A Spiritual Check-up
Mark 12:35-44
Your Spiritual Check-up begins with:
Your View of Jesus
Does it need corrected
He’s not the “best man”
He’s the savior of the world
Is it out of focus
He’s not just the baby in the manger
He’s the coming King
The cure is the Scriptures
Are we in the Scriptures enough to get an adequate view of Jesus?
Believers must be in the Scriptures to have a well focused view of Jesus
Seekers must be in the Scriptures to know who Jesus is
A genuine practice of your Faith
Genuine praise, not prideful praise
These verses show the pride of the scribes
They wanted to be the center of everything
They wanted to be recognized for what they do
Genuine praise, not greedy praise
These verses show greed of the scribes
They tricked people into letting them take other’s houses
God tells us what we should be doing
The scribes were hypocrites
They said one thing, an did another
Their treatment of others was inconsistent with their faith
Is our treatment of others consistent with our faith
The cure is worship
We need to be constantly in contact with the Living God
A whole-hearted commitment to God
Jesus watched as people gave
The rich gave of their abundance
The poor woman gave of her need
Jesus was asked who gave more
He surprised them all be saying the poor woman
She gave less than a penny, but she have all that she had
Jesus did not condemn the rich for their gifts, as they should
Jesus praised the poor woman for her gift
The cure is a total commitment to God
Jesus doesn’t measure how much we give, but how much we have left
Your Prescription:
A worshipful heart in peace and in prosperity
We must be able to worship in times of peace
We must remain worshipful in times of prosperity
A repentant heart in failure
It’s a very tough thing to repent
Every one of us have failed, and will fail
We need to be able to repent when we do
A trusting heart in a crisis
We can sometimes get too caught up in the crisis to be any good
We must be able to trust God to get us through our crisis
A humble heart in victory
We must be careful not to take too much credit away from God in good times
Have you passed your spiritual check-up?
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