Enemies of a Growing Church | Developing a Big Mission in the Body of Christ
From Luke 14:15-24
📖 Matthew 16:18 (ESV) I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
We don’t want to a , we want to be a church.
Enemies of a Growing Church:
1. produced by everyone is going to .
📖 Luke 14:15-16 (ESV) When one of those who reclined at table with HIM heard these things, he said to HIM, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” 16 But HE said to him,…
📖 Luke 14:1 (ESV) One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.
📖 Luke 14:15 (ESV) one of those who reclined at table with HIM… said, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
📖 Matthew 7:14 (ESV) the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
📖 Matthew 21:31 (ESV) “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
📖 Matthew 8:11-12 (ESV) I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
📖 Matthew 8:3 (ESV) and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Enemies of a Growing Church:
2. rooted in the of life.
📖 Luke 14:16b-20 (ESV) “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. 17 And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ 18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ 20 And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
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Enemies of a Growing Church:
3. with .
📖 Luke 14:21-23 (ESV) So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ 22 And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
We don’t church, we church, here to pierce a world and declare the has .
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