Teaching (Page 27)

Teaching (Page 27)

The Call to Radical Discipleship

Luke 14:25-33 What a joy it is to be back in the text with you today.  You can turn in your Bibles to Luke 14:25.  Luke 14:25-35 is a section that is searching and piercing.  And at the same time, it is also comforting and encouraging.  So, I think you’ll see what I mean as we read through the text.  Let’s begin by reading this morning, Luke 14:25-35.   It says this, “Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and…

Responding to the Invitation, Part 2

Luke 14:15 We are picking up where we left off last week in Luke 14.  So we’re coming back to Luke 14 verse 15, and the parable of the great banquet.  We got into the parable last time.  As you know, it’s a parable that Jesus gave to a room full of Pharisees and religious lawyers.  Those who are characterized, all through Luke’s Gospel, characterized as sinfully hostile to Jesus and opposing him and his ministry in every way.  Trying…

Responding to the Invitation, Part 1

Luke 14:15-20 We were in Luke 14 this morning looking at Jesus’ parable of the great banquet, which some refer to as the parable of the excluded guests. It is both of those things. It’s a parable of profound meaning of pointed significance. It’s intended to confront the falsely assured. Those in danger of rejecting God’s gracious invitation to them to come, to come. And so today, in this text, and what will cover today and next week, it will…

Associate with the Lowly

Luke 14:12-14 Well, we are back in Luke 14. Jesus teaching on the subject of humility and he’s doing that while he is sharing company with the proud, eating a meal. He’s been invited to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees on a Sabbath day. It’s after, an after-synagogue dinner, hosted by a wealthy powerful man, probably located in Jerusalem. And they, he and the guests, they are watching him carefully. They were watching because they…