Sermon Series: The Gospel of Luke
Sermon Text: Luke 14:1-35
Sermon Title: Three Killers
The Big Idea: You can be very religious and still miss Jesus
Sermon Points:
1. Pride
2. Distraction
3. Worldliness
Daily Devotional Guide
It all started with Jesus healing a man. The religious leaders could have just celebrated the fact that a man's illness had been taken away. Jesus knew they wouldn't respond this way. That's part of why He did what He did. In this miracle, Jesus was doing more than making a sick man well. He was exposing the calloused hypocrisy of the religious elites.
In this passage, Jesus confronts a few silent spiritual killers that still plague us today. But the way he goes about doing it is very subtle. Jesus confronts no demons in this passage. And this isn't one of the more spectacular miracles from Jesus' ministry. Instead, we have Jesus healing one man and telling parables about invitations to banquets and people who love their family too much. These hardly seem like pressing matters, well, unless you're the one who needed to be healed. But this passage exposes just how much like the Pharisees we really are. If we're not careful, we can miss Jesus just as easily as they did.
As you read, pray, and listen this week, I hope that you will see the goodness of God more clearly along with your similarities to the religious elites who opposed Him.
Monday - Genesis 25:19-34
Tuesday - Genesis 27:1-46
Wednesday - Genesis 28:1-22
Thursday - Genesis 29:1-30
Friday - Genesis 32:1-32
Saturday - Genesis 34:1-31
Sunday - Luke 15:1-32