retrieved from Granny’s/Planted, Watered Fertilized—Favored/Responded appropriately/Divide later
—Application:
?You Forfeited God’s GRACE?
?You Found Fault with God’s grace?
12—When fault is found we forfeit
FOCUS(:20-21)
—Explanation:(:20-21)Fulfillment/Source
“And He closed the book, & gave it back to the attendant, & sat down; & the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon Him. And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.””
Focus of the Scriptures is Jesus, the means of God’s grace.
—Argumentation:
Lk. 24:13ff—:27—“And beginning with Moses & with all the prophets, He[Jesus] explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.”
Eph. 4:14-16-“...we are no longer to be children, tossed here & there by waves, & carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted & held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.”
—Illustration:
Business/Company facing bankruptcy/Cash flow problems/Go public/Investors supply cash flow/Rejct stock market=Broke/Focus to save business
Boils down to...
Tomato paste
Condensed Milk
Chemistry precipitates/boil doen liquid till only solid remains
—Application:
?You Forfeited God’s FOCUS?
?You Found Fault with God’s grace?
CONCLUSION:
Action:
When fault is found with God’s grace we forfeit
POWER
OPPORTUNITY / FAVOR
FOCUS
Healing
Freedom
Sight
Anointing
Good News
Status
Godly Influence
Rest
Guidance
CHILDREN’S— ‘When Opportunity Knocks’
Presented 06/03/01am to:
Providence Baptist church
975 Providence Road
Whigham, GA 31797
