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6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. 10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 11 To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Sunday, February 18, 2024
SERIES: THE GOSPEL OF LUKE | PART 2 | HOPE BREAKS THROUGH
LIVE MESSAGE: THE CALL OF DISCIPLESHIP
Scripture: Luke 5:1–11, 27–39; 6:12–16 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
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MESSAGE: THE CALL OF DISCIPLESHIP
Sunday, February 18, 2024
SERIES: THE GOSPEL OF LUKE | PART 2 | HOPE BREAKS THROUGH
MESSAGE: THE CALL OF DISCIPLESHIP
Scripture: Luke 5:1–11, 27–39; 6:12–16 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
Scripture: Luke 5:1–11, 27–39; 6:12–16 ESV
Luke 5-6 ESV and Audio
Jesus Calls the First Disciples
5 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. 7 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, 10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” 11 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
Jesus Calls Levi
27 After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
A Question About Fasting
33 And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34 And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
The Twelve Apostles
12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
SERMON NOTES
Sunday, February 18, 2024
SERIES: THE GOSPEL OF LUKE | PART 2 | HOPE BREAKS THROUGH
LIVE MESSAGE: THE CALL OF DISCIPLESHIP
Scripture: 5:1–11, 27–39; 6:12–16 ESV
Pastor Philip Miller
The Command of Jesus
The Companions of Jesus
The Commission of Jesus
Takeaways:
- Will I follow Jesus’ authority?
- Will I embrace Jesus’ vision?
- Will I stretch toward Jesus’ ministry?
- Will I surrender to Jesus’ calling?
Benediction
Scripture: Acts 1:8 ESV
Acts 1 ESV and Audio
The Ascension
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
PASTOR TO PEOPLE
“We love because he first loved us.”
—1 John 4:19
This year, the beginning of Lent and Valentine’s Day coincided on Wednesday. That seemed so fitting to me, because Lent marks the moment in the traditional Christian calendar when we turn our attention to the cross and resurrection of Jesus. And as 1 John 4:10 says, “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” The greatest gift of love ever given was the one God gave to us in the person of His Son, who laid down His life in love for us.
Not only that, but all our love is ultimately derivative, an echo of the original shout, a reflection mirroring the Great Love Himself. God is love. So we who are made in His image—when we are at our best—love in a manner that is like Him. When we give ourselves in radical self-donation, when we choose to be selfless and sacrificial, when we put the needs of our beloved ahead of our own, we are imitating our Father’s love. We are showing one another the love Jesus poured out when He gave Himself on the cross for us. And we are yielding to the influence of the Spirit whose fruit in our lives is, among other things, love.
We love because God first loved us. The Father loves us into life.
The Son loves us into redemption.
The Spirit loves us into transformation.
We are being loved into loveliness.
We love because He first loved us.
So as Lent begins and Valentine’s Day comes and goes, let us remember that we are indeed loved, more than we know!
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