A verse by verse commentary on LUKE chapter 17 dealing with sin,faith and duty. Jesus then heals ten lepers ant then teaches on the coming of the kingdom of God.
Jesus was explaining the parable of the sowerGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus explaining the parable of the sower. It is all about the seed and the soil and the fruitfulness of the combination. The Word is the seed and we need it in our lives to bear fruit for God.
Jesus was urging us to pray and never give upGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus urging us to pray and never give up. He uses a widow who kept coming to a judge for help and she was so persistent he had to give her the justice she sought. God will do the same for us if we never give up but keep on praying.
WHY did Jesus pray? Scoffers have
said that if He was divine He prayed
to himself, and His prayers were not
real. They forget that while He was here He
was less than Himself — that tho, before
His advent He was ' ' in the form of God, and
counted it not a prize to be on an equality
with God, ' ' He " emptied himself, taking the
form of a servant, being made in the likeness
of men ; and being found in fashion as a man,
He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto
death, yea, even the death of the cross ''
(Phil. 2:6-8). This is the representation
from which to regard Him. Having thus
made Himself in a measure dependent on His
Father, it was proper for Him to pray.
A verse by verse commentary on LUKE chapter 17 dealing with sin,faith and duty. Jesus then heals ten lepers ant then teaches on the coming of the kingdom of God.
Jesus was explaining the parable of the sowerGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus explaining the parable of the sower. It is all about the seed and the soil and the fruitfulness of the combination. The Word is the seed and we need it in our lives to bear fruit for God.
Jesus was urging us to pray and never give upGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus urging us to pray and never give up. He uses a widow who kept coming to a judge for help and she was so persistent he had to give her the justice she sought. God will do the same for us if we never give up but keep on praying.
WHY did Jesus pray? Scoffers have
said that if He was divine He prayed
to himself, and His prayers were not
real. They forget that while He was here He
was less than Himself — that tho, before
His advent He was ' ' in the form of God, and
counted it not a prize to be on an equality
with God, ' ' He " emptied himself, taking the
form of a servant, being made in the likeness
of men ; and being found in fashion as a man,
He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto
death, yea, even the death of the cross ''
(Phil. 2:6-8). This is the representation
from which to regard Him. Having thus
made Himself in a measure dependent on His
Father, it was proper for Him to pray.
This is a study of Jesus as a bearer of bad news. Things will never be like they once were and the old days will be missed, but better things are coming.
This is a study of Jesus as one of immense patience. Paul was one of the worst sinners, but Jesus had patience and in mercy still saved him and loved him. No one is hopeless.
john 3:16, It is God's golden message to the world, comprehending
the sum-total of sixteen hundred years of love revelation. It
tells of a love that loves, a love that serves, a love that
sacrifices. In it we see the father-heart of God, the mother-
heart of Christ, yes, the friend-heart of the world's truest
Friend. Here we are swept out into the universal, beholding
a world-lover, a world-man, a world-thinker, a world-
sympathizer, a non-respecter of persons, one whose mind
and heart reach across races, recognizing no distinctions, no
political lines, no social distinctions.
This is a study of Jesus being trampled underfoot and the consequences for those who do it. Treating the blood of Jesus as unholy will bring on severe judgment to those who do it.
I. “We Beheld His Glory”
II. “Behold, the Man!”
III. “Behold, your King!”...
IV. “Behold, how He loved him”
V. “Behold, a Voice”
Vf. “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
This is a study of Jesus being baptized, and the question is why? Why would a sinless Savior need to go through the cleansing of the common sinner? This is the question answered in these studies.
This is a study of Jesus being scoffed at by the Pharisees. Jesus told a parable about loving money more than God, and it hit them hard. They in anger just turned up their noses and made fun of His foolish teaching.
Jesus was clear you cannot serve two mastersGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being clear on the issue, you cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve God and money at the same time because you will love one and hate the other. You have to make a choice and a commitment.
