My sermon notes for Sunday morning, July 30th. 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. 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 8:16-21
INTRO
- Luke 8:15 – As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
- Hearing the Word not with just our ears, but also with our heart.
- HEARING AND DOING THE WORD
- OBEY/ DO = new nature produces a new person
- Not a list of Dos and DONTs. To obey is to follow, live differently…follow after Jesus.
Hear and Make Known – vv. 16-18
Receive and Respond to the Word
- Hear and Believe
- Receive John 1:12
Display the Word
- You do not cover a lamp.
- We do not cover the Word
- What is on the inside will/should come out
- The truth of the Word on display
Hidden and manifest. Secret and made known
- The truth of the Gospel (the called)
- Our life (the real coming out)
Continue to hear
- Our sanctification.
- Time in the Word (Personal)
- Time under the Word (Corporate)
- So goes you… so goes you and the Word
- Less or More
Hear and Live – vv. 19-21
- Obviously, Jesus had great concern for and loved His family. But the most important was devotion to HIS FATHER Luke 2:49
- His greatest concern is for the spiritual family
The Spiritual Family
Those that hear, receive, and LIVE OUT (OBEY, DO, FOLLOW AFTER)
An inward change. Supernaturally from God
- Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord – Colossians 1:9-12
- Ambassadors for Christ – 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
- His workmanship…good works – Ephesians 2:8-10
An outward focus and direction. Our responsibility to live it out
- James 1:22-25 – Doers of the Word
- Matthew 7:24 – Hears and acts
- John 8:31 – Continue
Because there has been such an radical inward change
- From death to life
There should be a radical change in how we live our life
- Bearing Fruit Luke 8:15