Title: Testy Journey (4 of 13)
Series: The Journey
Author: Steve Jones
Text: Luke 18:18-23
Sermon Summary: Jesus' three tests: 1) The good test. 2) The bad test 3) The ugly test.
INTRODUCTION: Let me posit to you the "Monty Hall Test". It is a classic problem used in statistics. Monty shows you three doors. Behind one is a car and behind the other two are goats. You pick door number one. Monty then shows you what's behind door number two - a goat - and offers to let you stay with door number one or switch to door number three. What should you do, stay, switch, or does it not make any difference? You think about that, and I'll reveal the answer at the end of the sermon. And there IS a correct answer.
Today, let's consider that this is a "testy"journey. I'm using the word "testy" in the unconventional sense of "facing many tests." I have three points: the good the bad and theUGLY.
I. THE GOOD TEST
Luke 18:18-19 "Good Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?" "Why do you call me good? Only God is truly good."
This is a GOOD question because if there is such a thing as "eternal life" to inherit, then we'd best figure out how to do it!
Jesus challenged the language this man used when he addressed Jesus using the title of "good teacher." He did so to see if he really understood who it was that he was talking to. There is only one who is truly good all the time and that one is God. Did this man realize that the person he came to for answers was none other than God in the flesh? Do we?
It is JESUS that we come to for answers to the important questions such as "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" As the apostle Peter once said to Jesus "To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
To whom SHALL we go? Singers?
Elvis Presley upon being asked a political question answered: "I'd just a soon keep my own personal views about that to myself because I'm just an entertainer."
Actors?
Tom Selleck wh ...
Series: The Journey
Author: Steve Jones
Text: Luke 18:18-23
Sermon Summary: Jesus' three tests: 1) The good test. 2) The bad test 3) The ugly test.
INTRODUCTION: Let me posit to you the "Monty Hall Test". It is a classic problem used in statistics. Monty shows you three doors. Behind one is a car and behind the other two are goats. You pick door number one. Monty then shows you what's behind door number two - a goat - and offers to let you stay with door number one or switch to door number three. What should you do, stay, switch, or does it not make any difference? You think about that, and I'll reveal the answer at the end of the sermon. And there IS a correct answer.
Today, let's consider that this is a "testy"journey. I'm using the word "testy" in the unconventional sense of "facing many tests." I have three points: the good the bad and theUGLY.
I. THE GOOD TEST
Luke 18:18-19 "Good Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?" "Why do you call me good? Only God is truly good."
This is a GOOD question because if there is such a thing as "eternal life" to inherit, then we'd best figure out how to do it!
Jesus challenged the language this man used when he addressed Jesus using the title of "good teacher." He did so to see if he really understood who it was that he was talking to. There is only one who is truly good all the time and that one is God. Did this man realize that the person he came to for answers was none other than God in the flesh? Do we?
It is JESUS that we come to for answers to the important questions such as "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" As the apostle Peter once said to Jesus "To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
To whom SHALL we go? Singers?
Elvis Presley upon being asked a political question answered: "I'd just a soon keep my own personal views about that to myself because I'm just an entertainer."
Actors?
Tom Selleck wh ...
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