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Welcome the Blessings in Christ. I'm Scott Roberts. Blessings in
Christ is also the Church of Christ preaching the gospel
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Of he that
believeth and is baptized shall be saved. God is a spirit,
and those who worship Him must worship him in spirit
and in truth.
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John fourd Verse twenty four.
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The Church of Christ is a group of Christians striving
to follow the pattern that we find in the New Testament.
We follow and preach the exact same doctrine that the
Holy Spirit gave the apostles. They preach the Word of
God with boldness and spake the things given to them
by the Holy Spirit. The Church of Christ preaches the
entire Word of God, and we do not change what
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is written in God's Word. We don't add, and we
don't take away. Our goal is to simply be Christians
who are pleasing to God. We do not claim to
be perfect, but we are sanctified as God's chills and
people set apart to glorify Jesus Christ, to increase His
kingdom the Church, and to serve Our Lord every day
for our entire life. We are not ashamed of the
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Gospel of Christ. It is the power of God under salvation.
Jesus Christ is the foundation of the church. It is
his church. First Corinthians three and verse eleven. He purchased
the church with his own blood. Acts twenty and twenty eight.
Jesus makes the statement, if you love me, keep my
commandments in John.
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Fourteen and verse fifteen.
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After the great love Jesus showed to us by dying
on the cross for our sins, we simply want to
love him back by obedience and of course by obeying
the Gospel plan of salvation, being added to the church,
and being a child of God. Our lesson today is
by Phil Bentley from the New Carlisle, Ohio Church of Christ.
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He's bringing us a lesson on the good Samaritan in
Galatians six and verse nine. Let us not be weary
and well doing, for in due season we shall we
shall reap if we think not, as we have therefore opportunity.
Let us do good unto all men, especially unto them
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who are of the household of faith. Once again we
have Phil Bentley from the New Carlisle, Ohio Church of Christ.
He's bringing us an excellent lesson on the good Samaritan.
We hope that you enjoy the lesson today and please
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Thank you. There is and made, and.
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He made agreed man. According is.
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There is a call.
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Even is love I.
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Feel is love I be when il when being the song.
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The south and Ossian.
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There is a god.
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Very is God. Sobo will say wont good to church
or bred, but when they die what they shall find
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will sure change.
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There there is a god that is godverynes reming my
hoping mird is love.
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I feel his love.
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I feel when I am blame, when I being his
falling in the saucyannlossie.
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There is a God. When I was lost.
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Insane and shage.
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These bless it's say you came, he lived in me
a hi grid for him night. And there is a
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god that is God and.
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Readings re beeting my host in my heart's love.
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I there is not I when I'm play when being
the falcking.
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God.
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So in this first it said, as therefore we have opportunity,
let us do good to all men, and didn't especially
specify any certain.
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Men, but it said all men.
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That would mean the rich, the poor, the sick, the dirty,
the clean, the black, the white, the uneducated, the unbeliever. Now,
if you will turn with me over to Luke chapter ten,
we're gonna take a look at verses thirty through thirty six.
That's Luke chapter ten, thirty through thirty six. Now when
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I do my lessons here, I cheat a little bit,
and I write down the verse I don't have to
turn over to the Bible. Allows me to go a
little quicker. And plus I write a little bit larger
font than what the Bible does. Is I'm going blind,
and makes it a little easier for me to see
and read than read straight from the Bible. But anyways,
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here in Luke chapter ten, starting verse thirty, it says,
Now this, of course is Jesus talking. It says, a
certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell
among thieves, which dripped him of his raiment and wounded
him and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance
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there came down a certain priest that way, and when
he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
And likewise Levi, when he was at the place, came
and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was,
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and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring
in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast,
and brought him to an end, and took care of him.
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And on tomorrow, when he departed, he took out twopence
and gave them to the host, and said it to him,
take care of him. And whatsoever thou spendest more, when
I come again, I will repay thee which now of
these three thinkest thou was neighbor unto him that fell
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among the thieves.
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Now let's think about this man that got robbed.
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He was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho, and that looks
to be about a one hundred and fifty mile trip,
and he was probably on foot. The Bible doesn't say
if he was on foot or not. I'm just speculating.
And if he was on foot, he should have been
able to got at least thirty miles a day, and
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that has calculated a walk of approximately four mile per
hour and at seven and a half hours a day.
Of course, that includes all of his union appointed breaks
and everything else he had to take at that time.
And so, like I said, that includes everything else. So
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that concluded him taking his lunch, break, breakfast, and whatever else.
So we don't know if this man travel was for
pleasure or business, but whichever it was, when traveling for
five days, how did I get five days? Well, you
take the distance of one hundred and fifty miles and
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divide it by thirty miles a day, and there.
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You have five days.
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So I was saying that when you're traveling for five days,
a person tends to plan. So if you're gonna be
out walking for five days on foot, and you're gonna
travel one hundred and fifty miles, you're playing this out.
