UNLESS YOU REPENT YOU WILL PERISH LUKE THIRTEEN Luke chapter 13 provides us with a somber message about repentance. Were those Jews whom Pilate killed and mingled their blood with their sacrifices worse sinners than other people? Not at all! You can be sure that if you do not repent you will also pe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AN EXHORTATION TO REPENTANCE -- LUKE 13:1-9:_ Some people came to Jesus and told Him about Pilate killing people and mixing their blood with their sacrifices. It was a common held belief that disasters were punishment for sin. In the Book of Job Eliphaz insisted, "Remember, I pray thee, who ever pe... [ Continue Reading ]
_A WOMAN WAS FREED FROM AN INFIRMITY -- LUKE 13:10-17:_ Jesus went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day. He saw a woman who "had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself." Satan had bound this woman as he has bound many today. Luke, as a phy... [ Continue Reading ]
_PARABLES OF MUSTARD SEED AND LEAVEN -- LUKE 13:18-21:_ Jesus described the Kingdom of heaven as when a person planted a mustard seed in a garden. The seed grows as big as a tree and birds nest in its branches. Even though the church had a small beginning it spread throughout the world. God's work g... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE STRAIT GATE AND A MESSAGE FOR HEROD -- LUKE 13:22-35:_ We do not know who it was but someone asked Jesus, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" Jesus told this person that they should "Strive to enter in at the strait gate." Many who thought they would enter in would not because they... [ Continue Reading ]