Expository Outlines Luke 23:42 And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. I. THE PROMINENT FEATURES OF THIS STRIKING CONVERSION. 1. The former character of this person. 2. The means whereby the change was accomplished. Conversion is God's work, but He usually employs certain means in effecting it. (1) The words which the Saviour uttered. (2) The spirit which the Saviour displayed. 3. The evidences he manifested of the reality of his conversion. (1) He warned and reproved his fellow-sufferer. (2) He made an open confession of his guilt, and acknowledged the justice of his sentence. (3) He vindicates the character of Christ. (4) He prays to Christ, and exercises unbounded confidence in Him. II. WHAT THOSE LESSONS ARE WHICH WE SHOULD LEARN FROM THIS WONDERFUL EVENT. 1. Let us admire the riches of Divine grace. Oh how great, how unexpected, and especially how rapid was the change. 2. How striking a proof is here afforded of the Saviour's power. What must that energy be, which, under such circumstances, could snatch this man as a brand from the burnings. 3. The danger of delay is another lesson we may deduce from this narrative. Suppose a person had once leaped unhurt from some projecting rock into the deep precipice below, would that justify others in running the same risk? Madness of the maddest kind would it be. (Expository Outlines.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.WEB: He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." |
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