Luke 16:19-31

If you listen to the language of our culture, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that our culture has a low view of Hell. For many ‘hell’ is nothing more than a filler word in a sentence. For some, ‘hell’ is a place where really bad people go when they die and definitely not a place for good people like them. For others, the concept of ‘hell’ is comical, or repulsive, or altogether non-existent. So if all of this is true, then why even talk about Hell? Why not avoid the topic and avoid the offense? We talk about Hell because Hell is real. We talk about Hell because Jesus talked about the existence and experience of Hell. We talk about Hell because, according to Jesus, the destination of those who do not “repent and believe in the gospel” is to an eternal, irreversible, conscious torment, separated from God in Hell. And this reality has great impacts on why we ask the question—Who’s Your One? Main Idea—Followers of Jesus prioritize the importance of one because Hell is real.

Luke 15 & 19

Mark 1:14-20

Believing the gospel of God makes me a follower of Jesus who fishes for men. This is what we see when we turn to these verses in Mark. This truth helps us launch our sermon series titled—Who’s Your One?—because if we are going to seek after lostness like Jesus then we can do by recognizing that we all have at least one lost person in our lives. Individually in our homes, neighborhoods, and work or collectively as a Jesus Family, a common denominator for both is lostness. And if the importance of one lost sinner is to move us like it did Jesus then we should look to Jesus and start with what’s most important. And what’s most important is that we first believe the gospel of God and move forward from there.

Luke 24:36-53

Luke 24:13-35

Luke 24:1-12

Jesus is alive! For 23 chapters, Dr. Luke has taken us by the hand and walked us through the birth, life, death, and burial of Jesus Christ. Friday closed with the aroma of death lingering in the air—a moment which felt like death had the last word. On Friday death was dealt, but on Sunday the tomb was robbed as the jaws of death were broken by the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And now as Dr. Luke takes us into the last chapter of his gospel, he wants us to see that you and I can have certainty that Jesus HAS risen just as He said. Confidence is what Luke wants you and I to have. Confidence that the empty grave and the word of Jesus proves my Savior lives.

Luke 23:26-56

Luke 23:26-56

With the guilty Barabbas released, and the innocent Jesus “delivered over to their will,” we are left to behold the man upon the cross as God accomplishes that which is humanly impossible—namely, sending His only Son to be our substitute and to sacrifice himself on the cross for our sins. Looking at the last three times Jesus speaks from the cross we see Jesus operating with joy—“for the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross” (Heb. 12:2). In a simple phrase, this text can be summed up like this—Jesus died my soul to save. And in this all God’s people rejoice.

Luke 22:31-62

In Luke 22 we have a story of two cups. Last week we saw how the Passover cup was a cup of blessing symbolizing how Jesus the Lamb of God was going to shed His blood for the forgiveness of sin. But in verses 31-62 we see that the Gethsemane cup is the cup of God’s wrath against sin which Jesus will drink at the cross in order that He can offer us the cup of blessing. Whether it’s the sin of denying Jesus [ Peter ], the sin of betraying Jesus [ Judas ], or any other sin we can imagine in-between, what we have before us is evidence that all people everywhere need the wrath consuming death of Jesus.

Luke 22:1-30