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Luke 11:33-36 – “See and Believe”

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Luke 11:33–36

Intro

  • The evil generation is seeking sign.
    • The heart of the evil generation.
  • They were accusing him of not giving enough evidence…show us a sign.
  • Here, Jesus continues His teaching that no new SIGN is coming.
  • Light and Dark
  • Our eyes. Our mind. Our heart
  • Rejecting the LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 8:12

The Light of the Gospel – v. 33

The Gospel is not hidden

  • Light in a cellar or under a basket
  • They were accusing Him of not giving enough evidence… show us a sign
  • The Word is known
  • The Gospel is known
  • The message is not hidden

The Reception of the Gospel – v. 34

The Eye is the lamp of the body

  • The source of light to the body
  • The problem is sight, not light

Good Eye

  • Whole body full of light
  • How we see the Gospel
  • Our perception
    • View of God
    • View of self
    • View of Christ

Body is full of light

  • Spiritually healthy life
  • HEAR, OBEY, LIVE

Bad eye

  • Whole body full of darkness
  • They could see it, they just could not embrace it
  • Lack of perception
    • View of God
    • View of self
    • View of Christ

Body is full of darkness

  • Moral and spiritual darkness
  • Contrary to the truth of God
  • Fruitless, unpleasing to God

THEREFORE BE CAREFUL lest the light in you be darkness

  • The world thinks themselves so wise and clever
  • Yet, they live in darkness

Romans 1:18-32

The Manifestation of the Gospel – v. 36

If then your whole body is full of light

  • Wholly bright
  • No part of darkness
  • Our life displays the light of the Gospel

For those willing to repent and turn from the sin that blinds them, the gift of sight opens up limitless vistas of blessing. The Lord’s language is expansive: Your whole body is full of light, He declared, with no dark part in it … as when the lamp illumines you with its rays. Becoming a believer means having one’s spiritual eyes opened to the truths revealed in God’s Word (Ps. 119:18, 105, 130; 2 Peter 1:19). Having been “called … out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9) Christians walk in the light (1 John 1:5–7), are children of light (Eph. 5:8; 1 Thess. 5:5), and enjoy fellowship with the Light of the world (John 8:12). They are, and eternally will be, grateful for the light that floods their souls through God’s grace.

John MacArthur, Luke 11–17, MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2013), 90–91.

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

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My sermon notes for Sunday morning, Nov.21st.  Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided to help you follow the sermon as you listen each week. The church provides a live stream of the service each Sunday at 10:30 on Facebook at Tabernacle Facebook Page. We also provide the services through YouTube by Sunday afternoon at TAB YouTube.  You can also find our Worship Guides, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List and other resources at our Church Website.

1 Corinthians 2:6–16 - [6] Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. [7] But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. [8] None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. [9] But, as it is written,

	“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
		nor the heart of man imagined,
	what God has prepared for those who love him”—
	
	[10] these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. [11] For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. [12] Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. [13] And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

[14] The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. [15] The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. [16] “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. (ESV)

INTRO

  • God’s Wisdom
    • God’s eternal plan of redemption
    • The eternal truths of God
  • World’s Wisdom
    • Philosophies, morals, and thoughts without the truth of God
  • Learning to trust in the Wisdom of God and not the wisdom of man.
  • God’s Wisdom = Having the mind of Christ

The spiritual man is open to the truths of of God

  • Mature – v. 6
    • converted
  • In Christ
  • Wisdom – The Gospel
  • The Gospel is more than just “getting saved”… it is the MESSAGE OF LIFE CHANGE
  • Decreed before the ages – v. 7
  • What God has prepared – v. 9
  • The life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and return of Jesus Christ.

The natural man is opposed to the truths of God

  • It is a secret and is hidden from them – v. 7
  • No eye, no ear, nor heart can… – v. 9
  • Man cannot comprehend the thoughts of God – v. 11
  • The things of God are folly to him – v. 14
  • Man cannot understand – v. 14
  • Natural man does not just stumble upon God!

The Gospel is God’s eternal truth for redemption

  • Decreed before the ages – v. 7
  • What God has prepared – v. 9
  • In and through Christ

The Holy Spirit illuminates God’s truth

  • Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God – v. 10
  • The Spirit reveals the Gospel – v. 10
  • The Spirit reveals the thoughts of God – v. 10-11
    • MAKES KNOWN
    • Minds and hearts
    • Word and Spirit
  • Believers receive the Spirit at conversion – v. 12
    • Romans 8:11
    • 1 Cor 6:19-20
  • Believers CAN understand the things freely given by God – v. 12

The Coming of the Spirit:

John 14:16-18

  • Another… one like Jesus
  • Helper – to come alongside.
  • Spirit of truth
  • Dwells with and be with you
    • Filled when we are saved

Acts 1:8

  • The promise of the Power – the received power
    • Romans 1:16

Acts 2:1-4

  • Spirit fell on the believers

The spiritual person is a discerner of truth

  • Judges all things – v. 15
  • Have the mind of Christ – v. 16
    • The means for our maturity
    • Remember… the Spirit within us!
    • It is more than me living FOR Christ…. I have the Spirit IN me

We can have the mind of Christ

  • If born again… then I have everything I need to LIVE OUT THE WISDOM OF GOD
  • As a Church of born again people… We have everything we need to LIVE OUT THE WISDOM OF GO