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WHAT ABOUT HEAVENLY REWARDS Background Passage: Luke 19:1-48 Lesson Passage: Luke 19:12-27 BIBLICAL SETTING 1. Salvation for Zaccaeus (Luke 19:1-10) 2. Parable for the Disciples (Luke 19:11-27) 3. Concern for Jerusalem (Luke 19:28-44) 4. Respect for the Temple (Luke 19:45-48) LESSON PASSAGE OUTLINE 1. Faithfulness is Expected (Luke 19:12-14) 2. Faithfulness is Rewarded (Luke 19:15-19) 3. Unfaithfulness is Displeasing (Luke 19:20-23) 4. Unfaithfulness is Costly (Luke 19:24-27) KEY BIBLE VERSE Luke 19:26 BIBLICAL TRUTH Believers have the assurance of heavenly rewards for faithful service. LIFE IMPACT To help you help you serve God faithfully. FAITHFULNESS IS EXPECTED (LUKE 19:12-14) (Luke 19:12) He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into afar country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. The "certain nobleman" represents the Lord Jesus Christ. He will receive the kingdom from his Father — not from us. He is not asking anyone to vote for Him the ne

The Word of Salvation Sent to Sinners: Part One To you is the word of this salvation sent" (Acts 13:26) PAUL is here preaching Christ Jesus in this chapter: and in this verse he makes application of his sermon to his hearers, and that very close. More particularly in the words you may observe, 1. The nature of the gospel described, it is "the word of salvation." 2. The endorsement or direction, showing to whom it is directed or sent, "To you"; you men and brethren, you Jews or Gentiles, to whom it is preached. The doctrinal proposition, natively arising from these words, is the following. OBSERVATION. "That the gospel, as a word of salvation, is sent to every sinner that hears it." Before I proceed to speak of this doctrine, I would obviate an objection that may be made against it. OBJECTION. Is not the gospel-call here limited to them that fear God in the text? ANSWER. If by these that fear God is to be understood religious people, into whose hea

2 English Martyrs "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus" (Rev 17:6) Nicholas Ridley MARTYR Nicholas Ridley was among those martyred for the true gospel of Christ in Queen Mary's time. Born in Northumberland, Ridley learned his grammer as a child in Newcastle and attended Cambridge University, where he soon became well-known for his intelligence, and advanced rapidly, becoming a Doctor of Divinity and the head of Pembroke Hall. After that, he traveled to Paris, was made Henry VIII’s chaplain on his return, and appointed Bishop of Rochester by the king. In King Edward's days he served as the Bishop of London. People flocked to the church to listen to his sermons, swarming about him like bees to honey, coveting the sweet flowers and wholesome nectar of the doctrines of Christ that he not only preached but demonstrated by his life. He was a bright light to the blind, a heavenly trumpet to the deaf, and a holy

GOD’S TESTIMONY CONCERNING MAN Horatius Bonar God knows us. He knows what we are; he knows also what he meant us to be; and upon the difference between these two states he founds his testimony concerning us. He is too loving to say anything needlessly severe; too true to say anything untrue; nor can he have any motive to misrepresent us; for he loves to tell of the good, not of the evil, that may be found in any of the works of his hands. He declares, them “good,” “very good,” at first; and if he does not do so now, it is not because he would not, but because he cannot; for “all flesh has corrupted its way upon the earth.” God’s testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. He bears witness against him, not for him, and testifies that “there is none righteous, no, not one;” that there is “none that doeth good;” none “that understandeth;” none that even seeketh after God, and still more none that loveth him. God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child,