Part 1 | The Church Jesus Enjoys
From Luke 14
SERIES THEME: To SET THE TABLE for the “ONES” the LORD will BRING to Himself this SEASON.
The Church Jesus :
1. Focuses on rather than .
📖 Luke 14:1-2 (ESV) One Sabbath, when He went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching Him carefully. 2 And behold, there was a man before Him who had dropsy.
📖 Luke 14:3 (ESV) And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”
📖 Luke 14:4-6 (ESV) But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 5 And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” 6 And they could not reply to these things.
The Church Jesus :
2. Focuses on rather than .
📖 Luke 14:7 (ESV) Now He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them
📖 Luke 11:43 (ESV) Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
📖 Luke 14:8-9 (ESV) “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, 9 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.
📖 Luke 14:10-11 (ESV) But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Side Note: Jesus came to the and the .
The Church Jesus :
3. Appeals to rather than .
📖 Luke 14:12-14 (ESV) He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Three Tests of a Church:
1. Do we love or our ?
2. Are we seeking God’s or ?
3. Are we ourselves or ?
📖 Luke 14:15 (ESV) When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
📖 Luke 14:16-17 (ESV) But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. 17 And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’
📖 Luke 14:18-20 (ESV) But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ 20 And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
📖 Luke 14:21 (ESV) So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’
The Church Jesus :
1. Is for people you don’t .
📖 Verse 21: bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.
📖 Luke 14:22 (ESV) And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’
The Church Jesus :
2. for people .
📖 Verse 22: “still there is room.’
There was a time was made for .
📖 Luke 14:23 (ESV) And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
The Church Jesus :
3. the to .
📖 Verse 23: compel people to come in
📖 Hebrews 13:12-13 (ESV) Jesus suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. 13 Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
Sermon in a Sentence:
The Church Jesus enjoys seeks to reach the with the of God.
