Luke 20:1-4 Bad leadership and the wrongful use of authority Jesus loves His people and knows His people are following bad leadership. Jesus is in confrontations with the religious leaders of the Jews regarding rightful and false spiritual...
19:45-48 Jesus displays obedience to His Father Travis continues teaching about Jesus clearing the temple – Jesus showing us what God is like – which, for us as sinners, is quite frightening. The last message references Isaiah 6, one of the most...
Luke 19:45-48 Jesus reclaims the Temple From the start of His ministry Jesus has had a concern for the purity of Israels worship. The Temple in Jerusalem was built as God’s house, where He could meet with His people and they could worship Him. The...
Reasons to rejoice when persecuted for Jesus’ sake. We are commanded by Jesus to rejoice when persecuted for His name. We continue the study of how to respond when we, as Christians, are persecuted. Travis gives six more reasons why we need to...
How to respond when persecuted for Christ. As Christians, we can be persecuted, because we associate ourselves with Jesus. When we are persecuted, we are commanded to rejoice! Since Jesus suffered on our account, we can rejoice when we suffer for...
Leap for joy when suffering for Christ. When we associate with and put our faith in Jesus, as our Lord and Savior, people will persecute us. Jesus teaches, “Blessed are you when people hate you.” We don’t need to be afraid of persecution; we...
Be joyful in persecution “Blessed are you when people hate you. The bible teaches that obeying Jesus will draw us into a world of conflict. It will bring persecution. We should not run from Christian persecution, but remember to be joyful, because...
Christ restores our relationship with God We weep because of sin. We weep when we understand who God is and who we are, as a sinful people before Him. We weep over the death of our relationship with God, because of our sin. But there is hope! Jesus...
Sin causes us to weep. The Sermon on the Mount states that blessed people weep. Blessed people are children of God and they weep because of sin; not over just their individual sin, but over all sin. Sin is what separates us from our creator, God and...
Children of God are God-reliant, not self-reliant In this Beatitude Jesus tells the hearer, that they are dependent creatures and have a constant need for God. Travis teaches how Christ can satisfy that deep hunger and that Jesus is all we need. You...