This is a study of Jesus as a bearer of bad news. Things will never be like they once were and the old days will be missed, but better things are coming.
This is a study of Jesus as one of immense patience. Paul was one of the worst sinners, but Jesus had patience and in mercy still saved him and loved him. No one is hopeless.
john 3:16, It is God's golden message to the world, comprehending
the sum-total of sixteen hundred years of love revelation. It
tells of a love that loves, a love that serves, a love that
sacrifices. In it we see the father-heart of God, the mother-
heart of Christ, yes, the friend-heart of the world's truest
Friend. Here we are swept out into the universal, beholding
a world-lover, a world-man, a world-thinker, a world-
sympathizer, a non-respecter of persons, one whose mind
and heart reach across races, recognizing no distinctions, no
political lines, no social distinctions.
This is a study of Jesus being trampled underfoot and the consequences for those who do it. Treating the blood of Jesus as unholy will bring on severe judgment to those who do it.
I. “We Beheld His Glory”
II. “Behold, the Man!”
III. “Behold, your King!”...
IV. “Behold, how He loved him”
V. “Behold, a Voice”
Vf. “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
This is a study of Jesus being baptized, and the question is why? Why would a sinless Savior need to go through the cleansing of the common sinner? This is the question answered in these studies.
This is a study of Jesus being scoffed at by the Pharisees. Jesus told a parable about loving money more than God, and it hit them hard. They in anger just turned up their noses and made fun of His foolish teaching.
Jesus was clear you cannot serve two mastersGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being clear on the issue, you cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve God and money at the same time because you will love one and hate the other. You have to make a choice and a commitment.
Although terrible unpredictable happenings are occurring worldwide and there is much dark news, yet in light of God's prophecies' fulfillment, the time of His consummation is undoubtedly close.
This is a collection of writings dealing with how the Holy Spirit reveals the promises of God hidden from sight and sound, and also searches the most deep things of God.
Christ taught that whoever believed in Him would do “even greater things” than the works He had been doing, by the indwelling Holy Spirit. What did Christ mean by sying this?
One of the great stumbling blocks to evangelism and faith is the doctrine of predestination. Calvin was the most vociferous advocate of it, and he built it around his belief in total depravity. But was he right. In this talk, Tony explains where Calvin went wrong because his frame was limited. Tony turns to Ephesians 1 and builds much grander picture of what predestination means.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
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Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
2. • God was beyond us as the Father,
• He was among us as the Son and
• He is in us as the Spirit!
Because God wanted to reveal Himself, He communicated His Word to and through
the writers of the Bible.
• That is a mixture of the Divine and the human as is the Incarnation.
• Both are miraculous!
God worked in the memory, imagination and perception of choice servants so that
they were enabled to grasp and express His divine Truth.
That He would do that through 40 different authors over a period of 1500 years
without violating their own personalities (they remained themselves) is evidence that
God intended His Word to be recorded from the standpoint of varied human
circumstances and without error! In fact the Holy Spirit even used their own peculiar
temperament and education level to great advantage in giving color and pungency
to His Word.
• We hear God’s message when we are receptive to His voice.
• We receive illumination to the degree that we seek the Truth.
6 “And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must
believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.” Heb11
• We will receive that illumination when we are willing to do His will.
• John 14:21
John 14:21
21 “ He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and
he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose
Myself to him.” John 14:21
Philippians 3:7-8
7)“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the
sake of Christ.
8) More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,” Philippians 3:7-8
The statement “but whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as
loss” sums up the dramatic change that took place in Paul’s perspective when he
met Christ.
3. • All of the cherished treasures in his gain column suddenly became deficits.
• But by God's marvelous grace, those things that he wrongly imagined would
give him eternal life were replaced by matchless benefits that were his in Christ.
Philippians 3:8a
8) “More than that, I count all things to be loss…”
More than that emphasizes the contrast between the Religious Credits That Do Not
Impress God column and the column: Incalculable Benefits of Knowing Christ.
