Luke 16 & 17: The Values of God Flashcards
What are the points and verses used in Kyle’s sermon, “The Values of God”?
1) The Faithful Stewardship (16:1-18)
2) A Benevolence Spirit (16:19-31)
3) n/a (17:11-19)
What are the top 10 American Values and what is the scripture used to reveal how God feels about them.
1) Individualism
2) Equality
3) Materialism
4) Science and Technology
5) Progress and Change
6) Work and Leisure
7) Competition
8) Mobility
9) Voluntarism
10) Achievement
Luke 16:15
“What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.”
In Luke 16:1-9, who does the rich man and the manager represent and explain it’s significance
Rich man represents God
Manager represents you
- Before we became Christians we wasted God’s possessions he gave to us
God commended this man for acting shrewdly with his money
-the way we spend our money on earth makes a difference in the eternal dwellings
Money in the mind of God is simply to make disciples
The illustration of Brewster’s Millions Movie portrayed a good example of our lives as disciples. Why?
We are given an amount of money by God, all of us a different amount and we are required to use it in whatever way we think we should but we cannot take any of it with us, no assets.
Making disciples is the only thing we can take with us to our eternal dwellings. So how should we use our money?
We are to spend our money on making disciples!
What were the 2 reasons why God gives us money in Luke 16:10-13?
1) it is to make disciples
2) it is to test us
if you are faithful with the small things you’ll be faithful with the big things
According to the American dream, we feel entitled to a retirement, vacation, and a nice car. How can this be a challenge when giving God special missions?
When focused on the American dream, Special missions cuts into all this because they are in conflict
“…You cannot serve both God and money.” Luke 16:9
How faithful are you as a steward with God’s money?
We might not have much here on earth but we will have many friends in heaven =]
Describe the “rich man” and his situation in Luke 16:19-31
- Was wearing purple cloth, meaning he was a religious man
- Feasting in the Greek represented “Gourmet feeding on exotic dishes”
- He ate very awesome every day
Describe “Lazarus” and his situation in Luke 16:19-31
- The name is the Latin version of Aliazar, which means “God is my help”
- He ate the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table, he was desperate
Where did Lazarus and the rich man go when they died, why and how does it relate to us?
The rich man was in hell while Lazarus was in paradise
This points out greed but there is a deeper reason why he is in hell…
His greatest sin was that he had the ability and the power to change this man’s life, but chose not too
Our greatest sin can be accepting the world for what it is and not desiring to change it!
Name the great men of faith in the Old Testament who were not so awesome
Noah- was a drunkard, yet righteous
Abraham- sells out his wife twice, yet was the father of faith
Gideon- had almost no faith, yet God still used him
David- was an adulterer and murderer, yet was a man after God’s own heart
What is the greatest sin as Christians?
It is not what you do but simply what you don’t do!
This picture of hell is vivid..
- You can see heaven
- Absolute torture
- A great chasm has been fixed, it is permanent
- It is the end of evangelism
On April 14th, 1912 at 10pm, the Titanic crashed into an iceberg. A woman who had 3 minutes to go back and grab her belongings passed by treasures and casinos and went to her room and grabbed 3 oranges for her survival. Explain her actions in accordance with the rich man.
When you are facing death, your value system change
-The rich man started to value what God values at the end of his life
The rich man requested that someone would rise from the dead…
-If people don’t listen to the Word of God then they won’t listen to anybody!
Kyle got a call from a disciple this one day and asked to come to their mom who was about to die requesting that he would go pray with her. Despite being a Buddhist for 50 years, Kyle studied with her, she confessed all her sin, repented and got baptized. She used to have daily nightmares but now she has dreams of meeting Jesus. What can we learn from Kyle’s situation?
The most powerful weapon is not you; it is the word of God!
-How well do you know the bible?
We cannot be intimidated by a Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness, Muslim, or strong Buddhists! Why?
Religious people can make a huge impact in our ministry!
Paul only took a few people with him on his mission teams
How did the church in the first century grow so fast?
Paul relied on baptizing the religious people in the synagogues to be his mission team
-In Corinth, 2/3rd of the synagogues became disciples
The Bible is compared to a hammer and a sword. What are they used for?
You hit pagans with a hammer
You need to learn how to use it as a sword for the religious people
There is no story in the bible that expresses human ingratitude better than Luke 17:11-19, because leprosy is a hand skin disease with 2 theories:
1) loss of feeling in the nerves
2) skin disease where you have sores that make your flesh rot
it was so bad and permanent that the only solution is to isolate these people
In Numbers 5:1-4, God’s instruction to Moses was to isolate the disease so it won’t spread
In order to come back you needed to do what?
Prove that you have been cured
In Leviticus 15:1-14 dealt with proving you have been cured from leprosy by:
1st step was to be examined head to toe
2nd step was to take the blood of one bird and then took the blood of a second bird
-this symbolized a second chance
How does this relate to us?
By our conversions, because we are spiritual lepers that have been given a second chance
-in times of distress we seek God together and we eagerly need fellowship
*When we think of who we were in the world, it should shock us. We can easily forget how much God saved us from. Because God’s grace and love, we now live in his salvation!
What should we remember when we have a bad day?
You are saved!
- there is no excuse why a disciple should be discouraged!
- when you lose your gratitude for your salvation, you lose your motivation
*Some of us have forgotten who we were in the world and so this life becomes burdensome
A slave was at a slave auction was paid to be set free. Overwhelmed, the slave wanted to find the man who set him free so that he can serve him the rest of his life. What does this teach us as disciples?
This is the heart we need to have towards the God that redeemed us!
