Please understand that these are notes taken by: James Schultz, jaschult@vt.edu and are passed onto others by the best of his understanding of what was said. His words are not to be used as quotes, it is merely his best regugitation of what was said at the time. This means areas of pasages may be wrong due to lack of careful edited. Again don't quote here just take the message at face value and do your own scripture digging.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

4-06-08

Sermon, Forest

Last week: Jesus is not valued at all till he is valued above all.

Mat 21:44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him."

Mat 21
Jesus puts it back on us, because he is not the problem, we are.
28-32 Lip service is not real service. V.31 The Jews of the day say they will obey God, but do not. The tax collectors and the prostitutes initially disobeyed, but really did obey. Mat 23:1-4 pretending to obey God. Do you claim to get it, but do you really get it. Pretend obedience is not real obedience. God is looking for authenticity, he is looking for a consistent lifestyle day in and out. God would rather we say we don’t want God but come to him truly rather than just go through the motions. At least you can see you have cancer.

33-46 Isaiah 5:7 God is looking for fruit in his vineyard. First thing, God is gracious. God continues to send prophets to talk to us, but we continued to reject them. Why is God even negotiating with these people, he owns it all. The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in Love. God is also just and gives the truth. The wrong in this world will one day be right, God has to be just. God is condemning greed, rent to own type of attitude, trying to take what they didn’t own. There is an arrogance in us that tells God that “we got this”. The second sin is the hardness of heart. This must lead us to repentance. Do you show contempt for God patience and kindness. You should look at your fruit to see if you are producing much fruit for God. Are you living a fruitful life for God. You can’t fake spiritual fruit. May God encourage us toward repentence.

Matt 22

1-14 Getting a wedding invitation and being ready to attend. All are welcome in the kingdom of God even though we are “rag-tag”. Taking the kings grace for granted is very dangerous and may find yourself thrown out. Mat 7:21-23. Rev 19:6-8. Our righteousness doesn’t save us, it is a preparation for a great feast that is coming our way. It describes it as a preparation for a wedding feast to come. We are today just like those of Jesus’ day.
We must have a heart of service. Life of continual repentance. Life of righteousness.

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