In verse 7, Paul counted the religious credits in verses 5 and 6 as loss; here he expands
that conviction and declares all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of
knowing Christ Jesus.
• Paul abandoned his past religious achievements in view of the surpassing value
of knowing Christ Jesus.
The participle “huperchon” in verse 8 (the surpassing value of knowing Christ) refers to
something of incomparable worth. Phil 3:8
The word “knowing Christ” in the Greek text is not a verb, but a form of the noun
“gnosis”, which means: to know experientially or by personal involvement.
The surpassing knowledge of Christ that Paul describes here is far more than mere
intellectual knowledge of the facts about Him.
The New Testament frequently describes Christians as those who know Christ.
In John 10:14 Jesus said, "I am the Good Shepherd, and I know My own and My own
know Me."
In his first epistle John declared, "And we know that the Son of God has come, and
has given us understanding so that we may know Him Who is true”.
• Salvation involves a personal, relational knowledge “of” the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Not just a knowledge “about” Him.
To the Greeks, “gnosis” could describe secret, cultic, mystical communion with a
deity.
Those who were initiated into the mystery claimed to have ascended beyond the
mundane knowledge possessed by the masses.
They imagined that they alone enjoyed some personal experience of their deity.
4. The Greeks often sought such an elevated state through drunken revelry.
In the second century, the dangerous heresy of Gnosticism attempted to syncretize
the Greek concept of gnosis and Christian truth. (cherry pick)
Like their pagan counterparts, the Gnostics claimed a higher, truer knowledge of
God than the average Christian experienced.
There is also an OT context for gnosis.
• The verb form was used in the Septuagint to translate the Hebrew word “yada”.
• ”Yada” often denoted an intimate knowledge, even a union or bond of love.
• It was sometimes used in Scripture as a euphemism for sexual intercourse.
• It was also used to described God's intimate love bond with Israel: "You only
have I known of all the families of the earth" (Amos 3:2 NKJV).
• Thus, the word can have the connotation both of a transcendent knowledge
and an intimate love bond.
Adding personal warmth to the rich theological concept of knowing Christ Jesus, Paul
describes Him as my Lord.
Philippians 3:8a
“the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord”
That threefold description (Christ Jesus my Lord) encompasses Christ's three offices of:
Prophet, Priest, and King.
• “Christ” views Him as the Messiah, the messenger or Prophet of God.
• “Jesus” views Him as Savior, emphasizing His role as believers' great High Priest.
• “Lord” views Him as sovereign King over all creation.
So anytime you see the three words: Christ Jesus my Lord it is also speaking of Him as:
Prophet, Priest, and King.
Salvation comes only through the deep knowledge of and intimate love bond with
our Lord Jesus Christ that God gives by grace through faith.
In the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matt 25), we see evidence of this idea of knowing
Christ intimately.
Parable of Ten Virgins (Matt 25)
Matthew 25: 1-13
1 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their
lamps and went out to meet the Bridegroom.
2 Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.
3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,
4 but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.
5. 5 Now while the Bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep.
6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the Bridegroom! Come out to meet
Him.’
7 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
8 The foolish said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going
out.’
9 But the prudent answered, ‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too;
go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’
10 And while they were going away to make the purchase, the Bridegroom came,
and those who were ready went in with Him to the wedding feast; and the door was
shut.
11 Later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open up for us.’
12 But He answered, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you.’ (intimately)
13 Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.” Matthew 25: 1-13
Contrast Him knowing us intimately in Matthew 25:1-13 (The Parable of the Ten Virgins)
with Him declaring, “I never knew you” in Matthew 7:21-23.
Matthew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but
he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name,
and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; Depart from Me, you who
practice lawlessness.’ Matthew 7:21-23
There is a huge difference between Matthew 25:12 where Jesus says, “I do not know
you” (intimately) and in Matthew 7:23 where He says, “I never knew you”.
