Luke
10:1-37 - Christ’s message - ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you’ (9) - calls for our response - hearing with faith or rejecting in unbelief (16). Where does this response of faith come from? - From God: He reveals Himself to us (21). Questions: Why do we ask them? - ‘to put Jesus to the test’ (25), ‘to justify ourselves’ (29)? You cannot come to Christ until you stop trying to justify yourself - Are you trying to test Him or learning to trust Him? (a) What shall I do to inherit eternal life?' (25): The law cannot save. It can only show us our need of the One who does save - Jesus (Romans 8:3-4). (b) ‘Who is my neighbour?’ (29): ‘Passing by on the other side’ (31-32) - This is not love. It’s nothing like the love of God for ‘sinners’ (Romans 5:8). Jesus loves you. Let Him save you. Let His love change you.
10:1-37 - Christ’s message - ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you’ (9) - calls for our response - hearing with faith or rejecting in unbelief (16). Where does this response of faith come from? - From God: He reveals Himself to us (21). Questions: Why do we ask them? - ‘to put Jesus to the test’ (25), ‘to justify ourselves’ (29)? You cannot come to Christ until you stop trying to justify yourself - Are you trying to test Him or learning to trust Him? (a) What shall I do to inherit eternal life?' (25): The law cannot save. It can only show us our need of the One who does save - Jesus (Romans 8:3-4). (b) ‘Who is my neighbour?’ (29): ‘Passing by on the other side’ (31-32) - This is not love. It’s nothing like the love of God for ‘sinners’ (Romans 5:8). Jesus loves you. Let Him save you. Let His love change you.
10:38-11:28 - Mary
was ‘listening to the Lord’ (39). Martha was ‘distracted’ (40). ‘One
thing is needful’ (42): Don’t let anything distract you from this -
Getting alone with God. More than anything else, Jesus wants to ‘teach
us to pray’ (1). The greatest gift that God gives - in answer to prayer -
is the Holy Spirit (13). We are to ‘pray at all times in the Spirit’,
relying completely on the Spirit to teach us to pray (Ephesians 6:18).
Pray that you will be ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’ (Acts 4:31). As you
pray, let the Spirit be your Helper (Romans 8:26). ‘Some’ are so
critical: Negative thinkers, they ‘point the finger’ at everything (15).
‘Others’ are never satisfied: They’ve made complaining a way of life
(16). Let’s rise above all this: ‘Blessed... are those who hear the Word
of God and keep it!’ (28).
11:29-54 - Christ
is ‘greater than Jonah’ (32). Jonah was preserved alive (Jonah
1:17-2:10). Christ ‘died... was buried’ and ‘was raised’ (1 Corinthians
15:3-4). Through His resurrection, He has been ‘declared with power to
be the Son of God’ (Romans 1:4). We are not to be secret disciples (33):
‘Believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and confess with your lips
that Jesus is Lord’ (Romans 10:9). Guard against ‘the lust of the eyes’
(34; 1 John 2:16; Genesis 3:6; 13:10-11; 19:26; Joshua 7:20-21; 2
Samuel 11:2-5). The Pharisees were ‘fools’ (40). Clean on the outside
but not in their hearts, they ‘loved the best seat in the synagogues’
but they were spiritually dead - ‘like graves’ (39,43-44). Their true
nature is seen in their reaction to Christ (53-54): Don’t be a ‘fool’!
Don’t be a ‘Pharisee’!
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