This is not something that comes easy, especially as for me,
as I've got older and fatter and more aches and
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pains and everything else in the world.
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I really hadn't have to plan something like this out.
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But this man may have packed a backpack with a
couple changes of clothes and some food and water.
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He may have also saved up some money to be
able to stay at and end a night or two
or all five.
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We don't know, but as you can see, this would
make him a prime target for thieves, and they stripped
him of his clothes. I got feeling this man didn't
just let these thieves have his belongings, because the thieves
left him half dead, indicating a struggle or fight. Now,
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while laying there half dead, a priest came by, and
what did the priest do? That priest walking by had
the opportunity to be able to go over to that
man and say, hey, you okay.
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What's going on? Can I help you with something? Are
you sick? Did you fall and bring your leg here?
What can I do to help you? That's what I
had done. I know probably most of y'all would have.
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If you're walking on a trail, hiking and you saw
something like this, you don't want to know what's going on.
So the priest what did he do? He just walked
around it. He didn't just walk by or try to
get close to look.
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He went to the other side, the other side of
the road, go on to the other side, no curiosity
at all, what's going on? He didn't bend over and
questioned the man. He didn't nudge him, he didn't even
kick him. What did he do?
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He went to the other side of the road and
walked on by. Then a leevike came by this leevike
came by and did the exact same thing as the priest,
the exact same thing. Then a Samaritan came by on
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his beast. Now the beast could have been a number
of different creatures, such as a mule, a camel.
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Or horse, or even a knox, we don't know for sure.
And he got off the beast.
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So not only did he stop to see what's going on,
he got off his beast, got off his animal to
see what's going on. And he got off the beast
and tended to this man with compassion. And in verse
thirty four, it says that this samaritan bound up his wounds. Now,
hold on here, He didn't just go there, stop and
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quitz the guy. See what's going on. He bound up
his wounds. He put something on him to make him
stop bleeding, something to comfort his pain, and poured in
oil and wine. See this wine with alcohol in it
was a disaffected And then he put this certain man
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on his own beasts. In other words, he stopped writing
whatever it was, he stopped writing it and put this
man on it himself. Now, this Samaritan that was writing
on that beast, that could be a number of reasons
he was on it. Maybe he had bad legs, bad feet,
Maybe he had been working and was really tired.
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We don't know why he was on this beast.
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But he got himself off of it and put this
man that had been beaten and robbed on it, and
he walked alongside of it and guided it.
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And brought him to an end like a hotel or motel,
and took care of him.
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And the next day, as a Samaritan had to leave,
he left the man there, but before leaving, he went
to the host.
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Now my mind, my mind's aye.
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I like to think that he's going to like the
front desk of a hotel, and the person there at
that front desk tended. He went up up to him
and says, hey, I know I owe you twopence. Now
I'll give us to you. Now, he says, but take
care of that man up there. Take care of him,
and whatsoever thou'll spend us more. In other words, whatever
more money you need to spend to give him something
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that you gotta put new bandages on him, or if
there's something that some kind of food he requires or needs,
whatever it costs, I will repay you.
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Doesn't say exactly like that.
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But Bill's interpretation, in my little mind, that's the way
I want to think it went anyways in today's time,
and it says, not repay you when I get back
and verse thirty six, Jesus asked of the three that
would be the priest, the Levite, and the Samarican, which.
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One was the most neighborly. Well we know the answer
to that. Which one helped out the poor guy. The
Samaritan did see there was an.
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Opportunity there for the priest to make a connection with
the man.
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And also for the Levike to show compassion, but neither
did a thing.
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These kinds of opportunities we can't be missing out on.
We can't miss out on this opportunity to show compassion
and to help. At the same time as you show
compassion and you can help, you also can say, hey,
I'm a remember of Church of Christ. Once't you come
out here and see us. Anything you need or whatever
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will help you. The Lord loves you. And it said
the reason I helped you is because the Lord loves me,
and I know he'd want me to help you. That's
an opportunity that Samaritan took. Priests didn't take it. Why
didn't he take it? Why didn't the levit take it?
That's an opportunity. This is what I'm talking about. There's
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opportunities out there that we could take. This man he
helped could have been one of the next best preachers
that the world's ever heard.
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We don't know. But he helped this man, and he
set an example to this man how to be kind,
how to be naghverly, how to help.
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But instead the levite and the priest missed out on
the opportunity. We also must take advantage of opportunities to
study and grow, not only just to help out, but
to study and grow with others. Over in Ephesians chapter five,
Ephiesians chapter five, verses fifteen through seventeen, for those of
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you that's falling along, and we'll turn over to Ephijians chapter.
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We'll look at verses fifteen.
