My sermon notes for Sunday morning, February 4th. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. The notes 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 11:45-54
INTRO
- Religious leaders are questioning Jesus.
- Who He is. Who He is from. How He impacts humanity
- SAME QUESTIONS TODAY!!!
- They thought he would apologize, but instead…
- Declared 3 WOES
- Declaration of judgment
- For their sin against God
- Woes to the Lawyers for what did and did not do.
- Blessing to those that live and do differently
- THE HYPOCRISY of the Pharisees and Scribes
The Woe – Their service – Adding legalistic burdens
- Their service – Their ministry – Their life before God
- Adding more burdens (legalism and tradition), rather than taking them away.
- WORKS not GRACE
- Rather than giving freedom… they were heaping up burdens
- They lacked… Offering the grace and mercy of the Gospel
What we can learn (the blessing)
- Jeremiah 31:25 (refreshing through the New Covenant)
- Matthew 11:28-30
- An invitation for the overloaded to come
- Rest now and ultimately for eternity… the already and not yet
- Good Shepherd Provides – Love, Care, Nourishment, Guidance, Protection
The Woe – Their Heart – The hardness of their heart
- Their spiritual heart – Their standing before God
- Tombs of prophets
- Their ancestors killed to messengers of God
- Rejecting God’s plan of redemption
- God’s means of Grace
- The message from the prophets
- The message from Christ
- The message from the Church
- They lacked receptive hearts
What we can learn (the blessing)
- See yourself through the lens of the Gospel
- See Christ through the lens of the Gospel
- DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEART
- Respond now to the leading of the Spirit
The Woe – Their Message
- Twisting God’s Word
- Not faithfully teaching God’s Word
- Then… the proper application of the Law.
- The Bible today
- Hindering others form receiving God’s grace
- Removing the key of knowledge
- Robbing people of God’s Word
- They lacked… Trusting God’s sufficient Word
What we can learn (the blessing)
- The Gospel is our hope
- The Word is our hope
- We need to lift high the Word of God
- We seem to be ashamed of it today
- Believe and share the truth of God found in His Word
- Clearly, Lovingly, Boldly…TRUSTING IN GOD TO WORK