What type of Person are you?Part 2

by

Brian Birdow

Sermon text: James 1:23-27

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Review of Last week1. There is value in a good name.

• Proverbs 22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

• 1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Review of Last week

• Mr. I gotta be right person!

• Peter in Matt: 26:31ff

• Jesus had been right on all things thus far why not just believe HIM?

Review of Last week

• Mr. Engage mouth before thinking!

• James 1:19 Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

• Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Review of Last week• Mr. Positive / Mr. Encourager

• Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

• Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Objective of Lesson

1. To examine various personality in view of Christ

2. To challenge us to better ourselves in view of Christ

3. To cause of us to examine ourselves in view of Christ.

Mr. Negative Mr. Faithless Mr. Stumbling block

• Numbers 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.

• Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, who come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Mr. Negative/ Mr. Stumbling block• John 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of

spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

• John 12:4 Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him,

• John 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

Remember Job?

• Job 4:4 Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

• Numbers 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Gear is in Neutral person • Go wherever you are pushed!

• Proverbs 6:6-8 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

• No Initiative, No incentive, No motivation

The Fearful--Lazy Person• Matthew 25:18-19 But he that had received one

went and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money. After a long time the lord of those servants came, and settled accounts with them.

• Matthew 25:24-25 Then he who had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not spread: And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the earth: lo, there you have what is yours.

The Fearful--Lazy Person

• Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, You wicked and slothful (lazy) servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not spread:

• Matthew 25:27 You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received my own with interest.

The Fearful--Lazy Person

• Matthew 25:28-29 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him who has ten talents. For unto everyone that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that has not shall be taken away even that which he has.

• Matthew 25:30 And cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mr. At least I tried or

That’s good enough person

1. I know the roof still has a leak but that will just have to do!

2. I called once but got a busy signal.. I tried!

3. 3 lugnuts is all you really need anyways!

Mr. At least I tried or

That’s good enough person..

• Pilate, Pontius Pilate, (Roman governor of

• "The Ruler who sought to shirk responsibility", in the trial of Christ

Mr. At least I tried or

That’s good enough person• By turning him over to Jewish authorities

• John 18:31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:

Mr. At least I tried or

That’s good enough person

• Sent Jesus to Herod

• Luke 23:7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.

Mr. At least I tried or

That’s good enough person

• Pilate quits in front of all

• Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

What type of person is Christ?A humble person

• Philippians 2:5-6 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,

• Philippians 2:7-8 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

What type of person is Christ?

A loving person

• John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

• John 10:14-15 I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me, even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

What type of person is Christ?A sacrificing person

• John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.

• John 10:17 Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

• John 10:18 No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.

Summary

• Examine ourselves daily in view of Christ

• Make necessary changes