Luke 10:25-42 (October 3, 2021)

Luke 10:25-42 | The King’s Neighbor | October 3, 2021

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Luke 10:25–42 (ESV)

25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’ 36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” 37He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.” 38 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

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Luke 10:12-24 (September 19, 2021)

Luke 10:12-24 | The King Gives a Motivation | September 19, 2021

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Luke 10:12-24 (ESV)

12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.

16 “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

21 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 22 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

23 Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”

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Luke 10:1-11 (September 12, 2021)

Luke 10:1-11 | The King Gives a Mission | September 12, 2021

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Luke 10:1–11 (ESV)

1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. 7 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’

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Summer Week 10 (The Gospel and The Kingdom)

Summer Sessions Week 10: The Gospel and The Kingdom

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Videos From Sunday Morning

Reflect (In Your Notebook)

• What does hope look like in your life? Can people outside the faith see it in your life?

• In what ways are you following Jesus during the tribulation? What are the tough spots?

• Is your life marked by desperate/urgent prayer?

Summer Week 9 (God's Presence)

Summer Sessions Week 9: God’s Presence

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Videos From Sunday Morning

Reflect

Individually:

• What habits keep you in communion with Christ?

• What habits keep you from communion with Christ?

• What habits do you want to build into your life?

As A Church

• Take a look at your list of PABST people from last week.

• How are you going to bring these folks into our community?

• What’s keeping you?

Bonus Video

Sinclair Ferguson on union with Christ.

Summer Week 8 (The Christian Life - Shema)

Summer Sessions Week 8: The Christian Life (Shema)

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Videos From Sunday Morning

Reflect

• PABST. (Pray. Ask. Bless. Share your story. Tell/Teach the gospel.)

• Write down 3 names in your booklet and take notes through PABST.

Matthew 22:34–40
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Bonus Video

Here is a longer video where DA Carson teaches about the greatest commandment.

Summer Week 7 (How are we saved?)

Summer Sessions Week 7: How are we saved?

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Videos From Sunday Morning

Reflect

• Copy, mark up, and spend the week with Romans 1:16-17.

• Write up a few application ideas.

• Memorize it for extra brownie points.

Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Bonus Video

Here is a longer video of the late great RC Sproul teaching a longer bit on Justification by Faith Alone.

Summer Week 6 (Who are we?)

Summer Sessions Week 6: Who are we?

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Videos From Sunday Morning

This first video is from a non-Christian educational group linked to PBS. It covers really well the basic idea of existentialism (all of these videos are really well done). We watched this video to compare this idea of the human condition to the one we find in scripture.

Reflect

Answer in your notebook:

• Does anything from today’s study bother you? Why?

• Imagine someone says to you, “I’m a good person so if there is a heaven, I’m sure that’s where I’m headed, right?” How would you respond to that?

• What happens when we try and soften the Biblical teaching on sin?

Bonus Materials

Here is a great sermon by Dr. Tim Keller on sin and the nature of humanity:

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Here is an article from the Gospel Coalition called, “Goodby, Faith in Humanity” about the problem of evil in human history and what that says about us.

Summer Week 5 (Does the Bible hold up?)

Summer Sessions Week 5: Does the Bible hold up?

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Videos From Sunday Morning

Reflect

• Matt from the 10 minute Bible hour has a 35 part series called “The Nuts and Bolts of the Bible.” Spend some time this week and browse that playlist and watch another video or two on a subject that interests you.

Summer Week 4 (How do we read the Bible?)

Summer Sessions Week 4: How do we read the Bible?

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Videos From Sunday Morning

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Reflect

• Write out Psalm 1 in your booklet.

• Read it everyday.

• On the last day, answer two questions:

  • What was the main point to the original audience?

  • How does this passage bridge the gap?

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Extra Resources

The Bible Project also has an amazing 19 part series on how to read the Bible. Watch those videos here.

Two great books to aid in your Bible reading.

Summer Week 3 (What is the Bible?)

Summer Sessions Week 3: What is the Bible?

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Videos From Sunday Morning

Reflect

• What are the practices that you use to let your life be molded/formed by the story of the Bible?

• What are the ways that you find yourself misguided in your aproach to the scripture?

• What is one specific change you’d like to make in your life when it comes to the scripture?

• Write down any questions that you have about the Bible in the back of your noteboook.

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An Quick Extra Video

Summer Week 2 (What is God like?)

Summer Sessions Week 2: What is God Like?

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Videos From Sunday Morning

Reflect

• How in your life have you forgotten that God is Compassionate? Gracious? Slow to Anger? Loving towards you? Faithful? Be specific.

• How can you better reflect these characteristics to specific people?

Summer Week 1 (Who is God?)

Summer Sessions Week 1: Who is God?

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Videos From Sunday Morning

How to explain The Trinity? Father, Son, Holy Spirit in One - Nabeel Qureshi

Bible Project: God

R.C. Sproul: Son of Man

Bible Project: Holy Spirit

Reflect

• One truth to be thankful for

• One way something here challenges you to live differently

• Questions for the back of your notebook

Bonus Videos

CS Lewis on the Trinity

Silly Video About the theology of the trinity

Luke 9:57-62 (June 6, 2021)

Luke 9:57-62 | Completely Following the King | June 6, 2021

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Luke 9:43-56
But while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples, 44 “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.” 45 But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” 59 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” 62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

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Luke 9:43-56 (May 30, 2021)

Luke 9:43-56 | The King of the Upside Down Kingdom | May 30, 2021

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Luke 9:43-56
But while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples, 44 “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.” 45 But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

46 An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. 47 But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side 48 and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”

49 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.” 50 But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.”

51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. 53 But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them. 56 And they went on to another village.

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Luke 9:37-43 (May 23, 2021)

Luke 9:37-43 | The King and a Boy | May 23, 2021

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Luke 9:37-43
37 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. 38 And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child. 39 And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him. 40 And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.” 41 Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” 42 While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. 43 And all were astonished at the majesty of God.

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Mark 9:14-29
14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. 15 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. 16 And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 17 And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 18 And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.” 19 And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” 20 And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. 21 And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” 25 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. 28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”

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Luke 9:28-36 (May 16, 2021)

Luke 9:28-36 | The King Transforms | May 16, 2021

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Luke 9:28-36

28 Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29 And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white. 30 And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah, 31 who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. 33 And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said. 34 As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 35 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!” 36 And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.

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Luke 9:23-27 (May 9, 2021)

Luke 9:23-27 | Following the King | May 9, 2021

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Luke 9:23-27

23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? 26 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. 27 But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”

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Luke 9:18-22 (May 2, 2021)

Luke 9:18-22 | The King’s Identity | May 2, 2021

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Luke 9:18-22

18 Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” 19 And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” 20 Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

21 And he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”

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Luke 9:10-17 (April 25, 2021)

Luke 9:10-17 | The King’s Feast | April 25, 2021

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Luke 9:10-17

10 On their return the apostles told him all that they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida. 11 When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing. 12 Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.” 13 But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.” 14 For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.” 15 And they did so, and had them all sit down. 16 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. 17 And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.

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