The Way of the Master

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The Wayof the Master

• Program 12 Theft
• Theft 9

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Program 12 Theft
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Open in Prayer
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Opening Activity
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Briefly discuss

• any results from sharing your faith in the
  previous week.

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Food for Thought (Ray)

• To help your children understand the nature of
  God and His Moral Law, talk to them about some of
  Gods natural laws.
• Call your kids over to the refrigerator and take
  out an egg.
• Then, while they are watching, drop it onto the
  kitchen floor.

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• I know what you are thinking I cant drop an egg
  on the floor! Yes, you can its easy. Your
  children will forget the thousands of eggsthat
  you carefully handled, but I am sure they will
  remember this one because it was deliberately
  dropped.
• Perhaps even in years to come, each time they
  take an egg from the refrigeratorthey will
  remember the valuable lesson they learned this
  day.
• Now ask your children why the egg broke.
• Ask what would happen to us if we jumped out of a
  plane without a parachute and landed on the
  ground.

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• Many an optimistic, shallow-thinking skydiver has
  ended up like the egg on the floor, because he
  was foolish enough to toy with the invisible law
  of gravity. His cheap thrill cost him his
  life.Explain the law of gravity to your kids.
  Look up gravity on the Internet or in a book,
  and then relate it to God as the Creator of the
  natural laws.
• Remind them of the fate of theegg, and let their
  eyes widen a little at the thought of
  transgressing its precepts.The consequences for
  breaking gravitational or electrical laws are
  fearful. But they pale in the shadow of
  transgressing the eternal Moral Law of God.

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• My feeble words cant expresswhat God is like,
  but His Law gives us insight into His holy
  nature. The Law reveals utter holiness, supreme
  righteousness, and absolute truth. God has a
  terrifying and violent passion for justice.
• The Israelites were terrified when God spoke to
  them on Mount Sinaiand at the time He was merely
  giving them the Law, not revealing His anger when
  they broke its commands.
• (From How to Bring Your Children to Christ . . .
  Keep Them There, Genesis Publishing Group)

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1. How would you respond if someone said,

• The Ten Commandments have nothing to do with the
  gospel?

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2. Give examples

• of Jesus using the Law to bring the knowledge of
  sin.

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3. Most people are hesitant to admit

• that they have stolen, so what is a good way to
  ask the question?

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4. What would you say to someone

• who argued that they had stolen in the past?

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5. Why is the value of a stolen item irrelevant?
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6. Why should we appeal to the conscience

• when we speak to people?

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7. Give examples of things

• that people steal, including subtle things that
  many people take without a second thought.

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8. What is it that gives sinners a sense of
security in their sin?
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9. Why is it a sad testimony

• to human nature when someone doing a good deed
  makes national news?

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10. How can you help people see

• that even petty theft is a serious sin?

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Encouragement

• I recently returned from Brazil where I shared
  the gospel with many people. I started with
  creation, telling them that Godcreated them and
  everything they see, but that man rebelled
  against God.
• I told them God gave His Law to show us that we
  have sinned against Him, then I went through the
  Law one by one. In almost every home I preached
  in, the people weresomewhat unconcerned until I
  went through the Law. It was so incredible. The
  guys who were with me noticed the same thing.
  They saw the deer in the headlights look on
  peoplesfaces when I brought out the Law.

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• They realized why I shared the Ten Commandments
  before I could explain it. They knew, simply
  because of the reaction of the people when I got
  to that point in the message. What a testimony to
  the conviction ofthe Holy Spirit through the
  Law.
• Only two people (out of about 5070) rejected the
  gospel during the week I was there. The first
  home I preached in, one couple broke down crying
  when I went through the Law.
• The woman was a witch, but she came to Christ.
  Another lady who was studying at the Seventh Day
  Adventist church broke down crying when I
  continued to press her, Why would God let you, a
  sinner, into heaven on the Day of Judgment?

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• She yielded her life to Christ. Jehovahs
  Witnesses who came to Christ set up meetings with
  their friends within two days because they wanted
  their friends to hear the gospel presented to
  them. It was incredible.Ky F., Louisiana
• Close in Prayer

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WDJD

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• Would you consider yourself to be a good person?
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• Do you think you have kept the Ten Commandments?
• J-Judgment
• If God judges you by the Ten Commandments on the
  Day of Judgment, will you be innocent or guilty?
• D-Destiny
• Will you go to heaven or hell?

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