Sermons about Luke 131 139 (2024)

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What is the lesson of Luke 13 1 9? ›

But understand an important truth, you will be judged if you do not repent. God does not need to bring physical death to us for our sins because all of us are worthy of spiritual death and that day of judgment is coming. God has appointed the day of judgment. All sinners face the same fate before God.

Luke 13:1–5 Prays He Uses Our Lives To Repent And Trust In Him. And that God, You would help us to live just with this constant awareness of the brevity of life and the need for repentance. We want to be right with You by Your Grace, by Your Mercy at every single moment.

Jesus is teaching a crowd about priorities. It's foolish to strive after worldly wealth and a comfortable life if they don't pay any attention to their relationship with God (Luke 12:13–21).

Luke 13:3-5 New International Version (NIV)

But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

The unspoken moral is that God may be merciful and delay judgment, but it's important that the people repent and reconcile with Him as soon as possible. As with the victims of Pilate and the tower, they don't know what tomorrow will bring (Luke 13:6–9).

In either case, the parable reflects Jesus offering a chance for repentance and forgiveness of sin, showing his grace toward his believers. "These three years" logically refers to the period of Jesus' ministry, or simply that is the period it took for a fig tree to bear fruit.

Luke 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records several parables and teachings told by Jesus Christ and his lamentation over the city of Jerusalem. Jesus resumes the journey to Jerusalem which he had embarked upon in Luke 9:51.

The lesson is clear: through the intercession of the gardener (who is Jesus), God mercifully gives fruitless people a second chance. Consider some Biblical instances of people who were given a second chance. Jonah ran away from doing God's work but God brought him back to obedience.

Jesus' Death a Part of His Mission

Whatever the purposes of the Pharisees and Herod, Jesus uses the threat to make clear the nature of his upcoming death as a part of his mission. Jesus is going to die, but it will have nothing to do with the threat of Herod. Rather, his death is the completion of his present ministry.

The angel's announcement suggests that prayers for a child have been a regular part of Zechariah's life. Now, those requests will be granted. Elizabeth will conceive, at last, and they will have a son. The angel commands that the child be named John, and future generations will refer to him as John the Baptist.

Where is Jesus in Luke 13? ›

Luke 13:1 makes it clear that Jesus was teaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath. This Jesus is revealed here to be thoroughly Jewish.

The birth and early years of Jesus, The ministry of Jesus, The rejection of Jesus, The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

Let me ask another question: When is forgiveness offered by God? Forgiveness is offered by God before repentance. The Lord Jesus atoned for our sins fully on the cross, prior to any repentance on our part. The gospel comes to the believer as a full package—Jesus died on the cross while we were still sinners.

As the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, He found it necessary to repent. He is the sinless One, the perfect One, but He is the sinless and the perfect One because He re- pented. He said, " Thus it becometh us to fulfill all right- eousness." He fulfilled all righteousness by repenting.

The kingdom of heaven is like a sower who sows seed on various kinds of soil. That which falls on good soil represents those who hear the word of the kingdom, understand it, and produce fruit for the harvest.

Here Jesus highlights something of the freedom of the kingdom of God. A woman bound by arthritis or some other disease of the bones, is not to be further bound by Sabbath laws. The kingdom of God honours the individual and enhances our dignity.

Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.