First General Baptist

Message: The gospel according to Luke             (4-5-20)

Text: Luke 20:27-38

Believing faith…

Romans 10:9, “If you will confess with your mouth…”

Romans 10:17, “Faith comes by hearing…”

then growing faith that builds a strong hope by experience.

The most important second in your life.

Hebrews 11:1, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for...”                                                                             

Romans 5:4, “Tribulation, patience, experience, hope.” (KJV)

Hope for the present and future is built on what God has done in the past. He is still building hope in you thru experience.

What are you hoping for?

The most important second in your life.

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 20:20-25

Taxes: honor/respect the governing authority.

Consequences and the “arm chair quarterback.”

Tithes: Ps 24:1, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” Job 41:11, “…everything under heaven is Mine.”

Like a river flowing into the ocean.

Tithing pays for doing God’s work.

Your stuff is already God’s stuff, so God doesn’t need more stuff.

Jesus wants you.

Jesus likes you.

Jesus has come to you. So, come to Him.

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 20:1-8

Matthew 28:18, “All authority is given unto Me…”

You:

~Most of the time authority for us is a control issue, who has control?

~Psalm 24:1, Job 41:11

~Jesus doesn’t have to ask anyone, needs no permission, doesn’t have to explain Himself, and doesn’t have to answer to anyone…so He usually doesn’t. 

Others:

~Daniel 4:17, 34-35   King Nebuchadnezzar

~Jesse, David, Nebuchadnezzar, Quirinius, Caesar Augustus, Joseph, Mary, Bethlehem

Romans 8:28

Text: Luke 20:41-47                                                

“You only believe the part of the Bible that you live.”

Matthew 22:42, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The Son of David.”

Text: Luke 20:41-44

Luke 20:42,       LORD (Jehovah) – Lord (Adonai) (Gen 15:2)

John 8:24 (NIV) “I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins.”

Text: Luke 20:45-47

They love: the best things, the best places, taking other people’s things, what people think about them…they love themselves.

Colossians 1:16, “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.”

He does not exist for us, we exist for Him

Life like a jigsaw puzzle

~13 in an upper room

~Garden, scattered, (fear, turning point)

~Cross, (fear)

~Resurrection (fear, turning point, preaching point)

~Acts 1, 120 in an upper room

~Acts 2, 3,000

~Acts 4, 5,000

~Acts 8:4, persecution, spread worldwide (the fish)

~1 Peter 1:6-7   Pure faith

~James 1:3-4    Perfect (mature) faith

All comfort does for the church is make us comfortable.

During the testing of your faith, that’s where your turning point will be. 

Acts 8:4, “Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the Word.”

1 Peter 1:6-7, “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

Pure faith

James 1:3-4, “Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”

Perfect (mature) faith

Message: The Lord’s Supper

Text: 1 Corinthians 11:24-25

(2 Corinthians 11:3) “The simplicity that is in Christ.”

Corporately-FGBC:

“This do…Go, make disciples, baptize, teach”

Individually:

Love, trust, obey…Jesus

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 19:41-48

The emotions of God: Sadness, grief, anger—the passion and urgency of God.

Time is still running out, and people are already lost so what more do they have to lose?

Shane Rosenthal, "The Jesus we preach is so kind, gentle, and loving, it is a wonder that He was ever crucified."

The emotion of God inspires emotion in us. If Jesus were with us in the flesh today, would someone still kill Him?

If you won’t stand up for Jesus when there is no real consequence, why would you stand up when there is a real consequence?

Living divisively, living decisively

Drawing a bolder line in my life and with my life.

A Hand on my back and a hand on my chest. Matthew 28:19 & Zechariah 3:1

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 19:28-40

~Have you ever sat on a colt that has never been sat on before?

~What is spontaneous worship by the disciples was planned by God. We don’t create the wave, we just ride the wave…if we want to. If you want to ride a wave, you better jump on while it is passing by.

There is always someone who is opposing our worship

~It is wrong to not worship the Lord.

~It is wrong to keep worship to ourselves.

~Satan hates our worship and praise to Jesus

~So, my silence is pleasing to Satan

~So, my hesitancy to worship Jesus is pleasing to Satan.

~Jesus is serious enough about worship that He is willing to make stones talk if you won’t.

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 19:10-27

Fearful:

~Fear of failure instead of fear of the king. The 3rd servant completely misunderstands his King…the King is not angry with mistakes, He is angry with nothing.

~The business of FGBC is Jesus and people. (vs 10)

~A scenario and an empty chair. Finding some does not slack God’s sense of urgency for all, 2 Peter 3:9