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Talkin’ God with Uncle Luke

Acts 2:14ff

The work of the Holy Spirit is made plain and simple when Uncle Peter gives a big Bible talk. The work of the Holy Spirit is to make dumb people smart to what God is doing in this world by bringing you to Jesus, the Word of God. When people respond to Jesus, they gather around the apostles teaching, fellowship, break bread and pray together. That is church, plain and simple.

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Acts 2:1-15

God’s hillbilly redneck apostolic band of brothers and sisters get hit with the Holy Spirit and all hell breaks loose because the magnificent acts of God are being heard by people gathered in Jerusalem from all nations. God’s fingerprints are all over reversing the effects of the judgement of God from Genesis 11, when God dispersed people from Babel with different languages. The Holy Spirit, the presence of God, like Jesus, gather people together around Jesus and the magnificent acts of God.

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Luke 24:1-49

As Jesus said after he was beaten up, “Don’t cry for me…”, now we know why. Up from the grave his arose to playfully make his appearance to the women, households, and close friends. There could be no higher climax to a story than this, and it goes viral. God does not need science or video, just his faithful witnesses, the Scriptures and his friends. Take the plunge, rise and shine.

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Luke 23:34-56

Jesus opens the road to paradise. Do we get it? He gets us, but do we get him? The people who get Jesus are not the usual suspects, but those who do get Jesus see his innocence and his absolute authority. The death of Jesus tears the curtain in the temple, and the kingdom of God, paradise is open for business. Jesus is the temple and the road to paradise.

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Luke 23:26-34

Jesus has been beat up, mocked and now he will be crucified. Surprisingly, Jesus says don’t cry for him, cry for you and your kids. Oh the humanity! Father forgive us for we know not what we do. Best words ever.

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Luke 23:1-25

Jesus gets surrounded by our necessary evil and the predictability of stupidity, man made government, both Israel’s and Rome’s. The pattern of man made government is the story, and in the middle is Jesus Christ, God’s government of the future, who rules at the family level. The Divine Right of Kings is not God’s thing, the Divine Right of Jesus is God’s thing. Surprisingly, God endures our stupidity to save us.

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Luke 22:35-62

The story is surrounded by failure. The disciples fail, Judas fails, Peter fails and let’s be honest - it looks like Jesus fails, as he is taken into custody. But Jesus has his eye on a different enemy, evil. The Biblical Epic spans the beginning of humanity until God says that’s enough. God takes on our failures to His success. Isaiah 51-53 was written 700 years before Jesus and only Jesus is sticking to the plan. Hitch your wagon to Jesus’ success.

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Luke 22:1-34

The plot to kill Jesus surrounds Jesus’ plan to redefine Passover just like God always does. God uses man’s evils for God’s good. Man’s time to kill is God’s time to heal.

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Luke 21:25-38

It’s the end of the world as we know it! And I feel fine? Why? From God’s point of view, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ has inaugurated the last days. But that doesn’t mean it’s over, and that’s why we feel fine. Because of God’s great love we are not consumed. Judgment is God’s work alone, but it is not the work he loves. The work he loves is salvation. Nations will continue to war and make people live in fear and uncertainty, but God has revealed the end has begun, so straighten up, stay awake and live on Jesus’ words and deeds.