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Luke 12:35-48 – “Are You Ready?”

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My sermon notes for Sunday morning, March 3rd. 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 12 :35-48

INTRO

  • The best way to conquer hypocrisy, covetousness, and worry is to live like we are ready for the Lord’s return.
  • Ready for the Lord’s return is not… fixated on end times prophecy, predictions, and etc.
  • What does ready look like?
  • Waiting/Watchful and Faithful.

The Waiting and Watching Servant– vv. 35-40

v. 35 – Stay dressed and ready for action and keep your lamps burning

  • Ready for action. Prepared. Anticipating
  • Lamps full.
  • Attitude and Effort

The Ready – vv. 35-38

  • Jewish wedding night. Servants waiting for their master to return.
  • House in order.
  • Life’s mission. Focus
  • Joyful and expectant
  • Eager to please. A cheerful server.

Master receives and serves.

  • JESUS. His life, death, burial, resurrection, RECIEVES US AT HIS RETURN.
  • All that Christ has done given us now (Salvation), but still awaiting in Heaven!

The Not Ready– v. 39

  • Unprepared. Careless
  • The thief comes in.
  • NOT PREPARED FOR THE TASK AT HAND
  • Possessions stolen

The Charge. Your must BE READY – v. 40

  • Salvation and Sanctification
  • Command. Serious. No middle ground.

The Faithful Servant – vv. 41-48

The Ready – vv. 41-22

  • Wise manager
  • Set with responsibility (ambassador for Christ)
  • Serving, Encouraging, Pouring into others.
  • Jesus to Peter.  Feed my sheep
  • BLESSED AT THE MASTERS RETURN

The not ready – vv. 45-48

  • Unwise manger
  • Establishes his own rules. Rejecting the words of the master.
  • I will do what I want to do
  • JUDGEMENT WHEN THE MASTER RETURNS

v. 48b – Everyone to whom much is given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand more.

  • These words would have been striking to Peter and the disciples.
  • They should also convict our hearts… considering all that we have from the Lord

The What Now

  • The Lord is coming,
  • He is coming for His waiting, watchful, and faithful servants.
  • There are only 2 examples given by Christ. The Ready or the Not
  • Which one are you?
  • 2 Peter 3:10-14
  • John 3:16-18

1 Corinthians 13:8-13

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1 Corinthians 13:8-13 – Love never ends

My sermon notes for Sunday morning, Sept 11th.  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.

INTRO

  • Agape Love… love in action
  • Paul is painting a portrait of love, and Jesus Christ is sitting for the portrait. He lived out in perfection all of these virtues of love. This beautiful picture of love is a portrait of Him. (John MacArthur- 1 Corinthians Commentary)
  • Remember the context. Spiritual gifts within the life of the church
  • Our relationship with others is a direct reflection of our relationship with God.
  • The unified Church focuses on the eternal not the temporal
  • What will be standing at the end
    • Love or gifts
  • Consider the Constant, the Passing and live faithfully as we Wait.

Love is eternal – v. 8a

  • Love never ends
  • Agape
  • God’s Love for us
  • Our love for God
  • Our love for one another
  • Falls. Fails to make the cut
  • Love does not fail because
    • Bears, Believes, Hopes, Endures ALL THINGS

The gifts will cease/pass away – vv. 8b-10

  • Prophecies, Knowledge, Tongues
    • Those that had been causing the most controversy
    • Remember, the context of this passage…. UNITY IN THE CHURCH
  • Not carry over into the next.
  • No longer needed
  • YET… Love will carry over from this age into the fullness of the age to come
  • Jeremiah 31:34

The joy is living in the now as we await the future – vv. 11-13

  • We know and prophesy in part
  • We are limited
  • Paul was including himself (even the apostle)
  • We are influenced and tainted by sin

When the perfect comes, then the partial will pass away

  • The Lord’s victorious return
  • All things will be complete

Moving Toward Maturity

  • Child – Adult
  • Mirror – Face to Face
  • Partial – Full

The concluding statement -v. 13

The Temporary

  • Faith – Trusting God in what we cannot see.
  • Hope – Expecting God to do what He has promised.
    • (In Glory we will SEE HIM and BE WITH HIM)

The Eternal

  • LOVE

Already, and Not Yet (How to Live in the Last Days)

  • already adopted in Christ (Romans 8:15), but not yet adopted (Romans 8:23);
  • already redeemed in Christ (Ephesians 1:7), but not yet redeemed (Ephesians 4:30);
  • already sanctified in Christ (1 Corinthians 1:2), but not yet sanctified (1 Thessalonians 5:23–24);
  • already saved in Christ (Ephesians 2:8), but not yet saved (Romans 5:9);
  • already raised with Christ (Ephesians 2:6), but not yet raised (1 Corinthians 15:52).
David Briones – http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/already-not-yet