Two promises of God to believers. The first promise: Jesus chose to have believers live with Him forever in His eternal kingdom. Travis explains how Jesus teaches that this is an encouragement to us. He explains the kingdom of God has been given to...
Encouragement for the new and mature believer. As a new believer you are thankful to God for sending Jesus to pay the penalty for your sins. You are wanting to tell others about Jesus. As a mature believer, has your heart begun to cool to the...
What will judgment in Hell be like. In the parables, Jesus explains what it will be like for the people who face judgment. Although this parable was directed at the Jewish leadership and their presumption that they were Abrahams off spring and would...
How can one go through the narrow gate? Jesus is using parables to show us that we need to strive, now, to enter God’s kingdom. For we do not know when we will die and possibly face judgment or Jesus comes again to bring judgment. Jesus explains...
Heed the warning Jesus gives in this teaching. Jesus is pressing His listeners to make a decision to either repent and follow Him or stay in their comfortable life and sin. Jesus tells the listeners, through the two parables, that He is using to...
Everyone must make this decision. In Luke 13:22-24, Jesus pushes His listeners to make a decision about following Him or continuing in their sin. He tells them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate.” All followers of Jesus need to make this same...
Jesus tells two parables explaining the Kingdom of God Travis goes through the two parables that Jesus uses to teach us about the Kingdom of God. Discover what Jesus shows us about the kingdom of God. Travis explains how the understanding of these...
What is the Kingdom of God like? In this passage of Luke, Jesus speaks about the kingdom of God. Jesus’ teaching is upsetting the expectations and assumptions of believers in Jesus’s day and expectations and assumptions of Christians today. We have...
Who’s God’s kingdom for? The religious leaders of the time, and even Jesus’s own disciples, had some ideas about who the kingdom was for, and who it wasn’t for. What do we bring to God for entrance into God’s kingdom? Jesus encourages us, as...
Become like children. How can one enter the kingdom of heaven? “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Jesus uses some of the culture’s misunderstanding about how we ought to think about children to...