For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God – Romans 8:14 (NASB)
(vv.1-5) Jesus’ Point: One decision or
(Jesus) …unless you repent (metanoeō), you will all likewise perish (apollumi). (vv.3&5) (NASB)
Repent: metanoeō – to undergo a change in frame of mind and feeling, to repent, (Luke 17:3, 4); to make a change of principle and practice, to reform (MCED)
Perish: apollumi – to destroy fully, perish, die (OTESD)
Repented??? There should be (vv.6-9)
Point: If there is no change
God’s heart revealed: (vv.8-9)
Healing on the Sabbath (vv.10-17)
Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. – 1 John 4:4 (ASV)
THE GREAT DIVIDE (Two Warnings)
Warning: The Parable of the Mustard Seed (vv.18-19)
…as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up…”These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them…It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil, yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large branches, with the result that THE BIRDS OF THE SKY can NEST UNDER its shade.”
– Mark 4:4, 14-15 & 31-32 (NASB)
Birds are within the Church
…impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. – 2 Timothy 3:13 (NASB)
Warning: Parable of the Leaven (vv. 20-21)
(Jesus) Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. – Luke 12:1 (NASB)
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened… – 1 Corinthians 5:6-7 (NASB77)
Leaven is always a symbol of
The Woman: Three measures equaled a
Jesus asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God with? It is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises.” – Luke 13:20-21 (GN)
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. – 2 Peter 2:1 (NASB)
When a church embraces some “Bird’s Nest” it loses its focus on
(Jesus) …unless you repent, you will all likewise perish… (v.3) (NASB)
Where does it lead? (vv.22-24)
Question: So who will be saved? (vv.22-30)
The real question is not will be saved but whether or not be saved (v.24)
Jesus never for the of the door
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
– John 14:6 (NASB95)