The Lost Sheep and Silver Piece Our text is Lk 15:1-10. Publicans and sinners drew near to Jesus to hear him. They wanted to hear what he had to say. The Pharisees didn’t want to hear him and were perturbed that Jesus would even associate with publicans and sinners. In...
The Cost of Discipleship The Cost of discipleship is threefold. Jesus said that you must: Hate your own family. 26. What in the world is Jesus talking about here? Hate in the Bible is always what you understand it to be by definition. This doesn’t seem to make sense. Consider...
A Great Supper The context of Lk 14:15-24, the great supper, is Jesus in the house of one of the chief Pharisees eating bread on the sabbath, Lk 14:1. While there: Jesus healed a man of the dropsy. Taught them that healing on the sabbath is no less lawful than...
Lessons to Lawyers and Pharisees He taught them lessons: Concerning Jesus and Jerusalem Lk 13:31 The Pharisees said to Jesus, “Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee”. This was an idle threat because Herod wan’t going to kill Jesus, and when he had the opportunity he...
Mustard Seed, Leaven, and the Strait Gate In Lk 13:18-30 Jesus gave two parables concerning the kingdom of God and then gave his Jewish audience an exhortation to enter the kingdom of God through the strait gate. The kingdom of God is like two things, a grain of mustard seed...
Three Things To Know In Lk 12:49-59 Jesus told the multitude three things to know that they weren’t aware of. Know Why I Am Come I am come to send fire on the earth, v.49. In Matt 3:11 John said that Jesus would baptize with fire. In 2 Thes 1:7-9,...
Be Ye Therefore Ready In Lk 12:35-48 Jesus taught his disciples, and those who would read these words, to be ye therefore ready, because they would not know the hour of his return at the Second Advent. Concerning the Second Advent, Jesus gave an illustration of a lord who returns...
Possessions and Necessities After Jesus gave his disciples some words of instruction, a man in the crowd asked Jesus to speak to his brother, that he would divide the inheritance with him. Jesus used this opportunity to teach his disciples about possessions and necessities. He taught them to: Beware of...
Words of Instruction Following Jesus’s rebuke of the Pharisees, scribes, and lawyers, Jesus exhorted his disciples with words of instruction. Beware of Hypocrisy Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is feigning to be what one is not or claiming to believe what one does not;...
Pharisees Scribes and Lawyers A Pharisee asked Jesus to dine with him. And as he sat down to meat, a conversation ensued. The subjects Jesus discussed were addressed to the Pharisees scribes and lawyers present. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and Scribes for: Cleaning the outside only, Lk 11:38-41. The Pharisee...
