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  • What Jesus Didn't Do

  • Sunday, July 31, 2022

    Speaker: Dr. Robert Sloan

    Series: The Church Jesus Built (Is Building), Part 5

    Text:  Luke 2:49: "And he said to them, 'Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?'"

     WWJD – What Would Jesus Do?

  • BACKGROUND - Israel in the Time of Jesus

    • Greek influence

    • Roman culture and control

    • Jewish faith and culture
      • Zealots
      • Sadducees
      • Pharisees
      • Essenes

    What Jesus Did Not Do

    1.  He did not address slavery

    2.  He never went to the capital

    3.  He never met Caesar

    4.  He did not resist the government

    5.  He had no house

    6.  He did not seek crowds

    7.  He did not seek fame

    8.  He did not seek approval (He was hard on religious leaders

    9.  He was never in a hurry – waited to go to Jerusalem for Feast Tabernacles

    10.  He did not guard His reputation – Woman at well, lepers, prostitutes, woman adultery, tax collectors, etc.

    11.  He did not defend himself

    12.  He was not afraid to die


    JESUS APPROACH – He lived above the world

    In the world but not of it He ignored most of the things that capture us.


    He didn’t worry - Cares of the World 

     

    WHAT DID HE DO? He paid attention to people

    • Loved His Father – prayer, obedience

    • Loved people – He saw the people and their needs

      Feeding 5,000 and 4,000
      Spoke to the unclean
      Healed many
       

     

    CONCLUSIONS

    But he did pay attention to people and to His Father.  And obviously so should we.

    (1 Pet 2:21)  21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

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