My sermon notes for Sunday morning, November 12^th, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. The church provides a live stream of the service each Sunday at 10:30 on Facebook. We also provide the services through YouTube by Sunday afternoon.  You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Luke 10:38-42

INTRO

• Follow up on the good Samaritan.
• Priorities in life
• Serving and loving
• Devoted and Distracted

Mary – Devoted

At the feet of Christ

• Her position
  • Student to a Rabbi
• Her proximity
  • Listening intently
  • Not questioning like the lawyer Luke 10:25

Listening to His Words – THE WORD

Don Whitney writes,

No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God’s Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture. The reasons for this are obvious. In the Bible God tells us about Himself, and especially about Jesus Christ, the incarnation of God. The Bible unfolds the Law of God to us and shows us how we’ve all broken it. There we learn how Christ died as a sinless, willing Substitute for breakers of God’s Law and how we must repent and believe in Him to be right with God. In the Bible we learn the ways and will of the Lord. We find in Scripture how to live in a way that is pleasing to God as well as best and most fulfilling for ourselves. None of this eternally essential information can be found anywhere else except the Bible. Therefore if we would know God and be Godly, we must know the Word of God—intimately.

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life [Colorado Springs, Colo.: Navpress, 1991], 24

Love, Listen, Learn, Live

• Luke 6:47 – Comes, listens, and acts
• Luke 8:21 – Hear and do.

Martha – Distracted

Loved by Jesus

• John 11:5

Serving Jesus

• She opened up here home to serve Jesus.
• Doing the work of ministry (80/20 rule)
• 1 Peter 4:9-10 Hospitality

SERVING IS GREAT, but the context tells us there is something going on with her heart

She lost her focus.

• Distracted in her work
  • “to be dragged away”
  • Priorities are in question
  • Serving is great… BUT
• Overwhelmed
  • Worry set it. She was anxious
  • Anxious over what needed to be done Philippians 4:6
  • God will provide – Our needs
  • God accepts us in Christ – What will people think
  • God has us forever – What will happen
• Resentful
  • She lost her joy in serving
  • Took it out on others

Notice how fast it escalated. She opened up her home for Christ and now she is questioning him.

Lessons to Learn

• Doing ministry is greatly and crucial as we fulfill the Great Commission.
• We must keep a balance over the Temporal (good things) and the Eternal (Best thing).
• For those that are busy… we must learn to find as much JOY in BEING with Jesus as we do in BUSYNESS for Jesus.
  • Love, Listen, Learn, Live

My sermon notes for Sunday morning, November 5^th, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. The church provides a live stream of the service each Sunday at 10:30 on Facebook. We also provide the services through YouTube by Sunday afternoon.  You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Luke 10:25-37

INTRO

• The Parable of the Good Samaritan
• A great question and a great answer.
• The wise and the unwise
  • Luke 10:21 – In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. (ESV)
• The changed heart understands MERCY (From God… to others)

The Lawyer’s Question – vv. 25-29

The lawyer

• An expert on Jewish law
• Influential in society
• Very religious

The age-old question

• What shall I do to have eternal life?

The man’s heart

• The context shows us he was testing Jesus.

Jesus answers

• What is written in the law?
• The law does not save, but the law shows us that we need to be saved (impossible to do)
• The law defines true righteousness, only grace can deliver it. The law was given to demonstrate to man their desperate need for grace.
• The law brings conviction… it points to our sin.

Love God and Love Your Neighbor

• Deuteronomy 6:5
• Leviticus 19:18
• Matthew 22:37-40

Do this and you will live (eternal life)

The Second Question

• Who is my neighbor?
• Justifying Himself
• Trying to limit the law and the responsibility
• God’s Grace vs. Mans works
  • What can I do?
  • His heart exposed!

Jesus’ Response – vv. 30-37

The Setting

• Seventeen-mile journey from Jerusalem to Jericho
• Winding rode through rocky terrain
• Historically dangerous trip

The Parable

Rather than loosen the definition of “neighbor,” Jesus radically expands it. The Lord tells the story of the good Samaritan (vv. 30–35), a story that blows all the categories of the day. The story

•     features the brokenness of this sinful world (v. 30),

•     exposes the emptiness of religion without love (vv. 31–32),

•     challenges the racism and prejudice we all can feel (v. 33), and

•     requires sacrifice and risk (vv. 34–35).

Thabiti Anyabwile, Exalting Jesus in Luke, Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary (Nashville, TN: Holman Reference, 2018), 182.

The Meaning

• 2 religious leaders passed by
  • Selfish, Busy, Wrong focus
• The 3^rd was not just a layperson, but a despised Samaritan.
  • Totally gave himself
  • Time, Talent, Treasures
  • Kindness and brotherly love
  • WORDS AND DEEDS

The What Now

• You go and do likewise.
• To love God is to love others.
• Receiving Mercy and Sharing Mercy.
• It is so much more than saying we are a Christian… It is BEING a Christian.

