November 20, 2016 Teaching Outline

                                                     “His Point of Connection” 


Life is full of choices… George Moore -- “The difficulty in life is the choice.”

Illustration: TWO BROTHERS. . . TWO CHOICES


                                                               LUKE 23: 33-43
 

•  The Scoffing Cross
  
  

Luke 23:39,” 
Romans 8:7-8, “The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.  Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

• The Worshiping Cross

Luke 23:40-42, “But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

The worshiping cross is a repenting cross. 


Jeremiah 17:9-10, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.  Who can understand it?  “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

The second thief watched and heard the Lord say, “Father, forgive them; for they
know not what they do It broke the thief’s hard heart.
 He remembered…
 

                           It is this cross that leads to pathway of contentment, for we hear the Lord say:
                                             “TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.”
 
                                                      This is His Point of Connection!