Commenting on the believer's knowledge of Christ, F. B. Meyer wrote: “We may know
Him personally, intimately face to face. Christ does not live back in the centuries, nor
amid the clouds of heaven: He is near us, with us, compassing our path in our lying
down, and acquainted with all our ways. But we cannot know Him in this mortal life
except through the illumination and teaching of the Holy Spirit. . . . And we must surely
know Christ, not as a stranger Who turns in to visit for the night, or as the exalted king
of men — there must be the inner knowledge as of those whom He counts His own
familiar friends, whom He trusts with His secrets, who eat with Him of His own bread.
To know Christ in the storm of battle; to know Him in the valley of shadow; to know
Him when the solar light irradiates our faces, or when they are darkened with
disappointment and sorrow; to know the sweetness of His dealing with bruised reeds
and smoking flax; to know the tenderness of His sympathy and the strength of His right
hand — all this involves many varieties of experience on our part, but each of them
like the facets of a diamond will reflect the prismatic beauty of His glory from a new
angle.” F. B. Meyer (The Epistle to the Philippians [Grand Rapids: Baker, 1952], 162-63)
6. Paul said:
“I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain
Christ,” Philippians 3:8
For the inestimable privilege of knowing Jesus Christ, Paul gladly suffered the loss of all
things by which he might have sought to earn salvation apart from Christ.
The apostle went so far as to count them but rubbish so that he might gain (know Him
intimately) Christ.
All efforts to obtain salvation through human achievement are as much rubbish as
the worst vice.
Skubalon(rubbish) is a very strong word that could also be rendered "waste," "dung,"
"manure," or even "excrement."
• Paul expresses in the strongest possible language his utter disdain for all the
religious credits with which he had sought to impress man and God. In view of
the surpassing value of knowing Christ, they are worthless.
• Paul would have heartily endorsed Isaiah's declaration that "all of us have
become like one who is unclean and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy
garment (soiled medical dressing); and all of us wither like a leaf, and our
iniquities, like the wind, take us away" (Isa 64:6).
Philippians 3:8
8 “More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,” Philippians 3:8
Philippians 3:9
9 “and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the
Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God
on the basis of faith,” Philippians 3:9
Philippians 3:9a
“and may be found in Him,”
The phrase “in Him” expresses the familiar Pauline truth that believers are “in Christ”, a
concept found more than seventy-five times in his epistles.
Believers are inextricably intertwined with Christ in an intimate life and love bond.
Isaiah 40:31
31 “Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with
wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become
7. weary.” Isaiah 40:31
Isaiah 40:31a
“Yet those who wait for the LORD”
• Strong’s Hebrew dictionary says that “wait” means:
1. to tarry expectantly,
2. to entwine your life around His life
• We are inseparably intertwined with Christ in an intimate life and love bond.
"I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me
and gave Himself up for me" (Gal 2:20).
“and may be found in Him,” Philippians 3:9a
Philippians 3:9b
“not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith”
Philippians 3:9b
Paul had spent his adult life futilely trying to obtain a righteousness of his own derived
from keeping the Law.
That righteousness — one of self-effort, external morality, religious ritual, and
moral works, all produced by the flesh — had been an unbearable burden.
I Peter 2:24
“He Himself bore our sins (burdens) in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins
and live for righteousness;”
1 Peter 2:24
Contemporary English Version (CEV)
24 “Christ carried the burden of our sins. He was nailed to the cross,
so that we would stop sinning and start living right. By his cuts and bruises
you are healed.” 1 Peter 2:24 (CEV)
Although Paul did his best, he fell far short of God's standard (Rom 3:23), which no
one can meet.
Paul gladly exchanged the burden of legalistic self-righteousness for the righteousness
which is “through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis
of faith.” Philippians 3:9b
Faith is the confident, continuous confession of total dependence on and trust in
Jesus Christ for the necessary requirements to enter God's kingdom.
8. Speaking of the “necessary requirements to enter God's kingdom”, who was able to
complete your recent assignment: “In your opinion…”