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Through seventeen, and starts there in verse fifteen and says,
see then that you walk circumspectingly, not as fools, but
as wise redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understand what the will
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of the Lord is. We are to understand what the
will of the Lord is, what the Lord wants us
to do. We are being told here to take the
opportunity to study and grow along this same line of thought.
Let's also take a look over in Colossians chapter four.
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Colossians chapter four, and we'll look at verses five and six.
Claussians Chapter four, Verses five and six. It says, starting
there with verse five, walk in wisdom toward them that
are without without what without wisdom redeeming the time. Let
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your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that
you may know how you ought to answer every man.
Now I want you to think about that for a minute.
We're to watch our speech, and we are to study
and know and learn how to answer every man. In
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other words, a man comes up to you and says,
what's the plan? What's the gospel plan? How do I
become a Christian?
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Are we able to roll that off our tongue like
that and know what it is?
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Do you at least got it wrote down where you
can do it, because some of us old guys are
losing memory and so.
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We have to.
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Look it up. But if we've wrote it down and
we've got it there, we know what it is that
we need to repeat.
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Now there's what I call him, the long form of
the salvation and the short form. But it's still a
five step plan. So if you want the short form,
it's simple. You just tell somebody you've got to hear, believe, repent, confess,
and be baptized. And after baptize it on in there
you gotta live, faithful, faithful to the end. Now the
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long form, someone asks you, we must hear the good
news like you just have. In Romans chapter ten, verse seventeen,
it says, for faith comes by hearing the word of God.
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That's the first thing we must do. Must hear. The second,
we must believe Jesus Christ is the son of God.
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And Hebrews chapter eleven, verse six, it says, but without
faith it is impossible to please him that cometh to God.
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Must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So we must believe.
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The third thing, we must repent, As it says over
in Luke chapter thirteen, three says, I tell you nay,
but except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.
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So we must repent. That's the third.
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The fourth thing we must confess that God that good
confession that I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
And of course that's in Acts eight thirty seven. And
then you must be baptized. That's an Acts two, verse
thirty eight. And then, as I said earlier, we must
keep the faith, we must live faithful.
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To the end. I had heard a preacher say the
other day that he was retiring from preaching, and I
thought to myself.
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That's a horrible thing to say. You know what, I
think the Lord would love for one of us to
be preaching when your time called.
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I think would be wonderful.
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You know, if you just die over the heart attack
or whatever while you're in the pulpit, whatever it is.
But you served until your last breath. You preached, you
talked till your last breath. And I think that's what
the Lord wants us to do. So whenever I hear
somebody says.
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I'm going to give up preaching, I'm I'm getting tired.
I can't do it no more. I just wanted to
reach over to the strange and says, what are you
talking about?
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All these years that you've learned, that you studied, that
you perfected your message, and you want to give it up.
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Why?
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But of course, as I read here while to go,
it says, let your speech be always with grace, seasoned
with salt.
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So I can't talk to him like that.
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I won't do it.
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So this is telling us that when the opportunity presents itself,
we must know how to talk to every man. Speaking
of how to talk to every man, we're going to
take a look and Acts chapter eighteen. Before we do that,
I just want you to remember that when Peter wasn't
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it that Peter was the one that uh Jesus called
in to did call to go take a to go
for a drought, to go fishing, and uh Jesus knew
how to talk to people of their own what they knew,
their own work, of their own things that they studied,
the things that was involved in their life.
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He knew how to talk to them.
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And when Jesus wanted to perform this miracle of catching
all these fish, he says, let's go out for a drought.
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And what did Peter say to him while we've been
fishing it all night? Ain't calld a thing. But if
you say so, we'll go. If you say so, we'll
do it.
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And Jesus pushed off when a little ways from the
shore preached to the people that was on the banks.
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Then they went out for a drought. That means to catch.
It means to catch a bunch of fish. And do
you remember how much fish they caught. They caught so
much fish that their ship began to sink.
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And so what they do.
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He hollered to his partner that was on the bank,
we're catching so much fish up to see it come out.
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Could you imagine being fishing here, going down here to
the nearest lake, fishing in your little boat, and you're
catching so much you're about ready to sink it, and
you have to holler, somebody, come catch some more fish
with me. That actually happened. That's how justess a miracle
that Jesus did with him. That's how he was able
to relate to him. This is why it's telling us.
What tells us to be able to know how to
talk to every man is to how to relate to him.
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If you got a neighbor that's mowing his grass and
he stops halfway through and he goes man pushing this
whole lawnmowers, just killing me, and you go over to him.
He taking a bottle of cold water. He'sai, bolly, you
I understand that. He says, how much you got to go?
He says, oh, he just got the front yard done.
Got to his back, he says, he sells her what's
hit down here minutes.
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Let me do that back for you.
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And you know what, you push that backyard thirty minutes
and he's sitting there and he just all smiles. You
sit downside and say, hey, you know tomorrow I'm going
down here to the church. Sit down here and uh
on here.