My notes for Wednesday night, Nov 1^st. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. Our study over the next few months will be “The Roots of the Faith.” This study will focus on key biblical truths that will transform our thinking and allow us to faithfully live out the Christian life. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Resources for this Study

50 Core Truths of the Christian Faith – Gregg R. Allision

Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine – Wayne Grudem

Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth  – John MacArthur & Richard Mayhue

Basic Christian Doctrines – Curt Daniel

The Humanity of Christ

The Son of God is the Second Person of the Trinity, equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. In the incarnation, he took on human nature and became the God-man, one person with two natures.

•     The Son of God is the Second Person of the Trinity, sharing in the one divine nature.

•     Being fully God, the Son is equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit in nature, power, and glory, but he is distinct from them in terms of his eternal relation and roles.

•     Two thousand years ago, the eternal Son of God became incarnate, taking on a full human nature, and became the God-man, Jesus Christ.

•     By the hypostatic union, he is both fully God and fully man, two natures united in one person.

Jesus was born like any other human being.

• Luke 2:1–7
• Born of a virgin
  •  The uniting of His full deity and full humanity
  • Sinless Matthew 1:18

He grew and matured like others.

• Luke 2:40, 51–52

He had normal physical needs.

• John 4:6; John 19:28; Matthew 4:2
• Hunger, thirsty, tired

He expressed common human emotions.

• John 12:27; 13:21

He enjoyed the kind of relationships that are characteristic of human beings.

• John was “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:7, 20), one of Jesus’s three closest friends (Peter, James, and John; Mark 5:37; 9:2; 14:33).
• Jesus spent three years of ministry with the Twelve (Matt. 10:1–4), and had close friendships with women (Luke 8:1–2), including Mary and Martha (John 11:1–41).
• And Jesus was “a friend of tax collectors and sinners” (Matt. 11:19; cf. 9:10–11).

He physically suffered and died.

• John 19:34

Because the Son of God is the fully divine Second Person of the Trinity, he is worshiped together with the Father and the Holy Spirit. As they are, so the Son is worthy of honor, thanksgiving, obedience, trust, and service.

What’s at stake in this doctrine? Our salvation! The God-man, sent by the Father to accomplish salvation, is the unique mediator between God and his fallen image-bearers. Only he as the fully divine Son could pay the infinite penalty for sin. Only he as the fully human Son incarnate could be the perfect substitute for sinful human beings. He and he alone is the Savior in whom God’s people trust for their salvation. And through the Son we enjoy a personal relationship with the living God!^[1]

^[1] Gregg R. Allison, 50 Core Truths of the Christian Faith: A Guide to Understanding and Teaching Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2018), 147–153.

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My notes for Wednesday night, Oct 25^th. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. Our study over the next few months will be “The Roots of the Faith.” This study will focus on key biblical truths that will transform our thinking and allow us to faithfully live out the Christian life. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Resources for this Study

50 Core Truths of the Christian Faith – Gregg R. Allision

Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine – Wayne Grudem

Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth  – John MacArthur & Richard Mayhue

Basic Christian Doctrines – Curt Daniel

The Deity of Christ

The Son of God is the Second Person of the Trinity, equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. In the incarnation, he took on human nature and became the God-man, one person with two natures.

MAIN THEMES

•     The Son of God is the Second Person of the Trinity, sharing in the one divine nature.

•     Being fully God, the Son is equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit in nature, power, and glory, but he is distinct from them in terms of his eternal relation and roles.

•     Two thousand years ago, the eternal Son of God became incarnate, taking on a full human nature, and became the God-man, Jesus Christ.

•     By the hypostatic union, he is both fully God and fully man, two natures united in one person.

•     This classical Christology stands opposed to various heresies, both early and modern.

•     The Son is worthy of worship, obedience, trust, and service.^[1]

His Deity

Divine Titles

• Mark 1:9-11; John 3:16

Divine References

• Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 1:1; Hebrews 1:8

Divine Nature

• John 10:30; Hebrews 1:3; Philippians 2:6

Divine Attributes

• Omnipresence – Matthew 28:20
• Omniscience – Matthew 26:20-25, 30-35
• Authority – Matthew 28:18

Divine Activities

• Creating – John 1:3; Colossians 1:16
• Sustaining – Colossians 1:17
• Judging – John 5:22,27; Acts 17:31
• Forgiving sins -Mark 2:10
• Granting Eternal life – John 5:21; 10:28
• His Miracles – The “7 signs” in John’s Gospel.

^[1] Gregg R. Allison, 50 Core Truths of the Christian Faith: A Guide to Understanding and Teaching Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2018), 147–148.