Luke 8:16-21: Fruitful Hearing
Famous Reformed Baptist pastor Al Martin preached a 16 part series on Luke 8:18, the series is called Take Heed How You Hear. 16 sermons on how to listen to the word of God! He deals with how we should prepare to listen before the sermon, how we should listen during the sermon, and what we should do after the sermon. Many might think that this is overkill, but Jesus Himself in the portion before us continues to talk about how we hear God’s word. The state of your heart, whether you are willing to listen, the consequences of...
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Luke 1:39-55- The Magnificat
Worshippers—that is one of the most fundamental things that we are as human beings. We are made to worship, we will find our joy and satisfaction in worship, yet because of our sin we are bad at worship, in fact we invert it and seek worship for ourselves. We must look to the Scriptures and the aid of the Spirit to help us worship correctly. There is a whole book in the Bible, the psalms which help shape our worship. Luke is considered the first hymnologist of the Church. Right at the beginning of His gospel we find several songs...
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Luke 1:26-38: The Annunciation
When I mention Mary the Mother of Jesus was immediately springs to mind? Those with Roman Catholic roots might think of the Ave Maria, the prayer to Mary. Many may think of various statues or art works. As Protestants we see Mary as surrounded with controversy because the honour that has been paid her, which is technically defined as being less than that given to Christ, seems to amount to idolatry. Today we are going to explore our Mariology. Mariolatry is the worship of Mary, that is not what we want to establish, but rather, Mariology, a biblical doctrine...
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Mary’s Faith: Luke 1:34-38
Outline Mary’s question Mary’s self-image Mary’s attitude Introduction Mariolatry is the heretical teaching of promoting Mary as a co-redemptrix and mediator, Mariology is the biblical teaching about Mary. This is our fourth message looking at the biblical teaching of Mary as a way to better view and appreciate the incarnation. Today we want to consider her faith. Mary is an exemplary example of submissive faith and we find great blessing seeing God’s grace poured out on this obedient believer. However, we want to keep her faith in perspective as many have made way too much of the section we...
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Mary’s Son: Luke 1:32
Outline Great Son of the Most High Throne of David Introduction Popular notions of Jesus at Christmas time are far from the truth. There is a famous scene from Will Ferrell’s movie, Talladega Nights, (not a movie I have seen nor recommend anyone to see), where Ricky Bobby is saying grace before the family eats. He prays continually to ‘Baby Jesus’ to ‘Tiny Jesus’, when his wife reminds him that Jesus did grow up he responds that he like the Christmas Jesus best. Christmas can give us the wrong idea about Jesus if we do not move from the...
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Mary the Mother of Christ: Luke 1:26-38
Outline Mary’s miracle Mary’s grace Mary’s Son Introduction We have begun our look at the Incarnation by looking at Mary’s worship in response to these wonderful events. Mary herself though can be a help or a hindrance to our contemplation of Christ. There are churches that are committed to the Lady, or the Mother. She is viewed as a Co-redemptrix; she is prayed to and worshipped, and seen as more approachable than God in prayer. For this reason many Protestants avoid her, except to mention that she is not to be prayed to. However, any true investigation of Mary...
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Mary’s Worship: Luke 1:46-55
Outline God’s grace God’s power God’s faithfulness Introduction Christmas coming round only once a year is not enough. The greatest miracle that has ever happened, that God should become a man, that infinity should take on the infinite without becoming anything less needs to be considered over and over again. So this year as we approach the end of the year we are going to prepare our hearts to remember the incarnation by looking into the bible at those chapters usually reserved for Christmas time. No one knows when Jesus was born and nor is Christmas a biblically warranted...
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