SUCH GREAT MISTAKES: NOT HEARING & DOING GOD'S WORD
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Such Great Mistakes
a) We consider another theme evident in many of the parables, namely the great and terrible mistakes that people make.
b) The parables that Jesus told often portray people making tragic and terrible mistakes, or on the other hand, being wise and avoiding such mistakes. People generally seem blind to the terrible mistakes they are making in life. Christ's poignant stories so vividly show up these mistakes, that it is hard to remain blind once the point of a parable sinks in — if only you will let it. A burden of Jesus's teaching is to enlighten humankind, to help us realize the mistakes we have made, and how we can overcome them.
c) Usually the wisdom of our times tells us that the mistakes we are making are things like not thinking positive, not managing our time and money, not practicing meditation and relaxation, not planting trees, or not giving up smoking.
d) Those, and a hundred other things, may well be serious mistakes, but they do not compare with the enormity of mistakes made on a spiritual level. These mistakes are utterly simple. Even a child can understand them. Yet people go on making them whether blindly or deliberately.
2. Not Hearing And Doing God's word
a) The Two Builders
Luke 6:46-49
46 “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? 47 Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”
b) Jesus Christ is "the true God and eternal life" and he "enlightens every man" (1 John 5:20, John 1:9). We would be foolish not to listen to Jesus and do what he says. Jesus told a parable in which he pointed out that to come to him, hear his word, and act upon it, is like wisely building a house on a rock foundation. To be without this foundation is a terrible mistake, and will lead to disaster.
The End ...
1. Such Great Mistakesa) We consider another theme evident in many of the parables, namely the great and terrible mistakes that people make.
b) The parables that Jesus told often portray people making tragic and terrible mistakes, or on the other hand, being wise and avoiding such mistakes. People generally seem blind to the terrible mistakes they are making in life. Christ's poignant stories so vividly show up these mistakes, that it is hard to remain blind once the point of a parable sinks in — if only you will let it. A burden of Jesus's teaching is to enlighten humankind, to help us realize the mistakes we have made, and how we can overcome them.
c) Usually the wisdom of our times tells us that the mistakes we are making are things like not thinking positive, not managing our time and money, not practicing meditation and relaxation, not planting trees, or not giving up smoking.
d) Those, and a hundred other things, may well be serious mistakes, but they do not compare with the enormity of mistakes made on a spiritual level. These mistakes are utterly simple. Even a child can understand them. Yet people go on making them whether blindly or deliberately.
2. Not Hearing And Doing God's word
a) The Two Builders
Luke 6:46-49
46 “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? 47 Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”
b) Jesus Christ is "the true God and eternal life" and he "enlightens every man" (1 John 5:20, John 1:9). We would be foolish not to listen to Jesus and do what he says. Jesus told a parable in which he pointed out that to come to him, hear his word, and act upon it, is like wisely building a house on a rock foundation. To be without this foundation is a terrible mistake, and will lead to disaster.
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