Gospel of Luke: Love, Life and the Eternal Lord - Luke 20:27-44
As Jesus answers the final challenge of the religious officials before the cross we see the hope of the cross itself: resurrection life through the divine son.

As Jesus answers the final challenge of the religious officials before the cross we see the hope of the cross itself: resurrection life through the divine son.
In Luke 20:19-26, Jesus encounters the second of three challenges to his nature and mission by addressing the intersection between God and governments.
As Jesus confronts the first of three challenges from Jerusalem's religious leaders he exposes us to the problem of authority.
Jesus is the man of God executing the plan of God so that people can be saved by the hand of God.
Jesus' parable of the minas highlights the center of faithful service.
Zacchaeus seeks, sees, and receives Jesus and a remarkable transformation follows. But behind all of this we find the gracious reality that when lost people start seeking Jesus, Jesus has already been seeking them.
In Luke 18:31-43 we see two contrasting stories that reveal to us the identity of Jesus and the response of faith.
Through the contrast of helpless children and a rich ruler, we see that entering God's kingdom requires admitting your need and renouncing everything; but what we gain in Christ is infinitely greater!
Jesus helps us see the heart of legalism and the scandal of grace.
God's faithfulness in mercy and justice produce enduring hope and faithfulness to pray in his redeemed people.
In Luke 17, Jesus begins his extended discourse on the seemingly upside-down realities of the kingdom of God.
Jesus' healing of ten lepers shows us the reorienting power of mercy.
We must be diligent in our prayers in order to carry out proclaiming to the Nations that God, the Father, has given to us his son, Jesus Christ.
The Christian's faith-filled duty equips them to live out the complete love of Jesus.
The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus helps us to see that false hopes and false assurances fail, but repentant faith saves on the day of reckoning.
In 1 Timothy 1:15-17 we see three power answers the gospel gives to life's questions.
In Luke 16:14-18 Jesus helps us identify the effects of salvation and our understanding of it by giving us two contrasts and a case study.
Luke 16 includes one of Jesus' most controversial parables, but the scandal of it makes the truth all the more relevant.
Jesus helps drive home the significance of repentance in the parable of the prodigal sons.
In the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin, Jesus shows the Pharisees the necessity and joy of being found in repentance.
Following Jesus is costly and requires complete commitment; but in losing ourselves, we gain Christ.
Jesus finishes his three-parable teaching at the Pharisee's house by showing how eternity shapes our lives.
As Jesus sits down to eat dinner with the Pharisees, he emphasizes the necessity of humility in light of the gospel.
Jesus calls his disciples to strive for salvation in him as they witness Jesus' own striving for salvation of the lost.
In Luke 13 Jesus enters a synagogue where we see a healing and hardening which calls us to examine our own hopes and expectations.
Deacons are countercultural from a worldly perspective. But their service in the church is not only essential to the local body it is also a profound beauty to the watching world.
As Jesus concludes his teaching on his second coming, he calls the church to find hope in the only place they can truly find it: repentance.
Jesus continues to prepare his disciples for faithful work while they wait, this time by stressing the task he gives his followers and the tragic life of neglecting it.
As Jesus prepares his disciples for his second coming, he first holds out the astounding benefits they have in ready and zealous kingdom living.
Jesus turns to his disciples to help them prioritize the kingdom of God amidst the anxieties of the world.