Kevin Thoman - Associate Pastor's teaching references for 12/27/2020

Luke 24:13-35 - Seek, Do, Reach and Teach

Life Lesson (verse Luke 24:20)

Even when we don’t see and even when we don’t understand … God still does.

Life Lesson (verse Luke 24:20)

When we seek to be spiritually grounded in God’s word, we are less likely to live as spiritual idealists, and instead live as spiritual realists.

Life Lesson (verse Luke 24:27)

Those who desire God's assurances of strengthening their faith are people who choose to be active seekers of Him through His word.

John 20:8-9 NKJV

8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

Romans 8:28-30 NKJV

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Three things Jesus accomplished from death to resurrection

  1. Set the captives free
  2. Preached to the spirits in prison who formerly were disobedient
  3. He went so that He could bring back spiritual gifts.

Eph 4:8-10 NKJV

8 Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men.”    9 (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

1 Cor 15:3-4 NKJV

3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

Luke 21:8 NKJV

And He said: “Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’ Therefore do not go after them.

1 John 4:1-3 NKJV

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

Romans 10:17 NKJV

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Heb 4:12 NKJV

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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