"Persecution" Tagged Teaching
Encouraging a Discouraged Church
Hebrews 1-13 Go ahead and take your Bibles and turn right over to Hebrews for what we’re going to do together, move through the entire book of Hebrews. I just want to give you a little bit of a running introduction. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve introduced the book of Hebrews and we’ve covered it, some matters of introduction. So it’s genre, authorship, recipients, occasion, even took a stab at the date of Hebrews, and here’s what we’ve come…
Happy Are the Persecuted
Matthew 5:10-12 For today, we are finishing up a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. If you want to turn in your Bibles there, you can do that now. But it’s really been a joy for me to have this opportunity to preach and teach through the Beatitudes. It’s been convicting, but also encouraging to my own soul. And I just find our Lord’s teaching to be absolutely fascinating, brilliant. The depths of which we cannot plumb,…
How to Rejoice in Hostility
Luke 22:35-38 Turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 22, Luke chapter 22. We come to the final word of instruction that Jesus gives to his Apostles in the upper room, in this last section of instruction is verses 35-38. That’s what we will cover this morning. This is Jesus setting expectations for his Apostles, for those who follow Christ. Well, as we come into this section, we remember that the betrayer, Judas Iscariot, has gone from the room. He’s…
God’s Plan for Persecution, Part 2
Luke 21:14-19 Luke 21, I have got a lot to cover this morning, so I’m going to violate all the principles of good homiletics, forego any introduction, so we can just get through the section that we started last week on persecution. I know you’ll forgive me for that violation of homiletics, because you’re Christians and you are prone to forgive. In the, in Olivet Discourse that we’re working our way through, in Luke 21, Jesus is answering, his, the…
God’s Plan for Persecution, Part 1
Luke 21:12-13 Well, we are back in Luke 21 today, and so you’ll want to turn in your Bibles to Luke 21, if you’re not already there. This fascinating teaching from our Lord on the End Times and in this section, that we’re gonna get into, or what we’ve been in really is our Lord speaking about events in history, and time, and really the future, that span, the time between his post resurrection, ascension into heaven, all the way…
Ten Reasons to Rejoice When Persecuted
Luke 6:22-23 We are wrapping up our study of just the beatitudes. As we go through our exposition of the Gospel of Luke, the beatitudes here in Luke’s gospel, Luke 6:20-23, is really the introduction for the entire Sermon on the Mount. And today we’re going to continue what we began last time, a couple of weeks ago, in Luke 6:22-23, “blessed are the despised.” Let’s, let’s begin as we’ve been doing by reading those beatitudes again together. Starting in…
Joy in the Wealth of Poverty
Luke 6:20 This morning, we’re really continuing a message we began last week. We want to understand more fully, more completely what Jesus meant by what he said and the implications for us. It’s been 12 years since sociologist Christian Smith published his book called, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. The book came out in, back in 2005, and it revealed not a pretty picture, the, revealed the spiritual condition of America’s, many of them,…