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TITLE: Attitudes of Teacher and Student
TEXT: Mark 10:17-22
PROPOSITION: With the proper attitude of student and teacher, God's Word will be learned and obeyed.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Attitudes
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- Many are noticing a decline in knowledge of the Bible.
- How can one attend SS for 18 years and be so ignorant?
- Is it the teacher, the material, the student, or the attitudes?
- Look at Jesus and the Rich young ruler from a new perspective.
Student Attitudes
Running
I could preach a sermon here about being on time.
Are you anxious to get to Bible Class?
Do you try to be on time? Awake, ready to study?
Kneeled
This man was coming in reverence.
I am not suggesting that you kneel before your teacher.
This is part custom of that part of the world and that time.
However, we should show respect to the teacher.
Earnestness
Did not ask for personal gain - rich, famous, powerful
Did not ask for now - healing, material blessings
But for eternal life - I am trying, what lack I yet, anything missing?
Teacher Attitudes
Beheld
Do not just look at the externals - hair a mess, shoes on wrong feet, etc.
Do not just look at the behavior - talkative, quiet, won't sit down
Learn to look - inside, look deeply at the spirit, heart, soul, mind
Loved
The Greeks word is agape
This word means - I will seek what is best for another
This love has nothing to do with looks, emotions, feelings
It is a calculated decision about how to treat another person
When the Bell Rings (class is over)
Grieved
- At the end - he rejected the message he was seeking
- He was not prepared to make the sacrifice required
- Teachers can not force acceptance of the message
- We must teach, preach, and encourage obedience to the truth
- We are the watchmen of Ezekiel 3:17-21
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