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Lucas 15 — La Parábola Del Hermano Mayor (sermón Nvi) Lucas 15 — La Parábola del Hermano Mayor (Traducción pastoral al español usando la NVI para los textos bíblicos) Introducción Abra su Biblia en Lucas capítulo 15. Quiero que vayamos despacio. Lucas 15 contiene uno de los pasajes más conocidos y queridos de toda la Escritura, comúnmente —y yo diría incorrectamente— llamado “La parábola del hijo pródigo”. Ese título suena familiar, pero nos hace perder el punto principal. Porque cuando Jesús cuenta esta historia, no está hablando principalmente del hijo pródigo....
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Denial Principle 1: Realize I’m not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. “Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor.” (Matthew 5:3) Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. “I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.” (Romans 7:18) What is Denial? Denial is a false system of...
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Healing Power During the Holidays Merry Christmas, Forever Family (Luke 2:7-14) 1) Tonight let us consider that the first Christmas began in a place that none of us would have chosen 2) Christmas tells something very powerful about recovery in five ways: a) First, God Meets Us Right Where We Are. (Luke 2:7) i) Jesus wasn’t born in a palace. He was born in the mess. And He still comes into our mess today. ii) Step 1 – “We admitted we were powerless…”...
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Lesson 26 – Ministry Opportunities (Mark 10:42-45) Principle 8: Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. "Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires!” Matthew 5:10 (TEV) Step 12: Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and practice these principles in all our affairs. “Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.”...
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Principle 5:
Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
“Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires.”
Matthew 5:6a (TEV)
Step 6:
We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
James 4:10 (NIV)
R control.
Help me to do your will, for you are my God. Lead me in good paths, for your Spirit is good. (Psalm 143:10 LB)
E does it.
Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him to help you do it and he will. (Psalm 37:5 LB)
A the change.
So then, have your minds ready for action. Keep alert and set your hope completely on the blessing which will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Be obedient to God . . . (1 Peter 1:13–14 GNB)
D your character defect.
“When an evil spirit goes out of a person it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can’t find one, it says to itself, ‘I will go back to my house.’ So it goes back and finds the house empty, . . . Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there.” (Matthew 12:43–45a GNB)
Y to the growth.
The person who has been born into God’s family does not make a practice of sinning because now God’s life is in him; so he can’t keep on sinning, for this new life has been born into him and controls him—he has been born again. (1 John 3:9 LB)