A Sober Warning to the Worldly-Contented
Luke 6:24-26 Take a look He this morning at the four woes in Luke 6:20. This is ah four corresponding woes to the four beatitudes he gave in, we’ll look at that whole section, Luke 6:20 to 26. Interestingly, this is how Jesus finishes his introduction to his sermon with four woes, which really you could consider a, a gospel call to all the non-disciples in the gathered crowd. Each woe that he gives matches or corresponds directly to a…
The Attributes of God’s Greatness: God the Trinity
As you know, we finished the first subheading under the first major category of theology proper; God’s greatness and immortal spirit. I’d originally intended to get into a second subheading under God’s greatness called God the Creator, but I said, I decided to make that the third subheading and insert something in between. I debated whether or not to deal with the Trinity under the God creator category. Since we come to know God’s triune personality through creation, but I’ve…
The Way of the Blessed
Psalm 1:1-6 Psalm 1 is, as you know, the gateway to the Psalter, to 150 psalms, which is the really the songbook of Israel. And the psalms in their entirety, they describe the, the life and the experience of the believer. From positive to negative and everything in between, the songbook of Israel provides an outlet and an expression of praise to God and prayer to God in all of life and its experiences. Reallythe Psalm 1 speaks of the…
Our Response to Godly Church Leadership
Hebrews 13:17
Ten Reasons to Rejoice When Persecuted
Luke 6:22-23 We are wrapping up our study of just the beatitudes. As we go through our exposition of the Gospel of Luke, the beatitudes here in Luke’s gospel, Luke 6:20-23, is really the introduction for the entire Sermon on the Mount. And today we’re going to continue what we began last time, a couple of weeks ago, in Luke 6:22-23, “blessed are the despised.” Let’s, let’s begin as we’ve been doing by reading those beatitudes again together. Starting in…