Luke 13:31-35 Staying Focused
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Staying Focused Luke 13 (31-35)
Pilots Run Out of Fuel, Pray, Land Safely Near Jesus Sign
Tuesday , May 27, 2008
Grant Stubbs and Owen Wilson, both from the town of Blenheim on the country's South Island, were flying up the sloping
"My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life- threatening situation was to ask for God's help," Stubbs told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two
I. Introduction:
Webster's: Scientific: a point at which rays (as of light, heat, or sound) converge (As In telescope). Intellectual: a point of concentration.
II. (31) The Difficulty Involved
A. Because Of Spiritual Opposition
1. The Pharisees
Some would think the Parisees were trying to help but remember …..
Jesus pronounced Six Woes against the Pharisees in Luke Chapter 11
Luke 11:53-54 And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things, lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.
2. King Herod
3. Personal Examples
B. Because Of Emotional Fear
1. John Has Been Executed
2. Personal Examples
Changing the light switches in my house and saved time by keep the power on (arched and melted the electrical box). I Turned off the power afterwards
III. (32-33) The Commitment Required
A. (32) Commitment Gives Us Boldness
1. Despised Herod (Fox)
Fox meant someone who was insignificant or worthless
When Jesus was brought before Herod He said nothing which in that culture was the strongest form of disdain.
2. Day In Day Out Commitment
B. (33) Commitment Gives Us Resolve
1. The Cross
Jesus pressed on in full obedience to the Cross.
IV. (34-35) The Blessings Received
A. (34) Understanding The Love Of God
1. Hen Gathers Her Brood
By Wayne Jacobsen
The forest fire had been brought under control, and the group of firefighters were working back through the devastation making sure all the hot spots had been extinguished. As they marched across the blackened landscape between the wisps of smoke still rising from the smoldering remains, a large lump on the trail caught a firefighter's eye.
As he got closer he noticed it was the charred remains of a large bird, that had burned nearly half way through. Since birds can so easily fly away from the approaching flames, the firefighter wondered what must have been wrong with this bird that it could not escape. Had it been sick or injured?
Arriving at the carcass, he decided to kick it off the trail with his boot. As soon as he did, however, he was startled half to death by a flurry of activity around his feet. Four little birds flailed in the dust and ash then scurried away down the hillside.
The bulk of the mother's body had covered them from the searing flames. Though the heat was enough to consume her, it allowed her babies to find safety underneath. In the face of the rising flames, she had stayed with her young. She was their only hope for safety, and willing to risk her own life she gathered them under her body and covered them with herself. Even when the pain reached its most unbearable moment, when she could easily have flown away to start another family on another day, she made herself stay through the raging flames.
2. Romans 8:38-39
38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
B. (35) Understanding The Presence Of God
Communion:
1. Your House=
2. Desolate
Webster's to abandon, from de- + solus alone]
(14th century)
1 : devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted
2 : joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved one
3 a : showing the effects of abandonment and neglect :
3. Literally The Presence Of God
V. Communion
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