IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
• Matthew 5:21-22 - 21 "You have heard that the
ancients were told, 'YOU SHALL NOT
COMMIT MURDER' and 'Whoever commits
murder shall be liable to the court.' 22 But I
say to you that everyone who is angry with
his brother shall be guilty before the court;
and whoever says to his brother, 'You
good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the
supreme court; and whoever says, 'You
fool', shall be guilty enough to go into the
fiery hell. NASU
Matthew 5:27-28 (GW)
“You have heard that it was
said, ‘Never commit
adultery.' 28 But I can
guarantee that whoever
looks with lust at a woman
has already committed
adultery in his heart.
“If Nature does not wish that weaker
individuals should mate with
stronger, she wishes even less that a
superior race should intermingle
with an inferior one; because in such
a case all her efforts, throughout
hundreds of thousands of years, to
establish an evolutionary higher
stage of being, may thus be rendered
futile.”
IDEAS
HAVE
CONSEQUENCES
Ephesians 3:20-21 (NASB) - 20
Now to Him who is able to do
far more abundantly beyond
all that we ask or think,
according to the power that
works within us, 21 to Him be
the glory in the church and in
Christ Jesus to all generations
forever and ever. Amen.
• John 15:17-19 (NASB) - 17 "This I
command you, that you love one
another. 18 "If the world hates
you, you know that it has hated
Me before it hated you. 19 "If you
were of the world, the world
would love its own; but because
you are not of the world, but I
chose you out of the world,
because of this the world hates
you.
1 Corinthians 1:18 (NASB) –
For the word of the cross is
foolishness to those who are
perishing, but to us who are
being saved it is the power
of God.
• Matthew 12:30 - 30 He
that is not with me is
against me; and he
that gathereth not with
me scattereth abroad.
KJV
• Matthew 10:34-39 - "Do not think that I came to
bring peace on the earth; I did not come to
bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a
man against his father, and a daughter
against her mother, and a daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law. And a man's
enemies will be the members of his
household. He who loves father or mother
more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he
who loves son or daughter more than Me is
not worthy of Me. And he who does not take
up his cross and follow after Me is not
worthy of Me. He who has found his life will
lose it, and he who has lost his life for My
sake will find it."
Romans 1:16For I am not ashamed of the
gospel, for it is the power of
God for salvation to
everyone who believes, to
the Jew first and also to the
Greek.
JESUS CAME TO CREATE
DIVISION IN THIS WORLD
• "Do not think that I came to bring
peace on the earth."
• Matthew 10:17-22 - 17 But beware of men, for they
will hand you over to the courts and scourge you
in their synagogues; 18 and you will even be
brought before governors and kings for My sake,
as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But
when they hand you over, do not worry about how
or what you are to say; for it will be given you in
that hour what you are to say. 20 For it is not you
who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who
speaks in you. 21 "Brother will betray brother to
death, and a father his child; and children will rise
up against parents and cause them to be put to
death. 22 You will be hated by all because of My
name, but it is the one who has endured to the end
who will be saved. NASU
"Nevertheless, do not fear any man.
Men only have the power to kill
your body. Instead, fear God
because He alone has the power to
destroy not only your physical body,
but also your soul in hell." Matthew
10:28
Romans 5:1 –
"Therefore, having been justified by
faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
The universal division
created by the Gospel is that
people are either saved or
lost.
Luke 6:26 –
26 Woe to you when all men
speak well of you, for their
fathers used to treat the
false prophets in the same
way. NASU
• John 6:66-69 - After this many
of his disciples turned back
and no longer walked with
him.67 So Jesus said to the
Twelve, "Do you want to go
away as well?" 68 Simon
Peter answered him, "Lord, to
whom shall we go? You have
the words of eternal life, ESV
2 Timothy 3:12 –
12 Indeed, all who desire to
live godly in Christ Jesus
will be persecuted. NASU
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - 9 Don't you realize that
those who do wrong will not inherit the
Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves.
Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who
worship idols, or commit adultery, or are
male prostitutes, or practice
homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy
people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or
cheat people—none of these will inherit the
Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you were once
like that. But you were cleansed; you were
made holy; you were made right with God
by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ and by the Spirit of our God. New
Living Translation.
Ephesians 4:15 - 15 but
speaking the truth in love,
we are to grow up in all
aspects into Him who is the
head, even Christ, NASU
JESUS DIVIDES
• Matthew 7:13-14 (NASB) "Enter through the
narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way
is broad that leads to destruction, and there
are many who enter through it. 14 "For the
gate is small and the way is narrow that leads
to life, and there are few who find it.
• John 9:16 - "Some of the Pharisees were saying,
'This man is not from God, because He does
not keep the Sabbath.' Others were saying,
'How can a man who is a sinner perform such
signs?' So there was a division among them."
JESUS DIVIDES FAMILY.
• "For I came to set a man against his
father, and a daughter against her
mother, and a daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law. And a
man's enemies will be the members of
his own household. He who loves his
father or his mother more than Me is
not worthy of Me; and he who loves
son or daughter more than Me is not
worthy of Me."
• Luke 14:26 - "If you want to be
my disciple, you must hate
everyone else by comparison—
your father and mother, wife
and children, brothers and
sisters—yes, even your own life.
Otherwise, you cannot be my
disciple."
JESUS WILL DIVIDE ETERNALLY
• Daniel 12:2 – “Many of those
who sleep in the dust of the
ground will awake, these to
everlasting life, but the
others to disgrace and
everlasting contempt.”
Matthew 25:46 –
"These will go away into eternal
punishment, but the righteous into
eternal life"