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In Baltimore and Scott Roberts, this good guy. I know,
he's a great preacher. He's gonna be preaching there.
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So once you come there with me, I'll give you
a ride, or if you don't want to give a
ride and drive yourself. He say, if the service starts
at ten, he's going to be a great lesson.
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You're going to enjoy it. He's going to open up.
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Your ears and your eyes to what the Lord has
to say, and you'll have a good time. There's gonna
be plenty of brothers and sister He loved there for you.
That people shake your hands, say they're great.
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To see you. And you know what that guy might say.
You just might say, well, what time do we leave
tomorrow morning? No one, that'd be glorious. We got to
take an opportunity. We got to know how to talk
to one another.
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We got to be able to go that extra step
out to get them. Remember what Christ told up here,
told the group there, and he says, now you become
fisher of men.
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And that's what we got to become. We got to
be able to know how to talk to one another,
to be able to relate to him.
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So, speaking of how to talk to every man over here,
in Acts chapter eighteen, there was a couple over there
that took the opportunity to expound onto a man the
way of God.
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More perfectly, if.
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We look at Acts chapter eighteen, verses twenty four through
twenty eight. Acts chapter eighteen, verses twenty four through twenty eight,
it says in a certain June named Apoulos, born at Alexandria,
an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
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This man was instructed in the way of the Lord,
and being ferminan in the.
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Spirit, he spake and talked diligently the things of the Lord,
knowing only the baptism of John. Now let's stop right
there before we read more, and let's keep in mind
the key word of this lesson opportunity. We're going to
read of this couple that they knew that they had
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a godly man in their presence, and this couple knew
that he needed to be taught.
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More.
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I'm going to say this couple taught the Paulus of
Jesus Christ. And I say that they taught of Jesus
because verse twenty eight he gives it away.
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Now let's continue reading here.
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In verse twenty six, first, it says that he began
to speak boldly in the synagogue, whom when Aquila and
Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them and expanded
unto him the way of God and more perfectly expanded,
of course, which means to explain in detail. Verse twenty
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seven it says, when he was disposed to pass in Akaiyah,
the brother wrote, exhorting the discipline to receive him, who,
when he was come, helped them much which had believed
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through grace, for he mightily convinced the Jews, and that
publicly showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ can
you understand here how this couple took advantage of an
opportunity to expound into a policy the way of God.
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More perfectly, what a police been.
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Able to convince the Jews if he didn't have the
knowledge gained from Aquilla and Priscilla. As you can see,
we must be able to take advantage of an opportunity
to share our knowledge with every man. Jesus was the
best of all time to take advantage of an opportunity.
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Do you remember, over Luke chapter five, how Jesus came
upon Simon and we talked about this while ago, and
we're going to talk about it again. After Simon had
been fishing and didn't do very well, Jesus got into
a ship and begged him to go out a little
from the land. And Jesus talked the people on the
land or at the banks and shoreline from the ship.
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And when Jesus was done teaching, he said, up to Simon,
launch out into the deep and let down your nets
for a drought or to catch a bunch of fish.
And Simon answered there in verse five and basically said
that they had been fishing all night and caught nothing.
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And then he said, at thy word I will let
down the net. And when they had done this, they
enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net brake,
and they hollered for help from their other ship. And
both boats got filled to the point that they began
to s and Simon was astounded. It was astonished, and
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all that were with him were also astonished at the
great catch. And Jesus said, unto them, fear not from
henceforth thou shalt catch men. And when they came to shore,
they forsake all and followed Jesus. Jesus knew these men
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were down on themselves and feeling bad for not catching anything.
And when Jesus followed them to allow them to catch
so many fish, it proved to them that Jesus is
the son of God. So we must take opportunity when
the window of opportunity is open. There's eight things that
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opportunities have in common. We're going to go over these
eight things real quick now. Opportunities, like I said, have
several common threads, and we'll go down over the eight
different things that opportunity he's having common.
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First is foresight. We must be able to recognize an
opportunity when it appears. Two action.
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We must take action and not later on be saying, wow,
I should have said something.
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So when we take action, we gotta take action now.
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We don't want to look back over our shoulder and say, man,
I should have said something when I had opportunity. You
had opportunity, you take it. That reminds me of playing baseball.
Somebody throws that ball. Picture does it's right across the plate.
What do you do?
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You're swinging hit it. You don't watch it go by
and go man, I should have swung it that.
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No, you got to swing and hit it now. The
third thing, be discreet, speak calmly and wisely. For be
a risk taker. Most opportunities involve some sort of risk,
and if you're doing work for the Lord, there is
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nothing to fear. So set aside fear and take that risk.
Five Preparedness. We've got to be prepared. Be prepared for
an opportunity. Know what you're going to say or do
in advance. Now.
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I had a friend that was uh.
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Oh, what do you call him?
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Uh?
