BE SEEKERS OF THE LOST!   Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep…

OBEY… FOR THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!  For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. —I Samuel 15:23 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.” —I Samuel 16:7 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. —Luke 14:33             Following Jesus calls for obedience. We are not to be like King Saul who was given…

BE HUMBLE AND NOT SELF-EXALTING For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. —Luke 14:11             If we want to see what humility looks like then let us look at Jesus— Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross. —Philippians 2:5-7             Jesus, God in the…

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JESUS, THE KING OF ALL NATIONS! Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. —I Samuel 8:5-7             Who do we want to truly rule over us? Who or what will be our priority trust? From whose hand do we acknowledge our needs being met? Who is ruler of our lives?…

HEART’S FOCUS And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.  And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up…

LIFE AND DEATH ARE IN GOD’S HANDS The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.  —I Samuel 2:6-7 If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the LORD to put them to death. —I Samuel 2:25 And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his…

THE SIGN OF JONAH For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. —Luke 11:30-32 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the…

LISTEN TO GOD’S WORD, NOT YOUR OWN! In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit. —Judges 21:28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” —Luke 11:28             Here’s the whole crux of the matter! Who will you obey? Will you just heed to your own selfish thoughts or listen to what God says and obey Him? Do you seek to be guided by yourself who is so limited in knowledge? There are those who think they “know it all” and in reality you can take the smartest person on the planet and they know very little when…

LOVE FOR GOD AND NEIGHBOR ARE INSEPERABLE! And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from…