What have you done?

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What have you done?

• Choices have consequences some make choices w/o
  considering the consequences
• Asking, What have you done? is an effort to
  make people consider their consequences while
  they have time and opportunity
• I A Biblical Question

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What have you done?

• Gn.410
• Gn.209
• Gn.3126
• Nu.2311
• 1 Sm.1311
• 2 Sm.324
• Dn.435
• Jn.1835

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II Questions We Should Ask The Lord

• 1. What have You done for me? Song
• He was threatened for me. Jn.1910 1 Pt.223
• He was slandered for me. Mt.2729, 39-40
  Mk.1465
• Every tear, every nail, every thorn was for me.
  Hb.57 Mt.26-27

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2. "What have you done to me?

• A Christian grows slack in atten-dance, doesnt
  do a thing to serve the Lord, and may quit
  altogether
• When asked why, he mentions a brother who once
  hurt his feelings
• He quits serving the Lord because of what a man
  did! Hb.123
• When did Jesus ever fail you?

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It is foolish to blame Jesus for a crime that
some man committed

• 2 Co.11
• Accusations of false brethren against Paul were
  bad enough
• His own brethren who believed them made it even
  worse
• 1 Co.927
• Hb.1032-34

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Emperor Valens threatened Eusebius

• Threats confiscation of all his goods, torture,
  banishment, or even death
• Eusebius replied He needs not fear
  confiscation, who has nothing to lose nor
  banishment, to whom heaven is his country nor
  torments, when his body can be destroyed at one
  blow nor death, which is the only way to set him
  at liberty from sin and sorrow

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Questions

1. Have you ever failed someone, either
   intentionally or not?
2. Have you always done your duty perfectly?
3. Did you do your duty to solve this problem
   (Mt.1815-17)?
4. The ultimate question what has the Lord done to
   you?

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III Questions The Lord May Ask Us

• 1. What have you done for Me?
• Someone who has grown spiritually weak often
  tries to excuse his disobedience by recounting
  all the good things he ever did for God and man
• Implication everyone, including the Lord
  Himself, owes him an extraordinary debt

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Twisted memories (revisionist history)

• Some remember what they have done for the Lord
• They forget what the Lord has done for them
• Some remember their good deeds, but forget the
  bad
• They forget the good deeds of others, but
  remember the bad

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What could I do for the Lord?

• 2 K.513
• Mt.722
• He said, Lord, Lord. All the preaching in the
  world will not save the preacher if he does not
  practice. 1 Co.131-2
• He may have been successful the Lord cannot
  tolerate the presence of those who call him Lord
  and then work lawlessness (23)
• Mt.2541-44

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God does not need us (Ps.507-15)

• Our service does not help Him
• Is.646
• If our righteousness is so bad, what must our
  unrighteousness be?

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Lk.177-10

• Even if we reach the highest degree of service,
  we have not benefited God
• Even if we do our duty, we still fall short we
  merit nothing
• No one does his whole duty no one does more than
  his duty
• Ro.1135

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2. What have you done to Me?

• Ho.118 Hb.64-6
• He did not suffer enough the first time!
• Crucified Lord afresh
• A Jewish Christian returns to the synagogue,
  fellowships those who crucified Jesus says, He
  deserved to be crucified. He wasnt doing
  anything for me when He died
• His approval makes the act of crucifixion his own

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But Im not a Jew in a synagogue

• Ac.223 (Jn. 1831)
• Crucifixion was a Roman punishment
• The Gentile Christian who returns to the world to
  fellowship his worldly friends makes the same
  statement as the Jew who returns to synagogue

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Put Him to an open shame

• Mt.119
• Hb.1026-31
• Some try to explain this away
• It will face them on Judgment Day

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Closing Questions

1. What have you done to yourself? (Jer. 86)
2. What have you done to your loved ones?
3. What has the Lord done to deserve anything less
   than your best?