JESUS CALLS THE TWELVE (2 OF 2)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Luke 6:12-16
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Jesus Calls the Twelve (2 of 2)
Series: Jesus Attacks Legalism
Scott Maze
Luke 6:12-16
Today, we examine an important turning point in the life of Jesus and the history of the world. Jesus will select twelve men. Their lives will change and history will change.
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.” (Luke 6:12-16)
Luke is narrating the story of Jesus’ ministry in its earliest stages. Just before Jesus gives His most famous sermon, The Sermon on the Mount, both Matthew and Luke tell us Jesus chooses His Twelve Permanent Disciples. In both gospels, this famous sermon is specifically addressed to Jesus’ Twelve Disciples.
1. Jesus Made Prayer a Habit
“In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.” (Luke 6:12)
Luke loves to show Jesus praying. Jesus is praying throughout the gospel of Luke. The word “pray” appears twenty-one times throughout Luke. Luke tells us that when Jesus prays, heaven itself opened: “the heavens were opened” (Luke 3:21). “But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray” (Luke 5:16). “Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray” (Luke 9:28). Remember, Jesus was when “his clothing became dazzling white” when Elijah and Moses also appeared, though they had been dead for at least eight hundred plus years before (Luke 9:29). On one occasion when Jesus was praying, His Disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray: “Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one ...
Series: Jesus Attacks Legalism
Scott Maze
Luke 6:12-16
Today, we examine an important turning point in the life of Jesus and the history of the world. Jesus will select twelve men. Their lives will change and history will change.
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.” (Luke 6:12-16)
Luke is narrating the story of Jesus’ ministry in its earliest stages. Just before Jesus gives His most famous sermon, The Sermon on the Mount, both Matthew and Luke tell us Jesus chooses His Twelve Permanent Disciples. In both gospels, this famous sermon is specifically addressed to Jesus’ Twelve Disciples.
1. Jesus Made Prayer a Habit
“In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.” (Luke 6:12)
Luke loves to show Jesus praying. Jesus is praying throughout the gospel of Luke. The word “pray” appears twenty-one times throughout Luke. Luke tells us that when Jesus prays, heaven itself opened: “the heavens were opened” (Luke 3:21). “But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray” (Luke 5:16). “Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray” (Luke 9:28). Remember, Jesus was when “his clothing became dazzling white” when Elijah and Moses also appeared, though they had been dead for at least eight hundred plus years before (Luke 9:29). On one occasion when Jesus was praying, His Disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray: “Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one ...
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