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Lot of more than Jeovah's witness, and they wanted these
people around and he had to lie up all that
Welcome the Blessings in Christ. I'm Scott Roberts. Blessings in
Christ is also the Church of Christ preaching the gospel
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Of he that
believeth and is baptized shall be saved. God is a spirit,
and those who worship Him must worship him in spirit
and in truth.
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John fourd Verse twenty four.
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The Church of Christ is a group of Christians striving
to follow the pattern that we find in the New Testament.
We follow and preach the exact same doctrine that the
Holy Spirit gave the apostles. They preach the Word of
God with boldness and spake the things given to them
by the Holy Spirit. The Church of Christ preaches the
entire Word of God, and we do not change what
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is written in God's Word. We don't add, and we
don't take away. Our goal is to simply be Christians
who are pleasing to God. We do not claim to
be perfect, but we are sanctified as God's chills and
people set apart to glorify Jesus Christ, to increase His
kingdom the Church, and to serve Our Lord every day
for our entire life. We are not ashamed of the
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Gospel of Christ. It is the power of God under salvation.
Jesus Christ is the foundation of the church. It is
his church. First Corinthians three and verse eleven. He purchased
the church with his own blood. Acts twenty and twenty eight.
Jesus makes the statement, if you love me, keep my
commandments in John.
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Fourteen and verse fifteen.
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After the great love Jesus showed to us by dying
on the cross for our sins, we simply want to
love him back by obedience and of course by obeying
the Gospel plan of salvation, being added to the church,
and being a child of God. Our lesson today is
by Phil Bentley from the New Carlisle, Ohio Church of Christ.
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He's bringing us a lesson on the good Samaritan in
Galatians six and verse nine. Let us not be weary
and well doing, for in due season we shall we
shall reap if we think not, as we have therefore opportunity.
Let us do good unto all men, especially unto them
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who are of the household of faith. Once again we
have Phil Bentley from the New Carlisle, Ohio Church of Christ.
He's bringing us an excellent lesson on the good Samaritan.
We hope that you enjoy the lesson today and please
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Thank you. There is and made, and.
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He made agreed man. According is.
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There is a call.
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Even is love I.
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Feel is love I be when il when being the song.
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The south and Ossian.
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There is a god.
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Very is God. Sobo will say wont good to church
or bred, but when they die what they shall find
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will sure change.
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There there is a god that is godverynes reming my
hoping mird is love.
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I feel his love.
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I feel when I am blame, when I being his
falling in the saucyannlossie.
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There is a God. When I was lost.
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Insane and shage.
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These bless it's say you came, he lived in me
a hi grid for him night. And there is a
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god that is God and.
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Readings re beeting my host in my heart's love.
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I there is not I when I'm play when being
the falcking.
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God.
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So in this first it said, as therefore we have opportunity,
let us do good to all men, and didn't especially
specify any certain.
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Men, but it said all men.
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That would mean the rich, the poor, the sick, the dirty,
the clean, the black, the white, the uneducated, the unbeliever. Now,
if you will turn with me over to Luke chapter ten,
we're gonna take a look at verses thirty through thirty six.
That's Luke chapter ten, thirty through thirty six. Now when
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I do my lessons here, I cheat a little bit,
and I write down the verse I don't have to
turn over to the Bible. Allows me to go a
little quicker. And plus I write a little bit larger
font than what the Bible does. Is I'm going blind,
and makes it a little easier for me to see
and read than read straight from the Bible. But anyways,
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here in Luke chapter ten, starting verse thirty, it says,
Now this, of course is Jesus talking. It says, a
certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell
among thieves, which dripped him of his raiment and wounded
him and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance
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there came down a certain priest that way, and when
he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
And likewise Levi, when he was at the place, came
and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was,
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and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring
in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast,
and brought him to an end, and took care of him.
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And on tomorrow, when he departed, he took out twopence
and gave them to the host, and said it to him,
take care of him. And whatsoever thou spendest more, when
I come again, I will repay thee which now of
these three thinkest thou was neighbor unto him that fell
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among the thieves.
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Now let's think about this man that got robbed.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
He was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho, and that looks
to be about a one hundred and fifty mile trip,
and he was probably on foot. The Bible doesn't say
if he was on foot or not. I'm just speculating.
And if he was on foot, he should have been
able to got at least thirty miles a day, and
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that has calculated a walk of approximately four mile per
hour and at seven and a half hours a day.
Of course, that includes all of his union appointed breaks
and everything else he had to take at that time.
And so, like I said, that includes everything else. So
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that concluded him taking his lunch, break, breakfast, and whatever else.
So we don't know if this man travel was for
pleasure or business, but whichever it was, when traveling for
five days, how did I get five days? Well, you
take the distance of one hundred and fifty miles and
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divide it by thirty miles a day, and there.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You have five days.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
So I was saying that when you're traveling for five days,
a person tends to plan. So if you're gonna be
out walking for five days on foot, and you're gonna
travel one hundred and fifty miles, you're playing this out.
