Mind and Knees

Matthew 9:35-38

What is a worker?

1. A worker has eyes that see.

What is a worker?

1. A worker has eyes that see.2. A worker has a heart that feels.

What is a worker?

1. A worker has eyes that see.2. A worker has a heart that feels. 3. A worker has hands that heal.

What is a worker?

1. A worker has eyes that see.2. A worker has a heart that feels. 3. A worker has hands that heal. 4. A worker has a mouth that speaks.

What is a worker?

1. A worker has eyes that see.2. A worker has a heart that feels. 3. A worker has hands that heal. 4. A worker has a mouth that speaks. 5. A worker has a mind that knows.

What is a worker?

1. A worker has eyes that see.2. A worker has a heart that feels. 3. A worker has hands that heal. 4. A worker has a mouth that speaks. 5. A worker has a mind that knows.6. A worker has knees that pray.

A Mind that knows

1. Bring up spiritual conversations

Matthew 10:1616 Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.

Conversation Starters• Do you go to church anywhere?

“Yes”

Conversation Starters• Do you go to church anywhere?

“Yes” • Where do you go?• Do you like your church?• How did you start going?

Conversation Starters• Do you go to church anywhere?

“No” • Did you grow up going to church?• What was that like?

A Mind that knows

1. Bring up spiritual conversations2. Bring God into the conversation

Questions to ask

• Can I ask you one of my favorite questions?

Questions to ask

• Can I ask you one of my favorite questions?

• If you were to die today, how sure are you that you would go to heaven? %

Questions to ask

• Can I ask you one of my favorite questions?

• If you were to die today, how sure are you that you would go to heaven? %

• If God were to ask you, “Why should I let you into heaven?” What would you say?

Common Responses

• “I don’t believe in God”

Common Responses

• “I don’t believe in God”• Response: “Just humor me”

Common Responses

• “I don’t believe in God”• Response: “Just humor me”• “I’m a good person. I believe in God. I

love helping little old ladies.”

Goal

• To lovingly help them realize they are not actually a good person.

Good Person Test

• Have you ever told a lie? What does that make you?

Good Person Test

• Have you ever told a lie? What does that make you?

• Have you ever stolen anything? What does that make you?

Good Person Test

• Have you ever told a lie? What does that make you?

• Have you ever stolen anything? What does that make you?

• Have you ever had lustful thoughts? What does that make you?

Good Person Test

• Have you ever hated someone? What does that make you?

• Have you ever been selfish before? What does that make you?

Good Person Test

• If God were to judge you according to what you have done, would you be innocent or guilty?

Good Person Test

• If God were to judge you according to what you have done, would you be innocent or guilty?

• Should you go to heaven or hell?

Good Person Test

• If God were to judge you according to what you have done, would you be innocent or guilty?

• Should you go to heaven or hell?• Does that bother you?

A Mind that knows

1. Bring up spiritual conversations2. Bring God into the conversation3. Bring Christ into the conversation

John 3:16-17

16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Colossians 2:13-14

13 And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses. 14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross

Romans 5:6-8

6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For rarely will someone die for a just person-though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. 8 But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

A Mind that knows

1. Bring up spiritual conversations 2. Bring God into the conversation3. Bring Christ into the conversation 4. Bring them into the conversation

Questions

• What do you think? • Does this make sense to you?• Do you want to follow Jesus?

The Response

• Respond to God with repentance

The Response

• Respond to God with repentance• Reject your righteousness as a means

of salvation

The Response

• Respond to God with repentance• Reject your righteousness as a means

of salvation• Trust in the work of Jesus on the cross

1 Peter 1:23

23 because you have been born again–not of perishable seed but of imperishable–through the living and enduring word of God.

Application

1. Decide if you want to be a worker

Application

1. Decide if you want to be a worker2. Initiate gospel conversations

Application

1. Decide if you want to be a worker2. Initiate gospel conversations3. Pray.

Application

1. Decide if you want to be a worker2. Initiate gospel conversations3. Pray. #6. A worker has knees that pray.

Matthew 9:35-3835 Jesus continued going around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.

Matthew 9:35-3836 When he saw the crowds, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.

Matthew 9:35-38

38 Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”