SERMON OUTLINE_Final_2.3.2019 Speaker: Pastor

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SERMON OUTLINE_Final_2.3.2019 Speaker: Pastor Buster Brown Today’s Message: Plundered: A Desperate Man Today’s Text: Matthew 8:5-13 “Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.” Matthew 12:29 “When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, 6 ‘Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.’ 7 And he said to him, ‘I will come and heal him.’ 8 But the centurion replied, ‘Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, “Go,” and he goes, and to another, “Come,” and he comes, and to my servant, “Do this,” and he does it.’ 10 When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, ‘Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. 11 I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 13 And to the centurion Jesus said, ‘Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.’ And the servant was healed at that very moment.” Matthew 8:5-13 1. Satan defeated (mortally wounded) by the cross; “Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” John 12:31-32 “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.” Colossians 2:13-15 “Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.” Hebrews 2:14-15 2. The centurion and drawing near to Christ; a. D____________________ b. Correct p___________ i ___________ “The more you understand the magnitude of God’s grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness, the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God’s gift of grace.” New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional, Paul David Tripp

SERMON OUTLINE_Final_2.3.2019

c. Recognition of s____________ a_____________ QUESTIONS 1. How are the fight of faith and the forces of evil similar to the period between D-Day and V-E Day (June 6, 1944 and May 7, 1945)? 2. How did the cross defeat despair, shame and the horrid fear of death? 3. Why is desperation an element in the life of faith? 4. What do you want the One who has all authority to do in your life?

ANSWER KEY for blanks: Desperation, personal inventory, supreme authority