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Part 3 | Don’t Be a Pharisee Generational InfluenceFrom Luke 16
Am I a ?
📖 Luke 15:1–2 ESV Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
How to be a :
1. when connects with .
2. that I am a .
📖 Luke 15:6–7 ESV He calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
📖 Luke 15:9–10 ESV “She calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
📖 Luke 15:23–24 ESV ‘Let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
📖 Luke 15:28a ESV But he was angry and refused to go in…
📖 Luke 15:29–30 ESV But he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
Pharisees over what God gives and what God gives .
📖 Luke 16:1–2 ESV He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 2 And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’”
Three quick points about money:
1. All I is actually on .
📖 Luke 16:8–9 ESV The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. 9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that seem it fails they may receive you into the ETERNAL DWELLINGS.
2. money to people, don’t people to money.
Who am I by God’s ?
3. The way to people is to use what God you to them to .
📖 Luke 16:11 ESV If then you have not been FAITHFUL in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Money is the ; are the .
📖 Luke 16:14 ESV The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
How to be a :
3. and yourself by what you you .
📖 Luke 16:15 ESV And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”
Sermon in a Sentence:
could make me a — God wants it to make me a .
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