HEART THAT CONFRONTS (7 OF 10)
Scripture: Luke 7:36-50
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Heart That Confronts (7 of 10)
Series: The Heart of Jesus
Stephen Whitney
Luke 7:36-50
It takes courage to confront someone because what they did was wrong. It is much easier to just let the issue or problem alone. Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend. NIV - Wounds from a friend can be trusted.
In 1980 Christian counselor David Augsburger wrote a book titled: Caring Enough To Confront. In it he encouraged believers to recognize that our relationships carry with them the responsibility to confront others when they are wrong instead of just letting it go.
Jesus was bold and confronted wrong attitudes and behavior. He took opportunity to challenge wrong beliefs so that people would change their thinking. He wanted them to see their sin and need to trust him as their Savior.
HUMILITY DEMONSTRATED :36-39 Pharisees - were a group of about 6,000 people who tried to keep the OT Law as strictly as they could. They were legalistic and thought that they could be accepted by God if they kept the law. They opposed Jesus because of his interpretation of the law was not as literal as theirs and his claim to be God.
Another reason they opposed him was because they saw God as angry and unforgiving where Jesus pictured God as compassionate and forgiving of anyone who would repent of their sins.
Despite the fact that they disagreed it was not unusual that a Pharisee would invite Jesus to dinner because he was popular many people wanted to get to know him and hear what he had to say even if they did not agree with him.
Table - in Bible times you did not sit up to a table on a chair. The tables were low to the ground like our coffee table so you would sit on a pillow on the floor and lean on the table with your left arm and your feet behind you away from the table.
The dinner takes place in the courtyard of the house as houses of the well-to-do were build around an open courtyard with a garden. In the warm weather the meals were eaten in the ...
Series: The Heart of Jesus
Stephen Whitney
Luke 7:36-50
It takes courage to confront someone because what they did was wrong. It is much easier to just let the issue or problem alone. Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend. NIV - Wounds from a friend can be trusted.
In 1980 Christian counselor David Augsburger wrote a book titled: Caring Enough To Confront. In it he encouraged believers to recognize that our relationships carry with them the responsibility to confront others when they are wrong instead of just letting it go.
Jesus was bold and confronted wrong attitudes and behavior. He took opportunity to challenge wrong beliefs so that people would change their thinking. He wanted them to see their sin and need to trust him as their Savior.
HUMILITY DEMONSTRATED :36-39 Pharisees - were a group of about 6,000 people who tried to keep the OT Law as strictly as they could. They were legalistic and thought that they could be accepted by God if they kept the law. They opposed Jesus because of his interpretation of the law was not as literal as theirs and his claim to be God.
Another reason they opposed him was because they saw God as angry and unforgiving where Jesus pictured God as compassionate and forgiving of anyone who would repent of their sins.
Despite the fact that they disagreed it was not unusual that a Pharisee would invite Jesus to dinner because he was popular many people wanted to get to know him and hear what he had to say even if they did not agree with him.
Table - in Bible times you did not sit up to a table on a chair. The tables were low to the ground like our coffee table so you would sit on a pillow on the floor and lean on the table with your left arm and your feet behind you away from the table.
The dinner takes place in the courtyard of the house as houses of the well-to-do were build around an open courtyard with a garden. In the warm weather the meals were eaten in the ...
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