This is not something that comes easy, especially as for me,
as I've got older and fatter and more aches and
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pains and everything else in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I really hadn't have to plan something like this out.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
But this man may have packed a backpack with a
couple changes of clothes and some food and water.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
He may have also saved up some money to be
able to stay at and end a night or two
or all five.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
We don't know, but as you can see, this would
make him a prime target for thieves, and they stripped
him of his clothes. I got feeling this man didn't
just let these thieves have his belongings, because the thieves
left him half dead, indicating a struggle or fight. Now,
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while laying there half dead, a priest came by, and
what did the priest do? That priest walking by had
the opportunity to be able to go over to that
man and say, hey, you okay.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What's going on? Can I help you with something? Are
you sick? Did you fall and bring your leg here?
What can I do to help you? That's what I
had done. I know probably most of y'all would have.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
If you're walking on a trail, hiking and you saw
something like this, you don't want to know what's going on.
So the priest what did he do? He just walked
around it. He didn't just walk by or try to
get close to look.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
He went to the other side, the other side of
the road, go on to the other side, no curiosity
at all, what's going on? He didn't bend over and
questioned the man. He didn't nudge him, he didn't even
kick him. What did he do?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
He went to the other side of the road and
walked on by. Then a leevike came by this leevike
came by and did the exact same thing as the priest,
the exact same thing. Then a Samaritan came by on
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his beast. Now the beast could have been a number
of different creatures, such as a mule, a camel.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Or horse, or even a knox, we don't know for sure.
And he got off the beast.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
So not only did he stop to see what's going on,
he got off his beast, got off his animal to
see what's going on. And he got off the beast
and tended to this man with compassion. And in verse
thirty four, it says that this samaritan bound up his wounds. Now,
hold on here, He didn't just go there, stop and
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quitz the guy. See what's going on. He bound up
his wounds. He put something on him to make him
stop bleeding, something to comfort his pain, and poured in
oil and wine. See this wine with alcohol in it
was a disaffected And then he put this certain man
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on his own beasts. In other words, he stopped writing
whatever it was, he stopped writing it and put this
man on it himself. Now, this Samaritan that was writing
on that beast, that could be a number of reasons
he was on it. Maybe he had bad legs, bad feet,
Maybe he had been working and was really tired.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We don't know why he was on this beast.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
But he got himself off of it and put this
man that had been beaten and robbed on it, and
he walked alongside of it and guided it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And brought him to an end like a hotel or motel,
and took care of him.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
And the next day, as a Samaritan had to leave,
he left the man there, but before leaving, he went
to the host.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Now my mind, my mind's aye.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I like to think that he's going to like the
front desk of a hotel, and the person there at
that front desk tended. He went up up to him
and says, hey, I know I owe you twopence. Now
I'll give us to you. Now, he says, but take
care of that man up there. Take care of him,
and whatsoever thou'll spend us more. In other words, whatever
more money you need to spend to give him something
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that you gotta put new bandages on him, or if
there's something that some kind of food he requires or needs,
whatever it costs, I will repay you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Doesn't say exactly like that.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
But Bill's interpretation, in my little mind, that's the way
I want to think it went anyways in today's time,
and it says, not repay you when I get back
and verse thirty six, Jesus asked of the three that
would be the priest, the Levite, and the Samarican, which.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
One was the most neighborly. Well we know the answer
to that. Which one helped out the poor guy. The
Samaritan did see there was an.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Opportunity there for the priest to make a connection with
the man.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And also for the Levike to show compassion, but neither
did a thing.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
These kinds of opportunities we can't be missing out on.
We can't miss out on this opportunity to show compassion
and to help. At the same time as you show
compassion and you can help, you also can say, hey,
I'm a remember of Church of Christ. Once't you come
out here and see us. Anything you need or whatever
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will help you. The Lord loves you. And it said
the reason I helped you is because the Lord loves me,
and I know he'd want me to help you. That's
an opportunity that Samaritan took. Priests didn't take it. Why
didn't he take it? Why didn't the levit take it?
That's an opportunity. This is what I'm talking about. There's
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opportunities out there that we could take. This man he
helped could have been one of the next best preachers
that the world's ever heard.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We don't know. But he helped this man, and he
set an example to this man how to be kind,
how to be naghverly, how to help.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
But instead the levite and the priest missed out on
the opportunity. We also must take advantage of opportunities to
study and grow, not only just to help out, but
to study and grow with others. Over in Ephesians chapter five,
Ephiesians chapter five, verses fifteen through seventeen, for those of
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you that's falling along, and we'll turn over to Ephijians chapter.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We'll look at verses fifteen.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Through seventeen, and starts there in verse fifteen and says,
see then that you walk circumspectingly, not as fools, but
as wise redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understand what the will
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of the Lord is. We are to understand what the
will of the Lord is, what the Lord wants us
to do. We are being told here to take the
opportunity to study and grow along this same line of thought.
