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Good News
As we continue our journey thru the Good News of Luke I want to say how much I appreciate your desire to stick it out.
I appreciate your desire to hear the Word preached, the gospel preached.
I do believe that we have a literacy problem.
Biblical literacy is low.
We let popular thought and opinion and news and politics and music and TikTok influencers shape our worldview and opinion of the Bible.
We let worship music form our spiritual foundation.
We let culture teach us doctrine.
We let sinners teach us their view of truth.
We need, we must spend time in the WORD.
Thats why spending time working our way thru Luke is so important.
God has spoken His word to us thru his Apostles and Prophets.
He has preserved that word thru the church.
He has given us that word in this scriptures.
If we want to know what God wants us to know about life and godliness we must not ignore the word.
So let me encourage you this morning - if you don’t have a daily scripture reading time, establish that priority.
Start with a devotional bible reading.
Dig deeper.
Read thru one of the Gospels.
Read thru the Psalms.
Read James.
Read Romans.
If you’ve never read thru the Bible read thru the Bible.
Use an app like YouVersion for devotional reading, the Bible Project for in depth study, or Read Scripture to assist you in reading thru the Bible.
But if you want to be shaped in godliness you must be shaped by Scripture.
So this morning we continue our journey thru Luke’s Gospel.
A couple weeks ago we look at the power and authority given to the disciples by Jesus.
How they went out a proclaimed and demonstrated the Kingdom of Heaven.
He demons where rebuked, sickness healed, people delivered into the Kingdom.
The people were amazed at the power and authority they had.
And we pick up this morning in Luke 9.
A very familiar passage.
it’s one of the great miracles of Jesus.
Look at it with me.
Crowds Follow Kingdom Good News
You guys see this?
People are desperate for Kingdom Good News proclaimed and demonstrated.
Crowds followed Jesus.
Yes, they followed Him for what he did, but they also followed him for what he said.
Yes, sometimes folks quit following him because his teachings were hard.
But they didn’t quit following him because they didn’t like the Kingdom he was bringing.
They longed for that Kingdom.
Sometimes we, like they, lose focus of the right priorities.
We begin to value our kingdom above His Kingdom.
But the promise of the Kingdom that Jesus brought is a Kingdom that speaks at the very core of human longing.
A Kingdom of rightness, of wholeness, of life, of peace, of healing, of fulfillment, of hope, of light, of justice, of perfection.
A Kingdom with no sin, sorrow, suffering, or death.
A Kingdom with no violence, injustice, war, injustice, famine, lack, or longing.
The Kingdom of God is the right rule and government of God.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the epitome of God’s rule.
Jesus enthroned as King.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the picture of what the Kingdom of God looks like.
The Kingdom of God isn’t limited to a nation, or place, or territory.
It’s marked by the reign of Jesus and results in justice and mercy and peace and righteousness.
That is Good News.
That is what Jesus preached.
That is what Jesus demonstrated.
That is what the crowds longed for.
Church, I dodn’t believe people have changed that much in 2000 years.
People, the crowds are still longing for justice and mercy and peace and rightness.
Now, I understand, that our culture may have a different understand of what justice and mercy and peace and righteousness look like than Jesus does, but You know what?
So did many of those in Jesus day.
So Jesus had to demonstrate and proclaim for them to properly see the Kingdom of Heaven In Jesus.
Here’s what I believe, and I believe it because it’s what I see in the Gospels, it’s that when the Church models the Kingdom of Heaven in both proclamation and demonstration that crowds will hear and believe.
Sadly, for far to long we have proclaimed an incomplete vision of the Kingdom and we have not demonstrated a Christly Kingdom.
When what we proclaim in the name of the Kingdom doesn’t match the grace and truth of Jesus our gospel isn’t believable.
When what we demonstrate looks more like the principalities and powers of this worlds system and like the rulers of wickedness in high places than the Kingdom of Heaven, our gospel isn’t believable.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said this, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
God, may our proclamation be faithful to the Kingdom and may our demonstration match our proclamation.
What Will We Do With The Crowd?
What will we do with the crowd?
How will we respond to the folks who long for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Remember, the Harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
How will we respond to the crowd looking for the Good News of the Kingdom of Heaven?
We have two options.
We can send them away to fend for themselves or we can give them something to eat.
Send Them Away.
The disciples had seen the power of God on display but now they are ready to send the hungry away.
Church, we have a real problem when we are willing to send the hungry home.
The diciples say, them them fend for themselves.
Let them go find their own food.
Let them go into the villages and countryside to find food.
Church, that’s the problem!
We’ve proclaimed and demonstrated a Gospel while sending them away hungry.
We’ve sent them away to find answers apart from Jesus.
We’ve sent them away to find hope on their own.
We’ve sent them away to find purpose on their own.
We’ve sent them away to find fulfillment on their own.
We’ve abandoned them to the culture all the while lamenting the culture.
We allowed them to leave hungry.
In many instances we’ve even left a bad taste in their mouths and they don’t want our food.
It does no good to proclaim and demonstrate the Kingdom if we are going to send them away when it gets late and the get hungry.
It may be inconvenient.
It may be costly.
But a hungry and dying crowd needs the banquet table of the mercies of God spread out before them.
The hungry crowd cannot be sent away hungry.
The broken can’t be sent away to find wholeness.
The sinner can’t be sent away to find salvation.
The self-righteous can’t be sent away to puff up himself.
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