CHRIST IS THE ANSWER

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CHRIST IS THE ANSWER

• WHATEVER THE PROBLEM

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CHRIST IS THE ANSWER

• All of our problems can be solved if we would but
  turn to Christ He is the solution to them all.
• Let us consider some of man's major problems.

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GUIDANCE

• O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself
  It is not in man who walks to direct his own
  steps. (Jer. 1023)

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GUIDANCE

• Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and
  the life. No one comes to the Father except
  through Me. (John 146)

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GUIDANCE

• And He put all things under His feet, and gave
  Him to be head over all things to the church,
  which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills
  all in all. (Eph. 122-23)

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GUIDANCE

• And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All
  authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
  earth. (Mt. 2818)

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GUIDANCE

• Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the
  Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as
  also Christ is head of the church and He is the
  Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church
  is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to
  their own husbands in everything. (Eph. 522-24)

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GUIDANCE

• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also
  loved the church and gave Himself for her, that
  He might sanctify and cleanse her with the
  washing of water by the word, that He might
  present her to Himself a glorious church, not
  having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but
  that she should be holy and without blemish.
  (Eph. 525-27)

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GUIDANCE

• Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this
  is right. Honor your father and mother, which
  is the first commandment with promise that it
  may be well with you and you may live long on the
  earth. (Eph. 61-3)

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GUIDANCE

• And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to
  wrath, but bring them up in the training and
  admonition of the Lord. (Eph. 61-4)

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HUMAN RELATIONS

• Human relations are a problem because of
  selfishness, covetousness and a failure to
  respect the rights of others.
• But life lived as Jesus directs is free of these
  basic causes of friction.

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HUMAN RELATIONS

• You have heard that it was said, An eye for an
  eye and a tooth for a tooth.
• But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But
  whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the
  other to him also. (Mt. 538-39)

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HUMAN RELATIONS

• You have heard that it was said, You shall love
  your neighbor and hate your enemy.
• But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those
  who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and
  pray for those who spitefully use you and
  persecute you,

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HUMAN RELATIONS

• that you may be sons of your Father in heaven
  for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the
  good, and sends rain on the just and on the
  unjust. (Mt. 543-45)

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HUMAN RELATIONS

• Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you,
  do also to them, for this is the Law and the
  Prophets. (Mt. 712)

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Employees are expected to work and employers are
  expected to pay.

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your
  masters according to the flesh, with fear and
  trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ

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LABOR RELATIONS

• not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as
  bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God
  from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as
  to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that
  whatever good anyone does, he will receive the
  same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or
  free. (Eph. 65-8)

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Masters, give your bondservants what is just and
  fair, knowing that you also have a Master in
  heaven. (Col. 41)

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LABOR RELATIONS

• For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle an
  ox while it treads out the grain, and, The
  laborer is worthy of his wages. (1 Tim. 518)

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Employees are expected to work and employers are
  expected to pay.
• Each should be honest and truthful, respecting
  the property and rights of the other.

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good
  things in the sight of all men. (Rom. 1217)

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims,
  abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the
  soul, having your conduct honorable among the
  Gentiles, that when they speak against you as
  evildoers, they may, by your good works which
  they observe, glorify God in the day of
  visitation. (1 Pet. 211-12)

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Employees are expected to work and employers are
  expected to pay.
• Each should be honest and truthful, respecting
  the property and rights of the other.
• One should be unconcerned with how much someone
  else is making.

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LABOR RELATIONS

• For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner
  who went out early in the morning to hire
  laborers for his vineyard. Now when he had
  agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he
  sent them into his vineyard.

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LABOR RELATIONS

• And he went out about the third hour and saw
  others standing idle in the marketplace, and said
  to them, You also go into the vineyard, and
  whatever is right I will give you. So they went.

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth
  hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh
  hour he went out and found others standing idle,
  and said to them, Why have you been standing
  here idle all day?

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LABOR RELATIONS

• They said to him, Because no one hired us. He
  said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and
  whatever is right you will receive. So when
  evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said
  to his steward, Call the laborers and give them
  their wages, beginning with the last to the
  first.

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LABOR RELATIONS

• And when those came who were hired about the
  eleventh hour, they each received a denarius. But
  when the first came, they supposed that they
  would receive more and they likewise received
  each a denarius. And when they had received it,
  they complained against the landowner,

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LABOR RELATIONS

• saying, These last men have worked only one
  hour, and you made them equal to us who have
  borne the burden and the heat of the day.
• But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I
  am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me
  for a denarius?

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LABOR RELATIONS

• Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to
  give to this last man the same as to you. Is it
  not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own
  things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?
  (Mt. 201-15)

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ECONOMICS

• Waste brings want. Jesus taught thrift.

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ECONOMICS

• So when they were filled, He said to His
  disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain,
  so that nothing is lost.
• Therefore they gathered them up, and filled
  twelve baskets with the fragments of the five
  barley loaves which were left over by those who
  had eaten. (John 612-13)

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ECONOMICS

• Waste brings want. Jesus taught thrift.
• Excessive profits/interest destroy trade.
• Trade between two parties must cease when one
  party has been so robbed that he no longer has
  the means of exchange.
• "Live and let live" is to the advantage of both
  parties.

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ECONOMICS

• Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you,
  do also to them, for this is the Law and the
  Prophets. (Mt. 712)

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ECONOMICS

• Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or
  conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem
  others better than himself. Let each of you look
  out not only for his own interests, but also for
  the interests of others. (Phil. 23-4)

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IGNORANCE

• Infants are born into this world having knowledge
  of no one's needs and desires but their own.
• They do not know how to satisfy their own needs,
  but are dependent upon others.

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IGNORANCE

• Thus, they must be taught the proper way to
  satisfy their needs and desires.
• Jesus advanced in four areas.

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IGNORANCE

• And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in
  favor with God and men. (Luke 252)

INTELLECTUAL
PHYSICAL
SPIRITUAL
SOCIAL
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SIN

• This is a universal problem.

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SIN

• for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God (Rom. 323)

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SIN

• This is a universal problem.
• Jesus came to save man from sin.

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SIN

• And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall
  call His name Jesus, for He will save His people
  from their sins." (Mt. 121)
• For this is My blood of the new covenant, which
  is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Mt.
  2628)

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SIN

• This is a universal problem.
• Jesus came to save man from sin.
• Salvation from sin is conditional.

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SIN

• Therefore I said to you that you will die in
  your sins for if you do not believe that I am
  He, you will die in your sins." (John 824)

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SIN

• He who believes and is baptized will be saved
  but he who does not believe will be condemned.
  (Mark 1616)

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SIN

• Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every
  one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
  Christ for the remission of sins and you shall
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 238)

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SIN

• This is a universal problem.
• Jesus came to save man from sin.
• Salvation from sin is conditional.
• Jesus Christ is our mediator and our advocate.

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SIN

• For there is one God and one Mediator between God
  and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a
  ransom for all, to be testified in due time, for
  which I was appointed a preacher and an
  apostle--I am speaking the truth in Christ and
  not lying--a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
  truth. (1 Tim. 25-7)

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SIN

• My little children, these things I write to you,
  so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we
  have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
  the righteous.
• And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins,
  and not for ours only but also for the whole
  world. (1 John 21-2)