Luke-The Mission and Teaching of Christ
In the wake of great tragedy—the drowning of his four daughters after a collision at sea, Horatio Spafford penned these famous lyrics from the hymn: “It Is Well with My Soul.” When peace like a river attendeth my way,When sorrows like sea billows roll;Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,It is well, it…
We will be studying today in Luke 19 as we continue our series: “In the Steps of the Savior.” In the overall structure of Luke’s gospel, we are finishing up the section that I have titled, “The Mission and Teaching of Christ.” in Luke 19:9-10, Jesus said, “Today salvation has come to this house, since…
Much of our time today will be spent considering the kind of man that Zacchaeus was, according to what we see here in these verses; but I don’t want us to examine Zacchaeus and miss the more important point of this text. What is that point? That point is found in verse 10—the Son of…
We turn our attention back to the Gospel of Luke this morning. We will be focusing our attention on the last few verses of chapter 18. As we consider this encounter between the blind man named Bartimaeus and Jesus of Nazareth, there are a few important things that we are going to notice. First, we’ll…
Through this series of lessons in Luke 18, Jesus is trying to rectify our faulty thinking on one very important issue: too often people think that they can be good enough to earn eternal life with God, but that is a flawed assessment! I can only imagine what must have been going on in the…
We’ll be returning to Luke 18, this morning—looking at verses 18-30. In this passage, Jesus says that God is the only one who is good. And in the Scripture—specifically in the Book of Psalms—the Bible tells us over and over again that the Lord, He is good! Only God is good, and we aren’t God.…
This morning, we will be thinking about the topic of “Our Dependency when Trusting in God” and see how Jesus utilized children as an object lesson for His followers to understand what was necessary to enter the kingdom of God. Now, this incident carries on with the theme of humility and lowliness that we saw…
In the Gospel of Luke, the concept of the kingdom of God is discussed in various stages—both in the future tense as well as the present. When Jesus said that “the kingdom of God is in the midst of you” (17:21), He was referring to His presence and all that His life would bring. This…
In this passage, Jesus teaches us about the coming of the kingdom of God, but there are two tenses that He is referring to—the already and the not yet. In a very real sense, the kingdom had already come into the world in the person of Jesus. That aspect of the kingdom is what Jesus…