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Life: Where’s the Beef?
by Tony Evans
Text: John 10:7-10
Topic: Where to find abundant life
Big Idea: If you don’t have the life of God in you, you’re dead.
Keywords: Abundant Life; Death, Spiritual; Disappointment; Discouragement; Disobedience; Emotions; Obedience; Overcoming; Salvation; Security; Victorious Living
Introduction:
- Illustration: Lady in Wendy’s commercial asks, “Where’s the beef?"
We want to know where the beef is, too.
- Illustration: Boy peppers father with questions about the meaning of life.
- Illustration: Wife finds out the marriage alone won’t satisfy her deepest desires.
- If we don’t know what life is really all about, Satan will offer us imitation life.
Without the life of Christ, we are dead.
- We cannot give ourselves life.
- The root of the problem is the sin of Adam.
- Illustration: Sam the forester disobeys and gets kicked out of his mansion.
God often has a hard time getting our attention.
- We are sheep, and sheep are ignorant.
- Like sheep, we follow whatever looks the best.
- Illustration: Sheep return to their folds through only one entrance guarded by the shepherd.
- Other voices who entice us away from Jesus are thieves and robbers.
The meaning of abundant life.
- You will be saved.
- You will be safe.
- You will be satisfied.
Conclusion:
- The beef is in Jesus, the substance of life.
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