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Key Question: What does it mean to live a life of gospel?
Key Question:
The need for repentance and God’s slowness to punish
Life of receiving grace, and sharing grace.
Key Reflection: Is gospel active in my life?
Connecting Story
Wanting to say “sorry” to John (Owen)
Have you ever had an urge to tell someone you’re sorry?
We look for reconciliation, restoration.to
overcome that which divide us.
We’re in the season of Lent.
So we do our lenten fasting.
We think about our sins.
And we talk about repenting.
It’s not a fun topic to talk about.
Repentance is something we did… before we were baptized.
We’re supposedly living a “new life”
Repentance feels like talking about old girlfriend, the life I left behind, stuff piled in the garage.
But are we completely without sin?
Sin may no longer reign in us but its remanent is still there.
Our false self still kicks in, we long for our old Egypt, we have old habits yet to ditcIs it only when we first begin?
Is it only when we first begin?
Is it only when we first begin?
And this is undoubtedly true, that there is a repentance and a faith, which are, more especially, necessary at the beginning
And this is undoubtedly true, that there is a repentance and a faith, which are, more especially, necessary at the beginning
It is generally supposed, that repentance and faith are only the gate of religion; that they are necessary only at the beginning of our Christian course, when we are setting out in the way to the kingdom.
a repentance and a faith which are requisite after we have bleived the gospel, yea, in every subsequent stage of our Christian course, to our continuance and growth in grace.
It is generally supposed, that repentance and faith are only the gate of religion; that they are necessary only at the beginning of our Christian course, when we are setting out in the way to the kingdom.
But in what sense are we to repent and believe, after we are justified?
Repentance frequently means an inward change, a change of mind from sin to holiness.
But we now speak of it in a quite different sense
Repentance frequently means an inward change, a change of mind from sin to holiness.
But we now speak of it in a quite different sense
It is generally supposed, that repentance and faith are only the gate of religion; that they are necessary only at the beginning of our Christian course, when we are setting out in the way to the kingdom.
There’s still pride in my heart, hate, still some bitterness in heart, road-rage
Our we without sin?
We covet still, we gossip, get lazy
it is natural to suppose that we are no longer sinners, that all our sins are not only covered but destroyed.
And there’s sins of omission - for what we have done, and what we have left undon
yet we cannot allow that he does not feel it from within: it does not reign, but it does remain.
And a conviction of the sin which remains in our heart, is one great branch of the repentance we are now speaking of.
We feel often helpless to temptation and our old sins creeping up
Because there’s still pride in my heart.
So repentance.
Wesley
In this sense we are to repent, after we are justified.
And till we do so, we can go no farther.
For, till we are sensible of our disease, it admits of no cure.
But, supposing we do thus repent, then are we called to “believe the gospel.”
And this is undoubtedly true, that there is a repentance and a faith, which are, more especially, necessary at the beginning
Our readings for today help us to reflect on this.
Biblical Text & Story
The Parable of the Fig Tree
The Parable of the Fig Tree
Luke 13:6-9
A simple parable
A fig tree in a vineyard is fruitless.
The owner tells the gardener cut the tree down.
The gardener pleads for one more year for the tree, to give it another chance.
He will give it a special care, dig around to give water, put good soil around it.
Presumably, his plea was granted, but we are not told the outcome of the story.
That’s a proper parable - leaves it to us to decide the outcome of the story.
This parable in Luke takes the place of the incident of Jesus’ cursing of the barren fig tree, recorded in Matthew (21:18–19), and Mark (11:12–14).
- so only in Luke
The lesson of this parable is fairly obvious.
A fig tree growing within a vineyard reminds from OT the favor of God (; )
The fig tree is Israel, which had failed to bring forth fruit for three years.
The three years may refer to Israel’s past, or Jesus’ ministry.
the three years may refer to Israel’s past.
Jesus during the three years of His ministry.
The application clearly is that if the nation of Israel did not show signs of repentance and exhibit the fruits as nation of priests, it would have to be cut down.
This actually happened to the nation in a.d.
70, when Jerusalem was destroyed.
Or it may mean the people, the church.
We can’t be certain.
That’s the beauty of parable.
Why is Jesus telling this parable?
What’s the theme in this context?
The preceding passage has stressed the importance of repenting and this one highlights the fact that opportunity does not last for ever.
The lesson of the parable is different from that of the introduction.
the parable indicates that mercy is available for those who repent in time.
Concluding of the section
Strange, confusing movementFamily division - weather - court scene - news of tragedies - fig tree
Strange, confusing movement
Family division - weather - court scene - news of tragedies - fig tree
Judgment as the theme
Why Jesus came
Don’t worry about possessions on earth - be rich toward God
Then the conclusion
Then the conclusion
Why Jesus came, ignorant people, what do we do now
Jesus came to bring fire - what?
Luke 12:50-51
A bit of venting?
Why?
No one gets Him
Do you know why Jesus came?
Have you got it?
Jesus we see round this passage is passionate.
Jesus is venting, shouting, a little red faced, frustrated
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