Secrets to My Significance ‘N’ 2012 OUTLINE

Pericope: Luke 22: 24 – 30

Sermon Text: Luke 22: 29, 30

Sermon Title: Secrets to My Significance ‘N’ 2012

Point 1: Serve selflessly…vs. 26 But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves.
Phil 2: 21 Msg Bible stop thinking about yourself long enough to help somebody else.
Mark 9: 34 & Luke 9: 46

John 5: 44 How can you believe you can accept the praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?

Point 2: Seek others and there needs not your own vs. 27 For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? It is not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as who serves.

Acts 20: 22 And now compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

Phil 2: 2, 3 3 Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. 4 Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. Msg Bible.

Point 3: Share what you have…vs. 30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

This is the way Paul put it. 2 Cor 9: 6 – 11 6 Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop. 7 I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over, and make up your own mind what you will give. That will protect you against sob stories and arm-twisting. God loves it when the giver delights in the giving. 8 God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. 9 As one psalmist puts it, He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out. 10 This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, 11 wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God.

Life Application: Sow wise decisions reap the harvest in 2012...
1. When the opportunity to serve presents itself I will decide to do so!
2. When the opportunity to seek souls and witness for Christ I will decide to do so!
3. When the opportunity to share my resources or myself I will decide to do so!