Let's also take a look over in Colossians chapter four.
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Colossians chapter four, and we'll look at verses five and six.
Claussians Chapter four, Verses five and six. It says, starting
there with verse five, walk in wisdom toward them that
are without without what without wisdom redeeming the time. Let
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your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that
you may know how you ought to answer every man.
Now I want you to think about that for a minute.
We're to watch our speech, and we are to study
and know and learn how to answer every man. In
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other words, a man comes up to you and says,
what's the plan? What's the gospel plan? How do I
become a Christian?
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Are we able to roll that off our tongue like
that and know what it is?
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Do you at least got it wrote down where you
can do it, because some of us old guys are
losing memory and so.
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We have to.
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Look it up. But if we've wrote it down and
we've got it there, we know what it is that
we need to repeat.
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Now there's what I call him, the long form of
the salvation and the short form. But it's still a
five step plan. So if you want the short form,
it's simple. You just tell somebody you've got to hear, believe, repent, confess,
and be baptized. And after baptize it on in there
you gotta live, faithful, faithful to the end. Now the
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long form, someone asks you, we must hear the good
news like you just have. In Romans chapter ten, verse seventeen,
it says, for faith comes by hearing the word of God.
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That's the first thing we must do. Must hear. The second,
we must believe Jesus Christ is the son of God.
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And Hebrews chapter eleven, verse six, it says, but without
faith it is impossible to please him that cometh to God.
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Must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So we must believe.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
The third thing, we must repent, As it says over
in Luke chapter thirteen, three says, I tell you nay,
but except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So we must repent. That's the third.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
The fourth thing we must confess that God that good
confession that I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
And of course that's in Acts eight thirty seven. And
then you must be baptized. That's an Acts two, verse
thirty eight. And then, as I said earlier, we must
keep the faith, we must live faithful.
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To the end. I had heard a preacher say the
other day that he was retiring from preaching, and I
thought to myself.
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That's a horrible thing to say. You know what, I
think the Lord would love for one of us to
be preaching when your time called.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I think would be wonderful.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
You know, if you just die over the heart attack
or whatever while you're in the pulpit, whatever it is.
But you served until your last breath. You preached, you
talked till your last breath. And I think that's what
the Lord wants us to do. So whenever I hear
somebody says.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'm going to give up preaching, I'm I'm getting tired.
I can't do it no more. I just wanted to
reach over to the strange and says, what are you
talking about?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
All these years that you've learned, that you studied, that
you perfected your message, and you want to give it up.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Why?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
But of course, as I read here while to go,
it says, let your speech be always with grace, seasoned
with salt.
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So I can't talk to him like that.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I won't do it.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
So this is telling us that when the opportunity presents itself,
we must know how to talk to every man. Speaking
of how to talk to every man, we're going to
take a look and Acts chapter eighteen. Before we do that,
I just want you to remember that when Peter wasn't
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it that Peter was the one that uh Jesus called
in to did call to go take a to go
for a drought, to go fishing, and uh Jesus knew
how to talk to people of their own what they knew,
their own work, of their own things that they studied,
the things that was involved in their life.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
He knew how to talk to them.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
And when Jesus wanted to perform this miracle of catching
all these fish, he says, let's go out for a drought.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And what did Peter say to him while we've been
fishing it all night? Ain't calld a thing. But if
you say so, we'll go. If you say so, we'll
do it.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
And Jesus pushed off when a little ways from the
shore preached to the people that was on the banks.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Then they went out for a drought. That means to catch.
It means to catch a bunch of fish. And do
you remember how much fish they caught. They caught so
much fish that their ship began to sink.
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And so what they do.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
He hollered to his partner that was on the bank,
we're catching so much fish up to see it come out.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Could you imagine being fishing here, going down here to
the nearest lake, fishing in your little boat, and you're
catching so much you're about ready to sink it, and
you have to holler, somebody, come catch some more fish
with me. That actually happened. That's how justess a miracle
that Jesus did with him. That's how he was able
to relate to him. This is why it's telling us.
What tells us to be able to know how to
talk to every man is to how to relate to him.
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If you got a neighbor that's mowing his grass and
he stops halfway through and he goes man pushing this
whole lawnmowers, just killing me, and you go over to him.
He taking a bottle of cold water. He'sai, bolly, you
I understand that. He says, how much you got to go?
He says, oh, he just got the front yard done.
