The Agony in the Garden, Part 1
Luke 22:39-42 Turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 22. Luke chapter 22, we are following our Lord Jesus Christ. We’ve just been with him and his disciples in the upper room, and they are in this text that we’re in today, Luke 22:39. They’ve left the upper room and they’re heading to the Garden of Gethsemane. Today, as we enter into the Garden of Gethsemane with our Lord, we are wading into some deep, deep waters; really deeper than…
How to Rejoice in Hostility
Luke 22:35-38
Combat Prayer, Part 2
Ephesians 6:18-20
Sifted and Strengthened
Luke 22:31-34 Well, turn in your Bibles to Luke 22, as we’re looking at the final instructions of our Lord to prepare his Apostles before his death. Last week, the Lord set before his men a vision of future glory and honor, which we see is our own future glory and honor as well, as we saw in the text that we went through last time, Luke 22:28-30, and then other Scriptures as well, that show our involvement in that…
The Reward of Our Lord
Luke 22:28-30 Well, turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 22. We are working our way through Jesus’ final instructions to his Apostles, which he’s giving just before his death. And I’d like to begin by reading this section that we’re in, the whole section, starting with the institution of the Lord’s Supper, which is in Luke 22:19. Luke 22:19, and following, “And when he had taken some bread and given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them,…
Combat Prayer, Part 1
Ephesians 6:18
The Highest Aspiration
Luke 22:24-27 The Highest Aspiration Luke 22:24-27 January 27, 2025 Well, we return to Luke 22 in our study of the Gospel of Luke, and we’re reading the final instructions of our Lord to his men, his twelve Apostles, before his death for sins. Our Lord, as we know, as he’s been predicting and telling us all through this Gospel narrative, he will soon be betrayed into the hands of sinners. He’ll endure the false accusations of sinners in corrupt…
How Jesus Processed Suffering
Luke 22:21-23 Well, the last time we were in the Gospel of Luke, we were joining the Lord and his apostles in the upper room, an intimate time of believing fellowship for the Twelve and Jesus, one of them, those 12, being false. And so when he departed, it was the Eleven and Jesus. And so those men, sharing that intimate believing fellowship. And our Lord’s desire in this Upper Room Discourse, this time with his disciples, is to teach…
The Weapons of Christian Warfare, Part 2
Ephesians 6:17
The Common Problem of Practical Atheism
James 4:13-17 James 4:13-17, we’ll be finishing up James 4 today. So we come to this new section in the epistle of James. If you remember from last week, the previous section ended, and it was a very convicting command to God’s people to not slander, and then the implications of why that is such a serious sin. One of the things that brought the most conviction to many of us out of that passage is just how serious the…