**(due to audio difficulties, the sermon was interrupted and not fully recorded)

The Savior’s People

Luke 6:12-36

The last we saw of the religious leaders was their rejection of Jesus and growing hostility. They were offended because Jesus refused to fit their mold of man-made religious tradition. And it’s with this picture rejection that we find the rub, because the very ones you’d expect to be ecstatic at the arrival of Isaiah’s Spirit-anointed Savior are decidedly not ecstatic. Instead of followers of Jesus they are furious with Jesus. All this prompts the question--“So who are the Savior’s people?” In what is often called the ‘Sermon on the Plain’ Jesus answers this very question. Main Idea—Because of God’s unmerited favor the Savior’s people are a blessed people who give their lives away.