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Luke 15:11-32 – “Fellowship with the Father”

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My sermon notes for Sunday morning, May 19th.  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 15:11-32

INTRO

  • Jesus continues to expose the peoples hypocrisy.
  • The third parable. A parable of two sons and a father.
  • The joy of repentance. Repentance=Fellowship (Sheep, Coin, Son)
  • Older son is focal point… refusing to repent and accept the joy of true fellowship with his father.

The Younger Son

A picture of lostness and repentance

Selfishness

  • What I need and deserve
  • Fulfilling the needs of the flesh

Rebellion

  • Treating his father as if he were dead
  • Lack of respect for authority
  • Left the land.
  • Illicit behavior

Brokenness

  • Lost it all. HAS NOTHING
  • Satan’s tactics. STEAL, KILL, DESTROY John 10:10
  • All the pleasures of the world to near death

Repentance

  • He was desperate, hopeless and had nothing to offer.
  • “Arise and go to my father”
  • He knew he could not repay his father.
  • He was broken. Psalm 32:5, Psalm 51:1-4
  • But he knew even his father took care of his servants.
  • Heavenly Father gives life more abundantly John 10:10

The Father

A picture of acceptance and forgiveness

Reconciliation

  • Forgave him.
  • Bore his shame and sorrow.
    • Met him and walked into the village with him

Celebration

  • The joy of his return
  • The best. Undeserved.

The Older Son

 A picture of lostness and unrepentance

Self-Righteousness

  • We see his heart.
  • Jealous, resentful, bitter
  • “Look what I have been doing.”
  • Matthew 7:21-23

Unrepentance

  • Could have acknowledged sin and entered the celebration.
  • Refused to go in (Stiff necked Proverbs 29:1)
  • Romans 2:4-9

The What Now

  • The key to repentance is seeing ourselves for who we truly are.
  • True repentance feels a sorrow over sin.
  • We see ourselves as unworthy to receive forgiveness.
  • True repentance is a turning to Christ. Acts 3:19
  • True repentance results in the joy of our fellowship with the Lord.

I shall next show what gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit, whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and outwardly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients:

1. Sight of sin

2. Sorrow for sin

3. Confession of sin

4. Shame for sin

5. Hatred for sin

6. Turning from sin

If any one ingredient is left out, it loses its virtue.

(Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance)
 

2 Corinthians 7:10 – For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. (ESV)

Luke 10:1-24 – “Called and Sent”

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Luke 10:1-24

INTRO

  • The disciples have been called and sent
  • The 72 going out, then return
  • We too have been called and sent
  • It is really a pretty simple formula to live out ourselves

Actively Live for the Lord – vv. 1-2

Willing and Sent

  • Luke 9:23
  • Luke 9:57-62 (last week)

Praying

  • For our Availability
    • Stay on mission (Passion and Focus)
  • For Gospel Opportunity

Anticipate the battle – vv. 3-4

Facing the enemy

  • Wolves – Spiritual enemies
  • John 10:7-18

Depending on the Lord

  • Sheep
  • Protection & provision (take nothing)

Preach the truth of the Gospel – vv. 5-16

Peace (for those that receive)

  • Received as a messenger from God
  • They had nothing
  • Others supported
  • God uses our means to help with the spread of the Gospel

Judgment (for those that reject)

  • No middle ground. REPENTANCE
  • All the cities (OT and NT) rejected God
  • Either for or against
  • RECEIVE and BELIEVE John 1:12

Rejoice in the Lord – vv. 17-24

Evil is overcome

  • The power of the Apostles message
  • Demons then, Satan later
  • The Gospel today… delivering sinners to saints

Our Salvation

  • Nevertheless – v. 20
  • Reality of our salvation. Who we are in Christ
  • The danger of the DOING over the BEING
  • Finding our joy in who we are, rather than on what we are doing.

God’s Sovereign rule

  • He is Lord of all
    • Works behind the scenes
    • Opens minds and eyes
  • Redemptive history
    • Old and New Covenants
    • HE HAS MADE A WAY
    • The timeline of the Gospel
  • Jesus is the way, truth and life John 14:6

Luke 6:43-45 – “Good fruit or bad fruit”

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My sermon notes for Sunday morning, May 28th.  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 6:43–45

INTRO

  • Not judging, yet we are to call fruit what it is.
  • We know from Matthew 7:15-20 that Jesus was addressing false prophets.  Here it is not mentioned, but it still holds true.
    • 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
  • A false prophet is not who they say they are…. THEY HAVE BAD FRUIT.
  • Judging is based on our heart being critical and bitter… not seeking the best for others.
  • HERE… Jesus says we WILL BE KNOWN BY OUR FRUIT.
  • Our fruit is our character.
  • Our heart indicates the fruit.
  • Our hear indicates our character/who we really are
    • Character is our CONDUCT and CONVERSATION
    • Matthew 3:4-7 – John the Baptist
    • Matthew 15:18

The seriousness of the situation

No good bears bad. Nor bad bears good

  • A born-again person has accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
  • IF… THEN
  • IT is not just believing that there is a Jesus… It is someone that has entered into a personal relationship with Jesus (THIS WHY IT IS CALLED THE GOOD NEWS)

The need for evaluation

Our self and those we have concern for.

2 Corinthians 13:5

James 1:23–25

1 John 1:5–10

Does no fruit mean no Spirit? Remember, we are not judging… we are just showing discernment (This is evangelism and discipleship).

A Spirit filled believer has:

  • Repented of Sin
  • Daily taking up the cross…Following after Christ (Love Him, Listen to Him, Live for Him)
  • Living a holy life. Life of bearing fruit.

The impact of a changed heart

Jeremiah 31:33

John 3:5

Titus 3:4–7

2 Corinthians 5:17

When our heart gets right, then our life will be right.

We cannot FIX the circumstances of our life.

We may be able to address the bad habits of our life.

We can never produce God honoring fruit until our heart is changed.

ONLY JESUS CAN CHANGE THE HEART.