First General Baptist

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 24:46-49 (Acts 1:4-8)

Repentance/remission of sins—Witnesses—Waiting on the Holy Spirit

Witnesses: (Timing)

Courtroom term.

Why does a lawyer in court call a witness? Why doesn’t the lawyer just say what the witness will say? Why not just read a written testimony of the facts?

Waiting on the Holy Spirit: (Timing)

Wait on direction then wait on timing.

The Holy Spirit is waiting on you to wait.

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 24:46-49

Repentance/remission of sins—Witnesses—Waiting on the Holy Spirit

Repentance/remission of sins:

Remission (46-47)—“Forgiveness, freedom”

The Message, “Total life change thru forgiveness.”

What do you think would make the top 2 prayer requests?

What do you think would make the top 3 spiritual/Biblical questions people have?

I am only a beggar telling other beggars where to find bread.

The only difference between a lost person and myself is Jesus.

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 24:44-46

I’m not Moses, so I read what Moses wrote.

Isaiah 30:8

Jeremiah 36:1-2

We’re not waiting on God to speak as much as He is waiting on us to listen. He has spoken!

Listening to the Word—turning points

God has, is, and will speak thru The Word, which will always lead us to Jesus. John 1:1, Colossians 1:16

Harriet Beecher Stowe, (Uncle Tom's Cabin) "Having learned late in life, Tom was but a slow reader, and passed on laboriously from verse to verse. Fortunate for him was that the book (Bible) he was intent on was one which slow reading cannot injure, nay, one whose words, like gold, seem often to need to be weighed separately, that the mind may take in their priceless value."

Message: The gospel according to Luke  

Text: Luke 24:36-43  

1 John 3:2, “…we shall be like Him…”  

Keep comparing Jesus’ resurrection and yours to everything else you have to deal with.  

We’re going somewhere else, so keep reminding yourself that everything here is temporary, transitory.  

Get a grip!...or not.  

Billy Graham,  "Too many Christians let themselves get bogged down  by the cares and routines of daily living.  Don't let that happen to you.  Ask God to help you live each day with eternity in view…How easily the events of the moment crowd out the promise of eternity!"  

David Roper, "We'll never be home free until we get Home!"  

C.S. Lewis,"God gives us many resting places on our journey home, but He never allows us to mistake them for home."

Message: The gospel according to Luke  

Text: Luke 24:33-37  

And: Mark 16:9-14  

He’s standing right there…and they don’t recognize Him!  

(Hebrews 13:2, “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.”)  

The resurrected Jesus appears:  

Mary  

Misses Peter and John  

Some of the women with Mary  

Two Emmaus disciples—Cleopas and a friend  

Eleven apostles with a few other disciples  

Paul mentions 500 at one time  

God parts the Red Sea and people walk across it on dry ground. The next week they are complaining because they ran out of watermelons and onions.  

Jesus brings Lazarus back to life after being dead for four days, the next week people are plotting to kill Jesus.

Message: The gospel according to Luke  

Text: Luke 24:21, 25-35  

Jesus, teach us to pray, Part 2   

The two parts of God’s revelation…What is God’s will?  

1. Jeremiah 29:13 Your part “God won’t help you quote a verse you haven’t read.”

2. Luke 24:31-32 Jesus’ part

It takes Two to peel an onion.  

The Emmaus disciples are telling Jesus how defeated they feel and He listens already knowing His victory.  

Message: The gospel according to Luke  

Text: Luke 24:12-27  

Vs 16, compared to Mark 16:12…appeared in another form.  

What does this encounter Jesus has with 2 of His disciples remind you of? Something that a lot of us do everyday?  

Vs 19, Jesus joins up with you and takes part in what you’re already talking about, what you’re already thinking about. Jesus got them to say what He already knew.  

Vs 21, They were hoping for something that wasn’t in God’s Word or God’s will.  

Vs 25-26, “foolish, slow of heart to believe.”  

Amplifed Version, “Sluggish in mind, dull of perception…find it so hard.”  

Believing what we want to believe just because we want to believe it.  

Jesus, teach us to pray.  

Message: ”…You are with me.”

Text: Ruth 1:1-7, 22:2:1, 4:13-17 Luke 2:1-7

Micah 5:2, Isaiah 11:1, 10

(Ruth was written about 1000 BC, Isaiah was written about 700 BC)

Matthew 1:22-23 (Isaiah 7:14)God with us!

Psalm 23:4“…You are with me.”

Philip Yancey, "In Jesus, God came close."

Henri Nouwen, "There is no journey to God outside of the journey that Jesus made."

Henry Blackaby, "When you are struggling to believe, that is not the time to avoid Christ or to be ashamed of your struggle. You will never increase your faith by not going to Jesus!"

Message: The gospel according to Luke  

Text: Luke 24:1-12  

Remember how He spoke to you?  

Faith is a Word issue. Romans 10:17, John 20:31 The only reason to read/hear it is to believe it.  

Read the stories… Study the Word… so you can hear/remember what He spoke to you, and then believe what He spoke to you.  

When God is at work—Matthew 28:8, Mark 10:32  

Is this just me or is this from God?—  Matthew 14:28  

Love—1 John 4:19  

Oswald Chambers, "The danger with us is that we want to water down the things that Jesus says and make them mean something in accordance with common sense; if it were only common sense, it was not worthwhile for Him to say it."

Message: The Family of God  

Text: John 6:47-51, 14:20, 23  

The temple veil was torn in two, top to bottom…Jesus to you, Jesus for you, Jesus in you.  

The sign of the cross, vertical then horizontal.  

Communion is about Jesus in you and you in the family of God.  

Who is your greatest obstacle?                                     

Ephesians 6:12  

Our enemy is not each other.  

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts."