Teaching on Luke (Page 25)
To present Jesus as the answer to the needs and hopes of the human race. Addressed to a high-ranking Gentile official, Theophilus, the Gospel is intended to give certainty in the historical person of Jesus, who is called the “Son of Man” 26 times. The Gospel also serves as “Part 1” of a two-part history of the Christian faith written to the same individual, with the book of Acts serving as “Part 2.”
The Devil’s Temptation of Jesus
Luke 4:1-2 So here in Luke’s gospel, fourth chapter, let’s enter the passage together, just starting with reading the passage about the devil’s temptation of Jesus Christ. Says there in Luke chapter four, verse one. “And Jesus full of the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for 40 days, being tempted by the devil, and he ate nothing during those days, when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said…
The Lineage of the Last Adam
Luke 3:23-38 One of the joys of expository preaching is that you get to be exposed to all different portions of Scripture. Not many preachers would on their own choose to preach through genealogies, but expository preaching is a method of preaching that requires you to move verse by verse, passage by passage through the Scripture. So, I’m forced to do this, but gratefully so. I am very much encouraged by this passage and I hope you are as…
The Covenantal Divide: The Anointing of Jesus
Luke 3:21-22 Jesus’ baptism was the context of his anointing by God for the unique role and the special ministry as Israel’s Messiah. I just want to start by reading these two verses. You know we talked about this last week, and we’re going to finish it up here today. We’re going to start by reading those verses, and then I’ll make a few comments just by way of review. It says in Luke 3:21: Now when all the…
The Covenantal Divide: The Baptism of Jesus
Luke 3:21-22 These are monumentally important verses. These two verses here really represent a high point in redemptive history. This is a zenith that marks the division between the two covenants of the Bible. It is a very, very important text. This is what you might call a watershed text. I’m calling these two verses, Luke 3:21 to 22, the “Covenantal Divide.” This week, we’re going to consider the role of Jesus’ baptism in that divide, and next week we’re…
Reacting to Words of Warning
Luke 3:15-20 Women are learners, they’re students of Scripture, and Luke acknowledges that all the way through the Gospel. Christ acknowledges that in his ministry to women directly. But our passage today has nothing to do with women. It’s got to do with people. So if you are “a people,” it has to do with you. We’re going to go back to our study of Luke’s Gospel. I’m actually going to start in John chapter 10. If you turn to…
How to Preach Repentance, Part 3
Luke 3:10-14 This is really the fifth message in a, in this series. So we’ll start back where we started a few weeks back in Chapter 3, verse 1. Follow along as I read Luke 3:1 and following. “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, the tetrarch of Abilene, during the…
How to Preach Repentance, Part 2
Luke 3:10-14 As we pointed out last week, the call to repentance is considered by many today to be something that is an addition to the Gospel, rather than the essence of the Gospel itself. For anyone to insist that there must be fruits of repentance, like John commands here, or that there must be works accompanying genuine faith that is considered by many evangelicals today to be the very essence, not of the Gospel, but of legalism. To many…
How to Preach Repentance, Part 1
Luke 3:7-9 We have come to see how all true Gospel proclamation involves this message of repentance. Jesus preached repentance. The Apostles preached repentance. The students of the Apostles preached repentance. And all true preachers of the Gospel ever since have continued preaching a message of repentance. Without repentance, you no longer have the Gospel. You’ve actually replaced the Gospel with a false substitute, a damning substitute. So we need to be very careful as we learn this morning, as…
The Preparatory Work of Repentance
Luke 3:4-6 John’s life and ministry, it provides us, all of us, the people that he preached to, but also us as well living in the 21st century, John’s ministry provides us with a very necessary perspective that we need to understand the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. You need to get what John is saying because otherwise, it’s very easy for you to maybe to misinterpret, especially in this modern world, to misinterpret what Jesus is actually saying.…
Before You Get the Gospel
Luke 3:1-3 I’d like to begin this morning by reading a good portion of this third chapter. So follow along with me as I read verses 1 to 23 of Luke Chapter 3. “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being the tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the…