Got to his back, he says, he sells her what's
hit down here minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Let me do that back for you.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
And you know what, you push that backyard thirty minutes
and he's sitting there and he just all smiles. You
sit downside and say, hey, you know tomorrow I'm going
down here to the church. Sit down here and uh
on here.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
In Baltimore and Scott Roberts, this good guy. I know,
he's a great preacher. He's gonna be preaching there.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
So once you come there with me, I'll give you
a ride, or if you don't want to give a
ride and drive yourself. He say, if the service starts
at ten, he's going to be a great lesson.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You're going to enjoy it. He's going to open up.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Your ears and your eyes to what the Lord has
to say, and you'll have a good time. There's gonna
be plenty of brothers and sister He loved there for you.
That people shake your hands, say they're great.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
To see you. And you know what that guy might say.
You just might say, well, what time do we leave
tomorrow morning? No one, that'd be glorious. We got to
take an opportunity. We got to know how to talk
to one another.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
We got to be able to go that extra step
out to get them. Remember what Christ told up here,
told the group there, and he says, now you become
fisher of men.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And that's what we got to become. We got to
be able to know how to talk to one another,
to be able to relate to him.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
So, speaking of how to talk to every man over here,
in Acts chapter eighteen, there was a couple over there
that took the opportunity to expound onto a man the
way of God.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
More perfectly, if.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
We look at Acts chapter eighteen, verses twenty four through
twenty eight. Acts chapter eighteen, verses twenty four through twenty eight,
it says in a certain June named Apoulos, born at Alexandria,
an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord,
and being ferminan in the.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Spirit, he spake and talked diligently the things of the Lord,
knowing only the baptism of John. Now let's stop right
there before we read more, and let's keep in mind
the key word of this lesson opportunity. We're going to
read of this couple that they knew that they had
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a godly man in their presence, and this couple knew
that he needed to be taught.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
More.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
I'm going to say this couple taught the Paulus of
Jesus Christ. And I say that they taught of Jesus
because verse twenty eight he gives it away.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Now let's continue reading here.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
In verse twenty six, first, it says that he began
to speak boldly in the synagogue, whom when Aquila and
Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them and expanded
unto him the way of God and more perfectly expanded,
of course, which means to explain in detail. Verse twenty
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seven it says, when he was disposed to pass in Akaiyah,
the brother wrote, exhorting the discipline to receive him, who,
when he was come, helped them much which had believed
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through grace, for he mightily convinced the Jews, and that
publicly showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ can
you understand here how this couple took advantage of an
opportunity to expound into a policy the way of God.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
More perfectly, what a police been.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Able to convince the Jews if he didn't have the
knowledge gained from Aquilla and Priscilla. As you can see,
we must be able to take advantage of an opportunity
to share our knowledge with every man. Jesus was the
best of all time to take advantage of an opportunity.
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Do you remember, over Luke chapter five, how Jesus came
upon Simon and we talked about this while ago, and
we're going to talk about it again. After Simon had
been fishing and didn't do very well, Jesus got into
a ship and begged him to go out a little
from the land. And Jesus talked the people on the
land or at the banks and shoreline from the ship.
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And when Jesus was done teaching, he said, up to Simon,
launch out into the deep and let down your nets
for a drought or to catch a bunch of fish.
And Simon answered there in verse five and basically said
that they had been fishing all night and caught nothing.
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And then he said, at thy word I will let
down the net. And when they had done this, they
enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net brake,
and they hollered for help from their other ship. And
both boats got filled to the point that they began
to s and Simon was astounded. It was astonished, and
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all that were with him were also astonished at the
great catch. And Jesus said, unto them, fear not from
henceforth thou shalt catch men. And when they came to shore,
they forsake all and followed Jesus. Jesus knew these men
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were down on themselves and feeling bad for not catching anything.
And when Jesus followed them to allow them to catch
so many fish, it proved to them that Jesus is
the son of God. So we must take opportunity when
the window of opportunity is open. There's eight things that
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opportunities have in common. We're going to go over these
eight things real quick now. Opportunities, like I said, have
several common threads, and we'll go down over the eight
different things that opportunity he's having common.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
First is foresight. We must be able to recognize an
opportunity when it appears. Two action.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
We must take action and not later on be saying, wow,
I should have said something.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
So when we take action, we gotta take action now.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
We don't want to look back over our shoulder and say, man,
I should have said something when I had opportunity. You
had opportunity, you take it. That reminds me of playing baseball.
Somebody throws that ball. Picture does it's right across the plate.
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You're swinging hit it. You don't watch it go by
and go man, I should have swung it that.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
No, you got to swing and hit it now. The
third thing, be discreet, speak calmly and wisely. For be
a risk taker. Most opportunities involve some sort of risk,
and if you're doing work for the Lord, there is
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nothing to fear. So set aside fear and take that risk.
Five Preparedness. We've got to be prepared. Be prepared for
an opportunity. Know what you're going to say or do
in advance. Now.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I had a friend that was uh.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Oh, what do you call him?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Lot of more than Jeovah's witness, and they wanted these
people around and he had to lie up all that
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