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This sermon examines the Trinitarian dimensions of Isaiah 11, focusing on the identification of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit within the prophecy of the Messiah. The Father is presented as the implicit source of the Davidic line, while the Son is depicted as the royal Branch who rules with righteousness and integrity. The Holy Spirit is highlighted as the distinct person who rests upon the Messiah, providing a seven-fold empowerment that includes wisdom, understanding, counsel, and might. The teaching emphasizes the functional unity of the Godhead, where the Spirit furnishes the Son to carry out the Father's sovereign plan. This analysis connects the Old Testament prophecy to New Testament fulfillment, illustrating how the distinct roles of the three persons cooperate in the redemption and rule of Christ.

In this installment of a verse-by-verse Adult Sunday School series through Luke, Charles Sebold takes up Luke 9:1-17 and picks up Luke's unanswered question from the storm on the lake: "Who then is this?" Having shown His authority over wind, demons, disease, and death, the Lord now lends that authority to twelve men and sends them out deliberately empty-handed, with no staff, bag, bread, money, or second tunic, so that when a fever breaks or a demon flees no village can mistake whose power it was. He makes each of them a beggar before He makes him a missionary, and the shaking of dust off the feet leaves a covenant town that refuses the kingdom outside it by its own refusal. Word reaches Herod Antipas, who asks the same question from a throne rather than from a sinking boat; Luke withholds the spectacle of John's beheading and keeps the camera on the question, because Herod wants a show and not an answer. Withdrawing across the border to Bethsaida, Jesus welcomes the crowd that ruins His rest and hands the twelve an impossible assignment: "You give them something to eat." In a wilderness, seated in fifties as Moses once seated Israel, God spreads a table; the Lord takes, blesses, breaks, and gives, the four verbs Luke will sound again at the Supper and at Emmaus; and twelve men who said "send them away" carry home twelve baskets of His provision. The lesson presses the slowness of disciples the Lord refuses to discard, and the widening sense of God's true scale that marks a maturing Christian life.

After reviewing the first four chapters of Daniel, we discuss the fall of Babylon to the Persian Empire as described in chapter 5.

Doctrine of God Sunday School Class