Reasons for Rejoicing

Reasons for Rejoicing

Reasons Jesus Rejoices, Part 3

Luke 10:21-24 Well, today we wrap up our study on reasons that Jesus rejoices, so we are going to return one more time to Luke 10:21 to 24. Luke 10:21 to 24. If you’ll turn there in your Bibles. This is not just a wrap-up of this short study, but it’s wrapping up really a whole series on the joy of Jesus and his disciples.  It startedback in verse 17, when the gospel messengers that Jesus sent out, they returned…

Reasons Jesus Rejoices, Part 2

Luke 10:21 Luke, chapter 10, continuing the study that we began last week of the reasons that Jesus rejoices, we came out of 30 reasons why we rejoice, and then we entered into reasons that Jesus rejoices. And so that’s Luke 10:21. And today, today is a study in Christology, a deep and high Christology, an understanding of the study of Christ and what the Scripture says the truth is about Christ. We’ve come really to a high-water mark here…

Reasons Jesus Rejoices, Part 1

Luke 10:21 Turn in your Bibles, please, to Luke chapter 10. We are, I hope, as you can see from the music that Dr. Merry chose, and what we’ve been singing, and the scriptures that have been chosen this morning, hope you can see that we are preparing your minds and hearts to wade into some deep, deep waters this morning, in Luke chapter 10.It has been a joy for me to anticipate this section of Scripture, and now that…

Reasons We Rejoice, Part 2

Luke 10:19-20 In the tenth chapter of Luke, that’s where we are. Just to bring us up to speed, the seventy-two disciples, they have returned from the mission Jesus sent them out to accomplish, going before him two-by-two into all the, cities, villages, and towns where he himself was about to go in Judea and Perea. And they have now successfully completed the assignment that Jesus gave them to do, and now, filled with joy, they’ve returned, and they are…

Reasons We Rejoice, Part 1

Luke 10:17-18 Luke 10:17, and we’re getting into another section, here, which is a very joyful section of this tenth chapter. Jesus appointed seventy-two disciples, as we’ve been studying. He sent them ahead of him two-by-two into every town and place where he himself was about to go, and you need to realize that that was not the first time that they’d been with Jesus. He’d been training them for many months, probably a year or more, throughout Galilee; and…