Scott LaPierre Ministries

We see frequent examples in Scripture of why we should rejoice over the results versus the motivation. When other men began to prophesy Joshua was concerned, but Moses rejoiced (Numbers 11:26-29). When a man was casting out demons, the disciples were concerned, but Jesus said to let him continue (Mark 9:38-41). Paul said some people were preaching the gospel with good motivation and others with bad motivation, but he rejoiced that the gospel was being preached (Philippians 1:15-18). The prodigal son returned to his father because he was hungry (Luke 15:17). We can rejoice he returned home.

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What leads to repentance? Romans 2:4 says, "God's kindness is meant to lead [us] to repentance." When we are thinking of repenting, we wonder, "Will God really forgive me? Have I done too much for Him to be able to love me? Would God ever want a relationship with me again?" It is thinking about God's kindness that gives us the confidence that we can repent and be forgiven.

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We are prone to wandering from God the Father. When we cling to sin, we may avoid prayer, Scripture, and fellowship with other believers. We don’t have to travel to a far country like the prodigal son to wander spiritually; we can turn away from God while remaining in the same place.

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When God says, “Obey their voice,” it doesn’t always go the way we expect. In 1 Samuel 8 God told Samuel to obey the people’s voices and give them a king to their own detriment. In our lives, when we keep pushing sometimes God gives us what we want to our detriment.

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Settling outside the Promised Land is problematic. The Promised Land’s physical rest prefigures the Christian’s spiritual rest in Christ. Two-and-a-half tribes stayed on the east side of the Jordan, outside the Promised Land, and it was detrimental to them. Spiritually it is detrimental to us when we stay outside the rest we can have in Christ.

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Some people have a mistaken notion about God. They think that if God doesn’t want them doing something, that He will prevent them. But it doesn’t work like this. God might give us what we want to our detriment. If we push God, He might let us have what we want even to our own detriment. We saw that in the related study when God let Moses take Aaron with him. We see it in this study when God gives the Israelites meat in the wilderness and lets Balaam go with Balak.

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Romans 4:25 connects Christ's death for our trespasses with His resurrection for our justification. This message explains what it means to be declared righteous, why Jesus is our substitute, and how His resurrection confirms the hope of those who trust Him.

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When we say, “Father give me my share,” as the rebellious younger son did in Luke 15:11, we set ourselves up for problems. We always want to have soft, teachable, receptive hearts that are submissive and sensitive to God’s will. We never want to keep pushing for our will when God has made His will clear. The worst that can happen is not that God will keep saying no. The worst that can happen is He can finally let us have our will even to our own detriment.

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Jesus said, “There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents” (Luke 15:7). Because we are among many people who have been saved, we might wonder whether our salvation is meaningful to God. But there is joy in heaven, not just over the salvation of hundreds or thousands of people, but over one sinner who repents.

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Luke 19:10 (ESV) says, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” This means Jesus came to pursue and rescue sinners who could not save themselves. The parables of the lost sheep, lost coin, hidden treasure, and pearl reveal Christ’s heart to seek and save the lost.

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