Risking for the Rewards of Heaven
SERMON OUTLINE
- Risk versus Reward
- 3 Triads repeated 3 times (Luke 6:27-35)
- Love your enemies (Rom 11:28, 5:10)
- Enemies – anyone who harmed you or seeks your harm
- Love them (Lk 6:27, Mk 10:45, Jn 13:34, 15:9)
- Is Not
- Easy
- Always Returned or responded to at first
- A feeling
- Is
- A Choice
- Loving is about Forgiving
- Seeking the best for another even when they are seeking our worst
- Dying for your enemies (Lk 23:34, Acts 7:60)
- Doing Good (Luke 6:27b-29)
- Is Not (Mt 5:38f)
- Tit for tat (Mt 5:38)
- Supporting an unjust/ungodly cause
- Compromising
- Is
- Counter-intuitive
- Costly
- Relational
- Is Not (Mt 5:38f)
- Being Generous
- Is Not
- Loans
- Justice
- Giving your tithe and nothing more
- A hat you wear sometimes and don’t wear other times
- Is
- Character Quality
- About blessing those who don’t deserve it.
- Recognizing who is the real owner of the stuff we have
- Freely received, freely give
- About being willing to take up a cross and die to ourselves.
- About confronting our penchant for materialism
- Surely I am not to give to the con artist?
- Is Not
- Is it Worth it to risk in these ways?
- YES!
- Why (Luke 6:35)
- Great Reward
- Treasures in Heaven (Mt 19:21)
- Crowns of Righteousness (2Tim 4:8), Life (Jam 1:12, Rev 2:10), Glory (1Pt 5:4)
- Banquet with the Son of Man (Luke 14:15-24, Rev 19:9)
- New Jerusalem
- Our identity – proof that God is in us (Lk 6:35d)
- Great Reward
- So who do you want to be? Who does God want you to be? (Heb 12:2)
- Living by Faith is always a risk
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