"Evangelism" Tagged Teaching (Page 5)
Complete Restoration for All Unclean, Part 2
Luke 5:14-16 Let’s begin by reading the passage, which we usually do. Look at Luke Chapter 5, verse 12, “While [Jesus] was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, ‘Lord if you will, you can make me clean.’ And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I will; be clean.’ And immediately the leprosy left him. And he charged him…
Complete Restoration for All Unclean, Part 1
Luke 5:12-13 There’s such kindness and compassion and tenderness that this man, Jesus Christ, has toward the least of these. And I include myself as one of those. We’re going to get, today, yet another striking picture of that compassion as we see, once again how his mercy is directed by divine purpose and by concern, loving concern. If you were here with us last week, you’ll know we entered in Luke 5. Amazing story of how Jesus called his…
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…
Evangelism from Heaven
Luke 2:8-14 We’re continuing this fascinating study, the infancy narratives, which tell us the story about how God sent his Son, how the Son of God entered the world as a newborn baby, swaddled, laid in a manger. And as you’re turning there to Luke 2:8, let me just read a couple of verses from John’s gospel. Some of the themes flowing through the current of our text this morning John highlights in his prologue: themes of light and glory…
Plowing Fallow Ground
Luke 1:76-77 We’re getting into God’s Word this morning. Open your Bibles to Luke’s Gospel once again. We are at the end of the first chapter where we’ve slowed down just a bit to focus our attention on Zechariah’s Song. What we’re about to study as we get into Chapter 2 and following, throughout the rest of Luke’s Gospel, is quite weighted. It’s holy. And our society, our culture, our American culture—we’re not used to weighty. We’re not used to…
Faithful Evangelism, Part 2
Acts 17:24-34 Today, go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Acts 17. Today, we’re getting back into our little two-part message on evangelism. We just wanted to jump into that subject of evangelism last week and this week because we know so many students are going back to school, routines are getting back into fall routines and we have an opportunity, again, to remind ourselves of what we’re here to do on earth. We’re not here just to fellowship…