Luke 19

What Are You Seeking?

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What Are You Seeking?
02/20/2021 - Dave Riddle 
Key Passage: Colossians 3:1-2

Keep Seeking Christ

  • Colossians 3:1

    • zēteō (ζητέω): to seek by thinking, meditating, or reasoning. As a Hebraism: to worship God.

  • Colossians 3:2

    • Stay focused, set your attention.

Don’t Seek After The Things of Earth

  • Colossians 3:2

    • phroneō (φρονέω) To direct one's mind to a thing, to seek, to strive for

  • What has your truest, deepest, most foundational affection?

  • Philippians 3:17-19

    • Enemies of the cross focus on earthly things.

  • Matthew 16 - Peter rebukes Jesus.

    • 16:23 “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s.”

Pick up your cross and follow Jesus

  • Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

  • Galatians 5:24 - Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh.

  • Galatians 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live but Christ lives in me.

    • Bonhoeffer- “When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die”

Jesus flips the tables of our lives

  • Matthew 21, John 2, Mark 11, Luke 19

    • Symbolic of what he does in our lives.

Four Cries

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He Set His Face - Four Cries

Dave Riddle - 04/14/19

Key Passage: Luke 19:28-44

Luke 9:51 - When the days were coming to a close for Him to be taken up, He resolutely set His face towards Jerusalem. 

  • Resolute: purposefully unwavering or determined.

Jesus’ Disciples:

  • “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!”

    • Luke 19:38

    • Psalm 118:26

    • Luke 2:14

  • We’ve been redeemed, and that is something worth celebrating!

The Pharisees:

  • Teacher, rebuke your disciples!

    • Luke 19:39

    • Rebuke (Greek: epitimaō / ἐπιτιμάω) - to tax with fault: to chide, reprove, rebuke or censure severely. To admonish or charge sharply.

The Rocks

  • Would cry out in praise!

    • Luke 19:40

    • “Cry out” (Greek: krazō / κράζω) - to "croak" (as a raven) or scream. To call aloud (shriek, exclaim, intreat): cry (out).

Jesus:

  • Cries over Jerusalem

    • Luke 19:41

    • “He wept for it” (Greek: klaiō / κλαίω) - weeping as the sign of pain and grief

    • Matthew 23:37 - “how often I have wanted to gather your children together... but you wouldn’t let me”

    • Luke 19:44b - “you did not recognize the time when God visited you”.