Teaching on Sermons (Page 40)

Teaching on Sermons (Page 40)

The Golden Rule

Luke 6:31 “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” You probably were taught that by your mother when you were growing up by a very, very wide margin, the best known of Jesus sayings, in any of his teachings. “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”  You will find the golden rule in both Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31. We’re studying Luke’s Gospel, so you can turn to Luke 6:31 in your…

Love Your Enemies, Part 2

Luke 6:29-30 There in Luke 6.  And we’ll be starting verse 27.  We were introduced last time to Jesus’ command, “Love your enemies,” and we tried to think carefully about what love really is.  And then how to practice that love toward others and our enemies in particular.  Today, we’re going to move ahead.  We’re going to consider some of these implications as Jesus clarifies his meaning with certain instances of enemy-like behavior.  What does it mean to love our…

Love Your Enemies, Part 1

Luke 6:27-28 We’re gonna get into Luke 6:27 this morning. Last Sunday as you know, we got a broad overview of the entire sermon. But today we want to drill down into the details. Starting with Jesus’ opening imperative, in verse 27, love your enemies, love your enemies. This is about practicing the full extent of divine love. This is the way Jesus commands his followers to live, to practice the full extent of divine love. So to get this…

Becoming Disciples of Divine Love

Luke 6:27-49   Luke 6:27.  We are continuing our study of Luke and his unique and powerful record of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.  We have noted before that this sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, may be Jesus’ most famous sermon.  His most well-known sermon.  It contains the Beatitudes, which we’ve already studied and come through.  It also contains like well-known as the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”  That’s contained here…

A Sober Warning to the Worldly-Contented

Luke 6:24-26 You can turn in your Bibles to Luke 6:20 as we take a look this morning at the four woes.  This is our 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…

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 experience of the believer.  From positive to negative and everything in between, the songbook of Israel provides and outlet, an expression of praise to God and prayer to God in all of life and its experiences.   Really the Psalm 1 speaks of the, of…

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…

Blessed Are the Despised

Luke 6:22-23 We are studying the beatitudes, which is the introduction to Jesus’ most well-known sermon. The, this introduction to the sermon, I think, in my mind anyway, it’s been nothing short of revolutionary. Not in the political sense, not in any social, economical, or political statement. Any of that would be too shallow for this. Jesus, is as revolutionary in the sense that Jesus has introduced a new and a profoundly countercultural worldview. This is a worldview here that…