THE WAY THE LOST TREAT YOU IS HOW THEY ARE TREATING JESUS Then he said to the disciples, “Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God, who sent me.” —Luke 10:16 When Jesus appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus He said, “Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?” (Acts 9:4). What was being done to the followers of Jesus was being done to Jesus. So it is with the message we have to bring to those who do not know Jesus. The one who accepts the message is also accepting Jesus.…

She thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” —Mark 5:28 When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of him. The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been immediately healed. “Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” —Luke 8:47-48 This woman who “suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding” believed that if she just touched Jesus she would be healed. Jesus said that her faith (in Him) had made her well. This woman knew without a doubt that…

VICTORIES WITH MANY OF FEWThe Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many warriors with you. If I let all of you fight the Midianites, the Israelites will boast to me that they saved themselves by their own strength. ‘Whoever is timid or afraid may leave this mountain and go home.’” So 22,000 of them went home, leaving only 10,000 who were willing to fight. But the Lord told Gideon, “There are still too many! Only 300 of the men drank from their hands. All the others got down on their knees and drank with their mouths in the stream. The Lord told Gideon, “With these 300 men I will…

“I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love. —Luke 7:47 The self-righteous don’t think they have done much wrong. They do not see their sin as the affront it really is against God. But those who understand their sin and understand what Jesus has done for them are the ones who love much. They understand the filthiness of their sin, the holiness of God and His loving forgiveness. “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to…

And the Israelites served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and the leaders who outlived him—those who had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel. Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110. They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel. The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight and served the images of Baal. —Judges 2:7-11 How did another…

“So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say? I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it. It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built. But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.” —Luke 6:46-49 The foundation for…

From now on you’ll be fishing for people! —Luke 5:10 Have you been? Some people say they don’t have that gift, but Acts 1:8 calls us to be witnesses of the Lord Jesus. With the greatest message this world will ever hear being in our capability to communicate, why wouldn’t we? People need to hear what the Creator and Sustainer of all life has done for them so that they might be saved from their sin as we were when we trusted Jesus. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John…

Once when he was in the synagogue, a man possessed by a demon—an evil spirit—began shouting at Jesus, “Go away! Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” Jesus cut him short. “Be quiet! Come out of the man,” he ordered. At that, the demon threw the man to the floor as the crowd watched; then it came out of him without hurting him further. Amazed, the people exclaimed, “What authority and power this man’s words possess! Even evil spirits obey him, and they flee at his command!” —Luke 4:33-36 Demons recognize Jesus more…

Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. —Luke 3:8 Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. —Matthew 3:8 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. —Ephesians 2:10 I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. —Acts 26:20 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. —James 2:26 Evidence… is there enough evidence in your life to…

…the deepest thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. —Luke 2:35 What are those deep thoughts in your mind that no one knows of? Jesus knows them! He knows the thoughts and intents of every man (John 2:25). He reveals the thoughts of your heart. By reading this you either agree or may get upset with these truths. But, it does not change things. Jesus knows you better than you know yourself. He knows your motives. He knows what makes you tic. He knows your priorities and everything about you. In a world where very few really know your name— Jesus knows every name and… He cares about you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtlDVleJBtA…