LEAVE US ALONE MANY WANT TO BE LEFT
“LEAVE US ALONE!”
MANY WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE FOR THE WRONG REASONS • LUKE 4: 34 – “LET US ALONE! WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH YOU…” • HOSEA 4: 17 “EPHRAIM IS JOINED TO IDOLS, LET HIM ALONE. ” • TODAY, MANY WHO HEAR THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL SAY “LEAVE US ALONE!”
SOME PEOPLE SAY “LEAVE US ALONE”: • BECAUSE THEY ARE SATISFIED • ACTS 13: 45 -48 “JUDGE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF EVERLASTING LIFE” • REVELATION 3: 14 -17 “I KNOW YOUR WORKS…” • CAN WE BE SATISFIED WITH ANYTHING LESS THAN THE TRUTH? GALATIANS 1: 6 -9; ACTS 17: 11 • ACTS 8: 30, 31 EUNUCH NOT SATISFIED.
SOME PEOPLE SAY “LEAVE US ALONE”: • BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID- • MATTHEW 21: 46 – “THEY FEARED THE MULTITUDES” • JOHN 12: 42, 43 “DID NOT CONFESS HIM, LEST THEY SHOULD BE PUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE” • JOHN 9: 22 “THEY FEARED THE JEWS”
SOME PEOPLE SAY “LEAVE US ALONE”: • BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF THE POWER OF JESUS • MARK 11: 18 “THEY FEARED HIM” • BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID TO ASK! • LUKE 9: 45 “THEY WERE AFRAID TO ASK HIM” • LUKE 12: 32 “DO NOT FEAR…”
SOME PEOPLE SAY “LEAVE US ALONE”: • BECAUSE THEY ARE INDIFFERENT • MATTHEW 27: 3, 4 “WHAT IS THAT TO US? YOU SEE TO IT!” • REVELATION 3: 14 -17 “'I AM RICH, HAVE BECOME WEALTHY, AND HAVE NEED OF NOTHING' --AND DO NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE WRETCHED, MISERABLE, POOR, BLIND,
SOME PEOPLE SAY “LEAVE US ALONE”: • BECAUSE THEY ARE IGNORANT • MATTHEW 8: 34 “THEY BEGGED HIM TO DEPART” • 2 PETER 3: 5 -10 “THIS THEY WILLFULLY FORGET” • 1 TIMOTHY 1: 12 -16 “I DID IT IGNORANTLY IN UNBELIEF” “CAME INTO THE WORLD TO
SOME PEOPLE SAY “LEAVE US ALONE”: • BECAUSE THEY THINK THE COST IS TOO GREAT • LUKE 14: 25 -33 “FORSAKE ALL THAT HE HAS” • MATTHEW 16: 24 -26 “LET HIM DENY HIMSELF AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS AND FOLLOW ME” • MATTHEW 19: 20 -22 “SELL WHAT YOU HAVE AND GIVE TO THE POOR” • 1 TIMOTHY 6: 6 -10 “LOVE OF MONEY IS A ROOT OF ALL KINDS OF EVIL” • MATTHEW 13: 22 “DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES”
SOME PEOPLE SAY “LEAVE US ALONE”: • BECAUSE THEY FEEL THEY ARE BETTER OFF LEFT ALONE • NO QUESTIONS TO WORRY ABOUT ANSWERING • NO CHALLENGES TO IDEAS ALREADY ACCEPTED AND SETTLED! • NO THINKING REQUIRED, NO EFFORT!
WE WON’T WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE… • IN THE TIME OF LIFE’S SORROWS, TROUBLES, PAIN! • AT THE TIME OF DEPARTURE FROM THIS LIFE! • ONLY CHRIST CAN LEAD US SAFELY THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH – JOHN 5: 28, 29
IN THE JUDGMENT – WHERE WILL WE STAND IF WE ARE OUTSIDE OF CHRIST? • IN ETERNITY – GOD WILL PLACE THE DISOBEDIENT IN HELL! • 2 THESSALONIANS 1: 7 -10 “OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL” “SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD” • LOVING PEOPLE DARE NOT LEAVE YOU
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