"Lk 1" Tagged Teaching
Trusting God in the Christmas Story
Luke 1:1-2:20 I want to welcome you, again, to our service before the Christmas Day this week. Hopefully, you all are gonna enjoy family and friends this Christmas season. We certainly are. We’re looking forward to a great time together. We’ve enjoyed a wonderful season together, not just in the Christmas celebration this week, it’s just been a wonderful season at our church as well. So many good things going on. Everywhere we look, we’re seeing signs of life and…
The Significance of New Covenant Salvation
Luke 1:72-75 Go ahead and turn to Luke’s Gospel. Luke, Chapter 1 and we’re in that section from verses 67 to 80, the last part of the chapter. On the first of this month, October 1, 2015, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Some of you may have read that speech or read about it, or even watched the short little video clip there of Mr. Netanyahu’s 44 seconds of silence, which was a protest…
Blessed Be God the Savior
Luke 1:68-71 Luke chapter 1, verse 68—there’s a design in the text as we talked about last week, the intention of the Holy Spirit to cause us to slow down and linger a little while on Zechariah’s Benedictus, his song of salvation, a prophetic word. Last week we used the hour to get an overview of this rich, very, very profound doxology, a song of blessing and praise. We’ve called this Zechariah’s Gospel Doxology because the song highlights gospel themes.…
Zechariah’s Gospel Doxology
Luke 1:67-79 As we continue in Luke’s Gospel, we’re coming to the final section in this massive first chapter—eighty verses. That’s like four chapters in any epistle. So, eighty verses, good job. We’ve come through it; we’re getting to the end here. And this is Zechariah’s song. It’s also known as the Benedictus. This is the longest of all the canticles, all the songs, in Luke’s Gospel. As you can see there, it runs from verse 60 to verse 79.…
When God Shows Favor
Luke 1:57-66 We’re back in Luke’s gospel this morning, and I am rejoicing at that. So, turn in your Bibles to the first chapter of Luke. And we’re in Luke 1, verse 57. We’re coming into the final narrative scene of chapter 1. Which is, as you know, set at the time of the birth of John the Baptist. We, we were last in the text when Mary visited Elizabeth at the urging of the angel Gabriel. Elizabeth was in…
Belong to the People of Promise
Luke 1:54-55 Go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Luke’s Gospel and we are in Luke 1:46–55, the Song of Mary. We’ve been studying the Mary’s Magnificat, and we’ve come to the final stanza of just what a wonderful, magnificent song that is. And we want to read the entire song one more time because when we read it today in its entirety, we’re going to leave it behind as we go on next week. So, just to enjoy…
Why God is Great
Luke 1:49-53 Let’s get into the word of God this morning. As we come to our time in God’s word this morning,you can open your Bibles to Luke Chapter 1 and verse 46. Luke 1:46.We’re going to continue our study of Mary’s Magnificat. We’ll read it together again as we get started this morning. While you’re turning there, in Psalm 113, the psalmist asks one of the best rhetorical questions in all of Scripture. Psalm 113 verse 5, the psalmist…
A Practical Guide to Glorifying God
Luke 1:46-49 Well, as we turn to God’s word this morning, we want to enter into the study here of Luke chapter 1. You can turn there in your Bibles. We’re getting into a study of a very, very beautiful, joyful portion of Luke’s Gospel. It’s Luke 1:46, and perhaps the best way we can introduce this section of Scripture is just to start by reading the passage together, just let the words of this passage fill the air. So,…
Blessed Are Those Who Believe
Luke 1:39-45 Let’s get into the Word. Okay, Luke chapter 1. I’m hoping that last week’s review of where we have been in Luke helped prime the pump for you to get ready for moving ahead, and that’s what we’re going to do today, continuing to move forward in Luke chapter 1. So, you can locate Luke 1:39. We’re going to continue through this fantastic first chapter that introduces us to really the most important event that has ever happened…
Mary, An Exemplary Believer
Luke 1:33-38 Well, take your Bibles in hand and open them to Luke 1:26—Luke 1:26, for our final sermon on this section. We’ll begin by reading one more time that passage—Luke 1:26 to 35—and this account is nothing short of amazing. Its depth is staggering. Its simplicity is incredible. Without a doubt this is the Word of God. You can tell a difference every time you read anybody else’s book. A human book, a human author, as excellent as it…