The Antidote to Idolatry
1. “Listen to Me” (v3-4 & v12-13)
Tender Encouragement and Tender Rebuke
2. “Remember” (v8-9)
Tender Admonition and Tender Revelation
The Light dispels the Darkness (v1-2) The Light attracts the Nations (v3) Knowing and Worshipping God is the Great Attraction (v4-14) Heaven is a Wonderful Place (v15-22) Challenges: Where is your citizenship? Are we attractive? – “a holy church produces a hungry world” Are you fully convinced – so that you rejoice in hope?
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1) TRADESMEN! Mr Wise-Man & Sons Mr Folly & Sons Two World Views 2) TEMPESTS! Rain, Floods, Wind & Storms 3) TRUTH! On Christ the solid Rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand
1. They know not what they do The Mourners (v27-31) The Religious Rulers (v35) The Soldiers (v36-37) The Governor (v38) The Rebellious Thief (v39) The Repentant Thief (v40-42) 2. Jesus knows what they need His rejection not retaliation (See Isaiah 53 and 1 Peter 2:22-25) The promise of forgiveness to the repentant (Luke 23:40-43)…
The responses of: THE PHARISEES (v1-6) To the healing on the Sabbath THE CROWDS AND THE SPIRITS (v7-12) To the many with diseases He had healed THE DISCIPLES AND THE APOSTLES (v13-19) To the call from Jesus